lives where they wish someone could just pick for us‚ or times when we wish there were more to choose from. All Americans have many choices‚ and it is such a part of our daily lives that we don’t even realize it. Barry Schwartz and Sheena Iyengar‘s TED talks bring up interesting ideas about choice‚ how people deal with them and their affects. They both state that although choice is good‚ it can also have negative effects. Schwartz explains what most people believe and experience with choice‚ while
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In my essay I’m going to be looking and comparing the two poems « view of a pig » by Ted Hughes and « Tiger! Tiger by » William Blake‚ I will be doing this by working out the two authors’ true interpretation of their selected animal‚ what they feel that animals outcome will be‚ the physical and mental behaviour the author feels the animals portray and the authors feelings about their animal. In “The view of the pig” Hughes describes the pig as an object so lifeless it seems like it never had a life
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AP Environmental TED Video Notes Notes: • Styrofoam is one of the most polluting materials we use • Instead of Styrofoam we can use fungus to create a mycelium matrix which is a suitable‚ renewable‚ biodegradable replacement • In the US we recycle very little of our plastic • Only about 7% • Problems blocking the recycling of plastic include: many types‚ colors‚ many forms of plastic are of about the same density • Separating the different types of plastic are very difficult • In many
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The Ted talk is by Rébecca Kleinberger‚ and the title is “Why you don’t like the sound of your own voice”. I chose it because I have never heard someone say that they didn’t like the sound of their own voice‚ but I have heard that when they talk and hear it back they sound different. Rébecca Kleinberger is a voice expert pursuing research as a Ph.D. candidate in the MIT Media Lab’s Opera of the Future group. During her talk‚ she used a lot of things to prove he this which were people don’t like
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Carpe diem poem Dreams by Langston Hughes Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16075 This poem is a Carpe Diem poem in realizing and reflecting on how precious life is. The poem makes a point to say that if you do not hold onto your dreams and keep them close at heart‚ life can become lonely and unfulfilling
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began the process of choosing a TED Talk topic‚ I had absolutely no idea what I wished to talk about. I knew my subject had to be interesting‚ at least enough so I wouldn’t get bored of it‚ and that I needed my ideas to keep the audience’s attention. I just could not think of anything. The ideas I had would either be boring for my peers‚ or there simply was not enough research on the topic. As I listened to my classmates tell me about their grand ideas for their TED Talk ideas‚ I was even more clueless
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In Sara DeWitt’s Ted Talk‚ “3 Fears About Screen Time for Kids and Why They Are Not True‚” she talks about how parents and we‚ as a society‚ react when a young child has a technological device. The fears she brings up are that screens are passive‚ playing games is a waste of time‚ it distracts children from their education and screens are isolating parents from children. Overall‚ the Ted Talk was not as effective because it didn’t say what age group it was addressing in the title. Also‚ as technology
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of segregation in speeches or boycotts. Langston Hughes‚ a poet and author from the harlem renaissance era chose to advocate his civil rights through his poetry. His poems A Message to the President and Dream Deferred are able to do that. Langston Hughes conveys the external conflict of segregation obstructing black people’s rights to equality in A Message to the President and Dream Deferred. Black people in the ‘60s were segregated. Langston Hughes addresses this in A Message to the President by
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Both Whittman and Hughes are very wonderful poets. Even if they write 2 very different styles of poetry. Whittman was a know as a free verse poet which was not common during the time period he lived‚ on the other hand Hughes used the traditional rhyme of poetry. Although they are great writers they wrote in 2 very different perspectives because they were from 2 different time periods. But both wanted to be a part of the American Dream. In both poems “ I Hear America Singing” and in “ Let America
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First‚ Hughes uses repetition in the poem. He repeats‚ “I’se still climbing” at the beginning‚ and towards the end. By repeating this‚ the mother is ensuring herself that her son understands that life is tough‚ and her still fighting her way through life supports her claim of “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair”. This repetition creates the raw style. Even though many challenging events passed between these two lines‚ from the beginning to the end‚ such as “going through the dark”‚ the son‚
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