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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According to the biography (Gioia‚ N.D.)‚ Ted Gioia - a man of many hats - grew up in Hawthorne‚ California and graduated from Hawthorne High School. Gioia focused his studies at Stanford and Oxford University‚ with degrees in English‚ philosophy‚ politics‚ and economics. Dabbling in the business world as a consultant‚ Gioia proved himself the jack-of-all-trades as he also made himself prominent in the music realm as an author and musician. Gioia has written many books‚ including History of Jazz
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full of facts. I used some Ted Talk videos to do some research. I will only be using a few ted talk videos. First was the tree canopy ted talk. In that video it showed me how
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In the Ted talk‚ Sherry Turkle talks about how with the rise of technology we are experiencing a change in the dynamic of relationships we have with each other. Instead of interacting with one another in group settings‚ such as classes or meetings‚ we are on our phone‚ computer‚ or tablet. She brings up the topic of being together while not really being together. People are more likely to hide away in their phones than to engage in conversation with one another. Turkle explains the idea that many
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Essay “Sylvia Barrett: the first-person narrative as a way of characterizing a hero” The main character of this book is Sylvia Barret‚ she is a recent college graduate‚ and works as a high school English teacher. Sylvia would like to work in a nice private school‚ like so many of her friends. Instead Sylvia takes a job with the board of education‚ in a nieve attempt to reach out to the under privileged inner-city children in public schools. Sylvia battles with so many choices in this book
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friendship with his crude and extremely inappropriate teddy bear‚ Ted. I just want to state off hand that this is my first movie review‚ well other than just telling someone what I thought. So if you are looking for a well written‚ witty review then.. you might want to stop reading now. But since this movie is still in production‚ this will probably be your best bet for the time being. I just went to a free screening of Ted at the Greenback theater in Sacramento‚ CA. And I just have to say
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Killers have walked the earth since the beginning of time‚ Cain and Abel‚ the murder of Julius Caesar‚ the infamous Jack the Ripper in England‚ to Ted Bundy and Jeffery Dahmer in the United States. Spanning over the course of thousands of years‚ murders have ranged from pre-meditated‚ to in the heat of passion killings. For serial killers‚ many psychologists have spent countless hours of research trying to divulge the brain of multiple serial killers over the course of countless centuries. Psychopathic
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Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare is a tragic play about the fight for leadership and the conflicting views of what is right and wrong. In this play‚ Shakespeare uses imagery‚ contrast‚ and similes to highlight the arguments of those conflicting views through Cassius’s argument against Caesar. The different contrasts given in Cassius’s argument establish the differences between what people think of Caesar versus what he is truly like. One specific way in which he achieves this effect is through
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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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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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