Purpose: Showcase the fear that has driven people to stereotype and criminalize innocent people
Thesis Statement: The underlying fear citizens have that the United States will be subject to another 9/11 terrorist attack is damaging our relations with foreign countries and with the people in these countries. We, as a nation, need to conquer this fear by confronting it head on and taking the bold steps that actually address the issue rather than the idea.
Introduction
Attention Strategy/Orienting Material: Begin by playing a video of the intro theme of the show “Fear Factor”, a show that centered around contestants facing their fears both physically and mentally for a monetary prize
Although this showcases an extreme dramatization of people’s fears in the form of entertainment, we all, as people, biologically fear certain things such as spiders, heights, death, rollercoasters, clowns, etc.
Raise the question: When has the last time any of you have confronted your fears? When has our government?
Body
Main Idea: Through fear we dismiss and avoid our true problems, but when we conquer them, or at the least confront them, we are able to
Support: Northwestern University Phobia Research
Specific Support: After exposing participants who had a severe phobia of spiders to a tarantula for an interactive two-hour session, researchers found that just this one positive exposure to the spider had lasting effects in these people with arachnophobia for six months
Specific Support: According to one of the key researchers, the success was in result of “this idea that you slowly approach the thing you’re afraid of.”
“They learned that the spider was predictable and controllable, and by that time, they feel like it’s not a spider anymore.”
Specific Support: The study sheds light on the brain responses to fear and the changes that happen when a fear is overcome
Main Idea: Letting fear overtake our whole beings and our policies in government is preventing us from advancement
Support: TED Talk by Jonathan Tepperman “The risky politics of progress”
Specific Support: Canada becoming one of the world’s most welcoming, immigration-friendly nations today, after it abandoned its explicitly racist immigration policy
Specific Support: Indonesia, which suffered a bigger problem involving Islamic extremism, was able to reduce terrorism and radical groups to unimaginable numbers
By focusing on things like reducing poverty and cutting corruption they were able to steal the Islamists’ thunder
They also cracked down hard on terrorism, by learning that repression only creates more extremism
Conclusion
Concluding Remark: As Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” We may be afraid now, but if we harness this fear in a positive, motivating way we can take the bold steps to address the issue that is terrorism
Visual Content
Slide One
“Fear Factor” Intro theme video on YouTube
Slide Two
Collage of pictures with common fears
Slide Three and all the slides following
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Jack Boscoe
This is a really well thought out and organized outline. I totally get what youre going to do and I dont know if I could have set it up in a better way. I really like your Fear Factor connection and how you are going to start off your TED Talk with that. That will definitely catch people off guard and will allow the vas majority of us to look at the very prevelant issue of Terrorism in a whole new light. Your main points and supporting facts and details also really help to accentuate your point and also help to persuade your audience that this method of dealing with terrorism is not only feasible but effective as well. This will definitely be one of the more interesting TED Talks to watch and I can’t wait to see it. Good Luck!
This is a really well thought out and organized outline. I totally get what youre going to do and I dont know if I could have set it up in a better way. I really like your Fear Factor connection and how you are going to start off your TED Talk with that. That will definitely catch people off guard and will allow the vas majority of us to look at the very prevelant issue of Terrorism in a whole new light. Your main points and supporting facts and details also really help to accentuate your point and also help to persuade your audience that this method of dealing with terrorism is not only feasible but effective as well. This will definitely be one of the more interesting TED Talks to watch and I can’t wait to see it. Good Luck!