For my TED talk I would like to talk about the topic of roping. Roping is what people do in rodeo's. The person doing the roping is on a horse and the horse is chasing the calf. There are usually two people doing this at a time. This is called team roping. Someone tries to catch the head and someone tries to catch the feet. The only reason I am not sure I want to choose this topic is because I am not sure I will be able to talk about roping the whole ten minutes. So I was thinking I could broaden the topic and talk about rodeos in general.
Today in Senior Social II Mr. Toward showed us this video that showed tests that were done to see how paying students for their grades helps persuade them. This is another interesting topic that I could talk about. It brings up many questions like how parenting affect their children's grades and if it is right to persuade them in this way. I feel like this would be a little easier to talk about for five minutes.
One of my close family friends has lung cancer, and he has not been doing very well. I respect him a lot and I was thinking I could talk about how good of a friend he has been to my family. I would define friendship by giving examples of how he been a part of my families life. The reason I would probably have a hard time talking about this is because he may not still be with us by then and it might be really hard for me to talk about it.
The other two things I have been thinking about talking about for my TED talk are 4-h because that has been a huge part of my life and trap. These two things have been very huge part of my life for the last few years of my life and I think talking about them would be fairly easy and would be easy to memorize and would flow nicely.
If I could get feedback from you guys on what you guys think and what would be the most interesting topic, that would be great, thanks!
If you end up going with the lung cancer one, there are so many great ways to go about it. If it's something too painful to do in a speech, remember - next term I'll ask you guys to do a research paper based on the healthcare industry, and it could be a way to go.
ReplyDelete- of course, I never said you couldn't build a speech around something and then use the same topic again later....
The roping idea works really well for me in the sense that you can build on expectations vs. reality. I think back to the Mike Rowe TED where he talks about the sheep - his understanding of "humane" vs. the reality he saw in front of them. How could you blow someone's mind by making them understand a humanity within something one might argue could be barbaric? I can imagine the rhetoric now: "how dare you rope them! They're scared and it hurts them and it could kill them!"
I like the idea of extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation because of how big you could make it. You could start small - paying for grades - and build up - how much do we as a society depend on extrinsic motivation, vs intrinsic?
I also really love community - Maybe you could look at 4H as a kind of "hey incoming kids who don't know - here's what you can get out of this wonderful sense of community!"