Saturday, September 17, 2011

Non Verbal Communication

The television show that I chose to view is called Bones. We recorded an episode on Direct TV so that I could decipher the nonverbal cues. There seemed to be one group of main characters that worked in a huge lab doing some sort of autopsy on the remains of deceased bodies. The two main characters that we in the field and traveling together seemed to have some conflict. Their body language seemed to be telling each other that they did not agree with what they were saying. There were two other characters in the Lab together and they seemed very close. The female was pregnant and the male was always lingering around so I assumed that is here husband. An African American female would appear in and out of the office and seemed very much in charge. Once I turned the sound on, I found out that the first two characters who seemed to disagree a lot were Bones and Booth and they really have an old crush on each other and a high respect for each others opinions. I was correct about Angela and the man with her, they were married. The woman who exuded so much confidence was indeed the boss as well.
Although nonverbal cues normally speak loud and clear, it is obvious that they can still be interpreted incorrectly. This assignment reiterates the importance of our non-verbal cues in daily communication and how they can defiantly make a strong point.
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Established Contact with My German Childhood Professional

My contact actually changed from Tonya Schmidt to Thomas Volz. He studied in New York and Turkey. He taught school in Turkey and in Boveria at the Abuture, which they call the place of higher learning durin ghte first years. He also taught Turkish students to speak English for 4 years. He has 3 boys of his own that are 11, 12 and 15 years old. Whe I asked him to tell me about povery in Germany that he might have experienced and how it affects children, this is what he wrote to me:
"In Germany the federal social security system is (still) so comprehensive that you hardly notice any differences between rich and poor students in class. As (still) most of our schools end at 1pm, lunch, nutrition and healthcare is predominantly considered a private matter. People are very touchy about the government interfering in these questions. So it is left to health care providers to inform and teach the public on a voluntary basis. Of Course schools support this, but not as an integral part of the basic curriculum. The stress is on academic subjects".
"However, times are changing. More and more schools exand their lessons into the afternoon and the schools provide lunch. This is generally a cheap alternative to private lunch served at home. Here the schools monitor ingediences and nutrition very closely because many parents are very aware of this topic"
"The gap between rich and poor is, however, quite obvious on a higher academic level. Children that are academically supported at home are more likely to proceed to higher education and achieve better results on the long run. This more a question of how educated the parents/families are. But as education and income are unextricably entwined the link between academic achievement and income is a sad (German) fact"