After watching the “Fight Club” you can suddenly crave a Big Mac or a latte from Starbucks. This sudden desire is created by extremely talented commercialists. In the movie, if you watch closely, there are ads placed all over the motion picture but these ads aren’t thrown at our faces. Instead, they are placed in [...]
A few weeks ago, we went to Beyoğlu and we saw Hakan Gerçek’s one man show. He read famous Cemal Süreya poems during his performance. After that, we asked a simple question. Why Cemal Süreya? “I had the curiosity to the other authors, but I extract some. I read too much and I discovered him. [...]
Eddi Aguirre is a courageous designer who created a sketch of what a Barbie would look like without any make up. In the sketch the Barbie has freckles, bags under her eyes, frizzy hair, shiny skin and braces. This sketch was designed to feature in a magazine to show that even Barbies aren’t perfect. [...]
A first world country in many respects, Turkey still struggles with dramatic inequalities in development. Unfortunately, the quality of education in Turkey’s many underdeveloped cities is very different from the more privileged parts. While there are 45 universities in Istanbul and 20 in Ankara, there is only one university in Agri and one in Hakkari. [...]
The redesigned SAT, that will come into effect in 2016, will no longer test the students for only memorizing the confusing definitions of words. They are aiming to emphasize more useful words that you can come upon in life. The students that studied a lot won’t be able to pass the vocabulary section easily by [...]
With the advent of summer 2014, cameras has already started to roll.The book which filled up the ‘Best Sellers’ shelves for months, is now going to fill up the movie theaters.The Fault In Our Stars, written by John Green is going to be turned into a film. It is about two cancer teenagers, whose life [...]
One regrets not having heard about Anish Kapoor before, when one goes to one of his exhibits on the world. It is impossible not to be truly impressed by his aesthetics delicately moulded into stone. The combination of sculpting, architecture, engineering, and technology in his work is worth not only seeing but also trying to [...]
We, the editors of TRA have decided to announce the ethical standards for this platform as we see that the more we develop, the more influential and perhaps risky decisions we have to be make. After long discussions, we have decided to be very transparent about our standards. They may seem quite simple, but when [...]
When we want to become a part of a group, we act the way they want us to act. We give up on our own desires in order to please them. We become someone who we’re not; we turn into a person we once have pitied. We become the one never have thought we would. [...]
Susan Wojcicki is planning something new for Youtube. Youtube is heavy on advertisement but not in the way we think. There are trivial stars in Youtube and the CEO of Youtube wants to make them real life stars. She says that stars in Youtube must be highlighted and this makes a major change in Youtube [...]
Internet has always been a conducive source for people to realize what is happening around the world. Internet has always been a tool to media, communication and sharing. It has provided shopping, banking and enterprise applications. In brief, internet has been a virtual world for mankind to do everything he wants. Although the function of [...]
Being a Pulitzer prize winner journalist is a very important step a journalist can take. How is this most important honor given to some select journalists? Pulitzer prizes are decided by a board and jurors. It is mainly given to encourage journalists to strive to do their best, push their skills to the highest [...]
Unfortunately, violence against women is still one of the biggest problems on our world. Millions of women get abused by their husbands, fathers, etc. Violence and abuse can cause terrible physical and emotional pain in unprotected women. Sadly, some women can’t stand up for their rights. A recent commercial by “National Domestic Violence Hotline” provides [...]
In 1998 a paper said that there was a link between autism and the vacination for measles,mumps and rubella. Vaccines contain inactive viruses that stimulate your immune cells which help fight diseases. Vaccination is important for immunizing people against diseases and helping stop spreading it. but after hearing what this paper said, lots of people [...]
Nowadays when you say sports films you don’t only think about the athletes. The main characters are seen as a manager or coach or the like. We were used to see a young Kevin Costner as an athlete in films in 80′s and 90′s, for example in Bull Durham, For Love of the Game and [...]
Astrology is the study of the connection between the positions and movement in space (of planets and stars) and it’s correlation with people. Though most people think astrology is just our sun/star signs and daily horoscopes ,astrology actually has a wide range of branches each with different ideas and systems such as; Chinese Astrology, Electional [...]
Al Jazeera has launched in America August 2013, and since then it has been losing viewers, going from 18000 to 13000 in five months. Normally this would be disturbing for any media, but Al Jazeera America does not care. This is because, to them, in the short term it is enough to have a [...]
Ezel Akay is a Turkish film actor, film director and film producer. He was born in 1961 and he studied engineering at the Bosphorus University. He later started his education on theatre arts at Villanova University. One of his recent movies is Killing the Shadow (Karagöz ve Hacivat Neden Öldürüldü?) 1) What do you think [...]
Last year a robot made by Boston Dynamics, called Cheetah, managed to outrun the world’s fastest man Usain Bolt on a treadmill. Back then, it was plugged in and supported by electricity. This year they have upgraded the Cheetah and managed to add more abilities to the robot. They called the new version WildCat. The [...]
I know everything has an end but mostly it is very hard to accept it. This is one of those difficult moments for me… At the beginning of my TRA experience which dates back to grade 9, I had no idea about journalism. I did not know how to write an article which would grab [...]
It is very hard for me to accept that I am actually writing a farewell letter to TRA. I feel like I will burst into tears… When Miss Terry started TRA with a very small group, I wasn’t actually with them. I remember going to Miss Terry and I said: “I want to write a [...]
It was approximately four years ago when a bunch of 9th grade students were gathered in H204. Some of us were new comers to Açı and some of us have already been in Açı. The only thing we had in common was that we were not taking French classes and that we were anxiously waiting [...]
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