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Someone approaches with a smile and an out stretched hand. What is the proper response? As with all things, ac tion is ascertained by at mosphere. In other Jacob HUVAL Acct 229 Finals Pail I Sun Apr 25 4pm-6pm Part 11 Cash Flows Tue Apr 27 6pm-9pni Part III Wed Apr 28 6pm-8pm Part IV T hu Apr 29 6pm-8pm Acct 229 Dr. Slinmaker Part I Sun Apr 25 10 pm-12am Part II Mon Apr 26 10pm-l2am Acct 230 Finals Part I Sun Apr 25 6pin-8pm Part II N. P. V. 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At a business party, the correct response would be to force a smile, share some gossip and either pretend or aspire to be someone important, depending on the person ad dressed. The point is, conversation is a matter of choice, a myriad of ups and downs, shakes and nods, smiles and frowns and laughs and sobs that congregate to form the final prod uct of a truly profound statement. The correct choices must be made so that when the aforementioned scenario does oc cur (and it will), one will make a lasting im pression of personal intelligence, under standing and professionalism instead of stating “1 like blue! Me hungry now!” The art of intelligent conversation is pop culture’s most neglected aspect of communi cation — second only to four feet of string and two tin cans. Intelligent conversation has taken a tremendous downfall among today’s youth, as well as yesterday’s youth, which are, co incidentally, today’s youth yesterday or yes terday’s youth next Tuesday only during a leap year. People of all ages and of numerous anatomical variations have lost either the ability or the will to instigate and maintain coherent, intelligent conversation. One can hardly walk into or out of a grocery store without being hailed by inane statements like, “Hey, you have to pay for that!" An inherent problem is the magnitude of choices that must be made in the course of a conversation. The most obvious choice is vocabulary, choosing one word over another, looking for the right combination to articu late the message most efficiently. To a very few elite’s knowledge, there ex ist words that can convey up to three sepa rate ideas at once. For instance, the combination of “four legged, high-backed and scootable” can be summarized into the word chair. "Wooden. writes well and always numberea!ring a condensed into pencil. And“th.:. tseot ! ti >ld s easily" can be taken to me: The !i 2.9 mi )mil Manson. « Another important aspect of ar I® ^ , conversation is body language. "JT 1 ’ Keep in mind that this refers! D 1 pped sent I' 1 . poMure, no! the “bodyla::, one n tmm the stomach r '-p^' ( . “You idiot! Why did you eatali sausage and picante?! I'll make; enfnn tin- come a.m.!” )C kb It cannot be -11 essed enough "■'■■Pas/i i, body lang n: uplift evencr©mu n ntic ai see Conversation : llion f< ■ mi - i m.in La CONGRATULATIONS, Kappa Alpha Theta Seniors! We are going to miss you!!!! Amy Broline . 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