Thursday, February 7, 2008

Chapter 2 - Word Precision


Correct using of the words gives some help to our thinking.
Writing is important to memorize words.
If we want to clear thinking, we should understand correctly words.
We should choose correct dictionary for taking mean of words.
If we use thesaurus dictionary, we can find synonyms. So we can learn more words. And we can explain ourselves by a few ways.
We should check our understanding of a word. In thıs way words give us their characteristic and main ideas.
Learning word's root can give us main idea. We can inference by roots.
Metaphorical meaning reminds us, which can be positive, negative, or neutral. If we catch the connotation of word, we can feel and image in our brains.

Chapter 1 - abservation skills


We should find out our characteristic and personalityto make better aware way of thinking.Instense observation makes us see the details and give us clues about solving problems.Sensing, perceiving and thinking arre the ways of observation. Sensing gives us information, perceiving places data in our brains. And finally thinking shapes our discerment.Careful observation needs to be focused on subject, to be patient our opinious to be eliminated.

1. Observation skills are learned mainly through book learning. Support for Answers. On the contrary, observation is learned from participation, which is more active and spontaneous than reading. Samuel Scudder learned observing through the active coaching of his teacher Agassiz as well as from his own efforts, curiosity, and persistence in studying his fish. False

2. The standard academic study of all the physical sciences requires observation skills, whether in the field or laboratory. False

3. In thinking, the correctness of our conclusions usually depends on the clarity of our perceptions. True

4. Observation skills can be extended to observing how you observe. True

5. An insight is an experience of understanding that can occur spontaneously after we observe something intently for a while. One illustration of this experience is the story of Archimedes, who, while in his bath, discovered the means of measuring the value of an irregular solid by the displacement of water. True

6. Agassiz was simply too busy to give his student all the assistance he needed. False

7. Perception and sensation are synonyms. True

8. It is difficult to feel sensation and to think at the same time. If we want to feel whether a pair of new shoes fits properly, we have to pay attention. True

9. Assimilation, according to Piaget, is an experience of easily understanding something that readily fits into our preexisting schemes or world view. True

10. The word thinking, according to the dictionary, has only one meaning.False

Monday, February 4, 2008

I was born in Istanbul on 6 August 1981 and grew up in a small summer city close to the Mediterranean Sea. I studied at Dumlupinar University and Anadolu University. Then I got my business and export-import degrees from these universities between 1999 2006.

I have a brother and he’s studying econometrics in one of the famous university in Turkey. My parents are living in Istanbul during the winters but the summer time, they are living in Didim. They are retired now.

About 80% of the people in Turkey are Turks who originally came from central Asia. The remaining 20% is a variety of smaller ethnic groups, including Greeks, Armenians, and Jews. The Republic of Turkey was founded by and on the originating ideals of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, I think; he is one of the greatest leaders of this century. Turkish is the official language of the country but the Turkish alphabet doesn’t contain the letters ‘Q, W, X’. Soccer is the most popular sport for both spectators and participants and my team is the best team in my country. This Turkish team called Fenerbahce.

I have been living in the USA for 2 years. I went to language school a few mounts. When I was going to the language school, I was thinking about going to university for MBA. Consequently, I’m going for master’s degree in business administration in Lincoln University now. I have a lot of ideas for my life in the future. I want to create my own business about export-import. I always dreamed about having my own business and I’m talking to friends and reading a lot of books about it all the time for different ideas. Do I trust myself? Yes, I do.


MEHMET KEMAL