About Democracy

WHAT IS POWER?

Being strong means having the measurable blessings of the world in one way, concepts such as authority, power, domination, position, fame, career, money, muscle strength. And for the sake of all these gains, that is, with the intoxication of being strong, people create a virtual living space by covering their own truth and galloping after it without question. Here is a typical example of this…

‘ONE ARM CHAMPION’

A boy in Japan was in a car accident when he was ten years old and lost his left arm. However, the boy had a great ideal… He wanted to be a good judo master when he grew up. His father, who saw that the boy’s dream was destroyed with the loss of his left arm, fell into a great depression, went to a famous judo teacher in Japan, thinking that there might be a ray of hope, and asked if there was anything to be done by explaining the child’s condition.

The judo teacher said: “Bring the boy and see.”

The next day, father and son appeared before the teacher.

Hodja looked at the boy and said: “Okay.”

“Bring the boy’s things tomorrow, we’ll start work.”

The next day, when the boy came, his teacher showed him a move and said: “Study this move.” The child practiced the same movement for a week. Then he went to his teacher and said, “I learned this move, won’t you show another move?” he asked.

The teacher’s answer was: “Keep working”.

After two months, three months, six months, the child has completed one year in school. He repeated the same movement throughout the year. He went back to his teacher:

“Hodja, I’ve been working on the same movement for a year, and I’m doing well. Won’t  you show me a new move?”

“You practice the same move, my son. When the time comes, we will take a new action.”

After two years, three years, the boy completed five years under the supervision of his teacher.

One day, his teacher came to the boy and said: “Get ready!” said.

“I signed you up for the big tournament. You’re going to play tomorrow. “The boy is shocked.

He doesn’t have a left arm, and he only knows one move in judo. He thought that he would not have a chance in the tournament attended by famous judokas;

But he did not speak of his respect for his teacher.

On the first day of the tournament, the young man had his first match.

He made the only move he knew to his opponent and

Won. Then the second, third game... Quarter-finals, semi-finals and

Unexpectedly, he qualified for the final.

In the final, the young man faced the country’s unbeaten champion for the last ten years. The opponent is a master at judo. The young man could not stand it and ran to his teacher.

“Hodja,” he said, “we have come this far by chance. But take a look at my opponent, champion of the years. And I am missing an arm and there is only one movement that I know of. That’s enough for me. Let me not go out and be a disgrace. Let me withdraw from the tournament.”

“No,” said his teacher. “Even if you are defeated, be defeated with your honor.”

The child was helpless and the match started.

After taking the trophy, he ran to his teacher:

“Sir. How did this work? I don’t have an arm and I only know one move. How did I win?” “Look, son,” said his teacher; “First, you’ve been working on the same movement for five years. You’ve worked so hard that now there’s no one on earth who can do that move better than you. Second, that movement has only one counter-movement.

That’s why your opponent has to hold you by the left arm!”

The lad again made the only move he knew and

He became the champion by knocking down his opponent in the move.

Ayşe ÇAKIR/ Turkish Language and Literature Teacher- Antalya Dr. İlhami Tankut Anatolian High School

 

POWER AND DOMİNATİON

 The word “power” suggests something direct and here in its effect, something more directly compelling than power. Because power in lower and crude expressions is always better described as power; For example, catching and bringing prey to the mouth is accomplished by force.

 

Power becomes power when it gives itself time, but when the moment of crisis, the moment of irreversible decision comes, power returns to naked power. Power is more general and operates over a larger space than power; Power includes much more, but is less dynamic. Power is more ceremonial, there is even a certain measure of patience. The distinction between power and power can be exemplified very simply by the relationship between cat and mouse.

The cat uses its power to capture the mouse, capture it, hold it in its claws, and ultimately kill it. But there is another factor in playing with the mouse. The cat lets the mouse go, giving it a chance to escape a little, or even turn around; during this time the mouse is no longer subject to power. However, it is still within the power [field] of the cat and can be caught again at any time. If it moves away immediately, it escapes the cat’s power domain; but it is still within the domain of the cat, until it reaches the point where it is no longer reachable. The space dominated by the cat, the moments of hope it gives to the mouse, while keeping a close eye on it all this time and never giving up its interest and intent to destroy it; all of these, namely space, hope, intent to watch and destroy, can be called the actual body of power, or, more simply, power itself.

 

Thus, unlike power, there is a certain extension in space and time inherent in power. I suggested earlier that the mouth is a prototype of the prison. In any case, it’s between the two. There is a relationship that will serve to exemplify the relationship between power and power. Once in the mouth of the enemy, the victim has no hope because he has neither the time nor the place to maneuver. In these two respects, prison is like an extension of the mouth. Just like the mouse in front of the cat, the prisoner can walk a little back and forth, turn his back on his guards; He has time before him to hope to escape or be released. The whole mechanism of the prison where the cell in which he is locked is located seems to be tuned to its destruction, and the prisoner is always conscious of this, even when this mechanism is not actually functioning.(E. Canetti / Mass and Power)

Ayşe ÇAKIR

Antalya Dr. İlhami Tankut Anatolian High School- Turkish Language and Literature Teacher

 

Students' Meeting

We had a pleasant meeting with our students and partners this evening.

At our meeting, our students had the opportunity to introduce themselves.

With our Sli.do and Kahoot events, we both saw the participants and played games on our book Lord of the Flies and expressed our opinions.

The meeting, attended by our Romanian partner Alina and her students, was very productive in terms of meeting all students with their peers from different cultures and speaking different languages.

When the time that our Romanian partners could allocate for the meeting was up, we, as Turkish partners, chatted about the book on Twinspace Chat. 

We asked our students, "Who should be the leader?" We asked questions such as: and we were happy with the satisfying answers they gave.

While closing the meeting with good wishes, we also made the planning of a new meeting.

4th Meeting Before 2nd Semester

We held our 4th meeting at the end of the 1st term. 

Our agenda was the evaluation of the project process and the planning of the Democracy event. 

The problems of our teachers who could not log in to the blog page opened for the democracy event have been resolved.

Finally, we planned the next meeting and ended our meeting.

THE GOD OF FLIES

THE GOD OF FLIES

 

THE GOD OF FLIES

 

Island and Art Map

Our this activity is creating an art map.

We will label the novels, movies, songs and pictures written about the island on the map. 

It will be a very influential activity. Let's go :)

To access our map;

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3rd Meeting About Lord of the Flies Novel

 

Best Year Wishes

On New Year's Eve, we send our New Year's wishes to each other.

We wish success, health and happiness follow you this year. We offer you a selection of New Year's cards and calendars that we have prepared as a whole team.

Teacher: Ayşe ÇAKIR/Dr. İlhami Tankut Anatolian High School/ANTALYA

Teacher: Zehra Çınar BOY/Betül Can Anatolian High School

Teacher: Dilek YENİGÜN/Private İzmir Bilfen Anatolian and Sience High School/İZMİR

Teacher: Elif TÖRE/Bafra Sience High School/SAMSUN

Teacher: Filiz KAPLAN/Ünye VTAH/ORDU

Teacher: Merve Çidem/Alişen İğde VTAH/KIRIKKALE

The Main Meeting at 06/12/2021

We held our main meeting on 06/12/2021 with the participation of all partners. 

In this meeting, our main agenda items were:

- Getting to know each other,

- Negotiating the project's goals,
- Distribution of tasks and selection of tasks in the events to be held every month/week.

Pioneer of Civilization: Prometheus

There is no doubt that fire has a lot to contribute to human life. Prometheus, who carried fire, that is, civilization, to people inmythology. With this study, it is aimed to recognize Prometheus andto give the reflection of fire in the work called Lord of the Flies.

Click the link to review our posts about Prometheus on Padlet.

Pioneer of Civilization: Prometheus 

Turkish Partners' First Meeting (18/11/2021)

We held our first meeting with Turkish partners on 18/11/2021.
The aims of this meeting were;
- Clarifying the project plan at the initial stage of the project
-Preparing an environment so that we can communicate comfortably with our foreign partners
-Get to know each other

We talked about projects' process and planned the activities. Then and we planned the main meeting where all partners will be participants.