Look what I found in my pile of Word document files in my hard disk. I did not write this by the way. I just found it. Hope this helps!

Basic Coping Techniques When you are faced with a painful emotional experience, try one or more of the proven stress relievers listed below:
? Talk to a trusted friend, family member, or religious counselor about what’s troubling you. Express your anger. Neither holding anger in nor blowing up is constructive.
? Cry if you feel like it. It may relieve tension.
? Focus on action you can take — alone or with others — to resolve the situation or to make matters better.
? Exercise on a regular basis and maintain a healthy diet.
? Get all the sleep you need, but don’t use sleep as an escape.
? Avoid nonprescribed mood-altering drugs (including alcohol, which is a depressant.)

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I have written another mini research report on a communication theory as a college assignment. Enjoy.
The theory

Not all communication theories are professionally originated by academics of pure principles that strictly confine themselves with evidence-based rules. In the 1960s, there advanced a rather controversial but then widely-known theory known as Technological Determinism. This theory plainly states that technology, i.e. the media, shapes the way individuals think, feel and act and how societies organize themselves and operate (Wood, 2004).
Though the term ?Technological Determinism? already exists, this bold statement was made by Marshall McLuhan, which catapulted him into the spotlight through, obviously, the media. He sees the deterministic value in technology in the communication field, thus his ideologies were centered in that area. As communication technology evolves and advances, so too does human life is shaped and cultural changes take place. With his claims, he had glamorized the media.
However, this theory is not as well-accepted amongst the academics. Their argument is that there was not enough research and evidence to prove the far-fetched theory. In addition, the theory is thought to be hyperbolic, as it exaggerates, and excessively deterministic. Joseph Goguen (2001), states that the Technological Determinism theory is classified as a form of reductionism: a theory that reduces some class of phenomena to some (allegedly) simpler phenomena of another class.

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What’s good on TV these days? Gone are the golden days of half-hour gameshows and soap operas, with the exception of maybe Hollywood Squares and General Hospital. So what’s new in the menu? Come the new millenium, the world is slapped with some programs never before seen on television. Here, I would like to compare two of television’s recent prized possessions.

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This is my mini research on Constructivism for Communication Theory class.

Constructivism is a term with varying interpretations in different fields: education, philosophy, mathematics, art, architecture, political science and linguistics. In communication, constructivism is a cognitive theory of human communication that describes how human perception influences the skillful production and interpretation of a variety of social influence messages (Delia, O’Keefe, & O’Keefe, 1982). The constructivist theory is based on symbolic interactionism and George Kelly’s personal construct theory. Jesse Delia, Daniel and Barbara J. O’Keefe of Northwestern University conceptualized it from these two interrelated theories to understand how human beings construct meaning.

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