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    _____RICHARD HAKLUYT___1584_____ A particular discourse concerning the great necessity and manifold commodities that are like to grow to this Realm of England by the Western discoveries lately attempted‚ Written in the year 1584 * ™ known as ™ DISCOURSE OF WESTERN PLANTING [Excerpts] 1. That this western discovery will be greatly for the enlargement of the gospel of Christ whereunto the princes of the reformed religion are chiefly bound among whom her Majesty is principal. . . . Then it is necessary

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    Under the race ethnicity and communication section of the chapter I didn’t like how the author said we communicated more with people like ourselves. Granted that it may be true for some‚ the wording seems off to me. " people like ourselves " can mean a lot more than race‚ social status and ethnic groups (as the author mentioned). By limiting " people like ourselves " to those three categories i feel as though she is saying those are the main categories that link people‚ which I disagree with. I feel

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    Not for Ourselves Alone‚ an exciting novel written by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns‚ describes the story of the intellectual pair of two very determined women‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Throughout the novel‚ the author describes the many hard ships the two individuals had to face throughout their journey to bring rights to women. For more than 50 years‚ Stanton and Anthony led the battle of securing women’s rights and helped create a movement that would forever be remembered by

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    Ibaddurrahman (G1025429) Term paper for Phonetics and Phonology (ENGL 6002) Discourse Intonation in ELT In order to attain total mastery of English language‚ ESL students should undoubtedly be taught the intonation of English. Without learning this suprasegmental feature‚ English learners‚ regardless of their level of English proficiency‚ would be at risk of causing serious communication breakdown with native speakers. Recent studies show that there has been a growing awareness of the importance of teaching

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    With these appeals a writer such as I‚ will be able to convince this class of my success in joining the discourse community of animal shelter volunteers. A discourse Community is a community of people who share not only knowledge about specific shared topics but also similar backgrounds‚ values‚ and share a common language. I will prove in this paper that I successfully entered one of these discourse communities and was accepted by showing my

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    Discourse communities are groups of people that share the same goals‚ ambitions‚ and equal beliefs. I believe that one single person can belong to many different discourse communities depending on who they are‚ on the inside. For example three discourse communities that I belong to are the Faulkner county sheriffs department‚ my church youth group‚ and my group of buddies I play video games with. Faulkner county’s sherrifs department was a big part of my career. Even though I don’t work in the jail

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    Savage or Civilized The Second Discourse‚ written by Jean Jaques Rousseau in 1754‚ discusses the human state of nature. This work compares savaged men and civilized men‚ mostly in physical terms. Rousseau aimed to find the source of inequality in the human race‚ by stripping man down to his animalistic nature. He begins by discussing how a natural man uses his instincts for self preservation‚ like an animal. After this‚ he mentions how civilized men tend to compare themselves to each other‚

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    My definition of a discourse community is basically any group of people who share similar interest and knowledge about a topic‚ have some common background or experiences‚ and share some way of communicating with each other. The student body here at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) is my discourse community. The student body and I know how difficult it can be the first few days of college to navigate around campus and find the simple things like where to find the library‚ computer lab‚

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    How we Define Ourselves Americans come from many different backgrounds and nationalities. Of these Americans are different races and religions‚ which represent the United States today. With the amount of diverse people in the United States‚ not everyone agrees with allowing people of different races and religions to mix. Living with people of different cultures can have a major impact on peoples’ lives. People today define themselves and others by the way they look and the things they may do

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    to influence and lead my team to do the tasks required to win a championship. Being a member of the Mighty Cougar basketball team‚ there were a couple of basic skills I needed to know‚ such as passing‚ dribbling and shooting the ball. I wanted to show my teammates and coaches that I could bring the ball down the court and successfully execute a play. As a Point guard‚ it was my job to take the ball down the court‚ and if I couldn’t do that then I had no place on the team. During game situations

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