Discourse Community Analysis For the last decade‚ massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) have been rising in popularity‚ with the total revenue of these games coming out to be about half a billion dollars. Since the year 2004‚ there is one game that has greatly contributed to this increase of interest in the genre: World of Warcraft. Since its inception‚ World of Warcraft has achieved over eleven million subscribers‚ as well as being referenced in mainstream media such as news
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“The Concept of Discourse Community‚” an excerpt from the book Genre Analysis‚ by John Swales attempts to indicate the actual definition of a discourse community. Swales main argument is that there is a difference between a speech community and a discourse community. Also‚ that there are six characteristics a group must meet in order to be a discourse community. Swales then provides examples and discusses issues concerning the idea of a discourse community. In the beginning of Swales argument‚
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respect your authority. There are always ups and downs in being a leader. Some days‚ there are more downs than ups‚ but as a leader I have to learn from what happened and try to make it better for next time. As a leader of a Boy Scout Patrol can be stressful when dealing with young scouts‚ around 12-14‚ that usually do not like to respect their leaders. At the age around 12 and 13‚ they will listen to what you are saying‚ but will not do that action that you asked of them. This is challenging for me‚ and
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workbook can help you but you still need to read the merit badge pamphlet. The work space provided for each requirement should be used by the Scout to make notes for discussing the item with his counselor‚ not for providing the full and complete answers. Each Scout must do each requirement. No one may add or subtract from the official requirements found in Boy Scout Requirements (Pub. 33216 – SKU 616334). The requirements were last issued or revised in 2013 • This workbook was updated in December 2013
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United Way and the Boy Scout of America. The United Way realized that the national Boy Scout of America policy that allowed discrimination against avowed gays goes against its own antidiscrimination policies. However the national UW permits local UW chapters to determine their own antidiscrimination policies. And that is how Larry Norvell (local head of the UW of Columbia) had to face the issue of allocations to the local BSA organization -- Cascade pacific Council of the Boy Scouts of America (CPCBSA)
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the Boy Scouts of America Background The United Way of America is an organization which takes in donations from people and businesses and distributes the funds to programs across the nation to help serve the community. One of the organizations which receive funds from the United Way‚ is the Boy Scouts of America. In 1990‚ an assistant scoutmaster was found out to be gay and was expelled from the Scouts as consequence. This went to the courts with the final verdict being that the Boy Scouts
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analysis of a discourse community that I am a part of‚ I will be focusing on St. Xavier High School and Jesuit education. St. Xavier is a great example of a discourse community and is backed up by the scholarly articles written by John Swales and Joseph Harris. Joseph Harris focuses his argument about what makes a community a community around writing. Harris proposes that “our aims and intentions in writing are thus not merely personal‚ idiosyncratic‚ but reflective of the communities to which we belong”
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Discourse Community: Broadcast News Journalists The discourse community of broadcast journalists is a broad community‚ but can be narrowed down to smaller groups. A discourse community is often defined as “a group whose shared language practices work toward a shared goal or goals.” The coherent meaning is a group which shares a common tongue and hosts the same intent‚ and accomplish it with similar intentions. As a faction‚ journalist come in as novices‚ but carry the opportunity to ascend
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In order to satisfy the requirement of leading a project to achieve Eagle Rank in Boy Scouts‚ I took on an uncommon venture in which I gained substantial life skills. Seeking out a unique project‚ I came across the overwhelmingly neglected Gleason Cemetery‚ a burial ground for early settlers in Oregon which clearly required restoration. I recruited friends‚ family‚ and fellow scouts to assist me as my weed-pulling arsenal. Along with delegating tasks‚ I labored alongside each worker. In between
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teenager yet. My father‚ Fritz Steinmeyer‚ was very much against Hitler. My brother was two years older than me and had been a Boy Scout for two years. When Hitler came‚ the Boy Scout organization became known as the Hitler Youth. The Hitler Youth brainwashed innocent minds. They taught us to ignore what the elderly and our parents said. The only difference between the Boy Scouts and the Hitler Youth was the uniforms. My dad wouldn’t let me join‚ but eventually‚ in 1935‚ I became a member. By then everyone
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