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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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3rd period

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."

"Have you been told that, Maia?"

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

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

Maia looked confused for a moment and then thoughtful before she answered. "I think if I were to question what I was giving in a relationship then yes I would take it was intended. If I knew I was giving everything in the relationship that my partner needed then I would blow the comment off and chaulk it up to the person just trying to get a rise out of me."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"Spin that? You mean how would I have rephrased the so-called 'request'?

She smiles softly, nods and extends her hand. "Please. Yes."

"Honestly? Polite didn't have to have to figure in, given the situation. 'Sheppard, get your bleeping gear and get your ass too...' was pretty normal and no one even got upset by being talked to that way. But if they wanted to be polite, something like, 'We have this opportunity for you to use some of your natural talents, it's not something many people are offered the chance to do, yadda yadda, report here at this time; they really need you to do this.' would have been good sucking up and left no room for misinterpretation."

Shep is really glad that Liz isn't in this class. However, he's not sure where this version of O'Neill fits into his world, so for all Shep knew he may be in the back making little voodoo dolls of him.

"That would have been a much better way to couch an order as a request...but you're right. The first way is par for the course for the military." She furrows her brows for a moment. "You came here from military school?"

"I've been to military school, yes." That's completely true and yet manages ignore the 'came here from' part.

"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.

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