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who were more active and involved in the project, were the local community. This sparked the need for the communication activity of community…

In the article, “Walking the talk: Reflections from a Community-Focused Dialogue Series” the plan is to implement a Days of Dialogue which is an intergroup dialogue series that facilitates specific conflicts. The dialogue encourages guidelines and community involvement. • Discusses the importance of intergroup dialogue and focuses on changing communities by creating environments where they can engage in dialogues about community issues. • Intergroup dialogue allows for social interaction with…

issue, challenge, or problem did the program, initiate, or effort attempt to address? The Silver City Neighborhood Alliance (hereafter "Alliance) is dedicated to creating safe, attractive, and resilient neighborhoods. The Alliance is a grass roots community resource that focuses on strengthening neighborhoods through connecting, communicating, coordinating, collaborating and celebrating. To that end, the individuals living in a neighborhood determine the boundaries of that neighborhood, even if…

Community means a myriad of things to different people. Often people are mistaken with the word community. The first thing that may come to mind is your location, where you live, the people who surround your home. That is not necessarily the case. A community can be a group of people who share common interests. For example, there can be a community of middle aged moms going through a hard time with their families or a community of men and women who enjoy fishing. The key to understanding what a…

things are accepted now that wasn't in the past, a new world full of discourse communities. “A discourse community is a group of people who share a set of discourses, understood as basic values and assumptions and ways of communicating about those goals.” “Linguist John Swales defined discourse communities as groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals. I choose the discourse community of anime. I undertook this study because I wanted to observe anime from a…

Being part of a Community I believe that everyone should contribute to a community in order to improve our own lives and society. Being part of a community can mean attending church, being close to friends and family, being part of a club, attending charities, shelters, or any kind of volunteer work. It can be almost anything, as long as it feels good to be part of it. It also helps create a sense of belonging and closer relationships with people. Overall, it is important to to be a part…

Physics as a Discourse Community Discourse communities, or groups of people who share the similar interests, exist everywhere, but they become more obvious in college because each major is its own academic discourse community. In “Discourse Communities,” Schmidt mentions that it is more common to see students who are part of the same academic discourse community spending most of their time together because they “focus [their] attention on the same issues and things” (1). This is due to the…

prompt describes the most critical aspect of community: “part.” Communities develop in hierarchies, with those who hold power at the top, and those who follow the voice of the leader. However, to exist within a community, one must understand that the necessity of the community comes before individual drives. Community, inherently, carries the connotation of partnership, communication, comradery, altruism, and trust. I have stayed a part of my minority community through small bodegas that allow…

semesters of Leadership Byrnes, I have done quite a lot of community service. From volunteering at Ashlan Village, The Carpenter’s Table, Middle Tyger, Duncan Elementary, Reidville Elementary, and many others, I’ve learned a lot and I’ve seen a lot. The feeling you get after doing any type of community service is something you can explain, but you cannot truly understand how it makes you feel until you have done it. I believe the most meaningful community service that I have done, would be…

A discourse community is a certain group a person is a part of that has specific rules, way of communication, language, etc. I am a part of many discourse communities, but soccer is the only discourse community, I feel completely belonged to and it’s the most important discourse community for me. This discourse community reveals a lot about me as a person, and I want to explore how, or if, my behavior changes in this community. I also want to see if I am performing when my behavior changes, how…