10th of November - Remembrance Day of the Turkish Founding Father M.Kemal Atatürk

Dying In Peace for a War Commander

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Heroes, saviors, ancestors, war commanders, and government leaders of a nation fight for only one thing: Independence of their motherlands. And they never resort to go back to the battlefield as long as they continue to live in freedom and in peace. Countries today are lucky that in history many of them had many heroes and many war commanders who altogether fought for the same purpose and kept their nations stood up freely. Yet looking the history of the establishment of the Modern Day Türkish Republic right after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire in the same lands, there weren't many saviors and believers of the national freedom but one: The Savior, The Founder, and The First Prime Minister Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

Atatürk has said: "One day my mortal body will turn to dust, but the Türkish Republic will stand forever". This quote of him alone is enough to tell how he persevered his vision. There aren't many comparable leaders to Atatürk in western culture, yet if I remind you the death of Don Vito Corleone -Marlon Brando's character in the movie Godfather- how he died of heart attack while playing hide and seek with his grandchildren, you'd grasp what it means dying in peace for a war commander like Atatürk.

What Remembrance of Atatürk means for the Türkish

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Atatürk's Patriotism principle: Happy is the one who says, "I'm Türk".

Atatürk's Republicanism principle: Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation. 

Atatürk's Populism principle: The true master of Türkish Motherland is the peasant.

Through a law introduced in 1937 to be added to the 1924 Turkish Constitutional Law the Republican Party of the first government regime had declared these 6 principles of Atatürk to follow in the parliament of the national sovereignty:

Republicanism, Patriotism, Populism, Secularism, Statism, Reformism.

Yesterday as it was approved, today as it is being obeyed, and tomorrow as it is being followed ; these 6 principles keep the Turkish Republic promised to Atatürk in loyalty.

Also with the Türkish National Anthem, and Atatürk's Adress To Youth the citizens of Turkey keep his legacy in obedience and devotion giving Atatürk an eternal life, as is evident from his speech in the early 1930's during his public reforms:

There are two Mustafa Kemal's; one is flesh-and-bone Mustafa Kemal who now stands before you and will pass away. The other one is you, all of you who will go to the far corners of our land to spread the ideals which must be defended with your lives if necessary. I stand for the nation's dreams, and my life's work is to make them come true.

Sources of References:
http://atam.gov.tr/kaynakcali-ataturk-gunlugu-2/
ONBESINCI YIL KITABI: Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi Yayini, 1938 (trade paperback)
http://www.ingilizcechat.net/ataturk/ataturkun_sozleri/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YVXs1LAenA

Cihan Vercan
Nov,10th,2013

Together we...

... enjoyed the gusto of sharing,    
    perceived that everything is best to be shared with the beloved one;

... experienced the felicity of every little achievement,
    it was always going great guns even when nothing seems to be going right; 

... grasped it better how mighty God is,   
    that he has created the humankind as being two separate parts of a whole; 

... became the whole,    
    then this whole engendered our love;

... became 1+1= 1
    stood out against  all the 0+0= 2 's like a lighthouse in the ocean; 

... savvied Mathematical formulas 
    learnt to show respect to the Nature and to the nature of humans; 

... quit smoking and using drugs, 
    saw that bad habits were sailing away while good fortune was just beginning to shine on us.


Behind Our Shadows(feature Mystery)  / act-2 segment dark night of the soul on 77.
written by Cihan Vercan, January,5th,2007.  

Provoked to think, Think to be rejected

Thinker... Writer... Author... They are all the same except one reactive step they take. Thinker considers many different ideas altogether, but can't come up with one to create a product. Writer pens many different articles one after another, but can't come up with a medium to orientate them. Whereas someone more professional in this field, someone like an author, can come up with different products for different mediums; since he/she has learnt how to think differently, to think differently from self and from others. Authors can inscribe when others can only think or write what they think. Inscribing is a matter of thinking differently. 

To think differently, firstly one does need to figure out the process of how to think. This process starts with understanding definitions and making definitions through that understanding. Ideas on the importance of defining facts are built on top of sceptical thinking. Hence, to doubt is the second step of thinking differently. If you have a definition of a matter, then you raise doubts about other definitions to that same matter, and finally it is time to compare the two definitions. To put this process into effect, let's mention that we have a definition named "Jack". Jack is directly and simply, commonly known as the friendly fellow we all imagine of when his name is spelled. 

* The Bean and the Jack-stalk

But when Jack is confronted with a magical bean, he is not that same Jack as we imagined him. What happens to Jack, when he starts believing in a bean being magical? In reality, which never is made of fairy tales, it was not actually Jack who climbed on a beanstalk that supernaturally grew from underground reaching above the clouds; it was actually a bean who hated Jack so much, when Jack took the bean in the palm of his hand and dreamt of fighting with giants. The bean hated Jack so much that it let all the people around Jack, call him Jack-ass. But this was a children's fairy tale, and when those people around Jack were telling this tale to children, they just didn't want to say the word "ass". So Jack was named the Jack-stalk after his ass. If you are a dreamer, and you believe that one day your dream will be real, I'm not going to call you a loser, but I just hope your name is not Jack. 

Reality has nothing to do with dreams. A dream is never real. Even if you accomplish it, you'll certainly come to a point of understanding that dreams didn't you make succeed. It was only a relaxation method you used, when you're confronted with bitter facts of life, you needed to dream so you could have focused on the horizon you aim for. The key for success if you follow your dream is to kill your dream. How can one kill a dream? This was a strategy set down by the Chinese historical figure Chuan Tzu three thousand years ago: "Use your dream wisely, and never get used by it, and used up by."

* Jack the St-ripper

 When you are reading these, it was all over for Jack. He dreamt to fight with giants. But as a result he found himself as a male stripper in 1888 of London, England undergrounds. Should we always trust the media? Should we always think the same way as we were taught of the history? If one day you'll become an archivist or a historian, you will certainly find out that all the "Jack The Ripper"s in history were actually "Jack The Stripper"s. They all stripped down from tip to toe, feeding their unruly lusts, in order to get those people across their stage "looking at" them. There were also others in the crowd who looked at them differently and said "we found our new hero". Jack the Ripper was always known as the most villain and most vicious serial killer of all time, and arguably the first known serial killer in media. Serial killers, in a way, help both the media and the society be more religious, more introverted, more scared against discoveries, and hence more inclined to believe in modern lies. Don't get me wrong, serial killers are killers. But why do they kill and what do they tell to press when they were interviewed, is a smart game of media falsities. When the technology is developed and economy is expanded, look at what sociologists line up on their studies: The Generations.

Lost Generation... Silent Generation... G.I. Generation... Baby Boomers... Generation X... Generation Y... And now Homeland Generation. It's strange that when you examine, at the end of every generation, there is always a new serial killer. Baby Boomers were scared of Technology, they didn't want technology to develop, because they were afraid that their children wouldn't be able to grow up healthily or safely with technology. But the economy needed to expand, they needed consumers to start using new technology products, and wished them getting addicted to it. Generation X were addicted to TV. But Baby Boomers weren't. And because Generation X were addicted to TV, they liked watching Bonnie And Clyde shooting and killing people on screen, while their parents were afraid of Bonnie And Clyde. But Generation X never wanted to be like Bonnie And Clyde, they only liked witnessing what these serial killers have done. In the next generation, Bonnie and Clyde have become heroes. Generation Y all wanted to be another Bonnie and another Clyde. Bonnie and Clyde were heroic. Further ahead, Homeland Generation, which is the current one, don't even consider Bonnie and Clyde as heroic serial killers. For Homeland Generation, Bonnie and Clyde were fools, since they didn't have strong reason to kill, and strong plot to plan those murders. This is when the importance of Charles Manson stepped up. But why did Charles Manson wait for 40 years to explain his belief beyond killing people? For some reason, the timing of the end of the evolution of people lives getting attached to digital technology is within similar timing when Charlos Manson's trial day at the court came. 

* Jack the Jack Dawson from Titanic 

The true color of societies come to field of vision, only when there is a disaster or a break-down. Now as we discuss the transition from the Generation Y to the Homeland Generation, in order to find out what the media differentiate the generations with, we need Jack again. Jack first dreamt of fighting with giants, but ended up becoming a stripper. Well, Mick Jagger is right; you can't always get what you want. But Jack now plays his hand more wisely. He was a stripper, and wasn't a crimimal. But his "American Dream" made him so. In that point, does crime come from the same values that have motivated Americans since the Revolution? Jack Dawson in Titanic has the American dream in the most simple way possible to accomplish: "To go to New York and see the Statue of Liberty". That's all his big American dream is. When you meet Jack Dawson in Titanic, you'll think to yourself that it's normal for everybody all around the world to have an American dream. But when you get on the Titanic, the America is already in there. The first game show ever "The Dating Game(1965)" is in there, with all the different classes of society which in 1977 during the next game show "The Price is Right" a young lady with an American dream commits wardrobe malfunctioning in order to reach her American dream. What is wardrobe malfunctioning? If Britney Spears, Janet Jackson and Paris Hilton "perform" a wardrobe malfunctioning, "oops, my breast! Sorry it was just an accident" on top of this 1977 incident on TV, will they earn more fame, or is this their way of achieving the American dream, where achieving is a way of killing? This is a matter of shared values, but these values are only shared within the understanding of the transition between the Generation Y and the Homeland Generation, as stated by Messner and Rosenfeld in their works of "Crime and the American Dream(Wadsworth Publishing Company,1997): 

1- An achievement orientation made of material success, to create a better you out of your own self.
2- A pursuit of private gain in competition with others who don't deserve their place, for rewards and status(but mostly for fame).
3- An open notion regardless of social background, of the social class you came from.
4- Obsession with money. 

These are most common shared values, among all who want to reach their own American dream. And as we discussed before, you can never reach a dream, unless you use it and manipulate it, since you know that if you don't use it, you'll get used by and used up by it. 

* Jack the Inscriber 

Now here is the author,  his contribution to inscribing in research articles, investigative reports and magazine columns will be just like Jack's today, when he experienced through his journey of first being a Jack-stalk, second becoming a stripper and then the American dreamer Jack Dawson, and now finally of becoming the veteran Jack the Inscriber. 

Criminal Careers in White-Collar

White-collar offenders do not have extensive records of juvenile misbehavior or of juvenile court appearances. Most white-collar criminals do not have records of conventional crime as adults, nor do they have histories of association with conventional criminals. Then how do FBI keep track of them? Probably the question is better to be asked, "How should FBI keep track of White-Collar crime?" 

The absence of a conventional criminal record is not surprising for white collar criminals, since for some white-collar occupational positions, the absence of such a record is a necessity. For instance, individuals will not be placed in positions of financial trust, if they have a history of previous criminality or untrustworthiness. There is little evidence that white-collar offenders have had any experience with other kinds of criminality or with criminals. For this reason, most theories of criminality predict that rates of illegal violations are low among white-collar workers. 

Some white-collar violations, such as falsifying corporation records to mislead stockholders about financial thresholds may take place over a long period of time. Among two trading companies if prices stay "fixed" for some period on a certain threshold and stocks, then this may be a mistrust. Statisticians and operational researchers Clinard and Yeager in 1980, have found that rates of corporate violations were particularly high in the automobile, oil, and pharmaceutical industries. Criminal behavior can be a "way of life" for some companies and for some of the individuals in those companies. 

The 80s' favourite TV Soap-opera  Dallas was a popular study in White-Collar criminal careers, especially during the 8th season in 1986. 

referenced from:  pg.230 Sociology of Deviant Behavior 12th edition, by Marshall B.Clinard and Robert F. Meier, Thomson Wadsworth, The Wadsworth Sociology Resource Center. 

Divulging Point: Sequel-Makers

Did you know that the most successful(both in gross revenue and in number of awards) film sequels are the ones that aren't originally created to be sequels? 

And there aren't many of these gems... But here is a compilation of Top-10 money-making film scripts, which aren't designed to become a sequel, but ended up being so. Remember that each time a spec-script has a new sequel in series, the writer earns more credit and a higher rank: 
   (10 being the lowest rank , 1 being the highest rank) 

10- Garrett Fort & Francis Edward Faragoh 's "Frankenstein" (followed by The Bride of Frankenstein") 
  9- Michael Mann's "Manhunter" (followed by "Silence of the Lambs")
  8- John A. Russo's "Night of the Living Dead" (followed by "Dawn of the Dead") 
  7- Kim Krizan & Richard Linklater 's "Before Sunrise" (followed by "Before Sunset")
  6- Maurice Richlin's "The Pink Panther" (followed by "A Shot in the Dark") 
  5- Bob Gale's "Back to the Future" (followed by Back to the Future II") 
  4- Dan O'Bannon 's "Alien" (followed by "Aliens") 
  3- James Cameron & Gale Anne Hurd 's "The Terminator" (followed by "The Terminator II") 
  2- Andy & Lana Wachowski 's "The Matrix" (followed by "Matrix Reloaded")
  1- Mario Puzo & Francis Ford Coppola 's "The Godfather" (followed by "The Godfather II")

 Any experienced moviemaker knows that obeying all the right filming or right writing rules never can take a film to a desired success point ; but instead the movies which only obey a few rules while destroying others, may become a greatest hit. 

And here are the top-3 rules those 10 movies shared together putting into a higher priority against other rules to be followed: 
   (3 being the least important, 1 being the most) 

  3- Write a strong and everlasting conflict, so strong and so everlasting that even at the end of the movie, the winner is not quiet satisfied, and the loser hasn't given up yet... 
  2- Write two strong and enduring characters, so strong and so enduring that the evil one is never beaten, and the good one is never given up... 
  1-  Write one hell of a strong and never-ever-to-be-forgotten ending, so strong and so unforgettable that whoever sees that ending can't pull himself together without thinking "what's gonna happen next" after the closing credits, so he'd aim for becoming a moviemaker to make a sequel for a continuation to that ending... This is exactly what happens to the second-sequel producers, when they see a movie. 

 Whereas any writer in the business knows that, whether it's publishing a novel or submitting a spec-script to a festival, the most crucial part is the opening and the moment when a story starts to evolve around a hero. 

 And even so, as I said earlier, these 3 rules are not necessarily the best 3 rules. But they prove one thing for sure that: Obeying a few rules instead of obeying them all, is more picturesque. 

Logline for feature length

A young moviemaker is going after the mystery of a missing starlet to complete his first short film with her. Meanwhile this missing starlet is looking for a tabloid press archivist, unaware that both the moviemaker and the press archivist are the same person who live in two different time intervals. 

as a short film

The firefly story was initially designed as a teen/adventure/sports movie.

Yet in time, it's turned into a short film as a college assignment.

The first production name was ''From a Firefly to a Star''.

At the present time, it's being revised as a short film with its original project title(the title of this blog). Genre modification is completed. New genre is subject to be Fantasy.