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Date: December 6, 2020

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TEDTalks 5 title: Life After Surviving Cancer

Everyone talks about the cancer survivors and that they are heroes and warriors, but no one talks about what they go through after spending days, months or even years in the hospital fighting for their lives. Suleika Jaouad who is an American writer, advocate, and motivational speaker talked about what she went through after cancer.

 She came back to her home and everything seemed different. Jaouad felt like she did not belong to the world and did not know how to live. “because no one had warned me of the challenges of reentry, I thought something must be wrong with me, I felt ashamed” she said.

 In the hospital, Jaouad said that she had to accept her new reality. She adopted, made friends with a group of other young cancer patients. She also achieved her dream of becoming a war correspondent, it started with a blog where she reported from the front lines of her hospital bed, and then she wrote a column for the New York Times called “Life, Interrupted”.

 People from all around the world had read her column and responded with letters, comments, and emails. One of the stories she received was from a teenager girl from Florida, and many others. Jaouad decided to go on a real journey to meet these people and talk with them.

 When Jaouad started accepting the idea to stop expecting herself to return to the person she had been pre-diagnoses. Once She started accepting her body and its limitations, she started feeling better.

 She said the trick is to stop seeing our health as binary, between sick and healthy, well, and unwell, whole, and broken. “Every single one of us will have our lives interrupted… we need to find place to live in the in-between place, managing whatever body and mind we currently have” Jaouad said.

URL: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5mZWVkYnVybmVyLmNvbS9URURUYWxrc19hdWRpbw/episode/ZW4uYXVkaW8udGFsay50ZWQuY29tOjQ0MDQw?hl=en-OM&ved=2ahUKEwi45JTC0rftAhWCRxUIHdpaCAQQjrkEegQIBRAF&ep=6

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Date: November 29, 2020

There are many disadvantages for commercialization in sport but in this audio we focus on the major factors.

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There are many different sports around the world, some of them are unusual or odd.

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Date: November 29, 2020

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                          Tonya Harding on Losing Her Career

Dedicated her life to skating and has won many skating competitions. Tonya Harding was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition. Later she was banned for life from the U.S. Figure Skating Association.

 She began skating at the age of 3. Harding was raised by her mother who was a strong but controlling woman. Harding experienced a tough life and had been abused emotionally and physically by her mother and her ex-husband. When she was young Harding claimed that her mom threw a steak knife at her in the middle of a verbal argument.

 Harding ex-husband Gillooly and his friend Eckhart hired a hitman to assault competitor Nancy Kerrigan. The incident took place on January 6, 1994, and it was all over the media. Kerrigan was hit on the right knee with a hard stick by an unknown attacker.

 Gilooly was sentenced to two years in prison and Eckhart was sentenced to 18 months. Harding avoided jail time after she pleaded guilty to hindering the investigation into Kerrigan's attack. In the interview with ABC’s News Amy Robach, Harding said that she never agreed or knew about her ex-husband Jeff Gillooly’s plan to go after Kerrigan.

 After skating, Tonya Harding found a new career in life. She made her first appearance as a boxer in February 2003. She also worked as a commentator on TV. Today, Harding is happy and has her own family, a husband, and a son. “With my husband and my son, I get my second chance in life to be loved and to be happy,” she said.

“And I’ve been nothing several times. But it’s my faith in myself and in my father that comes back to me and makes me get back up off my butt and be something worth being proud of,” she said.

 In 2017, Harding’s childhood, career, and personal life were captured in a movie called “I, Tonya”. Margot Robbie who played Harding and co-produced the film did a great job of reflecting the personality of Harding and her lifestyle and most importantly showing in detail the Kerrigan attack.

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Date: November 22, 2020

Course Code: MASS2113/10

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TED Talks 4 title: Changing the world through graphic design

Doing what you enjoy in life and trying to change the world and saving your nation are completely different purposes. But what if you combined the two, and tried something new? That was the question that inspired Ghada Wali to purplish her book with a bilingual system to share the Arabic language with the world.

 The first time Wali realized that her Arabic identity was distorted was when she decided one day to visit one of the most beige libraries in Italy and borrow some Arabic books. Unfortunately, almost every book was under the category of “Arabic/Middle Eastern books” titled with the “ISIS” word or talked about fear, terrorism, and destruction.

 In Wali’s city of Cairo, graphic design played a huge role to overthrow separate dictators. In 2011, Egypt’s revolution was also a grassroots design revolution.

 To start acting and trying to modify the wrong image of Arabs and the Arabic language. Wali decided to create a bilingual system, starting with Arabic and Latin. The aim was to introduce the Arabic language to young learners and foreign speakers. And most importantly to help refugees integrate into their host societies.

The bilingual system in the book was called “Let’s Play”, the idea was to learn Modern Standard Arabic through a fun and engaging way of learning and that was achieved by using LEGO. All the 29 Arabic words were shown in the book through colorful pictures were build with LEGO. Each letter was explained in Arabic and Latin, sound and example of words in function.

 Working on this project was enjoyable and fun to Wali and she hopes it can change the world and that people can learn about the Arabic language in an innocent and good way. She said, “With this book, I hope to save my nation's beautiful script.”

URL: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/how-im-using-lego-to-teach-arabic-ghada-wali/id470623037?i=1000419903096

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Date: November 15, 2020

Every invention require inventor. who are the inventors of the different types of old automobiles

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Source: https://www.loc.gov/everyday-mysteries/item/who-invented-the-automobile/

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Date: November 15, 2020

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Description: If you like to know about an interesting story and to also learn more about automobile then this is the kind of story you have been looking for.

Automobile and Museums Relations

It was the same period when automobile, and science museums started to appear in Europe. In the early 1890s, France was the first place to accept the automobile. It was also the first country to present the automobile as a historical object.

 Lane Motor Museum published on its website that in the museum it was going to be displaying about 30 of the most unique French cars from the 100+ French cars in the collection. The struggle was to be reducing 100 cars to 30. The museum picked six of the most interesting French microcars plus the Holocrine. They finally cut it down to thirty unique and special French cars that are a major part of automobile history.

 Around 2015, The exhibition of the French cars had many famous large and small car manufacturer companies. There are four major car makers that France has had, although throughout the history there were other no longer-living automobile makers and less famous ones too. Citroën was one of the most creative and large French manufacturers. In 1955, Citroën introduced the DS at the at Paris Motor Show. “The DS was the first mass-produced car with front-wheel power brakes”. In 1914, Max Friedman offered his first self-built steam car to the Technisches Museum, he said he was experimenting with this vehicle for ten years

 There is hardly any country where at least one individual or a company did not own or tried to establish aa local automobile industry in the last 120 years. In Australia many believed that automobile industry would improve workforce skills, stimulate employment, educe the country’s dependence on primary industry and make Australia more secure in the event of another war.

 There are many opinions to whom was the first inventor of the automobile. However, it can be traced down to the first countries that invented it which are Germany and France. Then followed by America which is one of the countries that established well-known motor companies like Ford and Chrysler. By 1980, Japan became the leading automaker among developed countries. Today, the automobile industry is part of the global economy.

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Date: November 10, 2020

Course Code: MASS2113/20

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TED Talks 3 title: “Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss”

Achieving Goals by Facing Fears

He was a senior in college, completely normal student, and a happy person. found his Tim Ferriss found himself in a dark place when he decided he was going to commit suicide. In 1999, Ferriss survived a suicide due to some lucky coincidences.

 After the incident, Ferris decided to start thinking differently and help himself. He was diagnosed with bipolar depression. During the Ted Talk that was published in July 2017 he mentioned that he already had about fifty-plus depressive episodes through his life. But for normal people, they might have about six to ten major depressive episodes in their lives.

 With the death of his close friend and his girlfriend leaving him, Ferriss was also working on his first real business for more than fourteen hours a day, seven days a week. He relied on stimulants and used depressants to go to sleep. And He felt completely trapped. One day he bought a book on simplicity to help him find answers. Fortunately, he found a quote by Seneca the Younger, it said “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”.

 Ferriss started learning more about Seneca who was a famous Stoic writer. He found a helpful exercise called “Premeditation Molorum” which means the premeditation of evils. So he created a written exercise called “Fear-setting” that consist of three pages. First page, titled “What if…?” and it is where you define everything that cause you anxiety or fear. Second page is “What might be the benefits of an attempt or partial success?”. The third and last page is about “The cost of Inaction” physically, emotionally, financially…etc.

 The major tool that Ferriss used to helped him save his live is Stoicism. “So around 300 BC in Athens, someone named Zeno of Citium taught many lectures walking around a painted porch, a “stoa” that later became “stoicism””. People in the past, in the Greco-Roman world, also used Stoicism as a comprehensive system. But today we use it separate what we can control from what we cannot control, and then doing specific exercises. “This decreases emotional reactivity, which can be a superpower”.

URL: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-you-should-define-your-fears-instead-your-goals/id160904630?i=1000386546789

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Date: November 1, 2020

“If you want to quit smoking cigarettes, you have to take control of the changes you need in your life.”

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Source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306097854_Reasons_and_Motivations_for_Cigarette_Smoking_and_Barriers_against_Quitting_Among_a_Sample_of_Young_People_in_Jeddah_Saudi_Arabia

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Date: November 1, 2020

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: Smoking rates 2016

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Date: November 1, 2020

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Hold a guitar instead of a cigarette

Nowadays, many organizations and websites are made to help people quit smoking. Former smokers are sharing their stories online to inspire others to try and quit smoking. James, a former smoker talked about his experience with smoking and how he dealt with quitting.

 There are 1.3 billion smokers in the world, and about 84% are living in developing countries. Cigarette smoking is one of the major causes of deaths in the world. Consuming tobacco can severely affect a person’s health. In developed countries, tobacco was responsible for 24% of male deaths and 7% of female deaths.

According to the CDC, approximately 41,000 deaths among nonsmoking adults and 400 deaths in infants each year are caused by exposure to Secondhand smoke. In many studies, social support is playing a big role to help smokers consider quitting and help them gain new behaviors and healthy habits.

 On 2016, 2nd of May James’s story was shared in the (Smokefree gov) YouTube channel by the title of “James on handling cravings”. On the (Smokefree gov) website he talked about his journey to quit smoking. The first time James considered quitting was because of his friend. So, he started small by cutting the number of cigarettes he was smoking per day.

 The journey wasn’t easy for him, but he managed to succeed. He said,” The first few days were hard…I went over to my friend's house (the same one who asked me to quit) and he handed me a guitar”. Playing with a guitar helped him to get used to holding something in his hand rather than holding a cigarette.

 James and his friend continued to play the guitar every weekend which helped him get his mind off smoking. Besides, James joined an online supporting community. With his serious commitment to quit, the support of his friends, and the online community he stopped smoking.

 There are more than hundreds of stories that can be found on the internet where people can relate to others and consider the act of quitting. Thinking of quitting smoking is a good sign to start reaching for help and support.

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Date: October 27, 2020

Course Code: MASS2113/10

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TEDTalks 2 title:  “What if a single human right could change the world?”

The Right to Be Existing

After a few weeks of having COVID-19 recognized as a pandemic. On the 23rd March of 2020, Kristen Wenz talked in one of TED’s talks about an important issue which was recorded at TEDSalon and published later as a podcast called “What if a single human right could change the world?”.

 Kristen Wenz is a legal identity expert. She worked for many years on this issue, The absence of a birth certificate for many people.20 years ago, She found out that her adopted brothers didn’t own a legal identity due to not having a birth certificate. And since then she worked hard to find solutions for this problem.

 She said, “Without a legal identity people are both uncounted and unprotected…and they are victims of trafficking”. She also said that a study across 17 countries in Sub-Sahara Africa found that 8% of children did not have a birth certificate.

 In many countries, for a child to be registered it is required to the present of the father or his name. Angola made a policy that allows mothers to register their child as a single parent.

 It is a global problem, as in 2015 world leaders came together and thought of upholding the human rights of all people and leave no one behind as well as making the efforts to end poverty.

 For countries to achieve these goals, Wenz stated five proven interventions that can be applied on systems starting by first reducing the distance, reducing the cause, simplifying the process, then removing discrimination, and finally increasing demand.

Source: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5mZWVkYnVybmVyLmNvbS9URURUYWxrc19hdWRpbw/episode/ZW4uYXVkaW8udGFsay50ZWQuY29tOjU3MTg2?hl=en-OM&ved=2ahUKEwj3vfT7j9PsAhVIAWMBHczsCA8QjrkEegQIBRAF&ep=6

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Date: October 18, 2020

The World’s Most Cruel in The History of Slavery

Do you know them?

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Date: October 18, 2020

21st century and The World Still Fighting Against Slavery

If countries did not start taking actions and putting laws to stop “Modern Slavery”, them it will be an ongoing problem.

Source for illustrations: https://theconversation.com/slavery-is-not-a-crime-in-almost-half-the-countries-of-the-world-new-research-115596

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To be human is to have the right of freedome

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Date: October 13, 2020

 Behind Netflix’s Success

 In September 25 of this year, TedTalks Daily Podcast published an interesting episode called “3 secrets to Netflix’s success” featuring the co-founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings. Hosted by the head of TED organization, Chris Anderson.

 Discussing many important subjects related to Netflix’s success and growth, Chris Anderson also mentioned in few parts of the conversation about the book Reed Hastings and his co-author Erin Mayor wrote in the title “No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention”.

 The main subject of this episode was about the major factors of Netflix’s massive success and Hastings’s life before finding Netflix. From an ordinary kid, a math teacher, and a CEO of a technical software company to being the co-founder of Netflix, One of the most famous technology and media services provider and production company in the world. Hastings talked about the growth of Netflix’s subscribers and hours viewed during the pandemic.

 Talking about the work environment, teamwork and feedback, Reed Hastings said, “when you’re exercising that pain is helping you be stronger, it’s the same thing with good feedback and candor”. He also said that when a feedback is done well it can produce growth. Another important topic that was discussed between Anderson and Hastings is about the job guidance and rules. In similar words Hasting said Netflix’s guidance are quite simple, employees should consider what is best and right to the company.

 When talking about mistakes in any job almost everyone thinks of it in a negative way. For Netflix, mistakes are not a big issue, and this might be one of the “success secrets” or positive factors in the company. Moreover, Hastings was explaining this idea by believing that mistakes or little mistakes doesn’t really matter on the success of the company, but what really maters are the new ideas.

 At the end of the conversation, Anderson seals the episode with questions about the future and what is expected from the company in the coming years. Hastings talked generally about Netflix’s goals where they center their programs, shows and other services on people’s joy and entertainment.

  Reference: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/3-secrets-to-netflixs-success-reed-hastings/id160904630?i=1000492416327