11/22/14 Discourse Community Essay Best Buddies Discourse community‚ a term given multiple definitions‚ has been most consistently defined as a group of people‚ who normally meet in a certain place‚ that have texts and practices in common. John Swales‚ the author of The Concept of Discourse Community‚ gives a list of six characteristics a group of individuals should uphold to be considered a discourse community. Even though a few of John Swales’ characteristics of a discourse community are shown in the
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Because of the situations that I have encountered through my participation in community services‚ I can honestly bring myself to the conclusion that I am a better person than when I didn’t perform these activities. Community service is a great way for students to step outside of their comfort zones and reach out to the people that are less fortunate than I am. It has helped to break some of my bad habits‚ and it has also really helped me out spiritually. I now see that there is a purpose for everything
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The Possible Positive Effects of Community Service As I walk to school‚ I see another wall with graffiti‚ trash on the streets‚ and a woman walking around with no sense about her. While Riverside County has some nice areas‚ there are also unkempt neighborhoods. I believe in Eggers points in Serve or Fail‚ about some of the possible positive effects of community service. Although he states many views about students stepping up and helping the community‚ I agree with three possible positive effects
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Before there was the Caribbean Common Market (CARICOM)‚ there was the Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA). CARIFTA was intended to encourage balanced development of the region by increasing‚ diversifying and liberating trade‚ also ensuring fair CARIFTA was limited as the free trade area was not enough to garner the desired economic efficiency. According to Bernal (2007) “... it did not provide for free movement of labour and capital‚ or for the coordination of agricultural‚ industrial and
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The Caribbean Impact: Trade‚ Economy‚ Immigration‚ and Regional Security While the movement of peoples and goods between the contiguous land borders of the United States and Canada and the United States and Mexico represents the major cross-border movement‚ the “Third Border” of the United States‚ namely the Caribbean‚ is also critical‚ raising important economic and security concerns that Washington cannot afford to overlook. The Caribbean is the tenth-largest trading partner of the United
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MODULE 2: LANGUAGE AND COMMUNITY The West Indies coincides with the following territories of the Commonwealth Caribbean: Jamaica‚ Trinidad‚ Tobago‚ Guyana‚ Barbados‚ Grenada‚ St. Lucia‚ St. Vincent‚ Dominica‚ Antigua‚ St. Kitts‚ Nevis‚ Anguilla and Montserrat. (a) Differentiation between ‘language’ (generic) and ‘a language’ (individual). Language is an ability which every normal human being has and it allows him not only to communicate with other human beings but also with himself
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Aleema Chinchamee Aakeil Murray FOUN1101: Caribbean Civilization 14 November 2014 Beyond Massa: Sugar Management in the British Caribbean‚ 1770-1834. Dr. John Campbell is a lecturer at the University of the West Indies; St. Augustine campus. He specializes on Caribbean civilization and culture. In this book‚ “Beyond Massa: Sugar Management in the British Caribbean‚ 1770-1834”‚ he aims to describe the complexity of the relationship between the enslaved and their masters‚ as well as providing a revisionist
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and start communities in different parts of Southeast America‚ South America‚ even parts of Florida .These new social orders went from small groups that survived not as much as a year to effective states holding a huge number of individuals that made due for eras and even hundreds of years. Today their offspring still shape some independent spaces in a few sections of the world‚ in French Guiana‚ Jamaica‚ Colombia and Belize are proud of where they came from. Maroon or Seminole Communities‚known in
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Royal Caribbean Cruises‚ LTD: A Case Study 1. Using the Information Systems Triangle as a framework‚ evaluate the alignment of RCCL’s business strategy‚ organizational strategy‚ and information systems strategy before Tom Murphy became CIO and then after Tom Murphy took over as CIO (up to 9/11/2001). Prior to Tom Murphy’s tenure as CIO‚ Royal Caribbean Cruises Line’s (RCCL’s) business strategies were not fully aligned with the organizational and IT strategies. Tom Murphy was instrumental in bringing
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1). What is community organizing? Community organizing is when communities are helped to identify common problem or goals‚ mobilize resources‚ and in other ways develop and implement strategies for reaching their goals they have collectively set. 2). What are the assumptions (identified by Ross) under which organizers work when bringing a community together to solve a problem? There are seven assumptions that were outline by Ross. 1) Communities of people can develop the capacity to deal with their
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