This was a very good Ted Talk to watch. Which is why I have posted a link above. I think that being a white female and being American I do not view the books I read as the way Chimamanda does. Even though she talks about enjoying the books that she read, I can really see her point of wanting to have books that have girls or women like her in them.
The other topic she touched on was preceptions. I really liked the examples that she gave. The first one was about how she grew up. She lived in a middle class family and had hired help in the house. But when she came to the U.S.A. she was viewed as the way Africans are portrayed in the U.S. A paper that she wrote for a class was critized because the professor did not think that it represented her life, even though she had an upbringing similar to many people who live in America. Another example she gave was also from college. When she first met her roommate, her roommate wanted to listen to the music Chimamanda listens to in Africa. It was to the surprise of her roommate that Chimamanda listened to the same music she did.
As I said before, I think that this TedTalk was a great one to watch. It showed how people's perceptions can be shaped based on books or other forms of receiving information.
Monday April 4, 2011
I wanted to share an activity we did for our team presentation. (with two members). These billboards were made at values.com
billboard
Friday April 8, 2011
I found some bad commercials that I would like to share. They come from the superbowl. We were suppose to have shown them in class but I do not think we had time for all of them. I would like to share them now. I think they are really self explanitory of why I feel they are bad.
