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  " Bizler akıntıya karşı kürek çekip sularla boğuşurken aslında durmaksızın geriye, yani geçmişe doğru gitmiyor muyuz zaten."       En tehlikeli olanı da bu değil mi, hayatında ilerlediğini zannederek aslında farkında olmadan takıntı yaptığın şeylerin ardından giderek geriye doğru yol aldığın. Bunun en güzel örneğini Gatsby'den görüyoruz. Bir yandan hiç hayali bile kurulamayacak bir hayatın içindesin, öte taraftan kendini alıkonamadığın bir geçmişin esaretini yaşıyorsun. Esaretten kurtulamayana kadar sahip olduklarını koruyamazsın. Romanın sonunda görüyoruz ki kahramanımız kendisini bundan arıtamıyor ve elindekilerini kaybetmeye başlıyor, adım adım ölüme yaklaşıyor...     Bilmemiz gereken şey aslında şu olmalı, sahip olduklarınla yol almayı bilmezsen, seni daima geriye götüren şeylerin peşinden gitmeye devam edersen kaybetmeye mahkum olursun, bile bile kayıplara ve başarısızlıklara doğru yol alırsın. Hayatta başarılı olmanın tek yolu daima ileriye dönük kararların alınma

Essentials of Anita Desai’s Lifetime          Anita Desai was born in Mussoorie, India, 24th June, 1937. Her mother was German and her father  Indian and she obtained a degree in English Literature from the University of Delhi. Anita Desai is  a famous Indian writer. She is in her seventies. she is creative, imaginative, quick-witted, sensitive and  big-hearted. She always tries to express what she considers the truth.          She is married  and she has 4 children. She  lives in the United States, where she is Professor of Writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She enjoys travelling, reading and working in her garden.  When she travels she goes to Mexico, Europe and occasionally to India. She says that having lived independently for 15 years in the West, she found she could not return to a dependent life in India except on visits.         Desai published her first novel, Cry The Peacock, in 1963. She considers Clear Light of Day (1980) her most autobiograph

Sevgiliye Ayna Hediye Etmek             Bugün toplum yaşamında önemli bir yere sahip olan ayna sadece normal hayatta değil asıl özel hayatta çok önemli bir yere sahiptir. Kökeni Osmanlı zamanına dayanmaktadır. Sevgiliye ayna hediye etmek , belki günümüzde önemini yitirmiş bir olgu olabilir, fakat gözümüzü kendi tarihimize çevirdiğimizde sevgiliye ayna hediye etmenin ne kadar anlamlı olduğunu görebiliriz.               Eskilerde sevgililer buluşmalara giderken o zamanın şartlarına göre hediyeleşirlermiş, tabi bu da o zamanda olabilecek en güzel hediyenin ayna olduğudur. Malum bilindiği gibi o zamanlarda henüz telefon, bilgisayar gibi teknoloji ürünleri yoktu. Çoğu zaman sevgililerin birbirlerine hediye olarak ayna vermelerinin manası ise; “Sana güzelliğini yansıtacak daha güzel bir hediye bulamadım” demek oluyordu. Şimdilerde sürekli masraflara girip daha güzel hediye almak için birbirimizle yarışıyoruz fakat üzerinden biraz zaman geçmeden o eski olur yeni modelleri çıkar ve ön

Islam Kills Racism – Malcolm X I think a lot of people are confused by the new Arabic name, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz…. I’ve always had the name… on my passport, Malik El Shabazz… only I only used it in the Muslim world, well Hajj is a title that is given to any Muslim who make the Pilgrimage to Makkah during the official Hajj season… one thing that I found in all of my travels was that all of the Africans… not only the Africans… But the Asians, the Muslims… Look upon us as their long lost brothers, and America had actually tricked many of them into hands of policy, by giving them the impression that “She” was honestly trying to do something to solve the problem… My argument over there was designed to prove that it is impossible, for the United States Government to solve the race problem. “Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colors and races…. Here in this ancient Holy Land, the home of Abrah

ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1899-1961, American novelist and short-story writer. One of the great American writers of the 20th century. Hemingway worked as a reporter for  Kansas city Star after graduating from high school in 1917. During World War I he served as an ambulance driver in France and in the Italian infantry and was wounded just before his 19th birthday. Later, while working in Paris as a correspondent for the Toronto Star, he became involved with the expatriate literary and artistic circle surrounding Gertrude Stein.  During the Spanish Civil War, Hemingway served as a correspondent on the loyalist side. He fought in World War II and then settled in Cuba in 1945. In 1954, Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. After his expulsion from Cuba by the Castro regime, he moved to Idaho. He was increasingly plagued by ill health and mental problems, and in July, 1961, he committed suicide by shooting himself. v Hemingway's creation: v   Main works: In Our Time v

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1890 – 1940) He is best known for his novels and short stories which chronicle the excesses of America's 'Jazz Age' during the 1920s.  Born into a fairly well-to-do family in St Paul, Minnesota in 1896 Fitzgerald attended, but never graduated from Princeton University. Here he mingled with the brilliant classes from the Eastern Seaboard who so obsessed him for the rest of his life. In 1917 he was drafted into the army, but he never saw active service abroad. Instead, he spent much of his time writing and re-writing his first novel This Side of Paradise , which on its publication in 1920 became an instant success. In the same year he married the beautiful Zelda Sayre and together they embarked on a rich life of endless parties. During the next 5-10 years, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald are at the center of Jazz Age culture, and regularly appear in gossip magazines.  They were the talk of the town!  What was their life like? ·        She was wild!  So