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thousands of kids daily. People with jobs and families should be against choosing their job over family because it allows for a closer bond to form, more family time, and everlasting love for eachother. The story “Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket” and the TED Talk “Can we all ‘have it all?’” featuring Anne-Marie Slaughter will be represented in this essay. This topic is perfectly explained in the short story, “Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket”. The setting takes place during the mid 1950’s, when expectations

Literature is a work of art that is fabricated with the fundamental purpose to convey meaning and messages to readers. What is conveyed is completely decided by the author, however its underlying message can be interpreted in multiple forms by different readers. Literature often explores the gap between reality and the writer’s imagination, which can lead to a false sense of reality. This false sense may eventually allow for an oversimplification of reality, where the real world seems to be transparent

Chimamanda Adichie is an author from Nigeria, a major country in Africa. She is an exceedingly well-known author from her writings on immigration, feminism, and the African experience in America. She has given a variety of Ted talks, speeches, and has done interviews on immigration, feminism, and the African experience in America. In her writings, most noticeably “My Mother, the Crazy African,” she talks about the experience of immigrants in America and through a lens which relates to issues one

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According to the Ted talks, William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, South East Africa. He had 6 sisters and was the only boy besides his dad in his family. William’s father was a farmer in his village, and his family depended on the rain to water the plants so they could harvest and eat them. William lived in a small house with no electricity and no water. His sisters had to walk to the nearest water source and then carry it back to their home just so they could have water. Once William was old enough

killings and murders rather than foundations and charity projects? Why do we spend our time dwelling in problems rather than focusing on our accomplishments? Many people in this world have to hear of something horrible for it to occupy their mind. In the Ted Talk by Julia Bacha, she explains that Palestinians and Israelis have been using nonviolence to solve issues when the rest of the world has never known about it. One of the main reasons that the world is blind to the use of nonviolence is because it

look at it from a different perspective. We usually tend to have a one-sided opinion about certain things until we experience the both sides of the story ourselves. This phenomenon of naïve realism was well presented in the class along with different TED Talk videos to support the argument among which the most prominent and thought provoking was the talk on ‘Believing Strange Things’ by Micheal Shermer. Controversial topics have always sparked my interest and regardless of what opinion I have about

age between 15 to 29 as loneliness has a lot to do with my age group and I think we have to know hot to deal with it. I use different kinds of resources such as written, oral and visual. My resources are Sunday TV program called Advice for parents, TED Talks from Guy Winch : Why do we need to practice our emotional first aids, Loneliness Generation article from women-weekly.co.nz, stat.govt.nz (Statistic of New Zealand), mentalhealth.org, webofloneliness.com, mind.org, metro.co.uk and understood.org

she was told that she was going to have twins. This got her interested in how much of people’s mental health and physical health has to do with nature and nurture. She took the stage to describe her journey at TEDX OU, is an independently Organized TED event at the University of Oklahoma. She had been trained as a geneticist. She was not expecting twins so she joked, what would happen if she put one kid in daycare and one kid in a drawer. This got her interested in epigenetics. Even though twins could

ain’t poor” posted by an African American women. I know there are many people think this way of African American and are always stereotype African American besides on what they see in media. A Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie that is part of the TED series. Told her personal story, “The danger of a single story” in July 2009 at TEDGlobal. In her speech on the Talk series, Chimamanda Adichie argues that one single story about a single about race or region can create a huge misunderstanding in the