In the ted talk we watched on Wednesday by Anne Hallward we listen to her talk about shame. Specifically, we listen to her talk about shame and how it affects people and can be related to many different types of mental illnesses and even suicide. Anne’s main point during the ted talk was that shame should be talked about and dealt with head-on. I completely agree with that statement and we should talk about shame more. One example is during the talk she mentions that shame hide you from your feeling and keeps you “in the closet”. She then goes on and says, “but the thing about the closet is that you can’t see and it’s very dark in there. And in that darkness you can’t see very clearly.” In other words, Anne believes that you aren’t being the real you if you stay hidden in the closet and that you don’t think straight while you’re “in the closet”. Also, she uses an example of how to express shame and what it does. During the talk, she mentions how lesbian and gay couples are coming out of the closets now, and that mentions a lesbian couple who have been together for 72 years and are finally getting married. Anne says “And that, what that does, is it feeds right back to the sources of external shame and begins to reduce their power.” Anne’s point is that if we keep exposing shame it will get weaker, and then make it not mean anything.
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In the book “They Say / I Say” they give you different templates to use in writing that will help you improve, and become a better college writer. Templates like this are supposed to improve writing and also make it a better read for the person reading your piece. The authors of this book approach writing in they say / I say format. So in an argumentative piece, they point out what others are saying about the topic then write that they think. This is a very good writing method because it helps get all views of the topic, and makes sure that the reader gets a better understanding of the topic.
At the beginning os the book they start by talking about a Scientologist Doctor X. A speaker came to talk about Doctor X and his work but there was one problem. The speaker only talked about what was right about his writing and he needed to talk about what “they say”. what they mean by that is writing a summary about what other people think of Doctor X work and talking about that as well. In the rest of the chapter, he brings up different ways that you show what “they say ” in your writing.
Kenji Yoshino is a lawyer who graduated from Yale University and in this passage, he tackles the idea of new civil rights. He first starts off talking about true self which is the real you and how there’s also a false self that hides and protects the true self. The false self Kenji calls it a “covering” and the idea behind it is people with use it when they feel that it is necessary to use it. Also, Kenji talks about the “mainstream” and how people need to conform to the mainstream to keep their “covering”.and he talks about how civil rights allow people to grow without any limits.
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