Monday, May 2, 2011

TED Talk 7: Becky Blanton "The Year I Was Homeless".

Questions:
1. What are your take-aways from this video?
That there is ALWAYS someone worse off than you are. This is what my parents always told me when I was younger. When we want to complain about whats wrong in our lives, we need to take a look around us.

2. What are the speaker's effective speaking techniques?
She is calm and not emotional as some people telling this story might be. It shows that she is a strong and confident person/journalist.

3. What is his/her presentation style?
She reads from her notes to keep her on track. She also looks out and makes eye contact to make the audience feel like a part of it.

4. What matters from this video? How does it connect to you personally? To education? To the world?
What matters is how well she handled this situation she had to go through. To me, it means I should look at my life more carefully if I am going to sit and complain, when there are people going through worse...I don't feel okay doing that. To education it means that kids need to take the same approach with bullying as adults need to take towards the homeless. We look down on those who are different from us, and it's never okay whether you are an adult to student. To the world...it means that we need to think more carefully about, well, everything. As a world, as multiple nations and countries, cities and towns, down to every community and household, we need to just treat the other 7 billion people in the world with the same respect we expect and deserve from them.

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