A discourse community is essentially a group of people that aggregate together at a time when their interest may meet. I’m a member of an immoderate number of discourse communities‚ as are others I’m sure. Interestingly‚ when I mull over what community I can say I find most attractive‚ there is almost no confusion on which community that is. Quite astonishing‚ really‚ since most would likely have multiple favorite discourse communities. It wasn’t until I thought deeply about this particular matter
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Ann M. Johns‚ a well-known linguist has studied the way communities communicate with each other and the specific ways they do so. In “Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice: Membership‚ Conflict‚ and Diversity”‚ Johns defines communities of practice as something that “refers to genres and lexis‚ but especially to many practices and values that hold communities together or separate them from one another” (500). Communities of practice are groups of people who use distinct language‚ objectives
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Running head: The Importance of Schools in a Community "The Importance of Schools in a Community" Community Development Executive Summary This case study will focus on the effects of a redistricting decision in Calvert County‚ Maryland. There were three possible plans that were being considered. The redistricting plans centered on the opening of a new elementary school in central Calvert County. The proposed plans would all have profound effects on three different schools and many neighborhoods
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574 in 2000. (Gorman‚ 20) Is the future of Franklin‚ Nebraska a steady decline with an end as a ghost town in the future? Franklin has a chance to reverse this trend with lots of community involvement‚ and by taking immediate action. There are many obstacles in the way of meeting the goal of making our small communities more livable and desirable. In the case of Franklin‚ there is a core group that has been in charge for many years and that is not easily convinced of the need to change. “Why change
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Communities Filled With Unique Individuals There are many people in the world who go out of their way to make themselves more unique and more of an individual‚ as well as people who will do anything to just be a part of a crowd or a community. Is it possible for an individual to be strictly an individual and not a member of a community‚ or visa versa? Although everyone is their own person‚ and has their own unique personality‚ thoughts‚ and beliefs‚ we are all a part of a community‚ whether that
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Duty to promote community cohesion: draft guidance for schools Purpose of this document This document seeks the views of schools on the content of guidance on the implementation of the new duty to promote community cohesion under the Education and Inspections Act 2006. The final version of the guidance will be published in July 2007 and will be informed by the responses received to this consultation and examples of existing good practice in promoting community cohesion. 1. Introduction
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Community Conceptual Model Community Conceptual Model Conceptual models are effective guides and tools used for nursing practice. They merge concepts and ideas providing a framework for how to think or demonstrate the elaborate connections between concepts‚ structures‚ or a system. They categorize existing interrelationships amid concepts into ways that can effectively direct actions and interventions. The objective of this paper is to define and examine the social ecology model and its
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the structures of community power remains one of the central challenges of community development theory and practice. Researchers have long sought to understand and measure the distribution of power in organizations‚ local communities‚ nations and around the world. Hence classical studies of community power tended to identify elitist (Hunter‚ 53; Mills‚ 56) or Pluralist (Dahl‚ 61; Truman‚ 51) structures. These studies were carried out using different methods in different communities. The observed differences
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2013 Race and My Community I have wondered what it would be like if everyone in my community was the exactly the same as the next person. When I think about this I wonder how it would be different if we were all exactly the same race‚ from the same cultural background and the same ethnicity. Throughout my local community‚ Henderson‚ Nevada‚ many differences can be seen and I am thankful for that. The cultural differences and many races and ethnicities make this community what it is. Henderson
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Community Immersion Learning (Service) Community immersion is a version of service learning that is more integrated with a student’s passions and interests‚ is longer-term and is related to the on-going development of community and social justice issues. Whereas pulling debris from a river would be classified as community service‚ at EUACS an explicit educational component – such as studying the causes of river pollution and how to advocate for environmental policy reform – makes it community
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