In the ted talk video‚ Al gore starts by mentioning that the arctic ice cap has reduced by 40 percent from the year 1980 to 2007. Al gore emphasized the ice cap’s vitality to our ecosystem. The ice cap usually increases during cold seasons and decrease during low hot seasons. Digital image show that the permanent ice has shrunken by more than half over the past 25 years. A multitude of frozen carbon lies around the arctic ice cap‚ then it decreases the carbon rise and turn into methane. All of this
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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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Can a gamer apply their online skills and traits to real life situations that will solve many of the world’s problems? In the TED Talk “Gaming can make a better world” American game designer and author Jane Mcgonigal places much emphasis on the topic of productivity through gaming. She believes that “if the rewards to create a better world‚ were similar to an online game‚ then more gamers would be willing to take action to better society”(3:30). She adopts a provocative tone in the form of “creating
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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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Participatory Culture In the Ted talk video by Henry Jenkins he discusses how the younger generations are actively participating online. Jenkins talks about how they use Web 2.0 platforms‚ such as YouTube‚ Facebook and Twitter. How teenagers use these online websites to communicate and interact with each other is also known as participatory culture. Jenkins started looking into participatory culture before the internet. Along with the features of participatory culture‚ one other thing Jenkins highlights
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Extra Credit I came across a Ted Talk by Michael Shellenberger titled‚ "How fear of nuclear power is hurting the environment". The title seemed self-explanatory to what message he was conveying the short video. In more depth‚ he talked about different energy‚ for example‚ solar and wind‚ and how they are becoming apparent in our everyday lives. Statistics showed how Germany receives half of their energy from solar and how India is slowly rising to meet that concept. As well as nuclear energy is
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Dave Pink’s Ted Talk reminded me of Ivan Pavlov’s conditional reflex theory; I believe sometimes in order to get a person motivated to do something‚ an incentive must be presented. We learn at a young age to have extrinsic motivation (if you did chores‚ you would get an allowance; if you got A’s in school‚ we would get rewarded; and so on and so forth). Growing up‚ I was never motivated by intrinsic motivation‚ I wasn’t personally rewarded by doing chores; I was motivated by the allowance. While
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Vihar Desu Tedx Talk Title: Divergent Thinking in the 21st Century Good Afternoon‚ I wanted to start of the talk with a little thought experiment called Divergence Thinking Test. It’s sort of like an IQ Test‚ but instead of logic and reason‚ you have to use your creativity and your imagination. Your test is to come up with as many alternative uses for an Apple as you can think of…People doing this at home‚ give yourself about 5 minutes. How many uses do you think you can come up with for an Apple
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especially‚ on sensitive topics. In a Ted Talk by Jay smooth called‚ “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race‚” he provides many methods to approach the topic of racism. Due to the topic being very substantial‚ Smooth begins with a humorous story about his encounters with strangers. He explains that after introductions are finished‚ he usually has to explain his ethnicity to others as that is one of their first few questions. Throughout the talk‚ Smooth does a great job of using analogies
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Julian Friedman in the TED talk‚ “The Mystery of Story Telling”‚ asserts that a writer must make his or her audience his or her number one priority. Friedman supports his claim by explaining the short falls of writers through his own eyes‚ citing his own experience as an agent‚ as well as the eyes of George Orwell‚ speaking on the motivation of writers according to Orwell‚ and even Aristotle‚ talking about how modern writers diverge from the Aristotelian formula for storytelling. The author’s purpose
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