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2. Type your name and (class) as the title

3. Write your responses or attach a video responding to the following questions:

What resonates with you most from the TED talk?

In what ways do texts shape our understanding of the world?

What is your definition of a "powerful text"?

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What resonates with me most from the TED talk is that reading stories when you are younger could base their thoughts of people off these stereotypes. The ways that the texts shape our understanding of the world is by believing these stereotypes and thinking of them as facts when in reality they aren't. My definition for "powerful text" is a message that encourages people to actually do something to the problem.

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What resonates with me from the Ted talk is how impressionable the woman states that she was as a child, while I am a teenager myself, I love to read, particularly about fantasies and mythology.

Texts and books can shape our lives tremendously because of how much they teach us, for example, if I were to read a book about sea creatures when I was 6 years old, I would probably become fascinated with ocean life for years to come, everybody is impressionable to an extent, it’s not hard to find something interesting when you’re a kid

In my opinion, a powerful text is something that conveys some sort of emotion, and comes from the heart, something that’s real, it’s not easy to act powerful, compared to being it, speaking from the truth is where it starts, in my opinion at least

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- What resonates with me the most is that the woman who's speaking in the video is telling how when she was a child she never knew the different kind of stories other than the ones with white people with blue eyes and rich families who always speak about the weather. This reminds of being in elementary and the teacher telling us to draw a picture and write about it and all I always drew was a white family who had a good life because that's all I had been familiar with.

- Texts, books, stories and anything that that we find and read/listen to can shape our understanding of the world a lot because we choose to believe what we see because no ones there to tell us that we are wrong because they also learned what we learned. Especially when you're a child you tend to believe what people say because you're still learning. You choose to have people guide you because you trust them. For example, when we watched high school musical when we were younger we believed that high school was this fun and happy place where you sing and dance, but in reality it's not. You could be very happy, but when we are hit with the reality of things it tends to slowly drain you and lose hope and trust in the world.

- The definition of a powerful text in my opinion is when you are persuaded into believing what a person/people are saying whether it may be true or false. They could try to use things like 'big' words and information from themselves or the internet.

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* What resonates with me the most was when she was talking about the stereotypical book that her roommate read, where Africana's weren't rich or similar to how Americans were, and no possibility of human equals, these stereotypical thoughts could shape the person mindset to think Africans are poor and think in a negative way about Africans.

* Books, stories, and text can shape our understanding of the world because as children we tend to listen and believe in anything we see or read, and no one tells you if you are wrong or not so you keep those thoughts or beliefs to your self, And doing that hurts our society because sometimes there false, or they can hurt actually people.

*My definition of a "powerful text" is when people use their own words instead of others, and use actually information. I also think "power text" hold feelings and big mean behind it.

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• what resonates with me most was that even though she enjoyed reading about the British and eurocentralized kids in literature, she needed to read and write about kids who could relate and look like her. Also that she didn’t self identify as African , but everyone else automatically identified her as so.
• Texts shape our understanding of the world because we learn through experience, not just ours , but the experiences of others. For the things we were not there for ie; history, things happening in other countries, we depend on pictures and writings. We tend to believe those dipictions and stories until they are proven false. Most believed Christopher Columbus found America, until geographical evidence showed that he really ended up somewhere in the Bahamas .
•Powerful Text= Truth , Feeling , Authenticity…. A powerful text won’t always illustrate a pretty picture, but something bloody and traumatic. The world wasn’t built on flowers and butterflies, it was build on blood , sacrifice , and war

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•What resonates with me most from the TED talk is how the woman conveys a message that if we only hear about a people, place or situation from one point of view, we risk accepting one experience as the whole truth.

•Texts shape our understanding of the world because we tend to learn different perspectives and experiences from others and not just our own. We get a detailed preview of human experiences allowing us to connect on basic levels of desire and emotions. The powerful role of stories and storytelling as a feature of narrative in past and present societies, as a way of connecting people within and across cultures, communities and historical eras.

•My definition of a powerful text is a text that doesn’t always paint a perfect picture. A text that doesn’t have filter. A text that shows the graphic and horrific meaning of the world . A text that shows the world was raised on blood sweat and tears. A text that includes emotions and real life situations.

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The way the Ted talk resonates with me by talking about in kids books if we look at it from a different view. The way text can shape the way we see our world by telling us things from the view of others. The way I see powerful text is that if the text is powerful to the point when you can see what the text is trying to tell you you can understand it and use what you see to add on to what the text says.

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• What resonates with me is how she would find American and British books of white people and never people who were like her, those who had chocolate skin and kinky hair that couldn’t form a ponytail. Because of that she wrote about things she saw, she knows and embraces, she wrote about those who are just like her, who can relate to her and those who can understand her. In addition, African American writers were able to save her from having a single story of what books are.

• Text shape our understanding in a effectively way. Just reading texts allow us to expand our knowledge and witness between the words of what goes on in these settings. Whether whatever genre or topic it is, it still has a way to have us think and have our own opinions and let it teach us of what we don’t know or improve what was once low knowledge. Some may be false but our minds make us think otherwise and make us believe till we grow out of that mindset or be proven by evidence and others.

• A powerful text is when you feel empowered or strongly can feel or understand what that person is trying to convey. A powerful text is when you can get in your emotions. A powerful test is we’re you are convinced that you can’t even deny if it’s false. Lastly a powerful text, can be a lie hidden behind something that doesn’t wanna be seen.

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1) What resonated with me was how the women compared her kid self reading a American/British children's book and developing ideas form it to her roommate who she might have thought seen and heard different versions of her culture.
2) Some ways text shape our understanding of the world is that someone in the modern world post a theory about the government someone else can take that and make it s "this is going to happen" and panic can be ceased all over the world even thought someone misunderstood it from being real to it actually it actually being a theory
3) My definition of powerful text is text in which is spread to many people in a short or long period of time causing them in a shift of mindset!

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I feel like with the single stories is that they are so many books that are based out of white people or made by white people while there is not too much books made by black authors

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What resonates with me most from the ted talk is when she was talking about how when she left for school to the states that her American roommate was shocked. Her roommate assumed that she didn't know how to use a stove, asked where she learned how to speak english so well and things of that nature. The way text shapes our understanding of the world is through books. For example I started reading Japanese comic books called "Manga" and Im obsessed with it and I probably will for a long time because It's what I love to do/read.

My definition of "Powerful Text" is you saying saying something or talking about a topic but with compassion and meaning behind it. You're speaking for a reason, not just to talk.

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- What resonated with me the most from TED talk is how many things she learned about different cultures at a young age.

- Texts shape our understanding of the world by believing or using our imagination of what we read, thinking that is true, but in reality, not everything that you read or see is actually true.

My definition of “powerful text”, is when someone speaks from the heart and not copy other people’s words.

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What resonates with me is the fact that the women compared herself to a American/British when she was a kid. Some way text shape our understanding of the world is that some kid would actually think about this because of what they see compared to them self. The meaning of a "Powerful text " is a text that can be spread and causes them to change their mindset.

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• The thing that resonated the most with me from the ted talk had to be the story about Fide. It gives a very good example of what a single story is, and how it can have an effect on your perception. By that I mean how it shows the way the single story of Fide prevented her from thinking the family was anything but poor.

• Texts and readings completely change our perspective of things when we're young and not able to tell the difference between fiction and reality, and even sometimes as teenagers and adults when we read the same kinds of books in excess. We get used to what we're exposed to. For example, only being exposed to fictitious things will lead to fictitious thinking, while only being exposed to books about white characters will make the connection in your mind from books to them being about white people all the time.

•My definition of a powerful text is a text that changes the perception or opinion of whoever reads it. If it has that kind of power over people's opinions or ideals, then it can not only bring power to others, but is powerful in itself.

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-What resonates with me from the TED talk is that what you grow up reading or listening to can determine your point of view in the world and how you see people. You start to stereotype these things just from the little you know.  The text shapes our understanding of the world by just feeding in those stereotypes,which won't help our understanding as we are only reading or listening to one part of the story and not the whole thing.  My understanding of "powerful text" is that it could be a book or speech that will effect on people's feeling or believes.

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What resonates with me most from this Ted Talk is how the lady says how people first impression are usually bad. Not because they are bad but because of they have heard. The things people put in their heads to make them think terrible things about other people they don’t even know yet. This is a sign of propaganda that how people are being judge based of what others say. Like how she was saying that her roommate felt bad for her because what she was told is that Africa was a poor place. And that they didn’t know anything about technology as her roommate thought that she didn’t know how to use a stove.

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What Resonates with me from the Ted talk is how smart the women was at a young age and how she struggled when she was younger.

They can shape our understanding by helping us find out new information that people didn't know before.

My Definition of powerful text is a text having a strong effect or change on someone life.

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1. With this ted talk, what resonated with me  the most was the topic of this ted talk because with things being more chotic as years go by, people can be affected by stories and words that can either impact someones prespective on a negitive or a positive scale.

2. Words can impact someones prespective on people, politices, and etc. And all people fall victim of words and stories influencning us in the wrong way, but in another way, words can greatly influence people's dreams and goals in life.

3. For me the definition "powerful text" is a word that is impactful or influential to someone or something.

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What resonates me with the ted talk is how what someone teaches to you as a will become part of you because as a child you were just taught to pretty much belive anything that any adult told you

Any resource of knowledge you want to belive in as an adult you try to figure out if its true as to when your a kid its completely different you belive anything

My definition of a powerful text is to motivate or to change someones perspective of something possibly also give them reality so they realize whats going on around them

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What I felt like resonated with me the most from the Ted talk was when she was speaking about how when she had came to America people solely judge her based on where she was from.

The way that I think that a text may shape our understanding of the world is by allowing us to have or get different perspectives of the world from just a text. In addition, I also feel like it allows us to collect important information about the world and what goes on around us in general.

My definition of a powerful text would be a text with an honest and unrestricted feeling to it, and a text that can or leaves a lasting impression on you or your life.

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1.how it says that sometimes people’s first impression of someone are bad Because maybe they heard someone that said something bad about that person without knowing that person yet they right away saying they are bad person.

2. They can shape our understanding Because they help us find new information about the person that we didn’t know which is important.

3 for me the word powerful text means a would that is very influential and important word.

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~what resonates with me most from the ted talk is when she was a kid she had mostly American story  that were white blue eyes never really where she from

~the ways the texts shape our understanding of the world is stereotyping and believe it or believing what the world(someone) said instead of find out the truth yourself

~my definition of powerful text is a act or saying something very touching to people and speaking truth and change someone mindset

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~What resonates with me most from the TED talk is when the woman basically said that when she was younger she couldn't relate to her books mainly because the books she was provided with when she was younger was about white people, and it just made me think of when how i was younger and how most of the books i read where mostly about white people and animals.
~ Some text shapes gave us an understanding that most of these stereotypes that are said are true and make them seem has fact and make society believe that those stereotypes are the truth and seen has the truth when it's really not.
~My definition of "powerful text" is when a saying or speech ,poem ,story, book, etc had a really strong connection to you and impacts you in a way that leads to be determined.

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What resonated with me most from the TED talk was that stereotypes are incomplete.

Texts shape our understanding of the world by letting us have a better view on certain things. They also help us get more knowledge on many different topics and we get better understanding on things.

My definition of a powerful text is a strong meaningful text, a text with detail, a genuine text, a text with truth, honesty, and respect.

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- What resonates with me from the TED talk is like how she said about stereotypes being incomplete people always go with what they heard but never from what they seen or real life experiences they always go from with one person perspective and it keeps taking turns like if it’s a circle and it ends up becoming everyone’s perspective .

- Text shape our understanding of the world let’s us be able to understand other peoples point of view and being able to expand what we already know and with what we should know and make us understand and realize a lot more .

- My definition for a powerful text is when they show the part nobody wants to know about the part nobody talks about where you can realize the truth in center ways  .

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1. The thing that resonated me with the Ted talk is that the more someone says something about a certain thing, it becomes the "first layer" of that thing, but when you go deeper, its a different story.

2. Texts shape our perception of the world because those texts come from many different people with different perspectives. So, its clear that their view would change our own.

3. My definition of a powerful text is that it greatly impacts you because you directly resonate it, or it gives you information that surprises you. It can also be powerful by popular opinion, sadly.

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1 - what resonates most to me is how smart the woman is at such a young age, & how she still struggled.
2 - texts can shape our learning in many ways when it comes to learning. when you read a text online, you’re learning and your knowledge is getting more & more.
3 - to me, “powerful text” means something that could be relatable and hit you really hard or something that’s really important and could really effect something / someone.

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i agree with everyone

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What resonated with me from the ted talk ,is how reading stories as young kids really does limit the imagination, and how its very none inclusive. Text shapes our understading of the world by being incluzive in how other parts of the world or other people from other places of the world are and teaching us more about them. My defention of a powerful text is a text that changes the way you veiw somthing by opinig your mind to all the other posabilitys there are.

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What resonates with me is how the point of view of the teller can change the interpretation of the real story...
Texts shape our world because it is our way of communicating. Via reading and writing, we only know what we are told
A powerful text is something that moves you, and can tell the truth in a way everyone can understand it