I enjoyed watching this Ted Talk by Dalia Mogahed. It was a beautiful speech The reading on Arab Families gave me a lot of insight about the Arab culture. The main two topics that interested me was language and family structure. I have a friend who is Muslim and he let me know how family is the main concern in the Arab societies. He also informed me that the men are allowed to have up to four wives if they desire to. However‚ he said if the men fear that they cannot be just to all then they should
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Two summers ago‚ my family and I took a vacation to Europe. One of our destinations was Paris‚ France. It was my favorite city to visit because of its beauty‚ culture‚ and humor that went along with trying to communicate. My mom took French in school through junior high and high school. However‚ after about 20 years’ lack of practice‚ the language was vague in her memory. I remember the rest of us laughing as we watched her struggle to form sentences with the bits and pieces of French she could
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Page 1 Tattoo: “With You Forever” The poem "Tattoo" by Ted Kooser dramatizes how things of your youth are carried with you although so much else changes with your age. These are dramatized through the comparison of what the tattoo meant at one time and how after years‚ the old man is just as any other old man. The tone of the poem in the very beginning is straight forward by showing how things in the past linger on‚ when it comes to the middle it changes over to a strong youth‚ and the end
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1 Homework #2: Ted Talk Analysis. Destiny Ortega-Mendez California State University‚ Dominguez Hills. CDV 330: The School-Age Years. Professor Felicia Lee October 24‚ 2024 2 Homework #2: Ted Talk Analysis. Ted Talk Analysis Summary In the Ted Talk?Do Schools Kill Creativity? by Sir Ken Robinson he focuses on the importance creativity has on children. Robinson states that creativity should be seen as important. other academic subjects such as math and literacy (Robinson‚ 2006). He argues
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Patricia Ryan talked about her experience in living and teaching english for over 30 years in the gulf where she has seen vast cultural and linguistic change. This strategy helped her build her credibility with the audiences. The topic of her speech at Ted was “Don’t Insist on English!”. She addressed the question: Is the world’s focus on English preventing the spread of great ideas in other languages? The primary audience to her speech was English teachers. Patricia Ryan has the same background that
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The whole concept of killing an animal by using only a single shot is described as being the ultimate goal of every hunter. Most hunters were taught that they should aim their sights at the boiler room which is the section of the deer which is the lungs and heart. But many hunters wonder if they can aim elsewhere. Many hunter proclaims that when you fire a shot at a deer‚ you simply cannot afford to miss or you may have a wonded deer runnng around. Both of which can cost you money‚ as well as time
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Analysis of the Free-Throw Shot When deciding about a movement to study‚ I thought about many‚ and very few interested me. Then I decided to choose something that was very important to me. Shooting the basketball‚ and more specifically the technique in performing a free throw. I thought by looking more closely at the details of a movement I have been doing since a small child. I thought possibly I could learn something that would give me an advantage in my shot. The application of this
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One Shot Made In basketball‚ a player’s determination is shown on his face and through his movements. Foul Shot and The Base Stealer are two poems describing the movement and action in two different games. Foul Shot by Edwin A. Hoey is about basketball‚ while The Base Stealer by Robert Francis is about baseball. When these games are played‚ there is much anxiety and anticipation. In both poems‚ the author focuses on a quick and emotional moment in the game that is being played. In Foul Shot‚ Edwin
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literature the lesson of the story can be very similar. In the play “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder and movie Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen‚ the underlining theme of both tales compliments each other. “Our Town” takes place in a small town where two families live next to each other and their children who experience together life‚ marriage‚ and death. In the movie Midnight in Paris‚ a writer‚ Gil Pender‚ gets the chance to travel back in time to his golden age‚ the 1920’s‚ where he meets his idols
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Jones College Composition 30 November 2011 Flu Shot: The Truth of it The flu shot has been known to save many lives and prevent illnesses‚ but is the flu shot really as reliable as so many people think? Those who oppose the flu shot offer many reasons as to why its use in this day in age should be second guessed. In the United States of America‚ less than one-thousand-one-hundred people die from influenza each year. However‚ the flu shot should not be used in modern medicine and more specifically
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