group in my English 101 class. We were assigned with researching and writing a paper on a discourse community of our choice. The community we decided to focus our work on was the Edge at Mason‚ a group that helps bring people together through team-building strategies. The need that our work was attempting to respond to was the need to come up with a solution to a potential problem within the discourse community. This problem arose from the lack of any formal supervisior or scribe during the community’s
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once believed was a distant and seemingly unachievable goal. I was at my own Eagle Scout award ceremony and I honestly could not believe that I had finally accomplished what only six percent of all Scouts achieve. During the ceremony‚ I began to look back on the countless hours of work that had gone into my Eagle Project. This contemplation slowly progressed into a reflection of my entire involvement in the Boy Scouts of America and what it has taught me. My journey through Scouting began at the age
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Discourse Community Project 1. I am studying the outdoors discourse community. a. Majors relating to the outdoors include ecology‚ environmental studies‚ sustainable food production‚ climate science and geography. Related departments include: Biology‚ Environment and Society‚ Plants‚ Soils and Climate‚ Watershed Sciences and Wildland Resources. Some disciplines are ecophysiology (the interrelationship between the physical function of something and its surroundings) and behavioral ecology (the way
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surrounding the Boy Scouts of America and United Way regarding donation and funding issues. While United Way does have antidiscrimination policies‚ organizations such as The Boy Scouts of America did not ultimately have to follow their model; thus continuing their discrimination within the group for its leaders and members based solely on sexual orientation. Case Study #1 This case study covers the major controversy surrounding the rights of gay people being involved in the organization Boy Scouts of America
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Pamela Gueco Discourse Community Analysis Final Draft Dance the Night Away At the beginning of my high school days when I was a freshman or “fish” as the upperclassmen would call us‚ I never knew where I really belonged. Every clique or group that I tried to become a part of did not truly fit my personality. Just like the upperclassmen had said‚ I felt like a small fish in an even bigger sea. It all changed when one day
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CVPA Discourse Community There is a large variety of academic discourse communities available at the university today. Deciding to go to college is deciding to enter an academic discourse community all on its own but deciding to choose a major is entering a more specified discourse community. There are many similarities and differences between each community which makes it difficult for some people to choose‚ including myself. Comparing and contrasting majors can make it easier for someone to choose
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UCF Robotics Club‚ a Discourse Community A discourse community can be defined many ways; however I tend to agree with Swale’s definition of it. Swale’s classification of a discourse community is that it has six main characteristics. Those being a "broadly agreed set of common public goals"‚ "mechanisms of intercommunication among its members"‚ "uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback"‚ "utilizes and hence processes one or more genres in the communicative
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Each of the sources above gives different aspects of cardiology discourse community that would help to create a healthy lifestyle to the patients‚ who are experiencing or suffering from different kinds of heart diseases. The interview that has been conducted with Dr. Besma Mikhail gives an overview of how it feels for being doctor in the community. It focuses on the emotional aspect of the medical discourse community. Also‚ it clarifies the challenges‚ and the amount of work needed to achieve this
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Jones Mr. Sanders Chemistry 8 November‚ 2015 “The Radioactive Boy Scout” Introduction “The Radioactive Boy Scout” by Ken Silverstein is a true story about a man named David Hahn. The story starts out in Michigan when David still attended high school. His goal was to create a “fast breeder reactor” in the shed out behind his house. David’s whole reason for his backyard experiment was to earn a badge for his boy scout organization. However‚ later in his life‚ he became very intrigued with
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Introduction In “The Radioactive Boy Scout”‚ by Ken Silverstein‚ a small town boy-named David Hahn-dives into the experimental world of not only chemistry but nuclear engineering. In this atomic novel the reader delves deep into the world of a child prodigy and the tale of nuclear romance. This radioactive account of a boy’s journey from small town chemist to a star-crossed engineer is nothing short of explosive. Key Idea 1 In the early chapters of the book David Hahn was found mixing various chemicals
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