There are a large number of Discourse communities exist in the world. Different people may stay in their different community or someone may take many communities. Discourse community is a way let different people‚ who have a same interests‚ using language‚ action‚ interaction‚ values‚ beliefs‚ symbols‚ objects‚ and tools together to place in such a way that other people can recognize them as member of their community (Gee 446). Which means those people may have their special things to show each other
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Rene Descartes‚ a French philosopher‚ wrote The Meditations as his attempt to find what is true and real in life. In Descartes third meditation and fifth meditation‚ he argues about the existence of God‚ by attempting to prove that God exists. I will attempt to explain the arguments by providing my own perception relating to Descartes reasoning. In this paper‚ I will interpret the text and made every effort to explain the arguments clearly‚ criticize them justify and interpret them by expressing
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Courtney D’Andrea Philosophy 1100 Professor Magrini Final Paper Epistemology Epistemology is one of the very important branches of philosophy. It is also known as the knowledge theory. The knowledge theory consists of three questions; “What is the origin of knowledge? What is the reliability of knowledge? & What is the criteria of knowledge?” Rene Descartes and John Locke really looked into epistemology and both had different theories to approach it. John Locke looked at empiricism and
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Discourse Analysis -> Popularized in the last 10-15 years -> aims to ‘understand’ the world better -> power behind the phenomenon -> the ‘way’ in which we talk about something has a major influence on the way we respond to it and interpret it Discourse about asylum seekers in Australia •queue jumping •illegal •equality •asylum rights •distinction b/w asylum seekers and refugees •border security •us+them •race‚ culture: ‘our way of life’ •assimilation •detention sentence •idea of threat
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learn transcendental meditation. If you are looking to escape from the whirlwind of ringing cell phones‚ traffic snarls and screaming kids‚ transcendental meditation can provide a peaceful getaway from the craziness of everyday life. In 1958‚ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi formally introduced his transcendental meditation technique. Since then‚ he has written several books‚ lectured and toured extensively all over the world and trained over 40‚000 teachers. Transcendental meditation is now practiced in the
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firmly given treatises of his own interpretation on this subject. This has caused manygfjkfgmngcccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccb scholars and other philosophers to critique his understandings and express their own viewpoints of Yahyah Ibn Adi’s philosophy on the unity and trinity of God. Emilio Platti in his article Yahya B. Adi And His Refutation Of Al-Warraq’s Treatise On The Trinity In Relation To His Other Works and Sidney H. Griffith in her article Commending Virtue And A Humane Polity In 10th
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that means that you have been apart of the dance discourse community for a long time and it is ever near and dear to your heart. However‚ I think you need to make what your discourse community is more known because from your story I can not tell what it is. I am confused on which one is your discourse community. Is it just being a dancer your discourse community or is the App state dance team your discourse community Or is Amber’s Studies your discourse community? You spoke about Senior Spotlight a
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Meditation In the last 2 months‚ I was personally struggling to concentrate on my studies due to the emotional turmoil. So‚ I was trying some ways to calm down my senses and also improve my concentration. Therefore‚ I was hoping to learn various techniques of controlling mind from the meditation class so that I could develop high level of concentration. One thing crossed my mind before the class is the feeling of insecurity and nervousness‚ mainly because of the fact that I am unable to open up with
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work‚ school‚ or music group. Researchers have deemed these groups as discourse communities. Ann Johns explains discourse communities as‚ “a basis for sharing and holding in common: shared expectations‚ shared participation‚ commonly held ways of expressing” (320). Discourse communities hold certain standards and actions that lead to the functioning of the group. The Bartlett City Court Clerk’s Office is a stand out discourse community that has certain vocabulary‚ genres‚ and tasks that allow them
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Descartes Principle In the Third Meditation‚ Descartes believes that he is was created by God and God is an infinite being. He mentions as one of his proofs that “there must be at least as much formal reality in the cause of an idea as there is objective reality in the idea itself.” Many people would not know what this means. It means that anything that causes an idea must be at least as actual as what the idea is about. For example‚ if i have an idea that my house is red‚ the cause of my idea would
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