Dear students of Alpha-2
I'd like to assign the chapter 2 to you. In this chapter,we have read an article about giving name and namesaking. What is your opinion about namesaking? Is it a good idea for a child to have the same name as his father? If you were named after your dad or your mother as one of the those characters in the article, what would you feel? Would you want to change it or not? Why or why not?
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Junior Status: Sharing Dad's Name a Mixed Bag
YanıtlaSilFirst of all, I want to mention that reading text was surprised me.Because, I supposed to give a child the same name as his or her father, that is nameshaking, only at Turkey, but I have wrong thought. Therefore, I find it amazing and informative. Before I didn't read it, I had no idea that nameshaking in other country. Frankly, I agree on the second paragraph without a doubt. In fact, nameshaking is improved relationship among the members of family and it symbolizes to respect for grandmother and grandfather. For example, not only my older uncle but also my younger uncle gave their children the same name as their father.Exactly,this attitudes made him satisfaction.My cousins and my grandfather are sharing the same name , even though both of them have different personality.Additionally, in my opinion nameshaking is the most popular in the past in Turkey, but now it isn't. Nowadays, parents want their children to be unique and different, so they don't give their children the same name as his or her father. Finally, I don't like title, because it is long and silly. In spite of everything I like it because it was given me new information.
In my opinion,this reading text reminded me our culture a lot because there are several reasons reasons related to topic.First of all, namesake which has same name more than one personActually,like the author says ‘‘It does provide the early chance fort his strong bonding’’This situation provides tight bond between two people.For instance,someone died by disease.In this case,her or his family don’t want to forget him or her.Put simply,they want to keep alive,this situation just can provide to give name to own child.This condition cheer them up enough because ıf you want to inrease happiness.you should share I mean there is a Turkish proverb ‘‘happiness inrease with sharing’’Besides,nowadays some of parents want to be different name their child because they know that name is really effectual on child’s personality.On the other hand according to passage sometimes some of children or adult don’t want to have same name because this situation is very boring I totally agree with this idea For example, in the same class, there are two people to have same name,people confuse them with each other.Therefore, ıt is boring I mean I don’t want.To sum up, our culture is suitable for namesake and they feel proud from this condition especially father because ıf someone name to child this one be father I totally agree with this idea
YanıtlaSilWe can infer that namesaking is very common all around the world.It has a lot of reasons.First and the most common reason is ,it is only way to say “this is my child” ,”this is my production”.We can understand this from line 7-10.Second reason is they can give consequence to who is very important for them maybe their father or mother’s name.But namesaking has been going down nowadays.People want to give unnusal names to their children to be different.”We now have a culture where a lot of young parents don’t want their child to have the same name as any other child in the class at school.”Study will be supported by th is sentence.Another issued was mentioned in this passage.This issue was about similaties between namesakes.Passage said that “Namesakes have same characterastics.”And it was corrected by Carleton Warren Kendrick.For me it is true too.For instance I and my grandfather have same name”M.Emin.”According to my father says we have same personalities.My father said to me ““I called you “dad” when you were infant.””This is very common situation between the people who have same name in the same family.To sum up namesaking is very commmon for reasons that I metioned above.
YanıtlaSilWhen I read the title of this text in the very first lesson, I was not interested in the text and I thought, ıt is about an unimportant subject. However, when I read the text, ıt interested me, and ıt reminded me a question “can our names affect our characters?” some researchers believe our names affect our personality because names are like adjectives that describe people. Therefore, when someone calls us with our “adjectives” –names-, we try to look alike our names. For instance, my name is Mustafa, and it means honesty. Even if I don’t think about honesty consciously, ıt is in my subconscious because everyone calls me honest –Mustafa- everyday. On the other hand, while I was reading the text I hoped it would be about “Do names affect characters?”, but ıt mainly tells the results of giving a certain name to a child and namesake. One thing the writer says ıf a child and his dad are namesakes with each other they are closer than other children of the same father. I totally agree with this idea, because as the author said, namesake creates stronger bonds. The second idea about namegiving in the text is giving different names to children. According to Evans –a psychology professor- this is more popular in America today because parents want to have more individualistic children. In my opinion, this new trend in America is also more popular in Turkey and this is good for the new generation. In conclusion, names are very important for shaping people. Therefore, we must be careful when we name our children.
YanıtlaSilMy opinion of this reading text is interesting and attractive.When we started to read the tex some thing attract me that was the title because when you read the title you can guess what the text about and i'm not wrong about the text.When i keep reading the text i was suprized because i never thought namesaking between father and his son or daughter will be only in Turkey and the second suprized was about names and effects on people personalities.In the text author mention the research about names and effects on people personalities and after i just think a few seconds and i understand the bond between names and personalities i imagine my friends name and their personalities.
YanıtlaSilIn the text , the author mention about some bad situations about namesaking.There was a girl who namesaking his father first times she didn't like that situation because she has strong reasons like her friends make fun of her name because the name was for male but after that times she change her mind because she start to think her name was uniq and she believes a bond with her father.I think namesaking is a little bit ridiculous because that can make some problems in your life. If i have namesaking with my dad i think i can live with that but it going to make way for bad situations.
We read passage about namesaking.according to the passage namesaking is very common in the world but it has been going down.because young people want to give unıque names for their children.but some people give their sons the same names as their fathers.they think it is the way to say ‘’this is my son’’.sometimes mothers name their children with their father’s names because they want to proud them.many children didn’t like that because they want to have own personalities.in my opinion it’s unnecessary .if you want to proud your dad ,your mum or someone ,you should imitate his or her personality.
YanıtlaSilIn my opinion, children,who share name with their fathers or mothers, don't have their own personal identity.They feel unhappy and weird.But parents want to give a unique names their children.I think,every children should be known their individual names.If parents name their father's or mother's, children never have their ID card.When children are teenagers,they want to change their names.They want to be known their personalities.In the past There were a lot of children,who share name with their father's or mother's,but now this percentage has been decreasing all over the world.Weirder,male children,who have a female names, feel themselves very unhappy and silly.They have depressive days all lifetimes.Also this situation is recognized to female children.Briefly,parents should think every situations,before they name their children.
YanıtlaSilI think,nameshaking is lower now than last years.People name their father's,mother's,grandmother's and grandfather's names for their children.I don't think so because same names can be out of fashion after years.According to passage, some people name their father's names for their children.Maybe,these children won't like their names but families don't think this topic.Also,dead people's are named for babies because they look their babies and they remember their families.It is very silly.Also,it is very common in Turkey.Besides,dead people don't come here from other world.Therefore,ıt is unlogical for me.On the other hand,mixed can be because of same names.According to researchers,these situations is lower in recent years because people changed their habits.
YanıtlaSilI’ve heard lots of ‘’jr.’’ in many movies or books which are made by America.In American culture it’s very common to use ‘’jr.’’ Why people use that? Actually, Why they emphasis that ‘’ This one belongs to me ‘’ ? In my opinion, it’s rude to be nameshake with jr. as father-son. Perhaps, there is stronger bond between father-son, and father can be closer to his child. But if there’s one more child? In this situation, there’s nothing to do. Each child have to have their own name not father’s name. I’m against to ‘’jr.’’, of course people who don’t want to forget their deads can name their children with their dead’s name. It can be, but a father and a son can’t be nameshakes if both of them still alive. For example, my uncle named my nephew with my grandfather’s name. It’s normal and really meaningful. As a result, i’m against to use ‘’jr.’’, not whole passage of course I have some aggrement with passage but this passage was boring and not attractive for me.
YanıtlaSilJunior status: Sharing dad’s name a mixed bag
YanıtlaSilI will compare in the past and nowadays's sharing dad's name.For example,during the Ottoman Empire sultans shared dad' name with pride because foreign countries's kings didn't enough information about sultan's identity ,so they recognized his father or his ancestor' name or his achievements.For instance these were II. Murat,II. Mahmut,III. Osman.Provided that these sultans succeeded the wars,the trades,conquering large lands,they had nicknames.For example,IV. Mehmed was nickname Predator Mehmed, II. Selim was nickname Neat Selim,II. Osman was nickname Martyr Osman...In nowadays actually sharing dad's name decrease roundly because everybody knows who is who.Anybody don't need to recognize you from dad or ancestor's name.Another and the most probable reason is searching unusual and unique name by the parents.I think we should keep up with the times and the names is named unique and meaningful.
This week, we read a text about namesaking.I think it is informational and boring. In the past, namesaking is very common because people want to give their children the same name as their fathers and mothers want to honor their husband but nowadays namesaking is decreasing because people want to give unusual names to their children. In my opinion namesaking isn’t a good idea for a child to have the same name as his father. People should give different names their children because it can be confusing about identity card and maybe children don’t want to share their fathers’ names. If I will have a baby, I want to give him/her a different name. In my family nobody share his father’s name. If I had same name with my mum, I want to changed it because I want a different name.
YanıtlaSilJunior Status : Sharing Dad’s Name a Mixed Bag
YanıtlaSilThis week,we talked about names are passed from father to son.I believe that it is very common in Turkey.But I did not know that how is it in other countries.I have learned something about it before.But I read the passage I understand this situation better.I want to say something about this topic. If we ask ourselves this question,we may not find the answer our question in Turkey.This question is : ‘ What does Jr. mean ? ’ ‘ Jr. ’ have a meaning in abroad,however this model was very rare in Turkey. This reading text made me realize the Ottoman Republic. For instance,the time of the Ottoman Republic or when the first years of the Turkish Repuclic,it was used constantly. I want to give an example about that.When the time of the Ottoman Republic,the Ottoman Sultans always have the same names,and it comes to our attention.For example, Mustafa 4. , Selim 1. , Süleyman 2. , Mehmet 3. , Murat 5. etc.But this situation is a little bit different in abroad.Father and his son have the same name and surname.Its name is namesaking.The purpose of doing this,the person wants to get a respectable place in society.But what about their sons ? Maybe they feel blue or red,I don’t know.In fact,the most important thing about it that what they think,and how they feel about it.
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We read and talked about Junior Status : Sharing Dad’s Name a Mixed Bag passage. There are many examples about namesaking in the world. A lot of fathers and their sons have same name.The characters in the reading passage seem realistic because I know, many family have namesaking family members. In my opinion, sharing same name with relatives is really bad situation. People should find different, unusual and special names for their children. They should think their future lives. I don’t want to have same name another someone in my family. For example, I don’t want to share same name with my father. If I have my father’s or brother’s name, I can change it because I have to be special place in life. Finally, being namesake is terrible state for people.
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