Number TED-046: A Speech

The text my partner and I were originally going to analyze was Robb Willer’s Ted Talk called How to have better political conversations. We decided not do analyze his speech however we did take inspiration from it. The text we analyzed in the end were article titles posted on The Washington Post written by a variety of people.

At TEDxBroadway Ellen Isaacs discusses ethnography. She starts off engaging her audience with an example of old and new computer technology. Where new technology is more visual and easier to use and that people often take it for granted. That computer scientist such as Doug Engelbart and Alan Kay and other influential people wanted to make technology more easier and accessible to use. The evolution of the original giant and heavy computers to the smaller and more conviene computers known today. And then she started discussing another example. Of a ethnographer who invented a new technology and observed how people used it. The men in the observation video were struggling to make copies with her invention. It was difficult and

In the Ted Talk, the presenter Daniel Reisel talks about how we can change both our society and mindset. Reisel demonstrates an example about prisoners in a high- security and it's filled with aggressive prisoners. He talks about what triggers that behavior that those prisoners have and what can be the cure for them. Reisel talks about the Joe the prisoner and how he tested Joe and his inmates to see their ability to categorize images of emotions. The inmates failed to show emotions and to show physical response for the images they were showed. It showed that the inmates had a deficit in their brain that was ¨amygdala” that was proven by their MRI scan. Amygdala is known for our experience of empathy in which the inmates did not have causing

I decided to watch Steve Howard's Ted Talk titled: "Let's go all-in on selling sustainability."

David Camarillo, in his speech at Ted, explains what a concussion is and why helmets do not prevent them. Camarillo, a former football player, has suffered concussions from football as well as biking. Camarillo aspires for a helmet that will prevent concussions and make risky activities safe. Camarillo adequately explains to his audience what a concussion is and why helmets do not prevent them through familiarity with the subject, awareness of audience concerns, and examples and illustrations.

After watching the Ted Talk video, I do agree with Hanauer and that inequality within the U.S and the triple down theory will only result in a economic decrease for all. What I found convincing was the overcasting theme of not status nor wealth but, the healthy competition for all classes and genders. This statement is logical and yet, fair, his example was that raising the minimum wage is one way to prevent the trickle theory and the decrease of economic growth. Simply, because rising the minimum wages benefits everyone and sets the foundation for a more equal ideology of economic balance pertaining to the United States.

When it comes to choice it always seems to be a love hate relationship: we hate making them, but we can’t live without them. Anyone can all look back to a time in our lives where they wish someone could just pick for us, or times when we wish there were more to choose from. All Americans have many choices, and it is such a part of our daily lives that we don’t even realize it. Barry Schwartz and Sheena Iyengar‘s TED talks bring up interesting ideas about choice, how people deal with them and their affects. They both state that although choice is good, it can also have negative effects. Schwartz explains what most people believe and experience with choice, while Iyengar shows cultural differences in choice making. Both Schwartz and Iyengar

In the TED Talk “How Augmented Reality Will Change Sports... and Build Empathy,” by Chris Kluwe, it is stated that augmented reality will have many effects on sports and on society. For example, if an athlete was to use this form of technology, it could give him/her an extra second that he/she would need to react. In his talk, Kluwe states, “Well, imagine you're the quarterback. You take the snap and you drop back. You're scanning downfield for an open receiver. All of a sudden, a bright flash on the left side of your visor lets you know, blind side linebacker is blitzing in” (18). In this case, the quarterback is given a little extra time to get out of the way as the linebacker rushes in. These seemingly insignificant advantages can actually

The Ted talks I decided to analyze for this assignment all focused on environmentally friendly ways to build or enhance existing structures. I watched several Ted talks, but decided to focus on Greening the Ghetto, The Tradeoffs of Building Green, and Eco-Friendly Drywall because I liked these 3 presentations the most. Building and it’s effects on the environment is a topic I developed an interest in as a child. I grew up the daughter of a soldier and therefore had opportunities to see parts of the world and meet people living in them that an ordinary tourist would not. Even as a child it was easy to connect the quality of environment to quality of health and living conditions. Healthy environment generally equates to healthy, happy people. I have also had the opportunity to see how pollution effects people, animals, land, and water in both urban and rural areas. All of these presentations made good and effective use of still photography in their Ted Talks. Eco-Friendly Drywall also used a few, kind of hokey, but effective graphics.

“Let’s begin at the end, the scariest thing about death is not dying; it’s suffering” (Ted Talk, 2015). In the Ted Talk documentary entitled “What really matters at the end of life” by Dr BJ Miller, he discusses how both society and the individual views and prepares for death. Death is a phenomenon that happens in everyday life, for many it is unexpected and for others expected. Stage theorist’s states that an individual throughout life transitions through many different developmental stages. These stages might differ depending on the theorists but most research claims these are the following: Infancy, early childhood, play age, school age, adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood and late adulthood/old age.

The TED Talk video that I watched was Why do we sleep by Russel Foster. This TED talk was about why we need sleep and how getting less than the suggested amount affects the brain. There are three main reasons why we need sleep; restoration, energy conservation, and brain function. Only certain genes are turned on when you sleep so you need to sleep in order for those genes to turn on and allow you other genes to be restored, while sleeping you save about 110 calories, sleep helps enhance creativity, and your brain is less likely to retain information if you’re sleep deprived and trying to cram information. On average a teen needs 9 hours of sleep, in the 1950s the average teen was getting 8 hours of sleep, today on average teens are getting 5 hours of sleep, which is half the amount that we need. If you’re not receiving the amount of sleep that you need your body will uncountable got into micro-sleeping which will happen to at least 31% of drivers in their lifetime.

Ted is a snarky, stumpy little guy with a brown mop of hair, and a sharp sense of humor. Unfortunately for ted, this is his story. He was enjoying a sweet pumpkin latte, on the lovely morning of November first. he was having a giggle every time a disheveled and tired college student shambled in. for on halloween night, instead of going to a rave or rager, went to a low-key halloween party. while he sat in Starbucks, he wrote a suspense story that was due the next day. he hadn’t started yet, and it was now a race against the clock. the light clicking of his keyboard was all that was heard as he furiously typed and typed, the words seemingly endless, flowing from his mind and onto the screen. The small, black text that quickly

In the TED Radio show discussing the power of brands over brain, Paul Bloom, a professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale university, explained why people give value to things that they like. As Bloom argue, people value things depending on their origin, what they are made up of, what benefits they could get, and their history. Knowing the background history of things like where they came from, how they are made, and their quality give consumers satisfaction on buying the products, which makes the consumers essentialists. According to Bloom, essentialism is a belief that things have a set of characteristics that make them what they are. As Bloom pointed out, “We are also powerfully swayed by our belief system. And sometimes, our

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

Tara Winkler, one of the presenters in TED Talk, discussed the danger of voluntourism and volunteering at the orphanages and that most of the time the person volunteering doesn't even know if the organisation is authorised or legal. Winkler argued that voluntourism will only get the country into deeper trouble. Before volunteering at a Cambodia orphanage, she believed that by doing so she was helping the people in need. She created a strong bond with the children at the orphanage and continuously going back to visit them. Soon, she picked up the language and discovered some interesting things that were happening to the children. The children who were being put into the orphanage weren't exactly