- Ted Talk One day I was at home after a long time at school and my mom told me to go read the book‚ which I was going to have a test about. I told her that I couldn’t do it because I was doing something much more important: playing FIFA. She got mad at me and I had to read the book‚ but two days later‚ I started researching and I found out that playing videogames is something more importante that most people think it really is. And today I’m going to tell you some benefits and facts about playing
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Me Talk Pretty One Day The world is immense. It constantly offers us to learn new things. Learning new things is good for you. There is nothing more exciting than going to new places in the world‚ on your own‚ only with the belief of learning cultures and foreign languages. Of cause it can be a little frightening to start with‚ and there might be some minor “speed bumps”. But once you get a hold of it‚ it often sharpens one’s taste for more. That is the true case of Me Talk Pretty One Day. The
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TED Analysis The TED presentation that I viewed was‚ Jason Pontin’s: Can technology solve our big problems? Jason Pontin is currently the editor-in-chief and publisher of MIT Technology Review‚ and routinely investigates to find out what technologies currently in our world are going to “get us there.” Pontin has been editor-in-chief of the MIT Technology Review since 2004 and publisher since 2005. After 2005 Pontin begin a transition to digital-first magazines and reduced the number of annual print
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This Ted talk intended to inform others about the serious plight of young black boys being raised in America. Clint Smith eloquently described the unfair rules and teachings and restriction sometimes known as “the talk” that is given to black boys of a particular age in an effort to keep them safe. The need for these rules have been brought on by bias‚ bigotry‚ racism‚ and ignorance of other people mostly of other ethnicities and races. “The Talk” may differ from person to person‚ or house to house
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I chose to talk about the reading by Canedy‚ Dana. “The Talk: After Ferguson.” In the reading we are introduced to the life of a colored person. She explains the struggle of having to even bring up the topics of police brutality and black people. She is in a battle with herself of knowing when the time is right to explain to her child that society is making the police and black man a problem. A problem that many have died over. Shooting unarmed black men because of suspicion not facts. All of the
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Johnny did it. She did it. I did not do it. It was not my fault. That if the instinct. The proper thing to do is be an adult. Own up to it. Accept responsibility for what you have done wrong. Go and talk about it with your boss if you need to. So that you can bring it to their attention‚ so that they can help you to deal with it. If you are dealing with a client or sometimes you have liability issues. Whatever it is‚ you cannot go wrong by calling attention to what it is‚ so that at least your team
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In the Ted Talk‚ Jeff Iliff describes different ways that our bodies‚ more specifically our internal organs‚ secrete waste and how this process differs in the two percent of our bodies that is the brain (2014). Iliff also stresses the importance of learning about healthy sleep patterns by mentioning the fact that we spend nearly one-third of our lives sleeping (2014). Furthermore‚ the video describes a process that occurs in our brains‚ in order to secret waste that may be lying between various cells
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According to Corrigan‚ a film is "badly seen‚ badly said" when a movie viewer gives all of their attention to seeing it before they begin writing about it. Corrigan stated‚ "seeing a movie with all of your attention is the only way to being writing about a film" (Corrigan‚ 20). In other words‚ the viewer completely indulges themselves to the movie‚ trying to sort out what personal appeals they have to it‚ even if they do not particularly like the film. They would‚ in some ways‚ dissect and pick apart
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a black man talks of reaping I have sown beside all waters in my day. I planted deep‚ within my heart the fear that wind or fowl would take the grain away. I planted safe against this stark‚ lean year. I scattered seed enough to plant the land in rows from Canada to Mexico but for my reaping only what the hand can hold at once is all that I can show. Yet what I sowed and what the orchard yields my brother’s sons are gathering stalk and root; small wonder then my children glean in
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bladder‚ kidney‚ and pancreas; and may play a role in cancers of the stomach‚ uterus‚ and cervix. Each year‚ more people die prematurely from smoking than die from automobile accidents‚ drug abuse‚ AIDS‚ and alcohol combined (USDHS 1989). The report by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services suggests cigarette smoking to be responsible for 30 percent of all U.S. cancer deaths--about 145‚000 each year--and nearly 85 percent of all lung cancers (17). Smoking leads to numerous cardiac complications
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