Pecha Kucha

I've decided it's okay to have no certainty in the exact pronunciation of Pecha Kucha, because when I look it up, I see three pronunciations and several people sure that they are right. It seems obvious that the Japanese way of saying it would differ from the English, so I'll presume (PETCH-ah KOO-cha) is English and will probably become the common way it is said in our accent. The three that I hear touted as the actual pronunciation are (p'KAh k'CHAh ), (p'CHAh k'CHAh ) and the third and somehow obviously just wrong as though someone heard the real thing and tried to sound as though they were saying it correctly (puh-CHAWCH-ka).

I'll be saying (p'KAh k'CHAh). If that pronunciation guide is confusing, think of a chicken sound... I'd write it: " b'GAh! "

...but you can't hear me for now anyways, so let's move on.

It's taken me quite some time to come to this entry, which I said was forthcoming weeks ago. Of the available topics in my criminal psychology course, I could not settle on one. After reading a relatively good amount and watching several documentaries, I decided to go with "The Media and Misconceptions About Psychopaths." For it, I decided I would touch points from other selections for the assignment.

Tying everything to either media or conceptions about psychopaths, true or false, I decided still to examine psychopathy as mental illness, Hare's research, empathy, movies and television, behavioural indicators and the subclinical psychopath (including white-collar psychopathy), the idea of childhood psychopathy and the potential for treatment of psychopathy.

I also created a loose frame to structure my research, but will allow for it to be merely a guide not written in stone. My frame sets a direction by predetermining a possible slide series for my 20 images.

1-Intro

2-What people tend to think of psychopathy

3-Movies and television

4-News Media

5-Mental Illness

6-Hare

7-PCL and behaviour

8-Serial Killers

9-White Collar

10-Next Door

11-Prevalence

12-Prison

13-Therapy

14-Biology

15-Will Power

16-Emotions

17-Children

18-Prejudice

19-Rights

20-Conclusion