Reflection On Ted Talk

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.

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“Stop trying to be good people.” It is only human to be biased. However, the problem begins when we allow our bigotry to manifest into an obstacle that hinders us from genuinely getting to know people. Long time diversity lawyer, Verna Myers, in her 2014 Ted Talk, “How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them” discusses the implicit biases we may obtain when it comes to race, specifically black men. Myers purpose is quite like the cliché phrase “Face your fears.” Her goal is to impress upon us that we all have biases (conscious or unconscious). We just have to be aware of them and face them head on, so that problems such as racism, can be resolved. Throughout the Ted Talk, Verna Myers utilizes an admonishing yet entertaining tone in

Interesting. She started off by showing a picture of a baby, and asking what would most people say is going on in the babies’ head. She said thirty years ago that most people would say not very much but after many years of research developmental psychologist have learned that babies are capable of thinking very complexly and can even think like some of the most brilliant scientist in the world. The first sort of experiment they did was with fifteen-month-old babies and they would give them broccoli or gold fish crackers. They would say yum about the broccoli and then ask the baby to hand them whichever one they wanted and they would hand the one the person said they liked. They did the same test when they are three months older and the babies would hand them the crackers, because everyone likes crackers more than vegetables. The fact that they could learn so much in a short period of time begs the question how can they learn so much?

In the TED talk “What does it mean to be Muslim” a speech by Dalia Mogahed. The 9/11 attack had proven that “Not only had my country been attacked, but in a flash, somebody else's actions had turned me from a citizen to a suspect” (Mogahed). This proves that if any one person of your race does something wrong it will affect everyone of that race not only you. People can be affected by your actions even if they have nothing to do with you. You cannot blame one incident from one person on the whole race. There is no possible way that a whole race could get together and plan something as brutal as a terrorist attack. There are many bad people in the world but you can't blame the action of one person on the whole race. People can be affected

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.

Moshe Szyf, an epigenist informed us through his Ted Talk, “How life experience is written into DNA,” of our genes and how they are “combined of two components” (15:17). He used rhetorical strategies to engage his audience in understanding the view of DNA through an epigenetics perspective. He provides many examples of experiments performed which show these layers of information. The two layers include the old information from millions of years of evolution and the epigenetic layer which includes the open and dynamic set up of a narrative that is interactive and allows us to control our destiny.

Is the FBI as righteous as they would like us to think? In the Ted Talk titled, “Trevor Aaronson: How this FBI strategy is actually creating US-based terrorists,” the orator describes in his speech how FBI agents worked hand-in-hand with individuals who would eventually be arrested in sting operations, on terrorism charges. To tackle the complex topic of his speech, the speaker starts off with his thesis, a bold statement accusing the FBI of being for more terrorist plots than any terrorist group on Earth (Aaronson). On top of this, the speakers thesis doubles as his hook, since his Canadian audience would assume that the FBI worked as fighters of crime, and not purveyors of it. To back up his claim, Aaronson describes multiple cases, as well as shows multiple pictures to go along with his stories. The way Aaronson blends stats and stories together effectively explains how the FBI creates terrorists in the United States.

Brian Gobler Dr. Osterhaus Writing 120 March 16, 2015 A Rhetorical Analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has a very unique background story. Her experiences help her to understand the importance of searching for the truth beyond just the single story one is told. In Adichie’s Ted Talk, “The danger of a single story,” she talks about her experiences growing up in Nigeria and her first experiences in the United States. Her message is very simple.

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.

In many ways, the Ted Talk overlaps with the psychology textbook. Two ways that it overlaps in my option is cognitivism or cognitive psychology and social influences. To begin with, let's start with cognitivism. Cognitivism is the framework for understanding behavior. In this school of psychology, they focused on the aspect of thinking; they believed that “thinking affects behavior in powerful ways” (Lilienfeld et al., 2016, p. 9). This relates to the Ted talk because while Jill was talking about her experience while having the stoke, she says that her mind was going back and forth between reality and “La La Land” while that was happening her behavior changed as well. In her La La Land she was not thinking rationally, she was a carefree human

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

Educator and poet, Clint Smith, in his 2014 TED Talk, “The Danger of Silence,” motivates individuals to speak up against indifference and discrimination in order to acknowledge what must be done to make “silence not a source of shame.” Smith utilizes repetition, anecdotes, and imagery with his eloquent and ardent tone to encourage the audience that speaking up is important when facing the racial and social injustice in America.

For this assignment, I chose to watch a Ted Talk that focused on the importance of understanding differences. It is entitled Love No Matter What and is the culmination of years of research done by Andrew Solomon. I chose this Ted Talk because I thought it would be interesting to hear about different lived experiences that people have endured. One of the huge ideas I have learned throughout this leadership course and all our topics and conversation is that we all have different lived experiences. It is our lived experiences that make us special and individual. Love No Matter What focused on this essential idea and how important differences are.

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?