The film I chose was The Proposal. I picked this movie as it is one of my favorite movies as Sandra Bullock is one of my favorite actresses. The film is about Margret Tate (Sandra Bullock) who works at a publishing company, and Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds) is her assistant. Margret is from Canada and has not obtained her United States citizenship, so for her to stay in the country she must marry. She blackmails Andrew into marrying her before coming clean to his family. In the end, they fall in love anyway. First of all, the film ties well into chapter seven, listening effectively. Specifically, the different listening styles. A listening style is your favored but usually unconscious approach to attending to your partner's messages (Watson, Barker, & Beaver, 1995). It reflects your preferences, attitudes, and predisposition about how, where, when, who, and what of receiving messages (Sargent & Weaver, 2007). Research suggests that there are four styles of listening and that most of us favor one, though some people have two and a few can switch between all four (Weaver & Kirtley, 1995). It is also known that adapting your listening style, even if …show more content…
Gilbertson gave them step-by-step instructions on how the process for them to get approved for their marriage. "Step one: I will put each of you in a room and I will ask you every little question a couple who would know about each other. Step two: I dig deeper. I look at your phone records, I talk to your neighbors, I interview your coworkers. If your answers do not match up at every point you will be reported indefinitely. And you, young man, will have committed a felony, punishable by a fine of two hundred fifty thousand dollars and a stay of five years in federal prison." Mr. Gilbertson breaks it down to Margret and Andrew if he finds out they are lying about being in love, she would be deported back to Canada. And Andrew would receive a fine in addition to a maximum of five years in prison. This is an example
Key terms will be pointed out and highlighted, as well as described in relation to the examples extracted from the film. To begin with the film started out with a communication climate that was both tense and without verbal communication. This was mainly due to the variance in membership constructs of the characters involved. The character's included the brain Brian, Andrew the athlete, the criminal Bender, the princess Claire, and the basket case Allison. There was a great deal of interesting nonverbal communication taking place between these people. Their reactions and responses to each other demonstrated perceptual errors, which would be shown as the story progressed.
The film I chose to view for this Romantic Comedy paper was When Harry met Sally. I enjoyed this movie. The two main characters were Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally Allbright (Meg Ryan). When first introduced to these characters, Sally is driving to New York, and Harry, who is the boyfriend of Sally's friend, is catching a ride with her.
Typical movies about marriages show clichéd characters that meet with other people on unexpected dates. The characters decide to marry each other, living forever in predictable endings similar to fairy tales. However, this movie breaks the marital movie stereotype, creating the reality on the benefits and downfalls of marriage. Tyler Perry, an African-American writer of Madea plays and Christian-based movies, created this movie for the purpose to discuss real-life experiences of marriage. Reviewers realize Tyler Perry’s purpose in the movie, but discuss how he portrays his message throughout the movie. Overall, the audience will understand that Why Did I Get Married Too is a positive movie the audience should watch.
The seventh chapter in Interplay centers itself around listening, and how vitally important it is in interpersonal communication. The first concept that I found to be interesting in this chapter is mindful listening. First, this book defines listening of the interpersonal type to be “the process of receiving and responding to others’ messages” (Adler, Rosenfeld, Proctor, 2015, pg. 206). More specifically, the book then goes on to describe mindful listening as “giving careful and thoughtful attention and responses to the messages we receive.” The authors use examples such as when listeners tend to pay closer attention when the message is more important to them or concerns an important topic. This is as compared to answering to information mindlessly,
I chose this film over many other similar romantic – comedies simply because it is relatable. I’m sure this film relates to many people who’s been in a romantic relationship. The film has an outrageous premise about a writer literally writing his dream girl to life. Presented in a fantastical way, I feel Ruby Sparks is a perfect metaphor to realistic courtship. Also being a fan of Little Miss Sunshine, I couldn’t give this one a miss.
Petersen, J. C. (2007). Why don’t we listen better? Communicating & connecting in relationships (1st ed.). Portland, OR: Petersen.
A vital aspect of interpersonal communication is the style in which one listens. While every individual possesses their own preferred method of listening in communication, it can be enlightening to analyze our own strengths and weaknesses so as to maximize effectual communication. Within the confines of four main listening style categories, I have chosen those which best describe my own personal listening style.
Listening is a core concept for relationships and when someone takes part in incompetent listening it can cause issue for the people involved. I have been the recipient and the partaker in incompetent listening, I understand how it feels and I know that we need to look deeper with empathy before making judgements.
The speech that was analyzed was “Your Body Language Shape Who You Are” by social psychologist, Amy Cuddy. Amy explained in her speech that other people’s and your body language can display how a person can perceive themselves in a power dominance situation. Also, Cuddy described how an individual can change how a room of people views them by simply arranging their posture. Amy Cuddy gave an effective speech by her delivery of the topic, her credibility on the subject, and how she kept the audience engage.
Listening is a very popular topic and extensively discussed in today’s society. Listening is used to understand information, interpret messages and learn more about objects and other people. Michel Chion, author of “The Three Listening Modes”, discussed three main types of listening; these include causal, semantic and reduced listening. Along with these, there are also various other forms of listening that display different ways people hear and choose to interpret what they hear. The three modes of listening characterize how people listen and what they do with the information they gather and learn.
In the Victorian era, marriage was almost a chore. Most people get married out of need rather than want. In the Play, this is evident when Lady Bracknell objects to Gwendolen and Ernest’s engagement on the basis of his lack of legitimate background. On the other hand, Jack objects to the marriage of Cecily and Algernon’s just to spite Algernon. Both Algernon and Jack assume the identity of "Ernest" yet ironically, they both plan on starting their married life with a lie.
The first point Mitton makes in this chapter is that we should not undervalue the importance of listening. Mitton opens this chapter of his book with a story about a girl who was planning to commit suicide but after talking with her therapist decided to change her mind because “a world in which someone was prepared to listen to another’s distress seemed to her one in which it was worthwhile to live.” Listening attentively can be distressing but this story clarifies for us the importance of being a good listener.
One of the main aspects in communicating is listening. An effective listener is one who, not only comprehends how the speaker feels but, also understands what they are stating. Building a strong connection between the speaker and the listener is one of the first steps to become a good listener. By building this connection speakers should first be in an environment with open minded listeners, it makes them feel more comfortable to state their opinions, feelings and ideas. Listeners should avoid being judgmental. The individual does not have to agree with the ideas, values or opinions of the speaker; however, to fully understand them, one must put aside their criticism. Speakers will believe that they can trust the listeners with their information when they know that they will not be judged. Miscommunication happens frequently, listene...
To be effective listeners, the listening process should be incorporated into our lives. We should be attentive to what people say, clarify what the speaker is trying to come across, and respond in a way the speaker can understand what we are saying. I think I was aware that I needed some improvement in certain areas of this process but I feel as everything is slowly changing. In the future, I’m going try not to interrupt people, get distracted, tune out, and try to get a bigger picture of what the person is telling me. If good listening habits are applied in our day-to-day life, we can easily communicate with anyone and everyone.
Renowned British actress and activist for the feminist movement, Emma Watson, in her speech to the United Nations, “HeForShe,” argues that gender discrimination is a plague to human civilization. Watson’s purpose is to sway the audience that gender inequality has to come to an end, with the support of men and women as advocates for egalitarianism. Additionally, she enlightens the audience that the problem originated from political affairs, the economy, and social disparity. Watson creates a compassionate tone in order to convey men, specifically those who negatively perceived feminism or did not think that feminist issues affected them. Nevertheless, Watson’s speech is ineffectively persuasive due to the poor description she formulated