Brand Community Analysis As the development of communication technology and global market‚ the concept of Brand Community was fist defined as ‘a specialized‚ non-geographically bound community‚ based on a structured set of social relationships among admirers of a brand’ by two social scientists‚ Albert M. Muniz‚ JR and Thomas C. O’Guinn (2001). This essay will firstly give a brief overview of brand community‚ and then point out three main characteristics and further discuss these features of brand
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Community Oriented Policing Community oriented policing is a policing strategy based on the notion that community interaction and support can help control crime and reduce fear‚ with community members helping to identify suspects‚ detain vandals and bring problems to the attention of police. It is a philosophy that combines traditional aspects of law enforcement with prevention measures‚ problem-solving‚ community engagement‚ and community partnerships (Ref. 1). Background of Community Oriented
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Investigating a Journalistic Discourse Community When you walk into a newsroom of journalists‚ you will see people reading‚ discussing‚ and writing the news. Journalists from all around the world‚ mostly the United States‚ join in Long Beach‚ California‚ where they collaborate to gather and publish information in the Gazette Newspapers‚ forming a professional discourse community. A discourse community is a group of individuals unified by common interests or goals and who have methods for communicating
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Since the early 1900’s there has been a shift in the emphasis from learning with the focus being on the individual (local) to learning as part of a community (global). The emergence of social communities have worked in tandem with established forms of learning to educate the masses. These social communities were called by various names each having a different function and or terms of reference. Local learning takes place within ‘self’‚ as we learn people learn with us and from us‚ in a non formal
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Benefits of Community College Comm/215 Vin. S University of Phoenix August 29‚ 2013 As seniors prepare to graduate from high school this upcoming school year‚ many have to decide on whether to apply to a four year university or stay close to home to attend college. This decision can be difficult for some because of the rising cost of universities‚ grades‚ and test scores determining entrances into their desired school‚ or even if college is the right fit for them. Community colleges are
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departments. Using different styles of policing techniques‚ mainly community based policing‚ has proved to be the best way to improve the image of law enforcement. Community based policing can best be defined as‚ "a collaborative effort between the police and the community that identifies problems of crime and disorder and involves all elements of the community in the search for solutions to these problems" (Willard Oliver). Community based policing is the idea that the role of the police is not
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The Vegetarian Discourse Community “Talk lives in a man’s head‚ but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep it company - and so talk goes out through the lips.” ― Beryl Markham‚ West with the Night Roughly ten years ago‚ I was an impressionable fifth grader looking for a belief to stand by when I conveniently happened to stumble upon PETAs website in my elementary school ’s computer lab. After watching multiple investigative videos of the gruesome
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Discuss Ken Dempsey ’s reading on Community In the reading Community: Its Character and Meaning‚ the author‚ Ken Dempsy stresses the difficulties that arise when attempting to define this concept of community. It is one of the most contested concepts in the social sciences‚ yet sociologists persist in using it because the informal relationships we have beyond the household continue to play a significant part in people’s daily lives‚ and they find the notion of community indispensable to talking
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Similar to other indigenous communities of the world‚ Canadian indigenous communities have a long history of sharing their resources among the community members (Gray et al.‚ 2003; Anderson and Giberson‚ 2004). In the absence of proper financial institution they lived by the "barter economy‚" "a system of exchange where goods or services are directly exchanged for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange‚ such as money" (Sullivan‚ 2003; p. 243). They did not have any individual
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DEVELOPMENT AND CHALLENGES OF COMMUNITY POLICING [NAME] [UNIVERSTIY] [DATE] ABSTRACT The author wants to showcase the development and challenges that are faced by law enforcement officers in communities‚ neighborhoods‚ cities and suburban areas for promoting law and order‚ reducing crime rate‚ increasing public welfare and trust with police officials. This is a new metaphorical concept‚ envisioned to surpass the inadequacies of traditional policing capabilities as they continuously fail
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