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(3) Seven Deadly Sins

October 29, 2017

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(9) CO the Friendly Ghost

TedTalk: A Scientific Approach to the Paranormal I watched Carrie Poppy's TedTalk on (as you can see above) a scientific approach to the paranormal. She starts out telling a story of how she thought that there was a ghost in her house, and how in the course of trying to get rid of it, she comes across a forum of "skeptic" ghost hunters. By "skeptic", she means that they try to come up with a scientific explanation for every case they're given. The forum helps her reach the conclusion that there was no ghost; she in fact had carbon monoxide poisoning, and she was able to call someone to fix the leak that very easily could have killed her. She goes on to talk about "inner" and "outer" truths- "outer" truths being ones backed up by historical facts, and "inner" truths being more personal truths. Toward the end, she talks about how the group she now works with, similar to the skeptics, tests peoples' claims ...

(12) IOC myself doing well on this one

Planning: Link to the recording -Ok disclaimer it is 11 pm and I didn't read the instructions at the end of Mrs. Genesky's post because I didn't think I needed help so 1. my name is not on the recording (go me) and 2. it is not cut off at the 10 min mark but it's only like a minute and some over, I promise I didn't talk for like 18 minutes and if you take out my random silences while I think then it's about 10 anyway. Scoring myself which is going to be very hard and also a mess: A: 7-8 because the quotes chosen are appropriate, but not necessarily an excellent understanding of the book because the focus jumps around a lot and I start pulling in details that are somewhat irrelevant (like the fact that the students are clones. Not relevant.) B: 1-2 because I didn't really focus on the actual literary devices as much as the quotes from the passages, and I didn't address effect on the reader at all. Definitely something to work on for me...

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