Ted Talks by Malcolm Gladwell on Spaghetti Sauce in term of Economic perspective Gladwell talks about Howard Moskowitz‚ who was the food industry guru and most famous for re-inventing spaghetti sauce. The key point in this story is basically the destruction of the Platonic Ideal. Prego has hired him to find the perfect spaghetti sauce so as to compete with Ragu. Moskowitz created dozens of prototype sauces testing each variety with different American people. Moskowitz concluded that there is no
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I first watched a Ted Talk called “A father daughter dance in prison” by Angela Patton. In this Ted Talk‚ Angela told a story about how she formed an organization called “Camp Diva”. This organization helps fathers and daughters stay connected in each other’s lives. She believed that in preparation for growing up and their own woman-hood‚ they needed the opportunity to have a way to invite their fathers into their lives on their own terms. Girls in her camp decided to have a dance. Once the dance
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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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Ted Talk Police Corruption Chloe Barrett 43 year old Eric Garner was selling cigarettes illegally for 50 cents when a police officer approached him to put him under arrest. Eric argued with the officer as the officer attempted to cuff him. “Please leave me alone” He said as he tried to pull away‚ although this action demonstrated Eric’s failure to obey‚ this man portrayed no violence‚ no escape‚ no attacks. As he pulled free‚ the officer lashed at him pulling him to the ground in a chokehold
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creative minds? Why is it that we must admire them‚ rather than join them in creative thinking? Sir Ken Robinson explains that rather than promoting creativity‚ schools kill it so that it is almost entirely gone by the time we become adults. In his TED argument presented in 2006‚ Robinson argues that “Creativity is as important as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.” He uses argumentative techniques throughout his presentation to create a strong base and convincing plea. Former
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Fourth main causes of civil war is‚ relative deprivation and discontent. Ted Gurr the writer of “Why men rebel" defines relative deprivation as “a perceived discrepancy between men’s value expectations and their value capabilities”. The theory claims that the coincidence of “deprivation-Induced discontent and sense of identities such as cultural identities is the main factor of political mobilization”. The theory of Gur is similar to the theory of Stewart that expresses when there are political‚
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In her Ted Talk‚ Maryn McKenna illustrates the danger that humanity was in before the rise of antibiotics‚ and the future risks that will arise if further intervention on antibiotic resistance is not done. She describes that in the past‚ before penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming‚ infections were the primary cause of death and most people did not live past the age of forty. Once antibiotics were discovered‚ they functioned as a panacea‚ saving people from injuries and infections and allowed
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Telling the Truth Texts: Birthday Letters Ted Hughes Weapons of Mass Delusion Phillip Adams Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut How do your texts represent the idea of truth? Ted Hughes’ collection of intimate and deeply personal poetry‚ along with Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Breakfast of Champions and Phillip Adams’ controversial article Weapons of Mass Delusion all represent versions of the truth. In many ways‚ they represent truth as a kind of impossibility‚ as it is constantly
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The Dangerous Mind of a Serial Killer Analysis of Ted Bundy Adam Boncic Ramapo College The Dangerous Mind of a Serial Killer Analysis of Ted Bundy What complex motives could have possibly driven an individual to passionate murder‚ contributing to over a hundred deaths? These brash‚ relentless actions can be influenced by a range of psychological‚ genetic and environmental factors. Unraveling the mind of a serial killer is far from simple‚ but there is almost always a catalyst towards
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Compare and Contrast David Bayles and Ted Orland organize their paper through the use of compare and contrast. In our LLD course reader explained that they are "methods of organizing and developing ideas and often serve as an essay’s primary rhetorical strategy." Also‚ there have two methods inside of them; the side by side method‚ and point by point method. David Bayles‚ and Ted Orland using point by point method. For example‚ in Chapter 3‚ Fears About Yourself‚ the authors divide the results of
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