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    Discourse Community Study

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    1. What is the discourse community you are studying? The discourse community that I chose was bearded dragons and other animals of similar characteristics. a. What academic majors, departments, and disciplines is it related to? This discourse community relates to the major of animals sciences and/or the study of life, Biology. b. What jobs do its members usually hold? The members usually hold jobs like veterinarian, veterinary technician, animal care specialist, or general biologist. c. What defines

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    There are many different speech communities that are formed out of social locations. “A speech community exists when people share norms about how to use talk and what purposes it serves.” (Wood, 2014). This is why speech communities are formed from social locations; people who socialize in the same places often develop the same understandings of communication. One type of speech community is a gender speech community. Each gender has their own speech community, which is one reason why people of opposite

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    When I was twelve years old, I desperately wanted to volunteer with the City of Calgary in their summer day camps. I had been a camper my whole life, and I wanted to be able to give others the same experience that I had at their age. In fact, I wanted to volunteer with them so badly that I registered in a camp called LEAD, which was originally only open to thirteen year olds. At the time, my understanding was that, in order to become a volunteer with the City of Calgary, you were required to complete

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    Community at heart is a group of people united under a set of values. As long as they stay secure under protection that the community conveys then they will be safe. Some individuals will often take advantage of the structure within a community, either using it to enrich themselves or gain power and position. When a community no longer holds the same protection for the citizens they may become frantic and search for reform. The Crucible by Arthur Miller highlights the disposition of individuals to

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    For nearly two years Hunter S. Thompson associated himself with the Hells Angel gang from San Francisco and Oakland chapter. He spent nearly all of that time following along the Hells Angels and participating in their revelries. A lot of what he discussed was in correlation to their general background, social significance and their uncanny rise to fame. For quite a long time the Hells Angel have roamed the open dusty highways of California and could be considered a sub-culture of their own. Or in

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    Tesco - Speech

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    adversary of Tesco you might ask. I feel they destroy hundreds of small communities by overpowering and siphoning the money away from the locals with promises of more jobs etc. However, that is an entirely obscure postulate from Tesco in my opinion. On the contrary I think they rob the locals of jobs, by overpowering the small grocery- and retail stores, and destroying the character of beautiful small British communities. And it is happening every day, right before our eyes, not just in Britain

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    all these media, people encode and decode information, accept and reject ideas, and (re)define (new) meanings of culture, community and identity. Electronic media shorten the distance between locations and helped dispersed people to share the culture of the same root, allow comparison, (re)construction of symbols, present and mediate meanings of Diasporas, localities, communities and identities. Therefore, “in media cultures social interaction and relations are no longer dependent on simultaneous spatial

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    Running head: SCOTTSDALE: COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT AND ANALYSIS Scottsdale: Community Assessment and Analysis Jennifer Hensley Megan Kehrli Isha Maina Maribel Martinez Kelly Simpson Lisa Taylor Grand Canyon University: NRS-427v Community Health February 3, 2013 Scottsdale: Community Assessment and Analysis Scottsdale, Arizona was incorporated in 1951 and is the sixth largest city in Arizona (City of Scottsdale, 2013). Scottsdale is 184.2 square miles located in the picturesque

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    Ebola Emergency Response Strategy Introduction Community is an interconnected group of persons living in a given locality. Communities have identical social pattern. Public health awareness is an aggregate obligation of the entire society. Ebola can be managed by the assertion that the community holds that they are together and have been hit by a common catastrophe (Winkworth 5). Community can be organised into well-defined groups in order as to achieve the health objective. The use of Laveracks

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    A community: otherwise a group of people who share common culture and heritage a populace, an alliance, an association, a neighborhood, a district, a society. A dictionary definition is what the population settles for as far as the context where they consider themselves as apart of a community. The word community in the 14th century, had derived from the word “common,” in that time, meaning fellowship in a ‘community’ of relations or feelings. However, the term then became used concretely as to pertain

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