Find a TedTalks seminar that speaks to you. Provide specifics on interesting points made within the performance. Name two rhetorical strategies the presenter uses to engage his/her audience and explain the effectiveness of each.
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Matthew Gramesty
4/9/2014 12:52:43 pm
I watched the Ted show "DNA Vending Machine." Two rhetorical strategies that he uses during this is the use of toys, and bringing it into the now. What i mean by bringing it into the now is to actually put DNA into the vending machines and sell it. now i know you are thinking and saying why would i ever put my DNA into a vending machine and sell it, but it is really helping biotechnology today. Now i also said that he is using things or toys. What i mean by that is he is using a vending machine instead of just selling them that way you can also see it ad say what is that without an explanation. The vending machines also help because everyone uses them. So if you are walking by you see it and want to get it i bet if a child was walking by he would see it not even knowing what it is and want to buy it. This Ted video talked about science but also some humor which made the video enjoyable for me to watch.
Gianna DeAngelis
4/10/2014 03:55:36 am
The TedTalks seminar that I have viewed was Ken Robinson's: How School Kills Creativity. He uses a wide array of rhetorical strategies to prove his point to the audience. One of them, being an allusion to a quote from famous artist, Pablo Picasso, "All children are born artists, the problem is to remain an artist when we grow up", which is everything that he is trying to put forth in his speech in just one sentence. And another is how he poses a rhetorical question to the audience "I lived in a town outside of Stratford- Snitherfield- Shakespeare lived there- you never thought of Shakespeare having a father, did you?- You never thought of Shakespeare actually being a child- I never thought of it- I mean he was in somebody's English class wasn't he?" (Ken Robinson) This question asks the audience, a question that we usually overlook, we forget about childhood-- its like all that matters is one's adult life. Some interesting points that Ken made in his speech was that "There's a hierarchy within the subjects first comes mathematics and language, then the humanities, and at the bottom are the arts everywhere on earth.
Jonathan Guilherme
4/10/2014 06:24:58 am
I watched the video on Ted called "Hidden Miracles of the Natural World. One of the rhetorical strategies the presenter used was alliteration. He said "We can do the same with ships at sea." He was repeating the sound "S" almost as to stress how a lot of things that are too slow for the human eye to see, are the same. Another rhetorical device is a hyperbole. He used this when he said, that a electron microscope can increase our vision so we can see things a billion times smaller than us. He engaged me as a viewer by putting in images and videos that an audience would find interesting or can relate to. He included a video showing how much travel is done by air, sea and land, which most of us can relate, because we travel like that daily. He shows how fast technologie is advancing and how advanced we are. 4/10/2014 08:43:43 am
I found interest in a video about mental illnesses. Ruby Wax, the speaker in this film had an interesting way of grabbing her audiences attention. Ruby, herself, has a mental illness, but from her speech you would not have known unless she told you. Ruby starts her talk by making small jokes with the audience and making fun of the front row. She immediately grabbed the attention of the audience. She then goes on by explaining the different forms of mental illnesses. Ruby discussed the parts of the brain and what they allow us to do. Throughout the talk, Ruby cracked small jokes that brought back the audiences attention. Ruby used actual drawings to display how our brain isn't equipped for the 21st Century. She adds that she drew them herself, which gave a giggle since they looked like they were drawn by a toddler. Ruby eluded to other parts of the body that are sympathized when sick, and how the brain normally receives no sympathy. What Ruby was trying to convey was that most humans use mental illnesses as a joke, that they don't take them seriously. She even mentioned that as a mental patient being bullied, your pets are happier than you. That is what struck me. No matter who you are or how your brain functions you deserve to be happy. You deserve the right of happiness, to live life to the fullest. And most importantly, mental illness patients shouldn't be afraid to express who they really are because of fear to be bullied. Everyone deserves the right of happiness and life no matter how your brain functions. Period. 4/10/2014 09:22:26 am
This video is explaining love. It speaks to me and I’m sure to other people also because, love is something that is relatable to everyone. It’s also interesting to know how it works when people fall in love and what happens to your brain when you do. The speaker also did research on what occurs when you fall out of love or are dumped. The video explains the chemical side of it along with the emotional and romantic parts to love. She grabs the audience starting off by reading a short story about a ruler and his wife, she follows this with some stats on love and how it exists in all societies. Before she starts to discuss the science side of things she reads a very well written love poem, she keeps her audience in tuned by doing so. As she begins to share her results she refers back to the poem and makes the connection between the passion and the science behind it all so that the audience is understanding her purpose. The speaker also refers to cliché sayings on loves to make her point. Through her talk she constantly refers to great writers and philosophers after explaining the scientific side to it all allowing her audience to stay focused along with understanding her.
Jenna R
4/10/2014 09:36:35 am
I watched the video "Its time for "the Talk" on the website Ted. It was about a mother having to explain sex to her 8 year old daughter. This was appealing because it was very humormous. She started off with saying how her daughter was doing her HW for school about frogs and laying eggs. This led into the child being curious of how humans "lay eggs" and get pregnant in the first place. Soon she wanted to know how animals mate and the mother showed her videos of it to her. After she watched the videos she asked her mother if humans mating would be online, this got me laughing and was very funny to watch. The 2 rhetorical strategies used were logos and pathos. Logos deals with logic and the logic of this was both the information she was giving her child and how logical it is for a mother to be nervous about giving her child "the talk" at such a young age. The daughter (who wasn't there but im assuming) took the topic very well and was simply curious to get her logical explanation of the topic. The second strategy is pathos which deals with emotion. The emotional part which made it very engaged was the fact that the mother was so worried about giving too much information, or making it akward for her daughter. This is engauging because most people have to go through this in there lives so it is very emotionally relatable, and you get the feeling as if you can picture the story happening. Therefore these are the rhetorical strategies used.
Michael Braley
4/10/2014 09:40:14 am
I watched the Ted talks "The Art of Bow-Making". Two rhetorical devices Dong Woo Jang uses are talking about his personal life and that people are stereotypical. He talks about how Obama comments on how most people do work or mess around in their spare time. But Jang simply makes bows. He thinks he picked bow because his caveman instinct was related to the art work of Bows n' Arrows. He jokes around with the crowd about working all day and night on the sticks he found until they were bows and one time he set his work place on fire. I find that the way he related the bows to himself and his ancestors gave him confidence in helping him prove his worth in talking about his bows. Then he finish with "the information in my mind is now in yours". which got me thinking that what he talked about was how he enjoyed his bows not how they ended up.
Brittany Licursi
4/10/2014 09:57:37 am
A seminar in Ted talks that had got my attention was "Can the Damaged brain repair itself". I find an interest in this topic because I have gotten a concussion and it now holds me back from doing specific things. I am now not able to catch for softball which I really loved doing. I can not take the risk of getting concussed again and getting even more of a brain injury that could potentially affect the rest of my life. Siddharthan Chandran talk about the brain can repair itself, it makes this seminar so interesting by using pathos. He tells the story of a man with brain complications who is not able to opperate or live normally. He connects this story to what if this is someones father or brother, showing this is someones family member and he is loved by many people. This method makes you understand how important brain injuries are and how it can affect you loved ones, it must be something that can be fixed. he explains how devastating it is and there are no cures, but the hope is the brain can repair itself. He refers to the stories of real people that many people can relate to. The speaker also uses logos, he uses scientific facts to further prove his point showing what he is saying is true. he explains the certain cells that can harness the powers of stem cells to make the repairs of the brain even stronger. He uses diagrams and pictures if brains demonstrating what parts repair and what must be repaired. https://www.ted.com/talks/siddharthan_chandran_can_the_damaged_brain_repair_itself#t-310780
Nicole
4/10/2014 10:50:13 am
I watched "Psychedelic Science". This video was basically a man creating art with science. Art is a very important part of my life and by the speaker/photographer/artist, Fabian Oefner, using science to create such beautiful pieces it made it a hundred times more interesting than if he was to just sit down and draw a picture. While speaking, Oefner used rhetorical devices such as humor and rhetorical questions to engage his audience. By using humor he was able to relate to his audience and make his speech less boring and more intriguing; well at least I was intrigued. Rhetorical questions were often made during this talk in order to emphasize the idea being discussed and to have the audience think of obvious answers. By having the audience thinking of these answers, it gets them to have an interaction with the speaker. Oefner also used live demonstrations to have the audience become more aware of his points and passion for this work, which makes them sit up in their seat and really take in the entire idea and perspective of his art. Oefner concluded his speech with "I am trying to use these (scientific) phenomena and show them in a poetic and unseen way and therefore invite the viewer to pause for a moment and think about all the beauty that is constantly surrounding us", and by using rhetorical devices in his speech he has opened up my eyes to how beautiful the world is. I now have a new perspective on life and science and am really glad I was able to see this video.
Jordan Ciampi
4/10/2014 12:29:15 pm
I watched the video where the man had lost his legs in a mountain accident, due to frost bit. The two rhetorical strategies were ethos and pathos.Ethos is credibility and Pathos is emotional. The way that he used his credibility to his advantage is because he really knew what hewas ttalking about cause he is in the biotic legs. He used an emotional advantage because he showed pictures of him when he had no legs. This makes the viewers feel bad for him and they show how no how much better he can get around . This video spoke to me because it really shows me how much better technology has gotten and it will be able to help a lot of people. For example someone that lost there legs will be able to walk with everyone else. This will be life changing for someone and is very helpful.
Jason Cadilek
4/10/2014 01:10:33 pm
A video that spoke to me was "Pop an ollie and innovate." This video was done by Rodney Mullen, who is considered the god father of street skating. He is also my idle, which makes one strategy ethos which is because he is a pro skater and he is credible on the topic. This was affective during the speech because the audience knows he is an expert on the topic. Another rhetoric strategy was a simile comparing skateboarders to computer hackers, not in the sense that they're bad people but that they like to manipulate things to be original or an invention. This was affective because he explained that some things computer hackers do are not always bad. He told that they could make certain things more stable and or safe. Also interesting parts of the performance were when he showed videos of him skating from his childhood/career. This helped engage the audience because it allowed them to better understand how great he is at skating. He also used humour when talking about how he gets in trouble with cops a lot.
Anthony D'Amico
4/25/2014 12:46:01 am
The video I watched was on John Wooden, a basketball coach who is considered the greatest college coach of all time. They have an award for the best college player in the country called the John Wooden Award. It awards players for their hard work and dedication to what they love. His video I watched is called "The Difference Between Winning and Succeeding" Coach Wooden preaches that he wants success more so then winning. With success comes winning but with winning is guaranteed success. During the video, Coach Wooden foreshadowed that he will retire the most successful coach in all of college basketball. He purposely didn't say most winning because success is more praised then winning therefore John Woodens opinion is very credible and a good motivational video to watch. Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
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