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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Cyberspace Community Most people view a community as the people that surround them daily and live in the same area as them. However‚ others may see a different aspect of the meaning. The definition of a community is a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality‚ share the same government and often have a common cultural and historical heritage (dictionary.com). Although this may be an accurate definition‚ it varies from other peoples ideals. To some a community can be found
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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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section 61 9/16/14 A Discourse Community Have you ever been among people who are very much like you? That it does not matter what differences you have you all have a lot more in common. A member of 4-H constitutes a discourse community because of an agreed set of common public goals‚ level of membership‚ and something that provides information and feedback. An agreed set of public goals for our community is that as a whole group we do a lot of community service. For a couple of years my
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Community interpreter Nowadays‚ the United Kingdom along with many other world countries became a multicultural country with many different languages spoken. People from minority groups often speak only a little English or no English at all for various reasons. This results in access to all services being complicated for them. Because the Government in the United Kingdom committed itself to providing access to these services equally for everyone there is a need for community interpreters. This
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How I Got to Salt Lake Community College I always wanted to go to college growing up‚ but because of my family‚ along with my sisters and myself‚ were born and raised in a refugee camp in Nepal‚ I had a feeling that college was a dream that would not come true for me. In 2012‚ we came to Salt Lake City‚ Utah. The school I did was from 9th grade. After resettlement in the United States‚ my parents are still struggling to look after the educational future of me and my sisters. My family said if I
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Community‚ a seemingly nondescript comedy about six misfits muddling their way through community college‚ finding each other in a Spanish study group. On its surface‚ it borrows a lot from recent classics. Lead Joel McHale is another comic anti-hero‚ selfish‚ vain yet charming and unfailingly hot. Like The Simpsons‚ it’s chock full of details for ber fans to obsess over‚ replete with endless pop-culture references. Chevy Chase is the show’s only famous actor‚ and even that is a kind of meta joke
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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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Community Assessment Troy Hills Parsippany NJ 1 Community Assessment of Troy Hills Parsippany Richard Sakyiamah Lehman College Professor Marcia Skeete HIN 269 December 5‚ 2012. A community assessment gives emphasis on evaluating agencies‚ community members and systems so as to learn more about circumstances within such community. The goal of community assessment is to gather pertinent information from a personal walk or drive through the community
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argues‚ "A nation is an imagined political community and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign."(Anderson‚ 6). Through these advances‚ America has come closer to achieving Anderson ’s belief of an imagined political community. Anderson believes it to be imagined because "the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members‚ meet them‚ or even hear of them‚ yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communities."(Anderson‚ 6) This can be seen in the
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