...FROM LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT TO SOUL MATE: ROMANTIC IDEALS IN POPULAR FILMS AND THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH YOUNG PEOPLE‘S BELIEFS ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS BY VERONICA HEFNER DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Speech Communication in the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011 Urbana, Illinois Doctoral Committee: Professor Barbara J. Wilson, Chair Associate Professor John P. Caughlin Associate Professor Kristen Harrison Associate Professor Travis L. Dixon ABSTRACT Romantic comedy films have been popular since motion pictures first entered the media world. Scholars have speculated why these movies remain appealing to viewers and have argued for several reasons. These movies might foster hope about real-life romance (Galician, 2004), or demonstrate that that there are no limits to how love may manifest itself (Harvey, 1998). Despite this speculation, few studies have systematically investigated the content of these movies or the effects they may have on viewers. The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate that potential. In particular, I conducted two studies that explored the nature of romantic ideals in romantic comedy films and their influence on viewer endorsement of romantic beliefs. The first study was a content analysis of the themes or romantic ideals embedded in romantic comedies. The second study was a survey designed to explore whether exposure to such...
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... & Booth-Butterfield, M. (March 2009). Individual differences in romantic partners' desire for less closeness. North American Journal of Psychology, 11, 1. p.209. Retrieved February 13, 2011, from Academic OneFile via Gale:http://find.galegroup.com.proxy.chemeketa.edu: 2048/gtx/start.do?prodId=AONE&user GroupName=oregon_chemeke 2. Write a synopsis of the article indicating the subject matter and the results of the study. The study examined the five-factor theory of personality in respect to the romantic desire for closeness. The factors were neuroticism, agreeableness, extraversion, openness, conscientiousness. The results revealed significant differences between partners' preferences for closeness associated with personality types. Partners who desired more closeness were higher in neuroticism than partners who possessed an ideal level of closeness while partners who desired less closeness were lower in agreeableness than partners who possessed an ideal level of closeness. 3. What hypothesis was investigated? What variables were studied, and what were the operational definitions of the variables? There were two hypotheses. Hypothesis 1: Relational partners who desire less closeness will be lower in agreeableness than partners who possess a desired level of closeness or desire more closeness. Hypothesis 2: Relational partners who desire more closeness will be higher in neuroticism than partners who possess a desired level of closeness or desire less closeness. ...
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...` Cohabitation Before Marriage Huynh Thi Thanh Tam Nguyen Kim Ngoc Quyen Le Dang Phuong Luong Thi Thanh Thao Tran Huy Bao Phan Thi Ai Hoa Luu Ho Xuan Quynh Nguyen Truong Vinh Phat Academic Skills November 14th, 2012 Professor Douglas M. Foster Cohabitation Before Marriage Love between man and woman is the precious one of human that people must spend a lot of time and effort to seek. However, there is a perceptive difference of love between Western culture and Eastern culture. Westerners find out freedom and satisfaction in love and marriage is a great importance of their life, therefore they often cohabitate to learn about their partners carefully to get a better marriage in the future. “More than two-thirds of married couples in the US say that they lived together before getting married” (Jayson, 2005, Cohabitation is Replacing Dating, para. 2). In opposite, the feudal reflection, which affects Easterners culture and makes contrary between cohabitation and culture. Therefore, cohabitation is not common in Eastern countries. Nowadays, society is more and more developing and modern. In pace with that trend, cohabitation lifestyle of Western has entered and influenced on the Eastern thought, so cohabitation becomes more acceptable in Eastern. Especially in Vietnam, the rate of which Vietnamese adults want to cohabit is high in both male and female. According to the survey of...
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...Love marriages being accepted Marriages are basically of two types – arranged and those based on mutual attraction between the partners. Arranged marriages were once common throughout the world, but today this institution mostly survives in the eastern countries such as India, China, and most Asian society. Love marriages are the norm in western countries where individual freedom and aspirations are considered more important than what the society, parents or relatives expect from a person. In an ideal arranged marriage scenario, the partners have a major say in arranged marriage. They give the final nod as to the choice of their spouse. However, things do not always go like this. All of a sudden you start your life with a person with you have hardly spend any time. You don’t know the person or you may even not like the person if you have go married because your parents and elders decided your marriage. Most of the cases the girl is forced to sacrifice their likes and adjust to the reality. Some may just live their life it goes believing its their fate and their parents are happy, but some break up. In many arranged marriages, the parents and relatives are often overbearing and try to force their child into a relationship he or she does not agree with. This can be a very difficult situation that may condemn the partners to living lifelong in a marriage that they are not happy with. In an arraigned marriage the blame is mostly on the parents and family members if things...
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... Student Personnel Administration COURSE TITLE: Introduction to University and College Students' Development Theory EDEA6311 / ED63K MODULE: Course Work ASSIGNMENT: A) Based on Marcia’ (1966) and Josselson’s (1971) Psychosocial Perspective, develop and present a set of questions (an interview schedule) as an instrument to be administered to two female and two male traditional- age (18-21) college/university students. The instrument should seek data on the students’: · Religious choice · Career choice · Attitude towards sex before marriage · The students' opinion on their ideal intimate partner. B). State any identified differences between the responses of the male students and the female students. Analyze the differences (if any) in the responses, based on posits of the two theorists, and any other authors. ©. Based on the findings from the interview, identify the psychosocial development state of each of the four students sampled. Justify your classification with literature. (D) Based on your findings, identify any differences between your findings and the theories that could be a result of a difference in culture. FACILITATOR: Dr. Thelora Reynolds DATE: November 29, 2009 SUBMITTED BY: Marlene Grant Question A Based on Marcia’s (1966) and Josselson’s (1971) Psychosocial Perspective, develop and present a set...
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...in his use of good judgment on that day! I agree with the chapter when the author states that rules "state only necessary, not sufficient conditions." This is most defiantly the case in all aspects of life. Rules cannot possibly account for all cases. Enron in the beginning kept most of the "rules" in a sense. Fastow noted that a independent company needed 3% outside equity, so he enlisted Kopper's partner. This satisfied the "rule," but clearly was not ethical. The author also states that "we must appeal to idealizations in order to interpret rules." Agree with the author full heartedly, although I feel that is sometimes the problem. Not everyone has the same ideals, not even remotely. This is the starting point for good ethics, ones ideals and morals. If a person has good ideals and morals, rules will not apply, that person will use good judgment and do what they feel is right anyway. I feel the author is on target with the section "rules require principles and character." As I've stated before, rules require interpretation on a deeper level. Enron management, in the beginning, followed the letter of the law, not the spirit or purpose of the law. Behavior What will I do different as I reflect on the rules of the chapter? Rules are given to those who don't have principles. The more rules, the...
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...ASSIGNMENT 02 NAME: Monica Schellingerhout PO BOX: PO Box 11979 Wierda Park South 0057 MODULE: MGG201W SEMESTER CODE: Year Module ASSIGNMENT NUMBER: 02 STUDENT NUMBER: 4396-359-5 ASSIGNMENT DATE: 2011-07-25 Contents 1 PART 1 3 1.1 PREMARITAL COUNSELLING 3 1.1.1 Definition of premarital counselling 3 1.1.2 Purpose of Premarital Counselling 3 1.1.3 Purpose of the Helper 4 1.1.4 Relavent Core Relational Conditions 4 1.1.5 Degree Of Structure Needed 5 1.1.6 In What Format Does Counselling Take Place 5 1.2 MARRIAGE ENRICHMENT 7 1.2.1 Definition of Marriage Enrichment 7 1.2.2 Purpose of Marriage Enrichment Counselling 7 1.2.3 Purpose of the Helper 7 1.2.4 Relavent Core Relational Conditions 8 1.2.5 Degree of Structure needed 9 1.2.6 In What Format Does Counselling Take Place 9 1.3 COUPLES COUNSELLING 11 1.3.1 Definition of Couples Counsellin 11 1.3.2 Purpose of Couples Counselling 11 1.3.3 Purpose of the Helper 12 1.3.4 Relevant Core Relational Conditions 12 1.3.5 Degree of Structure needed 13 1.3.6 In What Format Does Counselling Take Place 14 1.4 DIVORCE COUNSELLING 16 1.4.1 Definition of Divorce Counselling 16 1.4.2 Purpose of Divorce Counselling 16 1.4.3 Purpose of the Helper 16 1.4.4 Relevant Core Relational Conditions 17 1.4.5 Degree of Structure...
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...Ideal Life I’m sure many people have a concept of their ideal life. It would include fame, fortune, travel and servants. This is not an ideal life this is an ideal fantasy. I have those too. Of course, they would include all of those things and some hunky men too. That’s fantasy though. My ideal life would contain things I think most people would say are reasonable. I’d like for the people I love to be healthy and happy, myself included. I want those same people to have what they need, be it support, food or medical care. I want them to get the same treatment if their name is Smith or Bush. I want a job that won’t send me into a nervous break down and the chance to follow my interests. I don’t think that is too much to ask. I’ve managed to find my partner in life. He’s not perfect, but I believe he is perfect for me. We fight, as couples do. We love and we laugh. When things get hard, we hold on to each other for dear life. We have had some struggles that could prove to be catastrophic to a marriage. Problems, that you can easily see, how they would tear you apart. I am so blessed, that instead of ending our lives together, we grew closer. It’s a miracle. Of that, I have no doubt. We stood together when we spent day after day in doctor’s offices, failure after failure. We held hands while medications took me on emotional roller coaster rides. He stood and took my craziness when I couldn’t control it. He loved me while I was falling apart physically...
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...“The American Dream” as defined by James Truslow Adams in 1931 is a national ethos of the United States in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility achieved through hard work. Truslow states "life should be worse and poorer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement" regardless of social class or circumstances of birth. The idea of the American Dream is rooted in the United States Declaration of Independence which proclaims that "all men are created equal" and that they are "endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights" including "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." The American Dream is viewed by many Americans as not only an American pursuit, but also many Americans, most especially those citizens that identify themselves as Christians see this pursuit as a Christian right of passage. In the catechesis of Christian language the American dream has become synonymous with the being a Christian. In the minds of many Americans the American Dream is a Christian reward to faithfulness. The proliferation of the American dream through the vehicle of the “Prosperity Gospel” is a cause for the continuance of poverty in America. In this writing I plan to discuss the origins of the American, the canonizing of the American dream in scripture, and the growth of the Prosperity Gospel as an answer to the rising poverty rate in this country. ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN...
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...likely to form trusting and close relationships with persons who see them as they see themselves, i.e.—persons who see their true selves. Moreover, when ought selves serve as the source of commensurability, the follower will conclude the leader bhas the same standards as meQ (Robins & Boldero, 2003, p. 64), producing interpersonal feelings of justification. Finally, when the ideal selves serve as the source of commensurability, the follower will conclude that the leader bhas the same ideals and aspirations as meQ (p. 64) and experience feelings of cooperation and alliance. Thus, the highest levels of interpersonal trust, intimacy, cooperation, and goal alignment will be achieved when the follower and leader have congruent actual, ought and ideal selves. We believe such high levels of consistent commensurability are especially conducive to the formation of authentic leader–follower relationships, as both parties share similar ought and ideal selves, and accurately present and perceive their actual selves. Particularly relevant to our focus on follower self-regulation are instances where ought and ideal selves of relational partners are congruent, but their actual selves are discrepant. Robins & Boldero (2003) assert that this is the combination of actual selves and self-guides that is most likely to cause the partners to assume leader and follower roles. Essentially, by adopting the role of follower, the partner with the discrepant actual self is able to address the...
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...| Team building Activities | | 1. Blind Wine Waiter Team Building Task Overview Teams of six must successfully find, uncork and pour a bottle of wine into five glasses. Each team manner must carry out no more than one element of the task and at least five of the team must wear blindfolds. Pre-Work None required Equipment and Layout One bottle of wine per team, one wineglass per team, blindfolds for 5 members of each team, one corkscrew per team. Running The Activity 1. Introduce this as a light-hearted activity that will improve communication across teams. 2. Divide the group into teams of 6 and ask each team to elect a leader. 3. Hand out blindfolds to all team members other than the leader, instruct all team members other than the leader to put on their blindfold. 4. Ask the team leader to take a seat somewhere close to his/her team and ask him/her to sit on her hands. 5. For each team, position one bottle of wine, one wineglass and one corkscrew in various locations around the room. Take care to ensure that nothing is positioned where it might easily fall or break (eg make sure the wine bottle(s) and glass(es) are placed on the floor against a wall, or in the centre of a table). 6. Tell all participants that their task is to find a bottle of wine, a corkscrew and a wine glass, open the bottle and pour their leader a glass of wine. 7. Tell the participants the rules: - the team leader cannot move from his/her position and cannot...
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...Jacklyn Marcus, Ph,D Certified Life Skills Coach We all create expectations for ourselves. It is a basic human trait to project our desires and thoughts onto those we are closest to. We tend to expect significant people in our lives to behave in a manner envisioned in our mind. Expectations in relationships can be harmful when unspoken ideals are projected onto the other person. Unspoken assumptions and unrealistic expectations commonly sabotage relationships. How many times have your feelings been hurt because you mistakenly assumed someone else knew what you thought or expected? Do you ever become annoyed or angry with someone who acted differently than you expected? Have you found yourself saying: “If you really loved me, you would…” “Why didn‟t you…” “You should…” It doesn‟t matter what kind of relationship you are in. Each person‟s expectations plays a large part in determining the health of the relationship. Perceptions of a relationship change when there is a contrast between the ideal and the real. The partnership strengthens when one begins to see the relationship for what it really is. Having unrealistic or unfulfilled expectations is a sure way to ruin a relationship. When an individual has a strong desire that their partner meet their impossible expectations they become blinded to who their partner really is. Even if the partner tries to meet the expectations, it will never be exactly what their partner wants. This is because expectations...
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...Business Structures Bryan Hossler OPS / 571 October 26, 2015 Kimberly McCarrolle There are three different types of business structures; corporations, partnerships and sole proprietorship (Choose Your Business Structure, 2015). This paper will go over the different types of business structures and their advantages and disadvantages. The general corporation is the most common business structure in the world. It is owned by many stockholders and they may have an unlimited amount of stockholders that can own a part of it. The advantages of the corporation are that the owners (stockholders are protected from liability, they have unlimited life, many tax free benefits, can transfer ownership, and the transfer of ownership does not affect management. Some disadvantages are that they are expensive to create and have many state and federal laws that they must abide by (Choose Your Business Structure, 2015). In 1986 there was a tax reform act in which corporations were allowed to have a special tax designation applied for and may be accepted by the IRS. It offers the same benefits of that of a corporation except the special tax provision. The difference is that in a normal corporation makes a profit they must be taxes to the federal government on that and then when a company declares a dividend the shareholders must then also pay a personal income tax on that as well (Choose Your Business Structure, 2015). Thus with S Corporations this is avoided and shareholders are...
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...Cultural Marriages Cultural Marriages Kenny Lyday March 9th, 2013 EG351 Week 11 Project part 2 Dr. Dunn 11162824 The institution of marriage carries various social implications that determine quality of life depending upon the social construct of the couple. Learning to form bonds with others begins at a very young age, and in so doing, forms many of the decisions that adults have in weddings and ceremonies. Along with the bond, mate selection, cultural similarities and social attitudes help construct the institution of marriage. Ideas into the process of marriage and types of ceremonies shape the establishment of the joining of individuals. Being with the right person, determining if family and friends would be accepting of the choice made, and cultural similarities that can affect child rearing are a few questions that can be generated when the union of two individuals join together to solidify their bond into matrimony. In essence, typical marriages deal with the course of two individuals who gain emotional ties that become strong enough to believe that to complete the final choice in true commitment is to undergo the process of making an outward proclamation of togetherness. Many view this sort of ceremony to be sacred, and in fact, include various religious infusions that in many cases are culturally influenced. Primary decisions that influence marriage do not always include the idea of love, or even emotional bonds. The idea of being loneliness, feeling...
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... newspapers, photography, journals, etc., we can all find a way to communicate and share creativity, ideas, and thoughts or believes no matter were in the map are located. This has caused a massive movement, especially in the United States of America, where people to try and copy what they think is an “ideal body image”. Women are expected to be smart, care takers, nurturers, we are expected to be beautiful and sensitive but at the same time strong and feminine. However, even with all we can contribute to society as women we still feel the need to be like the idols we see on the media. We think that in order to be like them we must adapt to what’s considered normal. But as individuals it’s hard to obtain the “Ideal body image” we see on these models and pop starts no a days because it’s simply an unrealistic goal. Like a journal about women’s body image in which the author, Michael W. Wiederman, describes his own intimacy problem with a partner who was being too self-conscious. Most of the images we see in the media have been through Photoshop and plastic surgery making them look realistic then their just fixed to look how public wants these starts to look. The Idols who are fortunate enough to have what is considered healthy are just what they are born that way and most submit to unhealthy diets to gain, maintain, or lose weight...
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