TED Talk Outline

Thesis & Goal- I want to talk about the importance of Physical Education in schools. With more and more schools cutting spending on activities and arts, I want to identify the importance of Physical Education and how it effects them positively and how it's important to keep this in the school system.

During my TED Talk I want to use narration and cause and effect to identify the importance of Physical Education. Wanting to go into this as my profession and having some experience through interning it is something I am interested in and I also have a few short stories to tell. I wanted to talk about how you have to do certain things to get the students to listen and how each one is different and how excited they are to come to the gym every day and play and participate. But, I'm not quite sure how to incorporate that into my thesis. I have also talked to my mom from an elementary teachers point of view of how important it is in the classroom to incorporate gym class into the day and I am planning on trying to talking to a gym teacher to find out more about the importance of gym in a school day, maybe some students if I have time.

I'm not quite sure if my thought is complete or not, or if my thesis fits everything I want to talk about. Any comments, questions or suggestions would be wonderful at this point.
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Money Makes You Mean Journal Analysis

We watched a TED talk by Paul Piff called "Money Makes You Mean" during the talk he talked about how people who have money are more self conceited and view themselves as "above the law" and more likely to flaunt their money and things such as this. With all of his examples he came to one quote that really stuck with me, it read; "The American dream is we all have an equal opportunity to succeed and do well." His point to saying this was that the American dream has diminished and turned into the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. But I really analyzed it and thought. What exactly is the American dream? I think everyone has a different opinion on what their dream is as an American. Maybe its to go to college or to start a family or just get a job. Any way you put it its defined as being successful. But it's not always money related. So if you put it that way. Does everyone get an equal opportunity? I think it's what you make of it. Obviously some will be more privileged and it will be easier for others, but over all everyone does have the opportunity to be what they want and become successful. It just matters how hard you are willing to try and what lengths you are willing to go to get what you want. That's the American dream. Its working hard to become successful. Not getting it handed to you because you live in this country.

Analysis on Shaena's Journal

Shaena chose to do a journal on a quote from Mike Rowe. She chose the quote "I remember how utterly wrong I had been...so much of the time." She viewed the quote as Mike Rowe seeing that the "acceptable way" may not be the best way, and that the "humane" way by society isn't always true. I agree with her analysis on the quote. Sometimes life isn't always always as it seems. Just because someone who is "credible" says its right doesn't mean that its the only way to do something or the correct way. Such as PETA. They claim to have animal rights and belief in the protection of animals. Yet they kill millions of stray animals each year. We just don't hear about it. Which in my opinion proves the main point of this quote. That just because something is presented to us a certain way doesn't mean that its the only way or the right/humane way. America needs to wake up and realize that we need to think for ourselves and realize what's going on all around us. Not be so blind to everything that happens and think for ourselves.

TED talk

TED talk ideas.... still working on them.

- Hockey, Its been my life growing up. Not quite sure what specifically I would talk about with it but you could talk about anything with a sport.

-Interning, I want to be a physical education teacher when I grow up so I could talk about the importance of physical education in a school system.

-Being a leader, and what it means to be looked up to and looked to always do the right thing. The pressure and stress of it and how it makes you a better person.

I'm still working on finding the right one. but let me know what you like or don't like or if my ideas give you a different view point you think I could go at.
Thanks.

-The difference between a team sport and an individual sport. Having played both there are lots of difference and advantages and dis-advantages.

-I also thought about talking about the difference in society even with kids now versus when I, or any of my other classmates were children or even before that. How important technology is to kids now and how its going to effect them in the future.

Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police Fallacies

In the essay "Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police" By Martin Gansberg many fallacies can be found. One fallacies was in the first paragraph on page 120, "For more than half an hour thirty-eight respectable law abiding citizens in Queens watched a killer stalk and stab a woman in three separate attacks in Kew Gardens." There are a couple different forms of Hasty or Sweeping Generalization fallacies just in this one quote. The writer assumes that all of the citizens are law abiding which could very well not be true. They don't know everything that all thirty-eight citizens have been up to, or have done. Also the writer mentions them being respectable. That is his own opinion. Many other people could disagree that they aren't respectable human beings. Starting out the essay with a big fallacy such as this takes away the credibility of the rest of his writing and makes you question what he is saying more throughout the text.

Another fallacy identified in this essay was on page 122, "Today witnesses from the neighborhood, which is made up of family homes in the $35,000-$60,000 range with the exception of the two apartment houses near the railroad station, find it difficult to explain why they didn't call the police." This fallacy is a Misleading Statistic. The price of the families homes should not in any way be related to them explaining why they didn't call the police. A person's income or place of living doesn't correlate directly with their actions or decisions. This is a misleading opinion and tries to direct the readers attention away from the subject.

The author also wrote at the end of page 123, ""Then", a solemn police detective said, "the people came out." This is relating the people coming out of their houses to the ambulance picking up the body. this form of fallacy is called a Post Hoc, Ergo Proper Hoc. The writer is assuming that the people "finally" came out of their homes to look because the crime they were avoiding was over. Not for some other unrelated reason other than this. His assumption is trying to make the people look guilty as if they all had seen what happened.