Casual Conversation

The author uses the dinner table conversation to make the characters seem real by having a situation that would happen in real life. For an example, one of the children, Dougie, did not like his food so he pushed it around the plate and had an attitude. Another example is when the dad tries to tell mom about a relative that is going to stay with them, but the children were interrupting him and distracting the mom. When the mom finally understood what he said, she was not happy about it at all. She was more upset that she didn’t know how long and where their relative was going to stay.

in my opinion, there are many similarities in communicating in person and using technology. in ways of communicating a person can be creative. When people texting, you can send internet expressions. such as emoji, gifs, and little text doodle, also you are talking to someone either way. for example, one of my closest friend talks to me when he needs help on his homework, that he forgot to do or sometimes he texts me with expression to help me understand how serious it is. Another similarity is communicating in person and technology can be time-consuming. I stay like three months from calling my grandmother, so when I call her we stay talking on the phone for an hour and a half. Also, when people are meeting new people for the first time when you're texting them or talking to them. This year I met new friends and now we talk to each other when we're doing a project together, or sometimes we text. Finally, the last similarity bullying can be present in both means of

After reading this first chapter, I realized how important communication is. I think learning communication in this class will enlarge my personal communication theory that I have learnt in my entire life. At this moment, I am learning about communication everyday through my daily life since I am living and studying abroad. This situation makes me see the basic communication process from outsider’s perspective which helps me see things more clearly. Talking about chapter 1, I personally like the communication process model because it is interesting when I think back to myself when I communicate with people. For example, yesterday I fried spams for my girlfriend and myself for our breakfast. Her spams are really thin while my spams are obviously

Both My Dad and I are very different people. We have a very complex relationship and our differences make it hard for us to connect. We have vastly different styles of conflict, we do not communicate in the same way. We miscommunicate often which leads to frustration on both of our parts. Not to mention a big conflict in our relationship is that I am older, going to school, and still living at home. There are many outside factors that may contribute to our difficulties. One major one that adds to his frustration is my brother’s handicap which requires him to live at home without a job or a car. I have explored their relationship in other papers that I have done. I realize that this relationship may (and has) made our relationship difficult.

Meaning is not only in words (other elements such as tone of voice, face expression, etc.) (also in

There are many communication concepts that have been covered in this class. Three concepts that I have chosen are emotional intelligence, proxemics, and self-disclosure. There are many effects regarding these concepts based on my relationships with other people and my success I have in my life.

Prompt: Imagine you are at SUA, and you’re invited to give a lecture to all the students and faculty. What would you talk about, and why?

Interpersonal communication is an extremely important aspect of the relationships in our lives. We work everyday to maintain numerous relationships and some of them could use improvement. For me, the relationship with my mother is the one that I chose to take an in depth look at because it is one with the greatest significant in my life. My mom and I have had our ups and downs and most of the downs are attributed to our communication. Taking a deeper consideration of these problems and applying the knowledge that I have learned in this class would greatly improve our relationship and lead to more productive communication. The most substantial problems in our communication come from our misbehaviors in listening, lack of empathy and understanding for the others point of view and our lack of communication.

I have taken Interpersonal Communication before during the summer 2016, but I didn’t pass it mainly because I wasn’t as focused as I was in this class. Professor Castro just made it fun. Her lectures and her stories made it interesting. Every Mondays and Wednesdays, I had three classes. Interpersonal Communication would be my first class to start my day. Then two classes after that. I ended up dropping those two classes. I was supposed to drop this class too but I didn’t because I wanted to learn more. I’ve been in a relationship with my girlfriend for almost a year and one of the problems we had was listening. Sometimes she wouldn’t listen to me or I just wouldn’t listen to her at all. The day we had a lecture about listening in class, that same morning, we got in an argument about how I don’t listen to her. I always listen to her but not when we argue. I usually avoid her when we are about to start arguing. I found it funny how the professor somehow knew I was in trouble with listening and she decided to have a lecture on listening. Unlike a history class or a math class or even reading class, this class actually helped me outside of school. I also learned that my professor is a volunteer basically everywhere. She participates in marches whenever she can. Her age doesn’t stop her from making the community better and standing up for what she believes in.

Intrapersonal Communication occurs within one’s self, often occurring to help one understand ideas or to get a handle on a situation. At other times, this form of communication is undertaken to in order to reflect upon thinks like “Life” and “The Future”. I believe that self-awareness is the key to intrapersonal communication. Self- awareness is the foundation of Intrapersonal Communication. It deals with how a person sees him/herself and how he/she thinks others see them. Your beliefs, goals, attitude and values all play an influential role in building your self-image. Your perception of right and wrong, would govern how you view certain situations and your attitude will determine which topics you think are interesting and which aren’t.

At any age, the idea of knowing that everyone is in this world for a reason can be mind boggling. At the age of eleven, Harry just knew that his parents died when he was young and that he was an ordinary child that had absolutely no idea about the world that he had really come from. Though he was intentionally uninformed about his reality, he always knew that there was some aspect of himself that he knew he did not know about since there were things that he was able to do that he knew others couldn’t. He always knew that he could do things, in the heat of moments, the others could not even fathom. But when he learned about his reality, his parents, and his life up to the moment, he knew that he held an important role in the magic world. He, eventually, did end up discovering that he held a certain prophecy that was considered a threat to a single person that he would come to know as an enemy, and that he would annihilate: Tom Marvolo Riddle also known as ‘Voldemort.’ But that is it; it was a singular prophecy that led to the inevitable duel between Harry Potter and Voldemort (Talamo, Joseph A.). Not just now, but for a very long time, our world runs on psychological, or cognitive, suggestions. No matter where you go, to a wedding, an interview, a school, prayer edifice, or even just watching TV, you will always be told or shown something along the lines of what your role in this world is (Beach, Sara Ann). Everyone is believed to have a set

This course has been a journey of self-discovery. Through weekly reflection I have learned several things that I am glad that I now know about interpersonal communication.

Every day we make conversations. Every day we express ideas and opinions. Every day there is crucial information being passed long. We use our words every day, however, noise occurs every day too, so it makes sense that everyone takes the time to learn how to avoid noise and make effective conversations. Whether we let it disturb our conversations is our own choice. There are four types of noise that will be discussed in this paper: physiological, physical, psychological, and semantic.

Throughout the world, we constantly talk about basic human rights and how everyone is entitled to them. Human rights are rights for all human beings regardless of nationality, gender, race, ethnicity, etc. Society is told that everyone is equal and no discriminatory action should be taken place. During World War II, many atrocities to the human race were happening. Human rights were being severely abused and violated during this time. The Aftermath of WWII saw to create a better place were human rights were protected. So by 1948, the United Nations proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which is a document upholding the fundamental rights of every human being. While the document does state the rights

While small talk is an essential part of life, it is by no means easy. Even though you aren’t sharing deep thoughtful ideas, striking a conversation over nothing can actually be a lot harder. The good news is that there are clever ways you can crack the art of small talk.