Talk Like TED: Appropriate Conversation

Argument is defined as a reason or set of reasons given with the aim of persuading others that an action or idea is right or wrong. An argument can be in written, spoken, and or visual form. In order to have a successful argument, it is important to have experience in the area because this will allow the audience to gain respect for the rhetor. Bryan Stevenson is a human rights lawyer who speaks up for criminal injustice. Stevenson opens up his speech with a sweet story involving his grandmother and a promise he made with her.

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.

Mallory Soldner, in her TED Talk “Your company’s data could end world hunger” given at a TED Institute event in 2016, successfully argues that if companies donate data, decision scientists, and technology to gather new sources of data to humanitarian organizations, that lives can be saved. Soldner is able to support her claims by sharing her experiences using data to drive efficiencies, save money, and feed more people while working for the World Food Program. In Soldner’s TED Talk, she uses ethos to build credibility and rapport with the audience. Solder also uses logos by detailing her experience at the World Food Program and demonstrating the value of the data, and explaining why it makes business sense. Soldner’s target audience is executives of large companies.

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

I think much of what Harris claims in his TED talk is true, such as the existence of right and wrong answers related to morality and the foolishness of valuing every opinion when it comes to morality. However, I think he fails to provide any real support for his main opening claim: that science can answer the hardest questions of morality and why we're here. Sure, we may use the accurate scientific knowledge that a monkey has more emotional feeling than an ant to decide the monkey's life is of more value than the ant, but this knowledge cannot logically support whether killing the monkey is right or wrong. I also disagree with his idea that overall human well-being can be measured comparably to physical health. While I agree that science

You can be a better activist when you realise it’s not your job to save the world. In the Ted talk “My wish: Use art to turn the world inside out” Jr spoke at the very start when he was told he was going to give the Ted Talk and to make a wish to save the world. He talked about how the world was really messed up, and he didn’t want to give the talk because no one person can save the world. A friend told him it’s not to save the world but the change the world, which he was okay with (Jr). Without having that pressure, it gives freedom to be able to create a change about the passions being advocated for. The Journal by Radical Teacher “Jamming the Works: Art, Politics and Activism.” explains that the goal of activism isn’t to change a person through one act that it takes time (Dittmar, Linda, and Joseph Entin). While there is a level of frustration that can occur in the amount of time it takes to

What I learned from this Ted Talk is that kids from not so good neighborhoods don’t do so well in school. Their parents don’t have enough money for things like school supplies, food, and clothes. Cops are more mean to people that have very little money then to people that have a lot of money and go to nice schools. People from “ghetto” neighborhoods are most likely to get stopped and be searched or arrested then people from good neighborhoods. An 18 year old kid got in a fight with someone because they called his mom a “crackwhore.” People from most good schools don’t get taken to court for a small fight at school, but this 18 year old did and he got charged as an adult.

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.

Presenting is one’s way of telling others about a topic. Whether they be wish to be enlighten by the knowledge or be shown more about a topic that someone has already knowledge of, presenting gives information in different ways to captivate an audience. TED talk is one way of this, a website made of many presentations of different topics.

"Mom, Dad, can we talk? I have something to tell you. I am gay." Those words are the nightmares of many parents, religions, and even the persons proclaiming it. Does one just wake up one day and decide, "Today, I want to be gay.", or is it after agonizing years of contemplation, second guessing what you feel inside, and what your brain is telling you? Sexual orientation is not a choice, but rather predetermined in the womb.

By the end of the Ted Talk, Fisher states “You know, when you’re been dumped, the one thing you love to do is just forget about this human being, and then go on with your life – but no, you just love them harder.” To simplify this even further, the past isn’t just the past when you’re in love. You just don’t forget everything that you have experienced and just move on. It’s not like pressing the delete and start over. Everything you experience while in love is forever in your memory. You want to move on and continue on with life but the harsh reality is, you can’t. For some odd reason, you want the thing you’re in love with even more.

Today, in the United States of America, many people suffer from work related stress. People who do not take regular vacations have greater risk of heart attack, depression and anxiety disorders. The USA is the only industrialized nation that offers minimum annual leaves, compared to the other countries. Millions of people demand that they need more paid family vacation than they are offered. Paid vacation is offered to all workers who need to take time away from their work to deal with their serious health conditions or on arrival of a new born.

In the TED talk “Go ahead, make up words” Erin McKean has explained and demonstrated that we all have rules that lives in our brains, she gave the example with an animal by naming it a Wug, she would demonstrate two of the same animals and she would ask the audience what would these two animals would be called .The audience answered “Wugs”, exactly I would think too, to place an S behind that word because of plural. Erin McKean has demonstrated that we have rules of grammar that exist within us without have acknowledged of that rule. That rule of placing a letter in plural touch me deeply because as funny as it sounds, it is common sense. I would understand that without learning about the rule due to the sense of the context of words, it is

After reading both of these articles and watching this TED talk video, I believe that it fits the criteria of how to give an effective TED talk. First, it was a only 12 minute and 38 second video and it was kept on the simple and clear side so that it would be easy for everyone to understand. Also, Banda talked about a situation that hit very close to home since it involves her sister, her friends, and herself. The reason she felt the need to share her and her sisters story is

The presenter’s “speech” was very good sand effective. He used a variety of emotion that kept his presentation not only entertaining, but also educating. Additionally, he did an excellent job in eye contact and moving around. He moved around the stage frequently and used a lot of gestures while talking. Tim was also very confident, relaxed, and funny. Urban’s style of delivery was transparent and conversational. He looked like he knew what he was doing and talking about. Last but not least, he made a lot of connections with the audience by telling a story of how he procrastinated. Which this action caused him to accomplish assignments in a poor manner. To conclude, all in all, Tim Urban’s TED Talk was not only fun and educative but also audience