MAROON 5- MOVES LIKE JAGGER

LYRICS

Just shoot for the stars
If it feels right
Then aim for my heart
If you feel like
And take me away, make it okay
I swear I'll behave

You wanted control
So we waited
I put on a show
Now I make it
You say I'm a kid
My ego is big
I don't give a sh*t
And it goes like this

[Chorus]
Take me by the tongue
And I'll know you
Kiss me till you're drunk
And I'll show you

You want the moves like jagger
I've got the moves like jagger
I've got the mooooooves... like jagger

I don't need try to control you
Look into my eyes and I'll own you

With them the moves like jagger
I've got the moves like jagger
I've got the mooooooves... like jagger

[Verse 2]
Maybe it's hard
When you feel like you're broken and scarred
Nothing feels right
But when you're with me
I make you believe
That I've got the key

So get in the car
We can ride it
Wherever you want
Get inside it
And you want to steer
But I'm shifting gears
I'll take it from here
And it goes like this

This song is very enjoyable. It is my favourite song for the last three months. Every morning, when I get up I turn on this song  and get motivated starting a spring like day.Every moment of this song makes me feel good. The rythm as well as the voice of the singer sounds great. The part of the song, where Christina Aguilera is singing, is the most enjoyable one.There is no limit for hearing this song.I can remeber hearing  it twenty times respectively. It is a special song because I usually get bored of songs, to which I listen too often.Although this song is not the newest one, ı love to listen to it.

 HEAD ON- FATİH AKIN

In 'Gegen die Wand' Cahit, a 40-something male from Mersin in Turkey has removed everything Turkish from his life. He has become an alcoholic drug addict and at the start of the movie wants to end it all. Sibel a 20-something female from Hamburg wishes to please her Turkish parents yet yearns for freedom. She has had her nose broken by her brother for being seen holding hands with a boy and yet she can not break her mother's heart and run away. She too attempts suicide and she first approaches Cahit there at the Hospital. Sibel asks Cahit to marry her, as she believes this to be the way out of her parent's house. She promises Cahit that their relationship will be like roommates, not like a married couple. The film follows Sibel and Cahit as they get married, become closer and eventually fall in love.

This brilliantly edgy film, pulsates with ‘raw energy’, sex, drugs and frighteningly intense chemistry between its protagonists, and is set in an exasperatingly hectic world of raw emotions and extreme self-destructiveness, which portrays generational, cultural/ideological and religious conflicts faced by rebellious Turkish Youth who grew up in a far more liberal educational environment and who are restless to fashion their own identity (wholly a different world from their parents’ Islamic Turkish identity) through assimilating lifestyle of German urban culture – beer drinking, drugs, club-crawling, rock music, reckless sexual escapades.

THE EDGE OF HEAVEN- FATİH AKIN

The winner of the Best Screenplay award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, director Fatih Akin's deeply humanistic, multi-layered drama follows the stories of six people -- four Turks and two Germans -- as they realize the meaning of love while facing the harsh realities of the world we live in. Nejat is a second-generation Turkish immigrant living in Germany. His father Ali is a retired widower. When lonely Ali invites pretty prostitute Yeter to move in with him, Nejat makes no attempt to mask his disapproval. Nejat's opinion of Yeter begins to soften a bit, however, when he learns that she regularly sends tuition money to her daughter Ayten in Turkey. Suddenly, Yeter is dead, the unfortunate victim of Ali's violent temper. In the wake of Yeter's death, Nejat is determined to do the right thing for Ayten, and prepares to travel to Turkey to find the girl. But Ayten is a political activist who has recently fled from Turkey to Germany, where she befriended a German student named Lotte. Lotte's conservative mother Susanne isn't comfortable with her daughter's decision to invite a fugitive to live with their family, and when Ayten is arrested by German police and deported back to Turkey, the rebellious daughter rejects her mother and sets out in search of her friend. Later, in Istanbul, Nejat and Lotte are brought together by fate and Susanne is prompted to reexamine her values while searching for her daughter and being confronted with life on the other side.  

I love the structure. I mean I love the fact that there are three sets of parents and children. There's the father and his son and two mothers and two daughters, one Turkish and one German, and there's such a symmetry to the film, and yet Fatih Akin makes these characters mix and cross and merge and so on in such a beautiful way and it's so moving in the end, I think.

 FATİH AKIN

Fatih Akin was born in 1973 in Hamburg of Turkish parentage. He began studying Visual Communications at Hamburg's College of Fine Arts in 1994. His collaboration with Wueste Film also dates from this time. In 1995, he wrote and directed his first short feature, "Sensin - You're The One!" ("Sensin - Du Bist Es!"), which received the Audience Award at the Hamburg International Short Film Festival. His second short film, "Weed" ("Getuerkt", 1996), received several national and international festival prizes. His first full length feature film, "Short Sharp Shock" ("Kurz Und Schmerzlos", 1998) won the Bronze Leopard at Locarno and the Bavarian Film Award (Best Young Director) in 1998. His other films include: "In July" ("Im Juli", 2000), "Wir Haben Vergessen Zurueckzukehren" (2001), "Solino" (2002), the Berlinale Golden Bear-winner and winner of the German and European Film Awards "Head-On" ("Gegen Die Wand", 2003), and "Crossing the Bridge - The Sound of Istanbul" (2005).

I like Fatih Akin very much. We have  many things in common.First of all he is also a turkish, born in Germany. Not only born in Germany but also in Hamburg where I also came from( originally from Lübeck, which is near Hamburg).I like his style, because he is a good observer of the immigrants in Germany.He mostly includes the problems of the new generation of turkish people in Germany, which I can reconstuct very well.

PERFUME- THE STORY OF A MURDER

Grenouille: Ben Whishaw
Baldini: Dustin Hofman
Richis: Alan Rickman
Narrator: John Hurt
Laura: Rachel Hurd-Wood
The Plum Girl: Karoline Herfurth
Bishop of Grasse: David Calder

Paramount Pictures presents a film directed by Tom Tykwer. Written by Andrew Birkin, Bernd Eichinger and Tykwer. Based on the novel by Patrick Süsskind. Running time: 145 minutes. 

A magical realist period thriller, with a classical orphan protagonist who’s closer to a modern, autistic serial killer; concerned with the human sense least communicable in cinema.

For ten years, German novelist Patrick Süskind resisted overtures to adapt his 1985 bestseller Das Parfum to the screen, irrespective of big names like Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Tim Burton and Ridley Scott’s association with the project, believing, as Kubrick reportedly did, that the fragrant narrative simply wouldn’t transfer to celluloid. Yet director Tom Tykwer has striven to prove him wrong.

This movie is a surprising one.Since it is very hard to like a movie, which is based on a book you have read before,'Perfume' breaks all the boundaries. It is as much fascinating as the book. Once you watch it you can understand what I mean.The feeling, which occupies you while reading the book, also catches you while watching the movie.

 PERFUME- PATRİCK SÜSSKİND

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born in Paris in 1738, behind his mother's fish stall. She is wrongly accused of attempted infanticide by passersby. Tried, she is found guilty and guillotined.

Grenouille is taken to a cloister where the wet-nurses refuse to suckle him because he has no personal scent whatsoever, an abnormality that scares them. He is sent to a Madame Gaillard who runs an orphanage for cash. Gaillard has no sense of smell. Grenouille grows up to discover that he, on the other hand, has an extraordinary sense of smell.

Aged nine, Grenouille is apprenticed to a tanner. Aged 13, he kills a girl in Paris when he becomes intoxicated by her scent. That same night, he decides to become a perfumier.

Grenouille meets Baldini, a master perfumier who is fascinated by Grenouille's brilliant sense of smell. For five years, Grenouille works for Baldini but becomes deathly ill in his frustrated attempts to distill the smell of inanimate objects. Upon recovery, Grenouille leaves Baldini and sets out to discover the ultimate scent.

On his journey, Grenouille discovers he can no longer bear the scent of humans and takes a detour to the highest and most remote mountain in France, Plomb du Cantal. He spends seven years as a hermit in a mountain cave. Here, he discovers his own lack of personal odor.

Reemerging into the world, he sets out to acquire a personal scent that will intoxicate people.

In Grasse, he rediscovers the scent of the girl he murdered and learns how to capture it. He distills the bodies of 25 dead virgins for their scents, but is captured after he murders the teenage daughter of a city high official. However, through cunning use of his newly formulated scent, he drives the townsfolk into a paroxysm of erotic, ecstatic fervour and a mass orgy occurs. During this, he escapes.

Back in Paris and disillusioned, Grenouille commits suicide by dousing himself in his new perfume: as in Grasse, it drives the street people of Paris into a frenzy of passion, and they tear him limb from limb in their fervour.

This book is one of my favourite books.Patrick Süskind’s prose is beautiful, exquisite, delightful and is a pleasure to read. The book can be read just for the prose and for the sensory descriptions of scents and fragrances. I encountered beautiful lines and passages in every pag.I also count myself very happy to read this wonderful book in the original language. However, I heard from many friends that it is also really fascinating in English. 

One of the other things that I noticed about the book was that it had very less dialogue. An important point of  creative writing, which is taught in classes is that aspiring writers to learn how to write a dialogue, because it makes it easy for the reader because the pages fly while reading dialogues between characters. Although Patrick Süsskind just told a story with minimal or no dialogue, it is keeping you away from real world to the world of Grenouille.Finally, I strongly recommend this book, especially to people, who usually don't like to read so much.You won't stop reading:)

  ONE OF MY FAVOURITE FILMS

Pretty Woman-
Richard Gere,Julia Roberts

Edward is a rich, ruthless businessman who specializes in taking over companies and then selling them off piece by piece. He travels to Los Angeles for a business trip and decides to hire a prostitute. They take a liking to each other and he offers her money if she'll stay with him for an entire week while he makes the "rich and famous" scene (since it doesn't do for a man of his stature to be alone at society parties and polo matches). Romantic comedy (and complications) ensure. 

Vivian Ward has found a way of living by working as a prostitute on Hollywood Boulevard. When she runs into the prince of her dreams, who comes along on his wild horse, she first does not recognize him as her saviour. The prince, a ruthless and wealthy businessman by the name of Edward Lewis, does not know that she could be more than just a girl from the sidewalk, but he changes his decision after the first night with the beautiful stranger. Her being the first person in a long time who could surprise him, Edward can slowly feel the light at the end of the tunnel. He is on his way to become a better person, whereas Vivian has got a new chance to start over again.

I love this film.I don´t know how many times I have watched this film since 1990.It is some kind of modern cinderella. Since those years  Richard Gere and Julia Roberts are my favourite actor and actress.Furthermore, the sountracks are really fantastic.Either the song of Roy Orbison or the the song of Roxette.Both are one of my favourite songs since 20 years.I enjoy it every time again....

Soundtrack songs

Roy Orbison- Pretty Woman

  

Roxette- It must have been love

Error Correction

SENTENCES WITH ERRORS	ERROR CATEGORY / CATEGORIES	NAME/DESCRIPTION OF ERROR	CORRECTION
My roommates don't speak with each other.Each one is busy with her.	Local errors	Incorrect word choice Incorrect use of proposition ‘with’	My roommate don’t speak to eachother.Each one is busy with themselves/their affairs.
The other point,maybe for most of us it is a problem, is being have to live without family.	Global  error	Incorrect verb tense	The other point which is probably a problem for most of us is having to live without family.
Anymore we are not child.	Local error	Singular plural error	We are not children anymore.
Anymore my mother isn't with me.	Global errors	Incorrect sentence structure	My mother isn’t with me anymore.
Metu is worth to deal with problems with which we can come across in Metu.	Local errors	Incorrect word form Incorrect use of the preposition ‘with’	Metu is worth dealing with the problems we can come across.

WHAT`S GOING ON?  4 NON BLONDES

25 years of my life and still
I'm trying to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination

I realized quickly when I knew I should
That the world was made up of this
Brotherhood of man
For whatever that means

And so I cry sometimes when I'm lying in bed
Just to get it all out what's in my head
And I, I am feeling a little peculiar
And so I wake in the morning and I step outside
And I take a deep breath and I get real high
And I scream from the top of my lungs
What's goin' on
And I say hey...
And I say hey what's goin' on
And I say hey...
I said hey what's goin' on

And I try, oh my God do I try
I try all the time
In this institution

And I pray, oh my God do I pray
I pray every single day
For a revolution

And so I cry sometimes when I'm lying in bed
Just to get it all out what's in my head
And I, I am feeling a little peculiar
And so I wake in the morning and I step outside
And I take a deep breath and I get real high
And I scream from the top of my lungs
What's goin' on
And I say hey...
And I say hey what's goin' on
And I say hey...
I said hey what's goin' on
And I say hey...
And I say hey what's goin' on
And I say hey...
I said hey what's goin' on

25 years of my life and still
I'm trying to get up that great big hill of hope
For a destination

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BEING AN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT IN USA

1. Linxi said there are few schools which offer the major she wants and it`s hard to enter these school in China. She thinks American schools have more opportunity to practise
   Since there is suitable enviroment for creativity and team for which caught Krishna`s interest very much, she prefered America especially for these and she would like to get her degree from there.
   Arata wanted to study in foreign countries.
2. Linxi has lots of problems to get her major programme in her country -China- since it requires a very high degree. so she decides to go to USA to get her major programme more easily. while Krishna looks for the universities in USA she approaches someone who has been living in USA for twenty two years  and some friends of his, graduating from Ohio University, recommends to put krishna at Ohio University for it is a small university and  it is very easy for her to get used to the new culture she comes in. apart from those, the education is mostly based on creativity and teamwork that krishna really likes. Consequently, she decides to go to Ohio University which is an American university.
3. Arata thinks that his own country's education system is very different.You have to take an entrance exam and choose a major and you can not change it.Furthermore,he says he likes classes in the USA because they are smaller so communication with others is easier.Krishna says her own country's education system is very strict but American education system is more flexible.For example,you can do much more thing besides your major in the USA.
4. The tuition is around 30.000 or 40.000 dollars. But this price changes in respect of boarding, fees they have to pay and the department they choose etc.
5. Linxi said thanks to studying in America, she knew there better. There are drying machines which don`t exist in China.
   Arata likes American people`s way of talking. They are more relaxed unlike his country.
   Krishna experinced a lot of things and created a new goal in her life.
6. Like every international students, they also experienced culture shock of course.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   I want to go abroad like many friends of me.I like to   learn new people from different cultures.Before I came to Metu I lived in Germany for 27 years.Since there are living people with different nationalities, I am used to have people around me with foreign cultures.Finally, I especially want to go to USA or UK because of the language.I want to spend there a few month in order to learn either the british or american accent.

BEING A METU STUDENT


Being a student at METU is something really special.I entered in 2007 beginning with the prep- school. Those days i didn`t recognize that it was the most enjoyable year at METU. I had the honour of being the student of Aysen Karabag, she was my instructor at prep- school.She is still my idol.I met  many nice people , with whom I am still in contact.The first year in Ankara was a little bit hard for me. I had a flat for my own, which was great,however it had also its bad sides. firstly, I was scared of living alone for a while.Then from day to day I got used to it.Another difficulty was the long distance from home to METU. I had a very long way, which took 2-2,5 hours.Because of this I was too late all the time.By the years I got used to the long distance, but still I am too late some days.The second year I changed to my department.Although I loved my department I was unhappy for a period, because I missed my friends at prep- school and the same time a few cousins of me gone to other cities from Ankara, which influenced my psyche badly.However, time passed away and I met new friends, with whom I spent a great time at the campus.In the third year we were often at Makara in Carsi. There we played Trivial Pursuit and Tabu.Other days we met at Faika Demiray dormitory to spend time in the canteen.The most special thing which makes our campus inimitable is that it is so huge and provides us lots of different possibilities to join.All in all Metu is a wonderful university with a unique campus.I am so happy being at Metu and nowadays unhappy that these great time at Metu will end in a few month.

PETE SAMPRAS-

THE LEGEND OF TENNIS

After winning a record number of 14 grand slams, Pete Sampras is arguably the greatest tennis player of all time. Having held the world number 1 ranking for 6 consecutive years, he dominated the tennis arena for most of the 1990s. In recognition of his outstanding achievements, he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2007.
Born in Washington D.C on the 12^th of August 1971, Sampras is of Greek parentage. He started playing tennis at the age of seven, idolising Rod Laver. Showing promise as a junior, he was coached by Peter Fisher, who was responsible for making changes in his style of play. During his childhood, he competed alongside players such as Andre Agassi, Michael Chang and Jim Courier. This would set the scene for the development of legendary rivalries between these players in the 1990s.


Grand Slam titles:


1990- US Open                                             1996 - US Open
1993- Wimbledon                                          1997 - Australien Open
1993- US Open                                             1997 - Wimbledon
1994-Australien Open                                   1998 - Wimbledon
1994- Wimbledon                                          1999- Wimbledon
1995- Wimbledon                                           2000 - Wimbledon
1995-US Open                                               2002 - US Open                    

Achievements

• Sampras has won 14 Grand Slam titles, second only to Federer's 16.
• Sampras is the first male player to win more than 12 Grand Slams, surpassing the old record of 12 Grand Slams by Roy Emerson.
• Only Sampras (2000–02), Federer (2004–09), Lendl (1982–89) and McEnroe (1979–81) have appeared in 3 or more consecutive US Open finals.
• Only Sampras (1997–2000), Becker (1988–91), Federer (2003–09), McEnroe (1980–84) and Borg (1976–81) have appeared in 4 or more consecutive Wimbledon Finals.