30 Aralık 2011 Cuma

EXERCISES

1) COLD COMFORT

 Not so long ago, many of us resisted separating the glass, cans, and paper out of our garbage. What a hassle. Today, of course, every second-grader knows that the world's resources are limited and that recycling helps preserve them. We act locally, while thinking globally. It's time to bring the same consciousness to health care as we face a growing medical crisis: the loss of antibiotic effectiveness against common bacterial illnesses. By personally refusing—or not demanding—antibiotics for viral illnesses they won't cure, we can each take a step toward prolonging overall antibiotic effectiveness.
Media reports have likely made you aware of this problem, but they have neglected the implications. Your brother catches a cold that turns into a sinus infection. His doctor treats him with antibiotics, but the bacteria are resistant to all of them. The infection enters his bloodstream—a condition known as septicemia—and a few days later, your brother dies. (Septicemia is what killed Muppets creator Jim Henson a few years ago.) Or instead of a cold, he has an infected cut that won't heal, or any other common bacterial disease, such as an ear or prostate infection.
Far-fetched? It's not. The antibiotics crisis is real. Consider Streptococcus pneumoniae: This common bacterium often causes post-flu pneumonia. (Pneumonia and influenza combined are the  country's sixth leading cause of death, killing 82,500 Americans in 1996.) Before 1980, less than 1 percent of S. pneumoniae samples showed any resistance to penicillin. As of last May, researchers at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego discovered that 22 percent of S. pneumoniae samples were highly resistant to it, with another 15 percent moderately so. And the most recent statistics from the Sentry Antimicrobial Surveillance Program, which monitors bacterial resistance at 70 medical centers in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and South America, show that 44 percent of S. pneumoniae samples in the U.S. are highly resistant, and worldwide, resistance is at an all-time high (55 percent).



2) Soccer — or football (or foosball or futbol), as it is called by the rest of the world outside theUnited States is surely the most popular sport in the world. Every four years, the world championship of soccer, the World Cup is watched by literally billions all over the world, beating out the United States professional football's Superbowl by far. It is estimated that 1.7 billion television viewers watched the World Cup final between France and Brazil in July of 1998. And it is also a genuine world championship, involving teams from many countries(as many as 172)and played in venues all over the globe, unlike the much more parochial and misnamed World Series in American baseball (that doesn’t even involve Japan or Cuba, two baseball hotbeds). But although soccer has become an important sport in the American sports scene, it will never make inroads into the hearts and markets of American sports the way that football, basketball, hockey, baseball, and even tennis and golf have done. There are many reasons for this.
Recently the New England Revolution beat the Tampa Bay Mutiny in a game played during a horrid rainstorm. Nearly 5000 fans showed up, which shows that soccer is, indeed, popular in the United States. However, the story of the game was buried near the back of the newspaper's sports section, and there was certainly no television coverage. In fact, the biggest reason for soccer's failure as a mass appeal sport in the United States is that it doesn't conform easily to the demands of television.
Basketball succeeds enormously in America because it regularly scheduled what it calls "television time-outs" as well as the time-outs that the teams themselves call to re-group, not to mention half-times and, on the professional level, quarter breaks. Those time-outs in the action are ideally made for television commercials. And television coverage is the lifeblood of American sports. College basketball lives for a game scheduled on CBS or ESPN (highly recruited high school players are more likely to go to a team that regularly gets national television exposure), and we could even say that television coverage has dictated the pace and feel of American football. Anyone who has attended a live football game knows how commercial time-outs slow the game and sometimes, at its most exciting moments disrupt the flow of events. No one raises an objection, however, because without television, football knows that it simply wouldn't remain in the homes and hearts of Americans. Also, without those advertising dollars, the teams couldn't afford the sky-high salaries of their high-priced superstars.

13 Aralık 2011 Salı

IF I WERE A BOY

If I were a boy even just for a day,
I'd  be faithful to my wife
and never lie to her

Buy presents for her
and make her feel surprised
I'd not talk with whom I wanted
and I'd never come home late
Cause it would upset my wife

If I were a boy
I think I could understand
How it feels to care about a woman

I swear I'd be a perfect husband
I'd never betray her
Cause I know how it feels
When you lose the one you wanted
Cause she doesn't love you anymore
And everything you had got stolen

If I were a boy
I'd be the same lunatic
Tell everyone that I love her
so they'd think that I was madly in love with her

I'd allow my wife to do whatever she wants
and make her happy
Cause I know that she likes being free
wandering through the streets

If I were a boy
I think I could comprehend
How it feels to do all the housework
I swear I'd help my wife
I would make coffee for her
Cause I know how it is so perfect
When you are supported by someone
Cause she's the one you wanted
And everything you had got stolen

It's a little too late for you to understand
Say you will do all those things for me
Think I'd accept you like that
If you thought I would pray for you
You were mistaken

But you're just a boy
You don't comprehend
and you don't comprehend,ohhhh
How it feels to be a good husband

Someday you wish you were a better man
You don't care about you wife
You don't know how it hurts
When you ignore your wife
Cause you are no gentleman
And everything you had got lost
But you are just a boy

10 Aralık 2011 Cumartesi

Video Reflection 2

Dexter has a strong motive for killing people.However,he kills people who do really bad things.He kills with a certain purpose.''Am I a good person doing bad things or a bad person doing good things?'' , Dexter asks himself.
When I first had a chance to watch the first episode of Dexter,I really enjoyed its topic.It was so captivating.From then on I kept on watching it every week.It is one of the best shows I have ever seen.It is a great show with great acting and plot,and something dark but wickedly fun.In spite of the brutal scenes in which Dexter kills the bad characters ,it brings some humor along each episode.However,some people say that  Dexter mustn’t be watched.They claim that the people watching it cheer for the serial killer,and justify its socially unacceptable behaviour.I disagree with this point of view.I think that the show has nothing to do with this issue.It is just for fun.In addition,he only kills people who have killed others,so it  doesn’t constitute so much problem.
Another opinion is that Dexter’s mind is the creation of the unorthodox world.Murder and amusement of such things as entertainment is the paramount example of America in decay.They say that they have a prison system for a reason,and they don’t think they need to go back to ‘the law of jungle’instead.We are not more civilized when we fight fire with fire.I disagree with this opinion because  in Turkey there are many people who get away without  any punishment . The police can't catch them all. If there was such a person who kills bad people,it wouldn’t be bad at all.
The show shows us the good and evil in everyone,and really gets us thinking.Nonetheless,I don’t like the last season very much.It is a little boring.The events are not as exciting as the previous ones.In spite of this, it is a review of best drama,suspence and adventure tv show ever on tv.In addition,it is so addicting that I can’t prevent myself from watching it every week.In each episode you really hope that Dexter doesn’t get caught and always kills the bad guy before he gets killed himself.The darkness and mystery aspects captivate me. This is a show that I will follow until its end.It is worthy of my time.As a whole the Dexter is unique in that it is a challenging and deeply engaging series.I would recommend it to all of you if what you want is a great show.


JOURNAL 2



Hello  everybody,
The topic that I am going to talk about is Dexter. It is my favourite . I hope you enjoy it.
First, I want to show you the morning routine of  Dexter. Each episode starts with this routine.Let’s  have a look at it.

The series centers on Dexter Morgan,a bloodstain pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department who moonlights as a serial killer.The first season of Dexter is an adaptation of Jeff Lindsay's first novel in the Dexter series, Darkly Dreaming Dexter. This season includes Dexter's investigation of "The Ice Truck Killer". This serial killer targets prostitutes and leaves their bodies severed and bloodless. At the same time, Dexter's foster sister, Debra Morgan , a vice squad officer, aspires to work  in the homicide department. Debra begins dating a prosthetics doctor named Rudy Cooper, who is secretly the Ice Truck Killer. After they get engaged, Cooper kidnaps Debra and lures Dexter to the house where he is keeping her. Here Dexter recognizes Cooper as Brian, his long-lost brother. Brian tells Dexter that, as children, they witnessed their mother's murder at the hands of drug dealers, who then left the two of them in a shipping crate for two days, sitting in a pool of their mother's blood.
 He also learns that Brian spent much of his childhood in an institution. Brian brings Dexter to a bound
Debra, intent that the two of them would kill her together to cement their bond and sever the ties between Dexter and his adoptive family. Dexter hesitates for a moment, but eventually stops Brian from killing her; moments later, the police arrive and Brian escapes. After luring Brian into a trap, Dexter drugs and kills him, making it look like a suicide; everyone, including Debra, remains unaware of the exact connection between Dexter and Brian. Dexter feels some regret over killing Brian, the one person who fully understood him, in order to save Debra, who he knows would reject him if she ever learned his true identity.
In the second  season, the bodies of Dexter's victims are uncovered and an investigation is launched in Dexter's own department to find the killer, dubbed the "Bay Harbor Butcher". Dexter  is in danger of being caught.During this time, Debra(his sister) struggles to recover after surviving Ice Truck Killer's attempts to murder her, and Rita (Dexter’s  new girl friend)sends Dexter to Narcotics Anonymous meetings when she suspects that he has an addiction. At the meetings ,Dexter meets and becomes involved with his sponsor, Lila Tournay, who starts to pursue Dexter obsessively.




In the third season, Dexter kills a man in self defense and initiates a friendship with the man's brother, Assistant District Attorney Miguel Prado.In the meantime,Dexter proposes to Rita. In addition,Debra investigates the murders of a new serial killer, called "The Skinner", who skins his victims alive. On the night before his wedding, Dexter is captured by The Skinner.However,he  takes advantage of a moment when the Skinner is distracted.Dexter kills the skinner ,and makes it look like suicide .After that event, he attends his wedding. 









In the fourth season,Special Agent Frank Lundy comes to hunt down the "Trinity Killer" who he believes always murders three people in a very specific sequence: a young woman in a bathtub, an older mother of two falling to her death, and a father of two bludgeoned to death.Dexter investigates this Trinity case.When  one dayDexter returns home after dealing with Trinity, he picks up a message from Rita. After listening to the message, he calls her back. He hears Rita's phone ring from within the house and soon after, he hears Harrison (his son) crying. He rushes to the bathroom, where he finds Harrison sitting on the tile floor in a pool of blood while Rita lies dead in the bathtub, having been murdered in the same fashion as each of the other Trinity bathtub killings.


The fifth season focuses on how Dexter deals with Rita's death.Dexter finds a Department of Sanitation worker, Boyd Fowler, who is responsible for the deaths of many women. Dexter eventually kills Fowler, but the crime is witnessed by Fowler's next victim Lumen Pierce, whom he has in captivity. Meanwhile, Dexter and Lumen hunt the other people responsible for torturing her.

The sixth season features two main antagonists, Professor Gellar  and Travis Marshall , who base their killings on biblical texts, specifically the Book of Revelation, and leave signs of the Apocalypse including the Alpha and Omega or the Four Horsemen, as a cryptographic tableau at crime scenes. The season also introduces Brother Sam , a former drug addict and murderer who repented and became a minister. He operates a body shop where he employs other ex-convicts, whom he also "shepherds" to lead crime-free lives. Initially believing Sam to be behind the fruit vendor's murder, Dexter is quickly proven wrong and finds himself befriending him.