'How To Survive Your Horrible Landlord'

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In this paper I will discuss the elements of nonverbal communication and how they affect the way we perceive of others. Throughout the paper the TV show ' 'Cooper Barrett 's guide to surviving life, ' ' How to Survive Your Horrible Landlord. The show episodes are based on comedy series of recent graduated college students. The TV show identify and evaluate different concepts of paralinguistics, kinesics, chronemics, haptics, and proxemics.

I believe in the TV show of ' 'How to Survive Your Horrible Landlord ' ' will be based on variety of characters in the show. From the title I think there will be problems involving with the landlord. I think the main problem will be not paying their rent or a repair that has to be redone in the apartment. I am assuming the characters will try to get on their good side to their landlord.

I have seen some other episodes from the TV show. The episodes that I have seen are very funny and entertaining. I know that the show aired on fox TV this year, so there has not been much episodes that I know of. When I am going to watch the episode of ' 'How to Survive Your Horrible Landlord ' ' I feel like I have a little bit of background knowledge on what the characters will be saying since I have seen some of there
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A tree crashes through the apartment wall of the guy 's apartment. Which it interrupt a second kiss between Cooper and Kelly. Virgil the landlord refuses to do repairs and the guys must hide Franco the pig from the Virgil. Throughout the episode the only way the guys can get there apartment fix was by not having the pig there anymore. Kelly took the pig to a farm. Which all of the guys was not happy about. The next day the guys apartment was fix. Then everyone went back to the farm to get the pig. The pig had pig babies. Cooper gave one of the baby pig to Virgil so he can keep Franco the pig in their place. At the end Cooper and Kelly

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