Thesis On Ted Talk

“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

You are requiring me write about this ted talk because there was alcohol in my room. Having alcohol in my room was a mistake that will not happen again and hopefully this video will help me improve as a person and see where I went wrong. Alcohol is a huge problems and college and maybe this ted talk will express those problems even more.

Could stress ever become your friend? Stress is something that most people have in their day to day life. In a Ted Talk by Kelly McGonigal she talks about how to make stress your friend. But we are not here to just talk about stress. We are also going to be looking at the rhetorical situation, the rhetorical devices, and the overall effectiveness of this video.

After watching the TED talk by Bryan Stevenson “We need to talk about an injustice” I became more aware of the injustices upon certain groups in society. Whether it is the poor, the African Americans, the white, etc. there are controversial things that happen in the united states and many of these things affect certain groups more than others. As I was watching this a lot of issues stood out but, this one quote really made me think, “Do people deserve to die for the crimes they commit?”. Every minute of everyday people are being convicted of crimes. A lot of people have been sent to prison over small crimes such as possession of small amounts of marijuana or shoplifting although these crimes may seem harmless the people convicted of these crimes

Brown uses many stories and inspirational quotes added to her presentation for a more vivid or emotionally loaded language that gives striking mental images for a more graphic imagination and helps to appeal to the audience and her viewers. In more ways than any Brown tells many stories in the TED Talk and are quite amusing to hear, but with the amount of stories and events she presents, it comes to show that she is more of a “story teller” than a researcher. An example would be, from speaking of an experience in a grocery store to another story involving Brown and her friend from college all within a two-minute time frame of the presentation. Anyway, as Brown speaks in the beginning of her TED Talk she evokes an emotional response from the audience by the persuasion of emotion and sets the tone as more optimistic and avuncular towards the audience and her viewers. For example, “….my life did end when that happened. And maybe the hardest part about my life ending is that I learned something hard about myself, and that was that, as much as I would be frustrated about not being able to get my work out to the world.” (Brown 3:16) This example provokes an emotion of sympathy and compassion for her and the presentation itself. Though Brown does not use anecdotes or narratives about her emotional experiences and events

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.

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.

The Olympics have been a way for athletes all over the world to prove they are the best at what they do, they train for years to hopefully earn a gold medal for their country. In the Ted Talk “Are Athletes Really Getting Faster, Better, Stronger?” By David Epstein, his argument presents positive outcomes of technological advancements athletes have today versus the past. However, he fails to mention the different training methods that were provided to the athletes to their time.

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 choose to do my ethical Analysis on a ted talk given by Dalia Mogahed. Dalia is a very big name in the Muslim America household. She is an advice for President Barack Obama. Dalia is the Director of Research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. The topic of the ted talk was: What do you think when you look at me. This speech was about how Americans view Muslims. She also talked about how September 11 affected her and her family. Dalia also talked about how fear affects not only her but also everyone in America. Dalia gave this speech as a responds to President candidate Donald trump started soldering Muslims.

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.

On October,19,2017 I watched a Ted Talk Called “ Dangers of a single story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She spoke about her life in Nigeria before she studied abroad in The United States of America and the dangers of knowing 1 side of the story this is also known as ‘Bias’. After watching Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Ted talk, I believe not everyone in Africa lives in poverty, stereotypes in Children 's books cause unrealistic ideas of reality and the media fabricates news to generate views and labels specific groups of people.

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

In Martin Seligman’s TED talk, he explains the values of positive psychology’s impact on creating happier lives. In 2000, Martin Seligman created a new field of psychology called Positive Psychology. This field of positive psychology is the study of positive traits and behaviors that can contribute to a positive “happier” life. In Seligman’s TED talk, The New Positive Era of Psychology, he categorizes positive lives into three categories. The Pleasant life, the life of engagement, and the meaningful life. But before he begins his speech, he explains the negative actions taken by psychology when treating people.

Kate Simonds’ Ted Talk speaks out the truth of inequity towards young people, especially on teens in regards of voicing and expressing their thoughts and ideas without being neglected. It discusses the challenges of teens’ voice being heard due to the societal perception towards the insignificance of young people’s voice as they are labeled as “naive and ignorant”. Kate Simonds’ stated on her Ted talk that “the only qualification to being a TED speaker is to have an idea. An idea you think is worth spreading” which she stated to be a problem due to her age of 17 which will lead to her idea being accounted to be worthless. To further emphasize her point of unfairness, She added humor on her speech saying “you’re only respecting me because I’m on this stage. Maybe it’s because you like my extremely high heels” which somewhat makes her acceptable to the society to be heard of as she wears “high heels” which can represent maturity because it is most common and norms for an adult to wear heels. Her introduction was well executed as she was able to outline and introduce the problem, thus, leading her to state her opinion on her thesis that “any idea should be respected no matter the age of who it comes from.” Furthermore, she discusses how unfairness towards teens are present in many different situations where adults neglect and don't respect her voice and it was stated that “according to a Life Science article from 2008, that because [she’s] a teenager, [she] can’t experience empathy which is defined as the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.” Also, argues that students are being looked down upon and she talks about the expectations from students such as following the system education and how they are not expected to oblige. Overall, this discusses how young people are often told “You don’t get it, you’re 17. You don’t deserve to have the control over what you learn” this statement is contributing factors to why many voices are often unheard because others are ignorant.