Ted Talks Write-Up # 1_
I. Name and background of presenter (Approximately ½ of a single-spaced page).
The first Ted Talk I watched was presented by author Lidia Yuknavitch. Yuknavitch shared her life journey with us and it was heartbreaking and tragic. She grew up physically and sexually abused by the one person who was supposed to keep her safe, her father. In her teens she had aspirations of becoming a competitive swimmer; however she turned to drugs and alcohol to help deal with the pain of the abuse she had suffered for most of her life. She had dreams of becoming an Olympic athlete but many factors along with the drug and alcohol abuse led her down a different path.
After failing to realize her dream of being a competitive swimmer she went on to drop out of college 2 times before she completed her degree, she also had multiple failed marriages, to stints in jail, and she lost her daughter the day she was born. She became homeless and lived under a road overpass. …show more content…
She wrote a short story and turned it in and went on to win an award for the story. She went to New York to receive her award where she said she says she felt like fraud as if she did not belong. She was given many opportunities to meet editors of big publishing houses but she was unable to follow through with signing on to any of them. She declares herself a misfit, and if you listen and watch her you will realize that she is exactly that, a beautifully formed misfit that let her life experiences shape
I. Name and background of presenter (Approximately ½ of a single-spaced page).
The first Ted Talk I watched was presented by author Lidia Yuknavitch. Yuknavitch shared her life journey with us and it was heartbreaking and tragic. She grew up physically and sexually abused by the one person who was supposed to keep her safe, her father. In her teens she had aspirations of becoming a competitive swimmer; however she turned to drugs and alcohol to help deal with the pain of the abuse she had suffered for most of her life. She had dreams of becoming an Olympic athlete but many factors along with the drug and alcohol abuse led her down a different path.
After failing to realize her dream of being a competitive swimmer she went on to drop out of college 2 times before she completed her degree, she also had multiple failed marriages, to stints in jail, and she lost her daughter the day she was born. She became homeless and lived under a road overpass. …show more content…
She wrote a short story and turned it in and went on to win an award for the story. She went to New York to receive her award where she said she says she felt like fraud as if she did not belong. She was given many opportunities to meet editors of big publishing houses but she was unable to follow through with signing on to any of them. She declares herself a misfit, and if you listen and watch her you will realize that she is exactly that, a beautifully formed misfit that let her life experiences shape