Although I cannot relate to the prejudice of culture differences as expressed in this Ted Talk I understand what she’s saying. I feel as though in the beginning of the video her main point is that when meeting someone who shares opinions‚ experiences or cultures with you it is easier for you to communicate with them because of your similarities. I can relate to this with my friends and experiences we all went through such as bullying‚ abusive relationships‚ and the many years we spent together creating
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Originally named the Mid-Autumn Festival‚ the Moon Festival is one of the most important holidays celebrated by Chinese communities around the world. Traditionally‚ it is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month in observance of the bountiful Autumn harvest. Although old rituals are no longer followed‚ families continue to gather for a day to relax and eat moon cakes. Upon this occasion‚ the legend of the Moon Goddess‚ CHANG-O‚ is often told to children. Once
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The Other Wes Moore connected to TED Talk John Coyle the speaker of my Ted Talk talked about strengths and weaknesses. Coyle encouraged his audience to focus more on their strengths rather that their weaknesses. Coyle believed that if a person worked too long to improve their weaknesses‚ then it is obvious that they can’t improve those weaknesses‚ and should move on to focusing on their strengths. Therefore‚ the best thing to do is to move on to building up their strengths‚ because they can surely
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Lunar Phases When you look up into the dark‚ night sky‚ you will see the moon and the 8 different phases it goes through. They can be very beautiful or even interesting. Lunar phases happen because the sun’s light reflects off the moon to us earth observers. So depending on where the moon is on its orbital path around the earth‚ gives us our lunar phases. Due to the Moon’s revolution around the earth‚ we see that light as different shapes called phases. The strong gravitational pull of the sun
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The Moon is very high-ranking. Some people just look up at the Moon and don’t realize how cool and interesting it is. They don’t understand the history behind it. They probably don’t know about the boldness of the Moon‚ which is very compelling. The Moon is a very essential factor of Earth. I wager that they don’t know half of the fun facts that I will signify you. To begin‚ I will start with the principle‚ the origin. It all initiated in the course of the time when the Earth was forming 4.5 billion
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After watching the TED Talk‚ “How Reliable is Your Memory” I was saddened to learn how unreliable eyewitness testimony is since hundreds of people’s lives have been ruined because of it. It is important to consider that not every memory someone remembers is real and while their intentions may not be to lie‚ memory itself gets changed unconsciously. Dr. Elizabeth Loftus did some amazing research in understanding false memories and explained how it relates to real-world situations. Dr. Loftus’s studies
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Jupiter and its Galilean Moons By: Logan Brink Astronomy 101 April 19‚ 2011 The solar system is an intriguing place. There are objects in our solar system that have unfathomable beauty; a few of these beautiful objects being Jupiter and its four Galilean moons. Jupiter is one of the most interesting bodies in the solar system‚ so it makes sense that its four largest moons are equally fascinating. The Galilean moons are some of the most curious bodies in our solar system. From dead worlds to
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Sequoia Booth ENG 100 Professor Legler Short Paper #3 One of the videos we viewed in class was a Ted Talk by health psychologist Kelly McGonigal. She talked about stress‚ particularly making the case that stress is not as detrimental as we have been taught to think it is. In fact‚ McGonigal claims that stress can actually be a friend to you and your health. Mcgonigal asks her audience to indicate the level stress they’ve felt over the past year. To not surprise the vast majority of the
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INTRODUCTION Genetic variations are the basic tools in the hands of breeders to develop new cultivars with better traits‚ like tolerance against various environmental stresses‚ resistance against pest and diseases and improved yield and quality. In field conditions‚ a number of abiotic stresses affect the crop plants. Abiotic factors generally disturb various cellular functions along with the complex metabolic pathways (Kassem et al.‚ 2004; Lee et al.‚ 2004; Popelka et al.‚ 2004). Drought is
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GOOGLE : Global Organization Of Oriented Group Language Of Earth . 2.) YAHOO : Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle . 3.) WINDOW : Wide Interactive Network Development for Office work Solution 4.) COMPUTER : Common Oriented Machine Particularly United and used under Technical and Educational Research. 5.) VIRUS : Vital Information Resources Under Siege . 6.) UMTS : Universal Mobile Telecommunications System . 7.) AMOLED : Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode 8.) OLED : Organic light-emitting
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