Meg Jay: "Why 30 is not the new 20" Notes When Meg Jay states‚ “Forget about an identity crisis and get some identity capital… Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that’s an investment in who you might want to be next.” She is implying that one should not waste their twenties finding out just who they are‚ but to use that time to set goals and seek out to accomplish them. “Dating in my twenties was like musical chairs‚ everyone was running around and having fun” A part
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Hughes makes reference to Plath’s problems‚ implying her “exaggerated American grin “as false‚ having a purpose of its own. The content Plath was there for the “cameras‚ the judges‚ the strangers‚ the frighteners  the extended metaphor suggesting the intrinsic connection issues between Hughes and Plath were caused from external forces. Furthermore the allusion of her “Veronica lake bang†and “what it hid...â€suggests that appearances can be deceiving and raises questions about Plath’s
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What is changing is how we behave‚ how we act‚ how we connect with others‚ how we transmit our emotions‚ knowledge or experiences. It is not the essences of the subjects in study‚ Humans and technology‚ but the relations between the two. In her TED video‚ Amber Case (2010) “We are all Cyborgs now” https://www.ted.com/talks/amber_case_we_are_all_cyborgs_now#‚ show us how technology let us adapt to our environment and how this relation has been changing. She also shows us that in fact‚ this context
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In the Ted Talk‚ Poverty‚ Money and Love‚ Jessica Jackley addresses the worldwide issue of poverty. Poverty is a challenging hardship to address because no matter how much a person contributes or tries to help the problem‚ the large scale complication will continue on existing. As humans‚ we naturally want to care for people‚ but sometimes we struggle with the concept of not being able to care for everyone. I really connected with Jackley’s speech when she said she got lost in the immense idea of
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As members of Future Business Professionals‚ we are writing to recommend a speaker for the fall semester. After researching several TED Talk candidates‚ we recommend that you invite Hanna Rosin. Rosin’s TED Talk‚ “New Data and the Rise of Women‚” offers an interesting perspective on gender roles‚ which will highly appeal to FSB students. In this memo‚ we will summarize Rosin’s talk and explain why we recommend her. Hannah Rosin is the co-founder of DoubleX‚ a website centered on news about women
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Kio Stark discusses the benefit of talking to strangers in her TED Talk‚ “Why You Shouldn’t Talk to Strangers”. She explains that although many grow up with the saying‚ “stranger danger”‚ it may not be so black and white. A simple greeting to a stranger has no real semantic meaning‚ rather they acknowledge somebody else’s presence. Through her recording of interactions with strangers‚ Stark has found unexpected pleasures and genuine emotional interactions through everyday conversations with stranger
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In this TED Talk video‚ Brene Brown‚ an author and public speaker‚ shared with us a topic about Perception. She began to research further into this topic and discovered that there was more to it than what was being said. Brown says that she discovered the meaning of connections. Being a social worker‚ she needed to understand the purpose of our lives. An interesting fact she found was that we like to feel like we are connected or bonded with something or someone. While we definitely need this emotional
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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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Term Project Subject: Ted Hughes’ "Thrushes” Professor’s Name: Ms. Abhari Compiled By: Zahra Karimi‚ Student of English Literature Ted Hughes Life Edward James (Ted) Hughes was born in Mytholmroyd‚ in the West Riding district of Yorkshire‚ on August 17‚ 1930. His childhood was quiet and dominantly rural. When he was seven years old his family moved to the small town of Mexborough in South Yorkshire‚ and the landscape of the moors of that area informed his poetry throughout his life. After high
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