Savage or Civilized The Second Discourse‚ written by Jean Jaques Rousseau in 1754‚ discusses the human state of nature. This work compares savaged men and civilized men‚ mostly in physical terms. Rousseau aimed to find the source of inequality in the human race‚ by stripping man down to his animalistic nature. He begins by discussing how a natural man uses his instincts for self preservation‚ like an animal. After this‚ he mentions how civilized men tend to compare themselves to each other‚
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Effective Communication Purple Purse had utilized great source credibility. In a news release that was released September of 2014 they had Vicky Dinges‚ the senior vice president of corporate responsibility at Allstate support their recent celebrity ambassador. (“Allstate News Release‚” 2014). Which brings up Kerry Washington as a great credibility source due to her involvement with V-day (“Kerry Washington‚” 2014). The 200 bloggers that had shared their previous experiences with domestic violence
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Critical Discourse Analysis Social communication is increasingly becoming a subject of scientists’ discussions from different disciplines‚ as well as ordinary language users. In contemporary social sciences‚ especially in linguistics‚ we see a clear shift to discourse. Discourse allows us to talk about use of the language‚ as well as the language as a socio-cultural activity. In this sense‚ discourse‚ on one hand‚ reflects the social reality‚ on the other hand‚ it shapes it‚ therefore participate
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Economic inequality encompasses two very concerning issues that negatively affect the citizens of the United States as well as those in other countries. The first is income inequality; "This describes the gap in how much individuals earn from the work they do and the investments they make." Secondly‚ there is wealth inequality which "measures the difference in how much money and other assets individuals have accumulated." (Matthews‚ 2014). There are a variety of opinions on how to address these
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Communication between males and females has always been somewhat complicated. Because we are arguing that males and females have different cultures we wanted to take a look at what some of these differences might be. According to our research the inherent differences between male and female culture are the different roles that society holds for them and the ways these roles lead to different communication styles. The stereotypes that men and women grow up with affect the types of ways in which they
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The Analysis of the Characteristics of Discourse Marker WELL 话语标记语WELL特征分析 摘 要 言语交际中的话语标记语虽在句子中不占据句子成分‚却是在交际中很常见的现象。本文以言语交际中的话语标记语WELL为研究对象，分析和判断它在交际中的特征，为正确理解话语交际意图，准确对其进行翻译提供参考。 关键词 话语标记语；WELL；交际意图；翻译 Abstract It is very common in English to use the expression form like “well”‚ “oh”‚ “you know”‚ “you see”‚ “I mean”‚ “that is to say”‚ “in other words”‚ “as I said”‚ which are all discourse markers. They are small words which do not contribute to the propositional content of the utterance which
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Discourse communities are groups of people that share the same goals‚ ambitions‚ and equal beliefs. I believe that one single person can belong to many different discourse communities depending on who they are‚ on the inside. For example three discourse communities that I belong to are the Faulkner county sheriffs department‚ my church youth group‚ and my group of buddies I play video games with. Faulkner county’s sherrifs department was a big part of my career. Even though I don’t work in the jail
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Throughout both of these works his opinion of using violence when needed has never changed. In the Discourses he states that if you need to resort to violence in order to seize power so you can reconstruct the constitution of a city so that it fosters political liberty‚ go for it. (Machiavelli 1994‚129). Likewise‚ in The Prince Machiavelli justifies the
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of the Sermon on the Mount discourse‚ which is one of the five discourses of the Gospel of Matthew (5-7‚ 10‚ 13‚ 18‚ and 23-25). This passage locates relatively earlier in the Sermon. Professor Dallas Willard (1998)‚ in his book The Divine Conspiracy‚ claims that “The later parts of the Discourse presuppose the earlier parts and simply cannot be understood unless their dependence upon the earlier parts is clearly seen” (p. 138). If the sequential order in the discourse is important‚ then the earlier
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Reading Response “Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics” by James Paul Gee Summary: In “Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics‚” James Paul Gee attempts to explain “a way of talking about literacy” and “literacy studies.” He describes how a Discourse is not the same as discourse‚ details the different types of Discourses‚ and introduces several new terms to strengthen his argument. Gee’s overall claims‚ in his own words‚ is “the focus of literacy studies or applied linguistics should not be language
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