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    1. Bible and the Qur’an have been translated into Esperanto

      Yes, however, what were the original text languages? Fore the words of Gods were not disseminated to the masses in Western English. It took thousands of years of translations and copying by scribes from the original texts to a dialogue that the modern brain can comprehend.

    2. more forceful command or insist.

      Resist

    3. Control

      It's unfortunate the author doesn't like the word "control". Most women or at least brassiere wearing individuals love the word control and are thankful that body parts of a feminine nature can be controlled with under garments. Flip that narrative my siblings.

    4. Telling people what state you are from may give them a sense of “who you are.” Jimmy Emerson, DVM – Welcome to Texas – CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

      I was walking down 42nd Street in NYC once and some tourists stopped me and asked me for direction on how to get to Broadway. Why was this remarkable? I was wearing my big puffy Green Bay Packer jacket and I did not look anything like the other New Yorkers I walked amogst. Something about being a Packer fan made me safe to ask for directions. So, in true, midwest nice fashion, I pointed north and said, you need to turn right and head up one block then over another and you will start to see the lights of Broadway. You're headed in the right direction. Keep going. And I'm 100% sure they found Broadway.

    5. In order to verbally express our emotions, it is important that we develop an emotional vocabulary.

      I recommend the course Emotional Intelligence to broaden this vocabulary.

    1. Apply the triangle of meaning to a recent message exchange you had in which differing referents led to misunderstanding. What could you have done to help prevent or correct the misunderstanding?

      The triangle of Dog. Dog = God in this universe is what I hear you saying.

    2. possibility of creativity and play.

      Yeet.

    3. Babies

      We say "babies" but truly they are always adults in training. It's important to support their individual expression with patience, understanding and firm boundaries. Love should be a constant without constant need to impose displays of affection.

    4. Cowboy

      For me, as a child, my father identified as a cowboy, so I thought all cowboys were taxidermists from Chicago. When I was a young adult, my viewpoint shifted when I was stationed at Malmstrom AFB in Montana where our friends and neighbors were ranchers and cattlemen. Cattlemen is a unisex term that's inclusive and means everybody who tend cattle. This includes women, girls, sisters, mother, grandmothers and aunties and cousins. Cattlemen.

    5. And we need a dog that will work well in an apartment,”

      This is th e moment I stopped reading and took the dog outside to throw ball. I once cried in an apartment in Maryland, for a dog. I have him now, I'm going to go throw ball with him now.

    6. The Meaning of Meaning

      I accept that the meaning of life is to give my dog a really good life. That is why we're here.

    7. You’ll recall

      This feels like one of those insertion moments in Fight Club where the movie has a splice in it. Demand for recall is a slippery slope when dealing with people who process or are cognitively capable to recall differently. Great care should be excercised when making demands on the reader's memory. Cut that out and give us the info. Don't stand and jog as we're processing. Don't deman recall. We're not 12. This class is probably aged 17+. Talk to us as grown-ups talk with one another. This is downwards speech and only sets to separate the reader from the writer. Be kind dear writer. Be kinder.

    8. Bark

      Bark, bark bark bark NJ Bark Bark. Bark, whine 3 years, whimper, cry, bark bark bark. NJ bark bark. pants (cookie?)

    1. junior year of college, I took a course in semantics, which focused on verbal language and solidified my interest in language.

      Fascinating, me too. I, as well took an advanced English Course that was an elective on Semantics. Part of our first assignment was to query everyday people in our sphere of influence and ask them "What is semantics?" At the time I was working at Six Flag NJ and the responses I received were "a little antics, not a lot" which wasn't entirely inaccurate given that "Semantics is the manipulation of language in order to illicit a desire response from the receiver." Required texts included books by George Carlin.

  2. Apr 2025
    1. Our

      Again, I do not ascribe to be included in this word of "our". It is not my way. Thank you though, it's understood regardless of my experience.

    2. Having a child can lead to a major change in a person’s self-concept. Photophile – Father & Son 2055 – CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

      This image does not portay consent in practice. We must always gain consent before initiating contact, even with our own children. Dad, wear a shirt.

    3. Self-fulfilling prophecies are thought and action patterns in which a person’s false belief triggers a behavior that makes the initial false belief actually or seemingly come true

      Another thing men like to say in the face of a woman they are towering over while making mad stacks of cash over what she's making. Shall we take 5 seconds to discuss th pInk tax. Where is the pink tax conversation in this narrative. We're having these open discussions in the classroom environment. The pink tax is real, daily and a topic of conversation.

    4. The “Healthy at Every Size” movement strives to teach people that being thin doesn’t necessarily mean a person is healthy. Pixabay – CC0 public domain.

      sigh, it's weird that the text needs this narrative at all Disappointing This text is disappointing

    5. The fat acceptance movement has been around for more than thirty years, but it has more recently gotten public attention due to celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Kirstie Alley, who after years of publicly struggling with weight issues have embraced a view that weight does not necessarily correspond to health.

      A) Kirstie Alley is deceased, poor example B) Oprah is on Ozempic, so there's that

      Looks like the fat shaming is back in style and because everyone on earth seems to believe we should be aspiring to be Oprah and Kirstie, they are pushing a toxic narrative to the farmer, the baker, the candlestick maker. Was this book written by Capitalists. If so, I have a poem for the occasion. I am a humanist.

    1. What impressions do you want people to form of you based on the information they can see on your Facebook page?

      Sigh. that I'm female My face isn't good enough for Facebook.

    2. Just looking at Facebook as an example

      Is this text operating under the awareness that Facebook was a platform designed by priveleged white men at an elite ivy league college and then had the platform stolen by the present owner of Meta, Mark Zuckerburg? The platform was designed as a way for men to judge and vote on the faces of their elite, ivy league female counterparts.

      Gross.

    3. Figure: People who have been out of work for a while may have difficulty finding the motivation to engage in the self-presentation behaviors needed to form favorable impressions. Steve Petrucelli – Inte

      I don't wear ties.

    4. The representations we see in the media affect our self-perception

      The "media" is a propaganda property owned by individuals or investors who pay or buy words from individuals who are seen as loyal, trustworthy and authority figures to disseminate information in a palatable and digestable fashion that won't be rejected by the masses.

    5. Biracial individuals may have challenges with self-perception as they try to integrate both racial identities into their self-concept.

      And again, why is this? Is it because those of who identify as biracial have faced bias and mistreatment from both sides. Too light to be a dark skinned person. Too dark to be white. Must be mixed, therefore rejected by both societies. Forced to create ones own identity.

    6. Men are more likely than women to include group memberships in their self-concept descriptions. Stefano Ravalli – In control – CC BY-NC

      I'm 100% theres a buttload of things that men are more likely to do than women because we couldn't vote, own a credit card or even get divorced at one point. Some of these within my lifetime. So, we should always remember how long ago it was that divorce was finally legalized and women could own a credit card. Tell me what year was ERA ratified? How long did that take? What was the result?

    1. the company may not hire her.

      Because the company is run by men without empathy for women.

    2. Clothing, like a doctor’s lab coat, forms powerful impressions that have noticeable effects on people’s behavior. Lisa Brewster – Happy doctor – CC BY-SA 2.0. Just as clothi

      Doctor = one more white male

      How do the people in this text universe procreate with no females?

    3. a goth person, a prep, a jock, a fashionista, a hipster.

      What a terrible list. How about we do this list instead. A farmer, a factory worker, a dad, a mom, a pastor, a fireman, a baker, a chef and teacher.

      See how only 2 of those are engendered? The rest could be literally anybody.

    4. Imagine that a professor has maintained a relatively high level of credibility with you over the course of the semester. She made a good first impression by being organized, approachable, and interesting during the first days of class. The rest of the semester went fairly well with no major conflicts. However, during the last week of the term, she didn’t have final papers graded and ready to turn back by the time she said she would, which left you with some uncertainty about how well you needed to do on the final exam to earn an A in the class. When you did get your paper back, on the last day of class, you saw that your grade was much lower than you expected.

      This is literal reality. I figured it was part of how it works and this was just normal instructor behavior.

    5. So not only do first impressions matter, but having the ability to form accurate first impressions seems to correlate to many other positive characteristics. First impressions are

      I completely disagree. I could't disagree more. Research "how to int4ract with an individual with autism spectrum disorder" and fafo.

    6. People who are able to form accurate first impressions tend to have more satisfying relationships and more quickly advance in their careers. Reynermedia – Businessmen shaking hands – CC BY 2.0.

      Because god forbid there should be business people who aren't white men.

    7. Frustrated drivers often use internal attributions to explain other drivers’ behaviors. Beelgin – ROAD RAGE FIST – CC BY 2.0.

      Sex or gender of driver? This makes white people look angry. Just. Stop with the aggression in the textbook.

    8. Are you a good judge of character? How quickly can you “size someone up?

      Yeah, no, yeah. I don't. It's diminishing to pre-judge anyone. Give people time.

    1. We interpret information using schemata, which allow us to assign meaning to information based on accumulated knowledge and previous experience.

      This text operates from a very slanted, biased and tilted male perspective that doesn't leave room for anyone not male or female. This text feels dated and in alignment with my authentic earth experiences. It feels very male heavy and uses the word "we" but it's not inclusive. It feels weighty to have to navigate male expectations for conversations and communications when some males are bereft of the capacity to communicate adequately. Yes, everyone does need work, but women have not been at the top of the food chain ever and this text heavily reflects this narrative. Difficult to digest.

    2. She has had some questions along the way and has e-mailed Joe for clarification and input, but he hasn’t responded.

      Because Joe is priveledged to be male. His priveledge exempts him from having to put in extra hours and dedicated study due to his "top of the food chain" status compared to his counterpart who may have children to care for in addiction to working outside the home. The likelihood that Joe had childcare responsibilities or the awareness of his priveledged status in comparison to Linda who presents as gendered female is unlikely. She is likely getting 30% less in pay as Joe, but more is expected of her as she is not in the same position of privelege as Joe.

    3. Where does a conflict begin and end?

      Hey Billy Joel, you didn't start the fire? Who will be here willing to extinguish language that's aggressive and full of ego and conflict?

    4. We also organize information that we take in based on difference.

      "We" who is "we"? I don't see representation in the text. I see division and exclusion. I do not ascribe to this form of "we'ism".

    5. Since we organize perceptual information based on proximity, a person may perceive that two people are together, just because they are standing close together in line. Wikimedia Commons – public domain.

      By "people" or "person" this rendering shows males only. Does this world contain women? Are women people and persons too?

    6. Percpetoin is bsaed on pateetrns, maening we otfen raech a cocnlsuion witouht cosnidreing ecah indviidaul elmenet.

      My eyes caught every mispelled word before I read the fullness of the text.

    7. Second, read your papers backward.

      My first lesson in creative writing was to read my papers backwards. Each sentence must be a cohesive though in and of itself. One can catch many errors if one endeavors to read backwards.

    8. We often include what we do for a living in our self-introductions, which then provides a schema through which others interpret our communication. David Weekly

      Are there any women in this world?

    1. During the adjourning stage, a group dissolves because its purpose has been met, because membership has declined or the group has lost support, or due to some other internal or external cause. It is important that groups reflect on the life of the group to learn any relevant lessons and celebrate accomplishments.

      The covid-19 pandemic brought many adjournments to the forefront of public consiousness. We have moved into the mourning phase of what is no more, but once was.

    2. During the performing stage, group members work relatively smoothly toward the completion of a task or the achievement of their purpose, ideally capitalizing on the synergy that comes from the diverse experiences group members bring to the decision-making process.

      During the performing stage, you will find most of the high conflict individuals not set to group purpose have either backed away from the group entirely or have set themselves in opposition to the group. It is not unusual for sub-groups or group splits occur to give broader definition of purpose. This is evidence of group growth and factions and splits are not atypical.

    3. During the norming stage, the practices and expectations (norms and rules) of the group are solidified, which leads to more stability, productivity, and cohesion within the group.

      If the high conflict individuals fail to find purpose in step 2, the storming stage, they may attempt to make combative styles of communication the new normal in this norming phase. It's important to group cohesion and direction of purpose to avoid high conflict individuals holding leadership positions.

    4. During the storming stage, conflict emerges as group members begin to perform their various roles, have their ideas heard, and negotiate where they fit in the group’s structure. Conflict is inevitable and important as a part of group development and can be productive if it is managed properly.

      It's during this stage that group members are typically acting out their roles, often without comprehension that they have stepped into a formative role.

    5. During the forming stage, group members engage in socially polite exchanges to help reduce uncertainty and gain familiarity with new members. Even though their early interactions may seem unproductive, they lay the groundwork for cohesion and other group dynamics that will play out more prominently in later stages.

      The essential building block to group formation is definition of group goals,combined purpose and objectives that the group sets to achieve cohesively. This step requires agreement in it's broadest form.

    6. The five stages of group development include forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning.

      I feel the sixth stage is where people are actively mourning the group. Where phrases such as "the good ole days" and "back in my day." It wasn't so much the day as it was the cohesive groups they formed and maintained that lived their natural life to conclusion.