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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The first shots of the Revolution rang out April 19 1775 at Lexington green. Reports say the British fired first killing eight patriots. I believe these reports to be true. There was a lot of controversy surrounding this‚ since none of us were there‚ no one can be certain on who fired first. Evidence shows the British fired first. I think based on the evidence provided it was very easy to see the British were the first to fire the shot of the revolution. Paul revere was riding home with Samuel
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One Shot Made In basketball‚ a player’s determination is shown on his face and through his movements. Foul Shot and The Base Stealer are two poems describing the movement and action in two different games. Foul Shot by Edwin A. Hoey is about basketball‚ while The Base Stealer by Robert Francis is about baseball. When these games are played‚ there is much anxiety and anticipation. In both poems‚ the author focuses on a quick and emotional moment in the game that is being played. In Foul Shot‚ Edwin
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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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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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Motion Analysis: Basketball Jump Shot The main joints involved in a basketball jump shot include the hip‚ knee‚ ankle‚ shoulder‚ elbow‚ and wrist. All of these joints flex and extend. The jump shot can be split into three parts: the set-up‚ the jump and release‚ and the post-release. The set-up involves a lot of flexion and extension of the hip‚ knee‚ ankle‚ and shoulder. Hip flexion occurs first and flexion of both knees until the thighs are parallel to the ground follows closely. Knee flexion
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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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