Communication

Who today has a cult of personality? Why? It used to be you had to actually do something to become well known. Now, you’re well known because you’re, well, well known. Also, there are cults of personalities on Youtube. These people can cause a lot of heartache (re: Alex Jones) as well as humor and talent. Then there are the people who get a million hits because they show themselves eating a different bagel these days. There are also far right web sites with young appealing looking people hosting them that are out right fascist. What are your thoughts about this?

The books to find key theories are : Planet TV (Lisa Parks and Shanti Kumar 2003), Golden Arches East (James L. Watson, 2006) Feel free to use these Key Terms foud in Chapter 6. Media Imperialism, Culture, Culture Imperialism, hermeneutic naivety of most culture imperialism, cultural appropriation, Cross cultural communication (pg 277), Culture representation, Book Recentering Globalization (Koichi Iwabuchi). Feel free to use terms: Japanization (pg 9) transnational (pg 16,52), cultural discount (pg 26), Cultural Odor (pg. 27), Culture Imperialism (pg 39),Transculturalization (pg 40), Hybridity (pg 5,43), Fluid essentialism (pg 54), Japaneseness (pg 55),racial/ethnic assimilation to symbolic/cultural mixing (pg 57), Culture and civilization (pg 64), Asianism (pg 158-9), PanAsian Identity (pg. 175), Cross Fertilization (pg 210) Other Terms: Cultural-hybridization Please use Korean Hip Hop or K-Hip Hop as examples and popular Korean Rappers compared to black rappers. Please use K-Pop as an example compared to Black groups like New Edition, Boyz II Men. How South Korean women get butt, lip and breast enlargements to look lile black women. How South Korean youth wear cornrows, get their hair treated to wear afros and other beauty treands found amongst african americans. How they imitate african american fashion trends. Wearing Jordans, Michael Kors, baggy pants…etc How in Seoul Korea ( south Korea) they eat soul food like fried chicken, korean candied yams, mac and cheese. How South Korean youth used african american slang. Is their obsession with black culture a compliment or offensive. In additon to the two books listed above…here are a few other books that “may ” help all sources must be text books, books, journals (peer reviewed) sources can NOT be magazine articles, web info: “Hybrid Hallyu: The African American Tradition in K-Pop.” In Global Asian American Popular Cultures, edited by Davé Shilpa, Nishime Leilani, and Oren Tasha, 290-303. New York: New Yo Condry, Ian. Hip-hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalisation. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006 Fuhr, Michael. Globalization and Popular Music in South Korea. New York: Routledge, 2016. Hong, Euny. The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture. New York: Picador, 2014. Huq, Rupa. Beyond Subculture: Pop, Youth and Identity in a Postcolonial World. Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2006. Jin, Dal Yong. New Korean Wave: Transnational Cultural Power in the Age of Social Media. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2016. Will need an annoted bibliography or provide sources and I will create one.

Define and describe the specific activities you participated in to build your self esteem. Why did you choose these specific actions? Explain for example: If you posted quotes or words of affirmation around your living space, why did you choose these specific quotes? What did they represent to you and why? I choose to post quotes in my mirror bathroom and vanity mirror. I changed them every two/three days. Telling myself I am beautiful, trying to feel more confident with in myself. What was your goal in choosing these actions? What did you hope to accomplish before starting this activity week? To feel more confident within myself. What were the feelings you had as you practiced building your self esteem? Connect to concepts and key terms within the textbook to help define and describe in detail. Explain how you used these actions or quotes within your activity week. How did you take negative self messages and turn them into positive ones throughout this week? Explain Did this make a difference? Why or why not? Apply the notions of self-fulfilling prophecy to your response. What was the “aftermath” or result of this activity week? Did you notice a difference in your self talk ? Explain Did you notice a difference in your interactions with others? Explain Were you able to build the muscle of changing your thoughts from negative to positive over the week? Why or why not? Explain What is your overall impression of this activity? What could you have done differently to make your communication experience better? Explain What did you learn about mindfulness and/or listening from this activity? Explain What do you plan to do differently in your everyday life now that you have gone through this experience? Explain

Communication Triangle Analysis Assignment The concept of the communication triangle is reinforced throughout this program—in particular, understanding the needs of a specific audience. This assignment will demonstrate your ability to analyze your audience in an effort to establish a high degree of common ground throughout your proposal. After you’ve selected an issue for your proposal, and before you write an outline, you will analyze key areas of communication: the issue (stated as a claim), general purpose, intended audience, reader usability, and issue exigency. Your task is to analyze the audience’s needs according to key features, exemplifying how you intend to establish common ground. For this assignment, you should also analyze each area of the proposal: Benefits Reader expectations Cost and materials Sources (existing and still needed) The future, if nothing is done Rhetorical devices You’ll find a sample analysis in Lesson 3. Requirements: Fully develop each area in paragraph form. Use APA style of documentation. Include a four-line heading (your name, facilitator’s name, course information, due date), the title of assignment, 1-inch margins, Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced, and indented paragraphs.

Explain how personal cultural values and biases, and verbal and non-verbal communication impact relationships Describe the value of understanding intercultural communication in our work with individuals or groups from different cultures Be able to apply your understanding to a more recent immigrant/refugee group ( such as Syria, Somalia, other Arab cultural groups etc). coming to Canada. Choice A Read: Ing’s “Cultural Competence” and review Ing and Gabor’s “Cross-cultural supervision: From differences that divide to strength in diversity.” and Module 6. The book chapters stress the importance of evaluators/supervisors becoming culturally competent and responsive and to individualize their approach for evaluation and to better influence their staff’s learning, development, and performance. 1.In the discussion board, discuss how you would demonstrate understanding of a variety of the concepts discussed in the articles, and Module 6. Apply these chapters and Module 6 to a) your work in human services (EA etc.) and as well as personal/working/teaching relationships and b) to one refugee/immigrant group that recently came to Canada. You must provide examples in your discussion so it teaches your readers how to work with that group and important intercultural communication and information to know about the group 2.Be certain to include in your discussion a) how differences in intercultural communication (verbal, non-verbal communication, and perceptions – please include all) impacts working and personal relationships. Remember to provide describe concepts, apply with examples! This Discussion response must demonstrate knowledge (description and application of concept) in Intercultural Communication as well as demonstrating awareness, understanding and its application in your work. Again, choose one refugee/immigrant group that recently came to Canada for your examples.

In this 10 page paper, you will apply your knowledge of basic communication terms to an analysis of a film. In general, you will: Select a primary communication context (e.g., interpersonal communication.) that is reflected in a particular film of your choosing. Also, you will use several, specific terms (e.g., self-disclosure, relational dialectics, stages of relational development, etc.) that are related to your communication context. Conduct scholarly research in order to fully understand your chosen context. In other words, you will find three journal articles and use your textbook to help you understand and apply course terms in your paper. This becomes the evidence for your paper. Lastly, you will define and explain the terms, and analyze how they are presented in the film. In addition, you will cite your journal articles and your textbook within your paper as evidence and support of your ideas. You will submit your paper through the link to Turnitin.com that is posted for you in the assignment in Canvas. Your main goal in this paper is to apply communication terms to a film in order to demonstrate your understanding of these terms. Section-by-Section Instructions (follow these instructions closely!): Introduction 1. First paragraph Begin with a few general statements about ideas relevant to your paper, such as a few statements about communication, relationships, conflict, public speaking, organizations, etc. Whatever your paper’s topic, lead into it for the reader. Indicate the film that you will analyze. Next, clearly explain your goals for this paper. In other words, what is this paper’s thesis? What is the purpose of this paper? What will it accomplish? What will your paper explain and illustrate about the communication seen in this film? End your introduction with a preview of the main points of your paper. Your main points will be the terms that you will apply and analyze in the film. 2. Second paragraph – briefly summarize the film (about 4-5 sentences) Body (For each paragraph in the Body, do these in this order): 1. Define and explain one or several terms that you have researched fully. Use your textbook for all definitions of key terms that you provide. As you define your terms, be sure to cite evidence (quote) from your textbook and your journal articles. Describe how the term is demonstrated in your film. For example, here is where you explain how the characters in your film demonstrate “depth of self-disclosure,” “conflict,” “groupthink,” or some other term. Be sure to provide examples from the film, and be sure to explain yourself fully. This becomes your analysis of their communication. Use a transition to move the reader to your next paragraph. Your transitions should help connect your main ideas together. Repeat these steps until you have enough content to meet the assignment guidelines for the page requirement. HINT: Try organizing your paper chronologically to match the order of the film. Conclusion Provide a summary of the main points of your paper. Close your paper with a few comments on the importance of competent communication.

Find 4-6 different online articles that discuss employability and summarise them in the form of an appropriately structured academic report. Include a section where you briefly analyse your own employability skills

Many English speakers have a false sense of security because English is studied and spoken by so many people around the world. Why is the sense of security that English speakers have a false one? Conduct research on global language statistics and projected trends related to language acquisition and usage. Post a link to your source(s), write 2 paragraphs describing why English-only speakers would benefit from learning another language, and hypothesize on which language might be the most beneficial.

prepare a PowerPoint presentation that focuses on a different culture that you would like to learn to communicate with effectively. At a minimum, the presentation should include the following elements: -Overview of the culture -Key characteristics /dimensions of the culture that should be learned before communications begin (include at least six dimensions) -Compare/contrast the culture with your culture (based on the dimensions you included in #2) -Create a culture communication plan specifically for your chosen culture that will help you and your workplace to conduct -effective communications. This culture communication plan should include an outline or brief discussion of the three or -four components you have found most critical. -Provide a summary/recommendations for your organization to move forward with training for cultural communication. Your presentation should be a minimum of 15 content slides (not including the title slide and references slide). Your slides should include speaker notes placed in the “notes” section of the slide In addition, you should have a minimum of three scholarly sources. References should be written in proper APA formatting.

Book Review over: Social Intelligence by Daniel Goleman Review should be 4-5 pages overall that includes the following: A general introduction and conclusion A general overview of the book theme A summary of the book including at least 5 specific case studies, examples, stories, short excerpts/quotes that you feel were important or helped you understand something better (also explain why you included that specific example) A critical analysis of how the book connects to our class – group concepts A short discussion expressing what you liked or did not like about the book Which of the studies or discussions in the book do you find most intriguing? Why? Choose something from the book that you felt has a connection to at least one aspect of this course. A citation of the book and any other resources you used When you write up the critical analysis of how the book relates to the course, you should include terminology from the course. In general, your goal is to demonstrate your recall and ability to connect concepts. Excellent papers will be thorough and well-developed, hitting all required points.