ZHERUI HUANG
PROFESSOR JORDAN HAYES
ENGLISH 1A
2014/4/18
Comparison Between WuDunn
and Bales’ Presentations
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and
rights.” This is a quote that talks about the human rights comes from UDHR. These
days I have listened to two remarkable TED presentations which are majorly
talking about gender inequality and slavery, two main problems about human
rights, from WuDunn and Bales. I believer no one wants get into human rights’
problems since these kinds of problems ruin people’s lives. In WuDunn and
Bales’ presentations, they both give audiences problems of the world that might
be easily ignored. For WuDunn, she provides something shows how serious the
sexual inequality problem is over the world. And Bales, who has an idea that if
everybody joins in, the matter of global slavery can be effectively controlled.
To compare these two presenters, I think that Bales is a better presenter than
WuDunn in many ways since he provides a more effective presentation than WuDunn
with a more correct mood, more kinds of evidences and a better organization on
the whole graph of the work.
Talking about the influence of the presentation, Bales does a
better job on it, since he has a better pre stage work by giving audiences a
correct emotion that is serious. WuDunn provides a picture of her family,
includes her husband, her child and herself, at the beginning of her
presentation. To be honest, this action can make audience feel more amiable for
sure. However, comparing to Bales’ presentation, which is mostly using official
statistics and objective information, WuDunn makes me feel like she is just
making a chat with audiences instead of requiring people pay more attentions on
the problem since the problem is really serious like Bales does. I am not
saying it is a bad idea to make a relaxed condition for audiences, yet if you
want your audiences be more focus on the problem that is not that fun, it is a
better way that you let them be serious at the beginning of your presentation,
so they will not miss any words that you are going to provide.
Making a presentation, the first thing you need to think about
is, like I just provided, making a right environment for your audiences.
However, when you are going further of the presentation, the audiences’
emotions are not going to make your presentation much more convincing. The
statistic or something objective may help. In WuDunn’s presentation, I have
seen many pictures of poor girls and ladies who she is trying to talk about.
Both of WuDunn’s pictures show the audiences that there are so many women in
the world suffering from gender inequality which makes them have less things
than other men own. Yet, the pictures provided by WuDunn might be too simple
and simplex, mostly I am watching how miserable those women are in the world.
On the other hand, Bales provides a picture that makes me deeply memorize. The
thing I am talking about is the map of countries that slavery exists in the
world. As we all know, earth, the planet we are living on, is really a huge
planet for human being. Nowadays, there are 193 countries all over the world,
however, the map shows that Iceland and Greenland are only two countries that
slavery problem doesn’t exist in. According to this small map, the seriousness
of slavery problem all over the word is self-evident because the map gives a
huge overview of the whole world, not some pictures of some specific area in
the world. Since Bales also uses some horrible photos that shoe how miserable
the slaves are, the proofs that Bales is using seems lightly more convincing.
Besides the environment and the proof, there is one thing that
also help audiences to get into the presentation, the clear organization. For
me, both WuDunn and Bales are doing a brilliant work on organizing. However, I
am more taking the way that Bales are using—focusing on giving people clearer
organization on whole things than on details as WuDunn. For WuDunn, she tries
using small list to organize the ideas, this thing is what Bales doesn’t use,
and it is really helpful because the small list can tell audiences that how
manys ideas she is going to provide to them. On the other hand, Bales organizes
the whole essay by using some short and clear transitions, and it makes me feel
more comfortable while reading his work since the transitions tell me what will
be the next on following paragraph. At first, “So, I begin to do a research project
of my own”, he presents that only few people knows the slavery problem in
today’s world. Since that he provides a map that shows almost the world has
slavery problem. When people are doubting that it might not be so many slaves
in the world, he provides some reasons such as the lack of protection to
vulnerable people so that people will understand why the number of slaves is so
huge. After that, he introduces some basic information of the slavery, how
slavery traffickers lie to people and get them to become slaves, what is the
prices of slaves in both past and present society, and what will the slavery
market become if people just let it develop. At last, after showing so many
things about negative effects of slavery, he appeal audiences to pay more
attentions on this problem and help those people who are in slavery out and
rebuild their own homes. So I think both WuDunn and Bale do really well on organizing
their presentation because I have got their main ideas very easily. But Bales
is even better because of his overall sorting.
All in all, Bales does a better job than WuDunn. Nonetheless,
WuDunn’s presentation is also very attractive since she is speaking for the
women that are being treated unequally, and she is a woman as well which can
make her understand more how women feel when they are being treated badly. I
appreciate that I am so luck to hear to these two people by their interesting
presentations. After listening to them, I realize that there are some people in
the other places of the world leading totally different lives comparing to
myself. I wish I will be able to help them by myself someday in the future.
Word count: 1063
Work Cited
Bale,
Kevin. “How to combat modern slavery.” TED. Feb.2010. Lecture
“The
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” Web.
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