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This is the first week of presentation. The assigned group will present their topic today in class. Hopefully, there will not too much stress on their group during presentation. Other groups will use evaluation form to grade for presentation group today. I just downloaded the group’s outline before presentation and it surprised me because their outline is very detailed and well-organized. It looks very easy for audience to follow up and it lets audience know who is presenting; therefore, it is easy for audience to grade the group members. I will learn from their outline for my group present. About my group, we are going to work in group after class today to prepare for our presentation on Oct 24. Kiison will make the ABCX model for his movie, which is “The Big …show more content…

The presentation is expected to last in thirty minutes, so it needs to be very detail and interesting with illustration and examples. I can feel a little stress for my group now. About the lecture this week, Dr. Carson continued to discuss about The Family Circumplex Model with Flexibility and Communication factors. There are two types of family in flexibility: rigid and chaotic. The rigid family is built upon high structure, strict, rules and role while chaotic family has no rules, no roles, and it seems to have domestic violence and drug abuse than the rigid family. Rigid and chaotic can be said in other words as stability and change. Some family members enjoy change while others are not. It is based on personality and culture. In comparison, the rigid family tends to be easier to adapt with stress from external force, but if one of members in the family wants to change, this type of family will face with changing the system and this is not easy to deal with an authorized family. To the chaotic family, they quickly response with change; therefore, any stress comes from inside their system, they easily resolve

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