importance of Discourse and discourse community The concept of Discourse and discourse community is very important in English reading and writing. Discourses are group members’ shared “ways of being in the world” (Gee 484). According to the authors we studied‚ Porter‚ Gee‚ Swales‚ Johns and Porter‚ we willingly or unwillingly are part of many different discourse communities or Discourses. Almost everything we do in our everyday life requires involvement in some discourse community. Discourse or discourse
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poem ‘First Love’ is about experiencing young love for the very first time. Firstly‚ Clare uses many forms of figurative language such as metaphors‚ personifications and hyperboles to show the negative impacts of love throughout the poem. Phrases such as his “face turned pale a deadly pale” and “stole my heart away” show this. Love shocked him as if he was a dead ghost and as if life was taken away from him. At the beginning‚ he mentions‚ ‘I ne’er was struck before that hour’‚ telling us that he was
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Discourse Communities In today’s world‚ there are many different discourse communities that consist of how someone speaks at home versus how someone speaks at school. In Amy Tam’s essay‚ “Mother Tongue‚” she explains her discourse communities and how they affect her life. I think it is safe to say that she is not the only one who deals with this. I myself find myself talking differently when I am with my family versus when I am at school and I know there are so many others who feel the same way
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ENG 0950 Spring 2014 Essay 3 The Longman Reader Select one of the topics below and respond in an essay of between 650 and 1000 words. Develop your own thesis and supporting ideas/details. Include clear‚ concrete examples so that you can “show” rather than “tell.” Write a 1-3 sentence summary of either the TedTalks Video or The Longman Reader essay in your essay so that your readers understand your references. Also include a quotation from the essay. Acknowledge any source you use in your essay
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judgment of their spouse. A man carried the reputation of a hard working‚ industrious‚ political figure that was treated with royalty within his household. As opposed to women confined to the house‚ men were very much involved in the relations of the public world. All aspects of industries and politics were experienced solely by the
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Stephanie Professor Mitchell-Wagner English 1A Business: The road to Entrepreneurship in reading and writing forms Business is an occupation‚ profession‚ or trade; as so www.dictionary.com states. In a business environment one can expect a lot of reading and writing coming from the business itself when it comes to keeping track from income statements to all the investments in the company or business. Reading and writing is found in many discourse communities‚ it can be a group that shares
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"If I could have the nigger show back again in its pristine purity‚ I should have little use for opera." -- Mark Twain Blackface performers are‚ "...the filthy scum of white society‚ who have stolen from us a complexion denied them by nature‚ in which to make money‚ and pander to the corrupt taste of their white fellow citizens." -- Frederick Douglass Minstrelsy: The Bane of Show Business The two quotes above show just how different society was during the time of slavery and the consideration
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sarcastic issues by referring to the recent past of Russia when a lot of parties with funny names existed or even by making an overlook on recently formed organizations which would like to be formalized as official political parties. I’ve read one amusing issue in the ‘Moscow news’(“Moskovskie novosti”) newspaper and decided to tell you about the most funny political parties of the world. 1. The party of beer lovers‚ Russia. It’s the most widespread among the weirdest ones. It exists in Belarus
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The Black Death The middle ages were a dark and scary time. They had everything broken down into groups of people. This system was called feudalism. The stages were broken into peasants next squire‚ knights‚ then onto kings. During this time something horrible happened‚ the black death occurred. The black death happened in the 1300s. The Black Death killed an extraordinary 25 million people in 2 years!!! This happened in Europe. According to the article Black Death‚ in ten years‚ it killed
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What is Amusing Anxiety? Social all-overs manifests in a lot of altered ways. You may be shy with new people‚ but accomplished with old friends. You may do able-bodied at work‚ but alarming parties. You may not even analyze your all-overs as social. It may just feel like "free amphibian anxiety." But you apprehension that it feels bigger if you are abandoned or with anyone you feel abutting to. In some cases‚ the all-overs can become so acute that it causes agitation attacks. Humans with astringent
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