Why We Communicate
As the old saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, but now my objective is to show how one word can be interpreted in a thousand different ways. The assignment was given to us to go out and get deep, down, and personal with five people to whom were of our closest and most comfortable friends or family and get their meanings of the assigned words. The words that we were given to use were as follows: sexy, love, death, and porno. After carefully examining these words, I knew I really had to be comfortable to go up to these people and ask them what the words meant to them. I knew I also had to be prepared to hear how they might respond. Now it was time to select the five people. At first I thought that I was going to ask my mom and dad, two girl friends, and one boy friend, but that was soon to change. After the first person I asked which was one of my closest girl friends, I realized the things that could be said to these and knew that I definitely did not want to hear what my mom or dad’s views on pornography. I then decided to use five girls from my sorority because we are all so close and I knew I would be comfortable and able to talk with them all. I selected three of my best friends, one older sister, and one girl w
Through this assignment, I have learned that one word can have so many different meaning to so many different people. Meanings of words are based on an individuals interpretations and experiences. Back to the best friends we go. I asked one of my best friends Lauren to help me out and answer a few questions. I knew that she might not be the best to ask only because she is not a talkative person and gives very quick and short responses. I figured I would work with her and see what happens. I said sexy, and she responded not to my surprise with Brittany Spears. Lauren is 5\'7, blonde with gorgeous blue eyes and has an idol with some similar features. Ever since her first song “Hit Me Baby One More Time,” she was hooked. She has always been a fan of her music, and has now become a fan of who she was. There is currently a huge poster of Brittany Spears hanging up in the middle of her mirror looking very hot. She also wear a little t- shirt from one of her more recent concerts. So many people think of sexy as hot bodies, men and sex, but I guess this shows that you can be into someone so much that it makes you want to be them and you realize that sexy= them. I then said love and she quickly with no emotion responded happiness. She has never been in a relationship, but says that when she sees people that are in love or love each other that they are happy. So that is how she looks at love, or at least for now. When I said the word death, I knew it wasn;t going to be easy because she had lost her father only a few years ago. She sais it meant tragic, sad, and morning. Having had lost her father when she was younger explains that her meaning of death is not only a meaning but a real sense of her true feelings of what she experienced. The last word porno hit her exactly as I thought. I said porno... she said ewww gross. It is clear to me that this was not an exciting topic and she did not want to say anything more. That last one didn’t work out too bad so I went to one more best friend. I approached my friend Teresa knowing that this would be interesting. I started off the same way as the others just so it would be the most organized. I said sexy and her response was hot body, sexy, skin, and beauty. When this girl goes out, I know she feels sexy. She likes to take care of herself and her body, I guess to keep up that sexy appeal. As one of my best friends, I spend a lot of time with her and one thing we love to do is go shopping. I have realized that when she tells me she wants to buy something sexy, it seems to end up being quite skin revealing. She also has a boyfriend who works out on a daily basis and has a hot body, so I see how a hot body to her says sexy because that’s how she sees her boyfriend. The next word I brough up was love. Well she went all goo goo gah gah . She said it meant her boyfriend, family, happiness, and that is was amazing and everything to her. Even though we only met last year, we learned everything about each other’s pasts and loved learning about what was going on now. She had a boyfriend in high school who she loved very much and ended with on good terms. She in fact keeps in touch with him to this day. She now has been with a boy from school for over a year now and has been very happy. Teresa and her mother have a very close relationship. When she was younger, her father walked out on her and her mother. She watched the pain her mother was going through and expressed her unending love and support at all times. She also sees love from her stepfather Bill, a man who came into her life smack in the middle and took her in his life and loved her and treated her like his very own. Even though she went through hard times this girl has learned some life long lessons about love. Now the hard one again, at this point I was almost scared to bring it up from all the bad reactions I have gotten from the rest of the girls. I said death and she answered it’s sad, dark, gloomy, scary, and a time of mo
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