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    friendships that last a lifetime. Discourse Communities are perfect examples of these characteristics. Discourse communities are groups

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    along with physical data. One discourse community dedicated to protecting the rights to anonymity is the Tor Project, a worldwide group that helps create an anonymous browser to hide identity details and participates in establishing it in journalism, academia, activism, and normal users. The exploration of the rights of anonymity will be examined through the discourse community characteristics of Tor by reviewing Porters and Swales works in discourse communities, by using methods of primary investigation

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    strive to support their local community for various reasons. Engaging in community service provides people with the opportunity to become active members of their community and has a lasting, positive impact on society at large. Community service and volunteerism enables one to acquire life skills and knowledge, as well as provide a service to those who need it most. Supporting the community is a way to give back, it's a learning experience, it strengthens the community, promotes personal growth and

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    My Community Service

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    do many special things in my community most students did not have access to. Though all of the schools were very different, they all had the common value of service before self and gave their students numerous ways to help the school and community. From visiting nursing homes, to playing with the band at school fundraisers, to being paired up as mentors with younger students, I always had my hands busy providing someone in need. One of the biggest parts of my community service was visits to those

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    I have enjoyed taking this class this semester. Even though I hit a few hiccups along the way I pushed through. I think it will help in my future endeavor in community development. Many people can benefit by taking this class and learning more about the health issues within a community. The information can also be carried on and utilized within many other professions. I have shared many of my learning experiences from this class with family and friends and have passed on a lot of knowledge. I honestly

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    Community collaboration and leadership, with emphasis upon entrepreneurial leadership, and the role of sustained dialog in the application of economic development and growth in rural regions, are the subjects of this essay. Multi-community collaboration is a broader, more horizontal interaction of people to meet their common needs. This process is a popular strategy for rural development (Wilkinson, 1992). It is an emergent process that does not just occur, but evolves through a complex and

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    A discourse community is a group of individual who all have the same shared ideals, beliefs, values, and rules--all communicated with using the discourse community’s own established language. For example, a grouping of innovative scientists are describing new ways of curing diseases, using their own terminologies some people may find confusing because they are possibly not a part of that community overall. A foreigner traveling to America may find the culture to be puzzling and conflicting with how

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    1. “Imagined communities,” according to Anderson, are a form of speech communities created by the mass-production of shared media. They are “imagined” because members will never meet all other members face-to-face. The Morgan piece on speech communities begins by describing a music video, which itself begins with two rappers speaking on the phone in different languages in different countries. After a conversation, the two meet-up in person and begin the song. Morgan describes this as a speech

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    Back I believe that giving back to the community is important because they have helped us out and I believe that we should do the same in return. We’ve grown up in small place from small island, small town, and a small school.Without the support from others that we have now we wouldn't have the great opportunities that we have today. The people who have been there for me and that have helped support me have been my father and my friends. The communities that i wouldn't want to get back to would

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    Community, what is community? How would you define it? Community can be defined as a geographic location in a way that a group of individuals live in the same area like a neighborhood, a city, a district, a town, or a country. In simplest terms, it is where you live. However, individuals can also feel a sense of community through the place where they grew up or where they often go and visit. It can also be a group of individuals who have certain characteristics in common such as religion, race or

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