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    individual’s identity within a larger community, when entering new writing contexts, who has authority in a discourse community, and, how might negotiation with authority affect an outsider? When we write an individual piece before we are aware of discourse communities, we as writers have no rules because we are the writers and readers of our own works. However, once we as individuals communicate within a community we share concepts that we understand while learning what a communities’ limitations

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    need to negotiate their inclusion into the national community that dissimilar to that of their ethnic heritage. Strategic representation is needed to collaborate their identities as migrants with their claims to inclusion. Of course, some migrant children born in their parents’ host country may find themselves at odds with the previous generations’ methods, and struggle to make themselves out as people who grow alongside the national community. Ultimately, it is a matter of what migrants and their

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    academic world at both cultural and political levels. However, unlike the original residents, this diasporic shift demonstrated distinctive traits such as identity and an ideology which evidently differed from those of the natives. As Sreberny (2000. P179) argued: “Diaspora has become a key term in theorizing about immigration, ethnicity and identity” and exerted a considerable influence historically, culturally, socially and economically on developed capitalist societies.

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    Identity theft/fraud is becoming a major threat to the Australian community as technology advances. This section of crime produces substantial profits for offenders and causes considerable financial and emotions harm to the victims (Australian federal police, 2014). With this increasing alarm around identity theft/fraud in Australia, there has to be strong legal actions available to counteract the issue. Identity theft/fraud can be defined as a crime of obtaining the personal or financial information

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    Community, Identity, and Stability is a large element of a functional society. The choice between feelings and emotional attachments both have pros and cons, both work but may have backfires as well. Sacrificing emotional attachments will not be a beneficial sacrifice because everybody would be limited and restricted power, and nobody will be able to think for themselves or have any likes or dislikes. If they would sacrifice emotion nobody would be able to advance in the society, where normally one´s

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    Place is important in relation to personal and community identity because where we live, in a way defines us. If we live in the country, we can identify with tropes of bush living or a rural lifestyle. If we are in the city, that place and cityscape can determine our way of life and sense of belonging to that place. Wooramaroo is the story told from the viewpoint of female protagonist Cara McGeever’s ten-year-old son, Scott, and their change of place as immigrants from inner city working class Liverpool

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    My Community Identity I am part of an online anime fandom, which is my community which I have been a part of since the 90’s, that is compromised of anime fans, friends, family and even the voice actors themselves. The Internet plays an even stronger role in promoting social integration by facilitating regular communication among family, friends, and groups base on identity and affinity (people with common identities, conditions, experiences, or interests, especially based on work.) Kottack(2012)

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    Community, Identity, and Stability Essay

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    Community, Identity, Stability " 'But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin' "(Huxley 215). In Brave New World people lives were different and they had different believes they were not allowed to feel emotion because as the Director said emotions are unstable. They were conditioned to think the way their world is formed is perfect, but actually it isn't. Emotions could be unstable, but is better to feel them instead of being

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    Collective Identity within the Gay Community and Women’s Liberation Movement The gay community and women’s liberation movement were both formed through collective identities and political/oppositional consciousness. Moreover, both groups were discriminated against by external social structures and yet, succeeded due to internal factors. Whittier and Taylor describe collective identity as “the shared definition of a group that derives from member’s common interests, experiences, and solidarity”

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    The African American community has sat at the end of a discriminatory lens from the moment they set foot in the United States. For that reason, black communities have undergone the process of community building to ensure that all members feel a sense of belonging. Race, gender, nationality, ethnicity, poverty, and sexual orientation, all play a role in developing one’s identity and more often than not, these multiple identities intersect with blackness. Being that American society has deemed colored

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