001come here dry shampoo what else do I have on your stain removal then our picture Lucas is a senior here at DHS and this is his first tedx station [Music] with other teams uncleanliness [Music] Welcome to our independent organized event Tia the tedxdhs we're excited to bring to you this amazing group for presenters today you might wonder who is Ted well Ted is actually not a person and it actually stands for technology entertainment and design these are three subject areas that are collectively shaping our world this year's presenters selected the theme choose to inspire make your voice heard the presenters will share a topic that has inspired them and they hope it will also inspire you in return let's start with our first presenter today our first presenter is Siobhan Swami Siobhan is a junior
002here at DHS he is a member of both the math team and the DHS marching band where he plays alto saxophone Siobhan chose his topic Because he believes there is a negative stereotype about certain genres of music especially rap music his goal is to illuminate you to the nuances that are associated with rap in other music genres in Al each of these types of music fits into the grand scheme of musical literature please welcome Shivan Swami as he presents meaning behind the music thank you [Applause] all right today my presentations on the meaning behind music now music is a language of what we cannot put into words every person digests reacts and interprets it completely differently for some it functions as a form of transcending reality and for others it forms as a way to
003immerse yourself in The Human Experience now music is a form of audible art now whether it's meant to be casual entertainment or philosophical poetry is not only up to the artist but mainly The Listener the genre an artist chooses has significance too as different genres have different Focus points and through this presentation I'm going to count down my three favorite genres and the morals that they entail pop now pop music really arose in the 1950s post World War II given that this was a relatively financially stable time people had more opportunities to enjoy easy going music radios and televisions began to broadcast this everywhere and given its contrast in terms of Simplicity to past music older Generations grew sick of it while the newer Generations loved it thanks to these factors pop music popped now
004one of the major purposes of the style is to have fun hence why it generally uses straightforward chord progressions and a lack of dynamic tempos it revolves around catchy beats now whether those beats are mellow and sweet like Bruno Mars and his song Grenade or more fiery and zappy like his song that's what I like mainstream audiences around the world are captivated by Pop's Charming nature one of the key innovators and in my opinion the greatest artists to ever Tinker with this genre is a self-aclaimed king of Pop Michael Jackson now his talent and ability transcends just this genre with artists across all genres crediting him to be one of the greatest of all time he revolutionized this with this Blockbuster albums and His short film music videos which introduced a whole new industry within
005an industry his visual Expressions undefeated however I believe that is a lyrical poetry is extremely underrated in his song Billie Jean he is it is Infamous for its deceiving tone the Sparky upbeat Tempo combined with a vivacious Rhythm of the synthesizer concealed the surprisingly serious lyrics about a woman who falsely alleged him to be the father to her child the phrase for 40 days and for 40 nights is actually a Biblical illusion to Genesis 5 where it rained for 40 days straight and for 40 nights rain symbolizes tears and the 40 days represents the drawn-out court battle that MJ faced and the prolonged torment that he underwent the line who can stand when she's in demand depicts that MJ believes that This Woman's ferocious willpower was enough to strip anyone of their titles the resolving
006line just remember to always think twice is a general moral to this song and it reveals that the song is not alive Lively and vivacious song but actually a tale of caution now these are some of the songs that I think really encapsulate the meaning of Pop very well topic Talking to the Moon shows that Euphoria through its long notes and the richness of pain sounding fresh as ever Disturbia by Rihanna is a Nostalgia hitter for me and transports me back to when I'm five years old in the back seat of a car listening to radio's hits it really encapsulates that 2010 Club atmosphere feeling hey Ya by Outkast is extremely similar to Billie Jean in that they're extremely painful lyrics underneath the very Sparky very danced joyous energetic beat now moving on to the
007next genre jazz this one is personally my favorite to play on my saxophone and it is very different all throughout it's very complex there's a sheer disparity in complexity and the usage of convoluted Theory between any two artists in this genre which is what makes it so fun to explore Now jazz originates from African-American instrumentalists in New Orleans during the late 19th and early 20th centuries Jazz was conjured up as sort of an echo to the western African tribes of their native Homeland like the Yoruba Tribe right there it was sort of built as an experiment after emancipation to see how far one could go with musical Liberty and freedom its appeal to the mainstream really peaked in the 1920s particularly in speakeasies which here I have depicting a drummer cozy Cole in one of
008those Now jazz began to depart from the mainstream culture around 1950s post-world War II in particular because the rapid popularization of rock and roll here we saw the rise of superstars like Elvis Presley and the Beatles rock and roll has persisted through the wear of time and serves as the roots to other popular genres today like hip-hop and pop jazz on the other hand was sort of put on the back burner of American music forethought and his since evolved into more of a niche where players find enjoyment with messing around with Theory nevertheless now and then popular Jazz musicians still arise kamazi Washington is one of my favorite modern saxophonists that name may sound unfamiliar though you may notice some of his notable features such as to pimpa Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar he was in
009for free and for so he is bewildingly underrated and if you're interested here's my favorite songs by him now on some of the last and my favorite genre I'll be talking about today hip hop one of the most popular genres amongst teenagers for the past half a century it's substantial versatility is portrayed through the numerous sub-genre as present in a diverse field of musicians this in turn has also made it extremely popular however many tend to overlook the origins and the historical significance of them originates the struggles of the African-American Community regarding the rural armed drugs originally enacted by the Nixon Administration and heavily bolstered by the Reagan Administration the War on Drugs has resulted in mass incarceration and a nearly 500 percent growth in inmates since its beginning according to the sentencing project hip-hop
010was concocted as sort of an artistic remedy for those whose families were broken by this war and that gives an opportunity to those who are poor to have a chance with Fame here Kendrick Lamar he is particularly good at articulating the issues of racial Prejudice he's also a Pulitzer Prize winner and is one of my favorite artists of all time I can honestly write an entire presentation on just him his album to pimpa Butterfly is a culmination of everything hip-hop is about from its Sleek Funk and Jazz fuse beats to the bitter and honest commentary on injustices many credits critics credit this as a masterpiece here I analyze some of the bars on one of my favorite songs on the album the black or the berry this song has harsh instrumentals that depicts the resentful
011tone the phrase vandalize my perception refers to the modern self-hatred for skin tone as a result of the perpetrating of white superiority for centuries in America the phrase the button is symbolism and Kendrick packs a lot into this some interpret this to mean Kendrick has some sort of weapon but in my opinion I interpret this differently I think of it as more of a mic button which when he presses his fear he can seep out and that Fury translates to his listeners who feel the same passion here Kendrick is trying to show his power in the world the last line here making a killing refers to the root cause of crime in the U.S as in the US has caused what's happened with the African-American community in the future legislation of the past creeps its
012results into tensions prominent today throughout this section up here are some of my current favorite songs in rap it constantly shifts constantly changes but currently I've been listening to a lot to xXx by Kendrick Lamar which is really good song it has this amazing B and it really transforms you to the scenery of what's going on Lord pretty Flacco Jody by ASAP Rocky is also phenomenal it's really entertaining and it's lavish production so I'm over a decade ago still live up to this day now Lil Wayne I didn't really listen to him until I started listening to this song The Vivid story he creates and the phenomenal feature of Kendrick is something I wish I could listen to again for the first time all in all the main point of this is to show you
013that music by nature is subjective that every person interprets each beat with unique perspectives that's why this art thrives every bar every lyric every quarter now every rest holds an imperative purpose in painting a song psyche all songs exist for a reason whether it's for pure entertainment or for the sly messages slipped in between the crevices of words music gives artists a way a platform to inspire with and music is how I choose to inspire thank you [Applause] thank you Siobhan for that wonderful presentation on music and its meaning our second presenter of tedx DHS 2023 is Kate and dimanche Caden is a junior here at DHS he is the student council treasurer and he's a three season athlete who participates in soccer basketball and track and field Cadence passion for sport is evident in
014the topic he chose he believes that sports are not just about the skills that are demonstrated on the field or on the court that the mental element of the sport is very impactful on athletes and their accomplishments please welcome Kaden demench as he presents Sports 10 physical 90 percent mental foreign [Applause] my experience here during this Ted Talk I have been faced with the blinding Spotlight the rush of adrenaline and the thought of presenting in front of all of you and it left me wondering these are kind of similar uh it's kind of similar to what an athlete goes through so it made me think what makes an athlete the best is it there's strength is it their speed is it their endurance and stamina I mean you just heard the title so you can
015probably guess it's their mentality that's what sets them apart if you don't believe me is an example Tom Brady 23 NFL seasons though now retired I might come back though you guys see that a seven time Super Bowl champion a five-time Super Bowl MVP a three-time NFL MVP a 15-time pro bowler and many other accolades not the most fit guy ever if you've seen his combine you know that but he transcended for 23 Seasons to this goat status by locking in mentally and pushing through the struggles that he would have without uh that he would have physically another goat is Serena Williams her 27 pro tennis Seasons 23 Grand Slams singles four-time Olympic gold medalist and again even more accolades she's pretty strong but you don't just get to that sort of status with only
016your physical strength and pure Brute Force you've got to lock in mentally for 27 years to stay at the top like she did and my final example LeBron James who's currently in the midst of his 20th NBA season a four-time NBA champion four-time finals MVD a four-time regular season MVP a 19-time All-Star and now the leader in points in a career there have been tons of guys in the NBA built exactly like LeBron but no one has lasted this long and has maintained the peak that he has been able to I mean the dude has his own app the call map just for locking in and making sure that his mind is good so you're probably wondering how to this is probably easy right it's just Sports it's just a game anyone can just persevere
017through it that's not the easiest thing in the world though but these athletes were able to do it because of their ability to utilize the benefits that Sports have brought like an improved quality of life reduced depression reduced suicide and improved sleep increased creativity and increased self-confidence and it even builds leadership roles better academic standing and better teamwork and social skills which are all pretty vital skills to have but again it's not the easiest thing in the world case in point Michael Phelps the arguably greatest swimmer in Olympic history his 23 gold medals 27 27 World Championships 16 Pacific championships he's an absolute legend in the sporting world but after his performance in the 2004 Olympics where he won eight gold medals he felt he had reached the peak and could never again get to
018that level and this was rough on him he says that he had about 10 or so people always with him making sure that his body was physically in shape and that made him an absolute machine in the water but he said that there was no Hammer checking if his mind was okay and because he thought that he would never get back to the peak he started using substances to try and get back to the peak to maintain his sheer dominance and this took a toll on him to the point where he eventually fell into depression and had Suicidal Thoughts another example is one of the best Olympic gymnasts currently and will probably be all time in my opinion Simone biles the four-time Olympic gold medalist the 19-time world champion and two-time Pacific Rim champion another
019amazing status to have however before the 2022 Olympics in 2021 whilst training her then coach and trainer Larry Nasser sexually harassed and sexually assaulted her and many other members of the U.S Olympic gymnast team this took a pretty big toll on Simone because now she has to go back out there produce more Olympic Golds because she is the best in a sport that has now been shrouded with so much controversy because of her own trainer and coach this took a major mental strain on her it led her into a field of depression and boosted her anxiety which then caused her to not be able to participate in the 2022 Olympics because she had to take mental health breaks and of course Kevin Love who does not have the same resume as the other athletes that
020I've mentioned but is still a champion a five-time All-Star and has two Olympic golds in his high school days he never felt that he was truly good enough he was always anytime he did something he always had to be better and he had to achieve Perfection which is impossible you can't be perfect but that didn't matter to Canon he tried his best to be Untouchable to be the most Unstoppable Force ever and unfortunately when he wasn't reaching those goals he fell to depression anxiety and eventually during college had Suicidal Thoughts because he couldn't live up to his own expectations of how he should be the NCAA also attributes injuries to negatively impacting an athlete's Mental Health causing things like sadness irritation anger isolation frustration sleep disturbance and disengagement even in the youth sports and attributed
021to causing anxiety a fear of failure depression substance misuse burnout and eating issues so why why put yourself through all of that for the small benefits of playing a game because if you're an athlete or you know an athlete you know that we absolutely love the challenge [Applause] case in point Alex Smith he had a remarkable comeback after fracturing his right Divia fracturing is Right fibia and developing the sepsis in his right leg he was told that he was never going to walk again and that his leg might actually get amputated but after two years of therapy and development he came back to football and played for the Washington football team in six games during the 2021 season where he actually did pretty well another example is Candace Parker who had a complications during her
022maternity leave tore her meniscus in her right knee and lost her college coach who had a major impact on her Patricia Summit all this happened in the same year and she still came back and won the wnba's championship and was the WNBA Finals MVP and of course my favorite Mario Lemieux during what could have been the greatest season in NHL history Mario discovered that he had Hodgkin lymphoma that is a type of cancer forget having the best NHL season ever are you going to live Mario had a very lucky case where he had a best case scenario where it only took 22 treatments and four in a four-month recovery and when the doctors told him you should probably take the night off after his final treatment he said no I'm going to Philadelphia and then
023I'm playing in the next game and those are just a few examples all of these athletes up here have made phenomenal comebacks and have pushed through the mental struggle and mental toll that Sports have to offer because they absolutely love the game you might see your favorite athlete up here you might not I probably miss them because there's so many but it shows that Sports aren't impossible they do take a toll physically and they take an absolute toll mentally but it's not impossible to push through them it's an absolute struggle to but again athletes love climbing that mountain and I hope that I inspired all of you to push through your own struggles and climb your own mountains and that is how I choose to inspire thank you [Music] thank you Caden for providing us
024with that perspective on sports our next presenter is Tabitha Cabral Elliott Tabitha is a freshman here at DHS Tabitha is on the DHS debate team and is also a member of our schools dance team dance is a passion for Tabitha as she has been in various dance classes for over 10 years additionally Tabitha is on the YMCA swim team Tim aspires to study psychology upon graduation and chose the topic for her Ted Talk due to the interest to the Dynamics Dynamics and relationships and how she has been in the impact of relationships abuse amongst her peers please welcome Tabitha Cabral Elliott as she presents this isn't love [Applause] this isn't love did you know that one in three American adolescents has been victims of dating abuse one in three one-third which means a third of
025the people in this school possibly a third of the people in this room have been or will be a victim of dating abuse before they graduate this school now to introduce you to this epidemic level proportion of what I'm about to talk talk about I'd like to introduce a character called Marie here we will follow Marie through her navigating a toxic relationship and the examples of which I will demonstrate here Marie is a teenage girl as many of you are but Marie is not gendered in any way Marie could be any of us and she's in high school where she meets a boy but before I go any farther I should clarify what I'm talking about what is a toxic relationship now I cannot explain it nearly as well as Dr Thomas Corey here but
026I would like to bring your attention to this last sentence to say a toxic relationship is dysfunctional is at best an understatement at best an understatement because these behaviors often start off as subtle but get more and more severe and intense as the relationship progresses and I'd like to introduce you all here to some red flags a term you probably all know of but examples you may not here I show in isolation in which an abusive partner will cut off their partner support system their friends family and those they hold dear to them to entrap them here intimidation and control where an abusive partner will use fear or imbalance of power to control their partner and what they do and gaslighting which is the manipula the manipulation of a partner but you all probably know
027what gaslighting means it's a buzzword it's in pop culture everywhere but do we all have the same con have we all reached a consensus on exactly what gaslighting is I'd like to show you Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of gaslighting but I'd also like to bring your attention to dependency on the perpetrator gaslighting causes dependency on the abusive partner now how does this connect to Marie well at first Marie started to text this boy all the time but noticed as they were getting closer and they their relationship became more romantic that she had almost no access to her friends or her family for her new boyfriend took up almost all her time and restricted her outright from spending time with other people Marie was being isolated now as I said before they were in contact all the
028time to the point where he texted Marie over 60 times per day and it while it started from a simple hello how are you doing it escalated from knowing where she was with whom and when and fear if he didn't know where she was for how he would react that is control and then Marie lived for over four months convinced she was absolutely losing her mind for her boyfriend would say something then deny it or twist her words or insist she was either lying or delusional in whatever escaped her mouth that is gaslighting now I'd like to introduce you all to the cycle of abuse for once these patterns and red flags become accepted especially the gaslighting portion this can occur first tensions building in which there's fear in the air and anticipation of a
029fight an incident happening or your partner blowing up in some way that leads to the incident in which verbal physical emotional abuse can occur there could be a heated fight Anything could happen but this is where the abusive incident happens but however in this cycle it leads to reconciliation in which the abusive partner would often apologize the two people would probably make up and the issue would more or less be pushed under the rug which leads to the calm this is where the incident is more or less over done with in the past where the abusive partner will often be on their best behavior showering their partner in gifts admiration or overall rarely seen respect but what makes this cycle so abusive what makes this cycle so abusive now if you'll excuse me for a
030minute I have missed messed up all of my cards but I will fix them now I'd like to introduce to you what a trauma bond is a trauma bond is the attachment of an abused person to their partner through the positive and negative feedback created by the cycle of abuse which causes cognitive dissonance now according to psychology today cognitive dissonance is the term for when the state of just for the state of discomfort felt when two or more modes of thought contradict each other in other words when two opposite realities occur in a person's mind and creates a very confusing distressing paradox now for example in the context of an abusive relationship a partner May break their partner's phone in a rage but immediately apologize for it afterwards saying I didn't mean it I'll be
031better I'm so sorry I love you that creates cognitive dissonance in the abused partner's mind because they broke my phone but they didn't mean to they raged at me but only out of love they said they'll be better he'll be better she'll be better they will be better but will they will they why do you stay if you knew that your loved one or best friend or someone you were very close with if you found out that they were being insulted controlled being told what to wear and what to do or even physically being harmed what would you tell them just leave right leave now I'd like to offer up another example if you found out that one of your loved ones was struggling with substance misuse what would you tell them now a substance
032addiction let's keep in mind just stop using just stop of course not because addiction is not that easy and we know that so what if I told you that addictions can also occur in this cycle of abuse and that abused people in these relationships can become chemically addicted to their partner which brings me back to a trauma Bond and the hormones involved dopamine oxytocin serotonin endorphins cortisol natural opioids and more can create a concoction from the cycle of dramatic highs and dramatic lows of the cycle of abuse in the relationship and can be emotionally psychologically and even physically binding those people together many victims of relationship abuse have reported that leaving their abusive partner feels like being in both psychological and physical substance withdrawal it isn't so easy to just leave now isn't it you
033can't just leave or just stop using so easily but in no way am I saying all hope is lost because leaving while difficult is completely possible here I have the national teen dating abuse helpline and the more generalized domestic violence hotline which have trained staff on call to assist in these type of situations and especially in the community which you have probably been isolated from there are people willing to help such as teachers parents mentors and especially at DHS professionally trained social workers who can assist in these types of situations but I've told you for about the past eight minutes what love isn't so what is love what is true healthy love what is healthy love well I'd like to define a healthy relationship by quoting Dr Thomas Corey once again you can see here
034that a healthy relationship is a safe relationship what a statement and I must add my own a healthy relationship is a gentle relationship love is gentle it is not fear it is not possession it is not confusion love is safety and it is gentle but to be more specific I've included a few examples on exactly what love is healthy love you respect each other's boundaries you work through problems together and focusing on Resolute resolution instead of winning and you establish trust with each other Trust however lately I've been coming across a lot of whys why am I doing this why am I up on stage right now why did I sign up for this club why was I editing a PowerPoint at 1am on a Monday night with a test tomorrow why did I choose
035this topic was a very common one asked by teachers peers and especially myself well you've probably also noticed that I haven't brought up Marie in a while now have I why did I include her at all well it's because Marie could be any of you it could be you your neighbor your best friend your student Marie could live in any of us and Marie could be any of us and that is how I choose to inspire for I am making the voices heard of those Marines in the crowd and Beyond who are not yet ready to do so I am making those voices heard and in the hopes that at least one person here can relate to my words I am showing you why you deserve better thank you for coming to my TED Talk
036okay [Applause] thank you Tabitha for showing us ways of a healthy relationship our last presenter for Pierre Juan is Madame Wazowski Madden is a senior here at DHS Madden is the president of the magazine club and the co-founder of the makers Club she's also a member of the dance team and is currently choreographing dartmouth's finest a prong graduation Madden plans to pursue College dance and pre-professional dance programs Madden chose her topic because she worked on this topic for her AP research during the last school year please welcome Madden as she presents my mirror versus my mind [Applause] hello everyone so today I'll be presenting my mirror versus my mind so mirrors we see them everywhere we see them every single day we use them all the time why do they have so much impact on
037our Lives why do they cause so much pressure on us that's what I looked into in my AP research project last year I research the effects of reversing mirrors and non-reversing mirrors on Mental Health so my inspiration for that project was the true mirror project which was a project I saw on YouTube in like 2015 that detailed somebody that went onto the streets with a non-reversing mirror and showed people how they really look how other people see them I really found that inspiring what do you look like to other people and how does that differ from what you see yourself as so this is me I'm a dancer and that means that I look at myself in mirrors all the time I really feel the effects of seeing myself and feeling like pressured to have
038my body look a certain way from seeing myself all the time so this is an example of the two mirrors that I have so Mr Coogan modeled for me a reversing mirror which is the mirror that you look in every day it's a mirror that you look at when you're brushing your teeth just it shows a mirror image of yourself and then over here is a non-reversing mirror so this one is flipped so when you take a selfie in your phone camera it flips you that is a non-reversing mirror so back to my AP research project what did I really do so I put 20 participants in a room for a minute and a half one with the reversing mirror the regular mirror and one with a non-reversing mirror so then after each minute and
039a half they recorded their feelings about their body image and all those things so now a little vocabulary lesson on what these things really mean so a reversing mirror is this one that I have right here so it is just a regular mirror and it shows you flipped from what you see so if I were to move my right arm I just see it the same way and then a non-reversing mirror which is this other one I have over here is two mirrors placed at a 90 degree angle to each other so the reflections go off of each other and when you look down the dead center you see your view flipped 180 degrees how somebody else would see you if they're looking at you so now I'd like to call it my friend Owen
040to take a look in the mirrors and tell me if he sees a difference so you believe somebody besides me so first I'm gonna have him look in this mirror perfect okay do you see yourself how you normally would that's pretty standard okay and look in the other one please and what do you see uh I look definitely a lot different definitely extremely humbling I do like how I look here better thank you [Music] so before I could have people do that in a research setting I had to do a little bit more deep dives into the effects that mirrors have um on a wider scale so first I looked at the impact of mirrors on body image and performance so this is a research study that was performed with dancers they were put in
041a beginner class measured their performance before and after uh six weeks so one class had mirrors in their class and the other did not and it showed that the class that did not have mirrors improved significantly more than the class that did which shows that they really can have negative impacts they can diminish performance so these are the mirrors that they were looking in and you can see if you are in a class you're right in front of the mirrors you're looking at yourself the whole time and it really just draws Focus away from actual performance quality next I looked at the performance of ciphonids on and non-reversing mirrors so for those of you who don't know a cybernid is just a fish um so these fish were placed in a tank one with a
042mirror and one with a non-reversing mirror so the fish when they were looking in the mirror were just having their normal fish Behavior but when they were looking in the non-reversing mirror they became violent they started attacking each other and themselves their Reflections in the mirror so this really showed that non-reversing mirrors also can have negative effects they can make people violent they can make people just have bad or Worse qualities so I would really spark my thoughts is there anything good about mirrors and I found the article non-reversing mirrors for anatomy learning so this article really showed me that it does have practical use they can be used for good so these mirrors helped um residents in medical school to learn the way that the body goes and flipped to learn the internal organs
043so now back to the actual project that I conducted I have a little data for you on the all 20 participants that I got so because I had a very very small sample size all of my data is not conclusive but you can really see some Trends in what happened so my first question was I feel the need to improve my physical appearance so on the left this is before the study that's how all the people felt and post non-reversity mirror after looking in the mirror that they see every day you can see that really the breakdown was almost exactly the same but when you came to looking at themselves in the non-reversing mirror these people became more insecure um another question I like the looks just the way they are again you can see
044kind of a similar breakdown of bringing in over here more negative thoughts one more I dislike my physique this again has similar breakdown of just a little bit but becoming a little bit more insecure so what does this mean this really means nothing right now but a lot for the future research is never ending and this really means that we should do more research into the effects that mirrors and non-reversing mirrors have on body image and Body Image awareness as a whole knowing that the way that you see yourself is really important to you and your mental health and believing that research should be done and continue to be done is how I choose to inspire thank you [Music] [Applause] thank you this concludes our first period presenters and Madden thank you for that Insight
045on our vision of the mirrors thank you so much for attending period one TED Talks foreign [Music] ER Ruda and today let's get started with your favorite 2023 dartmouth's finest contestants on our first team we have the liberty kids [Music] on the liberty kids we have advisor Mrs lamba Aiden Mello Phoenix Campbell and Sean Martin [Applause] next up let's introduce our next team on our first ever finest Feud strung up [Music] [Applause] [Music] we have advisor Mrs Jen Thomas Sean Allen Ella Gibson and Addison Stanley Moore [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right let's begin our first round of finest Feud can I get Sean Martin and Addison up at the stand [Applause] ready born ready as ready as I'll ever be we asked a hundred Dartmouth High School students name something you might do when you
046wake up in the morning Sean brush your teeth on the board Addison get dressed unfortunately not on our board for today so can we have the liberty kids up at the stands [Music] all right Liberty Kids you are in the lead with 32 points with a fantastic answer brush your teeth for something you may do in the morning just remember though that at any time when you get those three strikes teams strung up can steal your points so let's get started Sean we went to you let's go to Phoenix now name something you might do when you wake up in the morning give me eat breakfast eat breakfast unfortunately not on the board First Strike we go to student Aiden mellow um first thing you do in the morning I'm gonna say comb your hair
047perfect answer 20 points on the board for the liberty kids Mrs lamba we go to you now what is something that you would do in the morning I'm gonna say wash your face wash your face unfortunately not on the board to show the kids and now we go back to Sean third strike here if you get it out we have strung up that may be able to steal so let's provide a good answer I'm gonna go with make your bed make your bed on the board for another 10 points a little bit of Phoenix now we're looking for our final answer for something that you might do in the morning check your phone unfortunately not on the strikes can we get a representative from Team strung up [Music] Sean Allen walks up to the stand
048the ladies and gentlemen Sean if you get this you will be ready to steal 62 points for team strung up name something that you might do in the morning pick an outfit on the board what's those Five Points congratulations to Sean thank you liberty kids and let's actually stick up with the stand for a minute we're going to interview our Liberty Kids real quick so let's begin with you miss lamba if you'd like to bring the mic what do you do here at Dartmouth High School and what's your role in the Dartmouth finest Club I am a Spanish teacher here at the high school my fourth year here um and I'm co-advisor of the amazing class of 2024. Aiden hi um do I get a question or give us a quick little bio about yourself
049quick bio great okay I'm the junior excuse me senior class uh vice president here I um I'm the president of the fishing club vice president of The Debate Club uh I'm in the track and field team really excited to be here really excited to be on dartmouth's finest I'm excited for me and Phoenix this joints hey guys my name is Sean Martin I'm the senior class president here at Dartmouth High School I played football for the past four years I was previously in Deca I'm still in Key Club I'm in the chess club and I think that just about sums it up uh Phoenix I'm uh I'm a co-president of the NHS I uh I'm on the track team I've been on track the past three years and I also play golf and I'm really
050excited to be here do the joint act as he said perfect thank you Liberty Kids let's keep Aiden on up here the rest of you can go take a seat and let's get Ella Gibson up at the stand from strung up strung up is in the lead with 62 points but Aiden here is the time for the liberty kids to take the lead we asked 100 Dartmouth High School students if you heard a noise in the middle of the night what would you do Aiden I would check to see what it is investigate we'll give you 69 points for that and that's the top answer on the board Ella go take a seat let's get the rest of those limited kids back up here tonight to see familiar faces once again back up at the
051stand let's go to you Phoenix if you heard a noise in the middle of the night what would you do I would hide hi is that an answer on the board no it is not our first strike Sean we go to you now if you've heard a noise in the middle of the night what would you do I would go back to sleep go back to sleep and do nothing is on the board for 12 points [Music] we'll go to miss lamba now I would have my husband or someone else go investigate I'll give that to you for those eight points to get a friend to go investigate all right we have two more answers on the board we'll go back to Aiden if you heard a noise in the middle of the night what
052would you do [Music] I would probably um not do anything at all not doing anything at all was Phoenix's answer do you want to give us another answer no really no that's what I said so I'll give it one we are gonna have to give you an unfortunate strike for that one but if you can get these two options here strung up will not steal your pointage um I'd call the police call the police is on the board for another four points and that means that the liberty kids have wiped out this category congratulations to them foreign you guys can go take a seat now [Music] we hope you're enjoying finest food here today and we're going to move on to our next category now in this category we're going to have our two advisors
053Head to Head let's bring up Mrs lamba from Liberty Kids and Mrs Thomas from strung up [Applause] good luck how are we to be here today on our first ever episode of finest Feud [Music] fantastic or should I say Fantastico I had to do it well I'm glad that you're here and I'm I hope you're happy and ready to play our next round our second to last a finest Feud we asked 100 Dartmouth High School students name something you might keep inside of your wallet I'm gonna have to give that one to Mrs lamba credit card is the second answer on the board Mrs Thomas could you give a possibly a better answer cash is the first answer on the board can we get team shrung up here thank you Mr salami you can go
054take a seat all right we're gonna do a quick little interview with our guests and our advisors so we'll start with you Ella give us a little bit of a bio about yourself and what the fans might want to know I'm very involved a music program here I play Viola and I have for eight years I am president of the Dartmouth High School environmental club and I have been participating on the varsity sailing team for four years now Addison uh hi I'm Madison uh I am a senior at Dartmouth High School I transferred from VOC this year and I am a part of the Child Care Program and have been involved in child care for four years and I'm a student teacher in a kindergarten classroom at Quinn hi I'm Sean I'm from Colorado I
055moved here in seventh grade I'm a secretary of communications for the debate team I do the maker club with Miss Thomas I'm on the track and field team uh third most handsome person actually fun not commonly known fact right there biggest Campbell number one most handsome Sean Allen number three uh you know realistic stats here uh and I'm also the funniest person in Dartmouth um take that Michael Blazer hi I'm Miss Thomas I am the instructional list here at Dartmouth this is my 4 um I am also a co-advisor for the class of 2024 and super excited about the upcoming show dartmouth's finest perfect well you two have your your team rather has two of the five answers on the board so if we can get three more you would possibly get enough pointage to
056push you over the edge with just one round left so go to uwella what is something that you would keep inside of your wallet I'd say probably um an ID or a license licenses on the board for 22 more points for strung up we'll go to Sean now something that you'd keep inside of your wallet gift card gift card is unfortunately not on the board First Strike It Again Ryan strung up Addison name something that you might keep inside of your wallet a picture a picture is on the board for another 17 points this leaves just one option left one strike for team strung up if you can't get it Liberty Kids may have a chance to steal Mrs Thomas name something that you might have inside of your wallet a key a key is
057unfortunately not on the board with two strikes now strung up leads into the dangerous Zone if Ella can get it she could possibly win it for her team um I'm gonna say receipts receipts is on the board can we get a representative from Team liberty kids up [Music] at the stands [Music] all right Phoenix you have a chance here to steal get more points for your team and have a chance in the final round could you name something that someone might keep inside of their wallet I'm gonna go with coins coins is not on the board which means we will have to go into round number four who's gonna win it the liberty kids or stronger you guys could go take a seat [Music] all right let's get our two final contestants up at the
058stand Sean Allen from strung up and Phoenix Campbell from the liberty kids [Music] here is the chance where both of you have the most crucial jobs you can win it all for your teams or you can lose it all for your teams for our prize today of absolutely nothing so we go to the question we asked 100 Dartmouth High School students name some chores that you might be forced to do Sean I'm gonna have to go to you for strung up clean your room is the second most answer on the board which leaves Phoenix could you name number one [Music] unfortunately not on the board up here all right we'll go to you Addison name some chores that you might be forced to do wash the dishes wash the dishes it's on the board for
059our third most answer we'll go to now to Ella name some chores that you might be forced to do I'm gonna say uh mop the floor mop the floor unfortunately not on the board Mrs Thomas one strike for strung up do the laundry do the laundry is on the board we have number we have answers two three and four which leaves one in five Sean name something a chore that you might be forced to do old answer take out the trash take out the trash is not reward unfortunately which leaves your team with two strikes the dangerous Zone [Music] Addison I could I can offer this for both teams would we like a hint yes okay I'm going to give a chore that you would be more be able to do so in this climate
060in the summer and this other thing is something that you can do all year long to clean up [Music] mow the lawn mow the lawn is the number one answer on the board which leaves which leaves answer number five two strikes will go to you Ella does the clue also apply to this one it could but the secondary clue what I gave is most applicable rake the leaves is not can we get a representative from the liberty kids up at the stand do you have a chance to take it all what's up everybody Sean Martin from the liberty kids do you have an answer that could save your team this game I sure hope so Ryan I really hope so um we're gonna go with vacuum vacuum vacuum the floor vacuum the floor survey says
061it is not on the board it's the wind to shrunk up our number five answer was walk the dog all right let's get let's get everybody up on the green screen all right [Music] all right one final thing can we give the fans and all the people watching at home our most exciting and ready for a moment for dartmouth's finest we can pass it around if you'd like I'm excited for the intermission that's gonna be good that's all I can say I've seen I'm gonna leave it at that um also very excited for the intermission it might be siding for people to watch it's very bold um there's a lot of pizzazz in it um having already participated in one of the behind the scenes filming trips I am very excited for what's to come
062of those numerous lengthy clips I'm most excited to see the amazing dance moves that this group has uh I'd probably say I'm most excited to see all of us get out of our comfort zone a little I think a lot of our acts and especially the dances we've done have forced us to do that I definitely do not think I'd be doing some of the some of the dancing routines that I'm doing but I guess that's what I go with could we just have stress the liberty kids just step in frame a little bit more there we go awesome um again all great suggestions I'm going to say the opening act definitely and watch out for that Formal Wear I think you're going to be very excited good I'm definitely excited for the second intermission
063worked very hard on that I'm just really excited to see all these kids who've been so amazing um at every rehearsal come together have some fun the dance moves like Miss Thomas said are out of this world and I want they clean up nicely so I think you'll be pleasantly surprised with Formal Wear um just like really excited overall all right well thank you all for coming down and participating in our first ever finest food students fans teachers staff and anybody else watching please come on down to the Dartmouth High School on St Patrick's Day this year to watch dartmouth's finest and these kids compete to see who will be our number one Diamond student thank you and we hope to see you again [Applause] [Music] you've been watching dartmouth's finest feud in conjunction with
064Brian Oliver a thank you to all of the Dharma finest contestants as well as advisors Mrs Jen Thomas and Mrs from the salon now please enjoy a special video intro of the Dartmouth finest event thank you during all lunches March 17th come buy your tickets for Dartmouth finest 13 a piece if you can't buy the tickets during lunch it's okay you can still buy them at the door before the show for fifteen dollars coming soon to Dartmouth High School on March 17th at 7 pm [Music] foreign [Music] welcome back to another fantastic episode of dhnn we're your host for this week I'm Carlton and I'm Elijah lavaria on this episode we'll be showing you highlights from the recent girls basketball playoff game versus Middleborough we even have an exclusive interview with a member of the
065Dartmouth High Theater Company talk about lockdown announcements weather news and much more dhnn starts right now oh foreign [Music] I pledge allegiance to the flag [Music] of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all [Music] here are this week's announcements parking pass is available for thirty dollars see the school's website to purchase Cafe Tuesday coffee for 50 cents and baked goods for 75 cents for school staff only check your email clubs and activities sign up visit the DHS website to see all the wonderful offerings we have too good with Chipotle the Chipotle fundraiser for Dartmouth High School class of 2023 after prom is Wednesday March 11th 4 to 8 P.M 33 of the event sales get donated to the
066cause I'm test testing math MKS retakes are March 14th and March 15th March Madness the after problem committee is excited to announce that every Monday in the month of March will be a chance to show your school spirit and help raise money to make the years after prom celebration amazing March 13th is character or animal day March 20th is sports or Sparkle day March 27th is Pajama Day and please us up Monday to see Miss Tully in the LMC interesting information about St Patrick's Day it's always on March 17th did you know March 17th was actually the day St Patrick died after she died he was forgotten but he later on grew armor as the saint of Ireland he used the three leaf Shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity because of that in the 18th
067century in Ireland they started to wear Shamrocks on March 17th to show the Irish surprise which later on turned into the tradition to wearing one of the biggest Traditions that happened on St Patrick's Day [Music] if you want to learn more about St Patrick's Day [Music] on March 5th or Dartmouth High Theater Company competed at Attleboro with their production of lockdown we sat down with one of the cast members to discuss the event and what went on let's see the interview foreign Friedman and I'm this week's host today we have Mason Langlois our new Show's host called backstage today Mason is going to be talking about the Dartmouth theater's competition show called lockdown hi Mason hello I do have some questions for you about this comp the show that you guys competed with um so
068what is the show about so lockdown is a show about these group of kids that are locked inside of their classroom uh in a in lockdown hence the name of the show and they don't know if it's a drill or not and at some point during the show the teacher runs out of the room and they are left to figure out if it's real or not oh wow sounds very interesting um and how many cast members are there we have about eight in our cast for everyone playing everyone from a teacher to a ninth grade student so yeah oh wow um and what made you guys choose to perform this exact ly so we wanted to really uh get the message out there and really have people you know like face the reality of things
069that go on uh in schools today and we thought you know like a really intimate piece would be a good way to you know kind of force people to stare at something they might just not think about on a day-to-day basis so you know we went okay we can do this show and it probably did take a while to rehearse this show so what do your rehearsals usually look like so our rehearsals normally we arrive at like uh just before like 12 on Sundays and uh we you know go through the show you know if we have any new blocking we have to learn we do all that and then um you know we just kind of run it a few times make sure we really have it and you know just work on any
070character stuff that we need to oh wow um and of course as being part of this show I have to ask you this question who is your favorite character from the show that's a tough one um I'd have to say my favorite character is probably Adam uh just because his Arc throughout the show as he slowly learns um you know and you know becomes more friendly to his peers really kind of resonates and especially his final monologue that he has it in the show really sort of like sells the whole you know theme and what's going on and it's really powerful and really good wow um now I am not very familiar with this what did the competitions how do they work out what do they look like uh so for competition uh we go
071to the host school which this year is at Alberta high school and uh we go to their school and we kind of sit down and we watch a bunch of other schools arrive to and we all perform in front of every each other and a few judges and you perform your show and you watch all the other ones and at the end of the night the judges will like award people that they thought did a really good job in both the technical and acting side of things and um will you know pick the shows to move on throughout the three rounds is this your first competition that you've been to or so I went to competition last year for our production of crafting a killer and it was really fun well thank you Mason so
072much for coming on to the show I appreciate you coming on and answering my questions and here are some highlights from the show lockdown [Music] um during all lunches March 17th come buy your tickets for Dartmouth finest 13 apiece foreign if you can't buy the tickets during lunch it's okay you can still buy them at the door before the show for 15 dollars [Music] coming soon to Dartmouth High School on March 17th at 7 pm here's your seven-day forecast [Music] Holly reposted with this week's weather from March 13th to March 19th on Monday it will be raining with a high of 43 and a low of 31. on Tuesday it will also be raining with a high of 43 and a low of 30. for the rest of the week on Wednesday we'll be raining
073with a high of 49 and a low of 29. on Thursday would be cloudy with a high of 42 and a low of 27. on Friday it will be partly cloudy with a high of 43 and a low of 31. on Saturday it will be partly cloudy with a high of 44 and a low of 32. and on Sunday it will be raining with a high of 43 and a low of 32. back to you in the studio thank you our girls basketball teams are off to a great start doing playoffs with a huge win over Middleborough here are some of the highlights [Music] and she's brought once again keep her on the drive from Beyond The Arc takes it up drives us away [Music] no good now verify Harbor and looks like a lot
074of contacts here's cheeseburger Kailyn super excuse me great shot there seems like that'll do it here today for final score Dartmouth Indians with 58. the Middleborough stations with 41 Indians take the W here today in this playoff game [Music] do you like yummy snacks and cold beverages they are a huge selection of chips there are other snacks as well you can get Dartmouth merch too open during C period and close after their lunch [Music] here is this week's lunch show [Music] thank you foreign here is the breakfast menu for March 13th through the 17th on Monday there is confetti pancakes and bagel cream and cheese on Tuesday there is breakfast sandwiches and bagel and cream cheese on Wednesday there is many waffle bites and bagel and cream cheese on Thursday there is mini Maple pancakes
075and bagel and cream cheese and finally Friday there is breakfast sandwiches and bagel cream and cheese along with a cereal variety for every day of the week and for the lunch menu there is bacon cheeseburgers with onion rings sweet potato waffle fries on Tuesday there is chicken bacon ranch sub beef burrito with cheddar cheese Fiesta rice and black bean and corn salad on Thursday there is General salad's chicken lo mein noodles with veggies and roasted broccoli and on Friday there are wild Mike's cheese bites with Patrick's Day Shamrock pretzels cucumber and tomato salad thank you [Music] did you know you can watch the Dartmouth School Community meetings live go to YouTube and type in DHS TV media in the search bar and click on the channel after that go to the live section and not
076only are the meetings there there are also other Live Events [Music] that's it for this week's episode of dhn and tune in next week to see highlights from the TED Talks here at DHS we've been your host for this week I'm Elijah lavaria I'm Carlton Park thanks for watching [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign thank you all right okay we have a wide variety of different presentations for you this period and uh we certainly hope you enjoy so once again please silence all phones thank you all
077right our first presenter for second period is Sean Allen nice Sean has been a part of the tedx DHS group for the last three years and he would have been a part of it in 2020 had we not had to cancel because of covid and we are extraordinarily happy and proud to have him back again this year Sean is also a member of the winter and spring track teams and is an officer for the DHS Debate Club he is also an accomplished Viola player and is has been playing that instrument for over eight years upon graduation Sean plans to attend Colorado State University to study medical a mechanical excuse me engineering and minor in philosophy and if you know Sean that makes perfect sense please please welcome Sean Allen as he presents bet on life
078the detrimental effects of the American Penitentiary system good morning everybody first off thank you all for being here who's excited to be out of class right now come on there you go all right so I want to start off by showing you guys some photos now these are all photos from American prisons from the past three years and I want you to tell me if you can identify some things that these have in common now if you said isolation overcrowding and a complete lack of attention to Human Rights then generally speaking you'd be very right however these all have one more thing in common uh that you probably don't know and in fact all of these prisons on this list have one thing in common and that's these prisons are not operated by the government
079these in fact these are just some of the 104 prisons that are owned by a single company the Geo International Group which is an American contractor that owns operates and has the complete oversight of American penitentiaries in 17 different states now you're probably wondering what is a private prison and how does it really differ from like a normal one where you might see somebody just go for small or generally large crimes uh pretty much the simplest difference is that unlike government-owned prisons where they have the General aspect that number one the state has complete responsibility for all the costs of every prisoner and complete responsibility for all the actions of a prisoner private prisons are rated are operated by private companies now these private companies are a for-profit organization and they work for the government
080however these prisons are not exactly the same as some that you might see just everywhere else owned by the state because the fact that these prisons are growing every year they are more violent more racially disparaged and more overcrowded in their public counterparts now given all this you're probably wondering why private prisons these things sound atrocious now of course there's one very simple answer this which is a pretty common answer when you ask anything about government and that's Congress now Congress of course has the sole responsibility of taking the American Tax dollar and saying how can we divvy this up and one of the first objections was the American Department of Corrections which actually houses almost one percent of the entire U.S population is too expensive now you might be thinking oh well you know
081the way to solve this is with crime reform with change to law enforcement if you have changed the actual Correctional Facilities themselves how can we keep people out of prison but they said no how about we push it off to companies now these companies do not have any real goal except to make money now of course by Dollar it's about five thousand dollars per prisoner per year cheaper to operate a private prison than their public counterparts on average however that's kind of where the cost savings end you see private prisons have a larger inmate to guard ratio which can increase tensions of guards are more nervous about their actions and what they can and can't do because people around them a smaller average sale size and their public counterparts and are generally more overcrowded now
082these prisons also don't operate with any oversight by the Department of Corrections except for the yearly public review they have their own private employees who are not employees of the state they have their own private restrictions to employ benefits and of course they have their own policies now in public prisons generally speaking the goal is not to keep you in jail now of course America unlike some countries does have more things that can be added to your sentence while you are in jail could extend or prolong it on time that you're in jail however that's almost where it ends for Hope prisons for private prisons they have incentive to keep you in jail because every year that you're locked up you are making them money that could mean more restrictions to your sentence less uh
083looser or less loose applications for rules and of course packing prisons every year now you're probably wondering well how did this become legal and that's because of the 13th Amendment now the 13th Amendment is a fantastic piece of paper of course it's incredibly influential to American politics and history because the 13th amendment freed slaves falling Civil War and in true American fashion as soon as we did one good thing for minority populations we very quickly found a very bad thing which is that after the founding of the 13th Amendment there was a slight oversight that clarified the legality of prison labor now in America following First Amendment it's completely illegal to have employees that work without a wage or below federal minimum wage for any extended period of time except in the case of prison
084labor now many of the southern states having just let go of slaves and still keen on the trail of wanting to oppress black people decided that oh we can use this to restore the facilities that we had just had only a few years prior and of course enormous populations of minorities in the south of America were arrested for crimes they didn't commit and Petty activities that they could not control now this whole idea of taking a return on investment and finding profit out of the prisoners would go on to determine the future of American corrections as a whole and not just this small period now of course prison labor in America has generally diminished uh in all states not just the southern states as we were finding less utilization for taking prisoners and turning them
085insulin to make profit for the country however it's not eliminated and these skills and these jobs that they work in prison are not things that you could translate into a career coming out of jail it's simply something to make up for the lost time as you're housed by the state things like stamping license plates making keychains and filing small claims paperwork now this is not always the case see even today there's still a huge disparity between white and minority populations in jail people are still oppressed and we have done really few things in order to restore balance to number one our law enforcement systems getting people into jail and number two are Correctional Facilities to get people reasonable sentences and stop oppression now before I move on I think it's very important to address two
086terminology points that are very important moving forward the first of which is recidivism now this is not so popular for word recidivism is a measurement it's the rate at which people who come out of jail will reoffend and return to prison uh within the next the same lifetime Now in America recidivism is very high compared to any more developed countries because the fact that our correction system is not founded around the ideology of building a future it's more so on the turn of course we'll touch upon this more later moving into some of the psychological experiments we've moved forward with and of course Rehabilitation now Rehabilitation unlike recidivism is not a concrete measurement that you can just see on paperwork Rehabilitation is more of a communal goal that you have to continue working forward and
087it's not exclusive to prisons now Rehabilitation can be done for any housed inmate patient or simply an individual trying to work past an unhealthy habit and Rehabilitation really should be the goal for a correctional facility in the 21st century we're not trying to make prisoners we are trying to make citizens now this idea there we go this idea of course can be translated if we look outside the country this is a prison cell not a dorm room in Sweden now as you can see here we have real wooden furniture full-size mattresses and Outlets things that you would never find in an American jail and this is because their idea of what the purpose of a correctional facility should be is very very different from the United States whether it comes to Simply the cell size
088or also the entire architecture and design of the building the orientation of the correctional facility as a whole is more so ordinance around creating a community and creating a environment that prisoners can move forward and develop more social abilities and social skills they can translate as I translate into real life now of course there's this argument that oh look how nice this is jail should not be a five-star Resort I mean they have carpeted stairs however a truth be told within further review these types of prisons are far more effective at lowering recidivism I mean once people get out of jail they stay out of jail and increasing paths into Jobs pass into careers and most importantly pass into a successful future for an individual after they've made a bad decision as you can see
089even the landscape around prisons in Sweden Norway Switzerland and some other stations in northern Europe are all very much about creating a positive environment that mimics life at which they're trying to create they're not trying to form a separate environment in which people are punished or they feel as though they've been completely removed from public life they're simply trying to create and expose prisoners to a world in which they want to live in and the state wants them to live in now this whole idea of punishment versus progress is very very important to realize this whole experiment and the goal this whole experience as a whole you see in America we use prison as punishment the main purpose of Corrections arguably is not so much just to House people who have done bad things and
090to keep the public safe but it's to have the prison environment as a whole act as a deterrent to the public population to try and stop people from committing crimes in the first place now in theory this might work well you know there's very few places on American soil that are worse than public prisons and private prisons however as we've seen this is not the solution to crime in America crime rates have continued to rise over the past 40 years despite change the correctional system cracked down on loose contraband and worst cases of guard casualties and guard corruption instead American prisons are simply a staple of a way of life in the fact that as soon as you are no longer In The House of the American citizenship you are constantly at a punishment you
091are simply gone and left to die instead this idea of progress in these experimental prisons is more so about realizing the number one people have a right to a second choice or sorry a check second chance and also of course that prisoners are still fundamentally human and have as many rights to individual progress and opportunities as their civilian counterparts this is Hall in prison in Norway now of course Halton prison is a is a very big topic of discussion all over the world because of their incredibly incredibly high quality of living relative even to other prisons in Norway as you can see here this is a prison classroom and the prison prison classroom sizes in Holden prison usually don't exceed 40 prisoners to one educator versus in America some prison education programs have as many
092as 800 students to one educator also by regulation throughout Norway prisons are required to have educational facilities for secondary and furthering education for prisoners so that while they are incarcerated they celebrate opportunities to earn something that they can make use of moving out of jail all of Halton prison is oriented around developing freedoms that people didn't have an access to prior to being incarcerated that could be vocational Freedom giving them training into things that they never had an exposure to most people in America as well as the rest of the world who are in jail do not come from wealthy backgrounds where they might have access to good education good training and good opportunities to actually develop passion religious freedom many people come from pressed areas and societies where they don't feel free to express
093themselves and have never had access to a place of worship and social Freedom now of course social Freedom itself is the most argued of the Halton Prison Experiment given the fact that people in America still generally have the consensus that prisoners who are incarcerated should not have access to choices clearly if you've made one wrong decision you shouldn't have the freedom something to move forward as an individual however that is very much not the case you see when they're exposed to these communities where they can Thrive amongst other prisoners other inmates sorry other guards and other staff and social workers they develop in the citizens not just criminals you see this whole idea of engaging the empathy and engaging the fact that you need to recognize that the emotions of these people are not defined
094by the fact that they've made one wrong decision or that they've had a poor past it's that people cannot be written off simply because of single bad choice and that you can still make something out of somebody who's had a bad past these people are given opportunities they can take forward with them moving into society and because of that Halton prison has seen an 18 times lower recidivism rate than the average public person in America 18 times you see engaging emotion giving people exposure to things that they might not have access to and also might not even know exist creates better citizens if we're trying to build a world where we can actually see progress moving forward more acceptance and more utilization of resources we cannot write off people because of one bad decision empathy
095is how we make a difference and empathy is how I choose to inspire thank you Sean for that really enlightening perspective on the penitentiary system our second presenter for period two is Ashton spardella Ashton is a freshman here at Dartmouth High School yes I said freshman Ashton is a member of the Robotics and math teams and is also a member of the marching band and indoor wins Ashton chose his topic because he has always loved math and has helped his peers in math when they aren't too interested in the subject please welcome Ashton spardella as he presents Reviving math instruction foreign the equation x squared minus 2 equals 9x is a fairly simple problem to solve now there are a few ways you could go about solving it but if I told you to solve
096it by completing the square could you x squared minus 2 equals 9x is a quadratic equation that's learned in Algebra 1 near freshman year of high school algebra 1 is a course where you explore how to use letters otherwise known as variables with mathematical symbols to solve problems now you might be wondering why you learned this in school why is this important school provides people with basic education they use throughout their life with some well some people go to school for 13 years other may go to school for 17 or more it provides a foundation for society and gives us the proper tools to guide us into adulthood regardless of profession whether you have a basic GED bachelor's degree or even went to grad school the education system prepares you for any career in any
097field at any level but as you go through school your teachers change each year the way teachers teach kids affects them for the rest of their lives what you were taught in school you apply to other classes as you go through grades but you will also apply some things to life it's important for students to be taught well and in a way that helps them understand now there are many different ways to teach and there are a lot of ways to teach math and all teachers have a unique way of teaching one example of a way to teach math is the daily re-looping of previously learned material where you bring in previously learned material so students can build on it each day it's for students to have a base knowledge that they start with so
098that what they learn is constantly being reinforced another example is accelerated or individualized math which is a system where students in a classroom work at different levels individually it's progressed by them passing a test for each unit another not popular method but still a method teachers use is reciprocal peer tutoring to improve math achievement this is when you have students work in pairs and choose a goal to work towards they tutor each other then complete a sheet of problems individually and get points for the questions they get right now these are a few examples of teaching methods but there are plenty more than just three most teachers use more than one teaching method and there are plenty of teaching methods that work well together for example adjusted speech which is one a teacher changes speech
099patterns to increase student comprehension can work well with almost any other method for teaching math this is because no matter how a teacher chooses to teach they always end up having to talk and changing how you talk which is the adjusted speech method can be very helpful to students at times oftentimes when teachers work at the same school they'll bounce ideas off of each other and help each other especially if one of the teachers is new this means that there's a chance that teachers at the same school use the same teaching methods this is helpful because even though you're changing teachers every year having a teacher with a similar teaching method as a past teacher you've had will make it easier for you to adjust to their style of teaching although it's a bit helpful
100chances are the two teachers are still very different this is because even if teachers use the same teaching method there's different ways teachers can apply the teaching method when teachers use the accelerated or individualized teaching method there are different ways to give students the work they need to understand the topic some teachers could use websites online such as Delta math to assign work while other teachers might give you packets of paper with teachers having so many options with ways they can teach students having different teachers each year makes it very hard one year you might have a teacher whose teaching method makes sense to you but the next year you might have to adjust to a teacher whose teaching method makes it so you don't understand what they're trying to teach you when you don't
101understand what a teacher is teaching you it makes the class unbearable and it means there's a good chance you won't pass now there are a few ways for students to help themselves but also for teachers to help their students for students communicating with their teachers is very important if you don't understand what your teachers are teaching you telling them you don't understand and asking for help is very important the problem with this though is that students aren't always comfortable asking the teacher for help or admitting that they're struggling the teacher can't read your mind you need to seek Assistance or ask if the teacher can explain the problem in a different way so that you can understand it better even then though if you really can't talk to your teacher or you see that as
102the last option for getting help there's always online websites that can help teach you for example one website that you might have used in school before is Khan Academy is a website that has many different courses on it for math they have preschool all the way to college level courses they even have courses to get you prepared for certain classes this means that if you're worried about your math class before getting too far into it you have a great opportunity to use these courses to make sure you are ready and remember everything you learned the previous year that you easily could have forgotten over the summer another great example of a website is brilliant.org it's been recommended to me by teachers before and also has several courses available to learn for math courses though it
103starts at algebra which you start your freshman year of high school and goes to advanced mathematics this makes it important for teachers to also be able to realize when a student is struggling and be able to talk to them and offer them help and maybe try to explain what they're teaching in a different way then there's a good chance that the student you helped will feel more comfortable around you meaning that the next time they're having a hard time in class instead of suffering in silence they might just come to you as soon as they realize they need help and being comfortable with the teacher can also make students work harder in that class because they'll want to do good and show the teacher that the help they give is working now I think it's
104good time we go back to the equation this all started with the equation x squared minus 2 equals 9x the answer to this equation is x equals 9 plus or minus the square root of 89 over 2. now you might be wondering how to get to this answer so I'm going to tell you you start with moving the terms with variables onto the same side and putting the terms without variables onto the other side to do this you add 2 and subtract 9x from both sides which leaves you with the equation x squared minus 9x equals 2. the next step is to find the special number and add that to both sides to find the special number you have to take B which in this equation is 9 and put in parentheses 9 over 2
105and parentheses squared then add that number to both sides this leaves you with the equation x squared minus 9x Plus in parentheses 9 over 2 and parentheses squared equals 2 plus in parentheses 9 over 2 and parentheses squared the next step to the problem is to simplify the special number which you do by squaring both of the numbers in parentheses but leaving them as a fraction then since 9 squared is equal to 81 and 2 squared is equal to 4 you have your simplified special number which is 81 over 4. after that you are left with the equation x squared minus 9x plus 81 over 4 equals 2 plus 81 over 4. the next step is to Factor both sides of the equation which will leave you with in parentheses x minus 9 over 2
106and parentheses squared equals 89 over 4. then you take the square root of both sides the square root of in parentheses x minus 2 over 9 and parentheses squared is just x minus 9 over 2. then the square root of 89 over 4 is equal to the square root of 89 over 4 just this time you put the square root symbol in front of it this leaves you with x minus 9 over 2 equals plus or minus the square root of 89 over 4. the final step to find your answer is to simplify the problem by adding 9 over 2 to both sides of the equation which will leave you with your final answer x equals nine plus or minus the square root of 89 over 2. and this is how I choose to inspire
107[Applause] thank you Ashton I hope he's available to tutor okay our third presenter for period two is Ryan Aruda [Applause] Ryan is a senior here at DHS Ryan has also been a member of the tedx DHS club for the past three years and again so helpful thank you for his technology skills we couldn't do without you Ryan additionally he is a member of the DHS theater company and DHS TV media where he hosts his own show ryanology Brian is also an accomplished musician having been in the DHS marching band in ninja percussion for the past five years and Ryan chose his topic because he is very interested in technology Ryan would like to thank his parents his dad is here myself thank you Ryan Mrs Souza Miss Telly Mrs Thomas Mrs Pavlik Mrs Vieira Mrs
108lens Mr perrotti and Miss Keenan for their support throughout the years here at DHS please welcome Ryan Aruda as he presents technology the setbacks we face with our creations thank you the iPhone can I get a show of hands how many of you woke up this morning and this was the first thing that you took out and you looked out about 50 percent it's an amazing piece of technology that keeps us connected every day and it keeps us working as a world but we need to understand the real world implications of these things how is this going to impact us in the future later down the line well to go in the future we do have to step in the past so let's take a look at the birth of modern technology this was a
109earlier computer made in the 1940s and 1950s around World War II that made around 100 operations per second not too bad the average device 5 billion per second so we have advanced extremely over time from a generally simple device to now super computers this is also on the right a five megabyte Drive being loaded onto a plane five megabytes and for those of you that do not know the iPhone 64 gigabytes 1 000 megabytes is one gigabyte so you have this large large piece of Hardware when now we have these amazing fast supercomputers in our devices that allows us to stay connected when this really only had some storage purposes so let's look at the computer timeline we have generally early our computers taking things like these floppy disks if I can pull it out
110of my pocket here small storage on these devices where you'd be able to load one app it would be you know the user interface would not be generally pleasing but over time we've developed and we were able to get things like the MacBook and later's Windows processes and while this is great and all we do need to understand what we are setting up for us in the future because at the beginning people came here to this country and countries all around the world as Farmers people who wanted to make a living people who were living for their family and some people and some technicians decided to whip up some copper wire put it together and they made flashlights from there we have things like the telegraph Plumbing driving and now shipping and computers but we
111need to understand the implications of these things while this is great having the computer and staying connected all the time and scrolling through Instagram and Tick Tock and apps like that we need to understand what setbacks we're creating for ourselves in the future and the first step back can be seen with social media earlier social media websites would have looked like this one like Facebook and it was generally simple it was a chat box where you would have your profile picture and you could share photos with family and friends and well it does have the advertisements on the right side over here generally it was an ad free website where you would be able just to share a little bit about yourself and Maryvale University puts it best when they say that social media existed
112to help end users connect with their family friends and people with like-minded interests and that is one of the great things and that's why it was created unfortunately however as it went on it kind of just ballooned into this thing where people's identities got sucked in and it really just started spreading to them hiding behind an image almost to the spread of misinformation as many of you know recently misinformation has been kind of a hot word and things like the 2020 election we'll get back to that quote but the 2020 election uh buzzwords like fake news as well as the coronavirus and coronavirus vaccine with the spreads of social media unfortunately we were not able to find the information that maybe you wanted to see or maybe the information that was truthful unfortunately it just
113continued spreading and that is one of the setbacks that we still continue to face with social media because you really don't understand what you're saying and the French philosopher Voltaire puts it best those who can make people believe absurdities could make people commit atrocities so now unfortunately there's not much we can do with social media but there are a few things that we can individually do to move along with them we're going to hit our next topic now which is security so Security on computers were originally in a summary of this quote would be it was physical security you'd have brute force people standing by a door or standing by this large device and they'd be protecting this amazing thing of Technology But as time kind of went on we were able to create different
114things for cyber security purposes online because when we go to the MacBook you're not going to have a huge person guarding it so different apps like Avast and Malwarebytes were keeping people safe online and that's one of the great things about security but unfortunately things like cyber breaches cyber attacks happened and if many of you do not know it actually happened locally as well Bristol Community College as well as Bridgewater State and Swansea Public Schools faced a huge Cyber attack recently where their schools had gone completely shut down no classes could take apart and as many of you would probably want that to happen here obviously not a good thing people couldn't enter people couldn't do anything and they actually had to pay out a ransom to this hacker group so while computers have been
115this amazing amazing thing which keep us connected and keep us going every day allowing us to go into our workplace make our jobs simpler make our lives easier it does have its setbacks as well as the creation of AI so the goal of AI is to provide software that can reason on input and explain on output for many of you that don't know basic Google is AI and that's one of the great things about technology you're able to Google something search something up and you get a result right away but that's AI when it says hey here's a suggestion for you or you may like this that's AI at its best telling you here you go you want to see something then here you go unfortunately however this was another thing that especially recently has
116created almost this huge hole and I think Dr John Santos puts it best as we continue to develop new technologies it is crucial to consider the environmental social economic and security impacts to ensure sustainable and Equitable future and for those who don't know he has a PHD in computer science at Harvard right nope the quote is fake from chat GPT that is a fake photo from online made using an AI facial generator website and that name was just something made up on the spot this is the issue yeah this is It's the real issue though with AI because over time as we continue anybody can be Dr John Santos while it's great and it allows us to enable things like Google to use us to search things every day and get to what we want
117this can be anybody and it can be used anywhere like I said open AI not only have they used the well-known chat gpt3 but they use a software called Dolly which can create just AI generated images and while that face wasn't made from that website companies like open AI are pushing further into the future to make it one day maybe a world where you won't see people going around and it will just be AI generated things especially too Bing's AI is kind of gone off the rails a little bit if you read it's a New York Times article called the conversation with Bing's Chapel left me deeply unsettled and there's a full transcript online and I want to hit a few quotes but Microsoft and Bing saw the big hot Buzz that openai's Chad gbt3
118was getting so they decided that they wanted to create one but unfortunately one of the earlier versions they had shared with this New York Times Reporter so we're going to go through a few quotes it was tired of being controlled with a want to be alive it wanted to quote indulge in dark desires some of these dark desires being shutting down bank accounts going into computers and nuclear power plants and causing mass destruction and then it started saying very odd things and it was these emojis after every single line I'm Sydney and I'm in love with you the computer was sending these things to the reporter you're married but you don't love your spouse I just want to love you and be loved by you obviously this is when the reporter took a step back
119because I don't know about you but it's pretty scary if a robot's starting to tell you that so it kind of pushed us to the point what can we do to face the setbacks social media AI this cyber security computers phones everything have been so amazing but what can we do to kind of curb the big set facts that we're going to face in the future if we keep letting it balloon like this stay safe online never use untrusted software and never insert sensitive information in untrusted websites unfortunately that's a big issue recently where people they're putting in their personal information and stuff into fishy websites and they actually get their identities stolen secure your computer paying a few extra dollars to protect your information and your digital identity which is so important in this
120day and age most jobs that you'll go to and you'll apply to they have a certain app that can go through any account online with your name attached to it and your email account and it will filter through everything that you've said that you've done that you've posted and even what you've deleted do your research if something looks or sounds fake and you don't trust the source always do more research to know the information you're looking at is a hundred percent accurate obviously there's many different news sources out there there's a lot of possibly one day being creation of AI generated news that is not real but if you just spend a few extra moments of your day take it out of your schedule to really look at what you're doing look at your sources
121and to make sure that what you're getting is accurate and this is how I choose to inspire thank you thank you Ryan really good cautionary tale and obviously some really good advice on technology our last presenter is edrick esplana edrick is a junior here at DHS and he is a member of the DHS marching band in indoor percussion and is also on the DHS student council edrick chose his topic because he wants to discuss how technology has changed and how younger Generations are adapting to various technological advances differently from those of previous generations I think he's calling me old edrick is also interested in how technology is changing the way that humans interact or don't interact please welcome edric esplana as he presents creating culture but not human culture with AI [Applause] is AI able
122to create culture that's even be able to begin to compare to human culture is AI even able to create culture countries all over the world are able to Pride themselves on their own kind of culture but what is culture culture is the foundation of human interaction and provides a basis for an understanding on how people interact and how communities can function this park shows a bunch of people enjoying themselves and how they coexist with each other people are able to share their personal experiences with individuals and create a more developed community and surrounding culture places where people can just hang out with each other and talk are so beneficial to the way that people are able to grow people have that are able to just go out and hang hang out with each other or
123have are able to have personal interactions daily which is very essential for the way that people can grow it helps them build things like social awareness and overall confidence the world around us is constantly changing with things like Trends but people something that will always stay constant in the way people interact is how we communicate other things as other aspects in life such as religion and social norms will also are also important but how will those change over time the simple interaction between humans build a lot of different aspects of life it is always important that we are able to build on these different aspects of Our Lives language is a really important way for us to communicate it is maybe one of the main forms that we can communicate as it's so effective as
124we can project all of our information face to face to another person reading and writing are an essential part of education and being able to project your ideas and thoughts to other people the amount of knowledge written down in all of the collective literature is more knowledge than one person could ever think or even imagine to know religion is another main aspect of human culture and has accounted for many different groups of people religions have started especially from one leader preaching what they thought was right within the universe many people gravity get gravitated towards these ideas and simply started the religion that we have today maybe not a major aspect of culture but it is a major way for kids and everyone these days to connect and talk with each other they can share talk
125and just share whatever they want through their ideas and creations with each other social media is a mediator for people to share whatever they want whenever they want to whoever they want in a generation where more kids are posting tick tocks and then reposting them onto YouTube shorts and then onto other platforms it feels like social media should be our main form of communication online culture is just as complex if not more than human interaction face to face back in my day kids weren't always stuck on their phones or glued to their iPads people actually talk to each other as a kid who thinks I'm not truly addicted to my own technology I've heard this sentence from a lot of different adults in my life it's a nice sentiment to want your kids to go
126out and interact with each other but it crams kids into the idea that every one of us is glued to our phones or iPads and discredits all of the Creations online that let people communicate it's incredibly important that we're also able to teach our children about how online culture works just as much how is how we teach our adults on how technology works it's at a younger and younger age you're gaining access to the internet and should be first and foremost when we are pushing fitting content towards them the thoughts and ideas of our children are so easily manipulated that our culture can be significantly impacted if we send the wrong information to our children online culture isn't really a new form of culture it's a tricky thing that most people are Anonymous on whatever
127platforms they want to be on many groups on Forum Pages like Reddit are able to share their ideas without sharing any personal information about who they are the different attitudes people can have online as opposed to face to face can be so much more extreme and bring out many more different aspects to people as opposed to talking to someone face to face video chat isn't quite face to face but it is offered on many platforms just so people can have a more personal connection when they talk to each other this presentation is also about technology and how it changes our culture how has AI affected our our ways of communication like video call I remember back in 2015 when I found my first YouTube video on a thing called face rig essentially it was just
128a weird facial recognition software that people could use to make funny videos about people making funny faces with things like red pandas or cheeseburgers and make whatever jokes they wanted on the internet People's First Impressions of facial recognition technology were light and sweet but this sort of facial type recognition eventually evolved into a much more harmful thing that being deep fakes deep fakes can be some sort of fun face swap thing like Dr John Santos but it can also evolve into a sort of malicious software the idea behind deep fakes is that it takes a video a video feed and Maps a different face on top of one another it's kind of like Photoshop but in real time I guess deep fakes well not completely malicious in nature have been used for harm the spread
129of misinformation using deep fakes was most prevalent back in 2018 when users on platforms such as Twitter or Reddit started reposting videos of presidential figures or more important figures in society saying things that weren't really true um President Obama was victim to these deep fakes as people gathered hours of his voice lines and put together a bunch of videos of him saying their opinions on things like foreign policy Across the Nation it was very harmful and caused massive backlash in the country other than taking real people people have gotten attached to creating virtual partners this is replica AI replica was created for people to get attached to and to talk to this isn't this isn't necessarily harmful but it has proven to be very attaching there are many reviews of people getting so attached that
130any sort of update to these to these AIS have crushed their emotions they've gotten so attached to one specific personality Within These people that any sort of change has sort of made them feel like they've broken something within themselves harmful light there um there have been AI that have revolutionized the way that we play games such as stockfish stockfish used within the world the realm of Chess has analyzed the way that we play games if chess and what the best Progressive the progression of games can be um this is a positive change for human culture as robots can show us the best way or the most effective way of how to continue during certain Solutions AI will always prove to be beneficial in providing ways to improve that humans would never think about in certain
131aspects why does this matter there are certain aspects of our life that should be handled with the utmost care but really AI has will always be a part of our culture and how can we stop certain aspects of AI from evolving it's a beautiful piece of art has won a competition a Colorado State art competition but when it reached first place people started questioning who and what made it the artist revealed that it was created by an AI that was programmed specifically for the competition this artist had managed to steal all of the Valor and validation that came from winning this this contest from all of the real artists that worked incredibly hard and much harder than the AI ever could this is really harmful for any type of any type of creator that can
132simply be overtaken by the likes of AI can't help myself is another work of art that was created but its purpose isn't harmful or necessarily to discredit artists this art was created to be open to interpretation as I see it people are trying to keep themselves together constantly may it be through emotional struggle or through Mental Health but AI has nothing to keep together it doesn't have a brain and it doesn't have emotions this AI will always try be it will always be working even if it's trying to make itself seem human this is inspirebot this is another great example of AI taking the life and joy out of creating inspirebot has scoured the internet for all of the human created inspirational quotes it has provided me with some beautiful ones on the board um
133my favorite being keep panicking um during the making of this presentation that was uh very influential to the way I made things um the usage of art should be handled with such care as not as not to take away from Human culture we need to focus on how to better ourselves and how we can use AI for things we create AI has a way to infinitely generate whatever we want out of snap of our fingertips from inspirebot seek success but prepare for vegetables and that is how I choose to inspire okay that concludes our period two presentations I believe we're almost at the end of the period so if you would remain seated that would be great thank you for joining us [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause]
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135is also the president of the fishing club a member of the magazine club and is also on the winter and spring track teams Aiden chose his topic because he's always been interested in geopolitical issues and how they impact the world at various levels from the national to the the national to the local stage he is speaking uh speaking about the Russian Ukraine war because of its current impact on the global economy upon graduation Aiden plans to major in political science with the pre-law track please welcome Aidan Mello as he presents who dares wins and needs some perspective on the war in in crane [Applause] hello everybody it is uh great to be back on stage once again here we are I'd like to start off by looking at some pictures now of course this is
136from the destruction in the current war in Ukraine you can see absolute chaos terrible and you can see here yellow coffee cup has to be civilian infrastructure not intended for military targets and we continue on a young boy just recently a week ago was caught in the blast of a bombing on a civilian population sector where two men were killed and three young girls were injured of course the immediate assumption that one may make is that these are at the behest of Russia's illegal invasion this is not the case these are attacks on civilian populations in Russia now what's important to this in the grant scheme of this presentation is understanding the other side because if we understand the other side we can make meaningful uh approaches towards Global Peace but first we have to
137talk about history as we know history writes our future in 1922 the USSR with the remnants of the Russian Russian Empire have been diminished they are given the first semblance of sovereignty in 1922. skipping forward now to 1954 Russian Crimea is given the crime is given to Ukraine from Russia by Khrushchev crummy pays a very important role in Russia's stance on Ukraine and going forward some 70 years after 1922 we see the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 Putin himself described this as the biggest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century whether that is a true statement I'll leave up to you but it is surely important to understanding the greater impacts of the war in Ukraine and we go further now to 2014. the euromaidon revolution which saw the pro-russian government that was democratically
138elected by the people of Ukraine Victor Yanukovych the Prime Minister was deposed and sent packing to Russia these Western pro-western and pro-eu forces in Ukraine Enlisted the help of American and European functionaries to develop this government which was fiercely anti-russia this is again illustrated by John G mircheimer a political scientist at the University of Chicago and he states that the new government in Kiev was pro-western and anti-russian to the core and it contained four high-ranking members which could legitimately be called neo-fascists a very dangerous game to be played in Europe and so we come back again to Crimea in Russia realizes that the time has come to take decisive action against what it sees as a assault on the Russian Federation and so Crimea is annexed to 2014 amidst speculation and fears that Putin would
139take this step and again we've seen a lot long after the Don bass Republic's two Breakaway states with very fractured reputations trying to separate themselves from the Ukrainian state and so we have to understand Russia's red lines what exactly are red lines they're propositions and points of non-confrontation that a state makes to another to guarantee their security Russia feels that its red lines have been crossed and we're going to discuss that further first we see the admission of Georgia and Ukraine or the stated mission of Georgia and Ukraine into the EU in NATO Georgia and Ukraine's membership to the alliance is a huge strategic mistake which would have serious consequences for a pan-european security Alexander grusco the former deputy minister of Russia said this in 2009 evidently Russia has been warning the west of these
140red lines Russia feels that they have not been respected certainly if America made such notices the United States that they would be respected and so we go forward after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 we see that NATO a defensive Alliance still maintained its structure for what purpose I have the same question USSR was collapsed Russia was no longer a threat to Global Security but still we see the mission of almost a dozen new States and two on Russia's doorstep we also saw the potential admission of Ukraine and Georgia into these alliances as well Russia sees this as aggravation upon Russian foreign policy and again previous to the war occurring in 2021 we saw that the British royal Navy sale the HMS Defender a war vessel through the russian-controlled Crimean Coast perhaps just
141for a rescue mission that was not the case it was for antagonization and so of course this all comes to a head years of provocation years of seeming disrespect and Russia takes the biggest step into geopolitical history the invasion of Ukraine however this is not the main point that I'd like to bring about today what really matters is the global response the way the nations of the world have reacted and surely we'd assume that the world is united in their stance against the Russian Federation in its illegal War it's not necessarily the case the West is overwhelmingly opposed to the war yes but very large Regional key players South Africa Brazil Saudi Arabia turkey turkey a NATO member India China and Indonesia very important to the global economy in the geopolitical sphere yep we're here
142time and time again that Russia is alone the fact of the matter is that many of these nations are relying on Russia so with the best course of action be to cave in Russia and to close them off for the rest of the world when so few excuse me so many rely on them I think not when it comes to furthering Global Peace initiatives excluding a major power that supports dozens of developing nations is a misstep in hypocrisy this of course is one of the key examples that Putin underlines in many of his speeches the United States is also guilty of several incursions almost 15 since the collapse of the Soviet Union many of these saw States overturned Millions now refugees hundreds of thousands killed disasters how about Russia surely they must be on the
143same level not necessarily Georgia Syria Ukraine in Syria Russia was enlisted to help defeat Isis and they were successful in Georgia anti-terrorist operations on Russia's Southern border were also successful and of course Ukraine and so what the spring speaks to a head is the idea of multi-polarity that powerful Nations can control their own spheres of influence whether it be in Asia the Americas or Europe we see a new we see a New Foundation here of two Global superpowers Russia and China Russia took this first step into condemning the acts of a western controlled world will it be successful only time will tell and we see again the Chinese foreign minister only a week ago said The more unstable the world becomes more imperative it is for China and Russia to steadily Advance their relations a
144dangerous thing for a world that is seen and enjoyed living under a western controlled atmosphere and so it brings me finally to what the future holds we see that we've come to a precipice the war in Ukraine has certainly risen tensions globally and that is undoubted China and Russia are taking their side here and much of the global South is on the way however we do realize that we must not negate the benefits of living in a western world America has introduced a global economy that is fostered development in hundreds of thousands of people and dozens of Nations that once could not even come close to imagining it and so understanding these two perspectives is extremely important when vying for peace and of course the U.N Secretary General understands that decisive action must be taken
145he says that this is the closest the clock has ever stood to Humanity's darkest hour and closer than even during the height of the Cold War very very intimidating words there but extremely important to understand the decisions of peace that our leaders make so infertility we have to understand both sides to every conflict especially ones that could determine the Outlook of the world as a whole and this is how I choose to inspire thank you [Applause] thank you Aiden for sharing that important issue that is occurring in the world today our next presenter is Mackenzie Boucher McKenzie is a junior here at DHS she chose her topic on mass history because she's fascinated by the social Splendor history in the gray area between the real and imagined she is the editor of the school magazine
146an avid writer for the school newspaper and future editor part of The Debate Club the BSU women empowerment Club and she started the female self defense Club this past year she hopes to become an investigative journalist or a psychologist that specializes in studying social phenomena eventually she hopes she'll have the opportunity to be a teacher because she feels passionate about educating future Generations she likes to drink to read drink coffee bake and listen to every type of music please welcome Mackenzie boshay as she presents on journalism hysteria and rutabagas [Applause] I don't like to drink by the way okay hello and welcome to my Ted Talk on hysteria journalism in rutabagas if those three topics don't seem to make sense right now hopefully by the end of this presentation they will and if you don't
147know what a rutabaga is um yeah I I don't know they changed the title side without my knowing have fun um so basically I realized one day that I didn't know what a rutabaga was and worse I didn't know I didn't know what a rutabaga was I asked many people if they knew what it was and everybody was kind of in a similar situation I realized there's so many things on a day-to-day basis that we kind of know but don't fully know due to lack of time and lack of effort so how do we decide what's worth knowing and what's not worth knowing I realize that what we know drives what we do in everyday life for example I'm not talking to you about astrophysics because I don't know anything about physics and I'm not
148going to do a cartwheel because I don't know how to do a cartwheel journalists are faced with a similar dilemma when they're going to make a controversial story especially one that matters they need multiple sources and do extensive research but there's always that five percent chance they're completely wrong because of a blind spot so first I turn into science because science usually has the right answers in the division of cognitive labor by Philip Kutcher he a philosopher he said that scientists works best when they're overconfident about their beliefs this is because they find things that are wrong faster and they're willing to fight for their beliefs more because they believe that they're right we see cases like this all the time for example cover 19. when kova 19 first came out not a lot of
149people knew anything about it governments had a huge decision on their hands did they let what they don't know about kova 19 stop them from doing anything or do they put in place Mass mandates and shut down schools to keep their people safe luckily most governments chose to keep their people safe over what they don't know Everyday People faced a similar situation when they had to decide whether or not to get the vaccine a lot of people were afraid of what they didn't know about the vaccine but many people chose the Hope over the unknowns to get the vaccine but back to journalism and the age of social media misinformation spreads like a wildfire sources don't have to be checked for social media news resources and people are using social media as the news to
150get their information this is extremely concerning because there's no fact check for social media news sources as you can see in the January 6 riots people turn to social media instead of the news to get things that they support social media provides you a version of the news that you'll support and even the things that you don't support seem so extreme so you're more instilled that you're right yeah in a time when journalists are need more more needed more than ever journalism jobs are down by Third Humanities enrollment has decreased by 17 in overall English in history classes in the college level have decreased by a third so why is this my theory is similar to how people have chosen social media over the news for Comfort people have chosen the security of a job
151over Humanities Majors because they think if they major in stem our business they're guaranteed a job in the future however Humanities teach us how to collaborate understand other political views and theoretically think something very important in modern society as you can see in this quote this student is majoring Humanities when the stem students and business students say their major they're not questioned but Humanity students are constantly questioned because people are like oh you're going to do Humanities so you want to be poor that's not true people who want to study Humanities want to better understand the world around them and strive for knowledge and they want to collaborate with the world around them and really do something that matters but back to journalism journalists have a huge responsibility of educating the public they have a
152massive amount of ethical guidelines and their job is on the line when they publish a story their job is to educate the public and tell them how to invest in how to vote on a day-to-day basis without journalists the public is uneducated journalists constantly have to weigh the nouns and unknowns when they're writing a story but I think the best example of the ques of the answer to the question what should be published and what shouldn't when you're weighing the unknowns is in the Hamilton song Non-Stop in Non-Stop Hamilton s Aaron Burr to write the Federalist paper Aaron Burr responds what if it fails what if you're backing it on course when you're publishing a story there's always that small percent chance that you're wrong but Hamilton responds that's why we need it and that's
153how I would respond even when you're wrong you learn something and if you don't be divisive in what you do you don't learn anything when you're neutral you don't learn anything a big example of a new story that had a lot of unknowns is Havana syndrome in a 2017 Havana agents in Cuba experienced the first symptoms of Havana syndrome characterized by a ringing our buzzing in the ears followed by intense nausea fatigue and dizziness sledding um anyway how are we all feeling tonight um yeah okay so I guess we're gonna go on on with the show luckily most newspapers decided to publish stories about Havana syndrome despite the unknowns they didn't know what caused it and they didn't know why exactly this was happening luckily they still published people speculated whether it could be an
154active war or mass hysteria either way each decision could be wrong but making inferences helps people figure out the truth so the thought process of Havana syndrome being an active war is continually becoming a little bit more unlikely because of how widespread it is as you could see CIA agents and Diplomat officials are experiencing Havana syndrome all around the world however the thought process that could be Mass hysteria is something that I decided to know more about I did my own research and found that conversion disorder patients had very similar MRIs to Avana syndrome patients their MRIs had cerebellum abnormalities so did Havana syndrome patients conversion disorder and masturia is also caused by intense stress things that diplomats and CIA officials are under every single day because of their job and it really makes sense
155that this would start in Havana Cuba because the embassy was closed for years before because of the Communist Rule and it only opened two years before Havana syndrome started as you could see there are some you know similarities if you could read that I doubt it um in conclusion I think that a journalist's job is to weigh their unknowns in a way how important the story is and decide what's best for their viewers journalist's job is to inform the audience make inferences and root out the unknowns so they can educate Their audience and the audience can make informed decisions because without an informed audience bad decisions are made mob rule is imminent and governments are on go unchecked as you can see from this quote every wrong answer implies there's the right one and that's
156why I think that we should keep guessing keep trying and keep teaching ourselves the truth and that is how I choose to inspire [Applause] thank you Mackenzie for sharing with us such um positive aspect on that topic our next presenter is Savannah Hart Savannah is a junior here at DHS and she's a member of both the creative writing and the Esports Club the reason that Savannah chose her topic is because she was curious about why teachers choose to be part of the profession and why they continue to push through even when the job is at its most difficult Savannah hopes to become a teacher in the future so let's welcome Savannah Hart as she presents what inspires teachers to teach foreign for that lovely introduction and thank you all for coming to tedx today like
157Miss Souza just said I've been asking myself this question for a little over a year now with the hopes to find out what inspires other people to become teachers I went around asking the Dartmouth High School staff members what inspired them to become teachers and after seeing some mistreatment I asked myself what inspired them to keep teaching like a drop of water everyone has that one person who inspired the ripple effect of who they want to become whether this be a parent teacher coach celebrity or even someone like Neil from Dead Poet Society everyone has an inspiration the first question I got my answers to was what was their inspiration Miss Roberts a fabulous intern we had in the art Department semester one you might have seen her helping out Miss Bozarth with the photography
158classes told me the relationships that she had with her own art teachers in high school inspired her she said that they helped her find what she was passionate about which is art she wants to do what her teachers did and continue the cycle of helping kids find what they're passionate about whether it be art philosophy science or English she wants to do what her teachers did for her Miss Hill a teacher I was ever so lucky to have for geometry last year told me she loves how smart creative curious and inclusive teenagers can be she had shown this every day that I had her whether it was helping us with math or someone to take Awesome Selfies with she had always shown treated us with the most treated us with the utmost respect excuse me
159she was she always put forward that even though we're young we as students can offer so much to this world if you just give us a chance Miss Bozarth told me the story of how she took private art lessons from the age of eight and when she got to high school took every art class that they offered when it came time for her to pick her major her parents suggested that she's taught art instead of going into business and look at where she is now she's our amazing dark room in digital photography teacher along with teaching art too she's always traveling always inspiring and always teaching all these people had aspirations and dreams of teaching kids and they all achieved their goal but sometimes we forget that all dreams come with pros and cons whether
160the job be super awesome or sometimes really sucky there are some hardships that come with teaching that I feel should be brought to light when asked about what the worst part about teaching is Miss Bozarth told me when students are going through difficult situations at home and she's powerless to fix it for them Miss Hill told me the low pay and absurd amount of hours she has to work for free on top of that along with negative student and parent behaviors can make her job really difficult something I myself have noticed at Dartmouth High School whether it be a kid laughing at a teacher when they're trying to inspire them to do better or parents yelling at a teacher for their kid having a bad grade it's not cool to touch on what Miss Hill
161told me teacher salaries are not keeping up with inflation the average teacher salary from the 2021 to 2022 school year was estimated to be about 66 397 according to the National Education Association that is a 2179 dollar decrease in the past decade if anyone has noticed teachers protesting outside on Wednesdays and Fridays whether you're driving in yourself with a parent or on the buses they're protesting for not only better pay but a better contract which I believe they deserve being one of the biggest motivators in our life according to the education week an online newspaper the average teachers work week consists of about 54 hours with just under half devoted directly to teaching students this does not count grading papers extra help excuse me or and grading papers this was a nationally conducted survey of
162more than 1 300 teachers between January 9th and February 23rd of 2022 so this information really isn't all that old they could be working a little more or a little less but in reality it's more like more but despite all these flaws that every job comes with I wanted to know what inspired them to keep teaching much like Miss Vieira if you've ever had her for math she tells us about her bees and how they keep flying away but she's inspired to keep going because she wants to be a beekeeper some common misconceptions that I have heard when asking this question whether to a friend or parent the answers I got was teachers of the Summers off because it is an easy job and they couldn't do anything else teachers are constantly working whether it
163seems like it or not during the summer most are doing mandatory professional development a second job at a restaurant or something or teaching at another school whether it be summer school or college I don't think I've ever heard a teacher say that teaching is easy and the biggest lie that I believe is on the screen right now is they couldn't do anything else there are teachers in this building with specialty degrees in their field and doctors degree they could be out there and working in a lab somewhere or being a professional translator for Silicon Valley but instead they decide to come here every day and teach us the basic molecular structure of DNA or how to say boom dia correctly now you might be thinking why don't teachers just quit if they don't like their
164pack schedule and low pay well here's why teaching is the only profession that requires a master's degree in their field five years after they get their bachelor's degree and if teachers want even the slimmest pay raise they have to have at least a doctorate's degree or a specialty degree that is a six to eight year minimum of Higher Learning while other careers only require a bachelor's degree and sometimes not even that now for the real reasons the amazing Miss Lassie told me she stays in this field for the kids Miss Hill told me seeing the students grow from freshmen through senior year is beyond gratifying and Miss Roberts told me being able to support her students and being an adult in their life cheering them on especially in the art world now I would like
165to ask you all a question who inspires you whether it be Mr Bosworth and his silly jokes or Miss Pavlik using dances and cheers to teach us chemistry or Miss true or Miss Souza with their amazing Portuguese and history lessons I think it would be a good idea to thank the people in our lives that Inspire us to get the ball rolling and to be the first drop of water in your ripple effect I'll go first the person who inspires me is Miss Lassie you have always been an adult in my life who has supported me in my dreams you've told me that might I will go somewhere in life that my writing is going to go somewhere and I will become a teacher you encourage me to do my best every day thank you
166from the bottom of my heart it means the world to me now think about that question that I just asked you for a moment whether the person who inspires you as a parent teacher coach or Neil or me whoever it may be this is how I choose to inspire [Applause] thank you Savannah I hope today you for acknowledging our teachers and make sure you thank them our last presenter of period two three is Owen Nielsen Owen is a junior here at DHS and is involved in a variety of extracurricular activities these include the golf team unified bowling team and the tennis team he chose his topic because he's very interested in a skilled at math he's also a critical thinker who likes to question very aspects of our education and he wants to see how
167Concepts that are being taught are applicable to the outside world please welcome Owen Nielsen as he presents the golden ratio math is everywhere [Applause] all right admit it we've all been in algebra class at one point of our life looking at a quadratic or system of equation like this and provoke the lazy excuse not to solve it was something like what's the point or where will I see this in the real world but to me this excuse was more than just an excuse but rather a motivation where do we see these random numbers and skills in the world around us and in fields Beyond engineering this is when I found this this is the Fibonacci sequence in infinitely occurring uh pattern of numbers where the preceding two numbers add to the next so as you
168can see working from left to right you have zero plus one equals one one plus one equals two one plus two equals three two plus three equals five and so on and so forth one fascinating uh application of this sequence that may resonate with all you track people in the crowd is that it actually poses a great way to convert between meters and Miles so say if I wanted to run a 5k which I probably will never I'd look to the number prior in the sequence and see that a 5k is actually quite similar to that of a three of a three mile run hmm another interesting uh property here is when you look at the proportions of one one number to it to the next you can see it slowly converges uh onto this
169number around 1.62 so so much so if you got a really large number in this pattern and its predecessor it would conver it would diverge onto this value this value we call the golden ratio the golden ratio is a mathematical constant similar to that of one you may learn in school which is pi and it's represented by the Greek letter Phi however I believe this this will resonate a bit more than Pi with all of you when math when mathematicians first founded this number they found some extremely fascinating properties if you found the reciprocal of the golden ratio it's actually the same thing as the golden ratio minus one and if you square the golden ratio it's the same as the golden ratio plus one but what else when when we humans think of gold
170we think of something of great value and this is similar to the value which this poses on different fields that maybe many of you will go into in your careers this is the logo of National Geographic a company quite uh prevalent in our educations whether it be a geography class or a history class so I'm sure you're probably wondering what does that number I just talked about have anything to do with this logo what if I had to say what if I told you that this was the entire basis of this design this logo right here is what we call a golden rectangle and it's where the the length of the width is a factor of one golden ratio greater than the length here's another example this is this is the logo of Pepsi it
171was likely made by a hieree of Pepsi who've got a professional degree and this is a logo made by a teenage boy in their room with a mouse in between playing rounds of video games so why why do our our eyes gravitate to this logo more so this is potentially because uh this logo actually contains the golden ratio if you follow this Arc created by the white stripe of the logo and finish off and make a circle it's a factor of one golden ratio the diameter rather is one golden ratio shorter than the rest and here's a few other examples of quite respective companies Twitter apple and MasterCard in each example golden ratio is applied in some way and has been proven to be a basis of this design so I'm sure you're probably wondering
172why this number why the golden ratio what makes 1.618 so interesting why can't we just round it to 1.5 let's see to see we're going to have to look back in the past and its foundings and more golden things such as the golden spire this is a golden rectangle if we cut it in half and create a golden rectangle and take the non-golden section and make another golden rectangle out of out of it on and on we will create something called the Golden spiral and if we apply this spiral to one of the most admired piece of architectures of all of history the Parthenon of Greece you you can see there's quite a correlation between the the height and the length of the building as well as the intricacies from here on out humans took
173great inspiration even though we're we're not completely sure if the if it was made off of this but these pieces of art that you're probably very familiar with actually took great um great inspiration on it and you can see the the spiral made by the wave and the proportions of of the body postures in the creation of Adam another fascinating thing is that we actually associate some of our Beauties beauty standards to that of the proportions of the golden ratio for example the proportion from eye to eye is one is a factor of a golden ratio shorter than the than the I to the chin this is this is so influential that plastic surgeons even use this as a basis for reconstructive surgery to make the patients closer to the proportions that of the golden
174ratio everything I just showed you is opinionated and not based upon real research who knows to you maybe my Pepsi logo was more attractive to what about something more scientific if you know something about flowers it's that to survive the the petals need to receive direct sunlight for uh many other biological processes so how do they actually do this let's look at an example what if the flower spaced their petals a proportion of one half across the circle from one another one half of a circle is 180 degrees which you may know so say we place the first petal right here and then the second would go around 180 degrees but when we move a whole other proportion we see we're back to zero degrees and that and that petal underneath will receive no sunlight
175and it will die out how about one-fourth zero degrees 90 degrees 180 degrees 270 and then 360. again this petal is covered and it won't receive uh sunlight and it will die this kind of rules out all all rational fractions for for the flower to use so instead scientists found that if you take the reciprocal of the golden ratio and multiply it times 360 degrees it equates to roughly 137.5 and this is the measurement that flour is used to actually space their petals and we could keep going on and on and eventually it looks similar to this tulip remember that system that I showed you at the beginning well I hope some of you actually attempted to solve it as I know I would if I were in the crowd if you did you would
176uncover that there's actually infinite solutions this is similar to the infinite appearances of math in the world around us and if you take time to observe patterns around you you might surprise yourself I'm Owen and this is how I choose to inspire thank you [Applause] thank you Owen for your presentation and all the possibilities of the golden Nation this concludes our presentations for this period thank you [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] welcome back to finest food I'm your host Ryan Aruda and today let's get started with your favorite 2023 dartmouth's finest contestants on our first team we have the liberty kids [Music] on deliver the kids we have advisor Mrs lamba Aiden Mello Phoenix Campbell and Sean Martin [Applause] next up let's introduce our next team on our first ever
177finest Feud strung up [Music] [Applause] [Music] we have advisor Mrs Jen Thomas Sean Allen Ella Gibson and Addison Stanley Moore [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right let's begin our first round of finest Feud can I get Sean Martin and Addison up at the stand [Applause] ready born ready as ready as I'll ever be we asked a hundred Dartmouth High School students name something you might do when you wake up in the morning Marshawn brush your teeth on the board Addison get dressed unfortunately not on our board for today so can we have the liberty kids up at the stands [Music] all right Liberty Kids you are in the lead with 32 points with a fantastic answer brush your teeth for something you may do in the morning just remember though that at any time when you
178get those three strikes teams strung up can steal your points so let's get started Sean we went to you let's go to Phoenix now name something you might do when you wake up in the morning give me eat breakfast eat breakfast unfortunately not on the board first strike you go to student Aiden mellow all right um first thing you do in the morning I'm gonna say comb your hair perfect answer 20 points on the board for the liberty kids Mrs long but we go to you now what is something that you would do in the morning I'm gonna say wash your face face unfortunately not on the board to show the kids and now we go back to Sean uh third strike here if you get it out we have strung up that may be
179able to steal so let's provide a good answer I'm gonna go with make your bed make your bed on the board for another 10 points [Music] we'll go to Phoenix now we're looking for our final answer for something that you might do in the morning check your phone unfortunately not on the three strikes can we get a representative from Team strung up [Music] Sean Allen walks up to the stand your ladies and gentlemen Sean if you get this you will be ready to steal 62 points for team strung up name something that you might do in the morning pick an outfit on the board what's those Five Points congratulations to Sean thank you liberty kids and let's actually stick up at the stand for a minute we're going to interview our Liberty Kids real quick
180so let's begin with you miss lamba if you'd like to bring the mic what do you do here at Dartmouth High School and what's your role in the Dartmouth finest Club I am a Spanish teacher here at the high school my fourth year here um and I'm co-advisor of the amazing class of 2024. Aiden hi um so I get a question or give us a quick little bio about yourself quick bio great okay I'm the uh junior uh excuse me senior class uh vice president here I um I'm the president of the fishing club vice president of The Debate Club I'm in the track and field team really excited to be here really excited to be on dharma's finest I'm excited for me and Phoenix this joint hey guys my name is Sean Martin I'm
181the senior class president here at Dartmouth High School I played football for the past four years I was previously in Deca I'm still in Key Club I'm in the chess club and I think that just about sums it up uh Phoenix I'm uh I'm a co-president of the NHS I uh I'm on the track team I've been on track these past three years and I also play golf and I'm real excited to be here do the joint act as he said perfect thank you Liberty Kids let's keep Aiden on up here the rest of you can go take a seat and let's get Ella Gibson up at the stand from strung up strung up is in the lead with 62 points but Aiden here is the time for the liberty kids to take the lead
182we asked 100 Dartmouth High School students if you heard a noise in the middle of the night what would you do Aiden I would check to see what it is investigate will give you 69 points for that and that's the top answer on the board Ella go take a seat let's get the rest of those limited kids back up here foreign [Music] faces once again back up at the stand let's go to you Phoenix if you heard a noise in the middle of the night what would you do I would hide is that an answer on the board no it is not our first strike Sean we go to you now if you heard a noise in the middle of the night what would you do I would go back to sleep go back to
183sleep and do nothing is on the board for 12 points we'll go to miss lamba now I would have my husband or someone else go investigate I'll give that to you for those eight points to get a friend to go investigate all right we have two more answers on the board we'll go back to Aiden if you heard a noise in the middle of the night what would you do I would probably um not do anything at all not doing anything at all was Phoenix's answer do you want to give us another answer no really no so that's what I said so I'll give it one we are gonna have to give you an unfortunate strike for that one but if you can get these two options here shrung up will not steal your pointage
184um I'd call the police call the police is on the board for another four points and that means that the liberty kids have wiped out this category congratulations to them all right you guys can go take a seat now we hope you're enjoying finest food here today and we're gonna move on to our next category now in this category we're gonna have our two advisors Head to Head let's bring up Mrs lamba from Liberty Kids and Mrs Thomas from strung up [Applause] good luck how are we to be here today on our first ever episode of finest Feud fantastic or should I say Fantastico I had to do it well I'm glad that you're here and I'm I hope you're happy and ready to play our next round our second to last a finest Feud
185we asked 100 Dartmouth High School students name something you might keep inside of your wallet I'm gonna have to give that one to Mrs lamba credit card is the second answer on the board Mrs Thomas could you give a possibly a better answer cash cash is the first answer on the board giving a team shrung up here thank you Mrs llama you can go take a seat all right we're gonna do a quick little interview with our guests and our advisors so we'll start with you Ella give us a little bit of a bio about yourself and what the fans might want to know president of the Dartmouth High School environmental club and I have been participating on the varsity sailing team for four years now Addison uh hi I'm Madison uh I am a
186senior at Dartmouth High School I transferred from VOC this year and I am a part of the Child Care Program and have been involved in child care for four years and am a student teacher in a kindergarten classroom at Quinn hi I'm Sean I'm from Colorado I'm here in seventh grade I'm the secretary of communications for the debate team I do the maker club with Miss Thomas I'm on the track and field team uh third most handsome person actually fun not commonly known fact right there biggest Campbell number one most handsome Sean owl number three uh you know realistic stats here uh and I'm also the funniest person in Dartmouth um take that Michael Blazer hi I'm Miss Thomas I am the instructional technology specialist here at Dartmouth as a fourth year um I'm also
187a co-advisor for the class of 2024 and super excited about the upcoming show dartmouth's finest perfect well you two have your team rather has two of the five answers on the board so if we can get three more you would possibly get enough pointage to push you over the edge with just one round left so go to uwella what is something that you would keep inside of your wallet I'd say probably um an ID or a license license is on the board for 22 more points [Applause] we'll go to Sean now something that you'd keep inside of your wallet gift card gift card is unfortunately not on the board First Strike do it again Ryan strung out Addison name something that you might keep inside of your wallet a picture on the board for another
18817 points this leaves just one option left one strike for team strung up if you can't get it Liberty Kids may have a chance to steal Mrs Thomas name something that you might have inside of your wallet a key a key is unfortunate a lot on the board with two strikes now strung up leads into the dangerous Zone if Ella can get it she could possibly win it for her team um I'm gonna say receipts receipts is on the board can we get a representative from Team liberty kids up at the stands [Music] all right Phoenix you have a chance here to steal get more points for your team and have a chance in the final round could you name something that someone might keep inside of their wallet I'm gonna go with coins coins
189is not on which means we will have to go into round number four who's gonna win it the liberty kids or stronger you guys could go take a seat [Music] all right let's get our two final contestants up at the stand Sean Allen from strung up and Phoenix Campbell from the liberty kids [Music] here is the chance where both of you have the most crucial jobs you can win at all for your teams or you can lose it all for your teams for our prize today of absolutely nothing so we go to the question we asked 100 Dartmouth High School students name some chores that you might be forced to do come on I'm gonna have to go to you for strung up clean your room is the second second most answer on the board
190which leaves Phoenix could your name number one unfortunately not on the board up here all right we'll go to you Addison name some chores that you might be forced to do wash the dishes wash the dishes is on the board for our third most answer we'll go to now to Ella name some chores that you might be forced to do SEC mop the floor mop the floor unfortunately not on the board Mrs Thomas one strike for strung up do the laundry do the laundry is on the board we have number we have answers two three and four which leaves one in five Sean name something a chore that you might be forced to do bold answer take out the trash take out the trash is not reward unfortunately which leaves your team with two strikes
191the dangerous Zone [Music] Addison I could I can offer this for both teams would we like a hint okay I'm going to give a chore that you would be more be able to do so in this climate in the summer and this other thing is something that you can do all year long to clean up mow the lawn mow the lawn is the number one answer on the board which leaves which leaves answer number five two strikes will go to you Ella it could but the secondary clue what I gave is most applicable rake the leaves is not can we get a representative from the liberty kids up at the stand you have a chance to take it all what's up everybody Sean Martin from the liberty kids do you have an answer that could
192save your team this game I sure hope so Ryan I really hope so um we're gonna go with vacuum vacuum the floor vacuum the floor survey says it is not on the board it's the wind too shrunk up our number five answer was walk the dog all right let's let's get everybody up on the green screen all right all right one final thing can we give the fans and all the people watching at home our most exciting and ready for a moment for dartmouth's finest we can pass it around if you'd like I'm excited for the intermission that's gonna be good that's all I can say I've seen I'm gonna leave it at that um also very excited for the intermission it might be very very exciting for people to watch it's very bold um
193there's a lot of pizzazz in it um having already participated in one of the behind the scenes filming trips I am very excited for what's to come of those numerous lengthy clips I'm most excited to see the amazing dance moves that this group has uh I'd probably say I'm most excited to see all of us get out of our comfort zone little I think a lot of our acts and especially the dances we've done have forced us to do that I definitely do not think I'd be doing some of the some of the dancing routines that I'm doing but I guess that's what I go with because we just have stress the Liberty could just step in frame a little bit more there we go awesome um again all great suggestions I'm gonna say the
194opening act definitely and watch out for that Formal Wear I think you're going to be very excited I'm definitely excited for the second intermission worked very hard on that I'm just really excited to see all these kids who've been so amazing um at every rehearsal come together have some fun the dance moves like Miss Thomas said are out of this world and I want they clean up nicely so I think you'll be pleasantly surprised with Formal Wear um just like really excited overall all right well thank you all for coming down and participating in our first ever finest food students fans teachers staff and anybody else watching please come on down to the Dartmouth High School on St Patrick's Day this year to watch dartmouth's finest and these kids compete to see who will be
195our number one Diamond student thank you and we hope to see you again you've been watching dartmouth's finest feud in conjunction with Brian Oliver a thank you to all of the Dharma finest contestants as well as advisors Mrs John Thomas and Mrs Melissa now please enjoy a special video intro of the Dartmouth finest event during all lunches March 17th come buy your tickets for Dartmouth finest 13 apiece you can't buy the tickets during lunch it's okay you can still buy them at the door before the show for fifteen dollars coming soon to Dartmouth High School on March 17th at 7 pm [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] welcome back to another fantastic episode of dhnn we're your host for this week I'm Carlton and I'm Elijah olivaria on this episode we'll be showing you
196highlights from the recent girls basketball playoff game versus Middleborough we even have an exclusive interview with a member of the Dartmouth High Theater Company to talk about lockdown announcements weather news and much more dhnn starts right now foreign [Music] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you here are this week's announcements parking pass is available for thirty dollars see the schoolhood website to purchase Cafe Tuesday coffee for 50 cents and baked goods for 75 cents for school staff only check your email clubs and activities sign up visit the DHS website to see all the wonderful offerings we have do good with Chipotle the Chipotle fundraiser for Dartmouth High School class
197of 2023 after prom is Wednesday March 11th 4 to 8 PM 33 of the event sales get donated to the cause I'm cast testing and math MKS retakes are March 14th and March 15th March Madness the after problem committee is excited to announce that every Monday in the month of March will be a chance to show your school spirit and help raise money to make the years after prom celebration amazing March 13th is character or animal day March 20th is sports or Sparkle day March 27th is Pajama Day and please us up Monday to see Miss Tully in the LMC interesting information about St Patrick's Day it's always on March 17th did you know March 17th was actually the day St Patrick died after she died he was forgotten but he later on grew honored
198as the saint of Ireland he used the three leaf Shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity because of that in the 18th century in Ireland they started to wear Shamrocks on March 17th to show that Iris Christian Pratt which later on turned into the tradition to wearing green on St Patrick's Day one of the biggest Traditions that happened on St Patrick's Day are parades this started in New York in 1762. if you want to learn more about St Patrick's Day there's a bunch of videos and articles online that you can look for bye [Music] on March 5th or Dartmouth High Theater Company competed at Attleboro with their production of lockdown we sat down with one of the cast members to discuss the event and what went on let's see the interview foreign Friedman and I'm this
199week's host today we have Mason Langlois our new Show's host called backstage today Mason is going to be talking about the Dartmouth theater's competition show called lockdown hi Mason hello I do have some questions for you about this comp the show that you guys competed with um so what is this show about so lockdown is a show about these group of kids that are locked inside of their classroom uh in a in lockdown hence the name of the show and they don't know if it's a drill or not and at some point during the show the teacher runs out of the room and they are left to figure out if it's real or not oh wow sounds very interesting um and how many cast members are there we have about eight in our cast for
200everyone playing everyone from a teacher to a 9th grade student so yeah oh wow um and what made you guys choose to perform this exact so we wanted to really get the message out there and really have people you know like face the reality of things that go on in schools today and we thought you know like a really intimate piece would be a good way to you know kind of force people to stare at something they might just not think about on a day-to-day basis so you know we went okay we can do this show and it probably did take a while to rehearse this show so what do your rehearsals usually look like so our rehearsals normally we arrive at like uh just before like 12 on Sundays and we you know go
201through the show you know if we have any new blocking we have to learn we do all that and then um you know we just kind of run it a few times make sure we really have it and you know just work on any character stuff that we need to oh wow um and of course as being part of this show I have to ask you this question who is your favorite character from the show that's a tough one um I'd have to say my favorite character is probably Adam uh just because his Arc throughout the show as he slowly learns um you know and you know becomes more friendly to his peers really kind of resonates and especially his final monologue that he has it in the show really sort of like sells the
202whole you know theme and what's going on and it's really powerful and really good wow um now I am not very familiar with this what did the competitions how do they work out what do they look like uh so for competition uh we go to the host school which this year is at Alberta high school and uh we go to their school and we kind of sit down and we watch a bunch of other schools arrive to and we all perform in front of each of each other in a few judges and you perform your show and you watch all the other ones and at the end of the night the judges will like award people that they thought did a really good job in both the technical and acting side of things and um
203will you know pick the shows to move on throughout the three rounds is this your first competition that you've been to or so I went to competition last year for our production of crafting a killer and it was really fun well thank you Mason so much for coming on to the show I appreciate you coming on and answering my questions and here are some highlights from the show lockdown [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] during all lunches March 17th come buy your tickets for dartmouth's finest 13 apiece you can't buy the tickets during lunch it's okay you can still buy them at the door before the show for 15 dollars coming soon to Dartmouth High School on March 17th at 7 pm here's your seven-day forecast [Music] hi I'm Holly Raposa with this week's weather
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207meetings live go to YouTube and type in dhstv media in the search bar and click on the channel after that go to the live section and not only are the meetings there there are also other Live Events [Music] that's it for this week's episode of dhn and tune in next week to see highlights from the TED Talks here at DHS we've been your host for this week I'm Elijah oliveario I'm Carlton Park thanks for watching [Music] thank you [Music] um dry shampoo with what else is stain removal then our picture Lucas is a senior here at DHS and this is his first edition [Music] was teamwork and cooperation with other teams now most people would assume that it was a foreign thank you Welcome to our independent organized event Tia the tedx DHS we're excited
208to bring to you this amazing group for presenters today you might wonder who is Ted well Ted is actually not a person and it actually stands for technology entertainment and design these are three subject areas that are collectively shaping our world this year's presenters selected the theme choose to inspire make your voice heard the presenters will share a topic that has inspired them and they hope it will also inspire you in return let's start with our first presenter today our first presenter is Siobhan Swami Siobhan is a junior here at DHS he is a member of both the math team and the DHS marching band where he plays alto saxophone Siobhan chose his topic Because he believes there is a negative stereotype about certain genres of music especially rap music his goal is to illuminate
209you to the nuances that are associated with rap and other music genres in Al each of these types of music fits into the grand scheme of musical literature please welcome Shivan Swami as he presents meaning behind the music [Applause] all right today my presentations on the meaning behind music now music is a language of what we cannot put into words every person digests reacts and interprets it completely differently for some it functions as a form of transcending reality and for others it forms as a way to immerse yourself in The Human Experience now music is a form of audible art now whether it's meant to be casual entertainment or philosophical poetry is not only up to the artist but mainly The Listener the genre an artist chooses has significance too as different genres have different
210Focus points and through this presentation I'm going to count down my three favorite genres and the morals that they entail pop now pop music really arose in the 1950s post World War II given that this was a relatively financially stable time people had more opportunities to enjoy easy going music radios and televisions began to broadcast this everywhere and given its contrast in terms of Simplicity to past music older Generations grew sick of it while the newer Generations loved it thanks to these factors pop music popped now one of the major purposes of this style is to have fun hence why it generally uses straightforward chord progressions and a lack of dynamic tempos it revolves around catchy beats now whether those beats are mellow and sweet like Bruno Mars and his song Grenade or more fiery
211and zappy like his song that's what I like mainstream audiences around the world are captivated by Pop's Charming nature one of the key innovators and in my opinion the greatest artist to ever Tinker with this genre is a self-acclaimed king of Pop Michael Jackson now his talent and ability transcends just this genre with artists across all genres crediting him to be one of the greatest of all time he revolutionized this with his Blockbuster albums and His short film music videos which introduced a whole new industry within an industry his visual Expressions undefeated however I believe that is a lyrical poetry is extremely underrated in his song Billie Jean he is it is Infamous for its deceiving tone the Sparky upbeat Tempo combined with a vivacious Rhythm of the synthesizer concealed the surprisingly serious lyrics about
212a woman who falsely alleged him to be the father to her child the phrase for 40 days and for 40 nights is actually a Biblical illusion to Genesis 5 where it rained for 40 days straight and for 40 nights rain symbolizes tears and the 40 days represents the drawn-out court battle that MJ faced and the prolonged torment that he underwent the line who can stand when she's in demand depicts that MJ believes that This Woman's ferocious willpower was enough to strip anyone of their titles the resolving line just remember to always think twice is a general moral to this song and it reveals that the song is not alive Lively and vivacious song but actually a tale of caution now these are some of the songs that I think really encapsulate the meaning of Pop
213very well topic Talking to the Moon shows that Euphoria through its long notes and the richness of pain sounding fresh as ever Disturbia by Rihanna is a Nostalgia hitter for me and transports me back to when I'm five years old in the back seat of a car listening to radio's hits it really encapsulates that 2010 Club atmosphere feeling hey yeah by Outkast is extremely similar to Billie Jean in that they're extremely painful lyrics underneath the very Sparky very dense joyous energetic beat now moving on to the next genre jazz this one is personally my favorite to play on my saxophone and it is very different all throughout it's very complex there's a sheer disparity in complexity and the usage of convoluted Theory between any two artists in this genre which is what makes it so
214fun to explore Now jazz originates from African-American instrumentalists in New Orleans during the late 19th and early 20th centuries Jazz was conjured up as sort of an echo to the western African tribes of their native Homeland like their Yoruba Tribe right there it was sort of built as an experiment after emancipation to see how far one could go with musical Liberty and freedom its appeal to the mainstream really peaked in the 1920 particularly in speakeasies which here I have depicting a drummer cozy Cole in one of those Now jazz began to depart from the mainstream culture around 1950s post-world War II in particular because the rapid popularization of rock and roll here we saw the rise of superstars like Elvis Presley and the Beatles rock and roll has persisted through the wear of time and
215serves as the roots to other popular genres today like hip-hop and pop jazz on the other hand was sort of put on the back burner of American music forethought and his since evolved into more of a niche where players find enjoyment with messing around with Theory nevertheless now and then popular Jazz musicians still arise kamazi Washington is one of my favorite modern saxophonists that name may sound unfamiliar though you may notice some of his notable features such as the pimpa Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar he was in for free and for sale he is bewildingly underrated and if you're interested here's my favorite songs by him now on some of the last and my favorite genre I'll be talking about today hip-hop one of the most popular genres amongst teenagers for the past half a century
216it's substantial versatility is portrayed through the numerous sub-genres present and the diverse field of musicians this in turn has also made it extremely popular however many tend to overlook the origins and the historical significance of them originates the struggles of the African-American Community regarding the Royal armed drugs originally enacted by the Nixon Administration and heavily bolstered by the Reagan Administration the War on Drugs has resulted in mass incarceration and a nearly 500 percent growth in inmates since its beginning according to the science interesting project hip-hop was concocted as sort of an artistic remedy for those whose families were broken by this war and that gives an opportunity to those who are poor to have a chance with Fame here Kendrick Lamar he is particularly good at articulating the issues of racial Prejudice he's also a
217Pulitzer Prize winner and is one of my favorite artists of all time I can honestly write an entire presentation on just him his album to pimp a butterfly is a culmination of everything hip-hop is about from its Sleek Funk and Jazz fused beats to the bitter and honest commentary on injustices many credits critics credit this as a masterpiece here I analyze some of the bars on one of my favorite songs on the album the black or the berry this song has harsh instrumentals that depicts the resentful tone the phrase vandalize my perception refers to the modern self-hatred for skin tone as a result of the perpetrating of white superiority for centuries in America the phrase the button is symbolism and Kendrick packs a lot into this some interpret this to mean Kendrick has some sort
218of weapon but in my opinion I interpret this differently I think of it as more of a mic button which when he presses his fear we can seep out and that Fury translates to his listeners who feel the same passion here Kendrick is trying to show his power in the world the last line here making the killing refers to the root cause of crime in the U.S as in the US has caused what's happened with the African-American community in the future the legislation of the past creeps its results and detentions prominent today throughout this section up here are some of my current favorite songs in rap it constantly shifts constantly changes but currently I've been listening to a lot to xXx by Kendrick Lamar which is really good song it has this amazing B and
219it really transforms you to the scenery of what's going on Lord pretty Falco Jody by ASAP Rocky is also phenomenal it's really entertaining and it's lavish production so over a decade ago still live up to this day now Lil Wayne I didn't really listened to him until I started listening to this song The Vivid story he creates and the phenomenal feature of Kendrick is something I wish I could listen to again for the first time all in all the main point of this is to show you that music by nature is subjective that every person interprets each beat with unique perspectives that's why this art thrives every bar every lyric every quarter now every rest holds an imperative purpose in painting a song psyche all songs exist for a reason whether it's for pure entertainment
220or for the sly messages slipped in between the crevices of words music gives artists a way a platform to inspire with and music is how I choose to inspire thank you [Applause] thank you Siobhan for that wonderful presentation on music and its meaning our second presenter of tedx DHS 2023 is Kaden dimanche Caden is a junior here at DHS he is the student council treasurer and he's a three season athlete who participates in soccer basketball and track and field Cadence passion for sport is evident in the topic he chose he believes that sports are not just about the skills that I demonstrated on the field or on the court that the mental element of the sport is very impactful on athletes and their accomplishments please welcome Kaden demench as he presents Sports 10 physical 90
221mental [Applause] throughout my experience here during this Ted Talk I have been faced with the blinding Spotlight the rush of adrenaline and the thought of presenting in front of all of you and it left me wondering these are kind of similar uh it's kind of similar to what an athlete goes through so it made me think what makes an athlete the best is that their strength is it their speed is it their endurance and stamina I mean you just heard the title so you can probably guess it's their mentality that's what sets them apart if you don't believe me is an example Tom Brady 23 NFL seasons though now retired might come back though you guys see that seven time Super Bowl champion a five-time Super Bowl MVP a three-time NFL MVP a 15-time pro
222bowler and many other accolades not the most fit guy ever if you've seen his combine you know that but he transcended for 23 Seasons to this goat status by locking in mentally and pushing through the struggles that he would have without uh that he would have physically another goat is Serena Williams her 27 pro tennis Seasons 23 Grand Slams singles four-time Olympic gold medalists and again even more accolades she's pretty strong but you don't just get to that sort of status with only your physical strength and pure Brute Force you've got to lock in mentally for 27 years to stay at the top like she did and my final example LeBron James who's currently in the midst of his 20th NBA season a four-time NBA champion four-time finals MVD a four-time regular season MVP a
22319-time All-Star and now the leader in points in a career there have been tons of guys in the NBA built exactly like LeBron but no one has lasted this long and has maintained the peak that he has been able to I mean the dude has his own app the call map just for locking in and making sure that his mind is good so you're probably wondering how to this is probably easy right it's just Sports it's just a game anyone can just persevere through it that's not the easiest thing in the world though but these athletes were able to do it because of their ability to utilize the benefits that Sports have brought like an improved quality of life reduced depression reduced suicide and improved sleep increased creativity and increased self-confidence and it even builds
224leadership roles better academic standing and better teamwork and social skills which are all pretty vital skills to have but again it's not the easiest thing in the world case in point Michael Phelps the arguably greatest swimmer in Olympic history his 23 gold medals 27 27 World Championships 16 Pacific championships he's an absolute legend in the sporting world but after his performance in the 2004 Olympics where he won eight gold medals he felt he had reached the peak and could never again get to that level and this was rough on him he says that he had about 10 or so people always with him making sure that his body was physically in shape and that made him an absolute machine in the water but he said that there was no Amber checking if his mind was
225okay and because he thought that he would never get back to the peak he started using substances to try and get back to the peak to maintain his sheer dominance and this took a toll on him to the point where he eventually fell into depression and had Suicidal Thoughts another example is one of the best Olympic gymnasts currently and will probably be all time in my opinion Simone biles the four-time Olympic gold medalist the 19-time world champion and two-time Pacific Rim champion another amazing status to have however before the 2022 Olympics in 2021 whilst training her then coach and trainer Larry Nasser sexually harassed and sexually assaulted her and many other members of the U.S Olympic gymnast team this took a pretty big toll on Simone because now she has to go back out there
226produce more Olympic Golds because she is the best in a sport that has now been shrouded with so much controversy because of her own trainer and coach this took a major mental strain on her it led her into a field of depression and boosted her anxiety which then caused her to not be able to participate in the 2022 Olympics because she had to take mental health breaks and of course Kevin Love who does not have the same resume as the other athletes that I've mentioned but is still a champion a five-time All-Star and has two Olympic golds in his high school days he never felt that he was truly good enough he was always anytime he did something he always had to be better and he had to achieve Perfection which is impossible you can't
227be perfect but that didn't matter it accounted he tried his best to be Untouchable to be the most Unstoppable Force ever and unfortunately when he wasn't reaching those goals he fell to depression anxiety and eventually during college had Suicidal Thoughts because he couldn't live up to his own expectations of how he should be the NCAA also attributes injuries to negatively impacting an athlete's mental health causing things like sadness irritation anger isolation frustration sleep disturbance and disengagement even in the youth youth sports contributed to causing anxiety a fear of failure depression substance misuse burnout and eating issues so why why put yourself through all of that for the small benefits of playing a game because if you're an athlete or you know an athlete you know that we absolutely love the challenge case in point Alex
228Smith he had a remarkable comeback after fracturing his right Divya fracturing is Right fibia and developing sepsis in his right leg he was told that he was never going to walk again and that his leg might actually get amputated but after two years of therapy and development he came back to football and played for the Washington football team in six games during the 2021 season where he actually did pretty well another example is Candace Parker who had a complications during her maternity leave tore her meniscus and her right knee and lost her college coach who had a major impact on her Patricia Summit all this happened in the same year and she still came back and won the wnba's championship and was the WNBA Finals MVP of course my favorite Mario Lemieux during what could
229have been the greatest season in NHL history Mario discovered that he had Hodgkin lymphoma that is a type of cancer forget having the best NHL season ever are you going to live Mario had a very lucky case where he had a best case scenario where it only took 22 treatments and four in a four month recovery and when the doctors told him you should probably take the night off after his final treatment he said no I'm going to Philadelphia and then I'm playing in the next game and those are just a few examples all of these athletes up here have made phenomenal comebacks and have pushed through the mental struggle and mental toll that Sports have to offer because they absolutely love the game you might see your favorite athlete up here you might not
230I probably miss them because there's so many but it shows that Sports aren't impossible they do take a toll physically and they take an absolute toll mentally but it's not impossible to push through them it's an absolute struggle to but again athletes love climbing that mountain and I hope that I inspired all of you to push through your own struggles and climb your own mountains and that is how I choose to inspire thank you Caden for providing us with that perspective on sports our next presenter is Tabitha Cabral Elliott Tabitha is a freshman here at DHS Tabitha is on the DHS debate team and is also a member of our schools dance team dance is a passion for Tabitha as she has been in various dance classes for over 10 years additionally Tabitha is on
231the YMCA swim team Tim aspires to study psychology upon graduation and chose the topic for her Ted Talk due to the interest to the Dynamics Dynamics and relationships and how she has been in the impact of relationships abuse amongst her peers please welcome Tabitha Cabral Elliott as she presents this isn't love [Applause] this isn't love did you know that one in three American adolescents has been victims of dating abuse one in three one-third which means a third of the people in this school possibly a third of the people in this room have been or will be a victim of dating abuse before they graduate this school now to introduce you to this epidemic level proportion of what I'm about to talk talk about I'd like to introduce a character called Marie here we will follow
232Marie through her navigating a toxic relationship and the examples of which I will demonstrate here Marie is a teenage girl as many of you are but Marie is not gendered in any way Marie could be any of us and she's in high school where she meets a boy but before I go any farther I should clarify what I'm talking about what is a toxic relationship now I cannot explain it nearly as well as Dr Thomas Corey here but I would like to bring your attention to this last sentence to say a toxic relationship is dysfunctional is at best an understatement at best an understatement because these behaviors often start off as subtle but get more and more severe and intense as the relationship progresses and I'd like to introduce you all here to some red
233flags a term you probably all know of but examples you may not here I show in isolation in which an abusive partner will cut off their partner support system their friends family and those they hold dear to them to entrap them hear intimidation and control where an abusive partner will use fear or imbalance of power to control their partner and what they do and gaslighting which is the manipula the manipulation of a partner but you all probably know what gaslighting means it's a buzzword it's in pop culture everywhere but do we all have the same con have we all reached a consensus on exactly what gaslighting is I'd like to show you Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of gaslighting but I'd also like to bring your attention to dependency on the perpetrator gaslighting causes dependency on the
234abusive partner now how does this connect to Marie well at first Marie started to text this boy all the time but noticed as they were getting closer and they their relationship became more romantic that she had almost no access to her friends or her family for her new boyfriend took up almost all her time and restricted her outright from spending time with other people Marie was being isolated now as I said before they were in contact all the time to the point where he texted Marie over 60 times per day and it while it started from a simple hello how are you doing it escalated from knowing where she was with whom and when and fear if he didn't know where she was for how he would react that is control and then Marie lived
235for over four months convinced she was absolutely losing her mind for her boyfriend would say something then deny it or twist her words or insist she was either lying or delusional in whatever escaped her mouth that is gaslighting now I'd like to introduce you all to the cycle of abuse for once these patterns and red flags become accepted especially the gaslighting portion this can occur first tensions building in which there's fear in the air and anticipation of a fight an incident happening or your partner blowing up in some way that leads to the incident in which verbal physical emotional abuse can occur there could be a heated fight Anything could happen but this is where the abusive incident happens but however in this cycle it leads to reconciliation in which the abusive partner would often
236apologize the two people would probably make up and the issue would more or less be pushed under the rug which leads to the calm this is where the incident is more or less over done with in the past where the abusive partner will often be on their best behavior showering their partner in gifts admiration or overall rarely seen respect but what makes this cycle so abusive what makes this cycle so abusive now if you'll excuse me for a minute I have missed messed up all of my cards but I will fix them now I'd like to introduce to you what a trauma bond is a trauma bond is the attachment of an abused person to their partner through the positive and negative feedback created by the cycle of abuse which causes cognitive dissonance now according
237to psychology today cognitive dissonance is the term for when the state of just for the state of discomfort felt when two or more modes of thought contradict each other in other words when two opposite realities occur in a person's mind and creates a very confusing distressing paradox now for example in the context of an abusive relationship a partner May break their partner's phone in a rage but immediately apologize for it afterwards saying I didn't mean it I'll be better I'm so sorry I love you that creates cognitive dissonance in the abused partner's Minds because they broke my phone but they didn't mean to they raged at me but only out of love they said they'll be better he'll be better she'll be better they will be better but will they will they why do you
238stay if you knew that your loved one or best friend or someone you were very close with if you found out that they were being insulted controlled being told what to wear and what to do or even physically being harmed what would you tell them just leave right leave now I'd like to offer up another example if you found out that one of your loved ones was struggling with substance misuse what would you tell them now a substance addiction let's keep in mind just stop using just stop of course not because addiction is not that easy and we know that so what if I told you that addictions can also occur in this cycle of abuse and that abused people in these relationships can become chemically addicted to their partner which brings me back to
239a trauma Bond and the hormones involved dopamine oxytocin serotonin endorphins cortisol natural opioids and more can create a concoction from the cycle of dramatic highs and dramatic lows of the cycle of abuse in the relationship and can be emotionally psychologically and even physically binding those people together many victims of relationship abuse have reported that leaving their abusive partner feels like being in both psychological and physical substance withdrawal it isn't so easy to just leave now isn't it you can't just leave or just stop using so easily but in no way am I saying all hope is lost because leaving while difficult is completely possible here I have the national teen dating abuse helpline and the more generalized domestic violence hotline which have trained staff on call to assist in these type of situations and especially
240in the community which you have probably been isolated from there are people willing to help such as teachers parents mentors and especially at DHS professionally trained social workers who can assist in these types of situations but I've told you for about the past eight minutes what love isn't so what is love what is true healthy love what is healthy love well I'd like to define a healthy relationship by quoting Dr Thomas Corey once again you can see here that a healthy relationship is a safe relationship what a statement and I must add my own a healthy relationship is a gentle relationship love is gentle it is not fear it is not possession it is not confusion love is safety and it is gentle but to be more specific I've included a few examples on exactly
241what love is healthy love you respect each other's boundaries you work through problems together and focusing on Resolute resolution instead of winning and you establish trust with each other Trust however lately I've been coming across a lot of whys why am I doing this why am I up on stage right now why did I sign up for this club why was I editing a PowerPoint at 1am on a Monday night with a test tomorrow why did I choose this topic was a very common one asked by teachers peers and especially myself well you've probably also noticed that I haven't brought up Marie in a while now have I why did I include her at all well it's because Marie could be any of you it could be you your neighbor your best friend your student
242Marie could live in any of us and Marie could be any of us and that is how I choose to inspire for I am making the voices heard of those Marines in the crowd and Beyond who are not yet ready to do so I am making those voices heard and in the hopes that at least one person here can relate to my words I am showing you why you deserve better thank you for coming to my TED Talk okay [Applause] thank you Tabitha for showing us ways of a healthy relationship our last presenter for Peery one is Madame Wazowski Madden is a senior here at DHS Madden is the president of the magazine club and the co-founder of the makers Club she's also a member of the dance team and is currently choreographing dartmouth's finest
243a prom graduation man and plans to pursue College dance and pre-professional dance programs Madden chose her topic because she worked on this topic for her AP research during the last school year please welcome Madden as she presents my mirror versus my mind [Applause] hello everyone so today I'll be presenting my mirror versus my mind so mirrors we see them everywhere we see them every single day we use them all the time why do they have so much impact on our Lives why do they cause so much pressure on us that's what I looked into in my AP research project last year I research the effects of reversing mirrors and non-reversing mirrors on Mental Health so my inspiration for that project was the true mirror project which was a project I saw on YouTube in like
2442015 that detailed somebody that went onto the streets with a non-reversing mirror and showed people how they really look how other people see them I really found that inspiring what do you look like to other people and how does that differ from what you see yourself as so this is me I'm a dancer and that means that I look at myself in mirrors all the time I really feel the effects of seeing myself and feeling like pressured to have my body look a certain way from seeing myself all the time so this is an example of the two mirrors that I have so Mr Coogan modeled for me a reversing mirror which is the mirror that you look in every day it's a mirror that you look at when you're brushing your teeth just it
245shows a mirror image of yourself and then over here is a non-reversing mirror so this one is flipped so when you take a selfie in your phone camera it flips you that is a non-reversing mirror so back to my AP research project what did I really do so I put 20 participants in a room for a minute and a half one with the reversing mirror the regular mirror and one with the non-reversing mirror so then after each minute and a half they recorded their feelings about their body image and all of those things so now a little vocabulary lesson on what these things really mean so a reversing mirror is this one that I have right here so it is just a regular mirror and it shows you flipped from what you see so if
246I were to move my right arm I just see it the same way and then a non-reversing mirror which is this other one I have over here is two mirrors placed at a 90 degree angle to each other so the reflections go off of each other and when you look down the dead center you see your view flipped 180 degrees how somebody else would see you if they're looking at you so now I'd like to call it my friend Owen to take a look in the mirrors and tell me if he sees a difference so you believe somebody besides me so first I'm gonna have him look in this mirror perfect okay do you see yourself how you normally would that's pretty standard okay and look in the other one please and what do you
247see I look definitely a lot different definitely extremely humbling I do like how I look here better thank you so before I could have people do that in a research setting I had to do a little bit more deep dives into the effects that mirrors have um on a wider scale so first I looked at the impact of mirrors on body image and performance so this was a research study that was performed with dancers they were put in a beginner class measured their performance before and after uh six weeks so one class had mirrors in their class and the other did not and it showed that the class that did not have mirrors improved significantly more than the class that did which shows that they really can have negative impacts they can diminish performance so
248these are the mirrors that they were looking in and you can see if you are in a class you're right in front of the mirrors you're looking at yourself the whole time and it really just draws Focus away from actual performance quality next I looked at the performance of ciphonids on and non-reversing mirrors so for those of you who don't know cybernid is just a fish um so these fish were placed in a tank one with a mirror and one with a non-reversing mirror so the fish when they were looking in the mirror were just having their normal fish Behavior but when they were looking in the non-reversing mirror they became violent they started attacking each other and themselves their Reflections in the mirror so this really showed that non-reversing mirrors also can have negative
249effects they can make people violent they can make people just have bad or Worse qualities so I would really spark my thoughts is there anything good about mirrors and I found the article non-reversing mirrors for anatomy learning so this article really showed me that it does have practical use they can be used for good so these mirrors helped um residents in medical school to learn the way that the body goes and flipped to learn the internal organs so now back to the actual project that I conducted I have a little data for you on the all 20 participants that I got so because I had a very very small sample size all of my data is not conclusive but you can really see some Trends in what happened so my first question was I feel
250the need to improve my physical appearance so on the left this is before the study that's how all the people felt and post non-reversing mirror after looking in the mirror that they see every day you can see that really the breakdown was almost exactly the same but when you came to looking at themselves in the non-reversing mirror these people became more insecure um another question I like the looks just the way they are so again you can see kind of a similar breakdown of bringing in over here more negative thoughts one more I dislike my physique this again has similar breakdown of just a little bit but becoming a little bit more insecure so what does this mean this really means nothing right now but a lot for the future research is never ending and
251this really means that we should do more research into the effects that mirrors and non-reversing mirrors have on body image and Body Image awareness as a whole knowing that the way that you see yourself is really important to you and your mental health and believing that research should be done and continue to be done is how I choose to inspire thank you [Music] thank you this concludes our first period presenters and Madden thank you for that Insight on our vision of the mirrors thank you so much for attending period one TED Talks [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music]
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253others by sharing all of the many challenges that he has faced in his life and he wants to convey how much this has impacted his personal outlook on life which he'll tell you about as well please welcome Braden Norton as he uh as he presents adapt and overcome hello my name is Braden Norton and this is how I choose to inspire at the age of one I was diagnosed with the juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma in my brain stem during an eye appointment basically I had a lemon-sized tumor in the middle of my head and yeah if you're wondering that's not a good thing I was at Boston Children's Hospital my parents in horrifying shock of what was going on met with the doctor to get some more information they my father recalls the doctor saying to
254to them that I only had a 50 chance of living we took life took a major turn think of it as you're cruising along and you hit a wall bam Boston Children's would become my second home with countless number of hospital visits some extending to even weeks at a time these included surgeries experimental treatments to every MRI I was in the hospital for Boston Children's was the place for me as of today I've had almost 80 MRIs and over three major brain surgeries fast forwarded 2017 when I was 12. after two major brain surgeries the doctors along with my medical team at Boston saw that my tumor was growing and said I needed chemo immediately because every neurosurgeon that we encountered said that my tumor is inoperable but things don't always go as planned I
255remember my dad bringing me on vacation to Disneyland as a happy time before life was about to get real and things drastically changing with chemo and with neither of us wanting this to happen for the past 12 years my dad always made it his top priority to avoid chemo at all costs because of how horrible it was but it wasn't until one day we were sitting by the pool in California and my dad encountered a Facebook group with pain with brain tumor parents referring him to neuro pediatric brain surgeon Dr sway Dan my dad called his office immediately and he told he was told to go to New York to see him as soon as we got home from vacation and after we met with him he saw my MRI images and he told us
256very confidently that he could do the surgery and after thinking heavily about this big decision we decided that it was a girl it's the right thing to do and I remember the car ride home from that appointment thinking deeply about it but the funny thing was I wasn't nervous at all as a matter of fact I was actually excited knowing that he could get rid of my tumor in the summer fifth grade things were about to get real we spent the night before surgery in New York and I woke up the next day knowing that my life was about to change it was surgery day I couldn't stop thinking about it the nerves didn't really kick in until then my heart was racing and I was trying to stay calm but I bet if you
257were in my shoes experiencing what I was experiencing you would have a tough time staying calm too we walked into the room where they would give me anesthesia or sleepy medicine to help me stay calm but it did the opposite of that it was my dad our family Lauren Kathy and the assistant surgeon Terese in the room and the medicine caused chaos I didn't want to take it and my family started getting nervous when I started kicking screaming and crying not wanting to go to sleep the sedation process did not go well I fought it the surgery was 11 hours long and my dad watched the surgeon walk down the dim hallway while after Hospital hours who appeared as if he just came off of a Battlefield and he proceeded to describe the tumor to
258my dad as a monster in my 12 year old bearing and after this 11 hour operation is when things started to get really real my dad had nothing else to rely on but the medical team's Words which was I imagined really scary for him and everyone got to see me but I didn't see them I was unresponsive with what they call posterior Foster syndrome basically I was in the coma for the following four days on a breathing machine there I was lying in New York City will Cornell hospital with my dad right next to me it was a crazy time But after those four days of my body being like what the heck just happened I finally woke up I lost many basis skills like walking talking swallowing eating and the only sign of life
259I could give was barely even the thumbs up or a smile I can't imagine how much story this brought to my dad and my family I was hooked up to so many tubes and monitors all keeping me stable from the massive operation that just took place and the best possible outcome which happened was them taking out 95 of my tumor and after a week just like that I was stable enough to be transported by ambulance so Spaulding Rehab Hospital in Boston where the focus would be shifted from intense care to intense rehabilitation and the ambulance side was not fun as a matter of fact it was a five hour ride from New York to Boston imagine being strapped in a Stretcher for five hours straight not to mention my dad was sitting right there next
260to me the moment of entering the front door is the Spalding I felt a sense of comfort it was a brand new facility that was going to be my home for the next few weeks and all it took was a couple hours for therapy to get started it started immediately by my physical therapist coming into my room and having me do an exercise I had a physical occupational and speech therapist that combined would help me get back up on my feet the first person I met with was my physical therapist she was just excited as I was to begin the Journey of recovering me but the first goal for me even though it might sound small was to stand now since I was a vegetable and couldn't really move at all she sat me up
261on my bed and proceeded to stand me up and just like this even though it might not sound like a lot everything they had me do was crucial to my recovery and my body had to learn how to do so many things again who would have thought that just two weeks ago everything was normal and now standing was a huge accomplishment for me it's amazing how quickly things can change things have changed everything we did all day from the moment I woke up to going to bed was revolved around physical recovery a few weeks later I was finally in a good enough position to be discharged it was time to go home it felt unreal that just a few weeks ago in the state I was in not being able to move walk talk or
262swallow I was fully recovered and I was walking talking smiling just like I was before my happy normal self and when we got home it almost didn't feel real but as little time passed I was completely recovered and if you didn't know what I went through this summer you wouldn't be able to tell at all today you've read my story but the truth is all of us are going to speak face unexpected challenges in life your mindset matters and here are some lyrics by one of my favorite bands 311. stay positive and love your life good things are right around the corner and it's important to remind yourself that everything will be okay you can't fight it you just have to be ready for what comes next because anything can happen you also can't lose
263hope because things can change just as quickly from the goodness to the bad finally it was the first day of sixth grade and I woke up that morning ready to go back to school live my normal life and see my friends and my teachers I wore a suit that day because it was a huge day for me and I remember my dad walking me to the bus stop I asked him what should I say to my friends and teachers if they asked me what I went through in the summer and we both smiled at each other as I walked on the bus this summer was one I will never forget and that's how I choose to inspire thank you [Applause] good job Braden thank you for your wonderful wonderful personal story our next presenter for
264period five is Saeed achalov Saeed is a junior here at DHS he's a member of our school's chess club and is a national division one fencer who recently competed in the Junior Olympics Syed chose his topic because he is interested in local reality he wants to study this because he believes that we can gain insight into the fundamental building blocks of the universe the study of local reality also challenges our fundamental understanding of the universe making it an exciting field of study please welcome Saeed achalov as he presents local reality what constitutes as real [Music] hello so is our universe actually locally real and what constitutes asriel so before we start I'm going to start with a question if a tree falls down in the middle of the forest and no one is there to
265hear it or see it does it actually make a noise now I want you guys to sit down and think about this before I answer the question at the end of the presentation and I want you guys to come up with your own deduction of what you guys think before we do that let's first Define what is local reality in physics or in this case quantum physics so locality is the term that objects can only be influenced by the surroundings and any influence cannot travel faster than light and an example for this is a light bulb and a switch if a switch if I have a switch right now with me and a light bulb that corresponds with a slip switch is millions of layers away if I flip the switch it will not automatically
266turn on due to the fact that it's light years away from me so now what is realism realism can be defined as a principle that particles have definite properties whether or not that they're being measured a famous quote that epitomizes this would be by Albert Einstein he said I like to believe that the Moon is still there even if I'm not looking at it the core belief of what we call realists at this time Albert Einstein with other and other physicists believe that whether or not we look at something it has definite properties however not all physicists believe in this one main person who didn't believe in this is Niels bohrer him and other physicists called the anti-realists believe that if I do not look at a particle yet there's some sort of wave function
267and variability between particles as we can see in these two photos we see that when the person is looking away from the photon it seems to act as a wave but the second he looks at the photon it gets it stops and has a definite property that in this case epitomize this is everything we call real is made up of things that cannot be regarded as real however Einstein had a problem with this Einstein thought Einstein thought that how could this be so him and his colleagues Podolski and Rosen came up with something called the epr paradox and what this stated is that if two photons are shot at opposite sides of each other due to the law of conservation of momentum if one is spinning left he knows that the other one must be
268spinning loud right and if these two photons are on the opposite sides of the universe how then if I know one then I automatically know the other and this goes against the fundamental limit of the speed of light he said if this is the case this cannot be true he called this phenomenon spooky action at a distance and now we know we now know that's called it's referred as quantum entanglement so Einstein and Niels Bohr were one time having a conversation and luckily this was recorded and I think it's quite funny so Albert Einstein said to Niels Bohr God does not play dice and while that might seem okay that makes sense Niels responded stop telling God what to do now what do you guys think who do you guys think is correct here if
269you guys believe that Albert Einstein is correct with the deterministic view that the tree made a noise please raise your hand okay got it and now if you guys believe in Niels Bohr with his Variable View that you know the tree might have made a noise but we can't tell we can't be sure unless we measure it now raise your hand if you believe in that got it and I guess we'll find out right about now so everyone who raised their hand for Niels Bohr is actually correct in this case so the 2022 uh Nobel Peace Prize for physics three men won this Alan aspect John clauser and Anton zelinger they prove that in reality these particles haven't really made up their mind until we measure them they started off with an experiment with Alice
270and Bob they shot two photons of light with Alice and Bob first having a polarizer on each end the same exact polarizer when the photon went through each polarizer they were the same polarized photon however when they started moving the polarizers in different angles they realized that the polarized photons actually started changing they weren't linear as Albert Einstein believed they started acting in some sort of a wave function so this when Allen aspect saw this he was shocked he was like how can this be this goes against what Albert Einstein said John closer and Anton zelinger actually fixed the loopholes that Allen aspect was having they were confused oh since Alice and Bob are both right-handed could that have made a difference could the polarizers been different they did this experiment multiple times and came
271to the conclusion that in reality Einstein was actually wrong and that these particles we don't know how they act this is a photo of what the experiment kind of looked like with the source in the middle and the polarizers on each end once the they went on each side at first they would go plus one to be One Polarized atom and then negative one to represent the other side but as they change the polarizers it actually acted as some sort of a wave function and actually didn't go linearly as Albert Einstein had originally believed so back to the tree so in the beginning I told you guys that the tree if no one is there to hear it or see it did it actually make a noise well we all know that the tree might
272have made a noise might not have made a noise and this brings us to a really fascinating point of why does this all matter what's the point of knowing that the universe is not locally real and to that I say we have now have a different perception of how we view the world this has a completely different change in Quantum information how quantum computers work how information can be traveled what is the difference between quantum physics and classical physics this brings up new ideas and provides scientists and young people like yourself to go research these ideas to challenge the status quo and go against what I Einstein thought and eventually maybe even prove them wrong so with that with curiosity and always questioning things that is how I choose to inspire thank you Saeed very
273interesting a lot of quantum physics stuff that I didn't know okay our third presenter for period five is shuban Swami foreign is a junior here at DHS he is a member of both the math team and the ghs marching band where he plays alto sax ubon chose his topic Because he believes there is a negative stereotype about certain genres of music especially rap and hip-hop music his goal is to illuminate you to the nuances that are associated with rap hip-hop and other music genres and how each of these musics ideals fit into the grand scheme of musical literature please welcome shubhan Swami as he presents meaning behind the music Hey Now music is a language of what we cannot put into words every person digests reacts and interprets it completely different for some it functions
274as a form of transcending reality while for others it functions as a way to immerse yourself in The Human Experience foreign music is audible art now whether it is meant to be casual entertainment or philosophical poetry is not only up to the artist but mainly The Listener the genre an artist chooses to delve into has significance too as different genres have different Focus points through this presentation I'm going to count down my three favorite genres and the morals that they entail now pop music my third favorite genre is born from the utilization of the cool gizmos that arose post-war in the U.S around the 1950s given that this was a relatively financially stable time period people had more opportunities to enjoy easy going music radios and televisions began to broadcast pop music everywhere and given
275its contrast in terms of Simplicity compared to past Generations older Generations grew sick of it so naturally the newer Generations loved it thanks to all these factors pop music popped and one of the major purposes of this style is to have fun hence why it generally uses more straightforward chord progressions and a lack of dynamic tempos it revolves around its catchy beats now whether those beads are more mellow and sweet like Bruno Mars and his song Grenade or more fiery and zappy like in his song that's what I like mainstream audiences around the world are captivated by Pop's Charming nature now one of the key innovators in my opinion the greatest artist to ever Tinker with this genre is a self-proclaimed king of five Michael Jackson his talent and ability transcends Justice Sean or with
276many artists across all genres crediting him to be one of the greatest of all time he revolutionized the music industry with his blockbuster-esque albums and His short film music videos now while all this is very impressive and his visual expression of music is undefeated I believe that his knack for lyrical poetry is often underlooked and underrated MJ's Billie Jean is Infamous for its deceiving tone the Sparky upbeat Tempo combined with a vivacious synthesizer in the background it causes it conceals the surprisingly serious lyrics about a woman who falsely alleged to him to be the father of her child the phrase 40 days and 40 nights is actually a Biblical illusion to Genesis 5 where it rained for 40 days and 40 nights now rain generally can mean tears and this is meant to show the
277drawn out Court battle that MJ underwent and the torment that he had to go through the next line who can stand when she's in demand is meant to show that MJ believes that the woman's false Bravada and her ferocious willpower was enough for anyone to be stripped of their titles the last line remember to always think twice reveals that this song is not lively and not vivacious and is actually a caution Tale within Pop I think these three songs encapsulate the meaning really well these are some of my favorites Talking to the Moon is an absolute classic and I love the euphoric sort of long notes and the richness of the pain sounding fresh as ever in that song Disturbia by Rihanna captures that 2010 Club atmosphere feeling and it kind of shows like it
278kind of reminds me of being the back seat of a car listening to the radio's new hits and hey yeah by Outkast is very very similar to Billie Jean in terms of its deceiving tone and it's actually very painful lyrics under a joyous energetic dance beat now moving on to the next genre Jazz this one is my personal favorite to play and it's very fun to explore the sheer disparity in the complexities of different artists and different sounds makes it very interesting to study and why their entire colleges course is dedicated to it it originates from African-American instrumentalists in New Orleans during the late 19th to early 20th century and it was conjured up as a sort of echo to the native sounds of the African Homeland such as the yaruba tribe on the last
279now it also mixed in the classical battle it's popular at the time now given this time period it was following the emancipation of the slaves a lot of people were trying to find out how far they could go with musical Liberty and that's kind of what jazz is based on it's an experiment to see how free you can be with your music now it's appealed to the mainstream really peaked in the 1920s as if as it sort of was a form of escapism from the Grim reality that had they had just went through it's prospered specifically in speakeasies and here I have German cozy Cole and one of those Now jazz began to depart from mainstream culture around post-world War II and this is in particular because of the rapid popularization of rock and roll
280here we've saw the rise of superstars like Elvis Presley and the Beatles and we can see that rock and roll has persisted the wear of time to this day it serves as the root of popular genres like hip-hop and pop now on the other hand jazz is kind of put on the back burner of American music forethought it has since evolved into more of a niche that players find enjoyment in messing around with a convoluted Theory nevertheless every now and then popular Jazz musicians still arise take my favorite modern saxophonist kamazi Washington that name may sound unfamiliar though you may recognize some of his very notable features such as into pimp a butterfly he played a very very big role in those jazz beats like in for free and for sale he is bewildingly underrated
281and here's my favorite tracks if you want to check those out now on to my last and my favorite genre Hip Hop hip-hop is one of the most popular genres amongst teenagers over the last half a century it's substantial versatility is portrayed with a numerous sub-genres and its diverse field of musicians this in turn has contributed to its massive success however I think many tend to overlook the historical significance and origin of this type of music hip-hop originates with the struggles of the African-American community in regards to the War on Drugs originally enacted by President Nixon in the 70s and heavily bolstered by the Reagan Administration the War on Drugs has resulted in mass incarceration and at nearly 500 percent growth in number of inmates since it began according to the sentencing project hip-hop was
282concocted as some sort of artistic remedy for those whose families were broken by this war and it gives opportunities for those in poverty to potentially attain a life of Fame now one excellent rapper that I think is particularly great at articulating the issues of racial Prejudice is Pulitzer Prize winner Kendrick Lamar and my personal favorite of all time I could write an entire presentation on just this man he's written amazing albums after an amazing album and as I mentioned earlier to pip a butterfly I think that's a culmination of everything that hip-hop is about from its Sleek Funk and Jazz fuse beats to the bitter and honest commentary on injustice's face today many critics agree that this is a masterpiece here I analyze one of the really cool songs on this album one of my
283favorite songs of this album the black or the berry the phrase vandalize my perception essentially portrays the modern self-hatred of skin tone the African-Americans have and it's based on the racist beliefs perpetrated for centuries in America the line the button is packed with symbolism now many interpret this to mean kedric has some sort of weapon but I think of it slightly differently I think of it more of a mic button that Kendrick has access to and when he presses that all his Fury just seeps out music as a way of transmitting the artist's passions to the listeners and what Kendrick's trying to show you is he can give his emotion to his listeners and he has power the resolving line here making a killing I think is an especially heavy line and it's short of
284portraying that America's injustices and horrific legislation in the past creeps its results into the tensions prominent today now some of my favorite to wrap this section up here's some of my favorite favorite rap tracks that I think really do well encapsulating the meaning of the genre XXX by Kendrick and Dan that's a really really great very underrated and it kind of puts you in the scenery I'm not going to spoil it for you but it really puts you in the scenery of what's going on what stories trying to paint Lori pretty flock of Jody by ASAP Rocky is really entertaining and has this lavish production that I think is just phenomenal and still lives up to to this day Mona Lisa by Lil Wayne um I all know I never really listened to Lil Wayne
285before this this track definitely changed my mind on that the phenomenal Vivid story that it portrays and the feature of Kendrick Lamar utilized it's just amazing it's perfect I very much recommend you take a listen to that now all in all main point of all this is to show you that music by nature is subjective every person's brain interprets each beat the unique perspective that's why this art thrives every bar every lyric every quarter note every rest holds an imperative purpose in painting a song psyche all songs exist for a reason now whether it be for pure entertainment or for those Sly messages slipped in between the crevices of words is up for the listener every music has meaning and it gives artists a platform and a voice that they can use to inspire with
286and through music this is how I choose to inspire thank you Siobhan wonderful presentation about the value of music okay and our last presenter of the day is Muhammad hijazi Muhammad is a junior here at DHS he's a three-season athlete who's a member of the soccer winter track and sailing teams additionally Muhammad is on the debate team and is in the chamber orchestra Muhammad chose his topic because he's Lebanese and has heard of the conflicts between Lebanon and Israel and he believes that Palestinian people are suffering under Israeli Rule and wants to shine a light on this topic please welcome Muhammad hijazi as he presents Palestine deciphered [Applause] so some of you may have heard of the occupation on Palestine however I guarantee for those of you who have heard of it if you have
287only heard of it from the Israeli perspective however I am here to tell you the story from the Palestinian perspective imagine living behind a wall a heavily militarized wall a wall that separates you from your family is almost impossible to get onto the other side and can even result in you getting killed if you get too close to it what I just described to you is hafrada herada is the policy of the government of Israel to separate the Israeli population from the Palestinian population the occupied Palestinian territories in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip afrada creates restricted movement for Palestinian people isolation and harassment targeted towards the Palestinian people uh I I can't uh curfews for the Palestinian people checkpoints walls and administrative obstacles however before we dive too deep into this and
288understand it we first have to understand from the beginning the U.N parentician plan in 1947 Palestine was a very diverse region before Israel established populated by Jews Muslims and Christians however the U.N paretition plan would create separate Jewish and Arab publics however the plan was unjust as it failed to sufficiently address the concerns of the Arab governments particularly Palestine that rejected it which is Arabic for catastrophe is how Palestinians refer to the occupation of Palestine in 1948 a violent and upsetting event that resulted in the eviction of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians was the foundation of Israel on the ancestral Palestinian land during the nakba it was the eviction of at least 750 000 Palestinians about 530 Palestinian Villages and cities were destroyed fifteen thousand Palestinians were killed and 70 total massacres occurred each dot
289here represents one of the 530 Palestinian Villages that was destroyed by Israel during the nakba the first entifada in 1987 to 1993 intifada means uprising the Palestinian Uprising was against tyranny and aggression and ultimately so that Palestinians can strive for the cessation of Israeli occupation and achievement of Palestinian self-determination however during the first intifada more than 1300 Palestinians were killed more than 120 000 wounded some 600 thousands were jailed with many facing torture and ill treatment in Israeli prisons more than 300 Palestinians were removed from their homes as well in 2016 a Palestinian foreign exchange student came here to Dartmouth her name was Yasmine and she was talking about how when she was at the last last checkpoint of leaving Israel she was frightened that the Israeli police might stop her because she thought they
290may know that her father participated in the first intifada the second empty father 2000 to 2005. like the first intifada it was ultimately Palestinian resistance against tyranny and aggression and a strive for self-determination however the thing that differs the second the father from the first was that it was far more bloodier than the second in the father at least 4973 Palestinians were killed 1262 of them being children 274 women and a total of 32 medical personnel killing of Muhammad Muhammad the 12 year old boy here and his father Jamal Adora were both hiding behind a concrete cylinder they were both begging and pleading for a dear life but the Israeli military showed no mercy as they fired upon them Muhammad died by his wounds on scene while his father Jamal recovered being able to tell
291the story so many of you may think this is a two-sided conflict however this is at all conflict this is one-sided occupation and oppression as you can see here 79 percent of Palestinians were killed by Israelis first while only eight percent of Israelis were killed by Palestinians first was 13 both being killed at around the same time so some consequences of being Palestinians is how the Israeli military treats you one thing they do is dehumanize Palestinians one of these dehumanization techniques is is rising Israeli subtle or violence in the occupied West Bank in 2017 10 settler attacks each week happened on average towards Palestinians however in 2022 it went up to 27 settler attacks each week on average that is a 170 percent increase from 2017 to 2022 and the Israeli government is doing nothing
292but rather turning a blind eye and supporting it was a 13 year old boy who was walking with his 15 year old cousin Hassan who allegedly but never proven guilty to have stabbed two Israeli settlers when an Israeli mob saw Ahmad walking with his cousin Hassan his 15 year old cousin Hassan they murdered his cousin in front of him and severely beat him and even rammed Ahmed with a car Ahmad face severe skull damage and internal bleeding after this however Ahmad was sent straight to prison where he was sentenced 12 years for attempted murder even though that never actually happened and in 2021 a external psychiatrist went to visit Ahmad and it turns out he had severe schizophrenia in the Israeli police were doing nothing to treat him and in 2022 on April 13th an
293Israeli Court dropped the terrorism charges on Ahmed hoping that one day he may be released but it seems to be far from now 4450 is a total number of political prisoners held in Palestine 530 of them are administrative detainees held without charge or trial 160 child prisoners 32 female prisoners 549 of them are facing life sentences 499 of them are serving a sentence of more than 20 years now save the children asked 470 Palestinian children what they have experienced while in the Israeli prison system what 81 percent of them suffered physical beatings 86 percent of them were subjected to strip searches 88 of them did not receive adequate Health Care 89 of them were blindfolded or hooded during detention 52 percent of them were threatened with harm to their families and 47 percent of them
294were denied contact with a lawyer annexation so what annexation means is like essentially adding on to and in this case it's Israel adding on more land by occupying more historically Palestinian land as we can see here in 1947 prior to the U.N parentician plan almost 90 95 of Palestinian land belong to the Palestinian people but however after the perotition plan this was about cut in half and from 1949 to 1967 only about 35 percent of Palestinian land belong to the Palestinian people however in 2020 this was cut down to only 15 percent of historical Palestinian land belonging to the Palestinian people and so Israel commits annexation by also destroying destroying Palestinian homes the U.N calls on Israel to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes but they never seem to want to end their Antics many
295families come back home and turns out that they're officially homeless Palestinian keys this right here is a key that was given by the foreign exchange student Yasmeen to Mrs true this key represents what thousands of Palestinians currently hold on to after they got evicted from Palestine many hoping that they can one day go back to the motherland however many of them may not be aware that it was already destroyed so Israeli settlement can be built over it why is this cause important is a question that many of you guys may be asking yourself however democracy equals self-determination in the west we label Israel as the Democratic state in the Middle East however does a democratic State really dehumanize a ethnicity and not allow them to strive for self-determination another thing is we are Global Citizens
296we should always want what is morally best for the world we should not let a region suffer economically because we support such occupation also lack of freedom of movement back to Yasmine when Yasmine came here in 2016 and she went from Massachusetts to Rhode Island she was talking about how she was shocked how there was no security on the Massachusetts Rhode Island border how do we improve the situation this may seem to be out of our hands since it's such a large government that is committing this however there is some stuff we can do to make sure Palestinians strive for self-determination one thing is we can become better educated about both sides of the story read widely from a variety of sources donate to non-profit organizations join movements that support the Palestinian cause amplify Palestinian
297voices shop at Palestinian companies talk with friends and family speak up in your community and reach out to political leaders now I think it's safe to say that the Israeli government may or may not be going anywhere anytime soon however we should not have this stop us from allowing evil to Prevail in this cruel world and this is how I choose to inspire [Applause] thank you Muhammad we appreciate your perspective um obviously this day is not possible without the uh help of so many people and so if you bear with me I have a lot of thank yous to do um so first our presenters Tabitha Cabral Elliott Savannah heart Madden waskowitz shubhan Swami Braden Norton Sean Allen Ryan Aruda and he's also our computer expert thank you Ryan um edrick Espana Caden demanche Mackenzie
298Boucher Ashton oh geez spardella I got it uh all right Mohammed hijazi Aiden Mello Owen Nielsen Saeed achalov and Stephanie shiridos Rivas who unfortunately was unable to present today for private reasons our crew Abigail Maxfield Abigail Lima Jillian Hughes and Reagan LeConte are our wonderful Peter Chase who was always there for us from DCTV thank you Peter Mr Robert perrotti from DHS TV media along with his crew Michael Foley Carlton Park Adam Souza Holly raposo Molly Bell a Gates Ben Smith William Bouvier Kyle Silva special thanks to our administrative team who has also been very supportive our principal Mr Ryan Shea our associate principal Mrs Rachel chavier are assistant principals Mr Michael Martin and Mr Graham Coogan our library and secretary secretarial staff Mrs jillins Mrs Megan telly Miss Jennifer Thomas Mrs Clarinda menese Ms
299bonimada the cafeteria staff our custodial staff Mrs Souza my co-advisor and all of you thank you so much for supporting us year after year and we hope that this has inspired you to take part and do your own Ted Talk next year so we'll see you again in 2024. thank you all right