Maged S Grade 12 English

   How many Lollipop moments have you created? Drew Dudley starts off by describing what a lollipop moment is, which is basically a moment where someone made you feel better in a certain way. He then explains that not only have we had these lollipop moments, but we were the reason for another person's one without even noticing. It can sometimes be scary to think about yourself as someone that powerful, to change someone's life. You may think "what if it's not true what I said, what if I ruin their life?". However, this is just an excuse we make to not think of ourselves as 'leaders'. Dudley states that "As long as we make leadership something bigger than us, as long as we keep leadership something beyond us, as long as we make it about changing the world, we give ourselves an excuse not to expect it"(0:40). He then explains how people have knowledge that can benefit others but are too afraid to show it. Leadership is about making people's liv...

Adichie believes that stories matter, nevertheless we often live our lives based on acknowledging or hearing only one story. And that we unconsciously operate from the perspective of a single story. "The danger of a single story," as Adichie puts into words in the very beginning of her Ted Talk, is that it can lead to incorrect assumptions, decisions, conclusions and misunderstandings.  Cultures all around the world are filled with fascinating stories that helped us develop a better understanding of the world. Nonetheless, we are still prone to making snap judgments about certain individuals or groups of people. This is the single storie's peril.  “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete,” said by Adichie, clearly states that the way people tell stories affects the story itself. “If you start the story with the failure of the African state rather than the colonial creation of the Afri...