Difficult Conversations

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    Rogerian Person-Centered Therapy

    What Is “Person-Centered”? A Posthumous Conversation with Carl Rogers on the Development of the Person-Centered Approach Sharie Adams Cambridge College The article to be discussed in this journal capture the attention of the critic upon reading the title. It was not wholly morbid-to say the least-it was odd. There was a palm-reader-gypsy-at-the-fair air to the title. Out of the many titles that were perused, the title alone made the selection easy. The author, Howard Kirschenbaum- a notable

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    Shutter Island

    Robert Kimble GMMD211 Shutter Island Scene Analysis The “Opening Scene” The 2010 movie Shutter Island is a psychological thriller that focuses on our main character “Teddy”. Portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio, our protagonist believes he is a U.S. Marshal who is headed to a remote island, which houses an asylum for the criminally insane, to investigate the disappearance of one of their patients. The harsh reality is that “Teddy” is one of those patients, and the opening scene sets the tone for what

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    Discuss Some of the Ways That Participants in a Conversation Are Sensitive to Others Needs

    Discuss some of the ways that participants in a conversation are sensitive to others needs There are two theories in spoken language that explain how speech in conversations changes due different factors. Some of these factors include; professional status, regional background, and age. These theories are the accommodation theory and the co-operative principle. The accommodation theory was developed by Howard Giles in the 1970’s. He had the theory we change our speech depending on the conversational

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    better conversations. | This is Martin Luther Kings “I Have a Dream” speech. | Explanation | This video ensures the employees know all the basic ways of communicating with customers. | Martin Luther had everyone attention here and the employees could learn something resembling him. | Now here are two videos to show the employees what not to do. Video URL | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1RY_72O_LQ | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj-4ViY6VRk | Summary | This is a conversation between

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    Corporate Social Responsibility

    Reflection paper 2 April 28th, 2014 From telling to talking The issues under discussion during the second session and in the accompanying readings revolved around stakeholder theory as an approach to executing corporate responsibility. This theory is based on company-centrality where various layers of the environment of the company are independently analyzed. In the context of this theory, a stakeholder is understood to be any actor with an explicit or implicit interest in the activities of the

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    Corban Sike Observation Report

    One sunny mid-morning Saturday in November, my husband and I had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing Corban Sikes and his parents, Joetta and Wade. Corban was sitting across the McDonald’s table from me, chin barely clearing the table, wearing green and black rimmed glasses. He was wearing his favorite t-shirt with an image of harmonicas and bullet mics, jeans and sneakers. His eyes and hair are brown, his freckles placed perfectly over his nose and cheeks. He enjoyed talking about his interests

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    Self-Cut Off's in Conversation

    evident in the language, and also appear to share common contextual and sequential properties. When we claim that something is an instance of repair we mean that speakers are adhering to ‘problems in speaking, hearing and understanding’ within the conversation (Schegloff, Jefferson & Sacks: 1977: 362). Importantly, however, it must be acknowledged that repair can appear without an overtly observable ‘error’. (Schegloff, Jefferson & Sacks: 1977: 362). Laasko and Sorjonen claim that ‘cutting

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    Asymmetry of Doctor-Patient Communication

    Asymmetry: Makes or Breaks? A conversation analysis of doctor-patient encounters in Chinese medical settings Presented by Zheng Huan annsidewalks@gmail.com Guangdong University of Foreign Studies 1. Background The interaction between doctors and their patients is “asymmetrical” (ten Have, 1991), which is widely shared among both researchers and participants of medical encounters. But, is this against our “assumed reality”? With the current trend towards commercialization of medical service

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    Texting Essay - Spoken Language Study

    creative form of language use. The text that I will analyse is a conversation between friends: I will identify a number of features of the text, comment on their effect and whether they are creative, then discuss some of the public attitudes towards texting. Many of the techniques used in sample have the purpose of engaging the reader; making the text more eye-catching; making the text sound colloquial (like a spoken conversation); adding to the humorous banter-like tone of the text; and injecting

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    These Hoes Be Wilding

    the defense and his mood could’ve probably even shifted from sad or mad to happy. Wade didn’t reply constructively, he actually responded in a patronizing way, which didn’t make matters any better. If he would’ve responded in a better form the conversation could’ve possibly went a lot longer. Practicing the 5 steps of listening will give me an advantage in chosen industry because I will have a better understanding on what people may want from me. I’m a Recording art major and listening plays a

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