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    Equality and Diversity in Self‑ assessment Guidance for Colleges and Providers October 2009 Of interest to colleges and other providers funded by the Learning and Skills Council Further information For further information‚ please contact the appropriate Learning and Skills Council office. Contact details for each office can be found on the L S C website: l s c. gov .uk. Learning and Skills Council National Office Cheylesmore House Quinton Road Coventry C V 1 2 W T T 0845 019 4170 F 024 7682

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    Seven Signs and the Seven Discourses are understood as emphasized in the Gospel of John chapters 1 through 11. Culpepper’s first sign according to John 2 (pg. 129). Jesus went to the wedding at Cana and the wine was not enough and Jesus converted water to wine. The contemporary church needs to understand that Jesus is the giver of life. The discourse is every natural civilization that is born in order to have eternal life has to be changed into a spiritual man. The discourse described by Culpepper (1998)

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    Throughout Mark Twain’s novel he often seems to suggest that an uncivilized way of life is more desirable and morally superior than a civilized way of life. These ideas often relate to the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau‚ civilization often corrupts rather than improving the lives of human beings. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in 1712 and died in 1778; he was a Swiss philosopher‚ writer‚ and political theorist. His novels helped to inspire the leaders of the French Revolution and the Romantic Generation

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    HIS 1010 Fall 10/21/12 Paper 1 Celsus‚ On The True Doctrine: A Discourse Against the Christians. (Trans. R. Joseph Hoffman) Romans were a highly skilled and educated lot and they demonstrated mild tolerance to religious sects‚ like Judaism. The goal of religion was to ensure the prosperity of the state‚ the people and the emperor under the protection of the gods. They honored this communal argument by preserving traditional ideology‚ moral conduct and religious responsibilities. But the rise

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    Wodak-3795-Ch-01:Wodak-3795-Ch-01.QXP 9/29/2008 4:29 PM Page 1 1 Critical Discourse Analysis: History‚ Agenda‚ Theory‚ and Methodology1 Ruth Wodak and Michael Meyer CDA – What is it all about? A brief history of the ‘CDA Group’ The common ground: discourse‚ critique‚ power and ideology Main research agenda and challenges Differences and similarities – beyond the social dimension Methodology Summary and criticism 1 3 4 11 19 23 32 CDA – What is it all about? In this chapter

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    Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics and his article‚ What is Literacy?‚ approach literacy studies from psychological and sociological viewpoints. He states that the focus of literacy is social practices (“it’s not just how you say it‚ but what you are and do when you say it). Early in the writing‚ Gee defines Discourse as a combination of acts: saying‚ writing‚ doing‚ being‚ valuing‚ etc. He views Discourse as a social construct not dissimilar from Culture. In fact‚ in order to master a Discourse‚ one

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    structures are also components of discourse in the same way that written and spoken texts are. Rose (2001) stresses that visual patterns are no different from written texts; they are analogous in the sense that both can be subject to scrutiny‚ and that none of them is ‘innocent’ as it obviously ‘carry discourse’ within. Thus‚ pictures are equally analyzed ‘as if they were linguistic texts’ (Jørgensen: 61). As cited Van Leeuwen (2001)‚ Critical Multimodal Discourse Analysis’ is the theoretical background

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    Analytical essay Through Ken Kesey’s exploration of a power discourse within ‘one flew over the cuckoo’s nest’‚ he visibly highlights that every text has a purpose. The author comes up with a discourse of power‚ where it is shown throughout the characters‚ and through how society used to treat the ‘mental illnesses’ at the time. In this book‚ society ideologies are challenged by the revolutionary mind of Ken Kesey‚ where within the influence of the beats‚ had ‘different’ beliefs from everyone

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    ‘Structure‚ Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences’ (Derrida‚ 1978: 278 –293) may be read as the document of an event‚ although Derrida actually commences the essay with a reservation regarding the word "event"‚ as it entails a meaning "which it is precisely the function of structural – or structuralist – thought to reduce or suspect" (278). This‚ I infer‚ refers to the emphasis within structuralist discourse on the synchronous analysis of systems and relations within them‚ as opposed

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    CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND THE CULTURAL DISCOURSE OF FEMININITY IN THE OFFENCE OF RAPE This article seeks to establish that the provision of capital punishment in rape statutes‚ as well as the guiding rhetoric behind it‚ is antithetical to the interests of the rape survivors‚ as it premised on the idea of rape as a ‘fate worse than death’. The equation of rape with death is purely linguistic‚ however‚ it functions as justification for a societal order that ostracizes rape victims and renders them

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