Month: October 2017

Ted Talk Outline

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Does the development of new scientific technologies always give the world a better life and have a positive effect on the course of history?
Has technology done more to help or to hinder society?
technology has done more to help society.
-more safety
-better food
-more entertainment
-technology is the main power of the human
-save people’s life
-pass message faster
-know what’s the weather today
-better communication
-more convenient way to travel
-find the information you need faster
-find out the truth we didn’t know before (wave-particle dualism)
For most people, it is an obvious answer for that statement, because new technologies have become part of our life. However, in a short story, called “The Weapon”, Frederic Brown tells us about a story of a visitor Mr. Niemand tried to convince Dr. Graham who was working on a new weapon to stop his experiment. But Dr. Graham refused to follow what did Mr. Niemand said. Finally, that “madman” gives a loaded revolver to Dr. Graham’s son-Harry a boy with a mental handicap as a gift to show that new technology is often a double-edged sword, which means it doesn’t always have the positive effects for people; sometimes people can’t even handle the new technology.
World War II had one of the highest death rates in human history, but it also was known as a time that led to the development of new scientific techniques. According to statistics, there were more than seventy million innocent people died in that six years period. Atomic bomb first time appeared with the life and blood of our brethren. an American bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; three days later, a second bomber dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. On the other hand, the arms race seemed like to be the only theme of the Cold War, which endangered international relations by both USA and Soviet sides.
The afraid of the war turned into the hippie movement, the most famous sign represents the peace-V sign.  In the 1950s the “peace sign”, as it is known today, was designed by Gerald Holtom as the logo for the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, a group at the forefront of the peace movement in the UK, and adopted by anti-war and counterculture activists in the US and elsewhere. V-sign was the sign that represented the victory for WWII. Furthermore, the V-sign has a long history representing the victory since Hundred Years’ War, this origin legend dictates that the English and Welsh archers who were captured by the French had their index and middle fingers cut off so that they could no longer operate their longbows, and that the V Sign was used by uncaptured and victorious archers in a display of defiance against the enemy. But that origin hasn’t got proved yet.
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Does the development of new scientific technologies always give the world a better life and have a positive effect on the course of history? For most people, it is an obvious answer for that statement, because new technologies have become part of our life. However, in a short story, called “The Weapon”, Frederic Brown tells us about a story of a visitor Mr. Niemand tried to convince Dr. Graham who was working on a new weapon to stop his experiment. But Dr. Graham refused to follow what did Mr. Niemand said. Finally, that “madman” gives a loaded revolver to Dr. Graham’s son-Harry a boy with a mental handicap as a gift to show that new technology is often a double-edged sword, which means it doesn’t always have the positive effects for people; sometimes people can’t even handle the new technology.

World War II had one of the highest death rates in human history, but it also was known as a time that led to the development of new scientific techniques. According to statistics, there were more than seventy million innocent people died in that six years period. Atomic bomb first time appeared with the life and blood of our brethren. an American bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; three days later, a second bomber dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. On the other hand, the arms race seemed like to be the only theme of the Cold War, which endangered international relations by both USA and Soviet sides.
Has technology done more to help or to hinder society?
technology has done more to help society.
-more safety
-better food
-more entertainment
-technology is the main power of the human
-save people’s life
-pass message faster
-know what’s the weather today
-better communication
-more convenient way to travel
-find the information you need faster
-find out the truth we didn’t know before (wave-particle dualism)

Conflict In My Passion

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Even though Addario has strong inside passion about her career, she is still facing a conflict that against her morals. She is worrying about picturing for those tortured people, that suffering pains from the war, and taking benefits from those pictures is a major conflict. As her view, she is wondering what those New York Times’ readers are rather seeing animals in the zoo than those pictures of the truth sides of the war.

Nonetheless, she ends up justifying her career. She uses those picture to encourage citizens in worldwide to take attention into the war and tries to change the situation with her own power and desires.

As my personal experiences, I had conflict dealing with the relationship between the children and their parents. I was always thinking that the lack of knowledge caused those parents refused to take actions when they heard the reports about their children might have Autism: the anger and distrust regarding the results that the specialist determined. I have come to realize and see the need for increased awareness of these diseases as well as knowledge regarding the implications of ASD for parents in China. In my opinion, children’s parents didn’t realize that late speaking could be considered as an indication or symptom of something far more serious because they lacked understanding and knowledge of ASD.

After that, I voiced my opinions to my mother regarding the need to spread awareness through informational brochures in order to support a trainer’s results when presenting the situation to parents. My mom listened carefully, smiling as she said: “Strengthening publicity is important for sure; however, have you considered the feelings of the parents?” I contemplated this question and realized that no, I had not. I never took into account the perspective and emotions of the parents. I had only blindly imposed the idea that I thought would be beneficial for them whereas those feelings of shock and resistance are actually instinctual as parents.

The V-Sign

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The V-sign
Nowadays, when you see someone raises and parts the index and middle finger, while the other fingers are clenched, we called it the “V-sign”, and generally, people think it as a sign of peace. That idea about peace was posted during “Make love, not war” in order to against Vietnam War and considered as the counterculture of the 1960s, also called the peace movement.
However, the V-sign was represented Victory before that and became well-known after Churchill used it in his speech, also other allied leaders used the sign as well against Germany, so the V-sign was the sign that represented the victory for WWII. Furthermore, the V-sign has a long history representing the victory since Hundred Years’ War, this origin legend dictates that the English and Welsh archers who were captured by the French had their index and middle fingers cut off so that they could no longer operate their longbows, and that the V Sign was used by uncaptured and victorious archers in a display of defiance against the enemy. But that origin hasn’t got proved yet.
Over your thinking, V-sign has been considered as an offensive gesture, a way that you show you’re disrespectful for someone else, the insulting version of the gesture is often compared to the offensive gesture known as “the finger”. The “two-fingered salute”, is commonly performed by flicking the V upwards from wrist or elbow. The V sign, when the palm is facing toward the person giving the sign, has long been an insulting gesture in England, and later in the rest of the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, India, Pakistan and New Zealand. It is frequently used to signify defiance (especially to authority), contempt, or derision.
The fun thing is: in Asia, people use V-sign when they are taking pictures. It is used in both casual and formal settings instead of insulting.
Source:
“Two fingers up to English history….” The BS Historian, 12 Dec. 2009,
     bshistorian.wordpress.com/2007/07/02/two-fingers-up-to-english-history/. Accessed 3 Oct. 2017.