FIRST DRAFT

HUMAN LIFE PERIOD IS GETTING LONGER

Everyone has the same life process. Everyone is born and everyone dies. However, experiments show that nowadays human life period is increasing day to day. According to research a child born in 2003 can expect to live 77.6 years up from 77.3 years before and 75.4 years in 1990. That’s why these days if you look around, you can easily see too many old people and they still look healthy. There are three reasons why these people are living longer than before. These three reasons include better nutrition, new technologies and using improves protection ways from wild life.
First of all, better nutrition is directly related to human life period. Since people need some proteins and vitamins to continue their life in a healthy condition. That’s why it is very important find food healthy and easy. Nowadays, people who work in an agricultural area can produce food with using new technique. These techniques cause two advantages. First one is producing many different kinds of food in a short time and second one is low price. Therefore, everyone find food very easy if they just try to go shopping center and, they can but it cheap price. However, in the past people did not know how to produce food easily and how to supply food from another place.
Second reason and the most important one is new medical technologies. In the past, some unknown virus caused disease and a lot of people died for this reason. Nowadays, people who got educated about medicine can make research and find the reason of these viruses. Medicine companies have laboratories and too many scientists work on new medical treatment and they produce different kind of medicine against to different kind of diseases. For example, if you have influenza, you can just go and buy some drug about flu. This was the basic example for treatment of sickness. Furthermore, even if you are cancer, you can go to hospital and you can get operation about your cancer type. Nowadays, medicine can find any type of illness that’s why it helps the increasing life period. On the other hand, one or two hundred years ago, scientist could not find the treatment way of fatal illness. Therefore, if some contagious fatal illness occurred, they could not prevent these diseases and so many people died because of this reason. For instance, in 14th century thousands of people died because of plaque epidemic and they did not know the treatment of these contagious sickness.
The last one is using improve protection ways from wild life. Nowadays, people can use every natural resource for supply benefit to their life. For example, we use oil, gas and coal for heating and protecting from cold. Furthermore, we produce cold proof clothes to be warm. A lot of clothes companies work for us and we just go and buy some new clothes. It is really easy for us these days. Also, not only we can protect our body against from cold or hot but also we can protect to other natural disasters such as earthquake, storm, flood, or tornado. Since we can build durable home and we can supply everything inside to it. However, in the past our ancestor did not find these possibilities easy and they could not fight nature effectively.
In conclusion, according to these reasons, human life period is getting longer. Maybe in the future scientist will be find the secret of deathless because nowadays human can achieve to use nature for their nutrition and they can protect themselves from the natural effect of the Earth.

essay

PEOPLE ARE LIVING LONGER

Everyone has the same life process. Everyone is born and everyone dies. However, experiments show that nowadays human life period is increasing day to day. These days if you look around, you can easily see so many old people and they still look healthy. There are three reasons why these people are living longer than before. These three reasons include better nutrition, new medical technologies and using improve protection ways from wild life.

http://www.parade.com/livelonger/pages/Healthy_Aging

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s5i9581

Journal Entry #32

THREE THANKS

Thanksgiving day is coming but in my country we do not have this kind of special day for remembering the people or something to thank. Also in my oppinion, we should remember and say thanks everyday instead of one day. First of all, I want to thank to my family because, they always support me not only good situations, but also bad situations whenever I meet. I am 24 for years old, I am civil engineer and now I continue my education in U.S.A . If they did not support me on every conditions, I would not as succesful as now I am.Also, more important than other reasons, my family made really important effect on my behaviour. Now, wherever I go, people respect to me thats why I owe to my family and I know that I can not pay this forever. Secondly, I want to thank my high school teacher because, I was a naughty boy and I did not want to go university. One day he talked with me and he said that your math skill is good but you should try to study. If you try to study, you can enter to university so easy than other students and after that I changed my life oppinion and now I am here. Finally, I want to thank to god because I am healthy, I live good conditions and I have lots of opportunities. In conclusion, we should not forget someone or something who is really important for our life and we do not only remember for one day, we sholuld remember everday.

Journal Entry #33

THREE DAYS VACATION

I did not do any speacial plan for these three days vacation because I am going to go Vegas next Friday so I did not want be tired. I just prefered to stay at home for resting and studying toefl, went movie theather and went shopping for Vegas trip. Friday night, I went to Brea down town and watched movie. Movie name was Fred Claus, and it was related to christmas. I did not like so much, genarelly I like comedy film but this time I was bored. Staurday morning, I went to hair cut. Saturday afternoon, I went to shopping with my friend in Brea Mall, I tried and bought something. Sunday morning, I studied on toefl and solved test. Saturday afternoon, I and my friends went to Brea down town and ate ke-bop in Greek restaurant. Actually, ke-bop is Turkish food but they cooked very well. Monday, I did my homework and I walked on the street. I went to Starbucks to meet my friend. We talked about Vegas trip and which show we can go. All in all, in this vacation I prefered to relaxing things such as movie, shopping and staying home because I did not want be sick or tired before VEgas trip.

Journal Entry #31

Speacial Conditions for Lies

People sometimes meet very diffucult sitiuations. If they try to explain or try to make someting for fixing up this situation, maybe it will get worse than before. At this point, they feel the speacial weapon in their mind. This weapon is lie and sometimes it can solve problems that looked very hard before. Lies look worked in a short period but after that it usually causes more problems than before. Thats why, if you are not in really emergency situation, you should not use this weapon. These circumstances are helping other people, solving basic problems, making suprise for your friends. Firstly, you can tell lie if you want to help your friends or close circumfrences. For example, your close friend and his girl friend are in argument and you want to finish this arguement. You can find a white lie in this point and you can provide them to meet again. This lie does not effect the other people except from your friends, so it will be fair. Secondly, you can tell lie if you want to solve some basic problem or basic situation that you do not really want to do. For instance, it is very common problem among teenages, one girl or boy want to meet with you but you do not want to do this but also, you do not break his or her hearth. In this point, you can say I have a girl friend, or I like another person. This will be again white lie because it will not effect other people except from these. Thirdly, you can easily tell this type of lie because you want to prepare a suprise to someone or you want to say something important but you want to say later. For example, you want to make a suprise party for your girl friend and she always ask something about this ofcourse you shoul find a lie because party must be suprise. In conclusion, telling lie is very bad habit but If you use this for helping people, solving basic problem abd some special activities which has no bad effect on people, it will give good result.

Journal Entry#30

Does it matter what strangers think of you? Do you care if everyone likes you or are you content just being yourself? Write a paragraph explaining your answer.

People need to live together and communicate each other. In this relationship, they have some opinion about other people when they meet and do something with them. Actually, I care some people if they are really important in mylife. I always give worth of their opinion about me. Also, If they want to give advice to me, I always listen to this advice. I have a humanist character, so I like all kind of people. I do not separate people for their skin, origin ect. I do not like to be alone. That's why you can always see me with some people. For this reason, I really care to people like me or not. I think I am lucky, because usually people like me wherever I go. Now, I am in U.S.A which is really different environment to me, but I find new good friend in there quickly and I used there in a short time. All in all, I always care people who have a worth for me because this is the main point for good relationship.

Journal Entry#29

Ozgur Bas

Sam

October 24, 2007

DARK FOREST

Last summer, a group of teenagers wanted to go to Van Lake for vacation. They were very wild. Their names were Martin, Kenny, Deniz and Jale. On Saturday morning, they left their city. Firstly, they had to pass through the forest to get to the lake. However, they did not know the way around the forest. For this reason, they stopped their car before entering the forest and they searched for someone to ask how to get to the lake. Finally, they found a house, and they walked toward the house. They knocked on the door, but nobody answered. When they turned back to the car, they were surprised to see an old man in front of them. He had long hair and a long beard, but he looked very kind. They asked him how they can pass through the forest. He explained the way. They understood and they wanted to try this. They thought that they would find the way very easily. However, they lost their way a few hours later. At this time, they wanted to separate into two groups. Martin and Deniz went to left side and the others went to right side because they saw two paths and they had to try the two ways to find the correct way. One hour after separating, Martin and Deniz met a strange man who was a ranger. They wanted to ask something about the way but he did not want to answer them. He was a young strong man and he looked very nervous. He just told them to get out of there immediately. They were really scared because he looked very scary and he had an axe in his left hand. After they left him, they continued on their way for a few minutes and suddenly they saw two death people. They recognized them easily because they were their friends. For that moment, they heard a sound from their back side. When they turned, they saw the ranger in front of them. They tried to escape from there but they could not because after few minutes running, they met the old man. They tried to explain the story but he looked very strange and he carried riffle. He pulled his gun to teenagers, and this time everyone heard a metallic sound like an axe voice. Suddenly, the old man dropt to ground. They turned their head to back, and they saw the ranger. He helped them and saved their life. When they tried to say thank you to him, they did not see him. He disappeared suddenly. They did not understand until they arrived to the lake because they arrived to the lake they went to police station. After they entered through the door, they saw a picture. This was ranger’s picture. They were surprised because under the picture it was written a date. This date showed to 100 years ago. He died 100 hundreds years ago but that day he saved their life.

Journa Entry#28

Halloween Party

I attended Halloween party first time in my life. Party started at 8.30 p.m but everyone had come party location one hour ago. I relaized that generally everyone worn custom and they were very excited. Also, I worn a custom but this was the first time and I was not enough experience so next time I will select very intersting custom. In party, we danced, ate something and talked about party. Dance pist was very crowded and everone was very funy. During the party, we took too many picture. After party, some of my friend did not want to go home so we contiuned the party club until 2 a.m. Halloween party was really over my expect and I spent very nice time. Thats why someone who did not attend to that party missed too much fun.

Journal Entry#27

LAS VEGAS

I have not been Las Vegas before, but I have some information about there. If I were going to Las Vegas, I would join the city tour. Firstly, I would go to Bellagio Hotel because its arthitecture is very famous and different. Also, I heard the other hotels and gazinos have really exciting arthitecture. After I finished the city tour, I would go to gazinos ofcourse. However, I am not good at gambling, I would try to earn some money. For example, I really want to try black Jack in Las Vegas. On the other hand, I think machines are better for me.Since, they are easy and cheap. I did not try gambling before in Las Vegas thats why I have no advice. However, I think luck is the more important thing for earning money. For example, you should cary your special lucky things in your pocket. I have lucky dice and whenever I cary this with me, I usually earn money on Black Jack. In conclusion, If I were you, I would join city tour, choose cheap hotel and save money for gambling because Las Vegas means gambling for fun.

Journal Entry#25

DIFFERENCES OF MC DONALDS AND JACK IN THE BOX

Although both Mc Donalds and Jack in The Box are fast food restauants, there are few differences. The first difference is that Mc Donalds is more common than Jack in The Box. If you want to eat in Mc Donalds, you can easily find every corner of the street nearly. Also, Mc Donalds multinational company and all people in the world know them. On the other hand, Jack in The Box is not common outside the U.S.A. The second difference is that Jack in The Box restaurants have a fresh fast food whereas, Mc Donals restaurants prepare always unfresh french fries and hamburgers. Thats why some people prefer to Jack in The Box these days. All in all, they are two major fast food restaurants, they have some different properties.

Journal Entry#26

DIFFERENCES OF TENNIS AND SOCCER

Although soccer and tennis are very famous sports amoung the people, there are some differences. One difference is number of players. Soccer is team sport and each team should have eleven player during the game. On the other hand, tennis is indivual sport and each player plays for theirselves. Second difference is supporter profil. Supporters of soccer team are genarelly very agressive, wild, crazy, fiery, and they are not silent during the whole game, whereas supporters of tennis are calm, quite. Also, all economic class of people prefer to play or watch soccer games, but tennis is genarelly preferred amoung high economic class people because if you have ball, you play soccer everywhere but if you want to play tennis, you have to find tennis field. Third reason is responsibility and stress. Both tennis and soccer players have some responsibility and stree during the game. Soccer players just responsible for thier position. For example, if players position is in defence left side, player just responsible for this area.This example means that soccer player can share their responsibility so they share stress. On the other hand, tennis player responsible for all field so they feel stress more than soccer player. In conclusion, though these two sports have some differences, people likes both of them.

scary story

Ozgur Bas
Sam
October 24, 2007




DARK FOREST

Last summer, a group of teenagers wanted to go to Van Lake for vacation. They were very wild. Their names were Martin, Kenny, Deniz and Jale. On Saturday morning, they left their city. Firstly, they had to pass through the forest to get to the lake. However, they did not know the way around the forest. For this reason, they stopped their car before entering the forest and they searched for someone to ask how to get to the lake. Finally, they found a house, and they walked toward the house. They knocked on the door, but nobody answered. When they turned back to the car, they were surprised to see an old man in front of them. He had long hair and a long beard, but he looked very kind. They asked him how they can pass through the forest. He explained the way. They understood and they wanted to try this. They thought that they would find the way very easily. However, they lost their way a few hours later. At this time, they wanted to separate into two groups. Martin and Deniz went to left side and the others went to right side because they saw two paths and they had to try the two ways to find the correct way. One hour after separating, Martin and Deniz met a strange man who was a ranger. They wanted to ask something about the way but he did not want to answer them. He was a young strong man and he looked very nervous. He just told them to get out of there immediately. They were really scared because he looked very scary and he had an axe in his left hand. After they left him, they continued on their way for a few minutes and suddenly they saw two death people. They recognized them easily because they were their friends. For that moment, they heard a sound from their back side. When they turned, they saw the ranger in front of them. They tried to escape from there but they could not because after few minutes running, they met the old man. They tried to explain the story but he looked very strange and he carried riffle. He pulled his gun to teenagers, and this time everyone heard a metallic sound like an axe voice. Suddenly, the old man dropt to ground. They turned their head to back, and they saw the ranger. He helped them and saved their life. When they tried to say thank you to him, they did not see him. He disappeared suddenly. They did not understand until they arrived to the lake because they arrived to the lake they went to police station. After they entered through the door, they saw a picture. This was ranger’s picture. They were surprised because under the picture it was written a date. This date showed to 100 years ago. He died 100 hundreds years ago but that day he saved their life.

Bonus Entry

Parrot imitated the Fire Alarm

This story is about a parrot that saved a family. Shannon Conwell and his son was sleeping at 3 a.m Friday night when they heard their parrot voice. They had slept on the couch when the fire was started. They were suprised because their noisy parrot imitatited to smoke alarm. Therefore, it saved their life. After fire finished , thier kithchen, dining room and bedroom was destroyed.He said '' If we are in bedroom, we can not hear the voice of parrot and maybe we can burn but that day we slept on couch''.

Journal Entry#23

How to Cook Spaghetti

Spaghetti is my fovorite dish because it is very easy and delicious. Morever, whenever I want to eat spaghetti, I eat it with salad and white wine. Also, spaghetti is very impoartant for me because, I can only cook spaghetti. First, you need to find correct size pot, it depends on how many people they can eat with you. Then, put some water in it and you open the fire. One or two minutes later, add one teaspoon salt in the water. You should wait until the water boils. After the water boils, put the pasta in the salty water. Next, mix the pasta with fork and check. You should check the pasta to determine for ready or not. When you feel it is ready, you close the fire. Then, take the pot and bring to sink. After that use colander and drain the water. You should not wash the pasta in this step. Next, put some butter in empty pot and opent fire again. After the butter melt, put the pasta in it. Then, wait at least 2 minutes. You can put it in plate with some salad and you can can use different kinds of sauce whatever you want. You should serve with white wine and invite your friend.

Journal Entry#22

How to Lose 10 Pouns in Two Day

Nowdays, obesity is a very common problem in some highly developed countries. This is very dangerous health problem amoung young people. Thats why, a lot of people wants to lose weight and wants to be healthy again. There are two useful method for lose weight. If you can use this methods very well, you can lose 10 pounds in two days. You should use these two methods in same time. First way is diet. If you really want to lose weight, you must control your weight. For example, vegatable is more healty and they do not cause to gain weight. Thats why, you should prefer to use vegatable diet in two days. Also, you drink only water during these period. The second way is exercise. Some people think that if they do not eat anything, they can lose weight quickly. However, if you do not exercise with diet, diet does not work for losing weight. Genarally running is very useful exercise for losing weight. If you try to run one hour, it is really effective way. In conlusion, according to these two ways, losing weight in two days is possible but you should use the two main method for this.

Journal Entry#21

How to Find a Marriage Partner

There are many ways to find a marriage. First way is dating agencies. Nowadays, many people prefer to go dating agencies because it is very easy, fast and reliable method for dating. Firstly, you should prepare your profil and determine what specialities do you search. Then, the agencies determine the suitable candidate for you. After that you should try to understand he or she is really suitable for you. For example, many American people use this method for finding Russian wifes. Second way is taking help from relatives. In this way, some of your curious and excited relatives want to meet you with girls. These girls are selected from close neigbourhood. For instance, this method is very common in Turkey. Third way is meeting many girls. In this method, you should meet a lot of girl and you spend time with them. You must not be hurry and you should wait the correct time. Sometimes, this may be continue very long time. After you meet more than one hundred girl, you can decide what type of girls are suitable for you. In conclusion, if you want to marry with someone, there are a lot of way for this.

Journal Entry#24

A Person Who Has Made a Difference: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Ataturk is very important leader for Turkish people. He is the founder of the Turkish Republic. Also, he is my idol. He was born in 1881 and he died in 1938. He was a soldier and he fought for his country after the World War 1. Furthermore, he saved his country from occupier countries. He always wanted to raise Turkey to the level of other modern countries, so he worked on this area and he made a lot of projects for materializing his idea. He followed some steps and when he had finished one step, and then he implemented the other steps. First, he started to change of political system and he brought a new system. It is called democracy. He was first president of this system. Secondly, he made a lot of reforms. For example, he changed clothes, family names, calendar, hours, measures and he brought modern type of systems. Turkey communicates with other country of Europe very easily now because we use the same type of systems. Moreover, he regulated to Turkish economy and he legislated for farm and stockbreeding because he wanted to reinforce the Turkish economy. Because after war Turkish economy was bad and he solved this problem. He established to modern time and he was an encouragement to farmers. Thirdly, he changed the alphabet from the Ottoman alphabet to the new Turkish alphabet. He made this change because he believed the Ottoman alphabet is very hard to learn and he wanted to bring new easy Turkish alphabet. Also all Europe was using this alphabet. He regulated university education and he opened a lot of universities because he always believed to Turkish generation and he thought generation will increase to Turkey over the modern countries. Also he gave a chance for women to attend to elections. The first time one country gave a selection chance for women. In addition, his life was published in Time magazine one of the biggest leader of last one hundred years. He was a soldier but he always preferred peace. He once said, “Peace at home, peace in the world”. This shows how important he is. In conclusion, he was a good solider, good politician, and he is a hero for the Turkish people.

Journal Entry#20

DIFFERENT KINDS OF PEOPLE

There are three kinds of people on the world. First kind is famous people such as musicians, sport players, painter, actors ect...Everyone knows them because they have special skills and they use this for earning money. Second kind is more than rich people such as Bill Gates, Sabanci, Hilton ect...They have too much money and they can do whatever they want. Third one is normal people such as me and you. Few people knows them because they have not any special skills, or they have not too much money as much as Bill Gates. They need to work and earn money for their daily activities. In conclusion, If you read these paragraph, you must be normal kind people :)))

Journal Entry#19

ADVANTAGES OF BEING SINGLE

I can give two main reasons for advantages of being single. However, I can not be single more than two months. Also, I want to explain my oppinion for men side because girls are very complicate for me, so I do not understand them still. First of all, if you are not connect to someone, you feel free. For example, if you want to go somewhere with your close friend, you have two problems. The first problem is your close friend because girls are never like your close friend.The second problem that they usually do not like men activities and they do not want to come with you. Furthermore, they do not want to permit to you. Second of all, you can find enough time for your hobbies. For instance, girls usually waits so much interest from you. Therefore, whenever you want to interest another things such as cars, soccer games and girls, they always make a problem. In conclusion, you want to be free and you want to enough time for your hobbies, you can try to be single.

Journal Entry#18

ADVANTAGES OF PLAYING SPORT GAME

There are some reasons for advantages of playing sport games. First advantage is health. Regular exercising is very important for humans health. Experiment shows that if someone do exercise everyday, their immune system will get stronger and they will not be sick easy. For example, soccer player, runner, basketball player usually be healthier than other people. Second advantage is appearence. Nowadays, everyone wants to be fit and they try different type of diets. However, the best way for keeping weight is regular exercise and you can do this with playing sport games. Moreover, If you like your appareance on mirror after exercise, your confidence will get higher and you feel better. The final reason is spending enjoyable time. People generally prefer to play sport game when they feel boring. Also, they can meet their close friends and they pass good time together. They forget their all worrying about during the game. This game is very effective way to escape the real world. In conclusion, playing sports game have very important advantages on humans life such as health, appreance and spending nice time.

journal group work....:)

Importance of Exercise

There are three reasons for exercising. The first reason is good for health. If you do exercise regularly, you can have a strong heart and lung. For example, runner never get heart attack. The second reason is appearance. Nowadays, people want to be thin and pretty. For example, if they do exercise to strength their muscle and keep their body under weight control, you can get good body shape. In addition, when you do your daily exercise, your self confidence will be increase and you feel better. The final reason is relaxation. During the exercise, you feel comfortable and calm. For instance, you forget the things that you worried about. Moreover, when you do exercise, you spend enjoyable time such as playing sport.

Journal Entry#15

HALLOWEEN

In my country we do not celebrate halloween, so I have not enough information about this topic. However, I will celebrate Halloween first time in Usa and I am so exciting. I like horror movies and scary things for this reason Halloween is very interesting for me. I searched internet and found some information about Halloween. Halloween is celabrated 31st October and has special activities. Halloween orginally was a pagan festival among the Ireland and Britain. After that, Irish and Scottish people carried this to North America. Halloween's special symbol that are pumpkins. In Halloween, people carve pumpkin and they try to make human face on it, then they can put candle in it. Also, Halloween is related to death, magic and mythical monsters. The common characters of halloween are skeletons, ghost, ghouls, witch, vampir, bats, haunted house, zombies, black cats, goblins, demon. The traditional colours of halloween are genarally orange and black, but now some people use purple, red and green. Furthmore, in Halloween people do some activities fo example trick-or-treating, costume parties, bone fires, ghost tours, visiting hounted house, vieweing horror films. Halloween's traditional foods are candy apple and fruit cake. In conclusion, Halloween is very important for people communication, people come together and spend scary time.

Journal Entry#16

My Embarrassing Time

People sometimes can fall down to embarrassing situation, but I think If you can take some lesson from this situation, it is not important you are embarressed or not. When I was in elemantary school, I played basketball in my school team and I lived my most embarrassed time. We had very important game and we did a lot of exercise before this match. We had not any problem for winning this game. We were better than other team and everyone was thinking that we will win this match. The match day, everything started beautiful, our supporters came to stadium, everyone was trust to our team. However, after match was started, our opponent team played vey well and we suddenly lost our self confidence, because we did not suppose to this. We always thought that we will win this game easily, but now everything had turned to opponent team's side. That was very hard game and two minutes ago before the finishing time,the score was equal and I made the historical mistake. I want to describe this moment. I put the ball from my field and when I was crossing the other field with the ball suddenly, I looked the time. I saw only two seconds for finishing time and I threw the ball for score. It was not score and game did not finish. All stadium was very suprised and they were looking at me. Immidately, I understood my mistake, because I saw the time wrong, and this time I felt the cold wind around my body. I thought the wall were coming toward to me. Finally, we lost the match because after my mistake our team plan broke. After the match day, everyone from my school kid with me and if I see someone from my school, they still remmeber this and laughing to me. It was very bad experince for me, but I learned something for this experience. Whatever you meet in this life, you should be careful.

Journal Entry#17

My Big Greek Weeding

This movie has a funny story about a Greek family and their strange girl. This family wants to live in U.S.A. with their extraordinary Greek traditions. In Greek traditions, Greek women should be married with Greek men. Therefore this family is called Portkalos want to their girl marry with another Greek man. However, girl does not want to marry with Greek man also, she does not like her traditions. She always wants live with American traditions in U.S.A. One day she met an American man in own restaurant and suddenly fell in love. After that, she changed her clothes and her hair style. Then, she started to university for learning computer because she wanted to work in airplane office. When she started to working in the office, she saw the same man on the street and they finally met in the office thus, the funny story had started. Thy started to go out and man realized her strange Greek tradition, but he accepted to this culture. However, girls family especially her father did not want this relationship at the beginning. After they realized, this couple really love each other and they permitted to the marriage. Also, man’s family did not use to Greek tradition in the beginning, but at the end of the film, they were really enjoy at the weeding. I want to write something about her grandmother , she was very sweet.

Journal Entry#14

UNIVERSAL STUDIOS

This Saturday we went to Universal Studios. I have not been there before, but when I was a child, I always thought one day I must go there. I like watching movie and I go to movie theater ever weekend. I generally prefer going to American movies and I am always interested in how they can make movie or what they use when they prepare to special effects. That’s why it was very big chance for me and it was passed very funny but some times very scary for some of my friends such as Menap, Kenny, Abdul and Muath. In the Saturday morning, all of the Alp students met in front of the Alp building and then, trip was started. Firstly, when we arrived to Universal Studios, all of the students wanted to take photograph. I can easily say, we broke record for taking photo with together. If we calculate the sum of photos and we apply the guinness , maybe we can take new record as an Alp students. After we finished the taking photo process, finally we could enter from door. I joined to a lot of activities during my trip. First of all, I started to watch Shrek but 4D version. It was really exciting because I watched 4D movie first time. After that, we joined city your and we learned how the old movies had prepared. During the tour, we saw very famous movies such as Jaws, Jurassic Park… At the end of the tour, we went to Jurassic Park ride. It was very funny but the queue was very long and boring, so I had wanted to try again but I changed my mind. After Jurassic Park ride, I went to fire effect studios and I watched small fired effect show. I am disappointed now, because I always thought that I was very complicated but it looked easy. Then, I went to water world and we watched the show with my wet clothes because. I felt hungry and tired but I wanted to try Mummy ride because it is one of the best movie for me. It was very fast so I like it. After I tried to Mummy ride, my trip was finished. I passed very good time with my friend but this was not to last time. I will go again immediately.

Journal Entry #13

WHY WE SHOULD EAT FRUITS VEGETABLES AND FRUITS.

Eating and drinking is indispensable things for human life. Different from animals, human can eat everything such as meat, vegetables, fruit, fish… However they can eat everything, they must be careful what should they eat. Generally every scientist has different opinion about human nutrition. In my opinion human should be often prefer to eat vegetables and fruits. I have some reason for this claim. First of all, eating plenty of fruits and vegetables can help you heart disease and stroke, control blood pressure and cholesterol, prevent some types of cancer, avoid a painful intestinal ailment called diverticulitis, and guard against cataract and macular degeneration, two common causes of vision loss. For example, if you eat regularly vegetables and fruits everyday, your cholesterol is decrease the normal level and you can protect your hearth. Second of all, fruits and vegetables contain different kind of vitamins. That’s why you can take vitamins whenever you eat this and you can protect your body to illness. All the experiment show that eating fruit and vegetables prevent to health problems. Thirdly, eating vegetables is decrease to obesity risk and prevent to fatness. If you eat fruit and vegetables everyday, you do not need any diet or something else. In conclusion, according to this reason eating vegetables and fruist are extremely important for human health.

Journal Entry #12

MY ROOM

How can I describe it, I do not know. It is probably the most mess room in the world. If you want to find your way in my room, you absolutely need a map. It is actually really small room, but when you come inside of the room you can think I spend a lot of time in it. Because everything in my room especially my clothes are scattered to everywhere. Therefore you eyes tired you are bored quickly. If you look, before entering to the room, it looks like prison because firstly you can see shutter in front of you. That’s why I always want to spend less time in my bedroom. After that, you can realize easily a clothes mountain in front of the wardrobe. I usually use the floor instead of wardrobe. Behind the mountain, you can see some clothes in wardrobe. They look like a prisoner and they want to run away from wardrobe and they want to join other friends on the floor. If you look left side of the room, they can see my huge bed. This creature eats half of the room space. Between the bed and wardrobe, you can see my desk. Wheneever I look this desk, I always think that it looks like an old man. Because it bends under laptop, books and other things. If you look top of the room, you can see a propeller looks like helicopter because both of them has same noise and motion. And finally, on the left side wall, it is a painting lie on the wall. Whenever I see this painting, I scare from it. It looks very old and it is very dark. If you want to make horror films and you need a paint for door , you can easily use this painting. In conclusion, if I really do not need to use my room, I do not want to spend time in it.

Journal Entry #11

WEDDING IN MY COUNTRY

There are different kinds of wedding ceremonies in Turkey. The types of ceremonies depend on the social and economical condition of couples and their families. In rural areas generally wedding ceremonies continue one week and the ceremony become on the street and every people invited in the village. In city weddings, one day before the wedding ceremony, bride, bride’s friends and couples families meet bride’s home but only woman and girl invited this part. During this party, people dance traditionally and they prepare traditional staff for putting to bride’s hand. This party is called “ kina gecesi”. The wedding day, couple sometimes invites marriage officer on the marriage place or sometimes they go to marriage office before ceremony. After marriage officer sign their marriage paper, wedding ceremony starts. Firstly, couple dance on the ceremony hole and then, guest dance. During the ceremony, people generally prefer to Turkish traditional music and dance such as zeybek, horon, ciftetelli etc. At the end of the ceremony, couple cut the wedding cake and all the guest eat one piece of this cake. After this situation guest put some money and jewelry to couples. After ceremony finish, couple goes to hotel at this night. The other day, some couple can go honeymoon.

Journal Entry #10

LEGAL SYSTEM IN TURKEY

Every country has a different type of legal system. I wan to mention about Turkish legal system and its parts. Turkish legal system includes some parts such as lawyers, judge and prosecutor. All suits judge in the law court. Firstly, judge open the suit at this time everyone has to stand up in the court. According to Turkish constitution, defendant and suitor have to have one lawyer. If they have not money for bring lawyers, Turkish government brings lawyers for them. After judge’s speech, prosecutor wants to listen defendant and suitor. During this process, lawyer can ask some question and say something about suit. At the end of the court, judge ask defendant do you want to add something about this suit. Finally, judge decide the suit and explain his decision to court and suit is finished. After that if defendant or suitor do not like this decision, they can apply the upper court.

Journal Entery #9

FRIENDSHIP

Friends play very important role in our life. Everyone has some friend different time of their life because human have always needed other people since the world started. All people look different characteristic when they select to their friends. If I want to describe friend means, I can say some words trust, support, enjoy, share feelings etc. Firstly, I want to mention about trust because my first criteria is trust when I select to my friend. My opinion if you want to be someone friend, firstly you must obtain his/her confidence. For example, you have friend and he/she always tell lie and you know this how can you reliance to him/her when you fall in trouble. Second important point is support because if someone is your friend, I think he/she always supports to you when you meet difficult situations. For instance, whenever I fall in trouble situation, I call my best friend for taking some advices. Thirdly, I think friends means enjoyable time because if you pass boring time with someone, you do not want to be this people again. Friends usually share same interest such as watching television, playing sports game, support to same team, like same place, doing same hobbies etc. When I look my friends, I always see some similarities different from other people. For example I have some friends from school because our interest areas are similar, I have some friends from fun clubs of my team because we like the same team, I have some friends from mountain climbers club because we have same hobbies. Finally, my opinion if you have a friend who is trustful, you can pass enjoyable time with him/her also he/she always help you when you fall meet in difficult case, you always keep in touch with them because these days finding good friend is very hard situation.

Journal Entry #8

MY DREAM VACATION

If I have a chance , I want to go Egypt. I can give some reason for selection. First of all , I like visiting new interesting place, also taking photos. Egypt has a lot of ancient and beautiful places for visiting such as Gize Pyramids , Nil River , Karnak Temple , King Valley. When I was a young ,my mother who is teacher of history lesson told stories about Egypt. I listened to her very carefully because It was very interesting stories about pharaoh and ancient Egypt. Thus, I want to go, and I want to listen again same stories in original place. Secondly , if I go holiday for only swimming and sun bathing , three or four day later I am always very boring because after four days later everything start to become same. Therefore, I usually prefer a place which has ancient place and also it can be suitable for summer holiday. Egypt has beautiful sea and beach for summer holiday and when you swim in the sea , you can see ancient remnants. Finally , if one day I can go to Egypt , I want to visit all ancient place , take a lot of picture , learn extra information about Egypt and also go to beach and swim.

Journal Entry #7

MY FRIEND BIRTHDAYS PARTY

I did not go to concert because I must go my friend birthday party. Birthday party was passed very funny. It was crowded because a lot of people came to party and we met my friend home. Party started the same time of concert ,but I joined the some part of the party because I could see fireworks from my friend homes balcony. People generally was from ALP student so it was very useful for meeting new ALP friends. We listened to music and danced during the party. Also , I did not join to Alp trip because I have some reason for this situation. Firstly, I want to say I try. I went to ALP office, and when I looked at the trip list , I saw only two students name and trip had been canceled because of this reason. I thought why people do not want join ALP, and I found two reason. First reason, After two ALP organization , student have started to think ALP activities are very boring. Second reason, students do not want to pay too much money for this boring activities. For example , last week there were Catalina Island but I saw only six people joined for this trip. And this week there were LA trip and I saw only two students name.

Journal Entry #6

MY UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE

Everyone has met at least one bad experience in their life. An unforgettable experience in my life was a car accident. Last summer , I decided to go holiday with my girl friend. Previous day , we prepared everything with related to holiday because we wanted to leave early in the morning. We had only seven days for holiday so everything must be perfect . In the morning we left at home at 7 am because our way was very far and roads were very crowded. Also I wanted to start my holiday immediately. But we did not predict to accident. After five hours had passed , I crashed to another car. Firstly , I thought that it was very slowly and I could continue my way. After that , I tried to start my car but I could not to achieve. It was broken, but what was the problem? I got off from my car, and I looked everywhere of it. Finally , I saw water under it and I understood its radiator had a hole and all the water flew from there. I called to police and then they took a report . I still could not operate my car, so I called the car service. They asked my location but I did not know because there were not any special thing around the road. Finally I stopped other car and I learned my location. Finally , car service sent a car for pulling my car to service and then we went to service together. Foreman said that I will repair but it can take two days. I was shocked because I had only seven days vacation and two days of that I had to stay small village and wait my car. At the end, they found a hotel for us in the small village and we went to this hotel. We stayed in this hotel two days and it was really boring and this was very bad experience for me.

Journal Entry #5

My Favourite Season: Summer
My favourite season is summer without doubt. I have give a lot of reason for this selection. First of all , I like hot weather. Because if weather is good , I feel very energitic ,funy and I always go out and meet new people in the outside especially foreign people. Foreign people evey year come to Turkey for summer holiday so summer is very big chance to improve my english. Also when I stayed in my country , everyday I went to swimming because my city in south coastal part of the Turkey. It has a beautiful and clean beach also sea water is hot. Secondly in summer season there are no school and homework . I have a lot of time for making some activities. Also my friends are free because of summer holiday so we can meet and play games easily. Also I like summer sports such as water skiing and surfing . I can do this sport only summer season. Thirdly If I want to go somewhere for holiday summer season is good selection because there is a lot of tlme. You can visit somewhere and you pass your time freely. I can visit my relatives especially my grandmother in this season. The last reason , in summer season I am never ill and I am always healtier. For this reasons I like summer. Acocording to me summer means fun , entertainment ,meet beatiful girls ,a lot of free time for my hobbies.

Journal Entry #4

Dear Dean;

I am Ozgur Bas and I came from Turley . I am a student of Cal State Fullerton university. I study in American Language Program and I am in Level 4 C class now. Alp program does some activity for foreign students. One of the activities is fun lunch. I want to attend this activitiy but when I looked my schedule , time of the luch was not fit to my schedule. During the lunch , I have some classes and I am extremely unhappy for this situation. All the students of Level 4C students think the same as me. I hope you will solve this problem.

yours faithfully;

Ozgur Bas

Journal Entry #3

A Person Who Has Made a Difference: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Ataturk is very important leader for Turkish people. He is founder of the Turkish Republic.Also ,he is my idol . He was born in 1881 and he died in 1938. He was soldier and he fought for his country after the World War 1 and he saved his country from occupier countries. He always wanted to raise Turkey to the level of modern countries so he worked on this area and he made a lot of project for materializing of his idea. He followed some steps and when he had finished one step than, he implemented other steps. Firstly ,he started to change of political system and he brought a new system . It is called democracy. He was first president of this system. Secondly , he made a lot of reforms . For example he changed clothes , family names , calendar , hours , measures and he brought modern type of systems.Turkey communicate to other country of Europe very easily now because we use same type of systems. Secondly , he regulated to Turkish economy and he legislated for farm and stockbreeding because he wanted to reinforce Turkish economy. Because after war Turkish economy were bad and he solved this problem. He established to modern time and he was encouragement to farmers. Thirdly ,he changed alphabet from Ottoman alphabet to new Turkish alphabet . He made this changing because he believed ottoman alphabet is very hard to learn and he wanted to bring new easy Turkish alphabet also all Europe were using this alphabet. He regulated to university education and he opened a lot of universities. Because he always believed to Turkish generation and he thought generation will increase to Turkey over the modern countries. Also he gave a chance for women to attend to selection. The first time one country gave a selection chance for woman’s. He was good solider , good politican and he is hero for Turkish people. His life was published in Time journal as a biggest leader of last one hundred years. He was a soldier but he always preferred to peace. I want to finish my paragraph with his famous words. “Peace at home , peace in the world “.

Journal Entry #2

MY FAVORITE SPORT

I love any kind of sports that involve running and being active. Especially I prefer to play and watch team sports. If I need to choose one of them my favorite sport is soccer. Soccer is a team sport and maybe it is the most famous sport in the world. If you want to play you must set two teams. Each team must have one goal keeper and also ten players. The main important point at this game if you want to win you should score a goal . I can say a lot of reason why soccer is my favorite. Firstly , soccer is a team game and when you play soccer you can communicate a lot of people. It is a easy way for making friends. Also , during the play all team members make good contact and help each other because if you want to beat your opponents you do not make any mistake. Secondly , I think soccer provide some benefits for health but you should make some exercise before game. If you do not some exercise , you may injured your somewhere in your body. If you do some practice sand exercises regularly , soccer is good way for lose weight. When I was in elemantry school , I played soccer in school team. That was nice time for me because everyone knew me in school and I had a lot of good friends. I felt special because I had some responsibility in team. I still meet my team friends , sometimes we talk on soccer games and some times we talk special topics. For example girlfrends , family... I also like very much watching soccer games in stadium because it is very exciting. My favorite team is F.C. Besiktas Istanbul. It is my city team and all weekends I go to match and I support my team. I am fanatic supporter of Besiktas and my supporter group is very fomous in Europe. They called Carsi and they have some records are related to supporting sounds. Finally , I think playing or watching any sports are very important in humans life because they improve humans communication skills and also they are very funny.

Journal Entry #1

MY STORY

My name is Ozgur Bas and I was born in Antalya , Turkey. I finished my primary elemantary and high school in Antalya. After I went to Ankara which is capital city of Turkey and I started to my university education. I graduated at civil engineering department of Gazi university which is one of the respectful university of Turkey. After I finished my university education , I came back to Antalya and than I worked at two different companies as a civil engineer. That time I decided to go Usa for making master degree. I did application and than naoe I am here. If I need to explain me three word , I am friendly , funny and adventoruos. I like listening music and my favorite music is pop music also I like Italian and Turkish food. In my free time I wacth tv , play computer games and go out my friends . My hobbies are swimming and playing any sports espessialy I am good at table tennis and I won cup this area when I was 12 years old. After I finish master degree I want to come back my country and find a good job because I want to make good career and I hope I will earn a lot of money !