The ability of humans to communicate with one another through the use of language is one of the most beneficial abilities. Both my partner and I had high expectations to communicate without using language, however we both agreed it was hard prior to the experiment. Being that I was not allowed to speak, I used expressions and body movements in order to get my point across. The hardest challenge about the first phase was finding the correct expression and/ or body language to correctly get my message across. With the absence of my language ability, it was hard to communicate. I am so reliable on language to communicate that It took some time to adjust to the fact that I was not using language, and figure out an alternative way to communicate. After using physical representations to get my message across, I began to realize that my partner also began to using physical body movements to figure out what I was portraying. 

Regarding both parts one and two, I felt that my partner had a majority of control. Given that I was not able to use sound in the first part and my partner was, I was not in control of telling my partner what I was trying to say. I felt very out of control because I was not able to tell my partner what I would if I was able to speak; therefore it was hard to find the right body movements, expressions, and gestures to communicate with my partner. In the second part of the experiential assignment, I felt I had more control than in part one, however I was not able to use expressions, or tones in my voice in order to express my opinion of the topic. I still felt pressured to not use these aspects in language to communicate. This gave me less power in this experiment, but still more than the prior experiment.  

If my partner and I represent two different cultures and spoke different languages, it would be harder to communicate given that we would not understand each other. When speaking the same language, the people in that population that are able to speak this language has an advantage to understand everything that one another is saying to each other. It would be harder to understand the concept of what this person is trying to say. I would also take longer to communicate with one another. In our community today, there are deaf people in which cannot communicate regularly with others who are not deaf. Although the deaf community has their own language, they are still excluded from many other non-deaf people today. I continuously see people trying to avoid deaf people and ignoring them in public places. 

In the second part of the assignment, both my partner and I were able to speak; however, I was not able to use expressions or different ones in my voice. This was difficult because I was not able to express my opinion with my words. 

This experiments emphasizes the benefit of language and ability to speak, hear, use physical movement, and expression to communicate. When speaking with expression and tone we are able to put meaning behind our words as well as making the words we speak have smaller and greater meaning. Body language also helps to interpret things; for example, how much these words mean to them. 

The adaptive benefit to possessing the ability to read body language is that we are able to read others body language as well as interpret the meaning behind their language. We place meaning to words by adding body language, tone, expressions, etc. The blind community does not have the ability to view body language. People are quick to judge the blind community when seeing and, or taking to these people. 

This experiment has made the benefit of language very clear. The language that is spoken and unspoken are both very important. I personally think that language is the most important aspects in life.