Reflection Journal Multi-Media Entry 4: My Name Is Khan
“MY NAME IS KHAN AND I’M NOT A TERRORIST”
This is a reflection to the movie “My Name is Khan” that was an Indian film made up in 2010. Rizvan Khan is an American muslim man who suffers from Asperger’s syndrome that is a form of high functioning autism and this causes to make socialization complicated. The movie is about the challenge of this person to speak to the President seriously. There are a lot of scenes that affect me in many aspects, but it is better to mention about scenes that are related to special education since our dealing is about this issue. In early ages of Rizvan, his mother said that “ there are only two kinds of people; good people wo do good deeds and bad people who do bad.” She taught him by drawing schemas and their relations. Then, Rizvan learnt how to adapt to the society with different types of people. While he was talking, people around him would think that he is mad at first, but this was resulting in his problem that he couldn’t use or show gestures and facial expressions, but again with his problem; he is also very intelligent and doesn’t have any mental disabilities. When people are aware of this fact, they think that he isn’t mad really, even he is better that us mentally. His brother has a company and he wants Rizvan to sell the company’s beauty products ,and Rizvan goes and find a beauty center. When he enters here first, women in the center consider this strange and can not give a meaning. On the other hand, when he began to present beauty products very effectively, they started to think that he is not insane, and products are really good to use. In the last, when he arrived at the president, Rizvan took a permission from him and spoke to the country: “My name is Khan and I’m not a terrorist” and also mentioned about his mother’s saying that I wrote above before. He had become a symbol for peace and had overcome prejudices about muslims. As we understand from above explanations, people with disabilities should not be seen as different and incapable. Their being different is resulting from our bias. Hence, not try to integrate them into society, the important thing is to eliminate any prejudices about them.
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Reflection Journal 4: Special Education
Education is one of the main pillars of countries. Many societies have made great progress by giving importance to the field of education. It is a world wide known fact that educated people make a undeniable contribution to the development of their countries. Also, education plays a significant role in transmitting accumulated knowledge, customs and values from one generation to the next. On the other hand, education has certain malfunctions in some stages of its framework. In this article, I want to talk about special education for the students who lack of some learning abilities and the students who are given to special interests by educators. I want to begin with a book that I read before: House Rules by Jodi Picoult. This book tells a special child with Asperger’s syndrome from a mother’s tongue. Asperger’s syndrome is a kind of autism and Jacob has its characteristics. For instance, structure is important for Jacob, that’s why his mom created house rules: 1.Tell the truth 2.Brush your teeth 3.Take care of your brother and so on. One day, Jess Ogivy, caretaker of Jacob, is found dead and nobody knows who really did it and all the suspicions on the boy with autism and nobody thinks the matter between justice and illness. This book affected me deeply and I wanted to share it with you. My another point is the giving no importance to the students’ interests and abilities, and the fact that they are being misdirected are incredible mistakes because these really affect their future career and life in a negative way. Especially, this issue hasn’t been taken into consideration seriously by experts or other authorized persons in our country. People around the students should be aware of the fact that every individual has his/her own interests and skills, and they should leave them kids alone about what they want to be and revealing their predominant attributes. All in all, I wanted to attract your attention and make people more sensitive towards these issues. Also, I wanted to emphasize the roles of parents and teachers about determining students’ future career and development of them in their interests.
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Article Reflection Multi-Media Entry 3: Rapport-Talk And Report-Talk
As I
mentioned before in my reflection of the article ‘Rapport-talk and Report-talk’, men and women are
different from in terms of everything. The conversation style between them is
one of these differences and I think it is the biggest one. When we think about
this subject, a question comes to our minds: Who talks much? Men or women?
According to men, the answer is so simple, of course women talk much than men
but let’s consider this subject from another point of aspect. We can answer
this question it changes in accordance with the situations. While women talks
much about individual states, men talk much about communal ones and we can
explain it like the author of the article has done before, as rapport talking
and report talking. The youtube video that I indicated above approach this
topic amusingly. In this video, as we all know there is animation of cars. Most
of us like this animation but surely no one had realized that approximately the
whole animation is about this subject. While you are watching the some parts of
scenes, you will become aware of the conversation differences between the
female and male types of the cars. By means of that video, you will understand
what exactly I and the writer of the article mean and what the rapport and
report talking are, sweet watchings!
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Article Reflection 3: Rapport-Talk And Report-Talk
RAPPORT-TALK AND REPORT-TALK
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Reflection Journal Multi-Media Entry 3: Power of Advertising
People are
affected by advertisements, however
there are some
that believe people
make their own
decisions and are
not affected by
advertisements. For example they
argue that people
can resist even
subliminal messages.
According to Kirkpatrick, who is a professor
on marketing in
California State University, there
is no subliminal
messages because subliminal
means below our
limit of perception . So how
can subliminal messages
affect people? However, he
has not considered
one thing. Actually people
can perceive them but not
recognize them completely. This cause
to not remember
what we saw
or smell or
heard clearly. But
this does not
mean we cannot
be affected. I
want to give
an example to
illustrate that clearly.
Kirkpatrick stated that
“...in a movie theater
in 1957, the
words ‘eat popcorn’
and ‘drink Coca-Cola’
were flashed on the
screen at a
speed no one
could perceive. During intermission
the sales of
popcorn supposedly increased
58 percent and
the sales of
Coca-Cola 18 percent.”. People in
movie theatre actually saw
the words but
they do not
know that. Can we
say they buy
coca cola and the
popcorn because of
their own free
will or the words
they see lead
to buy them? Another example is
a research which
is done by Duke University.
They took two
group of people
in research.. Participiants was
shown a video
which they need
to say which
corner of the
video the box
appear and go quickly.
However, what participiants
did not know
is that one
group also saw
apple logo which is
quckly poped up in the video
while the another
group sees IBM
logo in the
same way. The
researched reveal that participiants
who saw apple logo
were getting more
creative than the others. As
a result, we
can say that
people can easily
be affected by what
they are not
aware of. Actually, people
cannot resist what
they actually does
not recognize? So
these advertisements affect
people even people do not know.
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Reflection Journal 3: Power Of Advertising
POWER OF ADVERTISING
Do you
know that in
1991 Sweeden prohibited
adevertisements during children’s
private time or “In
2001, U.S. advertising expenditures topped $230 billion”? Why are
governments banning advertisements or
why companies are
going through a lot of
money for advertising? These bring
us to one point. Advertising is
powerful in affecting
people and they
gain this power
by bombarding people
with advertising and by appealing
to people’s senses
and emotions to make people buy
things that people do not need or not want. Advertising affects
people’s buying choices
when they are
shopping. Advertisers appeal to
consumers’ senses and
emotions in order
to influence their
decisions. First of
all, advertisers can
use sences to
sell a product
to a customer
which does not
need that product. For
example, Lindstorm states
that supermarkets are
placing their bakeries
near of the exits so that people
can smell the
“fresh baked smell” and they
are willing to
buy the products. This
is not the only
usage of scent.
Advertisers have found
a new crucial
method which is
called “sensory branding”.
Before this method
advertiserts thought that the
most effective part
of an advertisement
is the visual
part. But the reality
is that when sight
is used together
with another sence,
the power of
effectiveness of advertisement
is remarkably increasing. So in sensory
branding, advertisers use at
least two sence, such
as smell and sight,
together and they
are making a
link betweeen these
sences and consumers’
emotions. Vanilla smell
is a good
example of this.
As Lindstorm stated,
there is vanilla
flavour in breast-milk.
This makes consumers
assossiate vanilla scent
with their childhood
memory, fedding from your
mother’s breast, and bring
them to happines.
That is why
“Johnson & Johnson’s Baby’s
smell” is always
memorable. Smell is more
effective than the
other sences. In a research
which is done in
Georgia State University , it is found
that “All of
our other senses, you
think before you
respond, but with
scent, your brain
responds before you
think.”. So when
you are affected
by a smell
you like, it
is too hard
to resist this
smell. Because you cnnot
think before you
take action. This makes
smell one of
the most powerful
weapons in advertisers’
hands. Advertisers use scent
and other senses to
change our buying decisions. In conclusion, advertising
can influence people’s
buying choices by
making people have
to see advertisement
everywhere and by using our
sences and emotions. People cannot get
rid of them
while they cannot find
a way to
escape them and influence of
them or while people
cannot be aware of
them. In this situation, it
is undeniable to
say that we
can buy the
same products without
advertisements through free will.
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