Organizational Communication

Organizational communication is a type of communication used by organizations. It is defined as, “the exchange of messages between organization members or among members of different organizations”. When you use this type of communicating you are really using a wide range of different communication types except you are incorporating different skills so that you can appeal to the type of organization you are communicating within or to.

In my opinion this seems to just be a type of formal communication that is directed towards businesses instead of just average people. This seems to be a very effective type of communicating when you want to seem more like you are professional like within a workplace while communicating with a boss or even just a person in a higher position than you your self are. There may be a time or multiple times in every person’s life where they are required to communicate to an organization, learning the skills of how to do it properly is a must if you wish to be taken seriously or even if you wish to get into higher positions within a company.     

Smoking among the youth

Dr. Antonia Novello is known as a "medical problem solver" she is known for the different skills she possesses for dealing with problems and finding a way to reduce the problem or stop it all together. 
In the article "Outside the Box" it is said that Dr. Antonia Novello helped to bring down the numbers of children and teens smoking in the 1980s. She wanted to help so she tried to find a major cause for the rapid increase. She need up finding that Cammel cigarette commercials had some of the commercials directed toward the youth in the country. Dr. Novello saw this as one of the major causes for the rapid increase in child and teen smoking. She worked to stop all of the cigarette commercials that were directed toward the youth to try to lower the number of children and teen smoking rates. 
Her efforts were cause and effect reasoning because she went out to find a cause for the increase of youth smoking but was not sure if it was indeed the problem. The effect in the situation is that children Nd teen agers smoke cigarets. This is inductive reasoning because she was not sure that it was indeed the reason that the increase was happening. 

Inductive reasoning

Not too long ago I had to use the inductive reasoning method to figure out a situation. In this situation I was going to school and I was trying to catch up to the bus by driving to the next stop that it was going to make. The distance between these stops is about ten to fifteen miles so it was possible that I would catch up to the bus very quickly. However, I was taking a different road than the one that it first starts out on so I did not see if I had already passed it or if it was in front of me. After driving for a little while I didn't see the bus like I usually do as I pass it. In my head I was trying to figure out what this meant, if the bus had passed me already because on occasion the bus does leave early and this has happened before. On the other hand I could have passed the bus a long time ago not seeing it because we started on different roads. Thinking about it, I decided that the latter would probably be true because I didn't leave that much later than the bus should have and the way I go is faster. As I drive I am looking at the time and it appears that I should be at the stop before the bus but as I see the stop I also see the bus leaving, it did leave early and I did miss it, I was wrong. 
Premiss one: the bus had left early and it was far ahead of me. 
Premiss two: I beat the bus by going the faster way at first and I was far ahead of it.
 Conclusion: I must be in front of the bus beaches I took the faster way in the beginning. 
In the end I was wrong and that resulted in me going slower not going faster to catch the bus. 

Leadership

Leadership is a very important skill to learn while communicating in small groups and making critical decisions. Learning leadership is learning how to direct others and take initiative while in groups. This is a very important skill to learn that you will need for the rest of your life. It seems that in college it is a particularly imperative skill that needs to be learned early on to excel in a few key classes. It already seems to be a quite prevalent skill on today’s college campuses, however, there are some that are shy why don’t like taking the lead and desperately need to learn to do so.

Leadership is such an important skill to learn. In everyone’s life there will come a time when you need to take the lead in some kind task whether that task is planning a party or taking the lead on a project at work. Everyone needs to learn to stand up and take the lead and to not just follow blindly.     

Death Penalty

The death penalty can be regarded as inhumane however, in my opinion the death penalty should be enacted in all states. The death penalty seems to be a very effective deterrent in keeping most people from committing brutal crimes.

In a religious sense the death penalty does seem to contradict the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth by going against the belief that hate should not be returned with hate and evil with evil. Essentially this teaching has the same meaning as Gandhi’s teaching that “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”. If a person identifies strongly to a religious affiliation then I understand why they would not agree with the death penalty, however, I believe that this kind of circumstances is why church and state must be separated. It is not the duty or right of religious groups to decide the laws in which a country of many different religions is a part of.     

Impossibilities

In the story “Silver Blaze” Sherlock Holmes seems to be explaining to Watson that you have to look at things thorough uninfluenced senses, by this I mean that you have to look at things without judging them by what you have seen or felt before. In a way Holmes seemed to be talking about everything in life not just his case solving. It seems that Holmes would have really been able to take the expression, don’t judge a book by its cover to heart. In my own life Holmes’s thoughts about thinking of impossibilities and not just taking situations for what they seem would be very important lessons that I should have realized long ago. Like when I was little I wanted to be a vet even though I was always told by my family that it was too hard to do and they didn’t think I could do it. Currently I am at San Jose State pressuring a BS in biology, and when I get the degree I am going to go to Veterinary school. I didn’t listen to reason I took the impossibilities and am proving them to be false, and believe me it was hard I have thought of giving up and doing something much easier by then I wouldn’t prove them wrong and I need to prove them wrong.             

Communication Apprehension

In our reading, small group communication, communication apprehension is a major issue that is discussed. There are many shy people in the world and often their shyness makes them fear even the thought of talking in groups of people that they do not know.  There are clear disadvantages to having fear of communicating such as not participating meaning that you may lose points in a class or even loosing interest and possibly even respect in the workplace. There are things that a person can do to try to overcome these fears. One of these things that you can do is research the concept that you are going to discuss this can help by making you much more confident in what you are saying allowing you to speak from a more knowledgeable standpoint. I thought that this was a very helpful thing that people who are apprehensive to speak in groups should do. I myself do this because I have a slight fear of speaking in groups and when I know all about what is being discussed that fear seems to completely go away making me more social and making me get more points in classes and be a more resourceful at work.