...Currency in Hitch Within the movie Hitch, there are many different concepts of interpersonal communication. This paper will focus on is expertise currency, a type of nonverbal power currency. This paper will explore the meaning and outcome of the use of expertise currency in one specific scene of the movie, and overlook the interpersonal communication competence of the characters as a whole. The movie excerpt from Hitch starts out by following a journalist named Sara as she brings news back to her newspaper of a man cheating on his girlfriend, an heiress named Allegra. The audience quickly learns that most of Sara’s life is focused on work. The scene changes to Hitch, also known as the Date Doctor, in the bar flaunting his charm. The audience learns that Hitch gained his dating skill from getting his heart crushed in college. He chose to let the rest of the world know his secrets by creating a job out of it. His new client, Albert who is large and very sloppy, seems like a hopeless cause because of his deep liking for Allegra, who is one of his tax advisor clients. Hitch takes him in anyways. The next day Albert is in a meeting with Allegra and the other higher up tax advisors to discuss an investment Allegra would like to make. When the other tax advisors turn her down Albert stands up for her and declares she should be able to make her own decisions. Albert storms out to his office, quitting his job on an impulse. Allegra follows him and explains she wants to...
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...Divine intervention and communication played a major role in ancient writings. The writers usually attributed odd occurrences to their gods. In Virgil’s Aeneid and Oedipus the King both divine intervention and communication play a prominent in their respective stories story. The events could range from prophecies, dreams, oracles, and direct communication with the characters. These events usually foreshadow a major event to come, but they are often in riddles. To the character just looking at it just for its face value it is useless but if the character can look at into the deeper meaning it can reveal untold truths. While in other works like the Illiad interventions can be so intense that they can save a characters life. Typically...
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...ACKNOWLEDEMENT We thank most of all God Almighty for his mercies and grace that kept us all through our seminar research and for giving us wisdom that was implemented in course of the research work. We are greatly indebted to our supervisor, ENGR. JOHN CHUKWU for his love, courage, guidance and investment to the group, who sacrificed his time and schedule just to make sure that the best is been brought out from this group and also to the group leader who consistently made every effort and spent sleepless night ensuring that the seminar topic research was a worthwhile and fulfilling one, also to us been the group members who contributed to the success of the research topic. We also want to thank the head of engineering department(HOD) who also contributed in his own way and also to school for bringing out the seminar format which guided us well and made our work easier. And to our most beloved parents, guardians which God used in providing the financial resources for us. We say a very big thank you to them all and pray that God bless us all. THANKS CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION DEFINITIONS OF SOME TERMS A DIGITAL SYSTEM is a data technology that uses discrete (discontinuous) values. By contrast, non-digital (or analog) systems represent information using a continuous function. Although digital representations are discrete, the information represented can be either discrete, such as numbers and letters or continuous, such as sounds, images, and other measurements...
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...which shows little variety in characters as all of the main characters presented are highly stereotypical and all are white males and females, who all are upper-middle class. This movie shows how sexism is rooted into society and it does absolutely nothing to challenge that with its characters. The men are all shown to have some form of a position of power whether in the work life or in their personal lives and relationships and use this power to get what they want. Women in this movie are seen to be there simply for the pleasure of the men, and placed in two categories which are mainly based on their appearance or the way they act. This movie is the story of Elle Woods, a very cute and friendly student who is also the most popular girl in her Los Angeles sorority. Elle has just finished her studies in Fashion and is getting prepared to marry her boyfriend, Warner, who will soon be going to Harvard Law School in Boston. Unfortunately, Warner, who is actually a somewhat superficial jerk, decides to break up with Elle, because he wants to find a more serious looking girlfriend who will help his career in politics after he gets out of law school. Although Legally Blonde does have many outstanding points in which the main character overcomes stereotypes and challenges she faces, there are many faults to the movie. Under any feminist movie list, it can be guaranteed the popular movie, Legally Blonde, will make an appearance, because of how the main character must wage the battle of her...
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...Moyosore Bankole Communication 300 September 30, 2012 Critical Review Introduction Race and gender relations are one of the most explored themes in movies, music, books, and etc. Often times, ineffective communication leads to the misinterpretation of each other’s actions, leading to inaccurate race bias. This race bias can be referred to as racism. Typically people in society are somewhat discreet about their racism and it is not something they openly admit to. The movie Crash, daringly tackles the issues of intercultural communication, and race in an unconventional way. It takes racism and makes it an open conversation amongst the characters to ensure the viewers can clearly identify each characters racial bias. As the characters in this movie communicate, there is frequent use of racial slurs, profanity, as well as racially driven insults and stereotypes, to further exaggerate the bigotry present in the film. Crash provides a series of examples that show just how powerful effective and ineffective communication can be when it comes to social relations. This film touches on various communication theories and concepts, in which many of the scenarios presented in Crash can be explained. These theories and concepts include: symbolic interaction theory (self concept), assumptions of communication accommodation theory (indirect stereotyping), assumptions of expectancy violations theory (violation valence), and cultural communication. Synopsis Director Paul Haggis’s...
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...ELL Proficiency Standards Randy Poehler Grand Canyon University Advance Methodologies of Structured English Immersion ESL-533N Jeri Jorgenson-Zwibel November 27, 2012 ELL Proficiency Standards Listening and Speaking Standard 1: The student will listen actively to the ideas of others in order to acquire new knowledge. | Pre-EmergentSpeak with clarity and use appropriate intonation when reading and reciting texts | | EmergentSpeak with clearness and use correct inflection when understanding and speak when reading to the class, and then be able to write a story a summery | | BasicSpeak with clearness and use correct inflection when understanding and speaking when reading to the class, and then be able to write a story a summery. The student will have to read aloud and write a summary about the another students story. | | Low IntermediateSpeak with clearness and use correct inflection when understanding and speaking when reading to the class, and then be able to write a story a summery. The student will have to read aloud and write a summary about the another students story | | High IntermediateSpeak with clearness and use correct inflection when understanding and speaking when reading to the class, and then be able to write a story a summery. The student will have to read aloud and write a summary about the another students story. Tell authentic and imagined stories using a gathering of recognizable words into a story. | | Correlating language...
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...exhibit a fine collection of short stories each with own original narrative and Lahiri’s sophisticated way of expression. An interesting point is that all the short stories barely have anything in common: each has a different voice, different main characters, a different setting, and a different kind of conflict. Nonetheless, the stories tie up together so well that they really do form a “collection” under same objectives: the “maladies.” Every story introduces characters with certain trauma and Lahiri shows how the characters cope with their own problems. Among nine stories, I would like to especially focus on two, “A Temporary Matter” and “Interpreter of Maladies,” and discuss what they have in common and how they relates to each other by sharing some fundamental factors. The two stories share numerous similarities: the couples have difficult time dealing with their relationships; it is described in detail how burdensome the life of characters became because of the problematic matters between them; the characters lack enough communication needed for solving their problems; and the children are centered on the incidents. The most significant and thought-provoking similarity is that there exists a figure or event that motivates the characters to confide their secretive and sensitive issue to another. In “A Temporary Matter” the darkness plays the role; in “Interpreter of Maladies,” Mr. Kapasi. In fact, these stories are so centered on them that the title of each story indicates the...
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...Running head: NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION Nonverbal Communication TESST College/ Towson Campus Interpersonal Communications November 25, 2013 Instructor F. Thomas The television show that I am going to write about is called “How I Met Your Mother” season 1 episode 2 “Purple Giraffe”. The main characters in this scene are Ted, Marshall, and Lilly. This scene takes place in the living area of their shared apartment. It starts off with Lilly and Marshall sitting at the dining room table, he is on his laptop while she stares at him with love in her eyes. Lilly starts to smile while playing with the ring on her left finger. While she is staring in Marshall’s eyes she brings up her excitement about how she cannot believe that they are engaged. Marshall looks up at her from his laptop and responds with the words “I know” while smiling. Lilly starts to talk and move around as if she is nervous, tilting her head in a concerning manner. Marshall then closes his laptop and looks at Lilly, they both stare at each other while what looks like they are confessing their love for one another. Ted and Marshall and Ted are best friends; Ted is in the living room watching television. Both Lilly and Marshall turn to Ted and asks him a question about their engagement. Ted looks up from the television rolling his eyes with an uninterested look on his face about the fact that they are getting married. Just as they were talking to him Ted sees something on the television...
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...displays a 36-hour period where multiple people’s lives tie together in Los Angeles, California. The main topic of this film is race relations. With the film being centered around such a heavy topic, it didn’t receive much media promotion. As time passed, Crash became a commercial success grossing 55 million dollars on a six and a half million-dollar budget. The film begins with Graham and Ria, two LAPD detectives, being involved in a car accident. Once that scene concludes, the film goes into past tense and introduces more characters that will have their own encounters battling with race relations. Crash makes the viewer think: Are race relations this bad? If they are, how am I perceived? Is this how others of different races are treated regularly? In one of the earlier scenes of the film, Anthony and Peter, argue over...
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...Interpersonal communication, as defined in our textbook, is “a unique type of communication that involved two individuals interacting via face-to-face or mediated channels.” It seems that where there is communication, inevitably there will be conflict. Television dramas tend to add conflict in their storylines in an effort to make the viewers relate to the characters. In the television series Scandal, interpersonal communication conflicts are numerous. Oddly enough, the characters in this program are all in roles where communication is of immense importance and yet, none of them communicate very well at all. This may, indeed, be one of the main reasons for the success of this show. Watching television characters intertwined in personal conflict somehow make them more real to the audience. As a longtime fan of the show, choosing one single instance of interpersonal conflict was most difficult. However, I chose a conflict that has been ongoing since the show’s inception. The communication issues between Olivia Pope and Abby Whelan has developed, much in the way that their relationship has evolved. Both characters are strong and powerful women and, as it is with such personas, their communication tends to lack finesse. In episode 4 of the 5th season, aptly entitled “Dog-Whistle Politics,” Olivia and Abby finally have an epiphany with regards to their communication issues. Olivia opts to go public about an extramarital affair she has been having with the President. Abby...
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...Interpersonal relationships in “HITCH” COM200: Interpersonal Communication Kyle Foster 7/14/14 Robert Strain In this movie, Will Smith’s character, Hitch, finds himself experiencing some dramatic irony when he seemingly sabotages his own love fife while attempting to create one for his client, Albert. This film is filled with areas that could use more thorough communication. One area in particular is when Hitch finds himself in trouble with the girl that he likes, Sara. After she discovers what Hitch does for a living, Hitch finds himself at an awkward point when he has to face some morality in what he does. The interpersonal conflict here stems from the animosity that both Hitch and Sara both face in other aspect of their lives. Hitch with his struggles in commitment, and Sara with her distrust in men. This internal conflict here brings both of them to a point in their lives where they meet and eventually fall in love, but not without some questionable interpersonal conflict handling regarding communication, first. Another mishandling is Sara’s investigations into who exactly the famed “Date Doctor” really is, she begins to put the pieces together that Hitch is actually him. She digs deep because she believes that this “Date Doctor” is only out to get men to be able to sleep with women, so therefore has a predisposition based on questionable sources (her best friend) and that this guy must be just like all the other bad men. Here we see that Sara needs...
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...Walter the main character who is attending a conference to present a paper he co-authored. From the very start of the film Walter is depicted as a discontent and lonely college professor who can't seem to figure out what he wants to do with his life. However, unbeknownst to Walter his life is about to take a radical change with some help from fate. The plot of the movie takes hold when Walter arrives in New York to give his presentation at the conference. Upon arriving in New York he is shocked to find another couple living in his apartment. Walter soon finds out the couple was scammed into believing Walter’s apartment was available for rent. After being confronted by Walter the couple hastily moves out of the apartment apologizing to Walter multiple times for the misunderstanding. From this scene till the end of the movie there are various intercultural communication concepts that are clearly emphasized in the movie which demonstrate the culture differences between the characters. And by utilizing the concepts I have learned in class it has given me a whole new perspective on the movie. One of the main dialectic themes that stems throughout the entire movie is the Privilege–Disadvantage Dialectic. This dialectic is prevalent in each of the characters, although it affects each character differently. The Privilege–Disadvantage Dialectic states that a person may be privileged but at the same time this advantage may cause a disadvantaged. The first character I will analyze...
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...awareness in their societies, social lives and love. The evolution of main characters in each of the novels shows transition between the writers and characters through close observations of social interactions. Victorian novels more often idealized a sort of portrait of love and luck that wins out towards the end; rewarding virtue and that wrongdoer are punished. This however was to be intended to improve the moral nature of one’s heart. Twentieth century writers had and a slightly different view of that of Victorian writers in which embodied a more modern period and more modern view on life. The concepts of love in each of these four distinct novels are apparent in the way that each are craftily structured. Jane Austen’s Emma use of free indirect style for example on page 327-28 which marks a crucial moment in the novel where the main character Emma has a crucial realization “with insufferable vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody’s feelings; with unpardonable arrogance proposed to arrange everybody’s destiny”; the theme in which this novel centered around a number of marriages and social status. In gaining social advancement was especially important for women if they stood a chance for improving their status. This is not necessarily the case for the other three novels. Emily Bronte’s gothic like romantic novel Wuthering Heights explore the destructiveness of passion that her characters Heathcliff and Catherine share for one another with strong lasting emotions...
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...ENWR 106 March 08,2014 Theme In Literature What is the meaning of a theme in literature? A theme or moral of a fable is the lesson that is being portrayed within the story. It is a message that can be taken from a story and personified into one's life. Theme is immensely important in literature due to its ability to share the author's opinion and understanding about life and human experiences. It is impossible to tell a story without letting out one's views and attitudes toward a subject of the story. By sharing these views, it helps someone distinguish or open up to new ways of thinking and feeling. To demonstrate, the theme in Raymond Carver's short story "What We Talk When We Talk About Love" portrays multiple themes, which are love, language and communication, marriage, drugs and alcohol, and violence. Although themes are not directly presented, you can derive an idea or the evidence of what the theme may be from the characters, actions, and settings that formulate the story. For example, based on the what the characters of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love are trying to define as love, you can formulate that one of the themes are the elusive nature of love. For instance, Mel says, " I was going to tell you something. I mean, I was going to prove a point. You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk about love like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love" (p. 729)...
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...function of dance on the musical stage. In their original iteration, dream ballets served to expose the internal lives of the characters that could not be expressed by words alone. Even though over time dream ballets have fallen out of popularity in favor of new forms and technologies, the purpose of externalizing the internal when words are not enough persists in...
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