TED

Video number eleven featured the first TED Talks television program featuring many speakers on the question: “Why do so many students drop out of high school?” This program was presented by famous musician John Legend and the speakers on this issue included: Mrs. Rita Pierson, Dr. Ramsay Mussallam, Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth, Mr. Bill Gates, Dr. Geoffrey Canada, Mrs. Pearl Arredendo, and Sir Ken Robinson. Each of these speakers were given an opportunity to provide their own individual response to…

thinkers possess which enables them to be open, discipline, and improve their mental functionality (Elder & Paul, 2012, p. 4). Humility, integrity, empathy, courage, and perseverance are some of traits discussed in Chapter 1. Watching General McChrystal Ted Talk, I was able to link his experiences to some of the above traits. The trait that stood out most on his talk was intellectual humility. Intellectual humility is “the ability to develop knowledge of the extent to one’s ignorance and to…

The poem, “Abandoned Farmhouse” by Ted Kooser, is centered around the objects left behind by a family. This family lived in a rural area that the poet describes as lonely. We know that money was scarce for them, which made their daily lives on the lonely farm quite difficult; however, it seems that they were a happy family. As the poem continues, we learn different things about the family, like the fact that they had a child, through personification and imagery. The objects begin to tell a…

“The world makes you something that you are not” ("Why I must come out"). Those are the first words of Geena Rocero in her ted talk, ‘Why I must come out’. Geena is a transgender. There are approximately 700,000 transgender men and women in the United States and the real number is most likely higher than that (ABC News. ABC News Network. Web. 16 Nov. 2015.). It is very difficult for men and women who have gender dysphoria in the world. It is highly frowned upon for being abnormal, socially…

Thank you again for coming tonight for the 2017 Annual TED Talks. As one of the event organizers, I’m here to introduce our next speaker, Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, President of UMBC. Before Dr. Hrabowski speaks tonight about the importance of STEM education, I would like to talk about his accomplishments and share a little story with you. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. Hrabowski grew up with his parents who were both math teachers. Naturally, he was so talented at math that at just the age of 19…

My Ted-Talk I am 5’8”, weigh 130 pounds, and have a BMI of 19.5, the healthy range being from 18.5 to 24.0. My freshman year I was 5’8”, 140 pounds, and had a BMI of 21.3, still within the healthy range. In reality these numbers really tell you nothing about my health practices now, and my health practices then. My health practices today include clean-eating, vegetarianism, running cross country, and frequent gym visits. Just knowing my weight however, does not reveal any of this. I have enough…

Steven Johnson’s Ted Talk was right on the concepts of Connectivism. As the saying goes, “No man is an island.” Good ideas come from shared thoughts from different people. We sometimes rely on other people to create new ideas. Johnson said that “a new idea is a new network of neurons firing and synch with each other inside your brain.” We get a new idea (aha! moment) from something that already exists. Jane Mcgonigal explains that we see clues or signals that lead to developing future forecasts…

Environmental historian and professor, Ted Steinberg wrote the book Down To Earth which presents American history through the lens of nature. Steinberg does an excellent job displaying the significant role nature has played throughout American history and his writing will forever change the way you perceive our country’s history. This book differs from your traditional American History books by uniquely linking historical events to their environmental counterparts. Down To Earth provides an…

The theme showing the flaws of society is culminated in the last book, as Hugo shows that these flaws are not inevitable. Within this book, Hugo proves that while society is misguided, it does not need to remain that way. During the beginning of the novel, Hugo focuses on the flaws of society relating to family life, specifically through Marius, Fantine, and Cosette. Cosette, after her unhappy upbringing, was saved and raised in a loving home with a man named Jean Valjean. He loved her dearly,…

Recently, I watched an episode of Manhunt: Unabomber on Discovery channel. His work, Industrial Society and its Future, was mentioned several times throughout the episode and it sparked my interest. Ted Kaczynski’s theory is that technology has become such a big part of our lives that it would be near impossible to function without it. This was something that grabbed my attention because despite the fact that technology is a helpful tool, it also has the power to destroy our society. The…