2009 Frisch’s Discourse Community What is a discourse community? According to John Swales‚ a respected written communication analyst‚ a discourse community is described as a group of people that have the same goals or purposes‚ and use communication to achieve these goals. In addition‚ “A discourse operates within conventions defined by communities‚ be they academic disciplines or social groups” (Swales‚ 119). This is not be confused with a speech community‚ “a community sharing knowledge of rules
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Secure communities: A fact sheet Joe Rosario Keller Graduate School of Management PA 582‚ Week 3 Project‚ Spring A 2011 Secure Communities is a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) program designed to identify immigrants in U.S. jails who are deportable under immigration law. ‘The Dallas County Sheriff ’s Department is one of more than a thousand activated jurisdictions participating in Secure Communities (S-Comm). For the uninitiated‚ here ’s how it works: Say a man
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Importance of Community Gardens "Tell me; and I will forget. Show me; and I will remember. Involve me; and will understand forever" is a saying by Confucius‚ meaning the essential prerequisite for learning is involvement. Community Gardens provide involvement of three important types individual work and enjoyment‚ group and team co-operation and community engagement. I will now explain how community gardens offer opportunities for these three types of learning. Gardens are used for community education
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The gay community or LGBT community is a loosely defined grouping of LGBT and LGBT supportive people‚ organizations and subcultures united by common culture and civil rights movements. Furthermore‚ the remarkable growth of the gay community in recent history has revolutionized our culture and consciousness‚ creating radically new possibilities for people to “come out”‚ and live more openly as homosexuals. Before the early years‚ homosexuality was a taboo subject. Since then‚ times have changed
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Rebuilding a Community The motto of the National Beta Club says‚ “Let us lead by serving others.” Helping others in my community has always played an important role in my life. On April 27th‚ 2011‚ various tornadoes swept throughout the county I live in‚ destroying a large part of my community. Many of my friends and family were effected by the devastating tornadoes‚ including my uncle and aunt with their three children. I helped to rebuild my community by participating in a community wide clean-up
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What’s so great about Community Colleges anyway? Does everyone that attends community colleges know the role of them? Most people don’t know the achievement gaps or knows the importance of them. Many teens today are so excited about attending college the last decision on their mind is commuting. This is because most are ready for the dorm life‚ freedom‚ and partying. Education does cross their mind‚ but other times it isn’t until the hard work kicks in. This also goes for charter schools. Charter
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COMMUNITIES & URBANIZATION Introduction George Murdock once said that a community is one of the two truly universal units of society organization‚ the other one being family (Schaefer‚ 461). We are all part of a community‚ and in many cases‚ we are a part of multiple ones. In chapter 20 of our textbook‚ we are looking at communities and urbanization. It discusses urbanization and how communities originate. It also looks at the different types of communities. Communities are defined as "a
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A healthy community is a place where people can prosper both physically and socially‚ reaching their full potential. In these communities health promotion is adopted‚ and every member works at maintaining a healthy lifestyle free from injury‚ illness‚ and disease. These communities improve the quality of life of their inhabitants by providing its members with healthy‚ available‚ accessible‚ and affordable options. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‚ 2014). These communities invest “in proven
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Gated communities are housing estates which have a gate or other barriers across a primary access. The estates may also be surrounded by fences‚ walls or other natural or erected barriers that can further limit access. In games such as grand theft auto 4 which has a gated community called beachgate‚ while on television desperate housewives live in a suburb of Fairview‚ where wisteria lane and the residents can be found‚ this is also a gated community also the real housewives of orange county is
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COMMUNITY NURSE The gradually shifting of health care from the acute to the non-acute setting is also changing some of the professional nurse’s training. A number of colleges are integrating a more in depth training in community nursing. They are including skill‚ role‚ and competencies required to function as a community health Register Nurse (RN). Examples include an epidemiologist‚ case manager‚ coordinator of services provided to a group of patients‚ occupational health nurse‚ school nurse
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