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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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5th 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."

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

"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."

"Find anything good yet, Lily?"

"Have you been told that, Maia?"

"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."

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

"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)?

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"Whatcha got for me, Allie?"

"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."

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

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

"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."

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."

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

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

"Uh... Me touching your computer might end badly. I've been banned from sixteen personal computers and two entire floors. I mean, I can look if you want but, you know, warning."

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