- -: TEDxUWI-Learie Joseph-A Comedian not a Joke
May 11, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Trinidad and Tobago comedian Learie Joseph shares the journey of life and comically illustrates how perseverance can help to overcome boundaries. TEDxUWI 'Beyond Your Limits' TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It began in 1984 as an annual conference devoted to Technology, Enter...
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- -: TEDxUWI-Amilcar Sanatan-You Can't Handle the Truth
May 12, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Amilcar Sanatan speaks on the issue of youth and culture within Trinidad and Tobago. How the truth and acceptance of oneself affects how we live. TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It began in 1984 as an annual conference devoted to Technology, Entertainment and Design -- hence...
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- -: TEDxUWI-Wendy Fitzwilliams-Life After the Universe
May 12, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)From a excited and nervous beginning to a calm and elegant finale, Miss Fitzwilliams removes the mask and show the person behind the smile.
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- -: TEDxCMU -- Jenny Blake -- The Career in the Age of the App
May 13, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Jenny Blake is an author, blogger, life coach, Googler and yoga teacher. She has worked at Google for over five years in training, coaching & career development. Prior to Google and halfway through her junior year at UCLA, Jenny took a leave of absence to help launch a political polling start-up ...
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- -: TEDxMonterey - E.J. Svensson - The Long & the Short of It
May 14, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)E.J. Svensson's career has taken him from his industrial engineering origins, with focus on continuous improvement, to mold-breaking innovations in media and now to his latest project; a comprehensive book chronicling the events and aftermath of the banking crisis in Northern Europe from a politi...
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- -: TEDxConejo - Erin Gruwell - The Freedom Writers
May 16, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Erin Gruwell is an educator and president of The Freedom Writers Foundation. When Erin landed her first job at Wilson High School in Long Beach, Ca, she discovered many of her students had been written off by the education system and deemed "unteachable." As teenagers living in a racially divide...
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- -: TEDxUWI-Brandon O'Brien- Compassion as 21st Century Enlightenment
May 19, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Brandon O'Brien outlines how compassion can be used to border the differences between society and push towards a new unity.
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- -: TEDxDU Andrew Steward: Beating Mental Illness
May 21, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Andrew Steward -- Beating Mental Illness "When someone breaks their arm, we rush to sign their cast. When someone is diagnosed with mental illness, we run the other way." Andrew Steward is a flute performance major at the University of Denver, excelling in school and planning a graduate education...
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- -: TEDxDU Ramona Pierson #1 -- Learning to learn
May 21, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Ramona Pierson -- Learning to learn. In her first of two Talks at TEDxDU, Ramona tells of her remarkable recovery from an accident that put her in an 18-month coma, unable to see, walk, or speak. Senior citizens came to her rescue and slowly re-taught all of her life skills. Several masters and ...
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- -: TEDxTraverse City- Ashley Flees- Uncovering Your Drive
May 31, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)A native of Traverse City, Michigan, Ashley Flees has spent her life thus far inspired by the natural beauty of the surrounding region. Outside of academics Ashley finds grounding and solitude in foraging woodlands for edibles and various vegetation that have practical and ascetic uses. An avid s...
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