person driving through a neighborhood and spotting a community garden‚ the values of that garden can be greatly overlooked. “A community garden is any piece of land gardened by a group of people. The land may produce fruit‚ vegetables‚ and/or ornamentals.”(“Community Gardens”). The majority of community gardens are located in neighborhoods‚ schools‚ and public institution areas‚ such as hospitals. Community gardens are beneficial to the community in many ways such as in economic benefits‚ in decreasing
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discourse community The concept of Discourse and discourse community is very important in English reading and writing. Discourses are group members’ shared “ways of being in the world” (Gee 484). According to the authors we studied‚ Porter‚ Gee‚ Swales‚ Johns and Porter‚ we willingly or unwillingly are part of many different discourse communities or Discourses. Almost everything we do in our everyday life requires involvement in some discourse community. Discourse or discourse community is a very
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My education begins with me attending my community college back in Laredo‚ Texas. In Laredo Community College‚ I didn’t know which major to go into in all honesty‚ like all new college students I was caught up with the new experience of college and the scenery the college provided. Then after discussions with my advisors I’ve decided to enter the field of Criminal Justice‚ which at a time where difficult because I’d needed to know different laws that have changed over the years‚ many court cases
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Is free community college the way of the future? Right now in the U.S. College is basically a necessity to getting a good career later in life‚ but sadly‚ as it stands now‚ most U.S. citizens just cannot afford to go to college and further their education. This is a really sad fact in the U.S. right now and its due mostly to the fact of colleges‚ instead of competing with other schools in prices and tuition rates‚ compete in having the nicest looking campus and the most amount of student services
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In order to graduate some people feel as if teens should have a community service project. Should they have a community service project? As like many things doing a community service project can have some good things to it like for instince helping others at free will with no money or keeping teens out of trouble. But we have found more bad reasons to this rather than fiinding good ones. Here are some of these reasons‚ like many people in this world most teens do not have transportation and not havinig
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The single most impactful experience in my life is attending Ventura Community College. Nothing has hurt me more. In high school I had taken AP and IB classes and had finished within the top ten percent of my class but I had no idea what I wanted to do. I applied to some schools that I considered to be mediocre so that I could continue swimming‚ but as the application deadlines ended and most of my friends were being accepted to places such as UCLA‚ UCSB‚ and even Harvard‚ I had realized that I
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6 disadvantages of growing tourist numbers January 23‚ 2011 - Elmer W. Cagape 1 Comment » Year after year it seems that the number of visitors coming to Hong Kong is setting new records. The 30 million annual visitors the city recorded a few years ago (over 23 million in 2005‚ over 28 million in 2007) was easily eclipsed by the 36 million tourists who arrived last year. The 21.8 per cent climb is quite a big jump; if not for the recent financial crisis and swine flu scare that affected inbound
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In the LGBT community most society view homosexuality as if something is wrong. The public do not acknowledge women and women‚ or man and man as a "couple". This can go for many things‚ which one is being treated equally as a relationship more or less if they chose to believe in something different from heterosexual "couples". However we all know that same sex couple are not being recognized rather they are doing something good or bad. The way society blank out the homosexuals‚ and make the LGBT
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For this assignment‚ I had the unique opportunity to interview a woman from my church who was born into an Amish family‚ and decided to leave the Amish community when she was 18 years old. There are many Amish families and communities here in Rural‚ Northeast Iowa‚ and I’ve grown up visiting Amish greenhouses and stores with my family ever since I moved here. However‚ there are many new things that I learned from this interview‚ and I enjoyed listening to someone else’s perspective on certain aspects
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Communities of Practice (CoP) & Communities of Interest (CoINs) Prepared By: Trung Phat Lam (LAM09310251) For: Villem Van Ree Date: 21 March 2011 Course Title: Diploma of Business [International Business] Course Code: BSB52004 Module Title: Analyse Consumer Behaviour for Specific International Markets Module Code: BSBINT502A Executive Summary * The report was created in order to learn about Communities of Practice and Communities of Interest and the differences between
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