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    manufacturing methods allowed industry and big business to emerge and define an age referred to as the Gilded Age. Although the wealth of the businesses of the time cast an outward appearance of goodness and prosperity on the United States‚ in reality‚ big business was responsible for increasing social stratification as new depths of poverty and heights of affluence were defined. Although some Americans saw the growth of big business and industry of the Gilded Age in a positive light‚ most Americans approached

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    our society is broken up into small groups. These individual groups can be classified as a discourse community. For example‚ a youth choir at church‚ a football team‚ and Girl Scouts are all classified as a discourse community. What is this so called discourse community? Well‚ a discourse community is a group of people who all share a set of common goals with each other. Although‚ there are numerous of discourse communities‚ they all use different languages to communicate with the members that are within

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    This paper will conduct a critical discourse analysis on North American media coverage of the World Indigenous Games. Jiwani and Young (2006) offer a helpful framework for a methodical approach to exploring Indigenous representations in media. In their article on the missing and murdered women of Vancouver’s Eastside‚ they studied 128 newspaper articles over the course of five years in order to uncover patterns on how Indigenous people are framed in the media. The article clearly states that the

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    Political discourse fails to explain the rise and nature of authoritarian governments in industrialized societies when it presupposes the rational political actor. Time and time again‚ the rational‚ self-interested political agent fails to measure up with particular political situations and circumstances‚ often leading to unpredictable catastrophes. This rational political actor has its origins in the Cartesian‚ ahistorical‚ self-conscious subject—a subject capable of using the "light of reason"

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    the world; however‚ today our focus is to take a look at the discourse community of biology and analyze what components of language do they value more and the reasoning behind it. Before we learn more about the discourse community of biology‚ we need to know something about the discourse community. What is discourse community and who is in discourse community and are you part of discourse community. According to the article “Discourse Community”‚ by

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    background and my Discourse. I will disclose my social habits of my Discourse I use day to day but not at school. When I use the word “Discourse” it is the combination of of saying‚ writing‚ doing‚ being‚ valuing‚ and believing. All the words use to describe social gatherings covered by the author James Paul Gee in his Article “Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics: Introduction.” Discourse is capitalized because the lowercase means connected stretches of language that make sense. The Discourse I use and

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    Analyzing Discourse Communities Then and Now As students grow older in life and in school their written as well as‚ their oral communication will mature and become more sophisticated. I will be informing you of how my written and spoken communication skills have gotten better throughout my years in high school and how they have improved being in college. I will first do this by talking about how my communication was in high school football and how it compares in college. Secondly‚ I will focus

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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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    Critical Discourse Analysis Social communication is increasingly becoming a subject of scientists’ discussions from different disciplines‚ as well as ordinary language users. In contemporary social sciences‚ especially in linguistics‚ we see a clear shift to discourseDiscourse allows us to talk about use of the language‚ as well as the language as a socio-cultural activity. In this sense‚ discourse‚ on one hand‚ reflects the social reality‚ on the other hand‚ it shapes it‚ therefore participate

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    One of these connotations is person versus self conflict. In “To Know Ourselves”‚ when the author says “reflect to know ourselvesourselves who dreamt … to know this heavy heart” it signifies a loss of self and the struggle of trying to find yourself after a tragic event(273). The words “reflect”‚ “know”‚ and “ourselves” connect to searching for yourself and “dreamt” and “heavy heart” connect to losing your dreams and ideas after a tragic event

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