1. Berger says that "Discourse analysis... focuses attention not only on the content of written material but on the style that writers use‚ the language they use to express themselves‚ and the strategies they adopt to get their ideas across. The focus‚ we may say‚ is on the ’how’ not the ’what’" (p. 174). Explain the difference between the "how" and the "what." Instead of concentrating on the content they concentrate on the style of the content. When reading a review of a movie‚ we are still reading
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of a group in my English 101 class. We were assigned with researching and writing a paper on a discourse community of our choice. The community we decided to focus our work on was the Edge at Mason‚ a group that helps bring people together through team-building strategies. The need that our work was attempting to respond to was the need to come up with a solution to a potential problem within the discourse community. This problem arose from the lack of any formal supervisior or scribe during the community’s
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We Should Protect Endangered Animals What we know as the circle of life shows that all living creatures are all linked together in some way. We as humans need to do our part in order to protect nature’s gifts‚ especially those that are endangered or threatened in order to sustain the circle of life. So let just take a quick second and imagine something really quick. Image you’re in a city walking around just like any other day‚ and you don’t come across a single person. Have they all died? What
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ENVIRONMENT ISSUES TODAY There are considerable environmental issues that require urgent attention to make the ecology friendly. Climate change is changing our economy‚ health and communities in diverse ways. Scientists warn that if we do not aggressively curb climate change now‚ the results will likely be disastrous. Carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants are collecting in the atmosphere like a thickening blanket‚ trapping the sun’s heat and causing the planet to warm up. In addition
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Examine the positive and negative effects of globalisation on people and the environment. The international monetary fund (IMF) defines globalisation as ‘the growing economic interdependence of countries worldwide through increasing volume and variety of cross border transactions in goods and services‚ freer international capital flows and more rapid wide spread diffusion of technology. Globalisation can only work if a country embraces it. The world is divided in 2 at the moment. The ‘core’ and
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strong biographical evidence that suggests that the author worked on The Prince and The Discourses at the same time‚ writing the former’s first draft in 1513 and starting to write the latter during the same year. It is obvious then that in order to understand the essence of The Prince we cannot restrict ourselves only to its lines‚ but we must look beyond into Machiavelli’s other writings‚ such as The Discourses‚ to achieve a general understanding of his philosophy‚ and to better appreciate the full
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interception Prevent floods and safeguard future of the tribal people. Bring soil together and prevent soil erosion. Afforestation act as windbreaks Stabilized the climate and the forest products. There is the constant need to develop massive afforestation programmes for the protection nad preservation of the forestry on the suitable land including the wasteland. A massive social forestry programme is needed to meet demands of the local people for the fodder‚ timber and fuel wood. Both the governmental
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Unit 4 Ecosystems Background Introduction The abundance of a species and species diversity affect how natural resources are processed within an ecosystem. This pattern of processing contributes to functional and compositional characteristics of an ecosystem. But many ecosystems around the world are currently experiencing significant changes in species composition‚ abundance‚ and diversity due to the influence of human activity. These changes have‚ more often than not‚ led to a reduction in species
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Climate Change Beliefs and Cultural Values Controversy surrounding the public understanding of climate change is influenced by the deficit in cognition of scientific information. As a result the knowledge deficit‚ people turn to cultural differences for alternative explanations. In a straight forward explanation‚ the difference in opinions is a result of both ignorance and culture. This view aligns with Kahan et al.’s cultural cognition thesis‚ according to which the political disagreement about
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and all sea life! Earth‚ generate life! Every sort and kind. Let us make human beings in our image...God looked over everything he had made it was good‚ so very good!” Genesis 1 is a very familiar passage. We’ve all heard it numerous times. For many people‚ it brings to mind beautiful images of mountains and rivers‚ sunsets and forests. It reminds us of the earth’s beauty and can seem soothing and reassuring. Genesis expresses over and over that Creation is “good.” By the end God looks at the totality
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