Archive for November 2010

Açı Film Academy ‘1-min-film’ Workshop

Dec 29, 2011 No Comments by admin

Film club members had their first chance to make a film. They were all asked to shoot a film of one minute. Some preferred to work individually where else some others had partners. Three films were found note worthy by the advisors of the club. Cesi Saduk-Bige Targıt-Pelin Tozan’s film came first, Barış Özmoralı-Engin Deniz [...]

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Açı Leaks November 2010

Jun 14, 2011 No Comments by Logan

- September 13th: Açı Highschool students re-unite for another year of intensive learning experience. – October 7th: Guest speaker Tosun Terzioğlu gives a whole new insight to university education – October 8th: Students attended presentation of the UN conference about ‘’glocalization’’ – October 10th: Students attended Açı film marathon at Film Ekimi – October 16th: [...]

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Açı MUN Team Returns Successfully From TIMUN

Dec 21, 2010 No Comments by admin

Congratulations to our MUN team who took part in the first MUN conference of the year, TIMUN!

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FLASH NEWS: The Right Angle Reaches 1,500 Clicks!

Dec 16, 2010 2 Comments by Logan

The Right Angle receives applause from the New York Times, as well as making to the first page in Google!

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Un Dia Perfecto

Nov 14, 2010 No Comments by admin

Por la mañana 8:00 me levanto en Los Ángeles 9:00 desayuno un croissant en Paris 10:00 practico futbol con Messi en Barcelona 11:00 me encuentro con Jim Carrey en Los Ángeles 12:00 voy de compras en Nueva York Por la tarde 13:00 como tacos en México 14:00 veo una película en Bollywood 15:00 Nado en [...]

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Is Mythology an Answer?

Nov 14, 2010 No Comments by Alara Eren

A mythology is a body of myths and legends. It generally includes gods, goddesses, heroes and explains the nature of the world and how it was created. It often also tells the origins of the culture or country it is from by telling different types of stories about them. Greek mythology, in particular, has been [...]

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Cartoons for November 2010

Nov 12, 2010 9 Comments by And Sunman
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How to become a rock star?

Nov 12, 2010 No Comments by Ece

Who doesn’t want to be a star? Especially a rock star! Rock stars are people whom we always wanted to be like. A rock star’s life is awesome! So if you want to be a rock star you should follow these article’s steps. You come from school, you are tired and your mother forgot the [...]

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Upcoming popcorners

Nov 12, 2010 No Comments by Nalan Buyukyilmaz

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I Kind: fantastic Director: David Yates Cast: Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint Duration: 2.30 Date: 17 November 2010 You Again Kind: comedy, romantic Director: Andy Fickman Cast: Kristen Bell, Sigourney Weaver, Odette Yustman, Jamie Lee Curtis Date: 26 November 2010 Summary: Marni is a successful public relations specialist. When she [...]

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November 2010 Interviews

Nov 12, 2010 No Comments by admin

This issue is packed with interviews! Süleyman Demirel Cemil İpekçi Ezel Akay Esther Barazzone Ümit Coşkun Fabienne Felipoucci İzak Atiyas Özgür Kankaynar Hilal Kaplan Azam Ali Cenk Rofe Ümit Kocasakal Mustafa Alkan Murat Gülsoy Alaskan Exchange Students

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Roofs going green

Nov 11, 2010 No Comments by Umut Sen

What do we understand when we say roofs? Big ugly ones which cover a building? Have you ever thought that you can do millions of things with roofs of your houses? One of those things is making your roof “green.” Green doesn’t mean that it is just colored green. It means that there are living [...]

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Interview with Mustafa Alkın, “A Space Constructor”

Nov 11, 2010 No Comments by Umut Sen

Mustafa Alkın is the Project Manager of Space Frame Systems, a company which has been making frame systems since 2004. They have made space systems for Antalya’s new domestic and international airport terminal, a hangar at Atatürk airport and innumerable other works in different countries. What made you interested in space construction systems? When I [...]

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Interview with a “Fashion Guru” Cemil İpekçi

Nov 11, 2010 No Comments by Ulker Hizal

Can you please tell us about yourself? Give the details about your career and education? I was born in Istanbul on 05/08/1948. I graduated from the Royal Academy of Art – pattern and design program, in 1971. In the the years 1972-75 I worked as a stylist on garments. All my designs carry traces of [...]

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Humanity’s effect on the environment

Nov 11, 2010 No Comments by Ulker Hizal

Nowadays, humans are changing the environment around them in a vital way as a result of increasing population and expectations of living standards. Mankind has been damaging his environment for a long time, although he did not realize until recently greater what problems it would cause. Air pollution is an especially important problem for our [...]

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The End of an Everlasting Story

Nov 11, 2010 1 Comment by Tuvana Adali

My name is Eduardo. I have been in this cage for three years. I don’t know what God or love is, I don’t know what hunger and thirst feels like. My life is a dead butterfly, so very beautigul but lying on the floor, breathless. I have accepted every feature of myself and let it [...]

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The exaggerated subject of headscarves and turbans

Nov 11, 2010 No Comments by Senad Sevdik

The topic of the headscarf and the turban are still discussed in contemporary news, regardless of more important topics. This is due to the immense amount of pressure felt by both sides: those who choose to wear them, and those that don’t. The following are my personal observations. The wearers of the turban are much [...]

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Interview with a fighter-Hilal Kaplan

Nov 11, 2010 No Comments by S.Sevdik R.Mustafova M.Ozdeniz I.Mertsoy

Hilal Kaplan is an important columnist who writes for the Taraf newspaper. She believes that democracy and free will should let people to be able to wear the headscarf. She is currently giving a fight for this with her articles. Have you experienced any problems since you’ve started wearing a turban? Yes, I have. When [...]

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Plastic will be our end

Nov 11, 2010 No Comments by Refika Kortun

Water in plastic containers are in general not healthy, and the use of some kinds of containers contain cancer risk. Those kinds of grade plastics [number 3, 6 and 7) should not be used in food products. You will often find that they are used indiscriminately in Turkey. The numbers are on the bottom of [...]

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Interview with “Mr.Multi Facet” Murat Gülsoy

Nov 11, 2010 No Comments by Rahime Ismetova Mustafova

Murat Gülsoy is a prominent Turkish author. His post-modern self-consciousness gained him a huge reputation as an elegant author. He was awarded with Sait Faik Hikaye Armağanı in 2001. He is also an associate professor at Boğaziçi University Biomedical Engineering Faculty, teaching Biophotonic classes; he has published many articles on laser systems design. We know [...]

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