Name: Duong Hong Anh Group: 06.1.E1 Date: 01/02/2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Discourse Analysis Assignment 1 Text: [pic] [pic] Features of context 1. Addressor: a BBC journalist 2. Addressee: the US readers 3. Audience: online readers 4. Topic: US to resume shortly Haiti medical evacuation flights 5. Setting: place: in a column of online BBC newspaper; time: February 2nd‚ 2010 6. Channel:
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Critical Discourse Analysis on Political Texts Abstract Critical Discourse Analysis (hereafter abbreviated as CDA) concerns power relationships between language and society. Meanwhile‚ politics have influence in many facets around the society. Presenting samples of political texts collected‚ this paper aims at analyzing the power relationships in political texts with CDA. 1. Introduction CDA can be summarized as a study of language use through discourse as well as social problems‚ revealing
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Protecting the environment Every company should invest in our environment. We live in a time when the environment is in danger‚ so it is important to protect it. We need a healthy environment in order to survive‚ so we must protect it. We need to protect the environment now to help prevent health problems‚ to maintain the ecosystem‚ and to preserve the Earth for our children. Pollution from factories and cars can cause damage to the environment. It makes the air dirty. Breathing this dirty air causes
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TASK 2 Identify two reports on serious failures to protect individuals (ADULTS) from abuse. Write an account that describes the unsafe practices in the reviews. Look on Google under UK failures in adult care Report 1. In March 2002‚ a 30-year-old woman with learning disabilities was admitted to Borders General Hospital in Scotland with multiple injuries as a result of sustained physical and sexual assaults. The abuse had been carried out at home and was perpetrated by three men‚ one of whom was
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Kayla Yelton Dehr/ Huffman ENG W131-46 10/11/2012 Final Draft Rhetorical Analysis Because Freedom Can’t Protect Itself ACLU’s website is very large and a reader would probably only come across it if he or she was on a search for specific information. The website is built mostly off of their credibility. The main point made by the website is that the reader has to protect his freedom‚ someone has to take a stand. ACLU builds up much of their credibility‚ and through articles and blog posts they
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pain. One who is not touched by the outside world seem to live inside themselves always thinking that today might be the last. Stoics detach themselves from things of this worlds including objects‚ people‚ and to a certain extent their own lives. In Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations and Epictetus’ Discourses they both explain how to properly be a stoic‚ learning to deny their feelings‚ respect themselves and nature‚ and detach themselves from the useless things of this world. One of the main things that
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II June 11‚ 2013 What Makes a Worthless Piece of Shit? The environment people are put in often dictates their actions and reactions‚ which in turn shape who they are. Additionally‚ when a person is constantly degraded by their surroundings‚ it has a large‚ sweeping impact on their formation as a person. Bruce Weigl’s poem “Burning Shit at An Khe” is a manifestation of this concept of how people are products of their environments. Through diction‚ tone‚ and mood‚ Weigl conveys the message that
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Conservation of the Environment Conservation means the saving and protection of our environment. The environment is facing numerous problems due to the caresless way people are using and abusing it. One of the main problems is pollution which means dirtying destruction of the environment. Another major environmental problem is deforestation which is excessive cutting of forests. All these have led to global warming which is a result of poor environmental conservation. Because of
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Mangroves help to maintain water quality‚ protect wildlife and coasts. Mangroves can treat wastes in rivers and streams. Roots of mangroves trap wastes and filter the water before it flows back into the sea. Bacteria in soil can break down the biodegradable wastes and convert them into nutrients for mangroves. The roots of mangroves also hold the soil together firmly and prevent it from being washed into the river. Mangroves can also protect coastal areas from erosions. It can absorb the
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The Aetas and the Environment The Aeta is a group of indigenous people who live in scattered‚ isolated mountainous parts of Luzon. The Aeta predecessors are nomadic and build only temporary shelters. However‚ the well-situated and more modernized Aeta have moved to villages and areas of cleared mountains. One of the areas that the Aeta has inhabited for thousands of years is the area of Mt. Pinatubo. When Mt. Pinatubo erupted‚ the Aetas lost their home. They were forced to live in evacuation
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