http://www.yeniklasor.com 1 A man from a neighboring village owed some money to Nasraddin Hodja. When he didn’t pay it back at the time he had said he would, Hodja went to see him to demand repayment of the loan. But the man said that thing were so bad that he had no money to pay the dept.<br /> On the way back home Hodja became very tired and hungry. Suddenly, he found himslef passing a baker’s shop and the aroma of freshly baked breads made him hungrier still.<br /> He had no money in his pocket, but still entered the store, an... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-5105-Nasreddin-Hoca.html Sun, 18 May 2008 02:04:07 -0500 <strong>Hunters in the Snow By Tobias Wolff</strong><br /> <br /> Tub had been waiting for an hour in the falling snow. He paced the sidewalk to keep warm and stuck his head out over the curb whenever he saw lights approaching. One driver stopped for him but before Tub could wave the man on he saw the rifle on Tub's back and hit the gas. The tires spun on the ice. The fall of snow thickened. Tub stood below the overhang of a building. Across the road the clouds whitened just above the rooftops, and the street li... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-3987-Hunters-in-the-Snow-By-Tobias-Wolff.html Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:45:37 -0500 Albert Einstein – Biography<br /> Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks later the family moved to Munich and he began his schooling there at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, as ... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1654-Albert-Einstein.html Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:15:00 -0500 USE OF MUST AND HAVE TO<br /> "must" ve "have to" , her ikisi de gereklilik, zorunluluk bildirmesine karşılık, "must" daha çok, konuşmacının kendi içinden gelen bir zorunluluğu, "have to" ise dış etkenlerden kaynaklanan bir zorunluluğu yansıtır. Ancak, günlük yaşamda, zorunluluklar arasında bu ayrımı yapmak çok zordur. Yani zorunluluğu kişi kendi içinde mi hissediyor, yoksa bazı koşullar onu bir şeyler yapmaya mı zorluyor? Bu ayrımı, tek tek cümlelerde yapamayız. Ancak, konuşmanın akışı içerisinde... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1503-Must-and-have-to.html Tue, 15 May 2007 12:39:00 -0500 Give a dog bad name and hang him<br /> Adamın adı çıkacağına canı çıksın<br /> <br /> A quiet baby gets no suck<br /> Ağlamayana meme yok<br /> <br /> Better late than never<br /> Geç olsun güç olmasın<br /> <br /> Easy come, easy go<br /> Haydan gelen huya gider<br /> <br /> Barking dog never bites<br /> Havlayan köpek ısırmaz<br /> <br /> It never rains, but pours<br /> Aksilikler hep üst üste gelir<br /> <br /> Your mother alone will be wail on you<br /> Ağlarsa anam ağlar, gerisi yalan ağlar<br /> <br /> You can't teach an old dog new tricks<br /> Ağaç yaşken eğilir<br /> <br /> Save up something for a rai... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1502-English-Proverbs.html Tue, 15 May 2007 12:02:00 -0500 One morning, just as I was about to leave for my place of employment, Agrafena (my cook, laundress, and housekeeper all in one person) entered my room, and, to my great astonishment, started a conversation.She was a quiet, simple-minded woman, who during the whole six years of her stay with me had never spoken more than two or three words daily, and that in reference to my dinner — at least, I had never heard her.<br /> <br /> “I have come to you, sir,” she suddenly began, “about the renting out of the... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1494-The-Thief.html Mon, 14 May 2007 09:05:00 -0500 Thomas More is traveling in the Low Countries when he sees his friend, Peter Giles. Giles introduces him to a well-traveled friend of his, Raphael Hythloday.<br /> <br /> Raphael speaks of many countries and their policies and laws, and freely criticizes the laws of their own countries. When More asks him why he doesn’t join the King’s services as a counselor, Raphael says he is happy with his way of life. Furthermore, he does not think his services would be appreciated, as his ideas are very different... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1241-Utopia-by-Thomas-More.html Wed, 07 Feb 2007 06:01:00 -0600 Town Twilight <br /> I was walking. The sun was shining. I couldn’t see anything but a few vultures. It was too much hot for me. I lost my way and was looking for my parents. I couldn’t decide where I was. It was a deserted place. There were mountains, bushes and of course vultures. Afterwards, I saw a town about one kilometre away. Then I saw the town’s name on a sign post.<br /> I entered the town. All buildings were two-floored with large gardens. Green was the colour of the town. You could see lot... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1240-Town-Twilight.html Wed, 07 Feb 2007 06:00:00 -0600 Robinson Crusoe opens with an extremely quick rundown of Robinson’s family life: he was born in 1632; his parents are German, and left their hometown of Bremen to settle in Hull, in England. They are middle-class, and Robinson’s father strongly advocates a middle-class life for Robinson too, encouraging him to pursue law as a profession. Both of Robinson’s brothers are missing one was killed in battle, and the other hasn’t been heard from since he began a life of travel and adventure. Robinso... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1239-Robinson-Crusoe.html Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:58:00 -0600 An Affair Of State <br /> <br /> Paris had just heard of the disaster of Sedan. The Republic was proclaimed. All France was panting from a madness that lasted until the time of the commonwealth. Everybody was playing at soldier from one end of the country to the other.Capmakers became colonels, assuming the duties of generals; revolvers and daggers were displayed on large rotund bodies enveloped in red sashes; common citizens turned warriors, commanding battalions of noisy volunteers and swearing like ... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1238-An-Affair-Of-State.html Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:56:00 -0600 The play begins on the deck of a ship that has entered a storm. This ship is carrying Alonso, the King of Naples, Ferdinand, his son, and Antonio, the usurping Duke of Milan, from the King’s daughter’s marriage in Tunis. This storm has been created by the sorcerer and rightful Duke of Milan, Prospero. When the first scene ends, it is doubtful whether or not anyone has survived.<br /> <br /> On the island, Prospero and his daughter Miranda have lived for twelve years. He has raised her in the company of... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1236-The-Tempest-by-William-Shakespeare.html Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:27:00 -0600 The events of The Return of the King fall between the years 3019 and 3021, with most of the novel’s action falling between March 9 and March 25 of the year 3019. Though the story is not presented in chronological order, the events can be arranged in sequence and Tolkien offers a calendar that even assigns scenes to specific dates. This third novel of the trilogy begins with Gandalf and Pippin heading towards Minas Tirith (March 5, 3019). The next day finds Aragorn in battle against the Duneda... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1235-Return-of-the-King.html Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:25:00 -0600 For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not - and very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul. My immediate purpose is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly, and without comment, a series of mere household events. In their consequences, these events have terrified - have... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1234-The-Black-Cat.html Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:24:00 -0600 Ahmet’s mother and father were poor. They were living in a small house with only one room. Since his father’s lungs were ill, he compulsorily retired. Ahmet finished primary school in difficulty by selling pretzel out of school time. Later by the help of his neighbour he started to work in a restaurant to do the washing up. Ahmet taken the first step to realize his dreams. He met the wonderful meals which he formerly used to see behind the restaurant windows. Now he full three courses a da... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1228-Poor-Ahmet.html Sun, 04 Feb 2007 14:40:11 -0600 Will of the Wind<br /> William Brandon<br /> <br /> Mrs. Hackett found her in her bedroom crying. She stood in doorway and said seriously, “ I came in to borrow some sugar, Sylvia. The door was open so I just walk in. Now what’s on earth ‘s wrong with you? <br /> Sylvia sat up and dried her eyes. Her skirt was wrinkled and her black hair hung in disorder over her forehead. A pin had come out of her imitation lace collar and it had fallen down to catch in the little red buckle at her waist. She said shakily, “H... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1226-Will-of-the-Wind.html Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:46:00 -0600 The Wrong House<br /> James N. Young<br /> <br /> The night was dark. And the house was dark. Dark-and silent. The two men ran toward it quietly. They slipped quickly through the dark bushes, which surrounded the house. They reached the porch, ran quickly up the steps, kneeled-down, breathing heavily, in the dark shadows. They waited-listening whisper: ”we can’t stay here….Take this suitcase….Let me try those keys. We’ve got to get in!”<br /> Ten-twenty –thirty seconds. With one of the keys the one man opened th... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1225-The-Wrong-House.html Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:45:00 -0600 The Big Chance<br /> Frederick Lang<br /> He wasn’t the kind to pick a secretary by the color of her hair. Not Bill Hargrave. Both Paula and Nancy had been smart enough to know that. And for some time everyone in the office had known that one of them, Paula or Nancy, was going to get the job. In fact, the decision would probably be made this afternoon. Hargrave was leaving town and wanted to settle the matter before he left.<br /> The two girls could see him from their desks outside his office. Maybe it wa... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1224-The-Big-Chance.html Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:44:00 -0600 Ten Steps<br /> Robert Littell<br /> <br /> I put on a clean collar. I was in our room on the second floor where I could see into the Hubbel’s yard , and the ring on the stone post where they tie up their dog. The dog wasn’t there. The collar which I took off had two kinds of laundry mark on the inside, one mark from the laundry where I used to take my shirts and a second mark from the present laundry. Then I washed my hands.<br /> The soap was worn down so that there was almost none left. It was as soap that ... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1223-Ten-Steps.html Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:43:00 -0600 RED BALLOONS<br /> Elmer Davis<br /> <br /> Lundy told himself afterward that he had been tempted beyond his strength. In fact, he had never been really tempted before, for he had never had such an opportunity. He had gone to the bank – the branch bank in the poor, rundown neighborhood to which he had recently moved – to cut a coupon from his last bond; all the rest of his bonds and his money he had lost in his crazy attempt to make on stock market so that he could give up his job and live in Florida. He t... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1222-RED-BALLOONS.html Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:42:00 -0600 Irene’s Sister<br /> Vina Delmar<br /> <br /> This is a story of 19_, the year that the schools did not open on time, the year that plague descended and caught us as terrified and as defenseless as though we were inhabitants in some medieval city faced with a new and terrible sickness.<br /> I was a child at that time. My friends and I did not understand. We asked questions but the grown-ups were as confused and as frightened as ourselves. ”It’s infantile paralysis” they told us. “It kills you or else it leaves ... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1221-Irenes-Sister.html Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:40:00 -0600 Decision<br /> <br /> <br /> Even after a year, Chad still called us Aunt Pat and Uncle Bill. But we thought our job had become that of mother and father – until that letter arrived from the 6th Artillery headquarters in North Africa in our mailbox in East Orange, New Jersey.<br /> Chad had come to us as an English refugee. He was supposed to stay until they had put “Mr. Hitler in the bag,” as he expressed it, and he could go back to his adored father, Major Jollison of the Royal Artillery. In other words, he ... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1220-Decision.html Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:39:00 -0600 Clockwork<br /> Howard Breslin<br /> <br /> <br /> It was a small window with narrow pieces of paper pasted across it to prevent its breaking during the heavy air raids. In the small space at the center that remained, a little man with eyeglasses was carefully setting out his display of clocks and watches. He paid no attention to many Londoners hurrying by to begin another day.<br /> When he finished placing his merchandise, the little man came out of the shop and stared in the window. He had placed the clocks and... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1219-Clockwork.html Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:38:00 -0600 Final Break<br /> <br /> They had been walking along Oxford Street. Now they stopped, Greg’s hand on her arm.<br /> “This is the place,” he said. “I thought you might get the sort of thing you liked here.”<br /> Helen nodded, but there were tears in her eyes as she looked through the shop-window. The new hat had been his idea, not hers.<br /> “What about the black one?” He pointed. “It would go with your suit!”<br /> Her lips trembled. One of the little things she loved so much about him was the really genuine interest he... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1218-Final-Break-(son-veda).html Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:36:00 -0600 A froglet living in a pond, which was in a heavily forested area, was complaining about not having any friends. This froglet was passing most of his time swimming in the pond, sometimes he got out of the water and was strolling on the grass by jumping. Every day was completely the same as the former day. Every day the same thing, the same things. The endless monotony made him got tired. One day the froglet got angry with himself. <br /> “As if you were curious to pass all your life in this pond! I... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1217-The-Froglet.html Sat, 03 Feb 2007 00:48:30 -0600 Mustafa went to his uncle's farm with his mother and sister. <br /> <br /> His uncle greeted them very warmly, when they arrived at the farm in the evening. After some chat about their health and compliments, they had dinner. After the dinner, the chat continued nearly one hour more and then they went to bed. <br /> <br /> Next morning, in the early hours, his uncle took Mustafa around the farm and showed him every part of it. They went to bean field in the afternoon. When they arrived by the field, his uncle... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1213-Ataturks-Childhood.html Fri, 02 Feb 2007 04:12:00 -0600 Keloğlan had gone to the town to sell chickens. When he arrived at the market, he started to look for a customer for the two chickens. A man offered to pay a gold coin for the chickens. Keloğlan didn’t accept this. He said that he absolutely wanted two gold coins for the chickens. The man saw that Keloğlan would not sell the chickens for a gold coin:<br /> “Keloğlan look, I have a treasure map. I am alone, and I’ve already got old. That’s why I couldn’t look for the treasure. I used to work at Zen... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1201-Keloglan-and-Nasreddin-Hodja.html Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:24:03 -0600 Someone asked:<br /> “Hodja Effendi, why do people go to different directions, when they leave their houses in the morning?”<br /> The Hodja answered without hesitation:<br /> “If all of them would go to the same direction, this would throw off the balance of the world!<br /> <br /> Nasreddin Hodja http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1111-Balance-Of-The-World.html Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:21:00 -0600 One day, when Temur was going hunting he wanted the Hodja to join him. In front of the palace, where the hunting started, they gave him an old, tired horse.<br /> During the hunting suddenly it began to rain. Everybody put their horses to the gallop and ran away. But the Hodja couldn&#8217;t&#8230; As the weather was hot he took off his clothes and put them under him. And so he returned slowly to the palace. When the rain was over he put on his clothes again.<br /> When he arrived at the palace, his cl... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1110-Beautiful-Horse.html Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:20:26 -0600 Once upon a time the Hodja was a judge and one day a man came to him.<br /> &#8220;Your cow has killed mine!&#8221;, he cried.<br /> The Hodja shouted:<br /> &#8220;You silly fellow, how can the cow know that it is a crime to kill another cow. Case dismissed!&#8221;<br /> &#8220;Oh sorry&#8221;, said the man. &#8220;I said it wrong. My cow has killed yours.&#8221;<br /> &#8220;Then, this is another problem&#8221;, said the Hodja. &#8220;We&#8217;ll open the black book and see what it says.&#8221;<br /> <br /> Nasreddin Hodja http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1109-Black-Book.html Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:19:39 -0600 At midnight the Hodja heard a noise. Two men were struggling outside. The Hodja got out of his bed with a blanket over him and went to the front of his house. He asked them why they were fighting. Without answering, one of them took the blanket that covered the Hodja and they both fled. So the poor Hodja returned to his bed again.<br /> &#8220;What were they fighting about?&#8221;, asked his wife.<br /> &#8220;About our blanket&#8221;, said the Hodja. &#8220;Now the blanket is gone, so the struggle is ... http://www.yeniklasor.com/i-1108-Blanket-Is-Gone.html Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:18:39 -0600