discourse communities? There’s the professional community‚ which is your job‚ career or working environment. Your social communities are your friends and family. The civic community is the clubs‚ hobbies and extracurricular activities you attend to or participate in. The last one is your cultural group‚ religion‚ ethnicity‚ environment cultures all play into this one. My discourse community happens to be a mix of all four of these. I am a competitive dancer and because of this all of my friends
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Art in My Community I live in a suburb of Birmingham Alabama in Jefferson County. Birmingham and the surrounding areas are very active in supporting the Arts. The Birmingham Art Association was founded in 1908 and is the oldest art association in central Alabama. Many of the area businesses support the local artist as well as artist from around the world. Many people would understand Birmingham having a large support for the African Arts‚ but we are also known for having artwork from Russia‚ Italian
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A geopolitical community is a community‚ which is either man-made or surrounded by natural boundaries. It is considered a traditional point of view about communities. Man-made boundaries could be the towns where we live‚ work‚ or go to school. Natural boundaries could be the land formations that separate and isolate groups of people (Maurer & Smith 2008). The geopolitical community I live in is Nassau County‚ Long Island in New York. Nassau County is made up of many suburbs and towns and is located
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My Community’s Unpleasant Problem Topic I am from Napoleon‚ Ohio. At the corner of Yeager Road and State Route 108‚ there is an old abandoned factory near a railroad track that has been partially torn down. This factory covers nearly forty acres of land. During World War II‚ this plant produced magnesium‚ and later‚ the Atomic Energy Commission reopened this factory as a beryllium production facility. Shortly after that‚ this plant was owned by Goodyear Tire‚ and they made tires and coated tire
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How Distribution Is Arranged To Provide Customer Convenience? There are several ways in which businesses arrange distribution to provide customer convenience. The methods used may vary slightly based on what sort of business is being operated. For example‚ those who are running an e-commerce business will have different techniques than those who have a standard "real world" business headquarters. Also‚ different real world businesses may have different techniques dependent upon the size of the
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Cultural Diversity in My Community Cindy Kirkland Cultural Diversity February 18‚ 2007 Chino a community being so diverse‚ there is not enough cultural awareness. Leaders in the community treat people friendly‚ because they either know them already or read their personalities. In a diverse community‚ it is essential that the members of that community be aware of other members in the community. Knowledge is power and people can learn a lot by just paying attention to the actions of
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A Place of Safety It is important to be part of a particular community for the simple fact that one must feel welcomed by someone or something to live in prosperity. The Christian community has not played a major part in my upbringing; to me it is the most significant community. Belonging to this church has taught me several values such as living a moral life and being generous with time and money. Before becoming a part of the City of Refugee church‚ I found myself lost‚ which is the way most
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March against Fear in Greenwood‚ Mississippi. Frustrated by the slow pace of the implementation of the moderate racial reforms‚ the young activist‚ together with other SNCC members‚ requested a change in strategies. After years of violent attacks and the federal government’s continued unwillingness to protect the lives of civil rights organizers and African Americans in general‚ Carmichael envisioned a new form of Black empowerment; one that would be independent from the fleeting mood and empty promises
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In her article‚ Scherrer describes how language and naming are important in constructing asexual identities and communities. Though not all individuals experience asexuality in this way‚ it is commonly defined as lacking romantic‚ sexual‚ and physical attraction towards other individuals (Scherrer 2008). Using language from a predominately heteronormative society such as binary understandings of sex and gender affect the construction of an asexual identity. For example‚ many individuals who were
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What is a community? To many it is a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality‚ share government‚ and often have a common cultural and historical heritage. For many this is an abstract term. Many people don’t exactly know what a community is. It can be felt or touched and sure enough it can’t be seen. Society also plays a role in this relative and abstract term of community. Meaning‚ the body of human beings generally‚ associated or viewed as members of a community. Amitai
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