İngilizce Denemeler(essays),Bağlaçlar ile ilgili çalışmalar,boşluk doldur Boğaziçi Üniversite'sinden mezun bir İngilizce öğretmeninin çoğunlukla Boğaziçili hazırlık öğrencilerine yardımcı olması amacıyla hazırladığı dokümanlardır.Üniversite hazırlık öğrencilerinin faydalanabileceği dokümanlardır.Lise öğrencileri için de yararlı olabilecektir ama "essay" çalışması gibi birşey liselerde pek uygulanan bir durum değil.Sadece "essay" değil hazırlık atlama sınavlarında önemli bir yer tutan bağlaçların kullanımı ile ilgili yazı da yer almaktadır.Lisede klasik olan cümleleri başka şekilde manayı bozmadan ifade çalışması da yer almakta.
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ADVERTISING AFFECTS US
Advertising is an extremely powerful form of mass media in today’s world. We are surrounded by it-on the television, on the radio, at the cinema, in newspapers and magazines and bill-boards in the streets. We are constantly bombarded with a vast array of images all telling us to buy, buy, buy! We wear, eat, drink, and smoke this or that product if we wish to be loved, accepted, admired, and respected, in short if we want to succeed in life. However, are we really so gullible as to believe what advertisers tell us? How can this form of propoganda change our perception of beauty, desirability, and goodness? The effects of advertising on our lives, in terms of beauty, fashion and success are really quite alarming.
There is no doubt that advertising affects a society’s standards of beauty in a radical way. In the past, in the time of Ruebens for example, a woman was considered to be beautiful if she was soft and quite plump. However, in the developed world in the early 2000’s the ideal of feminine beauty is young, slim and fit, preferably perfect skin, hair, and teeth. Why has our perception changed? In the past, plumpness or fatness was a sign of material wealth; the person had enough money to eat well. However, nowadays, we take for granted that we have enough food. For us, a sign of success is having enough money to think about what we eat and to keep fit and healthy. Everywhere we see pictures of slim, fit young women and ordinary women are forced to believe that they should look like these ladies. Of course, the majority of women do not and this is why advertising of beauty care products is so successful. Advertisers inform us that they have exactly the right product to help us reach the peak of perfection to which we aspire, be it shampoo, face cream or wrinkle-removing cream. The lengths to which a person will go, in terms of financial loss and psychological suffering, seem almost irrational. It is an unfortunate fact that most of us are affected by such advertising tactis and, in fact, either believe the propoganda or are persuaded to try out the product at least once. Therefore, we end up buying a lot of products we really don’t need.
The same is true for people’s search for happiness. People have always wanted to be successful in education, in their job or within the family. Success is, of course, a personal thing, and can be measured in many ways. However, in our society, a successful person is one who has achieved a respected position in his community and has enough money to live a happy and fulfulling life. For example, a student is under pressure to do well at school or university so as to please his family and to get a good job. A parent wants to provide the best opportunities for his children and strives to give love, discipline and physical requirements in the correct proportions. Everywhere in advertising we see images of a good mother who uses a certain powder. Therefore, she looks after her family well. Similarly, we see a father who provides a beautiful home or car for his family. Since people are generally quite insecure about their own capabilities, they are easy to influence through advertising. The images of ‘good’ parents or ‘a good father’ play on people’s insecure feelings and indirectly make them buy certain products so that they can be like the people in the advertisements.
Advertising is, then, powerful since it affects us in ways that are not easy to recognise. We do not really know how it influences us. Everyone wishes to be beautiful, handsome and successful and advertising tells us that we can be. Advertising creates a need and then supplies the solution, the answer to our problems. If we can understand a little about how advertising works and why it affects us, we may be able to limit its influence on us. However, it seems that nowadays we actually help advertisers by using products such as jeans, sports shoes or handbags with prominently displayed designer labels like Levi, Adidas, and Samonsite. We believe we are creating an impression of success, fitness or fashion when in fact we are paying to advertise these products. Advertisers are certainly very intelligent!
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THE WAY AMERICANS AND SAUDI ARABIANS RAISE CHILDREN
There are many differences between the way American parents raise their children and the way parents bring up their children in Saudi Arabia.
In the U.S., children are raised to be responsible for themselves and to be independent from their parents, and the parents have equal responsibilities. They spend approximately the same amount of time with children. Both parents teach the children manners, both help the children with their homework, and both teach the children how to be successful in life. each parent plays games with the children, and each parents punishes the children; both have equal authority over the children.One goal of U.S. parents seems to be to make their children responsible for themselves; to achieve this objective, both parents usually work outside the home, and they leave the children with a babysitter. Soon the children learn to be responsible; they choose their own clothes, feed themselves when they are hungry, and go to sleep when they are tired. Consequently, a distance develops between the parents and the children, and everyone in the family begins to lead separate lives. Another goal of U.S. parents is to make their children independent. In order to do this, parents encourage even their very young children to work outside the home. Sometimes seven-year-old children earn money by delivering newspapers or shoveling snow. By the time the children are in high school, most of them are working many hours every week. They are making a lot of money, and soon they are financially independent. Therefore, they make many of their own decisions; they buy their own clothes and cars, they choose all of their friends, and they decide when to come home at night. Before very long, while these students are still young, they leave their homes and begin to live independently. For many U.S. parents, this is a sign of successful child raising, a responsible, independent adult.
In contrast, in my country, Saudi Arabia, parents treat their children as dependents, and each parent has separate responsibilities. The father, for example, has the responsibility for the complete financial support of his family. He works outside the home, and he buys his family, including his children, whatever they need. Another responsibility for his children includes making all major decisions for them; the children must bring their problems to him, and they must respect his decision. The father is also responsible for communicating his experiences to his sons to prepare them for life; he teaches them not to miss opportunities, how to be successful, and how to be happy. The mother’s primary responsibility, on the other hand, is to care for the everyday needs of her children: cleaning the house, cooking, and the keeping the children and their clothes clean. She stays home all the time, ans she showers her children with love and guidance. She teaches them to behave correctly, and she shows them how to become good,, kind, and generous people. Finally, she teaches her daughters what they need to learn for a good life: how to cook and sew, and how to be good wives and mothers. For Saudi Arabian parents, having their children depends on them for everything is the way to control and to protect the children. the parents choose their children’s clothes, decide which friends are the best for them, select the best schools, and even decide whom their children should marry. Only when the children are old enough to make their own decisions do the parents allow them to do so.
There are two separate results of these differences in child raising: American children, who become adults in childhood, often behave like children when they are adults, but Saudi Arabian children, who have passed through all the stages of childhood, are ready to behave like adults when they reach maturity.
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AN INDISPENSABLE FRIENDSHIP
People have always tried to find something or someone to trust in life. Everyone needs a good friend to feel some kind of security and companionship. For example, many of us like to go out for dinner on weekend nights with a friend who wants to hear about how we feel and what our plans are. Nowadays, it is not easy to find good and loyal friends because there are many kinds people with different thoughts, feelings, and even intellect. Despite these differences, friendship can be classified into three categories: superficial, selfish, and real. Even though true friendship is to give and not to expect anything back, not all frienships are based on this principle.
A superficial friendship is one that makes us fall into materialistic behaviour against our better judgement. When I was in junior high school at the age of twelve, I had some girlfriends who used to tell me that I was quite conservative and that I would have to dress like them if I wanted to continue being part of their group and to keep our friendship. I thought, ‘ I don’t want to be lonely.’ And suddenly I turned into a very different person who changed her own way of being and thinking. Conversations between my girlfriends and me were usually about new fashions, jewelry, singers, and so on-mainly not very important things. I felt uncomfortable pretending to be somebody that I wasn’t. This kind of relationship is not very deep or sentimental and never lasts for a long time precisely because it is superficial.
Another category of friend is the selfish friend. An example of a selfish friendship is one with a friend that tries to take advantage of you. The selfish friend starts out seeming very interested in in what you have to say and trying to make you feel like an important person in his life. After this friend gets enough confidence, he will begin to ask you for some help or will unload his problems on you and expect you to solve them for him. This relationship makes you feel obligated to your friend and not free to make friends with others. The main reason why these relationships occur is that we sometimes need someone to depend on and are deceived by the selfish friend’s initial interest in us. The problem is that selfish people may not be able to show sincere feelings of friendship to others. My personal opinion is that if we have given our friendship sincerely, even to a selfish friend, there is nothing to regret.
When there is a real friendship, you are always willing to share all kinds of sadness and joy with your friend. You can trust a real friend completely and feel free to be just the way you are without pretending. Real friendship gives a satisfaction that money cannot buy and makes you feel very important to someone you respect and love. Actually, it is as important as the love of family. In a real friendship, you find endless loyalty, confidence, and security any time you need support or even protection. In addition, real friendship places no limits on friends helping each other to reach all their goals and desires.
In conclusion, these days, the need for the security and understanding of a good friend is essential for everybody. Even though we may have have many kinds of friends in our life, once we find a real one, it allows us to give the best of ourselves to make our friends feel good. I am sure that this is the only kind of friendship that will be everlasting.
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‘Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of being your own boss.’
Have you ever considered becoming your own boss? In recent years the number of people choosing to start their own business has risen significantly. Many claim that this is because more and more people are no longer content to work for someone else.
One of the main advantages of being self-employed is the fact that you are completely self-reliant and can make decisions on your own. This can give you a great sense of freedom and allows you to do exactly what you want without interference from anyone else. You can do what you want and nobody can tell you off because of your lateness or some other reasons. Nobody interferes with you and your work. What is more, your working day can be planned for your convenience, allowing you to work when you want rather than when you have to. For example, you do not have to get up early to go to work. As it is your own work, you are free to go whenever you want. Moreover, You can choose how much you want to work. If you like, you can come earlier or you can work at the weekend. Finally, if your business is successful, people will know that you alone should be given the credit. There is a good reason for you to feel proud because you have reached success on your own.
However, there are disadvantages of being your own boss. Many self-employed people have said that to build a successful business, you have to be prepared to work long hours and sacrifice your personal life. As B.C. Forbes once said, ‘ If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.’ Moreover, a 1996 government study found that a quarter of the businesses run by newly self-employed people failed within the first years.
All things considered, it seems to me that self-employment can be a very gratifying experience even though it has some difficulties. However, when success is achieved, the greatest reward of all is the knowledge that you have done it on your own.
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‘Censorship is necessary in modern world.’ Discuss.
Censorship is an issue which frequently generates a great deal of heated debate, with supporters maintaining that it is vital in order to protect society, whilst opponents claim that it is an unjustifiable restriciton of public access to information.
Firstly, all countries have secrets which must be safeguarded for reasons of national security. For instance, if an enemy country were to acquire such highly sensitive information, the effects could be catastrophic. Consequently, goverments have to have the power to restrict access to information concerning areas such as the armed forces or particular aspects of foreign policy.
Secondly, it is often argued that censorship is necessary to prevent the broadcast and publication of obscene material which is considered offensive or harmful to public morals. Many people feel that, without censorship the public would be constantly subjected to material that the majority would find offensive. For this reason, the government has duty to impose certain restrictions on the mass media by censoring films and texts which contain explicit scenes of sex, violence or foul language.
In contrast, opponents point out that when it is abused by governments, censorship becomes an instrument used to misinform society and maintain power. In order to control the flow of information which reaches the public, repressive regimes try to put constraints on the mass media, thus denying citizens the right to information owing to the fact that governments believe it may lead them to seek greater freedom.
Furthermore, it is generally felt that mature adults are able to make informed choices about what they watch, read and listen to and should, therefore, be permitted to make their own decisions. For example, some comedians make use of offensive language and taboo subjects in their performances. Critics of censorship argue that the only people who have made a conscious decision to do so. Thus, it is claimed, it is unjust to censor the material like this since it is not upon people who may subsequently be offended by it.
All things considered, it can be concluded that a certain degree of censorship is always necessary. The best course of action would be to attempt to achieve a balance between the requirements of the country and the public on the one hand, and individuals’ rights on the other.
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Topic: Businesses should hire employees for their entire lives. Do you agree or disagree? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
There are many advantages and disadvantages to offering employees job security for life. In Japan, for example, prospective employees know that their employers will provide them with job security for their entire working days and they are better able to plan for their future and family. However, many businesses are now realising that their employees have less motivation to work and this leads to fewer profits for the company. I will describe the advantages and disadvantages of this system in this essay and I will show that ultimately “jobs for life” is not good for a society.
Job security is very important for both the employee and the employer. For the employee, job security is important because she can depend on her source of income and better plan her future accordingly. For the employer, the employee represents an investment because of the number of hours of training required and the company will continue to have a return on this investment. As we all know, feeling secure about where our future income will come from is very important for our well-being—anybody who has lost a job and has had trouble finding a new one knows that this transition period can cause a lot of anxiety.
However, job security tends to lead to decreased productivity. In general, employees who are certain that they can never lose their jobs tend to work less efficiently, thereby contributing to an overall reduction of productivity in the company. A common example all over the world is that of civil servants. In Thailand, for example, many government workers are so indolent that it can take days or months for something to be finished that should only take a few days. It is not uncommon to walk into a government office and see employees filing their nails, making personal calls on the telephone, taking three-hour lunches, or surfing on the Internet for fun.
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