Thistles by Ted Hughes The title ‘thistles’ refers to a group of flowering plants characterised by leaves with sharp prickles. The poem is very short and is separated into four stanzas of three lines each. The poem does not have a rhyming pattern but uses much alliteration. The poem conveys a negative mood‚ one that is aggressive and violent. In the first stanza‚ Hughes portrays an almost countryside atmosphere for the readers to experience. He uses alliteration: “hoeing hands” that describe the
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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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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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In her Ted Talk Sherry Turkle Made it clear that our technological devices are becoming more poisonous to us than what we think. According to her as she is entitled it we are “connected‚ but alone”. We rely too much on our devices that they keep us from having real relations with people‚ real conversations with people. Our technology is limiting us to live under the threat of giving to our devices the places Human being are supposed to have. She Advance that conversation through Social media or Text
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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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