Going into the Ted Talk I knew I had to perform better than I did on the civil artifact speech. So hearing one of my members claiming my TED Talk was a big improvement upon that was fulfilling. In the previous speech I used shortcuts and it was still my not my best work. This time around I was confident I was well versed in my topic. I hope that reflects in the recording. I do wish voice thread had a feature to save takes and select from them. If that feature does exist, then I wish I knew the website better. The take I ended up using was not bad, but I know in other takes where I did not make it to the end, I was more lively and included more gestures and things of that nature. There were also takes were my wording was more eloquent at specific moment, but without a script every take was different and I found it difficult to remember to add in the best phrasing for every point. I also forgot to click to my works cited in the recording, which is something I did not realize till I was watching it with my group so I hope that does not come back to hurt me. Im happy with the work I did on the TED Talk and im ready to explore the topic even more though the research paper.

For the history of a public controversy, one possible idea is recreational drug use. Not only is it topical considering the recent turn out of votes in New Jersey and Oregon, of the seldom research done, a lot of it is very interesting. Examining countries like Portugal and the Netherlands were drug use is far less strict as it is here, could provide great sources of research and analysis.