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Chimamanda Adichie in her TED presentation talks about the dangers of a “single-story”, she warns us to against using a “single-story” to understand questions of identity. To understand what “single-story” is Chimamanda Adichie narrated a story when she was nineteen years old, she was leaving Nigeria to go to a university in the United States her American roommate was surprised by her because she spoken English very well. Her roommate wondered how she spoke English so well; she told her Nigeria…

Cataclysmic is that of the damage that society collectively has brought forth to both our inner and outer environments. The median size of a house in 2015 in the U.S.A was 2,467 square feet according to the Census Bureau and is only expected to grow. However, with all of this free space, one could shelter all the materials they do not actually use or just keep for the sentimental feeling brought upon by hedonistic materialism. Maybe store new five $100 dresses in an old dusty closet or maybe…

Blogs 1. Do you have a monkey mind? You may have heard the phrase monkey mind. What does it mean? The monkey mind is constantly busy moving from one idea to another. it is the conversation in our head, the worrying, the judging, the listmaking. there is nothing wrong with having a monkey mind, often we need to assess multiple things at one time. for example reading a person's body language while listening to their words and then flicking back to their powerpoint presentation. However, the…

book The Lord of The flies, by William Golding, Jack goes from being a good kid to more of a savage beast. Jack is like Ted Bundy in several ways. He begins as a average, intelligent young man, he gets a taste of what evil is like, and how evil overcomes all that they live for. Before I start talking about the similarities between these two, we must first know the background of Ted Bundy. According to biography.com, he was born in Vermont as his mother’s secret shame because she was not married…

In this Ted Talk, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie used a literary view to explain that we need to broaden our view of other cultures. She began by explaining that her literature exposure was limited to British authors who painted a simple picture of British culture. She found that this reading content was not relatable to her Nigerian nationality and culture. She explains that when she began reading novels by African authors, a mental shift began to happen. She said that by experiencing other,…

In Khan’s TED talk, he talked about how the instructors spend most of their time lecturing rather than providing one-on-one attention to their pupils and being able to answer all of their questions. He acknowledges that most students end up having gaps while learning…

interpret the world around them. We also project people a certain by what is said about them by people, the way the media portrays them, or simply by the way they look like on the outside. This is a thing called stereotyping or labeling of a person. In the TED Talk, which I very much enjoyed watching and listening to, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, a woman from Nigeria, who was living a middle-class life as a child, who is a writer and tells stories, talks about what a “single story” is and how…

of primary emotional components resulted in Ted doing these unthinkable things while still appearing like nothing was wrong on the outside. While living with his grandparents, Ted was exposed to violence by his grandfather and not receiving the affection from his mother that he so desperately needed. Consequently, this resulted in Ted acting out in the undesirable way that he did to achieve the emotional need that was not receiving (Black, 2016). When Ted was removed from his grandparents, his…

Famous Agents Some notable agents from the FBI I found are Melvin Purvis (Little Mel), Theodore Gunderson (Ted Gunderson), Joseph Dominick Pistone (Donnie Brasco), William Mark Felt, Sr. (Mark Felt) Melvin Purvis was born on October 24, 1903 and died on February 29, 1960. He received his degree in law from the University of South Carolina. He joined the FBI in 1927 and had been head of the Investigation Division offices in Birmingham, Oklahoma City, and Cincinnati. He was an FBI agent of high…

Theodore Robert Bundy (1946-1989) was an American serial killer who was responsible for the kidnap, rape and murder of at least 30 female victims over seven states in the 1970’s. He was put to death by means of the electric chair in Florida on January 24th 1989. Bundy was perceived as handsome and charming, traits that he abused in order to gain the trust of his young victims. He would usually approach his victims in broad daylight simulating injury or…