Three Wishes

Last week we were graced by the presence of a guest speaker: activist and lead singer of U2, Bono Vox.

Okay, so he didn't actually attend our class, but we did watch a video recording of a presentation by Bono. Bono is one of the 2005 recipients of the Ted Prize (http://www.tedprize.org/about-tedprize/)

As you will read in the prior link, recipients of the Ted Prize receive $100,000 and three wishes toward the solution of a problem that they feel needs to be addressed. Bono explained his problem and wishes in the following video: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/bono_s_call_to_action_for_africa.html

After watching Bono's speech, you may want to view the speech of Naked Chef, Jamie Oliver: http://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver.html

Or the speech of scholar, and peace activist, Karen Armstrong:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/karen_armstrong_makes_her_ted_prize_wish_the_charter_for_compassion.html

(The following link explains a bit more about the TED Prize: http://www.ted.com/pages/view/id/6 )

For your blog entry next week (to be posted on Monday 3/1) I would like you to imagine that you are a TED Prize recipient. What plan would you create to improve the world? Write about what the problem is and how your plan will make improvements. What three wishes would you come up with?

As for your blogs, this week's entry (due Monday 2/22) is a free choice entry . I will be looking at your paragraph structure, your sentence structure (see chapter 16). I would like you to vary sentence length and complexity and would like you to incorporate an example of parallelism.

For your 3/1 entry, all the same applies, but I will be focusing on whether you are: (avoiding unnecessary wordiness and the use of the passive voice, varying sentence complexity and length, are incorporating rhythm and using parallelism and that any fragments are obviously intentional).

If you should have any questions, please feel free to send me an email.