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    The Middle Ages was a hard time for Europe throughout the years 500-1500 CE. Central government struggled in this time that was also known as the Dark Ages. Medicines were very simple at the time and serious diseases were hardly ever cured. A serious outbreak during this time was the Black Death. This was a plague that could not be cured by the medicines of it’s time. During the Middle Ages‚ the Black Death was a violent disease with horrible signs. It spread through carriers who brought it to Europe

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    Four Forms of Discourse

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    of this‚ exposition‚ the intention is to explain something: for instance‚ to make some idea clear to the reader‚ to analyze situation‚ to define a term‚ to give directions. The intension‚ in short‚ is to inform. One of the four major forms of discourse‚ in which something is explained or “set forth” EXAMPLE: Outdoor Education remains my favorite field trip of all time due to all of the memorable activities we experienced. For instance‚ I was able to touch and hold a wide variety of animals

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    despite the attempts of the working class to create a better life for themselves in this new era‚ many business moguls would soon take over and begin to monopolize their respective industries. The technological revolution‚ capitalist ideals‚ and industrialization created an Age of Big Business that would greatly influence Americans positively then and for many years to come. The Age of Big Business got its pivotal start after

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    The black death of the middle ages is today known as the bubonic plague. There have been three major outbreaks of the Black Death throughout history; the first outbreak was the Plague of Justinian in the sixth century‚ which Justinian survived. The second outbreak occurred in the fourteenth century‚ and killed approximately one-third of the human population at the time. The third outbreak of plague began in the mid-nineteenth century‚ and remained active until 1959 according to the World Health

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    Discourse Analysis Final

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    Betanco‚ Nelida Professor Cecil English 106 February 13‚ 2013 A Discourse Analysis Throughout the world each individual is a member of a certain Discourse community. A Discourse community is a place where people share the same mechanisms of inter-communication among its members‚ as well as utilizing and hence possesses one or more genres in the communicative furtherance of its aims. Each individual pertains to a certain community whether they acknowledge it or not. However‚ the first community

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    Critical Discourse Analysis INTRODUCTION Naturism is an alternative discourse‚ as consciously and systematically proposes a vision of reality‚ an order of things and a logic of social relations that diverge from the hegemonic ideology. In this sense‚ this naturalism is political‚ if we understand the political and ethical proposal of interaction and social action. There arises the need for its exponents to adopt discursive strategies that allow them to justify it. Then drove the hypothesis

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    a large number of Discourse communities exist in the world. Different people may stay in their different community or someone may take many communities. Discourse community is a way let different people‚ who have a same interests‚ using language‚ action‚ interaction‚ values‚ beliefs‚ symbols‚ objects‚ and tools together to place in such a way that other people can recognize them as member of their community (Gee 446). Which means those people may have their special things to show each other how they

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    Choi Discourse

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    1. What effect does Choi observe? What cause does she attribute it to? The religion and traditional notion those effect Choi observe. Actually‚ religion of the old Korea society that had make people think boy is more important than girl. Therefore‚ she was going to attribute it. 2. What specific changes in Korean culture does Choi attribute to the introduction of Confucianism? When downsizing was widespread‚ it means there are more people was layoff. Therefore‚ these people will spend lesser than

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    limitations of social work practice within an organization‚ such as a hospital‚ that operates from a biomedical discourse (give an example)? The biomedical discourse is one of the most influential discourses in the health care profession today (Healy‚ p. 20). Biomedicine is a dominant and pervasive model in health care settings and there are strengths and limitations in working within the this discourse. One of the strengths of working within this model‚ it allows you to work within a multidisciplinary

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    Clemens book Made in Detroit is a clear example of a discourse community. The main reasons that the Arkansas boys are a discourse community is because of their profession‚ where they spend time‚ and how they interact with one another. One thing that relates to all of the Arkansas boys and makes them a discourse community is their profession. All of them are salvagers working at an automotive plant in Detroit. This fits into Swales concepts of a discourse community because all the workers have a common

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