Post 3

Over this semester, I felt I really learned how to handle conflict in a better way than I used to handle it. When someone had a problem with me, I would just be like “alright tell me what is bugging you” and half the time I just didn’t care. A lot of people I felt were just too sensitive and didn’t quit know how to handle me or how I act. When I had a problem with someone else, I would just tell them straight up and a lot of people didn’t like how I approached it but I always figured why beat around the bush. But, after going through this book, I have learned that with some people I cant do what I usually do when it comes to conflict, and that I have to adjust the way I handle conflict with certain people. I just feel that I handle conflict in a completely different way then before. 

Post 2

I liked many aspects of this class. I took a class with professor Perez before online, and it was a lot of fun. I liked how everything is laid out for you in the class, and how quick professor Perez was to respond when I had questions, and that’s what made me decide to take another one, and I am glad I did. I love the weekly posts that tell us exactly what we are supposed to do, and when they are due. I really liked our class book as well. I thought it taught me a lot of things that I had absolutely no idea about before this class. It also made me less stressful about handling conflict. The only thing I didn’t like about the class was that I felt the directions for the final workshop were very vague. I didn’t know what was exactly wanted on it and that stressed me out just a tad. But, I would definitely recommend this class to another student!

Post 1

I think people have such a negative view of conflict because most of the time it seems like conflict situations never end well between people. I know everyone has that friend that always has a problem with someone else and they vent to you and in your head you think oh man again, you are full of conflict and I never want that. I think that if more people read the book that we did, that they wouldn’t fear it as much, or not at all. I think this because after reading the book, they would learn how to handle different conflict situations. I used to hate conflict, but after reading this book I feel like I could handle a conflict situation with ease and grace. 

Post 3

False attribution was definitely my favorite topic for this week. I feel that everyone goes through them, everyone sees it happen between your group of friends, and a lot of people like to make false attributions about others. Its kind of funny because when you hear a friend of yours making up a complete lie about another friend, you just sit back and watch it all unfold because if you get in the middle its just going to cause more drama for you. Its like a movie, you see the beginning and wait for the climax at the end! Most of my experience with false attributions was in high school. Every week there was some sort of new drama, with the he said she said and to be honest with you it amused the heck out of me! I loved it because I was never involved with it! 

Post 2

False attributions suck no matter what. I feel like you can never be civil with someone who makes a false attribution about you. I try to stay calm and not get mad but oh it’s hard to do sometimes. But, the feelings you have are even worse when you make a false attribution about somebody else. You get that panic and your heart starts beating faster when you see that person. In high school I heard something about a friend of mine and I just blurted it out to her one day and she flipped because she thought I said it, then I flipped back on her saying I heard that from so and so. She was super mad at first because she thought it was me but then the person who said it was like no I said it. So, it ended with her not being upset with me. We laughed about it. 

Post 1

When I typed forgiveness into my search engine many different things came up. Pictures of forgiveness were at the top, followed by the websites. Forgiveness quotes, forgiveness psychology, what the bible says about forgiveness, forgiveness project and a campaign for forgiveness research were all on the first page of the search. When I typed in reconciliation, four websites came up with the definition of it, and the official website for the reconciliation movie popped up. When I typed in revenge, all of the websites that popped up except two were for ABCs tv show. The other two were about Facebook revenge, and something about Kristen Bell and revenge. The term that produced more results was forgiveness. I think this because it’s a major thing that many people have trouble with. Some of the sites I feel were completely random, and that they wouldn’t help at all. 

Post 3!

 One of the concepts that I really liked for this week was of “face” from chapter 9. The book explains face as being how people see themselves and their images. And honestly, I think a lot of people have trouble, and struggle with this. I think some people are extremely afraid to be whom they really are because they are scared of how others will react to it. Some people have great face. They know who they are and aren’t afraid to show it. And I love meeting people like that. I met one girl a few years ago from a class that we were both in and she was loud, and uncensored and very sure of herself and that was just her. It was refreshing meeting someone like that, instead of a want to be clone of a celebrity or something.