Real Housewives of New Jersey

 

 

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For this weeks assignment I watched the real housewives of New Jersey. I watched the show first with the sound off, then with the sound one.  I have never seen this show before and reruns were playing on bravo so I decided to give it a shot. Within the first few minutes of the show I could tell that there was drama. One of the characters was talking to the camera and she looked very irritated and was waving her hands around.  Then there was a fight, it was a physical fight between two men and more joined in and they seemed to be at a babies baptism. I could tell just through facial expression that some of the individuals on the show did not get along. Based on all of the nonverbal cues that I saw, I came to the conclusion that these people were very angry with each other. It seemed like they were all related and that this was a family feud. There was a lot of emotions involved and crying.

 

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I watched the episode with the sound on this time and learned that many of my predictions were right. I had a feeling that the characters on the show were related and I was right, they were a brother and sister. They brother was celebrating his sons baptism and he invited his sister and her husband even though there was some obvious tension. There was a fight over some issues they had in the past. The emotions showed in this video were pretty obvious without the sound. With the sound on I just got the little details that I missed filling me in n the content of the show.

 

I have learned a lot this week when it comes to communication, especially nonverbal communication. I think I learned the most while observing my family rather then watching The Real Housewives of New Jersey. My "aha" moment was understanding how much you can gather from a conversation when just focusing on nonverbal cues. It really is amazing how much body language influences communication.