...shortened and how the current measures addressing adversities scrutinize people on the poor end of the gap are important concepts that were highlighted through the resources. After the data and arguments presented in Wilkinson’s TED Talk and his chapter with Kate Picket, there remain questions on the feasibility...
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...they need to succeed. They would start off with delivering farm inputs to rural places. First, they would buy farm inputs from their farmers network and store it in 20 warehouses. After they would rent out hundred's of 10-ton trucks to send out to farmers in the field. The farmers then would pick up their orders and bring it back to their farms. Farmers then pay in small amounts over a period of time, to cover the expenses of the delivery. The organization also provides training to farmers in the field every two weeks to gain knowledge and access on productive farming skills. The take-home message for Andrew Youn Ted Talks was that eliminating poverty and hunger can be very achievable with the help of spreading modern farming tools and knowledge to rural places. Esther Duflo is an economist who does field research to learn about social experiments to fight poverty. She first gave a big question of whether the aid we spent in the past has made a difference, however she was unable to answer that, we taught us to break down the big questions into smaller questions that we could answer. She then states that through experimenting and testing on social policy, we are able to see results that allow us to answer the smaller questions that can...
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...(https://www.ted.com/speakers/tan_le). In the video, “Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves”, it shows that a man, who is unable to walk, using the headset to control his wheel chair with his mind. This type of technology is important because it helps those who are unable to do things on their own and it also helps scientists to learn more about the human brain and the way it functions. Another aspect of changing social structures and relationships comes from education. Education helps shapes new minds and allows us to create the things we have today. In the video, “One laptop per child”, Nicholas Negroponte says that one of the basic principles and solutions to our biggest problems is that “the solution to poverty, peace, and environment is education” (https://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_negroponte_on_one_laptop_per_child). Education is not only one of the powerful tools in social change, also individual change. Without the...
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...business people do not and should not care about anything other than maximizing profit; otherwise they are not good business people. But now, especially after I encouraged myself to take some business courses at school (Business Ethics in particular), I am embarrassed to have to admit this because I realized that I was totally ignorant and biased to have such negative impressions on all the business people. According to Chimamanda Adichie’s words, I have been “reading a single story”. (Adichie, 2009) I found Adichie’s speech was a mind-blower to me. I have always considered myself to be more considerate and knowledgeable than others who are about my age and have similar amount of experience as I do. Even so, whenever people talk about Africa, poverty and epidemic of certain diseases always come into my mind first. I even tried to rationalize my opinion by searching for data from my limited book selections, which I realized later that I was merely using particular cases to generalize the whole, just as how unfairly I judged all business people. I also realized that I was caught up into the overconfidence cognitive bias by considering myself as more considerate and knowledgeable than my peers. It is lucky for me that I understand now how dangerous rationalization is and how difficult it is to avoid it...
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...Americans was raided by Dutch traders who stole each slave for themselves. Ever since 1619, the reoccurring issue of worldwide slavery continues and only shows signs of increasing numbers. Though passing laws helped abolish most slavery in the past, new methods for modern slavery push the effects of the laws to the side; however, with upcoming generation’s involvement a solution to abolish slavery entirely could be closer than society believes. By increasing our economy’s knowledge of what causes slavery, what slaveholders force their slaves to do, and how slavery affects everyone, a solution to slavery will begin to glimmer from its opaque shadows. According to Kevin Bales, who gave a speech on Ted Talk about slavery, the reasons for slavery include population expansion and extreme poverty. Around 1940, the world’s population accumulated to 2.3 billion which allowed only a few people to become enslaved for distribution to all slaveholders worldwide; however, around 1980 the population skyrocketed to 8.2 billion. Once the population struck 8.3 billion, slaveholders began buying and distributing many African...
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...resources are scarce, maybe there are too many people for too little things to work on, or maybe the problem is money itself. There are studies and ideas still today from top thinkers and revolutionaries like Thomas Paine whos ideas led the American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence who believed that the government was the solution to our problems, to Friedrich Hayek the Austrian economist and philosopher who believed that the government was actually the problem. These ideas have always come across our minds but we never think they are capable of happening. Its an idea that can give dignity to millions, an idea that can unite politicians and accomplished what we should have accomplished a long time ago and finally get rid of poverty. A basic income. A basic income for everyone means that it would be a right, just like the freedom of speech. It won’t be a favor, it will be given to everyone unconditionally, poor or wealthy, you would have it just the same. We will overcome insecurities as humans. We will have more power to work together than against each other. We will be free from the worries that money bombard us with. The US alone has an estimated population of 316 million people. In the year 2014 the IRS collected about 1.321 quadrillion dollars just in taxes. If you did the calculations and divided this sum into the...
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...Introduction/summary Speaker from Alabama Brian Stevenson, grew up with exposure to slavery founder + executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative Childhood I viewed the TED Talk given by Bryan Stevenson, who, along with having second-hand experience with slavery and its victims while growing up in the deep south, is the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, an organization whose focus is to combat discrimination within the justice system but also strives to lower prison populations, reduce sentences for nonviolent offenders, and abrogate capital punishment. The topic of his presentation is a call to action against the current divergence of equal justice by race and wealth and is accomplished with a strong statistical basis and a punctuation of anecdotes from his childhood and early career that highlight his experience in dealing with discrimination. Something I learned 1972, 300000 people imprisoned, now 2.3 million, 7 million on probation/parole ⅓ black men is in jail or parole 34% of African americans cannot vote in Alabama Life in prison for kids 1 out of 9 people on death row are innocent California spends $1b on death row per annum 11x more...
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...beginning of this war started with protest in Damascus about government corruption and human rights abuse, then started to grow substantially to other cities,. Then in March of 2011the Syrian government used deadly violence of the protestors in the country. Then the issue escalated when the protestors started to fight back later that year. In an article from the Syrian Arab News Agency they talk about how there army has killed 19 ISIS members in a recent attack they have been through. In the article they talk about how they killed some of ISIS's leaders during the...
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...Cost and EQuity in access paper by Gada Korayim UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDU 628 - Professor Tatiana Melguizo Due Date: March 8, 2015 Introduction The diversity of colleges in the higher education landscape stems from the diversity of missions. For one, the obstacles to innovation in higher education in the USA has been a debate for years. There are colleges that focus on liberal arts education as Dr. Liz Coleman (TED Talks) lectured during her speech about “Reinventing the Liberal Arts Education”. There are colleges that focus on career development. According to Fortino (2015), the university mission is “to create more prepared minds” to contribute to society by creating jobs and innovative opportunities that will improve economies. Fortino (2015) mentioned that the former President of Harvard University, Dr. Derek Bok, discussed the dangers of commercializing higher education when colleges and universities turn their attention to commercial development of their inventions. This apparently is what is being seen on campuses and in universities today. When the focus is placed on commercialization, universities are placed under pressure to produce output and seek profitable, income based outputs, and the main mission and vision of universities can fade and disappear. Governments provide funding to universities and provide laboratories, equipment, books, etc. The desired output is to produce students that have a commercial...
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...interested in reading about how Americans work for poverty level-wages. The intended audience for this book is the people in the middle class. In Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich says that she is a successful writer, with money in her bank account and having some money left over and she wanted to show people that it’s not easy living off the low wages that most Americans have. She states that, “With all the real-life assets I’ve built up in middle age-bank account, IRA, health insurance, multiroom home-waiting indulgently in the background… straightforward and objective-just to see whether I could match income to expenses, as the truly poor attempt to do every day”(11). The author wanted to have an experience of how the blue-collar workers live and when she was finished she wanted to present the information to the middle class, so they can see that being a low wage earner is not at all easy. In order for people to listen what she has to say about the low-wage earner, she needs to experience what people experience that way people in the middle class can pay attention to what she has to say, because she is a middle class person who decided to try to be a person from the low-wage. The purpose of this book is to let people know that there are people out there living in poverty because they are working for poverty level-wages. There’s apart in the book that struck me and that’s: “What is harder for the nonpoor to see is poverty as acute distress: The lunch that consists of Doritos...
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...The words used to describe those living with disabilities focus on what they cannot do instead of focusing on what they can do. (Hyatt, 2005, Withers, 2012). This can have a detrimental affect on how others see people with disabilities as well as how they see themselves. I had never really looked at the negative impact language can have in terms of disability but while reading Hyatt’s article, I came to understand how this “language is used as a way to control, dominate, and subtly or blatantly discriminate” (Hyatt, 2005, p. 13). Mullins TED talk also raised the issue of the negative language used by society in reference to people with disabilities. I thought her speech was both empowering and inspirational. Interestingly, it was not until reading the group posts that I was made aware of how Mullins, who is an attractive, middle-class white woman with a supportive family, did not face many of the intersecting marginalization’s, such as poverty, racism, classism, that other people with disabilities face. This shows me I need to practice my critical analysis more thoroughly and adopt a more critical lens when viewing the world. The term disability is so broad, including (and excluding) many people with different physical, intellectual, mental and emotional issues. Having one label that adequately covers the entire population of “disabled people” is unrealistic and impractical. I feel as though I have already acquired not only a better understanding of the oppressions people with...
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...Analysis of ted hughes poetry, and his life work. Along with sylvia plath's The Issues that Happened behind Poetries in Contemporary Era In this scientific work, I want to analyze four poems in the contemporary era. The works are: The seven sorrows condensed from Ted Hughes, at grass by Philip Larkin, September 1913 and the stolen child by William Butler Yeats. The four poetries that appeared in the 20th Century, From the beginning of 20th Century like William Butler Yeats till the middle of 20th Century like Ted Hughes and Philip Larkin. As we know that William Butler Yeats’s poetries existed in the First World War at that time, poets did a lot of experiments in writing their literary works. They concentrated more on technique in writing their literary works. Meanwhile, Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes created poem the World War II, whereas nowadays, poets, do not focus on confusing technique but more at content and meaning that is easier to be understood by the readers. Now, I want to analyze symbol in the poem related with the issue that happens to the real fact or the real situation at that time. Now, I want to analyze a poem titled “The Seven Sorrows” written by Ted Hughes. We can see from the first stanza namely, the word “autumn”, this word symbolizes sadness, probably sadness that is felt by the writer. In that stanza, I found a phrase “a brown poppy head”. This phrase symbolizes something that long drawn out that has not disappointed from...
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...During a 2009 TED talk titled “The Danger of a Single Story,” Nigerian immigrant Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie spoke about her perception of the world as a child and how the world perceived her as she grew older. Adichie recalls her intellectual curiosity and how it drew her to literature. This curiosity resulted in her learning to read and write at an early age. The books she read were set in Britain and America, cultures far different from what she was accustomed to. The only information Adichie had about the West sat between two covers of a book. This constrained look gave her a stereotypical perspective of life in America. When she moved to the United States, the perception that the American people had of Nigerians surprised her. As she develops her contention, Adichie walks listeners through her childhood in Nigeria, her move to the United States, and how both offered her a unique perspective on how two vastly different cultures perceived each other....
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...Charities are outmoded institutions that have no contribution to make to modern society. What is needed are social enterprises. Discuss. Introduction In this essay I will start by looking at definitions of both “Charities” and “Social Enterprises” before going on to look at a short history of the development of the voluntary sector in the UK. I will then move on to examine the arguments suggesting that charities have become outmoded and the perceived benefits of social enterprises as an alternative approach. In the final section I attempt to critically assess these arguments and to draw some conclusions. Some definitions Charities are essentially organisations established to provide some form of public good, with most of their funding being generated through donations from individuals, companies or government departments. In the UK a charity must be registered with the Charity Commission and the purposes of the charity must meet the “public benefit requirement”. Its purposes will be defined in its governing document or constitution, and ALL of its purposes must be exclusively charitable. This is the main distinction between charities and social enterprises. This latter term is used to describe a wide range of organisations which are run as businesses (and often constituted as companies rather than charities) but don’t exist purely to make money for their stakeholders. Instead they have other goals such as to benefit the community, the environment or any other social interest...
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...own a 48% stake, have been bashed in the media time and time again for “failing America.” Applause must be given to the Mega Corporation, they came from being just one department store to a multi-billion dollar corporation however, the treatment of Wal-Mart’s employees and the greediness of Wal-Mart’s owners combine to make it a monster corporation with negative effects on both individuals and competing companies. To be reasonable, we must touch on the benevolence of Wal-Mart because to be a $465 billion dollar corporation they must be doing something correct, right? The children of Wal-Mart's founder, Sam Walton, in contrast to its workers, are billionaires. Does that make them greedy or just lucky? They would not talk to ABC News on the topic but billionaire Ted Turner an American media mogul and philanthropist who is known as founder of the cable news network CNN, the first...
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