Community Health of Chesterfield County-Virginia Western Governors University Population/Economic Assessment Chesterfield County‚ Virginia has a population of about 328‚000 as of January 1‚ 2014 with 752 people per square mile. There was a 3.6% increase in the population from April 1‚ 2010 to July 1‚ 2013. 65.4% of the population is white non-Hispanic‚ 21.6% are black non-Hispanic‚ 7.2% are Hispanic‚ 3.2% are Asian and 2.1% are two or more races. In 2012 there were 3657 births and 1654 deaths
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Title A contrastive discourse analysis of warnings Author(s) Cheung‚ Wai-ling‚ Sonia.; _5ags². Citation Issue Date 2001 URL http://hdl.handle.net/10722/31894 Rights The author retains all proprietary rights‚ (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works. Abstract of thesis entitled A contrastive discourse analysis of warnings submitted by Wai Ling Sonia Cheung a dissertation presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
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profession? A discourse analysis of community education/ community learning and development in Scotland Howard Sercombe‚ Gordon Mackie‚ and Anne Ryan All of University of Strathclyde‚ UK Community based informal education‚ like other practices‚ is fundamentally shaped by the discourses under which it is constituted. In Scotland‚ since 1975‚ the practice has been formally established by government policy as an amalgam of youth work‚ adult education and community development under a discourse of informal
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argument. 4. What is a discourse community? To what discourse communities do you belong? How does a discourse community help establish common ground for its members? • A discourse community is a group of people who share a set of discourses‚ understood as basic values and assumptions‚ and ways of communicating about those goals. • I belong to several discourse communities including Academia (college students)‚ and Information Technology (Computers). • A discourse community helps to establish common
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conversation between a teacher and two students in the classroom. The key issue will be discussed is turn-taking‚ especially overlap and interruption when speakers take turns. The following episode was chosen from a textbook which is now used for discourse analysis. The conversation was produced by a lecture and two students in a university tutorial. The lecturer asked student Kylie and Tadashi about certain topics which were discussed in class. Tadashi was quite poor in academic learning and did not
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rising housing costs‚ public policy‚ persistent segregation‚ and racial animus facilitates the influx of wealthier‚ mostly white‚ residents into a particular neighbourhood which the gentrifiers refers to as renewal and an effort to beautify the communities‚ but results in the displacement of residents and kind of violence that characterize the history of the mytho-political uses of symbolic violence in mainstream media portrayals of the hood as said by Richard Slotkin‚ which calls for a new mythology
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20. Political Discourse JOHN WILSON Subject Linguistics » Discourse Analysis Key-Topics political DOI: 10.1111/b.9780631205968.2003.00021.x 0 Introduction The study of political discourse‚ like that of other areas of discourse analysis‚ covers a broad range of subject matter‚ and draws on a wide range of analytic methods. Perhaps more than with other areas of discourse‚ however‚ one needs at the outset to consider the reflexive and potentially ambiguous nature of the
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society‚ on the one hand‚ and the presence or absence of ethnic violence‚ on the other’ (ibid. p‚ 363). Second‚ when the international community intervenes in a country‚ it is important to consider the fact that it is not an empty one. Structures like traditional‚ religious and/or indigenous leadership already exist and are not to be neglected. When the international community has these leaders on their side during the intervention‚ the possible outcomes can be more locally rooted and sustainable. Mac Ginty
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Discourses in Education Institutes of education (i.e. public schools) exhibit many political‚ social‚ cultural and historical discourses that impact and furthermore shape what is practiced in schools and the way in which it is delivered. These discourses will often be implemented in educational contexts through synchronisation with the socio-cultural theory‚ moreover influencing and impacting upon the teachers‚ students and the schools themselves. In order for an understanding of education to be
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Discourse markers: a teachers’ guide and toolkit A ‘discourse marker’ is a word or phrase that helps to link written ideas. These words are generally more formal lexical items that find little use in speech – which is perhaps why they do not always come naturally to students. Discourse markers can be used‚ for example‚ to link ideas that are similar (e.g. the adverbs‚ also and similarly); and they can be used to link ideas that are dissimilar (e.g. however‚ alternately). As such‚ this useful
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