Communication is an aspect of life that all people, young and old, need in their lives as there are endless possibilities of expressing one’s emotions The WritePass Journal

Communication is an aspect of life that all people, young and old, need in their lives as there are endless possibilities of expressing one’s emotions Introduction Communication is an aspect of life that all people, young and old, need in their lives as there are endless possibilities of expressing one’s emotions Introduction Communication is an aspect of life that all people, young and old, need in their lives as there are endless possibilities of expressing one’s emotions and thoughts therefore there are endless possibilities of communicating regardless of whether it is effective or not. Communication can be verbal and by having a verbal conversation with someone or simply using facial expressions, one can trigger a reaction to something that was said or done. People can also use their body language to express their feelings or attitudes such as hunching over which indicates boredom or tiredness. Whether people fight or converse, they will always be communicating and this communication will always effect the interactions between humanity. How people interact with one another depends on a variety of aspects such as; moods, awareness, emotions or voice projections. Sometimes individuals interact by masking their feelings behind their words or by listening to and understanding others whereas others will comment whenever and wherever the opportunity to do so arises. Unfortunately, in our generation, people interact in ways that are influenced by the society in which they live. When living in an urbanized society it is unlikely that an individual will not be influenced by developments such as technology which has become a commodity each individual must have because it makes global networking easier and allows for an increase in multi- tasking and complex learning tasks to be done faster and at a cheaper rates. Although technology has made life easier and more interesting, by means of being able to â€Å"surf the net† and play video games or Nintendo games, it has also limited face-to-face interactions between individuals and made it more ‘acceptable’ for society to express their feelings using emoticons, such as smiley faces, to communicate with others on an ‘emotional’ level. In past generations letters were used to interact and it was considered sophisticated.   Children were taught to play the piano and politely address any individual. Then again they did not have technology to rock their world. Children today use their phones to send messages to their siblings who are just a room away from them. This contributes to the fact that when it comes to direct interactions with people children become withdrawn because they literally don’t know how to converse unless it’s done over a phone . Technology has its advantages but its disadvantages as well but people have managed to do without it. Some individuals have mastered effective communication, where the possibilities of communication range from using fear to get a reaction and/or giving empathy or being brave enough to listen to those they know weren’t initially interested in interacting with them at all. These people acknowledge how and why they feel the way they feel before engaging in any situation they are face with and then react appropriately to get the desired outcome. Many individuals use common sense to analyse others and their surroundings before interacting with them whereas others take it to a whole new level. Individuals use fear to interact but instead they get arrogant smiling. Showing arrogance may get them an elegant reserve or endless expressions of anger or aggression. Some speak uncontrollably and overload others with information they’ll never retain or they talk compulsively get rid of the person. Others blatantly show their lack of interest while others never succeed in getting their point across Communication can always be effective just as the author, Donovon said, â€Å"Real communication is happening, if you feel well and are being understood while you understand† and the possibilities never end Bibliography www.wikipedia.org   Retrieved on Friday the 1st April 2011. www.suite101.com Retrieved on Friday the 1st April 2011. Eziearticles.com Retrieved on Thursday the 5th April 2011. www.dynamicflight.com Retrieved on Friday the 6th April 2011.

The Story of Jessie Redmon Fauset

The Story of Jessie Redmon Fauset Jessie Redmon Fauset was born the seventh child of Annie Seamon Fauset and Redmon Fauset, a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal church. Jessie Fauset graduated from the High School for Girls in Philadelphia, the only African American student there. She applied to Bryn Mawr, but that school instead of admitting her helped her to enroll at Cornell University, where she may have been the first black woman student. She graduated from Cornell in 1905, with a Phi Beta Kappa honor. Early Career She taught Latin and French for one year at Douglass High School in Baltimore and then taught, until 1919, in Washington, DC, at what became, after 1916, Dunbar High School. While teaching, she earned her M.A. in French from the University of Pennsylvania.  She also began to contribute writings to Crisis, the magazine of the NAACP. She later received a degree from the Sorbonne. Literary Editor of the Crisis Fauset served as literary editor of the  Crisis from 1919 to 1926. For this job, she moved to New York City. She worked with W.E.B. DuBois, both at the magazine and in his work with the Pan African Movement. She also traveled and lectured extensively, including overseas, during her tenure with the  Crisis.  Her apartment in Harlem, where she lived with her sister, became a gathering place for the circle of intellectuals and artists associated with Crisis. Jessie Fauset wrote many of the articles, stories, and poems in the  Crisis  herself, and also promoted such writers as Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, and Jean Toomer. Her role in discovering, promoting, and giving a platform to African American writers helped to create an authentic black voice in American literature. From 1920 to 1921, Fauset published  The Brownies Book, a periodical for African American children. Her 1925 essay, â€Å"The Gift of Laughter,† is a classic literary piece, analyzing how American drama used black characters in roles as comics. Writing Novels She and other women writers were inspired to publish novels about experiences like their own when a white male novelist, T.S. Stribling, published Birthright in 1922, a fictional account of an educated mixed-race woman. Jessie Faucet published four novels, the most of any writer during the Harlem Renaissance:  There Is Confusion  (1924),  Plum Bun  (1929),  The Chinaberry Tree  (1931), and  Comedy: American Style  (1933).  Each of these focuses on black professionals and their families, facing American racism and living their rather non-stereotypical lives. After theCrisis When she left the  Crisis in 1926, Jessie Fauset attempted to find another position in publishing but found that racial prejudice was too great a barrier. She taught French in New York City, at DeWitt Clinton High School from 1927 to 1944, continuing to write and publish her novels. In 1929, Jessie Fauset married an insurance broker and World War I veteran, Herbert Harris. They lived with Fausets sister in Harlem until 1936 and moved to New Jersey in the 1940s. In 1949, she briefly served as a visiting professor at Hampton Institute and taught for a short time at Tuskegee Institute. After Harris died in 1958, Jessie Fauset moved to her half-brothers home in Philadelphia where she died in 1961. Literary Legacy Jessie Redmon Fausets writings were revived and republished in the 1960s and 1970s, though some preferred writings about African Americans in poverty rather than Fauset’s depictions of an elite.  By the 1980s and 1990s, feminists had refocused attention on Fauset’s writings. A 1945 painting of Jessie Redmon Fauset, painted by Laura Wheeler Waring, hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Background, Family: Mother: Annie Seamon Fauset Father: Redmon Fauset Siblings: six older siblings Education: High School for Girls in PhiladelphiaCornell UniversityUniversity of Pennsylvania (French)Sorbonne in Paris Marriage, Children: Husband: Herbert Harris (married 1929; insurance broker)