In Helen Pearson’s TED Talk‚ Lessons from the Longest Study on Human Development‚ she opens by questioning her audience on their confidence in parenting. Pearson‚ then admits that she‚ like most other parents‚ of course wants only the best for her children but is not certain she knows exactly how to achieve a level of perfect parenting. She then states‚ “However‚ something changed me a few years ago‚ when I came across a little secret that we have in Britain. It’s helped me become more confident
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“Black Talk and Pop Culture‚ by Leslie Savan is an essay taken from her 2005 book‚ “Slam Dunks and No Brainers: Language in Your Life‚ the Media‚ Business‚ Politics and Like‚ Whatever”. It describes how the Black language has integrated itself into mainstream culture. One might be surprised on the African-American origins of certain commonly used words and phrases. The essay has many examples and details about how the Black language infiltrated pop culture over the years and how it has finally
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Creative Spark Talk Analysis Mario L. Gabriel PHL/458 Creative Minds and Critical Thinking April 8‚ 2015 Dr. Charles Flowers Creative Spark Talk Sir Ken Robinson is an educator‚ respected author and leading advocator for changes to the educational system. A Professor believes that the education system needs to be more creative and stop preventing creativity. Sir Robinson speech on “How Schools Kill Creativity”; given on February 2006; at TED conference in Monterey California. It focuses
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Creative Spark Talk Analysis February 16‚ 2015 Myra Stilwell Lance M. Principe‚ University of Phoenix Tales of creativity and play by Tim Brown from 2008 took a look at the relationship between creative thinking as adults and playing as a child using three specific techniques. Tim Brown is the CEO of the design firm IDEO. IDEO came up with “design thinking” by fusing design‚ business and social studies into ideas. (TED Speaker‚ 2008) Tim Brown talked about the use of three techniques to
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to think about your personal political position on gun laws‚ now imagine you or someone close to you is harmed or involved in a form of gun violence. Would your views change on the subject or make you u believe in them even more? In Dan Gross’s Ted Talk‚ “Why Gun Violence Can’t Be our New Normal.” he speaks on this subject on a very emotional level. Gross informs the audience about the story of his brother’s close call with death caused by someone having a gun who shouldn’t have had one. This event
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3: Character’s Personality: Mr. Black has a very bad personality. He is always angry and aggravated. His kids are scared of him. When Blacky doesn’t go fishing with him and goes to Dumby’s funeral‚ Blacky says‚ ‘he’s going to spificate me.’ When he comes back and the days after‚ Blacky avoids his dad as much as he can. This shows Mr. Black could be violent and aggressive‚ especially after he drinks a lot of beer. He is only happy and relaxed when he is fishing. But even then he takes a lot of risks
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TED Analysis The TED presentation that I viewed was‚ Jason Pontin’s: Can technology solve our big problems? Jason Pontin is currently the editor-in-chief and publisher of MIT Technology Review‚ and routinely investigates to find out what technologies currently in our world are going to “get us there.” Pontin has been editor-in-chief of the MIT Technology Review since 2004 and publisher since 2005. After 2005 Pontin begin a transition to digital-first magazines and reduced the number of annual print
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Kelly McGonigal begins this Ted Talk with a confession: she’s been giving people the wrong ideas about stress. Kelly has been telling people for years that stress will kill them and that it is totally and completely bad for them. Based on a study‚ though‚ this information that stress is bad for you is largely incorrect. The study in question shows that high levels of stress doesn’t kill people; rather‚ their perception of stress is what kills them. The study revealed that people with high stress
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consisting in a conversation between Donald Trump and Billy Bush in 2005 showing Donald Trump brag about his ability to sexually assault women because of his stardom has resurfaced. While many people are dismissing Donald Trump’s comments as ‘locker room talk’ there are others who believe comments as disrespectful as his are the source of the problem. Donald Trump and Billy Bush’s conversation helped uncover the enormous amount of sexism that still exists in today’s society. Many people would agree that
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De Waal Talks about how he and everyone used to think that the animal kingdom was only about competition and aggression‚ but then that view of it all started to change. They realized humanity is cooperative and that animals‚ like chimpanzees will help other chimps because they know they will get help again in the future. De Waal Talks about the pillars of morality: reciprocity and empathy‚ reciprocity being fairness and empathy being compassion. He thens moves on to talk about cooperation‚ he puts
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