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ZHERUI HUANG

PROFESSOR JORDAN

ENGLISH 1A

2014/4/18

The Rights of Being Human

         These days I have listened to two remarkable TED presentations from WuDunn and Bales. In their presentation, they both give audiences a problem 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, he 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.

         Talking about the influence of the presentation, Bales does a better job on it. 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’s 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, 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. However, the pictures provided by WuDunn might be too simple and simplex, I mean mostly I am watching how miserable those women are in the world. However, 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 proofs, there is one thing that also help audiences to get into the presentation, the organization. For me, both WuDunn and Bales are doing a brilliant work on organizing. 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 also does a good job on organizing his presentation. At first, 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.

         All in all, Bales does a better job than WuDunn I think. 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.

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