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[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

301--Interpersonal Communication

So Yesterday we talked about when you as a sender were misinterpreted. Today, same deal...but from the receiver standpoint. Tell me when...and why...as a receiver you took the wrong message.

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401--Advanced Comm 5th period (South Humanities room #2)

We're going to begin on visual rhetoric. As visual creatures...most of us anyhow...images are an incredibly powerful tool. Everything from our appearance to to world around us to the media we take in effects us deeply. Our brains are conditioned to make sense of the world in the most expedient way possible.

Right now, I'd like you to use the computers and find me an image that you find to be extremely powerful. You don't have to explain why today. Just..an image. I'd prefer nothing that's going to make me cry or vomit, please.

Over the weekend...I'd like you to find me 5 more that go together in some way. Monday you'll present this image essay to the class and we'll deconstruct them. Ok, go.

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301--Interpersonal Communication

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

3rd period

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[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

Maia looked exhausted, she hadn't slept. Sighing a little she finally said "I guess I would have been upset if someone felt I was not giving my girlfriend what she needed."

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[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Have you been told that, Maia?"

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[maias-notebook.livejournal.com]

Maia shook her head no, "No because I don't make my girlfriends feel like they need something from someone else."

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[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Do you think you received the message as it was intended?"

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[wraithbaitjohn.livejournal.com]

"I was once told I had the choice on whether or not I wanted to go somewhere. When I decided not to go, I was basically told that I'd misunderstood and to go pack my crap. Why did I misunderstand? Because what would ultimately come down as an order was couched as a request and I thought I had the right to turn it down. I think everyone else in the situation took my answer - my agreement - as a given and thought they'd be polite and make it a request. And I took that at face value."

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[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"So was that a poorly received message, a poorly sent message, or a message that was perhaps changed in transit?"

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[wraithbaitjohn.livejournal.com]

"Poorly sent, absolutely. Given the circumstances, I could have been told to shut the f-... shut up and go, and I wouldn't have argued. But when you tell people you have a choice, you're implying that you're willing to accept that they may not go for the desired outcome.

There's a word or a term for this that's escaping me entirely right now. When you tell someone they have a choice, but in reality they don't. It's the old childhood thing. When your teacher said "Give me that note 'or else'" no one knew what 'or else' entailed, you just knew that you no longer had a choice and you better hand it over."

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[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Right. How could they have made it...not a request, per se, but perhaps more of a polite order? How would you spin that?"

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[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"So was that a poorly received message, a poorly sent message, or a message that was perhaps changed in transit?"

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[cerulean--eyes.livejournal.com]

"I guess I kind of take things that aren't intended to be insulting the wrong way sometimes," Boone admits, looking at the surface of his desk.

401--Advanced Communication

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

5th period

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[http://users.livejournal.com/___lily_evans_/]

Lily moves to one of the classroom computers and begins searching for images. She's still getting the hang of this whole computer thing...

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[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Find anything good yet, Lily?"

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[http://users.livejournal.com/___lily_evans_/]

"I'm just having a bit of difficulty, because 'powerful' can have such a broad spectrum of connotations. Something like this (http://outreach.jach.hawaii.edu/pressroom/2004-wfcam/orion-centre-xlarge.jpg) perhaps? Or this (http://www.unc.edu/news/pics/memorial/ronald_k_brown.jpg) or this (http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/weybread%20e%20window%20exploding%20jesus.jpg)?

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[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Any of those would work fine. Which one speaks to you? What does it say? Why does it make you feel something deeper than you can explain? Answer those questions and you'll hit on one."

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[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

Allie starts searching, wondering what she would consider as powerful.

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[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Whatcha got for me, Allie?"

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[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth pauses for a moment, before typing her search into google and within a couple of minutes, has this (http://www.andreas.com/pixs/berlinwall.jpg) up on her screen.

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[wannabelawyer.livejournal.com]

Lindsey stopped to think for a long time possibly all night, oops before coming up with a few things to search for. Eventually he came up with this (http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/ceps/etp/earth/img/EarthAS17.jpg).
He figures anything that can make you feel kind of insignificant just by looking at it has to be powerful.

"Do the 5 pictures for Monday have to relate back to this one too, or just to each other?"

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[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Just to each other, Lindsey. That's a great one...good eye."

[2ls-in-oneill.livejournal.com]

"Crap, crap, crap!"

Jack came in late. Again. Bit this time he had coffee already prepared.

"I'm here, I need a new alarm but I'm here."

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Here, and prepared with coffee. How many more times are you going to do this, Jack? I mean...you keep it up and I might start demanding jewelry, or your soul or something."

[2ls-in-oneill.livejournal.com]

"I lack in the jewelry department and I'm not entirely sure I fully own my soul anymore. And I don't try to be late, my alarm clock just doesn't seem to like me much."

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Don't make me take it out of your butt, Jack. Get on the computer and find a powerful image we can discuss." Clapping sharply, "Move."