The First Ted Talk Analysis

The first Ted Talk was about ben dunlap and his many Hungarian mentors. He mostly focused on Mr. Sandor Teszler and is the current president of Wofford College. His uncle Henry was living under a death threat from the Ku Klux Klan. His uncle did a very Hungarian act by moving his family to Massachusetts so that he could face the Ku Klan Klan alone in South Carolina. Thinking about it, I pretty sure I would do the same thing being in his situation. Hungarians have their own equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan which I found disturbing. Dunlap states that, “Sandor Teszler somewhat resembles Mahatma Gandhi, minus the loincloth and plus orthopedic boots.” He was teased for having two club feet.

Moreover, one day, he and his family were arrested and were taken to a death house on the Danube. They were then freed from the death house and moved to Great Britain, then to Long Island, and then to the American South. Mr. Teszler then started a plant in the region of South Carolina known as Kings Mountain and had 16 workers, eight of whom were white and eight of whom were black. Mr. Teszler retired from the textile industry after integrating the textile industry in this region of the South. I felt like this was something for him to be very proud of because not many people had that kind of impact on the people
He delivers a powerful message about the human search for meaning and the most important gift we can give others. College students are perceived to be people that only want to make a lot of money. I disagree with this statement because that is not the only goal in life that college students have. He also mentions that they look for a meaningful purpose in their lives. Frankl says that if we take men as they are it will make things worse. He says that we have to be idealists in a way and that if we overestimate men we promote them to what they really can