Interpersonal Communication In The Chicago Fire

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“Chicago Fire” is a show on NBC that portrays the life of a firefighters and paramedics. The house has the Rescue Squad, Truck 51, and Ambulance 61. In the show there are plenty of examples of interpersonal communications working within the characters. Whether it be strained relationships, power hungry co-workers, or distressed victims of a fire, “Chicago Fire” shows interpersonal communications working to help understand situations, and solve problems. Through the last couple of weeks the show has been evolving as the beginning of season four is revealing more relationships, heros, and action. However even though the season has only just begun there has been plenty of example of how terms relating to interpersonal communications can be seen, …show more content…

Immediately the fire house Chief Wallace Boden accepted Gabriela Dawson to be a cadet for Truck 51. Dawson is the first female firefighter at Firehouse 51, and not all of the guys were happy about it. Some of the men felt that she wasn’t strong enough or that she didn’t belong on a fire truck. Her sexual orientation, her characteristics which identified her as female did not go well with the guys. They thought that her place was still on Ambulance 61. This gave her a gender role, a set of expectations for appropriate behavior that a culture typically has assigned to an individual based on her biological sex. Though Dawson had finally got all of the discrimination away from her, Dawson recently lost a baby. The chief over all of the district fire departments saw this as a weakness, and tried his hardest not to let Dawson back in the Fire House. But Dawson did not let her perceived gender role stop her from getting back to work. Gender roles are seen very frequently in most parts of life today. But there is no reason to judge what somebody’s role is when one does not truly know a person. Also Gender roles can also become very stereotypical, which is a generalization of a certain groups that are applied to individuals. An example of a common stereotype is that Women are not as strong as men are. This stereotype was applied to Dawson, but it is not true, she is as strong as the men in the fire house. The same goes for all stereotypes they all aren’t always

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