Argumentative Essay 2 - First Draft

Is the Facebook Great Invention or End of the Privacy

   

    Facebook was built on the idea that users connect and share personal information with each other and it has been named as the best invention of the decade according to a survey. About 1000 users participated in this survey and they are asked the name of their favorite invention. Facebook are termed as the best invention of the decade by 73% of the users. But, in recent years Facebook become a controversial topic for people. While Facebook has lots of aficionados, it reveals the end of privacy. In my view, people should be careful about their personal information in Facebook and they should not forget that their user IDs would be stolen by strangers, their photos would be used for bad aims or tagged and whatever they write or do in their special life is known by other people.

     

   First, people should not share all information about their IDs on Facebook because their information can be stolen by others even if they set their privacy settings carefully. People are supposed to write their IDs to use this application. The ID includes their name, surname, hometown, business office, even their street name. It is the fact that the %23 of Facebook users do not use privacy settings. So, other people can reach their personal information owing to this social media and there are some hackers who can do this easily. For example, people who reached your information can use your ID and they can tell others something bad as if they were you.  Nobody thinks that others can follow the IDs and he/she can get in trouble because of it.

   

   Second, people should not upload all their photos to Facebook because these photos can be stolen for bad aims and tagged by others. While people are uploading their photos to Facebook, There is a tag suggestion that who will be tagged in their photos. This feature gives people an ability to tag their friends in photos. When they are tagged in a photo, it is seen by their friends’ friends and strangers. So, they need to adjust their privacy settings. In addition to these, as long as people click the like button, their photos can spread to a lot of users and their privacy could be misused by others. For example, companies who reached your photos can advertise your photos. Everybody knows that using someone’s photos without any permission is illegal.

   

     Finally, people should be aware of whatever they do in their special life and write is known by everybody. Posting what they are doing and sharing their location can be not good sometimes. For instance, you went to somewhere with your friends without any permission from your family. One of your friends checked you in at this place. If it is visible to everyone, your family can know where you are and with whom. This event can cause an argument between you and your family. Another point is that people know what you have written on your Facebook and your chatting can be available to everyone. There is anything remains secret because of it.

    

    In conclusion, with the new feature of Facebook, a lot of people became addicted to it. It is clear that Facebook is the end of the privacy because people’s IDs are used to deceive people, people’s photos can be abused and what they are doing is not remain secret. People should not forget that it is an invention that reveals all intimacy of people and I do not think, everyone has a right to know our private life.

 

  

    

Argumentative Essay 1 - First Draft

SHOULD SCHOOLS PROVIDE MORAL EDUCATION FOR YOUTH, OR SHOULD INSTRUCTION  IN VALUES BE LEFT TO PARENTS?

     

     Moral education can be described as an education that can help to teach ethics, values and good behaviors such as politeness to young children. In our society, there are two opposed views that schools should provide moral education for youth or instruction in values should be left to parents. Some people still have biases about the teaching of values in schools. In my view, education which is given in the family is not adequate for children, so schools provide moral education for youth. I think that education which is systematically given by specialists will be more effective for children.

     First, children can learn the moral values in classes where the moral education is given with the help of specialists. As we know, the first education starts with family. Children learn the basic things like what is right or wrong from their family, but it does not mean that all of the children know them because sometimes family is not a good role model for children in terms of drugs and alcohol. Parents educate their children not to smoke cigarettes; however, many children live in homes where the cigarette is smoked. In my opinion, values depend on our character and personality. The most important thing is to understand children’s characteristic features and directing them according to their traits. For these reasons, values education classes should add curriculums.

    Second, the ethic is an important topic and children should learn some ethical values such as fairness and honesty. These can be learned in schools where provide children moral classes with the help of experts in their early ages. Experts know how to teach and develop children’s moral values Experts train children with some special methods such as working with a group students like therapy speaking them good sides of the honesty. After that, values education programs assist children to shape their life according to good values.  As long as they practiced and come across ethical topics, they accept to be honest and they can reflect what they have learnt to their social life.

    Finally, moral values should be a major subject from kindergarten to college.  Children should learn moral values and respect the rights of others. Parents cannot help their children to develop their moral values because parents do not know how to teach values and direct their children and parents also should be educated in this topic. Sometimes, they can make mistakes in terms of being a good model and misdirect their children’s future behaviors. For example, some drivers cross red lines when there are no cops around. Sometimes they do not slow down when they are approaching a pedestrian lane even if they see that a person is crossing pedestrian lane. This kind of events can cause accidents due to the fact that lack of moral values.

   

     In conclusion, schools provide moral education for youth because parents cannot teach the values their children properly. With a good education which schools provided, children can distinguish what is right or wrong, so they can reflect good behaviors to their social life and they can make a decision between good and bad behaviors. Briefly, schools and specialists who will lead children have an important role to teach children moral values.

Cause Effect Essay 2 - First Draft

WHY DO PEOPLE DO SPORT?

  

     Why do people do sport? Many people do sport consciously, knowing the reason of it , but  some of people do not do it regularly. This can lead to have difficulty to answer this question. Some of them do it every day, but some of them do once in a blue moon. There are many people who do sports for different aims. People want to be fit and attractive, to have good looking, to have healthy body, to enjoy and to get relaxed, and to get money from their job. So, they do sport to reach their goals.

    

    One reason of people doing sport is to be fit and to have good looking. People do sport because they want to have slim body, they do not want to be overweight. So, overweight people enroll in a sport center so that they can lose weight by doing sport.  Also, they think that others consider them as an ugly person so, they prefer to do sport. Especially women go to sport centers regularly because they want to keep their body slender and maintain it.

     Another reason of people doing sport is to have healthy body. Generally, people’s first aim is to be healthy. This kind of people loves themselves due to the fact that they want to keep their body healthy. For example, we can imagine that there was a machine that has not worked for years. If we try to start it, it will not work anymore. So, people are similar to this machine. If we do not do sports, we may have difficulties to do something like walking and we may have some problems with our body. In addition to this, scientists say that sports balance our blood pressure and circulation. We can easily become tired due to the lack of doing sport. Because of all these reasons, people should do sport to avoid being sick.

   

    The other reason of people doing sport is to enjoy and too get relaxed. Many people do sport or this reasons. They do sport as a hobby and they go to play football or volleyball. Experts say that doing a sport as a hobby can relieve people mentally and it help people being away from the stress. If someone get so distress, it is better to do sports that he likes such as football, tennis, volleyball etc. in his free time. This way, he will get relaxed because doing sport gives him pleasure.

    

    The last reason of people doing sport is that people do sport because it is their job. Professional athletes, football and volleyball players, runners do sport. They compete with others and they get money from it. They both doing sport and getting money. Runners run every day because it is their job. It is also enjoyable for them. Owing to doing sport, they have a healthy body.

    All in all, we can conclude that doing sport is always good for people. Sports are required by people to be fit and to have good looking, to have healthy body, to enjoy and to get relaxed, and lastly to get money from it as a job. All these reasons make doing sport beneficial and useful. I think, all people should interest in a sport since doing sport is necessity of our lives.

Cause and Effect Essay 1 - First Draft

THE EFFECTS OF PARENT,TEACHERS AND FRIENDS ON OUR LIFE

      

      People shape our life and every person has a different role on each other’s life. There are some special people who are parents, teachers and friends in every person’s life. Each of them affects our differently from birth to death.

    

     Parents are the ones who have an effect on our life. Our parents are a big part of our life so, they have a significant role to shape our life. They raise us and take care of us in our homes. We start to walk with the help of them in our early ages and later they teach us how to do things like brushing our teeth, cleaning and being tidy. They teach us how to eat properly.  The first education starts in our homes. We learn what is wrong or what is right from our parents. They also teach us to take responsibility so, they always support us both economically and emotionally when we want to do something. They always encourage us to succeed our works. In addition to these, when we are ill, we can easily heal with the care of them .In brief, they make us to feel good ourselves.

     

     From kindergarden to college, our teachers are the important part of our life. First of all, we learn reading and writing in the primary school thanks to our teachers. Without our parents, they prepare us to our future lives and our careers. They teach us some information that will help us in our future lives. We learn how to thing and how to decide something with critical thinking from teachers.  They lead us how to solve a problem. When we started to school, we had some expectations from the life and teachers help us thinking carefully about what we can do for our future that we dreamed. For these reasons, they are important for us.

  

     Our friends have a different role in our life. Like every person, we have some friends who we need to speak with them when we are in a bad mood. Friendship is important for people because friends affect our live in different ways. Our friends help us to solve the problems we cannot solve alone. Whenever we want, we can ask for their advices about something. For example, they can say their thought whether a dress suit for us or not. Lastly, Friends affect our life a lot by having fun. We can have a good time with our friends. They provide us laughter and they made our life more enjoyable.

     

     To sum up, our parents, teachers and friends affect our life a lot and they have a big role on our life.  From birth to death we spend time with these people. We can ask for advice what we need to do all of them and we need these people in order to  continue our life.

     

Division Essay- Second Draft

THE STAGES OF MARRIAGE IN TURKISH CULTURE

     Marriage has an important role in Turkish culture. For a good marriage, the most important step is to find a right partner. There are two ways to find a partner. Either people find someone to get married themselves or their family choose someone to get      married to them. The truth is that they need time before marriage. After deciding to get married with a right partner, there are three stages which are to agree to give in a marriage, to get engaged and wedding in Turkish culture.

       The first stage of a marriage is to agree to give in a marriage. In this stage, groom’s side comes to the bride’s home with a box of chocolate and a flower bouquet. The bride makes coffee for her guests and she adds some salt in the groom’s cup of coffee. That he drinks this coffee means that he is a patient person. Then the groom’s father asks the expectation of bride’s side from marriage. Both families reach an agreement to marry. After that, the bride and groom kiss the hands of the elders. This stage is like a small engagement.

      The second stage of a marriage is to get engaged. This ceremony generally is held in the bride’s home. After deciding a date for engagement ceremony, bride and groom’s neighbors are invited it. Quests come and engagement rings are worn to the bride and groom's right hand fingers by an old man with some words and wishes. In some ceremonies, they cut their special engagement cake. Today, many engagement ceremonies are held in a big wedding  hall. In this type of ceremonies, people play with a music and engagement is celebrated by families and friends like a wedding ceremony. Finally, there is no rule about the length of the engagement. It depends on the decision of the bride and groom.

     The final stage of a marriage is the wedding. All marriages require a civil ceremony, conducted by a municipal officer. It is a legal ceremony and also there is a religious ceremony a few days ago from a civil ceremony. Before the wedding day, there is an entertaining henna night. In this night, bride’s hands are applied with henna. In a wedding ceremony, the groom wears a wedding suit, bride wears a white dress, called bridal. Before the ceremony, the bride writes her single friends’ names under her shoes. It is believed that the girl whose name is deleted will get married as soon as possible. Generally, wedding ceremonies are held in a wedding hall with music and dancing. The guests are worn their presents such as a bracelet or golden to the bride.  But in some regions, it is held in open areas with the traditional instruments such as drum and flute. It is called village wedding.  This type  of  wedding  ceremonies  starts on Friday and end on Saturday.

          In Turkish culture, there are three stages of a marriage. With the different tradition, all these stages are important for a traditional Turkish marriage because marriage is the foundation of  families.

DIVISION ESSAY -FIRST DRAFT

THE STAGES OF MARRIAGE IN TURKISH CULTURE

     Marriage has an important role in Turkish culture. For a good marriage, the most important step is to find a right partner. There are two ways to find a partner. Either people find someone to get married themselves or their family choose someone to get married  to them. The truth is that they need time before marriage. After deciding to get married with a right partner, there are three stages which are to agree to give in a marriage, to get engaged and wedding in Turkish culture.

       The first stage of a marriage is to agree to give in a marriage. In this stage, groom’s side comes to the bride’s home with a box of chocolate and a flower bouquet. The bride makes coffee for her quests and she adds some salt in the groom’s cup of coffee. That he drinks this coffee means that he is a patient person. Then the groom’s father asks the prospective of bride’s side from marriage. Both families reach an agreement to marry. After that, the bride and groom kiss the hands of the elders. This stage is like a small engagement.

      The second stage of a marriage is to get engaged. This ceremony generally is held in the bride’s home. After deciding a date for engagement ceremony, bride and groom’s neighbors are invited it. Quests come and engagement rings is worn to the bride and groom's right hand fingers by an old man with some words and wishes. In some ceremonies, they cut their special engagement cake. Today, many engagement ceremonies are held in a big wedding  hall. In this type of ceremonies, people play with a music and engagement is celebrated by families and friends like a wedding ceremony. Finally, there is no rule about the length of the engagement. It depends on the decision of the bride and groom.

     The final stage of a marriage is the wedding. All marriages require a civil ceremony, conducted by a municipal officer. It is a legal ceremony and also there is a religious ceremony a few days ago from a civil ceremony. Before the wedding day, there is an entertaining henna night. In this night, bride’s hands are applied with henna. In a wedding ceremony, the groom wears a wedding suit, bride wears a white dress, called bridal. Before the ceremony, the bride writes her single friends’ names under her shoes. It is believed that the girl whose name is deleted will get married as soon as possible. Generally, wedding ceremonies are held in a wedding hall with music and dancing. The quests are worn their presents such as a bracelet or golden to the bride.  But in some regions, it is held in open areas with the traditional instruments such as drum and flute. It is called village wedding.  This  type  of  wedding  ceremonies  starts on Friday and end on Saturday.

          In Turkish culture, there are three stages of a marriage. With the different tradition, all these stages are important for a good Turkish marriage because marriage is the foundation of the families.

Compare & Contrast Essay 2 - Second Draft (Calling and Texting Message)

                COMPARING CALLING AND TEXTING MESSAGES

     

      Technology has grown so much in decades. With the developing technology.Mobile phones have become an indispensable part of human life. Although many new features have been added to a cell phone, people use it mostly for texting messages and calling purposes. Even if texting and phone calls aim to communicate people, they both have their differences.

       To start with, texting messages is the newest way of written communication. Today, more and more people use texting rather than speaking on the phone because texting is cheaper. It economically benefits people by having lower prices than calling. That is why texting messages are more preferred to younger such as students. Using texting, people can send messages that couldn’t verbally transfer. When a face-to-face or phone conversation is not possible, texting messages allow people to contact with others and they use some symbols to express their emotions. For example, you are in a lesson and you can’t talk on your cell phone in class. So, it is better to use texting to speak with someone. Another example is that when you have to inform someone about a credit card number or email address, it is difficult to explain this information by calling because the other person can misunderstand what you want to transfer. With a message, people can send correct information to have a better communication and also this information can be saved in the cell phone. Whenever people want, they can use it as long as the messages are not deleted. All these reasons do it a better way of communication.

      On the other hand, calling is a way of verbal communication. Although the price of phone calls expensive, it is more preferred to the elderly because they are not used to the messaging.

 Texting message is generally used for the urgent situations. It allows people to have a fast communication. For example, when people should ask something to the other person immediately, they call and ask their wants. Another example is that when there is an accident or disaster such as fire, people directly call the ambulance or fire brigade and also they need to give direction of the place of event via a phone calling. In addition to these, phone calls allow people to feel better and happier when they hear the voice of their lovers. Not only are they speaking for hours, but also they can share some emotions such as laughing, anger, joy etc… naturally. So calling is more meaningful.

         In conclusion, communication through texting messages and calling have both advantages and disadvantages, and both of them are essential for humanity. So in my opinion, it is better to use them depending on the situation.