The Best Gift I Ever Survived
This TED Talk is inspired by someone's difficulties with cancer and what happened to the person because of it. She is just a normal person, but the thing that differentiates her and makes her a qualified speaker in this topic is that she experienced the situation first hand. This is really all she needs to be a reliable speaker because only someone who experienced all the emotions that she did could accurately tell a story like this. She used a lot of pathos by describing her emotions during her struggle with cancer. Her story does lack in logos because she is focusing on appealing to people's emotions and changing how they feel about their experience. Her reason for speaking is to convince people to think differently. She is targeting her story to really anyone with access to medical facilities that can treat people with cancer because everyone is at risk of getting cancer.
I chose this TED Talk because I was curious to what gift the speaker could be talking about, and I found it to be very interesting because of its surprising ending.This is a story that starts out ambiguous, but consistently positive and at the end it is revealed that the story is really about the speaker's experience with having a brain tumor removed. This was conveyed very strangely and in an unexpected manner because the listener is expecting something positive at the end of the story, but instead the speaker revealed that she was talking about her brain tumor, which is generally recognized as a negative thing. The author's unique way of telling a story was ultimately effective because it helped the listeners to look a something negative in a different light.
I find it really inspiring that someone like you is able to accomplish all that you've accomplished with your "disability". When I first heard about autism I thought that it was a life ending condition but you can hold yourself responsible for single-handedly making me realize that an autist can possibly do something in their life.
ReplyDeleteNO! You cannot admit defeat to autism. People like you make autism seem like a "disability" rather than the disease that it is! We can and should eradicate it entirely from society. It disgust me when people start blaming the genes of perfect parents such as myself for our childrens' condition when the culprit is obvious. VACCINES! These terrible medications are entirely engineered to debilitate humanity by striking children. Fear mongering supporters of vaccines who make it seem like everyone who abstains will contract polio and aids burn me up!! Just take a moment and just imagine a world where vaccines were never invented. IT WOULD BE GLORIOUS! Join me in the march to end the tyranny of modern medicine and most chiefly, vaccines!
DeleteI think this is an interesting subject for a ted talk, as usually they are about new technology. I like how you identified her use of pathos as a strategy to connect to the listeners and get her point across.
ReplyDeleteWow- a celebrity comment, Matt. Your blog is famous.
ReplyDeleteThis was a really neat Ted Talk. I liked how the speaker brought something so positive from something as negative as cancer. It is interesting to think about how different the world would be if everyone focused on the bright side of every obstacle life threw at them.
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