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Kelly Bosch (blog post #2)

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  Group Presentations Blog ( Happiness: Self-Care & Good eating, Paying it Forward, What it does for society) Group #1:  Group 1 discussed happiness and what it does for society. They were assigned chapters 1, 2, 6, 7, and 8. They mentioned how happiness can have a positive impact and negative impact in several different ways. The four subtopics were, what happiness does for society from a health standpoint, what happiness does for the economy, what happiness does for society from a social point, and how happiness in education affects the society. I liked how this group included many videos and really liked the questions they asked the audience at the end. They really tried to engage with the audience and I thought it was nice to see everyone share some personal experiences. It was lovely to see everyone talking freely. They also had a lot of evidence and reasoning to back themselves up and it was very interesting to see the statistics as well.  In the end, group 1 did an amazing

Melanie Cruz - Blog Post 2

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Happiness!  This right here is a "Hot Pocket" but what we're here to talk about it HOT TOPICS.  I would like to believe that we lived in a world where talking about health, hobbies, self care, wasn't so divisive. Though, I do like conflict (I thank Tyra Banks for getting me addicted to  America's next top model )  But, I like seeing how we humans divert conflict and find good in the storm... Basically, I like seeing how all three acts of a situation play out in real life.   With that said: we don't live in a world where everything is perfect. In biblical terms, we live in a world of 'sin' and thats basically the overall answer for those who ask, "But why is there so much bad in the world?"  Amidst of this 'sin' I am glad that we humans try to look at the bright side, even if the sky is cloudy.  (Even if it's entertaining... thanks Tyra.)  When speaking about health, hobbies quality time and rest,  we can infer that these things ar

Kelly Bosch

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Group Presentations Blog (Intercultural Communication, Group Communication and Leadership) Group #1: Group 1 discussed intercultural communication. They were assigned chapter 3. Intercultural communication is the communication between people from different cultures. Culture is defined as the ways of life including the arts, beliefs and intuitions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation. Intercultural communication seeks to understand the differences in how people from a variety of cultures act, communicate, and perceive the world around them. I thought this topic was very interesting to learn about, since we don't always really think about how there are a variety of different cultures with distinct beliefs and customs and how these things can affect and play a big role in communication overall. Something worth mentioning is that when there are people from 2 different cultures communicating, we can see that the way people were brought up and the norms the

Fatima A

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GROUP 1: this group really explained the subject very well and it really was a very good presentation, one of the things that I could notice skiing several of the group were very well on the subject and it was evident that they were prepared. One of the things that I can also say is that the topic they discussed and the questions was quite interesting and how they disbursed was very interesting. GROUP 2: this group also had a mastery of the topics and they were prepared but this group had a better presentation and more variety of explanations since they even included videos as examples and showed many visual examples. GROUP 3: this group, which was basically my group, we were very prepared and I can say that our presentation was much more complete than the others and that we did it many times and we explained everything with great patience and explicitness; however, that does not mean that the other groups We do not recognize that they also did a good job and even their presentations w

Melanie Cruz

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Intercultural communication, communicating in groups, and group problem-solving are three chapters (and topics) we have discussed in class. Frankly, these are topics that I hadn't thought about if I were going. Maybe it was something I didn't want to think about, but I had previously experienced some of these topics... sometimes these experiences were positive, sometimes they were slightly negative. Wait, let me rephrase that, they weren't "negative" they were just.. "educational" One topic that group one spoke about was intercultural communication competence.  It was something I hadn't thought about before but had experienced.  To give some background information, I joined a theater about a year and a half ago. This theater was in Davie- versus me, who was (has been)   born and raised in Hialeah, Florida. When I walked into this theater, the culture shock genuinely confused me (though I had been on vacation in different places beforehand). The genui