Ted talks analysis

The first video I watched was:Video #1: Grow a forest
This is about an engineer,Shubhendu Sharma ,who worked at Toyota, but then was amazed when a lady came and literally made a Forrest inside of the factory. He makes his life effort to do the same thing, after he grows a Forest of his own in his back yard. The speaker does an overall good job of portraying what he would like to do with his idea; wanting to grow more as they are generally great for the environment.  The speaker has plenty of good speaking points, and seems to be passionate. The speaker maintains a good level of eye work, looking at the crowd. The use of hand movements is scarce in my opinion, this is OK. The speaker has a lot of visual and animated points he makes, and this can take the burden from being active on the stage. However, I think the speaker may have gone overboard with the visuals in the performance. I feel that it would be better to try to convey his points more with concise details, instead of the drawn out way of explaining the nuances. This doesn't take away from the performance, however; the speaker is foreign and I can't expect or lass a harsh judgement for finding other ways to convey his ideas, so that there was no doubt to what his point was. Overall the speaker does a good job, I am in support of his idea now (I hope he doesn't try to sell me a car) .

The second video I watched:The danger of silence
This is about a man, Clint Smith, who is also a teacher telling us that silence is the worst thing that we can do. The speech starts out as you would expect, the audience being told why being silent is awful. The speaker telling us that he gave up speaking for his lent, but then it gets deeper. The speaker starts analyzing that he already gave up his voice a long time ago for all the things he didn't say when faced with adversity. The tone shift is impeccable, going from an average teacher lecture voice, to the wordplay that is reminiscent of a preacher or a pastor. It seems as if when the speaker talks, his religious background motivates him a lot to have courage and confidence. And that's what the speaker is best at, saying everything he would like with a powerful voice.  The speaker's biggest strength could be seen as a possible weakness, however.  This is because those who are listening without a religious background may not be moved the same way, they won't look at him as a preacher( just a guy who talks weird). This is an easy fix should the speaker continue speaking, and this will be great. The speaker has a strong message, that he makes apparent. Wanting everyone to speak up and do the right thing, treating the audience as his students so he can reach them, and having an unwavering voice are great qualities. For the length of the video, I felt like I was moved more than I should.

Both of these videos are very good and get the point across very well. Each has a few downfalls, but if I could speak with confidence and courage as these people, then I'd get an easy A. Hope this was good enough Mr. Horton, Z-FLY Out.

Leaked Celebrity photos

Upon first hearing about the leaked photos, of many popular female celebrities, I was like the many who jumped to the ignorant conclusion that these celebrities themselves were to blame for the photos being leaked. If you take a risque picture as such, then it should be no surprise if somehow it does get leaked; well that's what I thought before I read this article.
Forbes: Nude photos

This article is fairly well written, and very ambitious as it calls out how we as a society view the incident, and subjugate the celebrity women to live at a higher standard to that of which we, average people, conform to. Instead of calling out the women for the photos, the author states we should :" (be) focusing on lessening men's “demand” to view women as purely a disposable commodity." This, I believe, is a very true point; one that often isn't stated in the general public.

Women, celebrity or not, should not be held to a higher standard than that of the average male in regards to taking personal photos. If a women wants to take a photo and keep it on her phone, no matter what the reason is, they should have their right of privacy in doing so. It makes little sense to judge someone to have their own privacy; do we get judged every time we take a private photo, or do something private? No, the answer is short and sweet. It would be an entirely different game if all of these celebrities went to playboy and had a photo shoot, or if they were just messing around on instagram and decided to show it all; but that's not the case. Yet, that most of the general public is viewing this whole incident asso , a deliberate attempt of the celebrities to get these photos out into the general eye; yet in reality, they couldn't want more of the opposite.  These celebrities are held to such a high standard, and us being human and all look for any reason at all to judge someone that is deemed to be "more important than us", this is why the biggest deal of this controversy is made out of Jennifer Lawrence and her photos, as she is probably the most famous actress in the world right now.
These celebrities have been a victim of a malicious attack on to what little privacy they have, and America hasn't seen that yet. We need to combat the real problem here: the hackers and all the men who subjugate the women by looking at their private photos.

Z-Fly out.