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Q: Identify a relationship of yours that has become closer over time.  Describe the earliest stage of the relationship.  Was it an I-It or an I-You relationship at the time?  During that early stage of the relationship, what did you talk about?  Were there topics of kinds of talk you avoided?  Now, describe the current relationship.  What do you now talk about?  Can you identify differences over time in your own and the other person's shared fields of experience?

A: Of course, the easiest answer to this question is my significant other whom I shall name Mr. Bob. I remember the earliest stage of our relationship was definitely an I-It. I was texting a friend of mine and Mr. Bob took his phone and started to "troll" on me. Basically, he would mess with me and pretend he is my friend's twin or brother and created a mystery man figure in my brain. Naturally I am a very curious person so I wanted to find out who he was, but I never got the chance to and I didn't want to ask my friend because it would basically ruin the fun of having a mystery man. Out of the blue I unsuspectingly met him while him and my friend were hanging out and I recognized the way he spoke right away and slapped a picture and name to go with Mr. Bob. I spoke to him more through a social networking site and we quickly became friends. We would message each out around 100-130 messages a day on the site which signifies the I-You relationship. We mostly emailed each other about our day, ask each other some semi-personal questions such as our family and ourselves, the news, and he would constantly crack jokes and I would respond back with a witty response. We didn't really avoid any topic, occasionally I would ask a personal question to probe at his goal and philosophy in life and such or his childhood. We never intentionally asked or avoided any question, however, majority of the things we spoke about were of the present or within the past 5 years. I asked for his cell phone number and started to text Mr. Bob throughout the day. Together we probably sent around 2000 text messages a day. By the time I asked him out on a date we already knew it was the beginning of something because our personalities just clicked. In some ways we were the exact opposite and in some ways we are exactly the same. Most importantly, Mr. Bob cannot stop making jokes which definitely brings joy and happiness. So, our I-Thou relationship developed within 2-3 dates and he is now my greatest support...and human stress ball. Currently we can talk about anything except from past relationships. We have absolutely nothing to hide because of our open-mindedness. Occasionally when we do clash we accept each other for out different thoughts and opinions and respond with why we don't agree or don't believe that is correct (pretty much like a Socratic seminar).

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Q: The first part of chapter one in your text describes an older "linear model" of communication.  It then goes onto describe "interactive models" of communication.  Read through this in your text, in-depth, and discuss both models and how they differ.  If possible, give an example from your life.

A:  Linear model is depicted as a straight and single line flow starting from the source of information, or origin, to the destination. There is a clear beginning and ending to this model. In the beginning, when this model was first created, it was a simple message received directly from sender to receiver. Later on noise and several other factors like where the message came from were included into the model. Noise resembles any breakage in the message; such as: rewording or summarizing from one recipient to the other could cause some vital details to be forgotten. The interactive model, however, is depicted as a circular shape with no beginning and no end. What is unique about the interactive model is "noise" is replaced by other types of communication like opinions and/or feedback from one source to another. The interactive model also always the pair or multiple of people to communicate dynamically because the constant receiving information, forming opinion or thoughts, then outputting to another person, named the recipient, and the cycle continues over and over.

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I am currently a junior at SJSU. I am currently a bio major but plan on changing over to a software engineer major. Hopefully I don't pass out from all of the physics courses along the way! I have never "taken" physics before. (I have taken one class at SJSU but really...I didn't learn anything at all...and that's my entire physic course career from high school till now.) I'm not really a blogging person. I have tried to blog on tumblr, but people started to flood there and I ended up just scrolling through the pictures. I have tired keeping a blogspot, xanga, twitter, and many other social network sites but nothing ever really stuck to me. I had taken another blogging class offered by Professor Perez and enjoyed it thoroughly and wishes other online classes could take up this method as well. (I just wished we had a better and easier way to take the quizzes and midterms!) Other than that, I expect this class to be a blast! Whoot!