Analysis Of The Ted Talk Video 'Rev'

Great authors portray their ideas in multiple ways to reach out their message to the present audience. As Tim Urban in his Ted Talk ¨Inside the mind of a master procrastinator¨ he discussed what the thinking behind procrastination leads to through his own experiences, presenting in a way to make the audience laugh, and to convince them that everyone procrastinates in life. Any great writer incorporates ethos, pathos and logos within their writing, speech or even presentation. Tim did an excellent job portraying to his audience these rhetorical strategies which earn him the right to be listened to respectively.

In “Why I keep speaking up, even when people mock my accent,” Safwat Saleem, shows his passion and his courageous side when speaking in his Ted Talk, describing the main idea of there not being such a thing of normalcy, as well as arguing that individuals should be confident and accept who they are from their special qualities. Agreeing with Saleem (2016), however to also consider it has become common in today’s society to want to be normal. Therefore many people would not agree with wanting to be exactly known as quote on quote ‘normal’ but they may want to assimilate to norms because that person is or may be in a unique way socially accepted.

In Vernā Myers’ TED Talk “How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly towards them,” originally presented at TEDxBeaconStreet, diversity advocate Myers argues that peoples’ subconscious attitudes are affecting the prospering of black people in society. She also proposes three ideas on how to overcome our biases, which will open a world of possibilities where everyone no matters his or her ethnicity or race has equal opportunities to succeed in this constantly changing environment. According to Myers, the first step to overcome our prejudices is to acknowledge the biases that subconsciously influence our attitudes towards black people. According to Myers, “our default is white,” this demonstrates that people are more likely to trust white people

conclusion, while Dr king was in birmingham, he came across the priest’s statement calling mr king activities unwise and untimely, in other words he felt that the priest’s were men of genuine good. he asked the question to the priest why were they being, so unrighteous and being so racist, against him and what he stood for. he was confronting the priest , because they weren’t being true to their words, and what the bible sayings were, when the affiliate organization invited mr king To birmingham to speak in a non violent direct action program, and when it was time for him to speak, he was discriminated against, and he started to quote the bible to make the priest well aware that what they were doing was wrong unrealistic and untrue, to what they stood for, he was tired of black people being outsiders, including in the united states, for a place to be considered the land of freedom, the place others dreamed to be were hurting people, because of the color of their skin.

Martin Luther King Jr., activist and leader, in his letter, Letter from Birmingham Jail, argued and emphasized why nonviolent direct action was not extreme when it came to dealing with racial tension in Alabama.  His letter was a well written and well thought out response to the clergymen's statement, Call to Unity, a statement that claimed that nonviolent direct action was extreme.  King’s purpose for writing his response was to persuade his audience, the clergymen/white moderates, that their thoughts on how he approached and handled racial tension were ill-judged.  He successfully got his point across in his response by using rhetorical modes of Logos, Ethos, and Pathos using biblical comparisons, explanations about his cause, and personal stories.

With no room left for negotiation, King went to the next viable option, under the premise that change will come about when there is enough positive tension. He puts in the words, “there is a type of constructive nonviolent tension necessary for growth” (2). To expand on this, I affirm that nothing will happen without a cause. Sometimes you have to force a hand or make the current situation uncomfortable to modify the future. He advances to explain that this change is not untimely as the clergymen argued. The reverend claims that people have their limits and can only endure so much oppression before they fall into despair. He vocalizes the point behind this overflow and decides to do something with the momentum.

One good point the reverend made was to Listen, Learn, and Think before making actions. He insisted we know what is going on around in the community by being attentive citizens. He acknowledges there is a great place called “the rest of the world”. This was funny and made people laugh, but it brings up the reality there is a world outside of our own. Sometimes people are so caught up with their own lives they don’t recognize other people’s lives and needs. We are supposed to pay attention to those lives outside our own according to the word of Jesus and explained by the story of the good Samaritan. Another good point Reverend makes is the language of power. It is interesting how the word “minority” is misused and is now being used to represent the race of black and Latino Americans. Finally, people have to do what they can. Maybe it’s impossible for a single individual to end racial divide, but by doing simple actions such as talking to black people and speaking up against people who are contributing to the racial divide can eventually help end this

After careful review of Ted Buettner’s video and transcript and review of his findings, I would think most

In the Ted Talk given by Hetain Patel, Hetain uses the stereotypes of his physical appearance to his advantage against the audience in order to help establish his theme of the Ted Talk, which is perception. He begins the Ted Talk speaking in Chinese mandarin, while a translator sits beside him and translates what he is saying to the audience. About a minute into the ted talk the translator reveals that Hetain was born and raised near Manchester England and that he is actually repeating the same paragraph of Chinese mandarin each time he is speaking to the audience. He actually knows English but he chose to speak in mandarin so he could “avoid any assumptions made about him due to his northern accent.” Basically wanted to avoid others using

For this mini assignment, I analyzed a video entitled “Every Opportunity” on YouTube. The video, uploaded in August 2016 by Atlanta Speech School, goes through a typical school day two different ways: one way with a student being ignored and the other with a student being able to express his feelings. Overall, the video serves to show that as educators, we need to let students speak at every chance they get because it helps develop their young minds and allows them to verbally express thoughts and feelings that may not be apparent. The video can be found here: Every Opportunity.

The ted talk “The Linguistic Genius of Babies” by Kuhl (2010) tells about babies are genius on language learning, and shows some results of research as proof of this idea. The article “Learning a Language as an Adult” by Pakenham, McEntire, and Williams (2013) shows an idea about the “critical period hypothesis”, children during this period learn much better than people older than this age, especially in pronunciation, because their brain activities are different than adults during this time. Personally, I totally believe the idea of children younger learn better, because the scientific research and data are shown to audiences, and they are persuasive enough. And I do see proof in my life, like four of my Korean friends who came China around

Misinterpretation of the term technology has been a reoccurring issue in society, as individuals often link that term to an actual hardware. Although this interpretation has been accurate to an extent, it does not determine the other aspects of technology. Technology has been continually expanding, which led to new and improved knowledge on science and society. Additionally, technological determinism reflects the notion that societal changes are stimulated by modifications in technology. In the TED Talk recording, Gail Reed highlights the advanced knowledge students have acclaimed through traveling to Cuba. Furthermore, she exemplifies the growing need for more doctors in rural communities.

Jamie Oliver’s Ted Talk “Teaching every child about food,” captures his great passion and investment in fighting childhood obesity, improving children’s health, and lengthening their life expectancy. Obesity affects not just those that are obese, but family, friends, community, and country. The healthcare expense for obesity in the United States per year is two hundred and ten billion per year and growing, this expense is then passed down to Americans who have to pay more money in health insurance premiums as well as tax dollars to help cover this massive expense. (Oliver, J., 2010)

This essay explores the video of Simon Sinek’s speech at TED Talk in 2014 and the video is called ‘Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe?’ In this video, Simon explained the answer to the question by illustrating few consequences and outcomes of the examples that he explained in the video. He began with telling a military story, which he saw it from a personal-recorded video and the military story is about the Captain William Swenson (US) rescuing his soldiers under the attack from some local anti-governmental organizations in Afghanistan when they trying to convoy few governmental officers from the US and Afghanistan to meet the local village elders. And Simon found that the captain kissed each injured soldiers’ neck when he

Over time, we have developed more and more advanced technology from radios to robots, this has impacted us in a way no one would imagine. In Sherry Turkle’s Ted Talk “Connected, but alone?,” Turkle clarifies how technology is redefining human connection. She points out that our cellphones are keeping us away from interacting with society and has a more significant influence on our communication in person than online. In addition, we tend to seek social media as a way of comfort and attention, and the more we are using our phones the more isolated and alone we become. Is technology really redefining human connection?