Interpersonal ties

1. If you are present when two friends disagree or have an argument…how do you handle it? What is your involvement? How direct are you? Do you disengage, get involved, try to mediate…? If I were in a situation where two friends are having an argument I would immediately handle it by getting both of them to focus on me rather than each other. My involvement would be to act as a judge during the argument like it was a court debate. I would be as direct as possible with both of my friends yet…

Jake and Brett’s Quests for Happiness The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is a classic Lost Generation novel that is set several years after the conclusion of the Great War. Characters in this novel are part of the Lost Generation, those who appear “disillusioned by the staggering number of WWI casualties” (De Greef, Worksheet). Both having returned from war, Jake, the narrator, and Brett, the main female character, epitomize this sense of disorientation and desire for joy. Throughout The Sun…

Some believe that the results of a survey can completely describe an individual’s personality. After completing both of the surveys I agree with this opinion. For the love style survey I was given at least a 36% in each of the five categories. For the Avoider category I received a 36%. For the Pleaser category I received a 79%. For the Vacillator category I received a 71%. For the Controller category I received a 43%. For the Victim category I received a 43%. For the animal survey I received…

Communication between Parents and Adolescents as a Correlation of Relational Satisfaction” (Caughlin and Malis). John Caughlin is a Professor at the University of Illinois in the Department of Communication. Professor Caughlin’s work has been related to interpersonal communication and close relationships. During his most current work, he is examining technology’s role in rcommunication and relationships (Univ. of Illinois). Ms. Rachel Malis - Reznik, according to the Elmhurst College faculty…

Attachment Theories and Their Effects The interaction between an infant and her parents have serious and lasting effects in her life through the way she approaches future relationships with other people, and also with how she approaches her relationship with God. How much she trusted her parents will be reflected in how much she trusts her romantic partner or God, much in the same way of how she expects to be treated in her relationships reflects how she was treated by her parents. Different…

structure; propagated by contextual influences including: psychological stress and social pressure, changes to familial structure, variations in individual roles and responsibilities, relationship quality, and content and quality of the mothers interpersonal interactions (Laursen & Collins as cited in Laursen, 2005, p. 48; Laursen, 2005, p. 48). Relationship Quality At the start of the film, Jean and Griff display an almost egalitarian relationship. Both characters displayed, “temperamentally…

The relationships between family members can often be the most complex relationships. Deborah Tannen tries to shed some light on family relationships in her book, I Only Say This because I Love You. Deborah Tannen has primarily studied linguistics, but she has also written books explaining communications of all types. In this book, she focuses on families and explains how to understand the relationships between family members. Each chapter goes into detail about individual relationships, such…

Familiar terms such as “progress“, “freedom“, “prosperity“, “productivity” and “equality” have seemingly altered American society. Although they live in a nation that has the highest GDP in the world, most Americans are not able to truly afford what they need. The influence of the market stresses that everything is for sale and that we need to push to get all that we can. The social market has ultimately diluted the real values of American and created new norms for society. “Land of the free”,…

Love vs. Lust A human being has two major organs in their body, the heart and brain. Only one of them can actually feel love for something or someone. Love and lust can make you do crazy things in life and failure is one of them. When you are with someone and you think that it is real but then again you ask yourself is this reality or is it just something just to get by. Sometimes I would just like to go into the past and change everything from the beginning because if I knew what I know now…

Stead (2009) writes a science fiction and a mystery novel When you Reach Me. Stead tells us a story of a sixth grader, Miranda, who lived with her paralegal single mother in New York City in 1979. Miranda and her mother’s boyfriend, Richard, prepared her mother for a game show $20,000 Pyramid. Mirada was a Latchkey kid and she was walking home from school with her best friend Sal, who start ignoring her with no good reason after he was punched by Marcus. This reaction pushed Miranda to make new…