Interpersonal Communication Assignment .

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College of Communication and Media Sciences
Interpersonal Communication Assignment
The main goal of this team presentation assignment is for you to put into practice the skills and knowledge you have attained throughout this course. This presentation is also aimed at helping you develop your public speaking skills and critical analysis skills. For this assignment you are going to work in groups of no more than 3 people.
For this presentation, you are going to choose a film (film clips) and connect the themes and issues you observe in the film to topics you have learnt in class. Your presentation should be no more than 20 minutes in length with each person speaking for an equal amount of time including film clips of no more than 5 minutes. What this means is that each group member should be speaking for roughly 5 minutes each. For example, if there are two people in you group, you should be presenting for no more than 15 minutes total. 3 people equals 20 minutes. Your presentation should include the following:
• 1. Introduction: where the topic of you presentation and your main thesis is illustrated to the class.
• 2. Briefly outline the interpersonal/intercultural concepts you are illustrating.( this is my point)
• 3. Throughout the presentation you will be using the film and film clips as well as film content in general to prove or support the main thesis and topic of your presentation.
• 4. Think outside the box. Why is this topic, thesis important to you or to society in general.
On the day of the presentation you must provide a printed outline to the instructor and you must have a Powerpoint presentation that is well timed and practiced. If you spend too much time switching from slides to film clips marks may be deducted for the break in cohesion. Grading will be divided into three areas (topic, content, and presentation – see grading Rubric on Blackboard for more details) and will take the following into consideration:
Is the topic challenging? Is it appropriate for the audience and assignment? Was it narrowed sufficiently?
Is there a clear, well-written thesis statement? Is the thesis statement true to the content of the presentation?
Are the main points well supported? Are there a variety of sources? Did the presentation add to the knowledge of the audience?
Did the presentation interest you? Was the interest sustained?
Is the introduction identifiable? Does it gain attention? Does it suggest the significance of 
the topic to the audience? Does it preview the content of the presentation?
Is the body of the presentation clearly organized? Are main points clearly identified? 
Does the presentation flow effectively? Is it cohesive?
Did the conclusion signal the end of the presentation? Did it review? Was there a sense of 
closure?
Was delivery poised and confident? Was there appropriate rate? Volume? Enunciation? Variety? Tone? Was there an effective use of pauses? Lack of vocalized pauses and interjections? Did the delivery detract from the presentation?
Was eye contact sufficient? Was there an effective use of gestures? Physical movement? Were notes handled effectively? Did any movement detract from the presentation?
Were video clips used? Used effectively? Did they reinforce the presentation? Were they handled well? Were they clear and concise?
Did the group seem cohesive? How, in general, did they function with one another? Were the relationships between individuals maintained effectively? Did all members of the group contribute equally to the preparation of the presentation?
Below I have provided a list of films that are acceptable, however you are not limited to the list. A very important consideration to take into account when you are choosing your film is that you MUST NOT choose a film you have seen many times. This will actually be a hindrance as you will not be able to pick up small details the same way as if it were the first time you were viewing the film. Be adventourous when chosing your film. DO a little research. If you have a movie that you want to use that is not on the list, see me and we can discuss it. To find out more about these movies, you can go to www.imdb.com. If there is more than one version of a movie, it’s your choice as to which one to use.

A Few Good Men
Disclosure Mother
Ship Of Fools

Tin Men

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Do The Right Thing Mrs. Doubtfire

Simon Birch
To Kill A Mockingbird

A Streetcar Named Desire
Driving Mrs. Daisy My Dinner With Andre

Sophie’s Choice

Tootsie

As Good As It Gets
E.T. My Fair Lady

Steel Magnolias

Torch Song Trilogy

Barbarians At The Gate
Educating Rita My Family (Mi Familia)

Switch

Trading Places

Being There
Finian’s Rainbow Nine To Five
Terms Of Endearment
Twelve Angry Men

Big Chill
Fried Green Tomatoes Nothing In Common
The Christmas Story

Victor/Victoria

Blade Runner Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner On Golden Pond
The Color Purple

Wall Street

Boyz In The Hood How To Make An American Quilt Ordinary People

The Doctor
War Of The Roses

Because I Said So
I Never Sang For My Father Outland

The Perez Family
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Wolf

Crooklyn
Les Miserables Pygmalion

The Tempest

Working Girl

Diner
Moonstruck
Romeo And Juliet

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

You’ve Got Mail

Adapted From: http://newmaneducation.com/icc_group_presentation.pdf.

 

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Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell. 

In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.


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God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.

Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.

To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.

 

References

Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.

Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.

Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.

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