Ted Waitt

1.) Summary: Kelly McGonigal who is a health psychologist gives a thought-provoking lecture called “How to Make Stress Your Friend” at an official TED conference in June 2013. During the first part of the presentation, Ms. McGonigal confesses to the crowd that she been teaching about stress completely wrong, “Basically, I’ve turned stress into the enemy. But I have changed my mind about stress…” Ms. McGonigal emphasizes the point that people who view stress as not harmful (not their enemy), were

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

Each of us is dealt a hand when we come into this world, it is how we use what we’ve been given that matters. Rick Warren, author of “A Purpose Driven Life” gave a speech in February of 2006 about living a life of purpose. The speech was directed at people with an amount of influence in the world, big or small. The Purpose of this speech was to urge people to go out and use their talents, and influence to make the world a better place. Rick Warren has an excellent use of ethos, pathos, and logos

Since the beginning of time many believe as stated in Ziauddin Yousafzai’s TED talk, titled “My Daughter Malala” that women have been put through inequality and have been treated as if they were worth less than what they actually are. (Yousafzai Para.5) This statement forces one to think on a deeper level, causing one's mind to investigate numerous, precise questions. These of which being, who are Ziauddin and Malala Yousafzai.What is the patriarchal society, and what are the criterion for this

Technology genius and business mogul Eddy Zhong, in his Ted Talk “How school makes kids less intelligent”, 6 Feb 2015, argues that school is restrictive on the capabilities of many kids brilliant minds, due to their uniqueness. He first supports his claim by first presenting a profound statement to the audience which requires a logical interpretation. Then Zhong establishes a contrast between High school and elementary kids, by proving their creativity differences and finally he utilizes a metaphor