The film "And the Band Played on" traces the early days of the AIDs pandemic the world from the pers ...

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The film "And the Band Played on" traces the early days of the AIDs pandemic the world from the perspective of a host of different subcultures within the US. As you watch the film, a number of cultural subgroups will be represented in the film. The obvious ones are: the LGBTQIA, Scientists / Epidemiologists (CDC), Politicians, and various families. To begin, I hope you recognize the parallels to the current pandemic that we are currently experiencing. Hopefully, the critical thinking that you do in analyzing the film, help you understand the interactions you might be regularly experiencing today. Now, throughout this course you have been introduced to a host of concepts that are meant to make you better, more mindful communicators in your personal and professional settings. For this essay, look for an example of how poor intercultural communication skills negatively impacted our nations attempt to address the AIDs pandemic. I just casually re-watched the film this weekend, and noted about 12 that I think you (or I) could discuss and analyze at length. Having generated your own list, I want you to focus on just one instance and use this approach: Identify the scene and characters involved in the instance of poor intercultural communication skills (NOTE: please give me a time stamp of the scene that you are referring to, this will make it easier to follow your analysis). Discuss the effects of the poor communication--might be implied or an explicit part of the story line. Finally, discuss how mindfulness (i.e., sound intercultural communication) could have avoided the negative effects or produced a more positive outcome. The goal of this essay is to demonstrate that you have mastered the course content. You have been trained to think critically about your interactions, diagnose the potential for differences to affect those interactions, and adapt your communication messages in the moment to achieve a better outcome. In this essay, demonstrate that you can identify those moments when the characters failed to communicate effectively (1), discuss the negative outcome (2 might be implied or an explicit part of the film), and then show me how one or both characters could have chosen mindfulness in order to achieve a better outcome for one or both characters.