Yara Ibrahim - Grade 12 English

  Lollipop moment: A moment where someone said something or did something that you feel fundamentally made your life better.      Leadership is being defined as something that exists to change the world. There for people who do things that not everyone is able to do. During the TedTalk, Drew speaks about how he has done something when he was in his university, but because of how much he didn't think that something was going to make an affect, he didn't even remember doing it. As he was leaving university, he was stopped by a girl and was telling him about how he told her something that made her want to continue with university in addition to matching her with her future husband.       Googling what skills a leader should have: creativity, relationship building, decision making, critical thinking, etc. These skills are seen in many people's personalities which shows that a person may be a leader without actually knowing it. Proving what Drew Dudley...

  Grit        Angela Lee talks about something I've always believed in. That is that the students who are doing better in school than others, doesn't necessarily mean they are smarter. I've always believed in that because the students who do better in school are the ones that are only able to memorize, rather than actually understand. They are not trying to better themselves with knowledge that they can seek by themselves. They take the knowledge from their teachers and just apply it on tests.           Not that I wasn't one of these students, I very much were. I sued to study just for the sake of passing, nit worrying about if I'll remember the things I've learned after applying it on the tests and quizzes. However, as I've grown and realized that I was passing school in a very wrong way, I changed that habit. A very big part of changing that habit was changing school systems. Everytime I talked with anyone about school systems, th...

  The Danger of a Single Story       This TedTalk is about a girl from Nigeria, who has lived there up until she had to leave home to study abroad in the US. She talks about how she used to judge her new house boy because the only image she had of him was that he was poor. Then, when she went to college in the US, her roommate judged her based off of the idea that she is from Nigeria. However, as she got to know her, the roommate then realized that they have a lot of similarities.      Relating why she was telling these stories, she focuses on the fact that a single/ one sided story  isn't going to lead to anything throughout the whole TedTalk. In my opinion, it is exactly like a story with different perspectives. Listening to only one side of a story, is as useless as having just one pair of a shoe. For example. the roommate was only listening to what she was hearing from the people around her, and seeing on social media. These were all a si...

Vulnerability  The Power of Vulnerability - Bréne Brown      What does it mean to be vulnerable? Having to think about this while watching the TedTalk has made me think differently about what it means to be vulnerable. In today's world being vulnerable may be seen as a weakness, which I actually view it like that as well. It is actually one of my personal qualities that I'd like to change. However Bréne Brown disagrees with that as she tries to encourage people to show their vulnerabilities and stop trying to control and predict their life so that it is molded into a perfect story.     I agree with all the things she has talked about in her TedTalk, not only because she has presented herself in such a confident way, but also because she is talking about the topic while she is relating to it. I believe that her relating to it is actually her showing her vulnerability; letting her imperfections be seen.  One other thing that I strongly agree with is...