101 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
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After learning about a multitude of different trauma types and responses to trauma‚ I do not think I have heard any story comparable to that of Michelle Knight‚ author of Finding Me—an incredibly inspiring narrative capturing the horrific details of her kidnapping and subsequent torture for over a decade. Despite the very deep physical and emotional scars Ariel Castro inflicted on Michelle (and the other two women who were kidnapped)‚ she transformed her experiences into this fantastic piece of writing
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Poetry is a very powerful mechanism through which writers can tell their readers something about themselves or the world around them. The language within “Traveling Through the Dark” by William Stafford and “Woodchucks” by Maxine Kumin display the speakers’ psychology and what sort of relationships they have with the animals and their deaths in their respective works. Despite being similar in a few aspects‚ these two works are very different. The most obvious similarity between the two works is
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written discourse‚ though they can typically be divided into four basic categories that cover most pieces of writing. Expository writing is a piece that is written to explain something or provide information about an issue‚ while descriptive writing presents a description of a particular thing through sensual language. Narrative discourse is typically a written work that tells a story‚ often with a basic structure that includes a beginning‚ a middle‚ and an end. An argumentative written discourse‚ on
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story of A Dark Brown Dog‚ the theme identified is that with certain people it is possible to have more trust‚ faith‚ and love in a friend than one may have within their own family. The boys family seems to be in a constant battle with the boy all throughout the story. This occurs during the time of the boys fathers drunkenness and bickering between the family about needless matters. It is seen that he does not come from a very good family. “Every time the family is portrayed‚ it is in a dark or dirty
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2.1. b- Blacks: Internalizing the White Colonial Discourse: This victimization of blacks is‚ in fact‚ far from being one sided. Just like they were oppressed and suppressed by external forces‚ they also contributed to their own subjugation‚ by internalizing the colonial discourse advocated by the Apartheid in order to preserve the status quo. The long years of silencing all kinds of revolt and blocking all attempts to proving the blacks’ well being had affected greatly and negatively
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Samurai or Knight? To begin Knights and Samurai have a lot of common traits‚ but they also have differences. Traits that they both share are‚ they are warriors who protect their land. But a difference is that they have different weapons‚armor‚training and different religions. While knights and samurai have many similarities‚ in a one on one battle‚ the advantage would be given to the knight and this can be seen in their training‚armor‚and their Honor Code. The first way that knights have an advantage
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Dark Matter Dark Energy Prepared by Alexander Ray Prepared for Jennifer Weinberg-Wolf Astronomy with Lab SCI-224-62451 DeVry University‚ Arlington VA December 8‚ 2012 Table of Contents Abstract 3 Dark Matter Dark Introduction 4 Dark Matter Conceptualized 4 Dark Matter Compositional Theories 5 The Role Dark Matter Plays 5 Dark Energy Conceptualized 6 What is Dark Energy 6 The Dark Energy‚ Dark Matter Relationship 7 Conclusion 7 Works Cited 8 Abstract It
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here: • The Island of Knights and Knaves • Portia’s Casket Exploitation of the associativity of equivalence simplifies the problems considerably. 3 The Island of Knights and Knaves The island has two types of inhabitants‚ “knights” who always tell the truth‚ and “knaves” who always lie. Suppose A is the proposition “person A is a knight” and suppose A makes a statement S. Then A is true is the same as S is true. That is‚ A≡S . Examples If A says “I am a knight” then what we can infer
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through the Dark‚” written by William Stafford‚ and “Woodchucks”‚ written by Maxin Kumin‚ the authors discuss about interventions of human beings to animals. Even though the two poems are different in the use of irony‚ the tone and the sentence structure‚ they illustrate similar relationships between humans and animals that humans are superior to animals. “Traveling through the Dark” and “Woodchucks” use different irony to represent their relationships
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