Lauren Zalaznick’s Ted Talk: The Conscience of Television is descriptive and explanatory as she incorporates the idea that televisions have a conscience. The speaker explains how television reflects the moral, political, social, and emotional need our nation. Zalaznick gets into the topic of evolution in order to show how human beings are separated from the animal kingdom simply because we love to be entertained.
To begin with, the narrator provides research and graphs to show how people feel as they watch different shows. Furthermore, she gets into other research about television, except this time about interests, for instance, inspiration state and moral ambiguity state, comfort, social commentary, and irrelevance, and fantasy and imagination.
The rhetorical occasion of this excerpt is to inform others about the dangers of chemicals on earth’s vegetation and animal life.
Not only educational shows accomplish these goals, but fictional television programs can often incorporate information that requires viewers to grapple with a topic using logical reasoning and a global consciousness. In addition, not to diminish the importance of reading, television reaches those who may never pick up a book or who might struggle with reading problems, enabling a broader spectrum of people to interact with cognitive topics. Veith has committed the error of making generalizations about two forms of media when, in truth, the situation varies depending on quality and content. However, what follows these statements is not just fallacious, but
In Jane McGonigal’s Ted Talk, “The game that can give you ten extra years of life” explains how she created a game called “Jane the Concussion Slayer” to help her overcome a concussion that didn’t heal properly. McGonigal describes to her audience the different levels and power-ups she created to make herself feel better. In doing so, she believed it helped her tackle challenges with more creativity, determination, and optimism. McGonigal then concludes her speech and challenges her audience to create their own game to add years to their lives. Taking away from this video, I have decided to create my own game so I can have a good and productive fall semester by creating “Power Points” to help me stay an organized and determined college student.
It is only human to be biased. However, the problem begins when we allow our bigotry to manifest into an obstacle that hinders us from genuinely getting to know people. Long time diversity advocate, Verna Myers, in her 2014 Ted Talk, “How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them” discusses the implicit biases we may obtain when it comes to race, specifically black men and women. Myers purpose is quite like the cliché phrase “Face your fears.” Her goal is to impress upon us that we all have biases (conscious or unconscious). We just have to be aware of them and face them head on, so that problems such as racism, can be resolved. Throughout the Ted Talk, Verna Myers utilizes an admonishing yet entertaining tone in order to grasp our attention
Oprah Winfrey is an American proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer and philanthropist, but most of all Oprah Winfrey is a powerful speaker. Oprah has been an inspiring part of many who need her words of wisdom to get through a tough day. What makes her so inspiring is the way she speaks. Oprah always speaks in such a way that she gets her audiences to feel and act upon her ideas without having to bring it out in black and white. As in her Golden Globes speech Oprah invites the audience to tell their own truths regardless of the risk it may hold without having to literally come straight out and say it. Oprah is a phenomenal speaker who uses personal anecdote, imagery, and historical allusions to argue about race and gender representation in Hollywood, the need for free press, and the importance of speaking out against harassment and assault.
After Watching Carol Dweck’s Ted Talk I realized how our lives as students would be so much easier if schools used the “not yeat” technique except, it comes with some downsides because if you tell someone “not yet” it might defeat their confidence if they have tried several times before.
Philanthropist, Oprah Winfrey, in her Eulogy, commends Rosa Parks as she will always be remembered for making history for African American people even if she has passed away. Winfrey’s purpose is to tell the world the difference Rosa Parks made not only for African Americans but to everyone else as well. She establishes this by utilizing tone, repetition and pathos in order to express that Rosa Parks left a mark in this world in such a courageous way.
At one point Ellen DeGeneres got kicked off of a talk show, but it wasn’t for her performance, it was because she came out as lesbian and the talk show did not accept that. But instead of giving up, Ellen decided to take her career in her own hands by doing that she raised to fame years later. But how did she come from being at rock bottom to an inspiration to so many? It was a journey but in order to inspire, Ellen persuaded the audience to stay true to themselves by using pathos and ethos.
Media has become a huge part of our lives and society by impacting our life every day, whether it be with social networking, news or television.Television has become a predominant factor today, by just checking what’s going on in the world or catching your favorite show. Many shows may not seem like there’s a broader meaning behind it, but if you look you can find one. C. Wright Mills describes the sociological imagination as the ability to see and understand the connection between individual lives and events and larger social forces. One television show that is a good example of the sociological imagination is Full House. This show is a good example because it has characters that express different views on parenting or on how to live; the sociological concepts tie well with what Danny is believing and how he views the world. Also, C. Wright Mills’ perception of this theory is how Danny is acting towards the situation he is in.
Holding the title of aunt since the mere age of thirteen and being a daughter I have really observed parenting in various situations. From an outside perspective I think parents sometimes get too caught up in wanting to shape their children to become the best person they can be that they often forget that their children are just that “children” and that in reality their behavior is natural. Jennifer senior mentions in her Ted Talk “…I do think that in our desperate quest to create happy kids, we may be assuming the wrong moral burden. It strikes me as a better goal, and, dare I say, a more virtuous one, to focus on making productive kids and moral kids, and to simply hope that happiness will come to them by virtue of the good that they do and their accomplishments and the love that they feel from us.” Which I think sums up parenting which wanting to discipline your children so they can go out to the world prepared but we tend to magnify their mistakes instead of optimizing
Having no charge on your phone, having a bad hair day, failing a test, not having enough cats. These seem to be the major plights in our life. However, there are more extreme situations that can arise, and although we are unaccustomed to having to prepare for life and death situations, we should know what it takes to be a survivor. In in a TED Talk, Hyeonseo Lee recounts her harrowing journey fleeing from a famine ridden North Korea and trying to bring her family with her. In his autobiography, Aron Ralston narrates his story of how he survived in a remote canyon with his hand pinned beneath ½ ton of rock for 6 never-ending gruesome days. Additionally, Suzanne Collins tells a story of a girl, Katniss Everdeen, who has been picked to compete in a death match called
The Ted Talk with Laura Hill focused on eating disorders, especially anorexia nervosa. The talk begins with food being fundamental to everyone. However, there are individuals who are suffering from not being able to eat as they are starving. These individuals are specifically suffering from an eating disorder, which is anorexia nervosa. Individuals who suffer from this eating disorder will become disturb from a noise. In order to focus, they will not eat to help them not be bother by the sound. However, they are starving themselves and it is not good for their body to be continuously starve. This action will change the way a person’s body function eventually to different side effects. Laura Hill also mentions that by refeeding people with anorexia can be painful as they will notice the increase of the noise. However, this is the only way to help them regain the lost weight from starving.
In what is considered one of the best speeches ever given, Hillary Clinton makes a case for women’s rights. This event was hosted to “bring new dignity and respect to women and girls all over the world” (americanrhetoric.com). Clinton is effective not only presenting here argument to a diversity of audiences, but in capturing the emotions of the audience while also building her credibility.
In Scotland, summer of 2012, Melissa Marshall spoke at a TED Talk titled “Talk Nerdy to me”. In this short and direct speech, she illustrated to the audience the importance of being knowledgeable of what was occuring in the scientific field. Coinciding with that, she said that scientists should want and need to make that knowledge accessible and comprehensible to the public. In her mind, it would be beneficial to everyone if scientists involved the public in discoveries about great issues in our world such as health care, the environment, energy resources, etc. In order to build a bridge of communication, Marshall outlined some general tips for scientists and engineers on how to better bring the public into their wonderland.
In today’s society the public is interested in the detailed information about the content of television. Persons who work in the media are often concerned with what the television portrays and why it portrays the way it does. Even though they know that their shows are representative to their viewers tastes and not that of the “real world.'; Although this information is not acknowledged as fiction or non-fiction it is still portrayed and processed information by the viewer. One must be able to realize, “How this information is different from everyday life?'; By mocking a family, situation, or community, distortions and biases occur on the television when these subjects are compared to “real life.'; Still unsure of these problems the majority of humans watch even when they don’t understand – why?