Ted Talk Summary

This Tedx talk was by Ron Espiritu, an educator of ethnic, Chicano and African American studies for high school students in south Los Angeles. He has found that ethnic studies is empowering, liberating and transformative for young people. Ron talks about researchers finding that ethnic studies has positive academic and social results for students of all races and ethnic backgrounds. He talks about his grandmother being forced to wear a sign on her chest saying she won't speak Spanish. I never knew that schools were against different languages to this extent. I thought it was acceptable to speak different languages, I was very wrong. Ron goes on to talk about his mother who used her mother as an inspiration. He talks about his mother becoming

The TED Talk: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story was both informational and eye opening. In my opinion, Ms. Chimanda Ngozi Adichie did a wonderful job of capturing the audience’s attention and telling her story about how she found her “cultural voice” (Adichie, 2009). In the talk, Ms. Adichie focused primarily on the subject of stereotypes, but discussed it in a way that was both relatable and reflective.

“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

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

In this speech critique, I will be analyzing a speech that fashion model Cameron Russell gave during a TED talk. The title of Russell's speech is "Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model." In this speech, Russell gives the audience an inside look into her opinion on working for the modeling industry and how it has affected her. Moreover, I will be analyzing this speech based on three principles: preparation, presentation, and emulation.

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.

Is the English language being looked down upon due to the way newer generation are using the language?

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 video that I chose, Bart Weetjens explains how he got rats to sniff out mines. Having a passion for both rodents and Africa, Weetjens decided to quit his industrial engineering job to focus on training rats to detect for landmines and tuberculosis. Rats were chosen for this task because of their highly functioning olfactory senses. When training, the rats are given food for them to properly associate the clicker sound with a reward. After the rat learns to stick its nose in the hole were the scent is, the number of holes is increased to ten holes. This is the training that leads up to the actual mine sniffing in which mines are hidden and a rat must find them all. Weetjens goes on to talk about the numerous of people that die

“Obstacles are put in your way to see if what you want is really worth fighting for.” I think this quote is so powerful and so true because lots of things people do they have to go outside of their comfort zone, and it is not easy. Fear of course is a big one for a lot of people, roller coasters, spiders, heights, public speaking, competing, and so much more. Of course getting over fears and overcoming that, is possible but most likely people don't have to deal with that everyday of their lives. In the TED talk by Anindya Kundu he talks about grit, he says it is the desire to be successful, the perseverance and passion for long term goals.

In the Ted Talk, Every kid needs a champion, by Rita Pierson goes over the importance of a teacher and student connection. I have watched this Ted Talk many times since but never get tired because of the passion and motivation Ms. Pierson demonstrate. There are many instances when Ms. Pierson demonstrated how she implemented Glasser’s theory of fulfillment in the classroom. When Ms. Pierson talks about the class she was given of lower level students but still made them feel worthy. “I am somebody. I was somebody when I came and I’ll be a better somebody when I leave. I am powerful and I am strong. I deserve the education that I get here. I have things to do people to impress and places to go.” This saying helped the student feel belong, freedom, and power.

Andres Tapia brings up a unique viewpoint on diversity during his TedX Talk. When he first introduces the idea that diversity is upside down, it’s slightly shocking. He begins to destroy everything we thought we knew about our world. White men may be called the majority, but in many cases, other racial groups outnumber them. He speaks about example after example to prove to the audience that being a majority does not mean that you are in fact the majority of the population.

Actually, in a TED talk by Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, she debunked the notion that extroverts are the most successful people in the world. She has the facts to prove that introverted leaders give better results than extroverted leaders.

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.

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