How do they hook you?

4/24/2017

Find a TedTalks seminar that speaks to you. Provide specifics on interesting points made within the performance. Name two rhetorical strategies(including one of the appeals - logos, pathos, ethos - and one other device we have studied this year) the presenter uses to engage his/her audience and explain the effectiveness of each. Add link to it under "website."

*Please include the title of the talk in your response so that your reader knows the topic before clicking on your link.

Due: Wednesday 4/26 - at least 8 sentences for full credit (50 HW pts)

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Aimee Bachman link

4/25/2017 10:09:35 pm

The TedTalk that I choose is called The Voices in My Head.
Eleanor Longden telling her story about her schizophrenia, from what started as subtle voices to literally a painful hole in her head. Although schizophrenia is different for everyone, this is her story, and she's the one telling it which show pathos. And mostly ethos, in which is from her struggles during college. Example of how bad the voiced got, they told her to do something she'd do it. It started with ripping three pieces of hair out. Then pouring a glass of water onto her teacher's head, of course it's not like she could control it, especially when those voices promised her a better life. One must also remember she didn't like the voices either, she attempted to drill a hole in her head to get them out. But it's not the emotional struggle that really catches the audience, But they way she coop with it. How she pulled herself up, not concurring in but putting herself in control of it.

Justin Waehler

4/26/2017 10:37:44 am

The ted talk I chose is a video game that copes with grief. The game is called That Dragon CancerIt is about Amy Green's game about her son Joel, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The game is played through the perspective a struggling family, and a dying son. Joel is depicted as a knight, and cancer is depicted as cancer. Her ted talk appears to mostly pathos, as it is obviously talking about cancer, which yes, shouldn't be seen as entertaining, she made a game that, as she describes it, a game that is hard to play, in an emotional way. She is also surprisingly positive throughout the talk, as she is talking about cancer which isn't a very easy thing to talk about. It appeals to ethos because Amy brings up the point that cancer is not a game and shouldn't be seen or depicted as one, she argues that since her son was so young, everything about children is seen as a game. Her game also won an award at the game awards. It appeals to pathos because in the presentation, she shows clips from the game, and it is very accurate to what she describes in her story, and it does a great job at showing what she and her family went through. Cancer shouldn't be seen as a game, but the game that Amy Green and Numinous games created shows us what it is like to see a struggling family, and the stages of cancer in a child. You would never expect something as difficult to talk about as cancer being depicted in a video game of all things, but her game is a very nice tribute to her son.

Sarah Kassery link

4/26/2017 10:54:49 am

The Ted Talk I chose is entitled "Beats that Defy Boxes". In this talk, wildly successful musician Reggie Watts essentially pariodies a Ted Talk. Through intense diction that makes no sense with random songs intertwined, Reggie purposefully tries to disorient you. While a regular talk would enlighten you on a situation, Watts is able to confidently get on stage and talk a bunch of nonsense. He starts off by talking in a different language- perhaps to give the allusion that his speech will be meaningful, and switches halfway to English. This throws the auidence for a loop, and as he continues to use complicated diction, it seems as though he's still speaking a different language. He then changes the tone and drops his voice an octave and over-simplifies his words to add humor. He quickly launches into beatboxing, which disorients the audience even more. He proved that it's easy to manipulate an audience through words and music, which was the major takeaway from the presentation. His use of humor brings it home and made it a genius talk about nothing.

Earl Curnan

4/26/2017 11:06:14 am

The Ted talk I has chosen to do was Breaking the language barrier | Tim Doner | TEDxTeen 2014. Now overall this video stars a teenager, Tim Doner, who is gifted a speaking multiple languages including languages as different as French and Arabic. In this video he uses logos as an example very creatively. Which was "But that taught me the basics of how to break down sound. How to pick up a foreign sound or accent,” He also used a metaphor which included that learning a language can be as hard as concrete. Which overall is really creative in my opinion. I absolutetly loved this video so much!

Matthew J McGuire link

4/26/2017 06:29:51 pm

I chose the ted talk "Do Schools Kill Creativity?" because I'am intrested in the topic.This TED talk speaks about how every one has an intresting education and the unpredictablity of education for the future. He goes on to talk about how schools wreck the creativity of the young mind. He uses an Anicdote that tells a story to pull at our "heartstrings". He backes up the story with some real life facts. Throughtout the talk he makes the crowd laugh to keep them on the reel. The teller says he teaches the kids from the waist up to there head. Inffering that the teachers are the product of the future.

Dylan pudelka

4/27/2017 09:20:09 am

I choose the ted talk A simple birth kit for mothers in the developing world I choose this because I thought it was a good topic. This video kept me engaged because she made you feel sad for these mothers and she said what would happened if this was you and it just made me think and feel guilty that we don't think about this stuff more.

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