David Blaine TED Talk, Air Under The Water

7/2/2025


David Blaine TED Talk, Air Under The Water


    David Blaine's TED talk is a literacy narrative, first lets answer the question, what is a literacy narrative? A literacy narrative is kinda like an essay that emphasizes on someone's experiences with different forms of literacy and how those experiences effect/impact their life. Going back to David Blaine in his TED talk he was talking about the life changing time when he was tried to go as long as he could with out breathing under water and one of the things that stuck out to me during his TED talk was when he was talking about all the ways he tried to make the illusion that he was holding his breath under water. Until he just decided to do it. He said that he "started researching pearl divers", pearl divers go into depths of water and can hold their breath for up to 4 minutes. He did research on them to learn how they hold their breaths for so long so that he can perform the stunt that he was literally dying to do. With researching about pearl divers comes reading articles and comprehending what is being read, and that is a form of literacy. The ability to read and the competence or knowledge in a specific subject is literacy. That is why David Blaine's TED talk is a literacy narrative.


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  1. AnonymousJuly 2, 2025 at 8:20 AM

    I enjoyed your post. I do appreciated the straight forwardness of the intro. It gets straight into the point. As well as your writing style sounds like you are just talking to someone which I also enjoy. Informal words like "kinda" help add to this setting. -Gio

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