The Road to a Better Life.

David Rojas

Tan Le

How is it that an immigrant, with a very poor start, ended like this?...

An immigrants tale..

Le, as a toddler was an immigrant, and forced to endure a very difficult boat trip along with her grandmother, mother, and sister in search for a better life.

The attention bait.

Tan was very firm in her introduction, and getting the attention with a question.

Her posture throughout her speech was direct, and emotional. I myself just wanted to listen

to her story.

“Thou shall not flaunt thine ego. Be thou vulnerable. Speak of thy failure as thy success.”

Best of out the ten commandments, I believe Tan follows the sixth one the best. She does

not boast, or gloat, but is more than willing to say the hard life that paved her to a better

one.

“nearly one quarter (23.8%) of the 70 million children under the age of 17 in 2009 had at least one immigrant parent”

Dynamism? 5+ !!!

The way emotion, and feeling was put forth on her speech was just incredible, although sad, it was one of those speeches where it shines a light on any cold hearted person.

Le tearing up on her speech at TED.

Speech deliverance.The way Tan spoke, and the clarity with no

“uhm” and pauses made her speech all the more clear, and the better to get to her main point of the story, where as I, have issues in doing the exact opposite.

“thou shall tell a story…”

Although Mr. Robinson’s topic, is very different to Le’s, they both deliver their speech in a separate manner. Robinson used humor in parts of his speech, when Le used emotion. Both very effective and great. I ENJOYED both videos and like Matt Helmkey said; “keep the audience starving and hungry for more”

Tan Le Sir Ken Robinson

Tan Le now is the founder, and CEO of Emotiv Lifestyle, she has developed a headset that reads brainwaves.

“there were rare but searing chants of ‘slit eye’ and the occasional graffiti of ‘Asian, go home.’ Go home to where?”

Tips & Things #1

Something that I notice that may help my fellow class mates, is that eye contact is key, as it helps build communication and make the listener more close to your speech

Tips & Things #2

Another helpful tip is actually in one of the commandments, and one to which I think we all can relate. That would be commandment #2; “thou shall dream a great dream…” Yes, we all have a goal, and we need to act on it, and make the right decisions in order to achieve it.

Reynolds Tips.

Garr was very fluent on his presentation, and it was very helpful to also understand that simplicity, and clarity can help get the message across with more success.

http://aktiveinfo.com/blog/2012/7/3/tan-le-the-headset-that-reads-brainwaves.html (third slide)

http://zdrake.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.html (second slide)

http://cdn.cultureunplugged.com/thumbnails/lg/10020.jpg (seventh slide)

http://www.migrationinformation.org/feature/display.cfm?ID=818#10a (sixth slide)http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/TanTTLe.jpg/220px-TanTTLe.jpg (ninth slide)

http://www.shinyshiny.tv/assets_c/2010/08/977emotiv-thumb-304x171-98767.jpg (tenth slide)

Thanks for watching this slideshow presentation, what are your thoughts?

(want to hear Ten Le and her story? Check it out)

http://www.ted.com/talks/tan_le_my_immigr

ation_story.html