https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk After watching Adichie's TedTalk, respond to each of the following prompts. Please put your name as the title. en-us 2017-12-05 01:57:13 UTC 2022-10-21 00:33:01 UTC hello@padlet.com gina_lassandro https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2252913408 Tips: Reference sentences you highlighted in the transcript. These quotes should be strong and thematic, in that they hint at deeper meaning within her talk.]]> 2022-08-01 17:21:32 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2252913408 gina_lassandro https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2252914158 2022-08-01 17:23:18 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2252914158 gina_lassandro https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2252914611 2022-08-01 17:24:13 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2252914611 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2272798392 "All of these stories make me who I am. But to insist on only these negative stories is to flatten my experience and to overlook the many other stories that formed me"
 "That when we reject the single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise."
These 2 quotes from Adiche really show how seeing things with an open mind and learning how to interpret stories can lead people being better and makes people more interesting

]]> 2022-08-26 15:18:57 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2272798392 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275013933 "The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem is not that the stereotypes are untrue, but that they are incomplete."
"All I had heard about them was how poor they were, so that it became impossible for me to see them as anything else but poor.Their poverty was my single story of them"]]> 2022-08-29 16:41:46 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275013933 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275015145 "The professor told me that my characters were too much like him, and educated and middle-class man. My characters drove cars. They were not starving. Therefore they were not authentically african."

"Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity."]]> 2022-08-29 16:42:41 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275015145 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275016269 1.
"I recently spoke at a university where a student told me that it was such a shame the Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. i told him that i had just read a novel called 'American Psycho' and that it was a shame that young americans were serial murderers."

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"When we reject a single story, when we realize that there is no single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise."]]> 2022-08-29 16:43:33 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275016269 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275016961 ¨Although I still get quite irritable when Africa is referred to as a country, the most recent being my otherwise wonderful flight to Lagos two days ago, in which there was an announcement on the Virgin flight about the charity work in India, Africa and other countries.¨

¨But I also had grandfathers who died in refugee camps. My cousin Polle died because he could not get adequate healthcare. One of my closest friends, Okoloma, died in a plane crash because our fire trucks didn't have water.¨]]> 2022-08-29 16:44:09 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275016961 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275018600 "The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story."

"I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature." ]]> 2022-08-29 16:45:41 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275018600 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275019231 Never truly base a place or person or thing off of just one story. You should always get a deeper perspective and get to know whatever it is better. ]]> 2022-08-29 16:46:17 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275019231 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275021001 I think that the message of her talk is that if you are only told one thing about a person or country, and believe that all the people of country are the same, that you will never understand the country. Her main message is that every person is different, and cannot be understood as one large group.]]> 2022-08-29 16:47:55 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275021001 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275021124 "So that is how to create a sing story, show a people as one thing, as only one thing,over and over again, and that is what they become."
"Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be to empower and to humanize."]]> 2022-08-29 16:48:02 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275021124 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275021283 I think the message of the TED talk is about people mistreating and misunderstanding the African people. Everyone is caught up in their own world and nobody is paying attention to the people in Africa. Some people call it a country, and some people think Africans don't matter because of the color of their skin.]]> 2022-08-29 16:48:10 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275021283 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275023504 "I too would think that Africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful people, fighting senseless wars, dying of poverty and AIDS, unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind, white foreigner." 

"Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and malign, but stories can also be used to empower and humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity." ]]> 2022-08-29 16:49:50 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275023504 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275023584 Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity. I would like to end with this thought: That when we reject the single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.]]> 2022-08-29 16:49:54 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275023584 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275024651 "All of these stories make me who I am. But to insist on only these negative stories is to flatten my experience and to overlook the many other stories that formed me. The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story."
"Start the story with the arrows of the Native Americans, and not with the arrival of the British, and you have an entirely different story. Start the story with the failure of the African state, and not with the colonial creation of the African state, and you have an entirely different story."]]> 2022-08-29 16:50:49 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275024651 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275026756 1. ¨ All I had heard about them was how poor they were, so that it had become impossible for me to see them as anything else but poor. Their poverty was my single story of them.¨ 
2. ¨ ... but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people,but stories can also repair that broken dignity.¨]]> 2022-08-29 16:52:10 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275026756 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275026964 I think that the ted talk message was never take one side of the story. Never base your opinion of someone or something because of one story. Everyone has different experiences and opinions so you can't tell the whole story based off one point of veiw.]]> 2022-08-29 16:52:22 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275026964 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275029245       Both Jem Scout and Dill all judged Boo to be an awful, cannibal/murderer based on different versions of the same story. 
       More than that the entire town judged Tom before they even heard his story based off of a single story about his race, and how everyone is the same. 

]]> 2022-08-29 16:54:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275029245 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275029637 The talk connects to the novel because both the novel and the talk deal with the "single story", and how a single story can affect peoples views of each other. In both the novel and the talk, people understanding multiple stories rather than just one could avoid problems.]]> 2022-08-29 16:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275029637 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275029829 This connects to ¨To Kill a Mockingbird¨ because TKAM had a lot of racism going on and in the TED talk, people were being racist to the African people. Also, people never really cared about the colored people because they were different. In the talk, people never really go out of their way and help the Africans. Same in TKAM.]]> 2022-08-29 16:54:35 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275029829 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275030610 A person or a place cannot be described/defined by only one story, especially a story where you don't see every side or every cause or reason. It takes more than one story to know someone or to know a people or a place. What we consume through the media may influence of idea of what a people or place. Event though not all stereotypes are false, they are not complete, so we shouldn't let our assumed knowledge of a place or people affect our idea of them.]]> 2022-08-29 16:55:12 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275030610 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275031803 Many people believe things, they think they know about things they really don't have much information about. Dont judge anyone, or their back round just because they have something different from you. Be respectful to everyone's back round and culture. ]]> 2022-08-29 16:56:11 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275031803 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275032097 The message of Adichie's talk was that no one should be based on how they look or how they are stereotyped. Before you judge a person and say something about them you need to get to know how they really are. You have to know what their life is really like and know their story. ]]> 2022-08-29 16:56:25 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275032097 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275032509 To never make an opinion/idea/stereotype/characterization on a specific person, group or race etc. off of one thing you've heard or read. That there is more to a person, group, race etc. then what you've heard or read, that people etc. have more layers to them than what you hear. Overall that people aren't just the one characteristic you've heard about them or have been taught to believe and that you cannot truly form an opinion/idea of a person, group, race etc. until you've met and spoken/been around about them.]]> 2022-08-29 16:56:44 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275032509 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275033576 "The professor told me that my characters are too much like him, an educated and middle-class man. My characters drove cars. They were not starving. Therefore they were not authentically."

"The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story."]]> 2022-08-29 16:57:28 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275033576 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275033606 I believe the message of Adichie's talk was to give people a better understanding of how stereotyping people can make you miss out on their real story. She gave examples of this through her TED talk. Her roommate stereotyped her because she was from africa, her professor in college said that her story wasn't accurate because they weren't poor and hungry, and she thought that just because Fide's family was poor that they were incapable of doing anything.]]> 2022-08-29 16:57:30 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275033606 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275034528 "My roommate had a single story of Africa: a single story of catastrophe. In this single story, there was no possibility of Africans being similar to her in any way, no possibility of feelings more complex than pity, and no possibility of a connection as human equals." 

"The professor told me that my characters were too much like him, an educated and middle-class man. My characters drove cars. They were not starving. Therefore they were not authentically African."

While the quotes I chose were not all positive or motivating I found that they really hit hard.]]> 2022-08-29 16:58:13 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275034528 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275034699 1.    "The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete."

2. "The consequence of a single story is this: It robs people of dignity."]]> 2022-08-29 16:58:19 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275034699 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275036776 "... seen and heard different versions of this single story, as had a professor, who once told me that my novel was not 'authentically African'. ...I was quite willing to contend that there were a number of things wrong with the novel ...but I had not quite imagined that it had failed at achieving something called African authenticity. ...I did not know what African authenticity was. The professor told me that my characters were to much like him, an educated and middle-class man. My characters drove cars. They were not starving. Therefore they were not authentically African."

"...that is how to create a single story, show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become."]]> 2022-08-29 16:59:51 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275036776 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275036966 In "To Kill a Mockingbird", the town of Maycomb judged Tom Robinson before they even heard his case. Even after they heard his side of the story, the people still convicted him when it was clear he did not commit the crime of which he was accused. Most of the townsfolk believed, despite Tom's perspective, that because of his race he had to be guilty. They judged him on what they had been told defined people of his race before they even met him. They were unwilling to believe that maybe not everyone was the same, and they didn't have the full story.]]> 2022-08-29 17:00:01 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275036966 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275037454 I believe that the message of Adichie's talk is to destroy stereotypes of others by telling more than one person's point of view. Since we were little, we've heard about the 'countless' people in poverty, suffering, and dying. Often times, young children think that what they've heard is the only thing that happens in Africa. When in fact, this is not true whatsoever. In my opinion, I doubt you could find many people walking down the street who could name 5 different countries from Africa. This is because it is simply not taught unless you take higher specified courses in high school. Because of this, you don't learn about different cultures as a kid. I highly doubt that in my childhood I had read an "authentic" book from Africa. This can be seen with Chimamanda Adichie's American roomate. Because she had never been exposed to Nigerian culture, she had assumed those stereotypes that children are taught since they were young. ]]> 2022-08-29 17:00:22 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275037454 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275038054 ¨So that is how to create a single story, show people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become."
¨Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.¨]]> 2022-08-29 17:00:49 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275038054 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275040051 This connects to " To Kill a Mockingbird" because it has a lot to do with a one sided story and judgment of people in general. In the book the whole town judged Tom and didn't even want to hear his side of the story because of his race. This connects to how Adichie's roommate judged her before she even had a chance to hear what life was like for Adichie in Nigeria. ]]> 2022-08-29 17:02:13 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275040051 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275041174 They both relay to the "single story" with basing your opinion on someone because of one thing you've heard about them/someone they associate with. They also can compare in the sense that the ted talk doesn't necessarily correlate with racism but steorotizing and not hearing the full story. As well as both also relate in the manner that in neither the book or Ted Talk no one goes out of the way to pay attention/listen/hear out the side being made assumptions about.]]> 2022-08-29 17:03:03 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275041174 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275042777 Not everyone in a certain group is the same. For example, I am a Stoeffler every bit as much as my brothers but that doesn't mean that I really like cereal. Just because someone is black doesn't mean they aren't from America, just because someone is LGBTQ doesn't mean they will dress all up in pride flags, just because someone calls themself a Christian doesn't mean they think they are better than everyone else. I know none of those topics were from the video but I think that is what Adichie met when she talked about single stories, saying people were assumed all the same because of ethnicity or beliefs.]]> 2022-08-29 17:04:15 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275042777 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275043026 This connects to the novel because in both cases people made assumptions because of what the person looked like or came from. The white town of Maycomb assumed that Tom Robinson had raped Mayella before the trial even happened simply because he was a colored man. The same way Adichie's roommate assumed she didn't know how to use a stove cause she was from Africa. ]]> 2022-08-29 17:04:27 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275043026 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275044461 I believe the message is to not create a single story for people. When u make a single story about somebody you're only listening and seeing what other people say about them. You're only looking at the bad things and stereotyping them. I believe Adichie's message was to also look at the good things in people and get to know them better.]]> 2022-08-29 17:05:40 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275044461 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275045036 In this ted talk, the author talks about how people can buy into a "single story" and how people are blinded by things they hear and never take the time to fully understand people or a culture. TKAM is very similar, people in the book have a single story of how they think Tom and many other colored people are. Despite his side of the story and all the points that line up to him being innocent, people still refuse to believe it wasn't him because of the stereotypes they have been told and believe. If people in this story were able to not be deceived by this and understood there is so much more to a person, Tom would get the respect he deserves]]> 2022-08-29 17:06:00 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275045036 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275046518 Do not base a people or place off of one imagery given. Not everything is what it is painted out to be. If you take writing, for example, in order to make a good character they must have layers. When we are given a character we only look at the top layer instead of peeling them off. What Adichie's basically saying is that there is not one story. There is never one story.]]> 2022-08-29 17:07:14 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275046518 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275047636 Both Tom Robinson and Arthur Radley were judged because of single stories told about them. Arthur was said to be cruel and insane in his single story when he was just shy and lonely. Tom Robinson was labeled as a criminal because of his skin when really he had a family just as anybody else.]]> 2022-08-29 17:08:09 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275047636 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275047925 Everyone in the town of Maycomb discriminated against Tom Robinson because of his race. They also hated on Atticus for defending him. Everyone assumed Tom was guilty because of his race.]]> 2022-08-29 17:08:24 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275047925 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275049233 Never be quick to judge someone (or in this case, a culture) based on one simple story. The world is not that black and white, and most likely never will be. For example, there are men who beat their wives that also love and care for their children deeply, that same man goes to work every day and never got drunk in his life, but because he does one terrible thing thatś all the public sees; a violent, heartless man, a woman too weak to leave, and traumatized children with no way out. Even though this is all true, there's much more to the story than meets the eye. As Adichie says, ¨The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.]]> 2022-08-29 17:09:29 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275049233 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275052908 I think that the main message of this ted talk is to spread awareness to the idea of a "single story", which means that many people refuse to believe people different them are no greater and no less than them. She talk about how every person and culture has there good and bad but should now be labeled by only the bad. She also talks about her experiences as a child, her roommates in college and her travelling experiences. She uses all her knowledge to help people understand different people more.]]> 2022-08-29 17:12:07 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275052908 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275054414 This connects to "To Kill a Mockingbird" because it has a lot to do with judging people from what others say and think about them. In the book Scout, Dill, Jem and some of the neighbors all believed that Boo Radely was psycho and a cannibal. They all made false accusations about him and didn't even know him. Another way this connects to the book is everyone judged Tom Robinson for what they heard about. him.]]> 2022-08-29 17:13:20 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275054414 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275087053 "The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story."

"Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and malign, but stories can also be used to empower and humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity."]]> 2022-08-29 17:38:54 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275087053 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275088289 I believe that Adichies message was that both a places story and a persons story matters to both as a whole. Adichie says she is a storyteller and I find that description accurate because she uses her personal expiriences to teach others. Adichie wants us to learn that a places story including it and its peoples struggles and their ancestry can lead to people relating more and understanding their similarities]]> 2022-08-29 17:39:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275088289 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275103015 The book "To Kill A Mocking Bird" is all about misjudment due to poor understanding and how people can seem evil or strange due to being miss understood. 
Boo Radley is misunderstood and his story as well as where he really comes from is not really taken into account. Adichie's speech comes into play here because she really wanted people to understand that a persons story can let people earn their dignity back and let them continue to write a good story.]]> 2022-08-29 17:51:38 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275103015 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275118536 "So that is how to create a single story, show people as one thing, as only on thing, over and over again, and that is what they become."

"Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity."]]> 2022-08-29 18:04:19 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275118536 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275119388 "So that is how to create a single story, show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become."

"But to insist on only these negative stories is to flatten my experience and to overlook the many other stories that formed me."]]> 2022-08-29 18:05:05 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275119388 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275119578 "the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story the only story."

"Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize."]]> 2022-08-29 18:05:16 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275119578 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275120363 I think the message of the TED Talk is that one story can never explain an entire person or thing. Everything has layers and depth, and one person's perspective can never sum up an entire person or place. The TED Talk also emphasizes that there are consequences to only knowing one story about something, and that it pays to be well educated and rounded in that topic.]]> 2022-08-29 18:05:58 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275120363 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275120948 In "To Kill a Mockingbird" the people of Maycomb judge Tom Robinson. Even after hearing his side of the story, he was found guilty of a crime he very clearly did not do. He was was given a single story based on what the town thought of people of his race. This connects to how she judges Fide for being poor and how her roommate judged her before knowing what life was actually like for her in Nigeria. ]]> 2022-08-29 18:06:28 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275120948 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275122607 I believe that the message of Adichie's talk was to not make judgment off of one thing you may hear. This is shown when she expresses, "The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete." As she describes, leaving certain parts out of someones story can create a vital difference. ]]> 2022-08-29 18:07:51 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275122607 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275122965 I think that the message behind Adichie's talk was that everyone has a story. Every country every people and that they are all important. It is not always easy to accept or to find the truth on both sides but they are equally important. Everyone deserves to have their story heard because stories and words hold meaning and power. We all need to widen our horizons because when we know both stories then we can see a complete picture of the world. ]]> 2022-08-29 18:08:09 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275122965 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275124708 1. "The professor told me that my characters were too much like him, an educated and middle-class man. My characters drove cars. They were not starving. Therefore they were not authentically African"

2. "I recently spoke at a university where a student told me that it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had just read a novel called "American Psycho" and that it was such a shame that young Americans were serial murderers."

]]> 2022-08-29 18:09:41 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275124708 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275125583 "So that is how to create a single story, show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become."
"Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person."]]> 2022-08-29 18:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275125583 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275126160 "Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person."
"The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story."]]> 2022-08-29 18:10:54 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275126160 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275126590 I think the main message of this TED Talk is to show people not to label others or give them a "single story". The TED Talk also shows that leaving out important details of people's lives can really make a difference in how you see them. We need to give everyone a chance to tell their story on their own. ]]> 2022-08-29 18:11:16 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275126590 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275126650 In "To Kill A Mockingbird" the people in Maycomb judge Tom Robinson based on his race before they had even heard what happened. And even after they had heard both sides of the story, many people sided with Mayella because based on their one dimensional understanding of Tom, it was the most plausible. The book mentions how people will always believe the white man over the man of color, and this is because of prejudice based on stereotypes from single stories. In this case, the consequence of basing their perspective of someone on a single story was sending an innocent man to jail to be killed.]]> 2022-08-29 18:11:18 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275126650 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275126942 Adichie's message in her Ted Talk emphasises the danger that comes from assumptions about people. Everyone has a different perspective and story, so to assume everyone's story is the same is the way harmful stereotypes form. For example Adichie's roommate thought that because she was from Africa she didn't know how to cook on a stove. Or that she listened to "Tribal Music" ]]> 2022-08-29 18:11:36 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275126942 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275128776 "So that is how to create a single story, show a people as one thing, and only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become."

"The consequence of the single story is this: it robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar."]]> 2022-08-29 18:13:04 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275128776 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275128884 "That when we reject the single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise."
"The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story."]]> 2022-08-29 18:13:10 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275128884 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275129022 This talk connects with the novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird" because it introduces and goes into depth on how you should not make the judgment of someone through "a single story". In "To Kill A Mockingbird", Jem and Scout had made a judgment of Boo Radley (Arthur) off of rumors they had heard. Since Boo Radley was never seen out of his house, they saw him as a loner, and would create stories and accusations that could not necessarily be proven. ]]> 2022-08-29 18:13:17 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275129022 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275129317 I think that the message of Adichie's talk is to not judge someone off one thing that you have heard about them. Keep an open mind about other people, even if you have heard the same thing over and over again. If you need to know more about people or a people, you could always ask others or research it.]]> 2022-08-29 18:13:30 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275129317 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275129789 "I think, is how impressionable and vulnerable we are in the face of a story, particularly as children. Because all I had read were books in which characters were foreign." "My American roommate was shocked by me. She asked where I had learned to speak English so well, and was confused when I said that Nigeria happened to have English as its official language. She asked if she could listen to what she called my "tribal music." these quotes show that until you really learn what other cultures are like you will begin to believe what others tell you ]]> 2022-08-29 18:13:49 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275129789 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275131023 Never assume how people act and what they are like by just reading one book about it. Also you should always look at other people's point of view before you make assumptions. Her roommate also made assumptions about her just because of where she came form.
 ]]> 2022-08-29 18:14:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275131023 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275132220 If you can help it try not to make assumptions about people and their cultures without taking the time to learn more about who they are as a person and what other peoples lives may be like.]]> 2022-08-29 18:16:01 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275132220 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275133492 The message of Adichie's talk is that one must have a full understanding of a culture or person before they can judge it. Many times a group will have one collective opinions based off of one story, which will give them the wrong impression. We need to have multiple different perspectives, and decide from there what we believe. The important thing is that we don't judge before we have multiple stories.]]> 2022-08-29 18:17:13 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275133492 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275135759 Jem, Dill, and scout were making assumptions about Arthur Radley and when Scout actually got to meet Arthur she realized he isn't a bad person. He is actually a nice person and doesn't mean any harm]]> 2022-08-29 18:19:05 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275135759 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275136729 This talk connects to the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" because all the kids judge Arthur Radley based off of what they have heard about him. All they heard were bad and scary things, so they only thought about him in a bad way. When they found out that he wasn't a creepy person, they were surprised because all they had heard were the bad things.]]> 2022-08-29 18:19:57 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275136729 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275136943 Scout, Jem and Dill all made assumptions that Boo was a murder just because of a few stories that they had heard from people in town. If they would had actually talked to Boo they would have had a very different story and that he was actually a nice person. He came to see Jem when he got hurt even though he had not come out before.  

]]> 2022-08-29 18:20:09 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275136943 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275138748 Adichie's talk was very pertinent to the lesson in "To Kill a Mockingbird." The lesson in the book was about assuming things about people. The entire Black population of Maycomb were stereotyped. The Ewells were both the victims of a one sided story and the proponents for putting one out in the world. "Boo" radley was also a victim of a one sided story. Adichie explained how damaging these stories can be. ]]> 2022-08-29 18:21:46 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275138748 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275139214 This talk can connect to "To Kill a Mockingbird" in two ways. For one, the people of Maycomb judged Tom Robinson, and assumed him guilty because of their prior opinions based off of single stories. They automatically made up their mind about him. The other case is that Scout, Jem, and Dill all think that Boo is a crazed person. They have this opinions because the only thing they really know about him is that he stays in his house all the time, which makes him seem crazy to them.]]> 2022-08-29 18:22:12 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275139214 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275139285 I think the message of Adichie's talk is that there is more than one story. When you hear a story of someone you shouldn't come to a conclusion off of that one story. You should look at different perspectives and look, not only for differences, but similarities as well.]]> 2022-08-29 18:22:16 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275139285 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275140470 "What this demonstrates, I think, is how impressionable and vulnerable we are in the face of a story, particularly as children." 
"In fact, I did not know what African authenticity was. The professor told me that my characters were too much like him, an educated and middle-class man. My characters drove cars. They were not starving. Therefore they were not authentically African."]]> 2022-08-29 18:23:27 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275140470 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275150349 I think that the message of Adichie's talk was to warn against listening to any one story about something. It would be like looking at a single facet of a gem or stone and you would only ever see it from that angle and not comprehend how complex it is when you look at it from different angles. So you would need to here multiple different stories about the thing so that you can begin to comprehend how beautiful and complex it really is and so you can learn to understand it.]]> 2022-08-29 18:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275150349 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275150440 1) "Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person."
2) "The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete." ]]> 2022-08-29 18:32:03 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275150440 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275151996 Assumptions about people create a harmful prejudice against some people that can fuel hatred and suspicion. People like Tom Robinson have untrue assumptions made about him, like that he is a dangerous man that should be put to death. This leads to a mob of people storming the jail cell where he was held. "Boo Radley" also gets assumptions made about him. The children and townspeople heard rumors that he eats cats and squirrels. People have a stigma about Boo Radley which leads the children to try to get him to come out of his house. Just like Adichie's theme in her Ted Talk, we see the role that assumptions has in To Kill a Mockingbird.  ]]> 2022-08-29 18:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275151996 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275154116 In "To Kill A Mockingbird" Scout, Jem, and Dill heard the rumors about Boo Radley. They said mostly negative things and were focusing on the single story of him. Adichie said "The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story." At the end of the book Scout, jem, and Dill realized that Boo Radley wasn't as horrible as the rumors said he was and that there is more than one story.]]> 2022-08-29 18:35:25 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275154116 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275154177 One should not base their opinion/feelings about a person or group on one cumulative story. Different accounts and perspectives can change one's view exponentially. It is important to have empathy as well as reason with your thoughts and evaluating others' stories.]]> 2022-08-29 18:35:29 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275154177 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275154456 "When we reject the single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise"  

"Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person"]]> 2022-08-29 18:35:44 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275154456 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275224293 This connects to the story in multiple different ways. One example is the person Boo Radley is said to be compared to how kind he was to Scout and the other children. He was made out to be a murderer and a malicious person, but it turned out he was the opposite. Another example of this is a positive story Atticus enforced on Scout and Jem. Atticus did not allow his children to misjudge people based upon their race, unlike most of the town (Tom's case).]]> 2022-08-29 19:42:46 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275224293 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275283026 Scout was afraid of Boo because the people only told stories of how bad he was and bad things that happened to his family. Since she only heard variations of how bad he is and that she should leave him alone she didn't really get to know him, but someone from the house left gifts i the tree for her and Jem and covered for her when she and Jem broke into his yard to meet him. Scout then learns later that the reason why he doesn't leave the house is because maybe he wants to stay away from the world, the good and the bad so he may think it is better to pretend it doesn't exist and to try to stay away even if it means missing out on life.]]> 2022-08-29 20:53:43 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275283026 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275312456 I believe that the message was not to stereotype a person, group or race by a single story that someone made up or that you've read about. In Adichie's Ted talk she talked about her roommate stereotyping her with a single story about only coming from an African background. Therefore her roommate judged her based on the knowledge she had of Africa before she got to know who Adichie was. ]]> 2022-08-29 21:38:09 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275312456 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275321378 This Ted talk relates "To Kill a Mockingbird" because both Tom and Arthur had single stories written about them. Without even meeting Tom or hearing his story the white townsfolk automatically assumed he was guilty because of the color of his skin. Arthur had a single story written about him because he never came out and the townsfolk spread rumors of him being a criminal and a horrible person, even though he was kind and shy.]]> 2022-08-29 21:52:15 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275321378 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275321649 We can not judge a person or group of persons just based off of what we hear about them. We can not take a side of anything, without hearing both sides fully. We can never judge a person just by who they are or what they seem like because we never truly know a people unless they give their view and you hear their story.]]> 2022-08-29 21:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275321649 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275323423 In TKAM there were many stereotypes like the TedTalk mentioned. For one example, the separation between the white church and black church. Even Jem and Scout started being discriminated against when they went with Cal into her church. People viewed only bad things (mostly rumors) about Boo Radley as well, but when Scout actually met him, she knew that he was really just a good person, and not at all what the rumors and steriotypes made him out to be.]]> 2022-08-29 21:55:46 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275323423 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275341406 The connection to TKAM and "The Danger of a Single story" is judging a book by its cover. In the story Jean Louise describes what she thinks of Boo Radley and how he must live, and what he must do, and this thought process is happening due to the story and or rumor she has been fed by the community of Maycomb.]]> 2022-08-29 22:26:03 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275341406 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275411376 "The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story."

"Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity."]]> 2022-08-30 00:09:46 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275411376 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275416591 I believe the meaning of Adichie's talk is that you should never base your opinion of something on a single case. Looking at a broad set of circumstances will tell a more truthful story of a situation. There are many more layers to things than what meets the eye.]]> 2022-08-30 00:15:00 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275416591 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275420497 "The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story"

"Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity."

]]> 2022-08-30 00:18:54 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275420497 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275426673 In Harper Lee's, "To Kill a Mockingbird", Tom Robinson, a black man, is falsely accused and convicted of raping a white woman. Even before the trial, the outcome of the trial was obvious due to the color of Tom's skin and the prejudiced nature of the southern United States. Similarly, Adichie's roommate assumed that because she was a woman of color from Africa, she would listen to "tribal" music and not know how to use home appliances. Because of preconceived notions regarding race, two black people were unfairly profiled simply because of the color of their skin.]]> 2022-08-30 00:24:34 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275426673 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275429484 Similar to the stereotypes we acquire as young children, the people of Maycomb in "To Kill a Mockingbird" unfairly judged Tom Robinson's case without giving him a fair chance. Because Tom was of darker skin tone the jury of the case, which consisted of only white males (who were likely racist), had come to a verdict for Tom before hearing his argument. Not only this, but most of the men on the jury probably had relatives that served under the CSA during the Civil War and further developed a one-sided story of African Americans. These statements are furthered when we take a look at Chimamanda Adichie's speech. In her speech, she discusses the stereotypes of people that live in Africa. Such as Adichie's roommate. She thought that Chimamanda did not know English, how to read, how to cook, etc. We further this statement with Jem, Scout, and Dill's assumptions of Boo (Arthur) Radley. Because Boo never came out of his house, and everyone had told them rumors of him. Therefore they continuously tried to pull the poor man out of his house to meet him. ]]> 2022-08-30 00:26:53 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275429484 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275453710 "So that is how to create a single story, show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become."

"The consequence of the single story is this: it robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar."]]> 2022-08-30 00:46:37 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275453710 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275463110 Adichie's story is to convey the message that stereotyping is strongly based on one's prejudice. In which it is due to the repetition on specific topics and completely ignoring the other facts that we are all so similar. She constantly repeats that she and others base a person off of stereotypes but then are so surprised/confused to figure out that what they think is only a small part of the picture of a person.]]> 2022-08-30 00:54:27 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275463110 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275473230 This talk connects to "To Kill a Mockingbird" in so many different ways. As for one, everybody in the town of Maycomb has a strong prejudice to those of color due to the repetition of their single story. But due to Atticus taking up the case of Tom Robinson, more town folks started opening their mindsets to the other possibilities and started to side with the defendant. ]]> 2022-08-30 01:02:34 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275473230 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275553504 "When I learned, some years ago, that writers were expected to have had really unhappy childhoods to be successful, I began to think about how I could invent horrible things my parents had done to me."

"All I had heard about them was how poor they were, so that it had become impossible for me to see them as anything else but poor. Their poverty was my single story of them."]]> 2022-08-30 02:06:45 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275553504 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275559992 "... Show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become." 

"The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete."]]> 2022-08-30 02:12:08 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275559992 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275579125 I think the main message of the TED Talk was to show the sterotypes people have on others and how it can effect the differnces in a person. Adichie talked about how she had this image of a family based on one word that was given to her to describe this family. Later on she learns that this family is much more than the word she invisioned them to be and they couldn't be based on her thoughts. Another main message I think Adichie included in her story was the fact theres more to everyones story besides what is presented to them and we need to get it out of our head that someone can't be based on what rumors or stories we've heard about them.]]> 2022-08-30 02:27:25 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275579125 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275590127 A really big connection between "To Kill a Mockingbird" and the TED Talk was the stereotyping. In the book Scout, Dill, and Jem all have this image of Boo carved into their minds because of stories that had been told to them. The TED Talk we hear from the speaker about how she stereotyped people and how people stereotyped her in their heads because they were given these stories to invison others. Many people in both the book and video jumped to quick assumptions about the community because they were labled before a person could even meet them theirselves.]]> 2022-08-30 02:35:59 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2275590127 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2276108203 "They sat around, reading the book themselves, listening to me read the book, and a kind of paradise."
"My roommate had a single story of Africa: a single story of catastrophe."]]> 2022-08-30 11:43:41 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2276108203 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2276109342 I think the message of the ted talk is to not assume things right away. You never know someone's story! You can't just know half of it, and assume the other half. You have to find the whole story and truth before you start doing anything.]]> 2022-08-30 11:45:05 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2276109342 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2276115242 In "To Kill a Mockingbird" it seems that the whole town just assumes that Tom R. committed the crime because he was black, and a white woman said he did it. Everyone automatically thought he did it without looking at the bigger picture and all the evidence behind it. If the town did look at the evidence and the bigger picture I believe that the outcome would be different.]]> 2022-08-30 11:50:57 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2276115242 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2276116533 In both instances, there was a topic of racism, and people "killing a mockingbird" by hurting/discriminating innocent people for no reason. In TKAM, people judged and accused Tom Robinson for rape, just because he was black. In the Ted Talk, Adichie was judged by her roommate before they even knew her story. ]]> 2022-08-30 11:52:13 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2276116533 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2276116549 "Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity."

"When we reject the single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise."]]> 2022-08-30 11:52:14 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2276116549 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2276119583 One message I believe, is how stereotypes are very normalized and a "single story" doesn't define a person. Stereotypes have caused people overtime to make assumptions about people they know nothing about. But these assumptions can be harmful and judging.]]> 2022-08-30 11:55:31 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2276119583 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2276123127 "So that is how to create a single story, show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become."

"The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem is not that the stereotypes are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story"]]> 2022-08-30 11:58:44 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2276123127 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2276124679 I think that the message of Archie's talk is that we can't assume things about people and their cultures just by reading one thing about them. We can't just judge someone or culture just by the things that we heard about them. we have to be open-minded and try to listen to different sides.]]> 2022-08-30 12:00:24 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2276124679 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2276141068 Stereotypes and being stereotypical is an issue in society. There is so much more to a person than just what they look like. You don't really know a person until you've walked in there shoes. ]]> 2022-08-30 12:13:57 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2276141068 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2276144316 I believe that the message of Adichie's talk was to never judge off of one trait. She talks about how many people assumed that she couldn't speak good English just because she was from Nigeria. She also mentioned how many judge off of things they see off the internet and hear from other people. ]]> 2022-08-30 12:16:15 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2276144316 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2276149292 This talk connects to the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" in many different ways. They both talk about stereotypes and "single stories". In the book they stereotype Tom Robinson because he is a black man and many people in Maycomb just hear "single stories" about his race. In the talk she talks about her roomate and her only knowing a few things about her culture and most of them weren't true. ]]> 2022-08-30 12:20:43 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2276149292 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2276152026 Scout, Jem, and Dill all thought that Boo was basically a mad man just based on the stories that they heard. Throughout the book, the story hints at Boo being more than people think he is, who he REALLY is.
When the court case rolls around, everyone knows that Tom is not guilty, but they still side with Bob Ewell because the classic stereotype of a black man is a bad one.]]> 2022-08-30 12:23:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2276152026 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2276236875 This talk connects to the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" in many ways. Both the talk and the novel talk about stereotypes in people. The entire town judged Tom based off a story about his race before they even got to know what he was like. Adichie's roommate also judged her because of where she was from before she even got to know anything about her.]]> 2022-08-30 13:25:54 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2276236875 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2277055223 Throughout ¨To Kill a Mockingbird¨ many characters face small town gossip based on one single story, as Adichie calls it. For example, Boo Radley is judged by most of the town based on one story from years ago, they labeled him violent, insane, cat and squirrel eater, and even a potential killer. However, even though Boo did in fact harm his father, Jem and Scout learn he is actually a kind (slightly awkward) man who looked after them their entire lives.]]> 2022-08-31 01:41:53 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2277055223 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2289553314 "She felt sorry for me even before she saw me. Her default position toward me as an african was a kind of patronizing, well-meaning pity."

"I remember first feeling slight surprise. And then i was overwhelmed with shame. I realized that i had been so immersed in the media coverage of mexicans that they had become one thing in my mind, the abject immigrant." ]]> 2022-09-09 12:07:22 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2289553314 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2289557187 I believe that the message is to show that a story of something is not always the complete truth. That portraying something with one description makes that the only description. When this occurs we end up knowing so little about something because we never thought that it cold be different or there could be more to the picture.]]> 2022-09-09 12:11:02 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2289557187 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2289561535 This connects with "To Kill a Mockingbird because the book shows a story with more. We may not have believed there were more to issues that occurred at the time. For example the great depression was known to be horrible and surviving was known to be difficult. But Atticus and Scout still live life in a less depressing mood.]]> 2022-09-09 12:15:12 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2289561535 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2349881342 The message behind this TED talk is that you shouldn't just judge someone off of what they look like. You also can't base off things from where a person are from. You need to learn about a person's life before you can even judge them for who they are.]]> 2022-10-21 00:27:16 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2349881342 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2349885322 It connects to the novel due to the fact people were judged for how they looked. People in the novel are judged for their "stories" even though no one really cared for their stories. Characters in the novel should have been played out better where they all were able to let their stories out so, others could see them who they really like.]]> 2022-10-21 00:30:28 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2349885322 https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2349888405 "Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and have to malign; but stories can be used to empower and to humanize."

"They make one story become the only story."]]> 2022-10-21 00:33:01 UTC https://padlet.com/gina_lassandro/AdichieTedTalk/wish/2349888405