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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highly educated having attended both college and law school‚ and was considered to be extremely charming which he used to lure his victims. Bundy planned his crimes carefully‚ using a guise of being injured to lure young women who he then murdered. Ted left no evidence except for the physical‚ and likely would not have been caught if he hadn’t been pulled over by chance after committing a murder. 5. Holmes and Holmes identify 8 types of mass murderers. Which type do you consider the most dangerous
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that he needs to stop living in the past and decided to forget about Martha and take on the responsibility of a leader. The most shocking part of this chapter was the way the men handled the death of Ted Lavender‚ specifically Cross’s reaction. The soldiers all took his death way too lightly. Ted was killed right in front of them and killed at a time they were least expecting something like this to happen. The way the soldiers handled this was almost inhumane. Then as
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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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Over the years I’ve witnessed to some gifted public speakers. People like Ted Kennedy (yes I’m met him a few times) who had a power and forcefulness to his voice that painted mental imagery so strong you would swear you can see his words. John Bingham from Runner Magazine‚ he had jokes‚ but could captivate his audience through a shared passion that made strangers feel like they knew each other. Retired Chief Terry Savoie who delivered a speak at an awards banquet with the slogan “life ain’t fair…win
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politician’s life are put under the spotlight and receive a greater deal of attention than ones in a civilian’s life. For this reason‚ celebrities and politicians usually step up on a public platform to explain their actions. One such event happened with Ted Kennedy at Chappaquiddick Island after he left the scene of an accident and failed to report it to the authorities‚ which led to Mary Jo Kopechne’s death. To polish his tarnished image‚ Kennedy portrays Kopechne’s death as an accidental tragedy through
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Salvation Langston Hughes After reading the excerpt from Langston Hughes’s autobiography‚ "Salvation"‚ I pondered the many factors of religion and what makes a person believe in god or not believe in god. I believe that religion is a form of individual expression‚ and that each person should have the freedom to conform his or her identity to whatever religion feels right to that person‚ or even to conform to no religion at all. I think that if I had been in Langston’s position sitting on a mourner’s
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What will you leave behind after you’re gone? In the poem “Abandoned Farmhouse” by Ted Kooser‚ Kooser describes a vacant house‚ and all the everyday items that were left behind by its previous owner. This poem not only leaves the reader with a sense of mystery‚ but also develops the idea that the things people leave behind can tell us a lot about a person. Kooser does this throughout his poem using vivid imagery. The author uses imagery to develop the controlling idea when he says “says the
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child commits a crime it’s very essential to take the best decision because that decision will impact them the rest of their life. In a TED talk by Sarah Jayne Blakemore she uses charts and explains by color how the brain of a teenager changes throughout the years. Blakemore also says that teenagers do something at a current moment and at the next they forget it. The TED talk of Blakemore indicates how teenage brains are not as developed as an adult who would know what is going on. When a teenager commits
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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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