ENGL 124 Grossmont College How We Can Make Racism a Solvable Problem Video Questions

I’m working on a humanities multi-part question and need an explanation to help me study.

INSTRUCTIONS

• This prewriting exercise will help you generate some content that you will be able to add to Essay 2.
• After you have watched the Ted Talk that you have selected to analyze in Essay 2 and have read the transcript for the Ted Talk, copy and paste the following questions into a Word or Google document, and then answer them.
• If you thoroughly answer the following questions, you will have an easier time doing the in-class writing for Essay 2, which you will write during Zoom class on Thursday, March 18.
• Ted talk Link: https://www.ted.com/talks/dr_phillip_atiba_goff_how_we_can_make_racism_a_solvable_problem_and_improve_policing/transcript

QUESTIONS

1. What is the title of the Ted Talk?
2. What is the speaker‘s name?
3. Who is the audience that the speaker seems to be appealing to?
4. What do you think is the purpose of the Ted Talk?
5. What is the thesis (or main point) of the Ted Talk?

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1. What is a rhetorical strategy used in the Ted Talk?
2. What is an example (or examples) of this rhetorical strategy? (Use direct quotations from the Ted Talk to illustrate this rhetorical strategy, put quotation marks around the quotation(s), and an in-text citation at the end of the quotation(s): (Speaker’s last name and the time where the quotation appears in the Ted Talk).
3. What might be the effect of this rhetorical strategy on the audience and why?________________________________________________________________________________________
4. What is a second rhetorical strategy used in the Ted Talk?
5. What is an example (or examples) of this second rhetorical strategy? (Use direct quotations from the Ted Talk to illustrate this rhetorical strategy, put quotation marks around the quotation(s), and an in-text citation at the end of the quotation(s): (Speaker’s last name and the time where the quotation appears in the Ted Talk).
6. What might be the effect of this second rhetorical strategy on the audience and why?________________________________________________________________________________________
7. What is a third rhetorical strategy used in the Ted Talk?
8. What is an example (or examples) of this third rhetorical strategy? (Use direct quotations from the Ted Talk to illustrate this rhetorical strategy, put quotation marks around the quotation(s), and an in-text citation at the end of the quotation(s): (Speaker’s last name and the time where the quotation appears in the Ted Talk).
9. What might be the effect of this third rhetorical strategy on the audience and why?