Joseph Lekuton TED Talk Response

            This video is very important to me in many aspects and I take away a plethora of concepts. First I agree with Lekuton that every village in Africa should be given the opportunity to stand on its own feet. Allowing the people to thirve and no longer suffer from starvation and not having clean drinking water. I thoroughly believe that it is our job as fortunate Americans to step in and help these developing countries and villages. I also take away the parable Lekuton told. The overall message of the African parable is things turn out better when we work together with a strong leader and equally strong support. These villages aren't going to change for the better without someone like Lekuton helping them. In a similar manner, neither will the problems of the world unless we all decide to work together and put aside our differences. Lekuton is a well educated man and could easily leave behind his small village in Africa and move on to become a great business leader or something. Instead he chose to run for office in America so he could start Kenya on a path towards clean water and a better quality of life. Lekuton style of speaking is very effective. He started off by giving background, moved to telling his point, gave a quick story and finally ended with a last thought. All of this occurred in less than 5 minutes and 30 seconds. Lekutons TED Talk may have lacked time but certainly did not lack a lasting impression. Lekuton also had an effective presentation style. He was very animated and looked to all parts of the audience. He was very confident. The idea of working together to solve problems and overcome obstacles is the most important topic from this video. This idea matters so much because a lot of people in the world are very independent and they think the only way to get something done is to do it themselves. Which in reality is not the case. We all must work as one to get the task done. This video connects to me personally because I feel strongly that each village in Africa should have clean drinking water and other necessities in order to provide a strong future of the generations to come. There are so many people in America where all they can think about is when the next Apple product will hit the market or other material things. Society has made these things seem important when in reality it is all the starving lives around the world who could use the money for necessary food and water. This video is not directed to education per se. It may loosely relate to teaching teamwork in schools and such but is not intended for that purpose. Finally this video connects to the world because it is raising awareness of the things people around the world are doing to help each other out. I believe we can all take something away from this video in order to make the world a better place for all of God's creatures no matter their racial background or anything.