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    A Discourse Community and Cosmetology To some people a cosmetologist may not have the perfect job. However they have been around for centuries. Cosmetologists didn’t have the name they have today‚ but they date back to Ancient Egypt‚ China‚ Rome‚ and Greece. Every culture has incorporated beauty into their everyday lifestyle. The field of cosmetology is somewhat of a more broader field than others. Cosmetologists can decide to style hair or he/she can chose to incorporate hair‚ skin‚ and nails

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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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    Learning about discourse community in writing is very essential because it helps students learn about their discourse communities. I learned a lot about the use of language in a discourse community. This essay has not only taught others about Pakistani community I have also learned new things about my community. This essay has also helped me move away from five-paragraph essay format. I have also read articles which described the discourse community the author entitled too. This essay has taught

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    our society is broken up into small groups. These individual groups can be 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

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    Marriage The most important quality of a married couple is love. In a marriage important issues such as attitudes‚ responsibilities‚ religion‚ finances‚ career‚ and whether or not to have children should be discussed so that the couple can learn each other’s views regarding the issues to determine compatibility. Building a happy marriage is the result of conscious effort on the part of a husband‚ and wife. A lifelong union that people bound together by a bond of love‚ which is spiritual as well

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    Four Forms of Discourse

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    of this‚ exposition‚ the intention is to explain something: for instance‚ to make some idea clear to the reader‚ to analyze situation‚ to define a term‚ to give directions. The intension‚ in short‚ is to inform. One of the four major forms of discourse‚ in which something is explained or “set forth” EXAMPLE: Outdoor Education remains my favorite field trip of all time due to all of the memorable activities we experienced. For instance‚ I was able to touch and hold a wide variety of animals

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    No. 10 Marriage is Superior to Single Marriage is an interesting subject that has been concerning and discussing since the beginning of the human society. Some people regard marriage as the most important thing in a person’s life while someone believes it is terrible and a restriction of freedom. Bacon’s essay‚ Of Marriage and Single Life‚ considers wives and children and balances their advantages against their disadvantages in such a way that is difficult to decide whether marriage is a good

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    Marriage is often defined as a “socially sanctioned sexual and economic union between men and women” Marriage is the process by which two people who love each other make their relationship public‚ official‚ and permanent. It is the joining of two people in a bond that putatively lasts until death‚ but in practice is increasingly cut short by divorce. In cases like this‚ the heaviest burden is not on the couple but on the children. Reason Why People Marry * Human infants have a prolonged period

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    United States would cause a chain of events that changed both the US and the world. The Bush administration was able to use discourse following these events to justify wars and to push through their right-wing agenda. Discourse is usually used to describe a discussion or debate that is generally between not just two people‚ but rather a large group of people. A discourse is also usually a one sided argument and is meant convince or justify to the public what the speaker or writer believes based

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    Michel Foucault on Discourse

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    Discourse: based on ideas of Michel Foucault‚ discourse theory refers to the idea that the terms in which we speak‚ write and think about the world are a reflection of wider relations of power‚ and since they are also linked to practise‚ are themselves important in maintaining that power structure In the Order of Things (1970) Foucault focuses on fields of knowledge‚ such as economics‚ or natural history and the conventions according to which they were classified and represented in particular

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