Impact on Community The epidemic has many negative consequences regarding impact on community. “Heroin is a highly addictive opioid drug‚ and its use has repercussions that extend far beyond the individual user” (National Institute on Drug Abuse). “The medical and social consequences of drug use- such as hepatitis‚ HIV/AIDS‚ fetal effects‚ crime‚ violence‚ and disruptions in family‚ workplace‚ and educational environments- have devastating impact on society and cost billions of dollars each year”
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Barrett Rogers ANT 1013.005 Dr. Robert J. Hard March 29‚ 2005 Speech Community Contribution There is an infinite amount of chat rooms available on the internet and each one can be defined as its own speech community. I have chosen to analyze a chat room that is devoted to the hit Fox reality show‚ American Idol. The transcript used was from a chat session that occurred at 10:00 PM on March 27‚ 2005. This online chat room seemed to be the source of a continuous flow of opinionated statements
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Health Teaching Project: Pre-Implementation Report Shayna Rothlein Linfield College Health Teaching Project: Pre-Implementation Report This mental health clinical practice has afforded the unique experience of working with the homeless population of Portland at Rose Haven. Rose Haven is an intervention center that provides aid to homeless and at risk women and children. This facility opens its doors four days a week from 9am to 12pm providing a safe atmosphere to build community. During
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Each of the Families and villages within the Shaker community consisted of approximately a hundred members‚ who were governed by elders and eldresses. The Shakers were highly organized people‚ and they set up a system of people inside their “tribes” so that each person has their own position and label. They were stroke with heavy responsibilities to care for the spiritual needs and became bastions for young Believers‚ maintaining the order and union of Shakers. The Shakers all believed and hoped
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duties‚ they still have to take the communities wishes into consideration. The quality of community-police relationships strengthens when the police achieve the goals of the community for public safety. If the community is satisfied with the work done by police not only are the relationship strengthened‚ but it also builds
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Speech Communities Language is both an individual possession and a social possession. We would expect‚ therefore‚ that certain individuals would behave linguistically like other individuals: they might be said to speak the same language or the same dialect or the same variety‚ i.e.‚ to employ the same code‚ and in that respect to be members of the same speech community‚ a term probably derived from the German Sprachgemeinschaft. Indeed‚ much work in sociolinguistics is based on the assumption that
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11-3 Community Service: Mandatory or Voluntary Community service is a topic that is highlighted in our society. Many people have different reasons for their participation in the service‚ having it be done for selfish reasons or unselfish reasons. However‚ participation is mandatory. This being the case‚ community service should be voluntary. Community service holds you back from doing certain things. High schools require 40 hours of community service in order to graduate
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Importance of Community Usually community refers to a group of people living in a common geographical location. This group of people obeys some social norms and some common value among themselves. As such‚ there are so many communities the world over‚ separated by languages‚ cultures‚ or geographical locations. However‚ they are related to each other in some way or other‚ thus making entire world a one‚ single community. A sense of community is important to establish peace and harmony among
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citizens in that community‚ environment. There are a variety of environmental conditions that affect the structure of the environment. Legal conditions refer to how the legislature‚ courts and local governing bodies expect how the police to perform when it comes to complying with their job. Some communities have laws and ordinances that are enforced for not only the citizens but the police officers to comply by as well. Demographic conditions are the characteristics that make up a community. Each ethnic
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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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