gotta be the shoes!” (Mars Blackmon) There are many groups/discourse communities I belong to. A discourse community is a group of people who have a common interest. They also have their own way of speaking‚ writing‚ behaviors and values. My favorite one is the sneaker head community. What is a sneaker head? A sneaker head is a person who buys shoes to wear and collect. It has become a culture‚ and has made this sneaker loving community have its own way of speaking‚ writing‚ behaving‚ and showing what
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Engaging Communities and Service Users: Reflective Essay Section 1: Outline and discuss a model‚ or example of your practice with reference to what you have learned about engaging with service users and communities. During this essay I will relate concepts‚ methods‚ theories and legislation to service user engagement and communities to the organisation I work for giving examples from my day to day practice. My role is a community support worker within a service that supports adults with learning
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classified as a discourse community. For example‚ a youth choir at church‚ a football team‚ and Girl Scouts are all classified as a discourse community. What is this so called discourse community? Well‚ a discourse community is a group of people who all share a set of common goals with each other. Although‚ there are numerous of discourse communities‚ they all use different languages to communicate with the members that are within the group. McCarthy states that “community members share characteristic
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A discourse community is a group of people who speak and share the same interests in certain topics‚ knowledge‚ and vocabulary; they also use similar jargons specific to that community. I belong to several discourse communities ranging from family‚ friends‚ and church to my ethnic group‚ weight watchers‚ and my classmates. The discourse community that I am going to discuss in this paper is the one that gets me motivated and eager to take part every Tuesday; it is the women’s bible club at my church
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A discourse community can be defined as a group of people who share knowledge of a certain topic‚ share similar backgrounds‚ and have a common goal. A lot of them also had unique ways of communicating with each other which outsiders could not understand. They give everyone something that makes them feel like they belong somewhere and are important too. Being in one of these communities is a good way to be a part of something with people who are easy to relate to and can help you grow fundamentally
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Engaging in the community as well as engaging ourselves with the issues of our society makes us aware and open to the different theories regarding the roles and relationship that contributes to it. Awareness and being concerned to the society are some of the characteristic that we all should have to be able to understand what the things that most of the times are affects our engagement to the society that we have now. This essay mainly gives knowledge and understanding about community engagement and
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COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION & OWNERSHIP IN HEALTH CARE DELIVERY IN NIGERIA BY MUHAMMAD AWWAL WAZIRI RCHP; PGD HIV/AIDS; CAGH; B.Sc CommHealth; MLM; PHCT;TQM; DCH; CCH “The minds and ideas of people is the greatest resource a community has”. Phil Bartle The Alma ata declaration of September 12th‚ 1978 expressed the need for urgent action by all governments‚ all health and development workers‚ and the world community to protect and promote the health of all the people of the world‚ in its declaration
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ROLE OF COMMUNITY RADIO IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT By Saad Ullah Khan Research Scholar‚ Department of Mass Communication Aligarh Muslim University‚ Aligarh 202002‚U.P.‚ India Email: saadgeneration84@yahoo.co.in ABSTRACT: India became independent on 15 August 1947.Though‚ after Independence we achieved tremendous success in many fields but still much is needed to be done in order to become a developed nation. Statistics betrays that after Independence our growth rate has increased from 3% to 9 %
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income‚ no health care and no security. It added that women have limited opportunities owing to isolation‚ exclusion from decision-making processes‚ low mobility‚ overwork and violence (UNHDI‚ 2000). In a 2007 report of CARE International on Women Empowerment‚ the organisation noted that‚ of the 1.3 billion people who live in absolute poverty around the globe‚ 70 percent are women. It asserts that‚ for these women‚ poverty doesn’t just mean scarcity and want. It means rights denied‚ opportunities curtailed
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Reading on: Kenny‚ Susan (2010) ‘The Nature of Community Development’. Developing Communities for the Future: Community Development in Australia. Melbourne: Nelson ITP Tesoriero‚ Frank (2010) Community Development: Community-Based Alternatives in an Age of Globalisation. French Forest‚ NSW: Pearson Education Summary: Community development is an ‘activity or philosophy’ (Kenny 2010) initiated by or facilitated among a group (collectively called community) out of dissatisfaction with existing social
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