Monday, March 15, 2010

Human communication in Art





there are 2 pictures. one is a picture of mona lisa smoking a blunt. this was made as a mockery of her artist. the other is a picture of a monkey mimicking the zoo keeper.

mirror nuerons and human comm

quotes regarding human communication

Abraham Lincoln:
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.



Adrienne Rich:
Lying is done with words and also with silence.



Alvin Toffler:
In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.



Ambrose Bierce:
Heaven, n.: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.

The Devil's Dictionary

communication through social sites.(pictures)


by using websites such as facebook,and friendster and msn it can be seen that people,more often girls tend to upload many pics of themself to attract the opposite sex....the pictures that are uploaded are sometimes photoshopped.by doing this it makes the person feel confident of themself and allows them to communicate more freely without having a fear... the picture below is an example of a picture used by one of my friends in her facebook account which has been heavily photoshopped...

Art


Art can sometime express our own feelings too. In this piece of art, this artist is trying to express anger.

a punch


a punch as a result of anger is a form of communication that shows the anger of the person..

Facebook


wwww.facebook.com is a website which is used by people to express feelings.........sometimes people express their feelings in a form of shoutout...others can view this and communicate by sending comments....by doing this communication can occur

Miscommunication

This cartoon shows miscommunication. The person in the swimming pool is drowning. He needs someone to save him but the other guy gives him a soap instead. The old man thought he is bathing and needed a soap.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

WHY CAN'T THE REST OF THE WORLD GET ALONG?

The lesson for whole mankind!

 PORK CHOPS
In a zoo in California , a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs.. Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size, they died shortly after birth.. 


The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate another mother's cub's, perhaps she would improve. 


After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother. The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species, will take on the care of a different species. The only 'orphans' that could be found quickly, were a litter of weanling pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger. 

Would they become cubs or pork chops?? 




Now, please tell me one more time...? why can't the rest of the world get along???

REASONS FOR CONFLICT OR DISAGREEMENT


1. Lack of Clarity - the communication between parties is missing information or the information is not being communicated in a consistant manner.
all of us different people,and we communicate our thoughts in a different manner, we may use different meanings for the words. sometimes we make assumptions and add meaning to things we heard, all this can result in miscommunication and may lead to the conflict.
2. Position Focus - the parties involved have already each decided on their own solution and are failing to discuss the problem those solutions are addressing.
if we think that our opinion or our arguments are the only right ones, we may fail to communicate effectively. we get stubborn and do not want to listen to another opinion or another point of view , that contradicts with ours
3. Different Values - the parties are unable to agree because they are holding different sets of values but not articulating those values as part of the discussion.
all of us have different live experience, set of perceptions and values, that may differ with other people's life views, and when they clash conflict occurs .if we fail to understand differences between ourselves and our opponents we are not going to come to any effective resolutions.
4. Past History/Personalities - the parties have a previous unresolved conflict that is negatively affecting their ability to work together.
this reason explains importance of resolving conflicts once we face them, because it may affect our future relationships with the person and negatively affect our work life, love life and friendship.

trust and dishonesty

Failed marriages are mostly cost of dishonesty and lack of trust between spouses.

wrong word

Sometimes when miscommunication happen due to similarity of two words with two different meaning, so we should be careful and emphasize on the right word or phrase