Although I cannot relate to the prejudice of culture differences as expressed in this Ted Talk I understand what she’s saying. I feel as though in the beginning of the video her main point is that when meeting someone who shares opinions‚ experiences or cultures with you it is easier for you to communicate with them because of your similarities. I can relate to this with my friends and experiences we all went through such as bullying‚ abusive relationships‚ and the many years we spent together creating
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It’s so easy to create a professional website these days‚ one that looks trustworthy and reliable. Of course‚ that does not mean that the information contained within it is also reliable. You would think that would be obvious‚ we would all like to think that we’ve impervious to bullshit. Alas‚ that is not the case. We get tricked‚ mislead‚ and manipulated‚ and very often we’re totally unaware of it. We talked briefly about the fluency illusion in chapter 13‚ we are susceptible to judging something
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Patricia Ryan talked about her experience in living and teaching english for over 30 years in the gulf where she has seen vast cultural and linguistic change. This strategy helped her build her credibility with the audiences. The topic of her speech at Ted was “Don’t Insist on English!”. She addressed the question: Is the world’s focus on English preventing the spread of great ideas in other languages? The primary audience to her speech was English teachers. Patricia Ryan has the same background
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Russell Howell Mrs. Grandolfo English 12‚ Period 3 February 7‚ 2012 Reaping the Benefits of Space Exploration Curiosity has been the driving force behind the human race ever since the first Homo sapiens have started walking. Our very survival and dominance of Planet Earth has only resulted from our ability to solve problems and innovate to accomplish our goals. This uncanny problem solving ability of the Human race doesn’t even restrict us terrestrially‚ as it has propelled us into the “heavens”
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In “Going to Meet the Man” by James Baldwin the reader opens up with a scene that is considered one of the most horrific torture and murder scenes in history; or of the 1940’s. The story is so graphic that it takes you away from the main idea of racism‚ hatred and murder. Nevertheless‚ the theme of the story is a transformation of a young child into a stereotypical Black Southern-American hating bigot. Through dramatic detail Baldwin explains the mindset of a white southern police officer and how
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color‚ also because the way we talk‚ and dress. There has been too many cases where white cops has beaten an African American man for thinking they were up to something‚ not knowing. There has been way too many times that a black man has been stereotyped because they are dressed a different way or their hair was styled a certain way. Too many year African American people has been discriminated upon. Too many tears being shed because loss of a young black male. Black moms seeing their sons go way too
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BREAD TALK GROUP (Bakery) Number of brands under Bread talk group ( bakery) 1) Bread talk 2) Toast Box 3) The icing room 4) Bread Society Macro- environment: * Economic: There is a rise in income for most middle and lower income earners‚ making the bread sold price inelastic as it is a smaller proportion of the salary earned. Bread talk will always enjoy a demand for their bakery products. * Demographic: There is an increase in Singapore’s Population (overcrowding) from
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The Black Man of the Forest: A Literary Analysis Essay Of The Scarlet Letter In almost every story there are forces of good and evil that are in conflict. The most dangerous of these evils are those that are not obvious. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ the Black Man of the forest is none other than Roger Chillingworth. Some may read the novel and assume that Dimmesdale is the Black Man. It may be viewed that Dimmesdale’s affair with Hester is the cause for the scarlet letter‚ but
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Bryan Stevenson’s Talk I attended to the simulcast of Bryan Stevenson’s talk. His one-hour lecture went by so fast that I did not realized that one-hour past by so fast. I really liked his speech‚ and there was nothing I did not liked. By hearing his talk‚ I realize he talk a lot about what he mentioned on his book. I really liked the fact he started by mentioning statistics about our nation’s incarceration. That our nation has the biggest incarceration in the world‚ that women incarceration has
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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
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