Think about the relationships in your life. identify one you believe to be in one of the first five stages of knapp's model. take a moment to describe this relationship. what kind of relationship is it? (personal-social, professional-functional) which stage of relational development does this relationship mirror, based on knapp's model? what are five things you can do to keep this relationship progressing? & what are some reasons you can share for why the relationship is at this stage?

The relationship I describe is personal-social. According to Knapp's model, the stage of relational development is Experimentation, in which individuals communicate revealing information about themselves. In this stage, small talk is used to find a common area of interest, and relationships are friendly and informal. In order to keep the relationship progressing, I can continue to make small talk until I feel like finding out if the other person is interested in me as well. I could also try to make conversation deeper, so that we move to the next phase, Intensifying. Besides, I could make communication more frequent and offer gifts as a demonstration of strong fondness.

The relationship is at the Experimentation stage because we make talk abut superficial things and gradually disclose information about us.

Kind of relationship: personal-social

Stage: Initiation

What are five things you can do to keep this relationship progressing?

1. Always having perfume

2. Being clean and tidy

3. Always being polite

4. Give compliments to the person

5. Surprise the person

What are some reasons you can share for why the relationship is at this stage?

The reasons why I categorized the relationship in this stage, is because the person and I are only knowing each other. The Initiation stage is all about making an impression. So this stage the judging would not be accurate. People will be concerned with making favorable impressions.

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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