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POWER PHRASES: The Key to Winning Respect

Saying what you mean and meaning what

   you say can help you become heard.

                                                                                                                  Meryl Runion

I chose this article because I liked it and also there are many useful advices which can be very useful for us and there are examples from real life.

Sometimes I feel that nobody listens to me or nobody respects my words like given examples in the article. At these times I am questioning what is wrong with me, why people do not hear my words and how can I figure out this problem. Although sometimes we know what to do, we cannot apply it. And power- phrases can be very helpful us in these times. Well then, what is power-phrase?

A power-phrase is a short, specific expression that gets results by saying what you mean, meaning what you say, without being mean when you say it. Power-phrases are simple to learn and implement. There are four principles that can dramatically alter the way people to respond to you. Firstly, when you want to say something or to make a conversation, you should say less and so people will understand more because taking too long to get to the point or losing the point yourself makes people’s eyes glaze over. Too many words weaken the impact of words spoken well. Secondly, say what you want to mean. Do not say “I wish I didn’t have to go to this meeting alone” when you mean “Please come with me”. If you do that so you never get the result you want. Since getting the result, say what you want clearly and succinctly, and then allow them to respond in kind. Thirdly, power-phrases mean what they say. If you want to be respected, you should do what you say and respect your own words before wishing people to respect your words. For example don’t say “I’ll be there at two” and show up at three. And lastly, power-phrases are not mean when properly stated. You should respect the others, even if that person is not respecting you.

Consequently, in order to win respect, people should have self-esteem, they should care about their dress and non-verbal communication as well as their words. And this article can be helpful for this so I recommend you to read.

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SUPERSIZE ME: It 's Tıme to Stop Blaming Fat People for Their Size

The article is about obesity and what the reasons causing obesity in the United States are. The writer argues that instead of blaming people for being overweight, health officials have turned their attention to what has been termed our “obesogenic” environment, a new set of conditions that has made it much easier in the last few decades for people to gain weight.

There are some reasons for the obesity. Firstly, calorie-dense foods are far more readily available ever than before. Food in the US is cheap and plentiful thanks to widespread affluence and agricultural subsidies. Since people are so busy, they eat fast-food to gain time and since both parents work, there is no cook at home and family members goes on food outside the home which much of them high-fat. Second reason is gradual increasing in portion sizes. While the original 1960s Mc Donald’s meal contained about 590 calories, now it contains 1550 calories. That’s about three quarters of the recommended daily calorie intake for an average woman. Lastly, there is a great deal less access to physical activities than ever before.  According to the Centers for Disease Control, one third of US secondary-school students fail to get enough physical activity and over a tenth get none at all. Walking is a simple activity for prevent the obesity but people prefer to go everywhere by driving anymore. 

In conclusion, while there are so many external factors affecting obesity, blaming fat people for their size is not true. The authorized people and institutions should take the necessary precautions. 

In this picture, we can see the physical effects of obesity. However, obesity can cause effects on a person not only physically but also mentally and emotionally as well such as low self-esteem, be ostracized by peers and loneliness. Obesity affects people deeply so not to be an obese, people should care about themselves. To prevent obesity, they should eat balanced, they should consume properly fast-food or junk-food and they should make activities such as walking and swimming.

Can Men and Women be Friends?

I think that men and women can be friends but not REAL friends because they are different from each other in many ways. The idea of “Men are from Mars and women are from Venus” is the best sentence explaining this differentness. Men and women are equal in terms of justice but they are different in terms of sex and men have more power and they have tried to be more dominance. When we look at past, we can see that male-female relationships have changed; women and men work, study and socialize together so they can be colleagues, classmates or friends but not real friends. There are some reasons why they cannot be real friends. I think that when a woman meets a man, firstly she wants to be him friend and so she tries to know him as a friend. However, if a man meets a woman, firstly he lays eyes on her physically appearance and he thinks whether she can be his girlfriend or not. If a girl or boy says he/she is just my friend, I do not believe his/her words. One of my friends told me that she had a boyfriend and a close friend who was a boy; she shared her feelings about her boyfriend with him. And one day after the girl broke up her boyfriend, her real, close friend that she thought so said he loved her and asked her for a date. What a pity situation.  I also saw that kind of friendships many times that a boy and girl say they are real friends then they have some kinds of feeling beyond friendship, they would be lovers. Maybe I am so though about men and women cannot be a real friend but there should be a line between a man and woman if the woman does not to want to be broken her heart. Since women are more sensitive emotionally, the relationship affects more deeply them. And also our society and culture affect the relationship between man and woman that if a man and woman are seen by their relatives or friends, they are thought as a lover not a friend. In addition, that friendship may cause some problems like misunderstanding in their families especially for woman. To sum up, I believe that the best way of the real friendship is female to female or male to male since they can understand each other in a better way. They can be friends with opposite sex but only a friend not REAL friend.

I think that this film is one of the examples showing men and women cannot be real friends. I watched and liked it so I advice to watch this film to show the truth behind the friendship between a man and woman.

TIPS FOR HEALTH AND WELNESS

Recently, I have feel very nervous and tired because of midterm exams, presentations, weekly homework etc. One assignment is over and then we have to do the other one. This situation affects deeply our health and our psychology.

Lately, I have read an article about health and wellness tips for college students. The writer thinks that health and wellness are important for college students and they should care of their health by paying attention to these tips.

I think that writer is right because health is the most important thing which we have and there are some tips can be used to be healthy.

First, balanced diet has an impact on our health and state of mind. It can be hard to eat well at university but we should try to eat nutritional food. We should avoid of eating so much fast-food. Also we try not to skip meals and we should eat fruits and veggies.

For being healthy and feeling more energetic, sleep is the second basic need. Most people need 7-9 hours to feel fully rested. If we have the time in during day, we can also have a nap. And we should keep sleep times similar from day to day so as to get a good night’s sleep.

Thirdly, coping with stress and being social are important things to be healthy. If we schedule the things need to be done in a day, we don’t feel so stressful because we do our duties in time. Friends are the key for our social life because we can’t enjoy by ourselves. We need to have good friends and hanging out with friends helps us to feel better and enjoy our university life.

To sum up, we pay attention to some tips for our health and wellness.

INTEREST IN BEAUTY

With the beginning of summer, people will talk more about fashion & trend and they will try to look more beautiful. I want to talk about generally why beauty is important.

There are many reasons for the increasing interest in beauty. Media is the first reason for this increase. On magazines' cover and TV, there are so charming people that we compare ourselves with them and we ask ourselves why we are not so beautiful. We want to be like them and do our best to look like beautiful celebrities.

The second reason is the desire to be admired by the opposite sex (many people try to do their best). Although some people say inner beauty more important, I think that in reality physical appearance is the primary criterion when we choose a mate.

 Moreover, beauty provides in work life. For example, if you have good administrative skills and also you are attractive, you have more chances to be promoted. Feeling so lonely and depressed is another reason for the increasing interest in beauty. People who feel so change their appearance to deal with these feelings. The people think that many people loving would be around them if they were beautiful and attractive. 

In conclusion, beauty affects directly or indirectly our life in many ways.

BARIŞ MANÇO

Today, I want to mention the life of Barış Manço and his successes. Recently, I’ve been listening his song so much that is the reason I chose this topic. Firstly, I’ll give briefly information about his successful and still remembered life:

Barış Manço was born on 2 January 1943. His parents gave him a name “Mehmet Barış” since he was born during World War II. Especially during middle school education years, he became interested in music. He went Galatasaray High School and he founded a music group with his friends in Galatasaray High School. The group's name was “Kafadarlar” and this was his first group. His second group's name was “Harmoniler” and then he moved on to “Şişli Terakki High School”. He finished high school there.

After that, he studied graphics interior design and painting in the Belgian Royal Academy between the years of 1963-1971. He joined a music group in Belgium. Its name was ''Lemistgress''. This group had American, Belgian, Italian, North American, and British musicians. After that, he went to Paris. He made two records in 1966, Paris. Then he returned to Turkey in 1970.

 Barış Manço, Fuat Güler and Mazhar Alanson founded a music group and its name was ''Kaygısızlar'' He made a song ''Dağlar Dağlar'' and he won a gold record on account of this song. In 1971, he studied together with the group of ‘‘Moğollar’. After that, he founded '' Kurtalan Ekspres''  music group. He got married to Lale Manço in 1978. They had two sons, Doğukan and Batıkan.

 In 1980, he made a song and its name was “I’m a song” so he won a gold medal in ''Gold Orfe''.  He became guests on lots of TV programs in other countries. He did concerts in a lot of countries. He joined Eurovision in 1983i but he only passed the semi finals. In 1988, he did a TV program in TRT1 and its name was “7’den 77'ye”. He made lots of songs and he won 12 gold, 1 silver prizes. Lastly, he died on 01 February 1999 in Istanbul.

Manor house of Barış Manço was turned into a museum and his personal belongings are exhibited there.

Although passing 14 years after his death, today we still remember him and listening & singing his wonderful songs. I’ve remember also his movie that I watched it on the TV when I was a child.  I think people in every age not only adults but also children can listen his songs and enjoy with them for example I remember that we were singing and dancing with “Arkadaşım Eşşek, Ayı, Domates Biber Patlıcan” in elementary school. His songs such as “Dere Boyu Kavaklar” are played at weddings and guests dance with it. I like almost his all songs but the most ones are “Kol Düğmeleri, Al Beni, Hayır “, they are slow and romantic songs. 

This song is one of my favorites song of Barış Manço. It is slow and romantic. Whenever I listen it, I feel deep cry. He says that "take me where you go, I cannot live without you". I realy like its lyrics and melody.

POSITIVE EFFECTS OF THE INTERNET

Today, we can say that Internet is inevitably with us in every steps of our daily life. We use it for many purposes. It has both negative and positive effects but now I want to talk about only positive effect of the Internet.

There are three possitive effects of the Internet. The first positive effect is that Internet provide easier life for us.We can  shop on the Internet. Doing online shopping is faster than going shopping and it takes shorter time than going shopping.Morever,we can use online banking. It is safety and easy because we don't have to stand in line so we don't spend a lot of time for banking.
 The second possitive effect is on communication. Keeping in touch with friends living far away from us is very easy on the Internet because there are many websites for this such as Messenger, Facebook and Skype.
 Another positive effect of Internet is that it helps students with their educational lives. When students do their homework, they can get use the Internet. Therefore, they have easy access to information. For instance, ıf they want to learn more about their subjects, they can use Wikipedia, Google and Yandex.
 To sum up, the Internet is useful because it makes life,communication and educational life easier.