For this essay I’m going to write about the lecture yesterday night by Antoinette D. Carroll. This lecture was called “Designing Impact: Inclusion and Equity for Civic Change”. Carroll is the founder and CEO of Creative Reaction Lab. She is also a workaholic and a Ted fellow. Personally, I absolutely loved this lecture. At the beginning of the lecture, she asked the audience is we wanted to change the world and everyone raised their hand. She then asked if any of us thought we could or were changing the world and only two or three people raised their hands. I found this really interesting and it really set the mood for the rest of the lecture. She started out strong and got us interested immediately and kept our interest throughout the whole lecture which is rare. Throughout the lecture, she discussed her different projects and the different fails that a lot of the projects went through. Carroll talked about how failure is on a spectrum and the lessons …show more content…
Determine your mission, 2. Immerse yourself and be on the ground, 3. Collaborate, 4. Think participatory, 5. Consider the impact of diversity and equity, 6. Build and disrupt power with your expertise and share it, 7. Build authentic relationships with communities, 8. Work with humility and empathy, not one or the other. I really enjoyed hearing all of these. No other lecture has been like this one. She was really engaged with us as an audience which make the lecture personal to me. I felt so much more involved.. Not only her work, but her as a designer was inspiring to me. The final thing she said was “if you’re not happy with what you’re doing, you won’t be happy at home”. This really stuck with me because I constantly meet people who are just majoring in something for the money and that has always really confused me. Since I was little I have only ever been interested in jobs that I know I will enjoy. I’ve never been focused on the money part of
...les she had set for herself but she feels that she did a good job at her project. She was alarmed by the way that some of her co-workers lived and felt that she learned a lot from her experiences.
She then immediately follows up with a way to fix it and demand respect. Shes trying to connect with the audience and shows that she has been in the same place, that she can relate. You can see that she has done her research, she uses plenty of statistics to give you a visual of what she is talking about as well as quoting people from organizations and giving them the appropriate credit. She mentions in 2005 at yale, her alma mater, 15 students sat in the admissions office until they were removed by police. These individuals were demanding changes to the financial aid policy.
Annie Murphy Paul’s “Are College Lectures Unfair?” is a well-written research based argument, but is it solid? In her article she questions “Does the college lecture discriminate? Is it biased against undergraduates who are not white, male and affluent?” She spends the rest of her essay providing evidence that active learning would benefit students who are “female, minorities and low income first generation college students”, while passive learning provides a bases for discrimination against the under- privileged. Unfortunately, while making good points, her essay is unfair. I think she’s the one being biased. Her predisposed claim makes it seem like only the teachers are at fault for teaching their students in a passive way by providing such
Her slow yet concise way of speaking, coupled with easy to follow transitions allowed for a speech that was enjoyable to listen to. Her use of examples from her personal life allowed her audience to get a picture of who she was if they did not know, and allowed her to better relate to them by provided examples of how she is related to the college they are graduating from. Her reference to many modern political problems allowed her to bring up her important role as an activist and facilitated further understanding from the audience. While some areas of her speech were weak, such as the longer than needed pauses and her lack of consistent eye contact, to a few points where she didn’t speak clearly enough, the overall picture that was her speech was fairly strong. Looking at this speech, I hope to incorporate some aspects that I failed to include in my previous speeches. Some of these include her use of hand gestures to emphasize and exaggerate certain phrases and topics, and her combined use of appeals. While my initial thoughts going in were “This is boring” and “This is too slow”, it evolved into me wanting to hear more, and overall my defeat in the beginning turned into a victory at the
• Develop strategies to get the most effective support possible for your initiative and reduce any obstacles to successful implementation of your program.
Many of my friends pick their careers based on money and trade skills that they have. I am proficient in art and design, but didn’t feel like that was what I wanted to do for my career. Your career shapes a huge portion of your life. It is what you do every day, for a large portion of your life. It is what I have prepared for the past 12 or so years of my life. It is way more than just money or a skill. I wanted to do something unique, something interesting, something that would inspire me to be a better human, something that would make me feel, something that is challenging, something that helped others, and above all, something that was rewarding and made me feel fulfilled.
Her speech made me look at my social circle in a different way and encouraged me to become more aware of my thoughts and actions towards
He begins with a brief acknowledgement of Dr. Dorothy Pearson and her incredible contributions to social work. He then moved into discussing social justice and social equity to lay a definitional foundation for his lecture. He went on to say social justice is a process and not
Not only do we need to understand the ‘issue’ or ‘societal problem’ that many people face and are impacted by every day, but we need to meet and work alongside those whose daily realities are shaped by injustices, while not creating any divides or barriers in the process. Everyday people are affected by the issues that organizations fight for or against, and once we realize how people-centered things like advocacy, outreach and service are, I believe young people will realize their call to action and their potent...
he speech I choose was, "Looks aren't every. Believe me, I'm a model. " By Cameron Russel. At first look I feel like I am going to laugh even though her face seems like she is talking about something serious.
The view of her encouraging the teachers to encourage the students to explore and talk to each other stood out to me the most. The concept map was a really good idea too. It shows the teacher what the students need more help with and what they already know. The one thing I would change is interviewing the students more often. I feel by interviewing the students more often the teachers will have a better understanding of how the students are getting their answers.
It took me eighteen years to realize what an extraordinary influence my mother has been on my life. She' s the kind of person who has thoughtful discussions about which artist she would most want to have her portrait painted by (Sargent), the kind of mother who always has time for her four children, and the kind of community leader who has a seat on the board of every major project to assist Washington' s impoverished citizens. Growing up with such a strong role model, I developed many of her enthusiasms. I not only came to love the excitement of learning simply for the sake of knowing something new, but I also came to understand the idea of giving back to the community in exchange for a new sense of life, love, and spirit.
While Feinberg was not a name I was completely familiar with, I had faith that her talk would be greatly informative and
This relates to me in college right now by showing me that I face hard choices every day. For example in her Ted Talk she showed that breakfast could be a hard decision because while each on fills out what you want out of breakfast in different ways you have to go with what you want. This shows me that I make small choices in college that can be preparing me for bigger choices that I am going to make. This also relates to me right now because I am at the end of my college career so I am about to start making big choices that will affect my future life.
My favorite part of her speech was when she talked about emotional vomit. She said that when you feel physically sick, you throw up so that your body can get rid of the bad and start to rebuild itself. Emotions work the same way. We release our emotions so that we can build back up and become stronger. I never have thought about it this way and that it was pretty unique.