1. This video has shown me that ‘hope always finds a way’. In her video, Becky tells a story of how she was a *working homeless woman for an entire year. She was a natural born writer but her spiraling depression led her to be suicidal and living out of her car. Becky talks of how she went from being a homeless worker to a speaker on ‘TED’ and how hope can get you through that, if you give it the chance. Overall I took away from this video that if you put mind over matter, life can take you just about anywhere.
2. Becky’s most effective speaking technique was probably how personally touched Becky sounded when she talked of the craziness she had to go through when living in her van. Not only did she have to worry about herself but she had to worry about a dog and a cat as well. The best way to connect with an audience is to tell the hear-wrenching truth so everyone’s heart aches just a little when it’s over.
3. The speaker’s presentation style was a little bit weak. She clearly had a plan and obviously knew the exact point she wanted to make and how she would have like to get to that point in her presentation. Yet, she was a little bit under-rehearsed. Ever once and a while Becky would have to stop and shuffle through her notes to find where she was at and what part was coming next. Though her presentation was very powerful and good even with those little interruptions, it would have flowed much better without those.
4. To Becky there were two main points in her video; the reality that everyone needs some sort of stable building to call home and that hope will prevail through anything. She talked of how living out of a van was extremely difficult due to all the risks and extra measure it took just to have a semi-normal life. Also, she talked of how it was not fair to generalize people because of a category they seem to fit into. To me personally Becky’s speech shows how judgmental people can be. The population seems to be absolutely opposed to anyone who doesn’t fit into the ‘perfect norm’. Likewise, it shows the failure in society when Becky explains the medication she was given for her depression actually enhanced the depression and turned it into suicidal thoughts. When someone needs help they need to be sure it will and absolutely not to make it worse. In respect to education the subject shows that students should be told from an earlier age to accept everyone and help those in need. To the world Becky shows that we need to fix the problems in society that are supposedly ‘taken care of’ yet are just being worsened.
**Clarifications:
Working Homeless- A person without a permanent or stable housing unit yet, has a job and enough money to live, take care of, and feed themselves.
Further Readings...
Articles on the Homeless:
(New York Times top picks)
(Causes people become homeless)
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