For my first international journal I decided to watch a Ted Talk video online. I sadly couldn’t attend any of the passport events on the DCCC campus do to my class schedule at both Valley and the college. Hopefully in the future I will be able to attend a passport event‚ because some of my friends went to one and I got to see pictures and videos of the show and it looked like an amazing experience. The Ted Talk I chose to watch was called Social Experiments to Fight Poverty. I found this video
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My literacy skills begun like most of the other people. First‚ it begun by listening typical nursery rhythm‚ and bedtime stories. Later my skills started getting polished in school and teachers begun to mold and shape my style of reading and writing. I think the reason why I started getting better at my literacy skills‚ was my needs. Everyone who wants a success in their lives‚ needs to know how to read and write. I get aware of reading and writing skills at very early age‚ as I wanted to be successful
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John N. Pasmore Essay TED Talk of Auret van Heerden Working out Poverty Auret van Heerden is a compelling speaker. He currently serves as president and CEO of the non-‐governmental organization (NGO)‚ Fair Labor Association in Geneva‚ Switzerland. In a video-‐taped TED Talk (http://ow.ly/rWoZR0) he
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As members of Future Business Professionals‚ we are writing to recommend a speaker for the fall semester. After researching several TED Talk candidates‚ we recommend that you invite Hanna Rosin. Rosin’s TED Talk‚ “New Data and the Rise of Women‚” offers an interesting perspective on gender roles‚ which will highly appeal to FSB students. In this memo‚ we will summarize Rosin’s talk and explain why we recommend her. Hannah Rosin is the co-founder of DoubleX‚ a website centered on news about women
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Julian Friedman in the TED talk‚ “The Mystery of Story Telling”‚ asserts that a writer must make his or her audience his or her number one priority. Friedman supports his claim by explaining the short falls of writers through his own eyes‚ citing his own experience as an agent‚ as well as the eyes of George Orwell‚ speaking on the motivation of writers according to Orwell‚ and even Aristotle‚ talking about how modern writers diverge from the Aristotelian formula for storytelling. The author’s purpose
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Can We Talk Lycethia Givens-Williams Interpersonal Communication Macy Dailey June 13‚ 2011 Introduction Can marriage survive without having healthy communication? Communication is the key to having happiness and a lasting marriage. The article “Can We Talk”‚ written by Nara Schoenberg was a great article about the role of communication within a marriage. In this paper I plan to critique the article and give my thoughts on it and why I can relate to it.
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In the ted talk video‚ Al gore starts by mentioning that the arctic ice cap has reduced by 40 percent from the year 1980 to 2007. Al gore emphasized the ice cap’s vitality to our ecosystem. The ice cap usually increases during cold seasons and decrease during low hot seasons. Digital image show that the permanent ice has shrunken by more than half over the past 25 years. A multitude of frozen carbon lies around the arctic ice cap‚ then it decreases the carbon rise and turn into methane. All of this
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Dave Pink’s Ted Talk reminded me of Ivan Pavlov’s conditional reflex theory; I believe sometimes in order to get a person motivated to do something‚ an incentive must be presented. We learn at a young age to have extrinsic motivation (if you did chores‚ you would get an allowance; if you got A’s in school‚ we would get rewarded; and so on and so forth). Growing up‚ I was never motivated by intrinsic motivation‚ I wasn’t personally rewarded by doing chores; I was motivated by the allowance. While
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In the TED Talk‚ “The Neuroscience of Restorative Justice‚” the main idea that Daniel Reisel is trying to convey is that there may be a cure for psychopathic people. To begin‚ people act psychopathic because they become unconnected with others. Furthermore‚ keeping them in jail away from others just adds to this negativity. Reisel compares this to the behavior of a mouse when it is kept separate from other mice. According to the TED Talk‚ “So if you rear a mouse in a standard cage‚ a shoebox‚ essentially
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Directed by Lynne Ramsay‚ We Need To Talk About Kevin is a film that illustrates the harrowing tale of a mother‚ Eva Khatchadourian (Tilda Swinton)‚ who is forced to critically question her own actions and thoughts in order to make sense of a life-changing event. A high school massacre committed by a son she was never even sure she wanted. This journey of self reflection delves deeply on the theme of morality‚ and what circumstances make someone more susceptible to the temptations of darkness within
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