For my TED Talk, I will be talking about how beauty pageants teach girls to focus their self-worth around beauty.

I plan on focusing the beginning of my talk about my personal childhood and stories from my own life about how I was raised and the things that I was taught to value while growing up. I’ll use these funny stories in order to connect and relate to the audience. I want everyone to feel as though I am talking directly to them so that they can relate to what I’m saying.

I plan on using some pretty powerful visuals, such as a before and after picture of a girl participating in a pageant. I also think that it would be extremely useful to put some of the statistics that I say out loud in plain black text with a white background. The transformation picture of the child will definitely be a good example of how I will use pathos because it will definitely create negative emotions and support the main point that I will be trying to get across. The plain black text with the white background will also help to show the importance of the words that they are both hearing and reading, but they will be short and simple enough not to draw the audience away for too long. The simplistic structure is how I include logos in my visual aids because I want to be able to get the point that I am trying to make across as fast as possible. I might try to use the “backbone” alignment and see how everything looks with that. I also might try and use a powerful statistic with a picture so that the audience can clearly see the impact that the fact I just told them actually has.