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Blog #4 Mass Communication

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https://youtu.be/bcdKCndO4EA?si=kst8YOledxe_t6MQ Biden "I had no choice" on the border wall: bad news The introduction to tonight's news episode starts with Biden getting backlash from within his party. He states his hands are tied because he decided to continue the wall expansion by Trump's Administration. They also talk about how New York is struggling with the rise of immigrants. With 9,300 Immigrants on average entering illegally to the United States, the wall being expanded might not be the worst outcome.  Trump endorses Joden for House speaker: good news  Suspect identified in journalist killing. Suspect: 19 year old Robert Edmund Davis (Black male)  Victim: 39-year-old Josh Kruguer (White Male)  Jounuloist Josh Kruger was shot seven times on Monday morning inside his home. It is thought that the two knew each other. The relation was found that Krueger was trying to help mentor Davis and help him through life. The police decided to state all the evidence they h...

Blog #3 Group Communications

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Group projects or working with a group can be scary. I do not mind them and believe they can be genuinely beneficial. When working with coworkers, an evioment is created; often, Executive isolation happens between a manager or a boss. The rest of the employees could sometimes pull away from conflict and being around their boss. Creating a lousy environment, people only see for a short time.  My current job is a nonprofit, and I enjoy working in jobs that use communication skills. This, along with always being willing to develop and change for the majority. No matter what conflict or uncomfortable situations arise when working in groups, especially in your career. That still being said, when you share a mission statement and goal, you can stay on track. In my job at Teens Grow Greens, development and listening to everyone is crucial. I am a Marketing Apprentice and work with a team with a diverse background. However, we appreciate each opinion and outlook and have good listening ski...

Blog #2 Interactional View

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              Relationships are not a simple addition problem but a complex algebra equation. The way one member of a family acts affects the whole system. This is the interactional view that started from Paul Watzlawick along with his colleagues. Watzlawick was a senior fellow at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, California. Watzlawick also was a clinical professor of psychiatry at Stanford University. This idea that you cannot isolate what one family member does as they affect each other is interactional.  To understand this theory, I will explain a family and their current situation and how the interaction View could be applied.   When one person is severely suffering from mental illness in a family, the whole family is. This could be genes, but the Interactional view theory could apply. For example, we have a single mother suffering from depression after losing her two parents, who she, along with her two childre...