Of what use is free speech if there is no one to listen?? It is impossible for communication to occur without someone receiving a message.
Listening has been found to be linked to success be it at home, school, college, work place or on the personal front. A lot of misunderstanding, heartburn and failure could be avoided by effective listening.
Yet, we tend to ignore the subtle hint that nature has provided us with .. " Two ears and one mouth".. Obviously to listen twice as much as we speak...
Many a times HEARING is considered synonymous with listening. But hearing is just the first of the five steps in the process of listening.
The process of listening is completed through:
1) Hearing : here in sound waves strike the eardrum and cause vibrations
2) Attending: Is the act of paying attention to the signal
3) Understanding : Is the process of making sense of the message
4) Responding: Means giving bservable feedback to the sspeaker and finally the last step in the listenin process is
5) Remembering
Listening is said to have occured only when all the steps have been followed. Though HEARING is a natural process, listening needs effort and practice. Hence the general assumption that listening is a passive process is not true.
Based on their style and habit various types of listeners could be identified... ( this is purely based on my observation )
PSEUDO LISTENERS:
Are those who give an appearance of being attentive by using a polite facade to mask thoughts. They may even nod and answer occasionally. Such listeners are invariably seen in most classes while Teaching. ( I very often fall in this category especially when my cousin has something to tell me.. and i am totally engrossed in my mobile.. I would have no idea of what she says but and yet i keep nodding my head... ts a different thing that she has caught my trick off late.. and questions time and again about what she just said .. so i am forced to listen)
SELECTIVE LISTENERS:
Respond only to parts of conversation that interest them, rejecting everything else. Generally seen among spouses.
DEFENSIVE LISTENERS.
Take innocent cmments as personal attacks. eg. Teenagers who perceive parents' questions about friends as snooping, get defensive.
AMBUSHERS
Are those that listen carefully because they are collecting information to attack what you say. The classic eg. Being cross questioned during exams
INSULATED LISTENERS
Would rather not deal with a topic. If you remind them about a problem - perhaps an unfinished job, poor grades etc. they will nod and promptly forget what you have just said.
INSENSITIVE LISTENERS
Are not able to look beyond the words and behavior to understad their hidden meanings ad take remarks at face value.
STAGE HOGS
Generally keep interrupting conversations to turn the topic to themselves instead of showing interest in the speaker.
One can try and become a better listener by understanding some reasons one listens poorly and identifying and minimizing the above faulty listening behaviours.
So make a conscious effort to be an effective listener rather than an affective speaker, for a change.
Happy Listening!!!
Berber?
Berber is a type of language and it also represents the people of certain native, non-Arab tribes inhabiting large sections of the Northern part of Africa.The important characteristics, when it comes to the people of Berbers is that they are sparely built and their skin colour range from white and near-white to that of dark brown in colour.The picture below shows the Berber people
Berber and Arabs
The important part in history is that they mixed with so many other ethnic groups,through the centuary,and the most notable one includes the Arabs.At present the Berbers are usually identified on a linguistic rather than that of an ethnic basis.This has made the Berber language, as a branch of Afro-Asiatic language family and the most interesting thing is that this language comprises of about 300 closely related local dialects. The Berber language is the most primarily a spoken language among their people, but inspite of this language being spoken by many people,the written form is little known and it is not commomnly used.
Berber population
The population of Berber includes about 2.2 crores approximately and it constitutes
1)40 percent of the population of Morocco
2)Nearly 30 percent of the population of Algeria
But as a matter of fact the number of identifiable Berbers in North Africa is slowly declining as they slowly trying to adopt the language of Arabs.Most of the Berbers are Muslims andthe important thing is that they are less orthodox, however, and their religious rituals includes many elements which was derived from ancient pre-Islamic and pagan religions. The Berbers usually inhabit rural areas and they dwell in tents and clay huts and also use stone houses in larger villages.
Occupation of berber
Traditionally the occupations of Berber includes sheep and cattle raising.Inspite of this,they also concentrate in crop rising. Apart from these two fields Berbers are also well versed in other occupations which includes
1)Flour milling Wood carving
2)The quarrying of millstones
3)The production of domestic utensils, agricultural implements, pottery, jewelry, and leather goods.
Early Existance
The historical evidence says that Berber lived first in Nort Africa and they inhabited the coast of North Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic Ocean, for many centuaries and they continued to inhabit these regions till the domination of Arabs in 7th AD and the Arabs drove many Berber tribes inland to the Atlas Mountains and to areas in and near the Sahara. This made them to preach Islam after the Arab conquest and they struggled for their powers for many centuries.The image below shows the Berber Warriors
Under the French rule
France and Spain subjugated Morocco and Algeria during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1918, after the first world war, the Berber and Arab populations of North Africa began actively to seek independence. The Rif,which was led by the Rif emir Abd el-Krim, repeatedly defeated Spanish troops beginning from 1921 and the Berbers also advanced into French Morocco in 1926 but were repulsed next year by the combination French and Spanish forces.The picture below shows the Rif Tribesman
Independent at last
Hi
This Article about our young generation. Some time before I posted a pole in my profile that "do you really think that premarital affairs is not cheat to your life partner" Some guys say that I do by my partner can't do this. I want to ask this type of guys why you dont like if your wife is make this type of relation with any other before marrige. In present I saw so much experience in my life some time before I saw that tow young boys were going on his bike there was a collage girl going the boys has hit his hand on her bum...... is this right. I think that our new generation is going to wrong way they take worg benefit of there freedom. I think if mother father knows the language of fate they will write anything for their childrens. I am tell my young brother sister that our mother father given us our life and so much education for think us that what is wrong and what is right. Our mother father belive on us so much why don't we thinks to do something really good.
Rahool
Many may not understand what I am talking about by just reading the topic name. Neither did I. I go along as I start typing. Being foolish to me is doing things as you are told to do them without any returns, again and again. Now here I'm talking abou the contests. No not the Community contests. They are fine and you do get returns. :P What I am talking about is the SMS trend all over TV channels and the lucrative prizes added to them. SMS this and you get that. SMS that and you get this. How is it related here ?! Well cause I saw MTV Hero Honda (Sponsors should always be credited) Roadies 7 doing it this time after the failing attempt of last time. By the failing attempt of last time I mean the Idea contest which was being held to find a winner who would be seen on the Finale episode. So when it ended, seemed to me as either there was no winner or I didnt get the Idea. Maybe it meant to have the person on the Finale but not on screen. If it was this way, it was stupid. :D As for this time, The Delhi auditions are over. I am from Delhi BTW. But, I am still getting messages and e-mails to maximize my chances of becoming a Roadie. So well before people start bashing me for an Anti-MTV thread, let me tell you that this is not one. I just wanna ask the Youth, the so-called Youngistaan if it really that foolish ? What I'm asking for is just a bit of transparency in such contests. And I dont think I'm asking for too much. :)
TV shows are just promoting themselves with this type of things that if you participate in this contest you will get and it depends on you if you have money and faith in the contest then participate or else we wont...same thing is daily we get calls from customer cares through mobiles to get this caller tune that tune we dont activate rite?
same goes to shows they give gifts for the correct guess but if you send 1 message its impossible to get because they give huge amount of prize example is stunt mania where pulsar 220 was given to a person who sent some 1000+ msgs...see they need profits and this is the way they get profits
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next is some shows which ask us to vote for the contestants to save them from vote out if you like to save then you will do or else no...i never messaged to anyone except this time roadies because i wanted to participate and the show people wanted to get profits through this way...
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finally my point is it depends on you if you feel to participate then you do or else no
The process of recruiting journalists is opaque and dubious. You may have rarely come across an employment advertisement in Times Ascent, HT Careers, naukri.com, monster.com, timesjobs.com, etc where a newspaper or a television channel is seen looking for journalists. Even if you have, those ads don't lead to recruitment; they are nothing but a hypocritical show of 'transparency'. The sub-editors and city reporters come from sundry mass communication schools and the senior editors get jobs by leveraging their connections with politicians, industrialists and, once in a while, personal friendship with the media houses' honchos.
An element of glamour is both rightly and wrongly associated with the media. Stricken with this superficial sheen especially of television channels, fresh school and college graduates, instead of enrolling for higher education, make a beeline for admission to mass communication courses offered by many established as well as fly-by-night operators. But a mass communication course can only tell you how to present what you know; if you don't know anything enough, what will you present? Not realising such incomplete nature of high school or undergraduate education, men and women in their late teens are in a hurry to see their faces on the television monitor or, at least, their bylines on 'Page One'.
It becomes a terribly tasking job for senior journalists to teach these youngsters nuances of politics, society, science, history and all other subjects that are associated with the matters that are reported and edited. In the process, the seniors lose their cool and misbehave grossly with the juniors who, in contrast to the rosy picture they had visualised before becoming journalists, are paid a pittance as salary: A sub-editor's or city reporter's initial salary is somewhere between Rs 7,000 and Rs 10,000. Further, by the time they make up for their lack of higher education with the grinding of experience, their salary rises up to a range of Rs 15,000-Rs 25,000. This is when the media houses start conspiring to replace them with yet another batch of young people who can work for less money, be moulded easily and can tolerate the Don Quixotes — their bosses. In most such conspiracies, senior editors (with political connections) drawing salaries that run into a few lakhs of rupees per month are the co-conspirators along with the respective owners of various media houses.
in todays world knowledge & experience is most important. thing in life to acheive our goal...........aur jahaa tak baat hai media mei jaane ki ....4 the job........ it is very difficult.........because ..........there is a lots of obstecals regarding recruitment & tough competition while giving the interview... even one mistake can push u out from the entry........SO MEDIA REQIRE TALENTED N EXPERIENCED PERSON...............SO the normal educated person cant get inside the media...........without any special traits in their education...................!!!
everybody wants to get into media, from masters in mass comm to law graduates. And almost everybody is good at writing,so preference is given to those who are equally good at desk work.
People get jobs on the basis of 3 things at the senior level.
1) Inherent talent. some ppl are better at reporting, some are better at production etc
2) what u have learnt in your years of working.
3) your experience. after years, u grow better at even those aspects that u weren't best at to begin with.
At the junior level ppl get jobs on the basis of knowledge of language, readiness to pick up, honesty.
And it is very easy to get into media. We are all the time on the lookout for young people with the above 3 qualities to hire at junior levels. We get candidates who apply for desk jobs and their grammar is faulty and general knowledge is poor. We get candidates who apply for reporting jobs and their general awareness is nil so their understanding of how to bring in the news from the field remains like a novice's.
I have been in positions where I have been looking to hire ppl and I have got candidates like these and rejected them or hired somebody just because we were desperate to fill the post and get another hand. And I don't care for journalism courses. I have found that those who come from there are not necessarily better. They have to be taught from scratch. I much prefer a fresh graduate or post-graduate who will learn readily. There is no learning like learning on the job. That is how we learned.
Finally, I agree with Surajit that saying there are so many good writers around is a joke! read the newspapers and magazines with attention and you will see how much bad writing is floating around and getting published these days because the number of newspapers and magazines has gone up and there are pages to be filled. so a lot of rubbish and poor writing gets into print which would never happen earlier.
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