July 2012
5 posts
THE BURIED LIFE: 45 Life Lessons From A Dying Old... →
theburiedlife:
1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step. 3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone… 4. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch. 5. Pay off your credit cards…
“I think perhaps it is a generational thing. I talk to younger people and they...”
June 2012
4 posts
Wikileaks and Journalism
New York Times executive editor Bill Keller who wrote an excellent summary on Jan. 26, 2011, on how the paper decided to use the WikiLeaks cables. He wrote that “While we assumed we had little or no ability to influence what WikiLeaks did, let alone what would happen once this material was unleashed in the echo chamber of the blogosphere, that did not free us from the need to exercise care in our...
May 2012
2 posts
April 2012
2 posts
March 2012
11 posts
“Falling in Love with the Real Thing
It’s never easy to let go. Or is it? Most...”
“” Ben şu dünyayı halledeyim de sonra ahireti hallederim diyenlerden, hem...”
February 2012
18 posts
Racism!
‘Racism is incredibly successful, despite having no basis at all in fact. There is only one race – the human race’
The Guardian
Ottoman Empire from 1520-1566
Here is an advert for the position of Imam of the Grand Mosque in Istanbul at the time of Sultan Suleyman who ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1520 - 1566. To have mastered the languages of Arabic, Latin, Turkish and Persian. To have mastered the Qur’an, the bible and the torah. To be a scholar in Shari’ah and Fiqh. To have mastered physics and mathematics up to teaching standard. To be a master...
McDonaldization
McDonaldization,is the process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as of the rest of the world. (Ritzer, 1993:1)
The Iron Lady - Margaret Thatcher
Ingilterenin ilk kadin basbakani Margaret Thatcher, ve Thatcher’in hayatini konu alan film belki de kariyerinde cok buyuk hedefleri olan her kadinin izlemesi gereken bir film. 2011 yilinin sonlarina dogru cikan ve Thatcher’in hayatini konu alan The Iron Lady - Demir Leydi filmi aslinda basariya ulasan bircok kadinin hayatinda ki bircok seyi geri plana atarak yasadiginin en acik...
January 2012
19 posts
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