For my first international journal I decided to watch a Ted Talk video online. I sadly couldn’t attend any of the passport events on the DCCC campus do to my class schedule at both Valley and the college. Hopefully in the future I will be able to attend a passport event‚ because some of my friends went to one and I got to see pictures and videos of the show and it looked like an amazing experience. The Ted Talk I chose to watch was called Social Experiments to Fight Poverty. I found this video
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Assignment Instructions In this Ted Talk by Jason Pointin‚ he mentioned of how technology have been invested and advanced in the past‚ so he compared to our current technology to the last generation. In the video‚ Pointin listed the all the important events which highlighted the America technology history‚ it was started from 1901 the Assembly line till 1969 the crew of Apollo 10 flew at 250000 miles per hour in the space towards the moon. It is useful during that time because the country tends
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TED CASE STUDIES NO: 770‚ 2004 TURMERIC- Alyson Slack PATENT Case study Turmeric is a tropical herb grown in East India‚ and the powdered product made from the rhizomes of its flowers has several popular uses worldwide. Turmeric powder‚ which has a distinctive deep yellow color and bitter taste‚ is used as a dye‚ a cooking ingredient‚ and a litmus in a chemical test‚ and has medicinal uses as well. In the mid-1990s‚ this product became the subject of a patent dispute with important ramifications
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1) Kuper uses a calm tone in his Ted Talk which allows the audience to be engage. His examples seems realistic and logical‚ for example: he talks about a woman who is working hard so that her son can attend university. Singer also uses a lighter tone in his Ted Talk which allows his argument to be more persuasive to the audience. However‚ his examples does not seems practical or realistic enough to grasp the audience attention. Instead‚ the examples pull the audience back because they do not understand
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The battle between what is legal and what is morally and ethically correct‚ is an age-old debate that dates back centuries ago. In this speech‚ there is clear evidence that there was at least one or more United States laws or treaties broken. In this TED Talk presented by author Aaron Huey‚ a passionate cultural writer and photographer‚ there is discussion about the Lakota Indian Tribe. Huey goes on to break down a timeline of the tribe’s journey‚ rise to power‚ and subsequent demise. Huey is effective
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The “Industrial Society and Its Future” by Ted Kaczunski discusses the issue of the industrial-technological system and the disastrous effect it has had on human nature and race. According to Kaczynski‚ even though technology has advanced and benefited human race in many ways‚ it has also dehumanized them. Artificial technology has had a negative impact on humankind as it has degraded the culture and caused widespread environmental destruction. Kaczynski asserts that technology is ever-growing and
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In “To Paint A Water Lily” by Ted Hughes‚ a speaker contrasts the overwhelming amount of action and the stillness in a pond to illustrate the countless parts in nature that is difficult to capture as a whole. The speaker speaks for each aspect of the pond that is eventually put together as a whole in a painting to raise awareness of the chaotic side of nature that is usually left unnoticed. The poem begins with a serene image as the “green level of lily leaves / Roofs the pond’s chamber and paves”
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Conflicting Perspectives Focus Question – How are conflicting perspectives revealed in two of Ted Hughes poems and a related text? Individuals form perspectives over time reflecting their experiences‚ knowledge‚ attitudes‚ opinions and beliefs. Ted Hughes’ anthology of poems‚ Birthday Letters (1998)‚ illustrates his personal perspective on his life with Sylvia Plath. The poems ‘Fulbright Scholars’ and ‘Sam’ reveal an array of conflicting perspectives effectively depicted by Hughes. The film
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I felt personally impacted by Isay’s Ted Talk because I have also gone through the difficult journey of acceptance of a loved one’s differences. As a member of the LGBT community‚ the Stonewall riots are a particularly interesting historical event for myself and the rest of my community. The fact that Isay was able to draw inspiration from the Stonewall riots is very inspirational to me. I absolutely adore the idea of Story Corps because I believe that it has to power to unite people who would otherwise
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The TED Talk I chose was “Our failing schools. Enough is enough!” by Geoffrey Canada‚ a volunteer at Harlem Children’s Zone. This text is about America’s unsuccessful‚ recurrent business model for education and suggestive methods to finally make a change by taking initiative. Canada starts by admitting us‚ as a nation‚ do not care enough about our vile education data and have practically given up; this being because‚ “Things have changed. Yet not in education … And if you come up with a plan to change
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