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                                                   FOOTBALL

Football is a team sport that is played on the grass ground with 2 teams, each of which is

composed of 11 players. This definition is the  one that comes to most people’s mind in the

world genereally.However, the definition of football ,in its general meaning, alludes to

something different. As Wikipedia suggests that ” football refers to a number of sports which

range from American football, Australian rules football to Canadian football ,Gaelic

football, rugby-style football. Soccer is also used instead of  football. The concept of modern

football was coined in Great Britain,  as a resut of which The English are called ‘founder of

football and also one of  the best nations that play it ’. It is  almost certain that even prior

to the foundation of modern football in England in 18th and 19th centuries, there are historical

evidences supporting the idea that football has been as old as human history.Another aspect

of the term football,that is when someone spells football in an ordinary place,indeed it covers

all the  world.Every year,in most  countries,there are football tournaments which are held with

the permission of the governments .Some of the most known football leagues are Champions

League,UEFA Championship League,FIFA World Cup and so on.Football has become such a

powerful area in terms of the amount of money invested on it that some football clubs,like

Real Madrid, Barcelona,are richer than some poor countries.There are even some

footballers that gain highly huge  amount of money like, Cristiano Ronaldo,Gareth Bale or L.

Messi. Football is believed to be the most  popular and well-known sport up to now. There are

football stadiums,football schools that are structured in the best places of big cities like Camp

Nou in Barcelona,Wembley Stadium in London,Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid etc. I  also love

playing football with my friends or even alone.Football is a lifestyle for me without which I

would certainly feel  depressed and excluded.Since my childhood,I have always tried to play

it whenever it is suitable,yet some people without being aware make it  be known as a

irritating sport,because some uneducated people can try  to give political messages via

football or make racism against people.These are bad things that are not accepted by

anyone. Still, I strongly believe that despite bad people and their works, football has a

responsibility of gathering people from all around the world to be in contact and respect each

other.It is played by all kinds of people regardless or their sex, age, nation etc. I think it

should be so, at least.

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Yasin ALTUN

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                                        SCHOOL UNIFORM: NECESSARY OR NOT?

      In Turkish Education System, there have been a lot of changes throughout its history   from 1924 to today, 2014. These changes can range from laws regulating the concept ”education” in general to teacher appointment, schooling, school material and so on. Education, according to universal acceptance, is knowing how to reach what one needs to know. In Turkey, authorities have always been in research of redefining this description and comprehending it properly. While doing so, they have also shaped the profile of a student in terms of how to wear at school. This is legalized by Turkish Grand National Assembly, which commands that every student should what The Education Ministry wants. As stated in the Ministry’s Regulations Booklet, under the headline “Regulations about clothes of students of schools connected to National Education Ministry (p.1, 2012), students can not wear any political emblem, carry any racist, discriminating object etc. Therefore, school uniform is much more useful when compared to other options (e.g. free wearing) thanks to its being applicable and acceptable.

    First of all, standardizing a school uniform contributes to both family’s budget and society’s point of money. In Turkey, which is regarded as developing country no matter how its institutions and statesmen say that we are among the most developed 20 countries all around the world, it is clear that there is a huge income inequality among people. While one can earn around 15,000 TL per month, some other people are forced to work under bad conditions and paid just 800 or 900 TL. Here happens to be an interesting data. In our country, Turkey, hunger limit is determined to be 1,169 TL (according to, March calculations). This inequality can be observed in many areas and also in education system. To lessen this huge gap to some extent, a standard school uniform is accepted. Families with lower income than this hunger limit and those with much more income than hunger limit are obliged to make their children wear the same in state schools to be able to go to them. This unity of wearing enables families to profit more both economically and psychologically. They do not have to buy new clothes ( like different colours or kinds of jacket, pants or shirts.). There is a common uniform that every student, regardless of his/her family income or socioeconomic status, has to wear. In addition, students can manage to diminish the totally wrong acceptance that rich students become friends with the rich or vice versa. This misconception can be destroyed, to some extent, by means of this standardized clothing. Much as there appears to be a difference between children of rich and poor, at least with this application, we can decrease this distinction more or less. Another aspect of economic income difference among families is that those students who don’t have the chance or fate to be children of rich families, after some time, would begin to question themselves excessively and conclude that why do I have to wear always those clothes while my friends can wear different, colourful clothes every day if it weren’t for school uniform. Thinking, after a time, would affect these students’ success and cause them to feel depressed, annoyed, alienated or shy. Upon seeing their friends wear various clothes, these students would be in the opinion that we aren’t as important in the eyes of our teacher and society as these rich students with colourful dress. As an indirect result of that, we would probably lose those citizens at a very early age. To prevent such a likely chaos, school uniform should be necessary. Not every family will be able to afford such a thing and school uniform is more suitable for families economically.

   Secondly, in order to be sure that education is done perfectly, there needs to be a proper environment. A proper environment calls for some features like peace, silence, and of course security. By means of school uniform, safety of school increases much more, as well. A certain student of any school wears certain school uniforms and carries a symbol, emblem of that school ( e.g. a badge on his/her jacket, tie or vest). If it did not occur so, some people who weren’t students would maybe want to enter the school garden to damage the students. This would decrease the quality of education and break down the education atmosphere. Schools’ security is provided with determining the students’ appearance. When school uniform is abolished, the safety of school will decrease and so will the quality of education. Apart from school safety, thanks to school uniforms, safety of school buses ( okul servisi) is secured, too. School bus is a vehicle that is responsible for transportation of students and these vehicles are to have only certain students who are differentiated from their peers by their school uniform. This generally happens is big cities, like Istanbul, Ankara rather than small ones or villages. Security, in the general view, is a big job to achieve in Turkey and without school uniform, it would be more difficult to be sure that a school is safe enough for every family so send their children to these places with ease.

    Thirdly, school uniform is important for teaching the students from early years that discipline is an significant term that needs gaining as very soon as possible. At approximately ages of 6 or 7, students are urged to wear a standard uniform, which indicates that school uniform is an indicator of discipline. Teachers are responsible for reining and regulating students’ clothing. Being disciplinary and knowing how important it is in one’s life from cradle to grave will fulfil students’ competence. In addition, in state bureaucracy, discipline and order are the 2 necessarily attributes without which one could not make his/her voice be heard. As George Washington, who was the first President of United States (1789-1797), the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one the Founding Fathers of the United States( from Wikipedia), defines the purpose of education: “ A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important. And what duty[is] more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?”( Quotes about Education, page 3,para.12,www.goodreads.com). We can conclude and notice from what G. Washington says that disciplinary youth and new generation is our first desire from education. In the same way, school uniform is a mainstream meronymy of teaching discipline to the youth throughout education process.

    As for the criticism against school uniform, some can argue that school uniform narrows students’ horizon and dictates them how to wear and act. Moreover, there can be those who claim that school uniform creates frightened, thoughtless, dogmatic, unquestioning people. However, this can not be said that one person can totally agree with them. School uniform is just related to a person’s physical appearance. School uniform, rather than making children insensitive and stagnant, teaches them to be social more bravely. Students can try to be friends with all their friends regardless of socioeconomic status, which is enabled by mostly school uniform. School uniform does not and should not limit students’ point of view. They can question everything and also school uniform itself without being under any pressure. Anyway, they are sure to come to the conclusion that there should be a standard clothing ( that is, school uniform). Another benefit is that school uniform gives students to be equal and respectful. School uniform lessens at least this gap partly.

   All in all, school uniform is an inevitable one for education as yet, and it is like speed for cheetah. It should be applied to increase education’s quality. After all, we can learn about another definition of education from Iris Murdoch, an Irish-born British author and philosopher. She says that “education does not make you happy, nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free, if we are. Or because we’ve been educated, if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind and gives us the assurance, the confidence to walk the path our mind.”. That is to say, should freedom mean that one is educated, then there can be no one more educated than animals.

                                            REFERENCES

www.goodreads.com

www.wikipedia.com

www.meb.com

http://mevzuat.meb.gov.tr/html/k%C4%B1l%C4%B1kk%C4%B1yafet/kilikkiyafet.html

www.lib.metu.edu.tr

                                                         OUTLINE

Thesis Statement: Free Clothig Application can not be so useful for the society as it seems to be because of its misunderstanding and misintertpreting.

1)Counter Argument&Refutation

Counter Argument 1:Allowing students to make a decision on what they can wear at school is an inevitable step for freedom and self-determination.

     A. provides students with democratic values

     B. gives students the chance to be individuals

Refutation: School Uniform does not restrict the students’ thinking at all, but rather this application is just related to person’s physical appearance to some extent.

A.    enables students to be social more bravely.

B.     teaches them how to be equal and respectful

Counter Argument 2: Students are able to act more freely and wear whatever they want without being under the pressure of anyone or anything.

A.    feeling limitless to wear everything contributes to students’ mentally and intellectually development

B.     expressing themselves with the clothes they prefer best is an indirect help to identifying the student.

Refutation: Because not every family’s income is equal or alike. Rather than resulting in success of many students, it may lead to some students’ failure, on the contrary.

A.    causes students to feel discriminated and alienated in terms of clothes their rich friends can wear.

B.     provokes depression, annoyance, envy, tendency to commit crime and being sick of going to school every day in the end   

Counter Argument 3: Getting rid of monotype wears at school results in students’ pedagogical development and increasing achievement in that students can be more creative and questioning.

A.    encourages them to be pioneers/revolutionary

B.     suggests them they should question everything by basing them on science and mind   

Refutation: That does not show clear enough to prove that wearing freely equips students with more thinking, yet it is obvious there will be security and disciplinary problems.

A.    shows that teachers and school admins can have difficulty in differentiating who is student or not

B.     demonstrates that families may have prejudices against security attendants, saying that they do not do their job properly.

Pro:  uniform(monotype wearing) teaches students how to be disciplinary, obey the rules of the government, and gives them the advice that there is no power over that of the state.

A.    helps to regulate everyday life

B.     informs about laws, regulations of the state system

C.     tells students about hierarchical formation of the state and staffing.

YASIN ALTUN

2023620 

QUARTER LIFE CRISIS IS THE NEW AGE CRISIS???

    Firstly,We want to begin with defining what "quarter life crisis" is and what connotations it refers to.Quarter Life Crisis is a period of life ranging from the late teens to the early thirties(the ages between 15-30,generally speaking),during which a person begins to feel doubtful about their lives.They are under stress of becoming an adult.People start to question themselves more closely and deeply during this period.


People at the age of 18 or more till 30 are the typical ones that face this syndrome in that this age period,to some extent,is adolescent years,as well.According to one research conducted by the British Psychological Society,There are 5 certain symptoms that you are having a quarter life crisis:

1)  A feeling of being trapped by your life choices. Feeling as though you are living your life on autopilot.
2) A rising sense of “I’ve got to get out” and the feeling that you can change your life.
3) Quitting the job or relationship or whatever else is making you feel trapped and embarking on a “time out” period where you try out new experiences to find out who you want to be.
4)Rebuilding your life.

5) Developing new commitments more attuned to your interests and aspirations.

Although these 5 signs are heplful in terms of depicting the crisis,there may be many other symptoms,too..It depends on the person's gender,familly,education,point of view and so on.While one can daydream about doing something crazy,the other can imagine of just sitting all day without doing anything,and while one can feel increasingly nostalgic for his/her high school and college days,the other can easily forget all things related to high school or the past.On the one hand,These symptoms change from one person to another,on the other hand,there are some symtopms that are common among almost all people,for example;they can feel terrifed from the idea of making budget,they can start to think of dating life differently,they can start to get bored with their friends and they can find it necessary to meet with new friends in the hope of feeling different not because of any reason but boredom.In addition,people desire to compare themselves with their friends,peers or are compared by their parents,particularly in our country and culture.We can come across many examples of this, like one mom says to her daughter that all of your friends have been maried and have had child as big as you,yet you can not do so and sit at home or one father says to his son that he wants to have a grandson or granddaughter or so on.

As for the historical background of this term,quarter life crisis,it was first coined in 1997 by Addy Wilner,co-author of the book,"QUARTER LIFE CRISIS" with Alexandra Robbins.The idea of writing this book and researching about this field came to her after she had graduated from her college,moved back home and could not figure out what to do with her life.

As for the possible solutions or suggestions to those who have quarter life crisis,they should start to believe in themselves.Trust and being friend with oneself are the key words.Knowing how to slow down,that is never feel rushed to make significant life decisions/changes,do not listen to what others think about you.Do what's best for youinot others.be comfortable making firm,independent decisions for yourself and spending time doing the things that you enjoy,whatever it is that you are passionate about,JUST DO IT.

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          Anıl AYHAN
          Mervenur ÇETİN
          Yasin ALTUN

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