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    A Discourse Community and Cosmetology To some people a cosmetologist may not have the perfect job. However they have been around for centuries. Cosmetologists didn’t have the name they have today‚ but they date back to Ancient Egypt‚ China‚ Rome‚ and Greece. Every culture has incorporated beauty into their everyday lifestyle. The field of cosmetology is somewhat of a more broader field than others. Cosmetologists can decide to style hair or he/she can chose to incorporate hair‚ skin‚ and nails

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    James McCray Aryn Bartley WR 122 April 27‚ 2015 Respect: Something Earned‚ on and off the Court Respect among basketball‚ football‚ baseball or players of any sport‚ is like nothing else. The common mutual respect is so different because one minute it could be there and the next minute it would be gone‚ and vice versa. Between coaches‚ players‚ and referees there is a lot of potential respect but a lot of potential disrespect as well. This respect isn’t earned quickly or easy at all. This

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    Chris Bulcaen makes a brief introduction to the study of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). CDA intends to use social-theoretical method in discourse analysis and is primarily linguistically based (Blommaet &ump; Bulcaen‚ 2000‚ p.447). It intends to analyze the structural relationships of dominance‚ discrimination‚ power and control through a textual study (Blommaet &ump; Bulcaen‚ 2000‚ p.448). Based on the assumption that social discourse is constructed and socially conditioned‚ CDA explores the power

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    To appear in the Handbook of Discourse Analysis‚ edited by Deborah Tannen‚ Deborah Schiffrin‚ and Heidi Hamilton. Oxford: Blackwell. Computer-Mediated Discourse Susan C. Herring 1 Introduction 1.1 Definition Computer-mediated discourse is the communication produced when human beings interact with one another by transmitting messages via networked computers. The study of computer-mediated discourse (henceforth CMD) is a specialization within the broader interdisciplinary study of computer-mediated

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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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    common enlightenment position that we are better off being noble in our state of nature of noble savages this point is driven through more clearly in his work Discourse on Inequality‚ (Rousseau 1755) The Social Contract is more open to the view that we can benefit from modern society. He sets out to determine the basis

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    This paper will conduct a critical discourse analysis on North American media coverage of the World Indigenous Games. Jiwani and Young (2006) offer a helpful framework for a methodical approach to exploring Indigenous representations in media. In their article on the missing and murdered women of Vancouver’s Eastside‚ they studied 128 newspaper articles over the course of five years in order to uncover patterns on how Indigenous people are framed in the media. The article clearly states that the

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    our society is broken up into small groups. These individual groups can be classified as a discourse community. For example‚ a youth choir at church‚ a football team‚ and Girl Scouts are all classified as a discourse community. What is this so called discourse community? Well‚ a discourse community is a group of people who all share a set of common goals with each other. Although‚ there are numerous of discourse communities‚ they all use different languages to communicate with the members that are within

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    Political discourse fails to explain the rise and nature of authoritarian governments in industrialized societies when it presupposes the rational political actor. Time and time again‚ the rational‚ self-interested political agent fails to measure up with particular political situations and circumstances‚ often leading to unpredictable catastrophes. This rational political actor has its origins in the Cartesian‚ ahistorical‚ self-conscious subject—a subject capable of using the "light of reason"

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    One of these connotations is person versus self conflict. In “To Know Ourselves”‚ when the author says “reflect to know ourselvesourselves who dreamt … to know this heavy heart” it signifies a loss of self and the struggle of trying to find yourself after a tragic event(273). The words “reflect”‚ “know”‚ and “ourselves” connect to searching for yourself and “dreamt” and “heavy heart” connect to losing your dreams and ideas after a tragic event

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