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Date: Sunday, December 6, 2020

Course code: MASS2113/10

TEDTalks 5 title: Well Brains by Video Games

 Video games affect the health of people. In June 2012, Daphne Bavelier who is a brain scientist gave a speech on TEDTalks about these effects especially the advantages. That’s because of the wrong ideas about this with people around the world.

 With many people, there is an idea that video games are associated with bad effects on people's health especially the brain. Most parents prefer that their children studying or reading books than playing video games. Even the newspapers focus on this weekly and what if there are good effects on the health of the video games.

 The most widespread idea among people is playing video games and set front screen more time make the eyesight worse and affect it badly. The result was shocking, the tests explained that people who spent more time playing video games their vision is well more than those who don’t play these games. So, video games can help those patients with low vision by retraining their brains for better vision.

 Another good point for video games, playing these games which related to the brain increasing the attention of people when they drive, read and other activities. So, these make changes in people's brains but are considered as good changes. Also, those who play these games can do many different tasks at one time and they are good at switching from task to another.

 Besides the good effects of video games on the brains and eyes, if people spent hours on the day-use it and play more, it will affect badly in their health. Daphne says that to take advantage of video games, people need to understand their benefits on the education and rehabilitation of patients. The benefits of these games came when people play with balance, between study, set with family and playing these games.

 There are training studies that when people come to the lab and doing some tasks like playing action games for months and the result showed that their performance became better. Brain scientists work on action games that have good and positive effects only by understand the good ingredients in it to promote their positive effects. All people should be careful with video games, also which will improve them and make their brains work in a good way.

 URL: https://podcasts.apple.com/om/podcast/your-brain-on-video-games-daphne-bavelier/id470623037?i=1000131853965

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In this audio, I tell you a story about the argentine soccer Diego Maradona, about him, his skills, championships and his successes in his career as a football player.

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There are sport competition held for whole world, one of these international competitions is the summer Olympic games which I am explaining in this illustration some of the sports that held in this event. 

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Date: Sunday, November 29, 2020

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Sports: Lifestyle and Benefits

 The first Olympic games happened in 776 BC. Many athletes from all over the world came to Olympia in Washington state. They tested their speed, their skills and strength in the stadium in the first Olympic games.

 Since ancient time the sports showed as different physical activities. In the beginning the sports related to the military training, that when the person has a special skill and useful for service, they accept him. For a long while, man only can watch and participate in these activities, even the sports teams can not include a woman, but nowadays women proof their power and strength in the different sports games.

 Now, there are a lot of sports are famous all over the world played by men and women such as football, basketball, tennis, volleyball, cricket and others, for each sport there are specific rules. One of the benefits of these sports is participation culture and make people play in teams or groups together. The most important point in these sports is the competition between the teams, international teams or even local.

 These international sports are organized well after the whole world knew their health and social benefits. Sports benefits related to the brain, body and soul, team sports can make children and adult players with some special skills like accountability, dedication and leadership. From these sports, they learn the importance of teamwork and by the communications between them they knew how to solve the problems they face.

 There are three types of sports, that’s mean not all the sports considered as team sports and that’s related to the number of players. The first type is individual sport, it includes one player. The second is dual sport and in these sports, there are two players like tennis. The last type is team sport like the football and basketball which the teams blay together.

    In the sports world especially in the football there are names of players and teams considered as legend nowadays. By their amazing performance and successes, they came the world champions. For example, Pele, Diego Maradona, Messi, Mohammed Salah and others professional.  

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Date: Sunday, November 22, 2020

Course code: MASS2113/20

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 TEDTalks 4 title: Shah Rukh Khan:  Between Popularity and Love

 Shah Rukh Khan is an Indian movie star. In 2017 when he was 51 years old, he gave a speech in TED Talks about his life, how he came a star and the mankind. He born in a refugee colony in new Delhi in India.

Shah Rukh Khan think that he seems like humanity, and this is due to what he and his family saw in their life. His father was calls for freedom, in addition his mother was a fighter like many ladies that time. He says that they fight a lot to survive and to stay and live.

 When he was in late twenties, he moved to Mumbai city in India and he noticed many differences between new Delhi and Mumbai. For example, he met a lot of famous people there like actors and singers, also he saw many famous races in Mumbai. He mentioned that the turning point is the ideas and thoughts were with more freedom and speed and that’s caused many changes in his life especially the career life.

 Because of the innovation and cooperation, Shah Rukh Khan became a star and knew the stardom. Year by year Shah Rukh Khan became a big movie star in India and in the world cinema. When he was 40 years old, he did 50 movie and 200 songs and that confirms the relationship between Indian drama and songs. Because of his successful in acting and others the French government gave him the highest civil honor.

 Shah Rukh Khan invented a dance which its name is '' lungi dance '', it is kind of Indian dances and he did it front of the audience and it is considered one of his famous dances. He loves and respect his country a lot and he look at it like a source of creativity and he read a poem about India, '' The land I come from is the source of inexplicable but very simple spirituality '' Shah Rukh Khan said. In addition, he proud of his Indian face and don’t want ever to change it by Cosmetic surgery.

 He sees that mankind can't developed without the feeling of love among the people. Always people can use their power in the good way and to break the barriers with people and welcome them. The future is about us and our ability to love and spread the love among people by different way, so people should work on this to live with these comfortable energies.

 References: https://podcasts.apple.com/om/podcast/thoughts-on-humanity-fame-and-love-shah-rukh-khan/id470623803?i=1000385456578

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These pictures showed some of the main and basic parts on the car, the parts that make a automobile.

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Date: November 15, 2020

People from the beginning uses the cars for racing, here we know what is race car feature and when the car being race car?

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Date: Sunday, November 15, 2020

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Evolution of Automobile

In the invention of automobile there are many tries for long time. The French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot invented the real automobile in 1769. He built the automobile that time by three wheeled steam to move to another place by the steam.

 Nowadays the automobile gets different, more developed and luxurious. Since 1769 many countries tried to make automobile in different and special way, but in the beginning the cars were almost work with the steam. 1830s was the most successful decade in the history of use the cars by steam, especially in Britain.

Britain had a vogue for cars machine which work by the steam especially in 1868. The British depend on light personal automobile which was seems like carriages that time. These carriages had a difference on the number of passengers, for example some of them may take just two people to the carriage work and another one may take more than two. The light steam cars were built in US, France, Germany and Denmark at same while.

 By this invention they developed the road transport by the steam, wheels and other parts they collected to make this machine. By the time, the cars change in their shape, parts and how they work. For instance, the electric cars showed which is work by storage battery and many companies started to provide these batteries. The electrical cars showed and increased in United states, Americans are the most whose accepted this kind of cars.

 The cars nowadays have gasoline-engine and by this the car will work. This way was invented since 1885 and 1886 with Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler whose implemented this idea. The cars work when the oil burn in the combustion in the car.

 When the cars have developed new cars showed around the world with new and spectacular designs and colours. People nowadays besides the quality of the car they look at if it is luxurious and appropriate for them or not. People in each country use the automobile to move between places, also they use it for racing by special cars for racing in race- track.

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Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Course Code: Mass2113/20

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TEDTalks 3 title: Elderly: The Core of Family

Societies get different on the way of deal with their members and the effects get different too. In 2013 Jared Diamond who look how societies deal with old people gave a speech in TED Talks about this. By elderly societies may developed or not.

 In each society there are old people, the others in their society have different thoughts about them. In United States which the modern societies, the elderly often lives alone and away from their children or even their big family. Also, when a lot of them get tired and retire they go to retirement home to live in there. On the other hand, in the traditional societies old people used to live with the other family members and their friends sometimes.

 Traditional societies especially the agricultural ones, deal with elderly in a good way. The other members take care of them, feed them well and don’t leave them alone. Most times old people in these societies being happy and satisfied even if they are poor, because the whole family live with each other.

 Diamond explained that the old traditional societies are the best at dealing with the elderly. They give them a big value and consider them as useful member. The elderly in these societies are doing group of services like stay with their grandchildren all the time so others can bring food, make the arms and baskets which are important thing for them.

 Modern societies like in America, the value of elderly depends to their situation, the elderly without job may don’t have any value. Americans agree with self-reliance, but often the most elderly need and depend on their children what cause neglecting them and being less value. In Asian societies especially east, they respect and obey the elderly, give them all what they want and take care of them, these actions came from cultural values they agreed with.

 Not impossible to improvement the way of dealing with elderly for these modern societies which consider them as useless people. Although the societies now depend a lot on technology and young, the elderly have big role in another and social works like raising grandchildren because of experience they have by raising their children before. Sometimes, some societies should look and learn from these simple traditional societies and how should deal with elderly to make them happy.

 References: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLmZlZWRidXJuZXIuY29tL1RFRF9BaGFfSGVhbHRo/episode/ZW4udmlkZW8udGFsay50ZWQuY29tOjE4Nzc6ODI .  

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Date: November 1,2020

When you smoke, you let everyone smoke even your family and let cigarette and tobacco affect them.

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Smoking have negative effects on the health, but also have a positive effects on the economy. 

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Date: Sunday, November 1, 2020

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Smoking Culture

Smoking is one of the habits that spread quickly for 16 century. In many countries of the world, especially in US, a huge number of people smoke for different reasons. People could smoke by cigarette or tobacco.

Practice of smoking has been found in Europe by Spanish who came from America, which is the source of tobacco and smoking. In their culture, they looked at tobacco as something might work as medicine and they considered it as herbs that may cure diseases. They also used tobacco and cigarette as pain killers, cure for cancer and reduce hunger.

These societies adopted smoking dependence culture in their life and social celebrations. In ancient time, people used tobacco as a gift to create social relationships because as they see, the cigarette with tobacco is something sacred. Also, in specific celebration like in puberty ceremonies, they should make sure that the cigarette and tobacco were there.

Cultures differed in the use of tobacco, for example the Indians used it as cure for earache, Iroquois for toothache, Cherokee as pain killer and Guatemala as antiseptic. 'a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, …' James I describe smoking. Smoking might have benefits especially in old times, but it definitely has bad effects on health.

People around the world are smoking for many reasons. A lot of teenagers think that smoking a cigarette might make them men, also people smoke because curiosity and to experiment. Most of societies see that smoking indicates manhood and that explain the huge number of Men smokers and their adoption to this habit, on the other hand, women have been known to smoke for a while.

Smoking was not limited to western societies only; it spreads in the Arab countries and the East as well. Arab people took hookah to smoke the tobacco, also they drink coffee while smoking and this is another cultural habit in Arab countries. Nowadays, smoking is a health issue in the world because of its impact on people health and causes cancers, lung disease and others.

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Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Course Code: Mass2113/20

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TED Talks 2 title: The lie that invented racism

 The Truth Behind Racism

Many centuries ago, a behavioral phenomenon showed around the world especially in US. The racism appeared between white and black people in the whole world. there are many signs indicate racism at that time.

 The main sign of racism in America is preference for white people over black people, for instance, the minority supported Martin Luther King who was black and his civil rights movement. Also, black people suffered from discrimination at work, the Oscars used to go to whites. In ancient times, white people dared and kill the blacks just for being black and sometimes without any clear reason.

 John Biewen who is a journalist and gave this speech in TED Talk said that the racism might began with the differences between people. That’s happened when people divide themselves according to religion, language and others, for example, you're different so you're less than me. The racism began when a Portuguese man underestimate the Africans in his book, and by his description, he created the meaning of blackness.

 In reality, racism began with a lie in America with white people there. The white people in America used racist ideas which they agree with them for a long time and turned them into laws for their benefits. These laws took the poor people's rights; on the other hand, it gave even the poorest whites all the rights. these laws saved whites' rights, including not being enslaved and don’t take their families from them.

 The speaker explained that the race is not a biological thing. in addition, all of us have one human race and related to each other. ' Blackness has no meaning without whiteness ' Dr. Kennedy said, and this shows the importance of rejecting racism. The only difference between blacks and whites is melanin level.

 The racism showed a long time ago and continuous to these days. By racism and divisions, people supported social and political systems which benefit some of them and harm the others. People can end the racism by being humble and become a united society without exploit or even oppression of anyone.

 References: https://podcasts.apple.com/om/podcast/ted-talks-daily/id160904630?i=1000493112853

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Date: October 18, 2020

A journey in slave’s life

How slaves live with the policy of slavery?

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The meaning of the slaves auction and how it is organized?

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Here we recognized to the beginning of the slavery in America and what the slaves role in America’s economic.

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Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2020

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Cancer of The Soul

 Most people suffering from Depression and anxiety around the world, especially in US and Britain. Hari suffered from depression when he was teenager for many reasons, he knew it after that from experts.

 Johann Hari gave a speech in ted talk about something he thinks most people including him suffering from, which is depression and anxiety related to mental health. People suffering from these conditions are increasing around the world, and they are concentrated more in the west as Hari said. The main question was why we are feeling like that and what is this uncontrolled pain and how we could be depressed or anxious?

 Depression and anxiety caused by chemical imbalance in the brain as the guest's doctor said. In addition, there are scientific evidence for nine specific causes for depression. Some causes related to our biology, for example the genes may make the person more sensitive or some changes in the brain. Other causes related to the life and how depressed people live. Depressed mood, loneliness, loss of interest, lack of energy to do their work or even normal activities are the main features of depression.

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Depressed people often need someone to listen to them. Patients with depression can be managed by family support or talk to psychologist or even by antidepressant prescribed by psychiatrist. It is important to manage depression because it affects quality of life.

 There are patients with depression take antidepressants, but it doesn’t help them. The most cause of depression is loneliness, that’s why the group therapy considered one of the greatest treatments for depression. In the group therapy the patient mixes with outside world and listen to other patients and they learn more about their hobbies, so this group therapy takes the patients away from depression and loneliness feelings.

 ''The very first step is we have to stop insulting these signals by saying they're a sign of weakness or madness, or purely biological except for a tiny number of people. We need to start listening to these signals because they're telling us things we really need to hear'', Johann Hari said. Its important for depressed people to notice the changes they face and to help themselves as soon as they can. They should seek help to get rid of depression in the right way.

  References: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLmZlZWRidXJuZXIuY29tL1RFRF9BaGFfSGVhbHRo/episode/ZW4uYXVkaW8udGFsay50ZWQuY29tOjQ4MTAzOjgy?sa=X&ved=0CAcQuIEEahcKEwioqNfO6K_sAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQCw