of discourse communities‚ which have different goals‚ values‚ language‚ issues‚ effects and communication style. The discourse community that I identify myself with is the boarding family discourse community. This community may only be made up of a few members‚ yet the impact they have in their neighborhood is quite significant. They may not be related or even have known each other for more than five years‚ yet the bond and connection they have is so strong. My discourse community is composed of
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Ocean Depths – Page 25 – Chapter 3 CHAPTER 3 – MORE SCHOOL DAYS MEMORABLE EVENTS While I had been in the hospital‚ my family had moved from our home on Hodge Avenue. I am not really sure why but remember being very angry about it. This meant that upon being discharged from the hospital in May‚ the last couple of weeks of the sixth grade‚ I had to start attending a different school! I attended there for the next two years‚ through 7th and 8th grades. Kennedy Elementary School
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In the short story How I Met My Husband by author Alice Munro‚ the setting takes place in a small country town around the end of WWII. It is easy to tell that Edie feels a little out of place in the Peebles’ house since they are new to the country and are more wealthy than Edie’s family. When Edie was describing her job she says‚ “Mrs. Peebles had an automatic washer and dryer‚ the first I ever saw‚” (Munro 220). This quote shows how not many people were able to afford luxuries like modern day conveniences
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I WISH I KNEW WHY Broken families are often hard to live in. Especially divorced ones. It’s one thing for your parents to split-up when you’re a young child‚ but it’s another when you go through 15 years of your life thinking that you’ll always be a family like I did. I would have to say the most significant time in my life was when my parents were getting a divorce. Christmas had just passed and the New Year of 1998 was approaching fast. My parents had always bickered but this time their
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Writing Center Should I Use “I”? Like Be the first of your friends to like this. What this handout is about This handout is about determining when to use first person pronouns (“I”‚ “we‚” “me‚” “us‚” “my‚” and “our”) and personal experience in academic writing. “First person” and “personal experience” might sound like two ways of saying the same thing‚ but first person and personal experience can work in very different ways in your writing. You might choose to use “I” but not make any reference
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Who I Was‚ Who I Am‚ Who Will I Be Jeremy Nance Everest Online ENC 1101 I dropped out in my junior year of high school and never thought about how it was going to affect my life. I don’t believe I thought it would have an effect on my life in any way. I was young and I was arrogant for no reason and thought I knew it all. I managed to scrap by begging‚ borrowing‚ and stealing‚ to eat and have a place to sleep at night. I hate to say it but I have to attribute the majority of my decision to
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qualities I look for in friends Friends are an indispensable factor in our live‚ just as a main dish in a meal. Frankly‚ I have a lot of friends. Yet‚ I don’t know whether they are sincere or just hypocritical. Sometimes‚ I can’t really figure out. But still‚ I or should I say everyone‚ wishes to have friends with good qualities. According to what William Penn says:" A true friend freely‚ advises justly‚ assists readily‚ adventures boldly‚ takes all patiently‚ defends courageously‚ and continues
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don’t look so good‚ roy ROY Well‚ Ethel. I don’t feel good While roy is laying on the couch Ethel starts to walk around the couch behind roy‚ with her finger tips traveling up the couch. ETHEL But you lost a lot of weight. That suits you. You were heavy back then. Zaftig‚ mit hips. In pain roy hurries and stands up stands up to face Ethel. ROY I haven’t been that heavy since 1960. We are all heavier back then before the body thing started. Now I look like skeleton they stare. Ethel walks
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we fail now‚ then we will have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship. 8) If we succeeded‚ it will not be because of what we have‚ but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own‚ but rather because of what we believe. 9) For we are a nation of believers. In our own union we believe that every man must some day be free. And we believe in ourselves. 10) For this is what our country is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed bridge. It
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of all‚ I went to Daewon foreign language highschool. After graduated highschool‚ I entered Seoul National University ;philosophy and psychology of law major. I created this major and I made my own curriculum for it. After undergraduate‚ I went to Seoul National University law school. I learned various type of Korean law but I studied constitutional law more deeply. So‚ I had a good relationship especially with professor Song who taught constitutional law. And I studied really hard so I passed the
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