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Jok Church: A circle of caring
Džok Čurč: Krug brige
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U ovom trominutnom govoru, crtač i edukator Džon Čurč predstavlja emotivnu priču o profesoru koji se brinuo o njemu kada niko drugi nije - i kako mu je uzvratio uslugu.
Jok Church - Cartoonist
Jok Church created the science-education comic strip "You Can with Beakman and Jax" and the zany TV series "Beakman's World." Full bio
Jok Church created the science-education comic strip "You Can with Beakman and Jax" and the zany TV series "Beakman's World." Full bio
Double-click the English transcript below to play the video.
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You know, what I do is write for children,
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Znate da ja pišem za decu
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and I'm probably America's
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i da sam verovatno autor
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most widely read children's author, in fact.
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koji se najviše čita u Americi.
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And I always tell people
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I uvek kažem ljudima
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that I don't want to show up looking like a scientist.
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da ne želim da se pojavim i da izgledam kao naučnik.
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You can have me as a farmer, or in leathers,
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Mogu se pojaviti kao farmer ili u koži,
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and no one has ever chose farmer.
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i niko nikada nije izabrao farmera.
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I'm here today to talk to you
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Ovde sam danas da vam govorim
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about circles and epiphanies.
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o krugovima i proviđenjima.
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And you know, an epiphany
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I znate, proviđenje je
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is usually something you find that you dropped someplace.
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obično pronalaženje nečega što ste usput izgubili.
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You've just got to go around the block
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Samo morate da napravite krug
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to see it as an epiphany.
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da shvatite da je to proviđenje.
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That's a painting of a circle.
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To je slikanje kruga.
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A friend of mine did that -- Richard Bollingbroke.
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Moj prijatelj je to uradio - Ričard Bolingbrouk.
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It's the kind of complicated circle
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To je neka vrsta složenog kruga,
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that I'm going to tell you about.
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taj o kojem ću vam pričati.
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My circle began back in the '60s
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Moj krug je začet tokom 60-ih
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in high school in Stow, Ohio
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u srednjoj školi u Stou, Ohajo
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where I was the class queer.
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gde sam bio "peder" u razredu.
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I was the guy beaten up bloody
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Bio sam momak kojeg su tukli do krvi
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every week in the boys' room,
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svake nedelje u muškom toaletu,
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until one teacher saved my life.
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dok mi jedan profesor nije spasio život.
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She saved my life by letting me go to the bathroom
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Ona mi je spasila život tako što me pustila u toalet
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in the teachers' lounge.
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u delu za profesore.
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She did it in secret.
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Radila je to tajno,
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She did it for three years.
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radila je to tri godine,
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And I had to get out of town.
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i morao sam da napustim grad.
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I had a thumb, I had 85 dollars,
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Izbacio sam prst, imao sam 85$,
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and I ended up in San Francisco, California --
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i završio sam u San Francisku, Kalifornija -
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met a lover --
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upoznao ljubavnika -
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and back in the '80s, found it necessary
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i tokom 80-ih, smatrao sam da je neophodno
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to begin work on AIDS organizations.
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da počnem da radim za AIDS organizacije.
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About three or four years ago,
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Pre oko tri ili četiri godine,
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I got a phone call in the middle of the night
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primio sam telefonski poziv usred noći,
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from that teacher, Mrs. Posten,
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od moje učiteljice, gospođe Posten
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who said, "I need to see you.
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koje je rekla: "Moram da te vidim.
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I'm disappointed
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Razočarana sam
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that we never got to know each other as adults.
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činjenicom da se nikada nismo upoznali kao odrasli.
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Could you please come to Ohio,
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Možeš li molim te doći u Ohajo,
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and please bring that man
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i molim te dovedi čoveka
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that I know you have found by now.
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kojeg znam da si do sada pronašao.
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And I should mention
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Treba da pomenem
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that I have pancreatic cancer,
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da imam rak pankreasa
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and I'd like you to please
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i molim te da budeš vrlo
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be quick about this."
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brz povodom ovoga."
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Well, the next day we were in Cleveland.
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Pa, sledećeg dana smo bili u Klivlendu.
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We took a look at her, we laughed, we cried,
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Pogledali smo je, smejali se, plakali
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and we knew that she needed to be in a hospice.
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i znali smo da treba da bude u domu.
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We found her one, we got her there,
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Našli smo jedan za nju, smestili je tamo,
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and we took care of her
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i brinuli se o njoj
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and watched over her family,
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i o njenoj porodici,
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because it was necessary.
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jer je to bilo neophodno,
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It's something we knew how to do.
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znali smo kako to treba raditi.
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And just as the woman who wanted to know me as an adult
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I taman kada me je žena koja je htela da me upozna kao odraslog
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got to know me,
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upoznala,
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she turned into a box of ashes
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pretvorila se u prah
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and was placed in my hands.
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i smeštena je u moje ruke.
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And what had happened
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A dogodilo se to da
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was the circle had closed,
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se krug zatvorio,
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it had become a circle --
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postao je krug -
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and that epiphany I talked about
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i to proviđenje o kojem sam govorio
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presented itself.
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se samo pojavilo.
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The epiphany is
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Proviđenje je sledeće,
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that death is a part of life.
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smrt je deo života.
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She saved my life;
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Ona je spasila moj život,
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I and my partner saved hers.
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ja i moj partner smo spasili njen.
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And you know, that part of life needs everything
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I znate, taj deo života zahteva sve što
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that the rest of life does.
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i ostatak života.
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It needs truth and beauty,
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Zahteva istinu i lepotu,
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and I'm so happy it's been mentioned so much here today.
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i vrlo sam srećan što se o tome mnogo govorilo danas.
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It also needs --
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Takođe zahteva -
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it needs dignity,
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zahteva dostojanstvo,
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love and pleasure,
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ljubav i zadovoljstvo.
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and it's our job to hand those things out.
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I naš posao je da obezbedimo te stvari.
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Thank you.
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Hvala vam.
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(Applause)
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(aplauz)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jok Church - CartoonistJok Church created the science-education comic strip "You Can with Beakman and Jax" and the zany TV series "Beakman's World."
Why you should listen
In his work, Jok Church loved helping kids learn basic concepts of science and experimentation -- with a healthy dash of fun. He created his comic strip You Can with Beakman & Jax in 1991 for his local newspaper in Marin County, California -- inspired by a stint answering kids' letters for Lucasfilm. The comic strip does not answer readers' questions directly. Rather, it gives directions to do a thing, a procedure, an experiment to learn the answer. It's about learning by doing. Active. Not passive.
Six Beakman & Jax books are best-sellers. Church created the long-running TV series Beakman's World, a hit in English and Spanish, and helped create the Beakman's World on Tour exhibit for science centers and museums. A longtime techie, he also served as the webmaster for artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Church died April 29, 2016, and will be much missed.
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