My TED talk is about a man named Shaka Senghor and this particular video really intrigued me he has a very interesting story behind it. In 1991 at the age of 19 Senghor shot and killed a man. He described himself as " a young drug dealer with a short temper and a semi-automatic pistol". He had dreams of becoming a doctor and then it soon went the wrong direction and was in the streets selling drugs. His life as a teenager was pretty rough, his parents separated and eventually divorced and that caused him to do the wrong things in life. At the age of 17 Senghor was shot three times and was rushed to the hospital were they removed the stitches, patched him up, and eventually got sent home. Fourteen months later, at approximately 2:00 a.m Senghor shot and killed a man with a semi-automatic pistol. The next day he was sent to a prison and as he was entering he was angry, hurt, and had a bitter feeling. He blamed everyone for his actions and didn't want to take any responsibility for what he had done. He had dealt with abuse and wasn't the happiest person outside of jail or even inside. So many emotions and feelings were going through his head. One day as he was pacing back and forth around his cell he seen a police officer handing out mail, and when he was handed a letter he could see his sons signature and at that moment he had weird gut feeling. And in that letter his son had found out what Senghor did and with these words Senghor decided to make a change and in that letter his son wrote " Dad don't kill. God is watching you. Pray to him" As Senghor was thinking about all his past decisions and decided to make the right choices. He talked to mentors, began writing in a journal,and turning his life around. He decided to move forward and forgive himself for his past mistakes, he was a young troubled teen who didn't know any better and who didn't have the proper mindset.Many people had forgave him even one of the victims family member. In 2010 after serving 20 years Senghor was released and began to better himself. What I learned from this video was no matter what you did whether it's good or bad, nothing defines you and you can always move on from it. With hope things will progress and you can start bettering your future because your worst deed will not and can not define YOU. If you would like to watch a video about how you can move past your worst situations or experiences this video would give you a couple of ideas and can probably help you out so I would definitely recommend this video.
My TED talk video is about " How prisons can help inmates live meaningful lives". Dan Pacholke followed his father's footsteps and decided to work in the Department of Corrections. Pacholke was curious about how it was like to work at a prison so he took himself to the prison his father worked at. After his first experience Pacholke decided to become a corrections officer and ended up working in the prison for 30 years. When he first started working there he notice that inmates were loud, cells were filthy, and there was a lot of violence between inmates. Pacholke wanted to changed everything and make the prison a cleaner,quieter, and safer place; So he began to train a team of officers instead of small number of groups. Pacholke also removed toilets from the cells so inmates can be in a clean living environment, aside from the missing toilets they're were less inmates per cell because of this, cells are less crowded and its much safer. Pacholke was reassigned to another prison and there he was asked a question , "Could inmates live meaninful lives in prison?" and there he met an ecologist and they both came up with idea to allow inmates help the environment. They taught them the aspects of nature and how to save the trees. Little things like this began to change the entire prison and with this inmates began to change. They're behavior began to progress and so did the prison and from what I learned in this TED talk video is that there's always a way to get through things, it may take some time but with small changes things will slowly but surely progress. This may not be the video for you if you're not interested in this topic but if you are definitely check this video out!
In my ted talk video Monica Lewinsky was talking about the price of shame and what she had done that had caused her to be silent for so long. Monica Lewinsky was the woman who had an inappropriate relationship with President Bill Clinton in 1998. Through out the years she had dealt with "slut shaming" and during the hard times Lewinsky felt as if she had no hope. She called herself "patient zero" because of "losing a personal reputation on a global sale almost instantaneously", this situation costed her a lot because she lost her job in the white house and lost friends and family members. To make things worse, Lewinsky's private phone calls, pictures, words, and actions were released to the public without consent. In 2010 social media was born, Monica felt humiliated, hurt, and ashamed for what she had done and social media wasn't making anything better. Many people were dealing with similar situations like Lewinsky and not only would it be aired on television it would also be posted on the internet. One night Lewinsky was on the phone with her mother and they were talking about a young college freshman who went to Rutgers University and his name was Tyler Clementi. His roommate at the time had secretly put a webcam on Tyler's computer and was recording without Tyler's acknowledgement , with him being intimate with another man. Tyler then committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge on September 22, 2010 at the age of 18. This situation really hit Lewinsky's mother and Lewinsky herself because they both felt as if they were reliving 1998. The internet has many positive outcomes such as saving lives and launching new revolutions, and the negative side of the internet is the cyber bullying and humiliation of some people. Cyber bulling usually has the strongest effect towards kids and some are so humiliated or hurt that they feel as if they can't live to the next day and some tragically don't. Parents usually don't realize how much pain and humiliation their child has suffered until it was too late. In the 1990"s being humiliated for something you had done would only echo to your friends, family, or town, but now since the internet had been born public humiliation can be shared with the online community. Lewinsky says we need to be more compassionate towards others and shaming people online and in public needs to come to an end. The amount of clicks is the amount of humiliation that someone has faced on the internet and the outcome to that is shaming. Researchers claimed that 80% of suicides are mostly because of online bullying. The stop of shaming can only stop if we make an end to online bullying and slut shaming. Everyone makes mistakes and we should help and try to cure one another instead of jabbing them with hurtful words, if we don't start making the right decisions then who knows what the future holds. If you are interested in making a change then yes I would recommend this video.
From the TED talk video, Bill Gates was discussing about the next possible outbreak and if we have all the correct things to keep it from spreading. For example in 2014 there was a deadly case of Ebola from West Africa that had worked its way up to many different regions. Health care workers did a tremendous job to keep it from spreading any further and surprisingly we dodged a big epidemic that could've killed millions of people around the world.
So do we have all the right necessities for the next outbreak? Health care workers , blood transfusions , vaccines , is this enough to stop an outbreak? In the TED talk video Bill Gates was discussing about the Ebola epidemic and how we could have done a better job. the virus crushed health systems and economies from the African Nations. If we don't start planning now the next outbreak can be far worse that's why its time to make a change now. With the recent virus (Ebola 2014) the first wrong step we made was sending very little heath care workers , there were not enough workers to treat every Ebola patient and therefore many people lost their lives. There were no blood testing and there was no research to what was keeping survivors alive. There were no research on where the virus came from and how far it had spread and there were many delays. There was very little treatment and with all that has gone wrong Bill Gates described it as a "Global Failure" However in 1918 there was a vast epidemic from the flu that killed over 33 million people. Everyone knows that the flu can be spread through air or face to face contact but that wasn't the case for Ebola. No one really knew how people contracted the virus but by the time they would it be too late. To prepare for the next outbreak we have to start making bigger decisions such as investing more money on treatments and health care systems. We have to help one another out , such as making hospitals for poor countries where a woman can safely have here baby , we should invest in more doctor offices were a mother can take her ill son and give him the proper care he needs. So to stop germs and viruses from spreading we should take a chance and start making some decisions. We have a lot of things to work on to save our world from future viruses , and if we don't make a change now it could be too late. |
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