become angry and/or violent towards you and your argument. 4. What is a discourse community? To what discourse communities do you belong? How does a discourse community help establish common ground for its members? 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. I belong to several discourse communities of which I don’t know how to label them. It helps to establish common ground for its
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Research and Application 3-35 1. Toll Brothers succeeds first and foremost because of its product leadership customer value proposition. The annual report mentions in numerous places that Toll Brothers focuses on Luxury Homes and Communities and high quality construction. Page 8 of the 10-K says ‘We believe our marketing strategy, which emphasizes our more expensive “Estate” and “Executive” lines of homes, has enhanced our reputation as a builder-developer of high-quality upscale housing.” Page
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Issues For any business that depends on the community to survive, Greyston Bakery feels it is important to let everyone know that they support their community and its people. It is important that companies give back to the communities that support them in their business endeavors and Greyston Bakery does it well. They not only hire local people from the community to work in their bakery but they give back in other ways as well. Greyston funds other community services such as after –school day care,
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health concern the Neighborhood residents are worried about secondhand smoking, and there is speak of banning smoking in public areas. The Neighborhood community Center offer classes to those trying to quit smoking. According to the “Neighborhood News” the officials of the Neighborhood are worried about the concentration of pollutants in the community lake. Many of the residents are worried and concerned that the lake would not be useable for future generations. The mayor voiced his concerns about
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Welcome to WritePoint, the automated review system that recognizes errors most commonly made by university students in academic essays. The system embeds comments into your paper and suggests possible changes in grammar and style. Please evaluate each comment carefully to ensure that the suggested change is appropriate for your paper, but remember that your instructor's preferences for style and format prevail. You will also need to review your own citations and references since WritePoint capability
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opportunities to help others in the community. What role do values play in how Drexler’s Bar-B-Que interacts with its neighbors and customers? Values play an enormous role in how Drexler’s Bar-B-Que interacts with its neighbors and customers. According to the text, “the family believes that a business is obligated to aggressively seek out opportunities to help others.” This can be seen in how the family business has made it a point to give back to the community. Not only have they sponsored
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TOYOTA PEST AND SWOT PEST (examined from the perspective of what Toyota will do for Indiana as well as the vice versa) Political Toyota had a lot of help from the local government, including tax breaks. on the flip side, Toyota is expected to 'sell' Indiana and its assets to the world. U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar commented on Toyota producing Camrys in Indiana: I applaud Governor Daniels and the Indiana legislature and all who are working together. First of all, to provide support for
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aspects of a community that could affect health. You may conduct this survey either in your community or in the online Neighborhood. o Define community, community health, and community as client. Community: a group of people sharing a common interest, those who reside in a specific locality, share government. Community health: The Health status of a group of people, or community and the actions that help protect and improve the health of the community.
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Examine the argument that neighbourly relations are characterised by friendly distance. The practice of being a neighbour is a complex one. There are unwritten rules and expectations of what being a neighbour constitutes. We as a neighbour tend to grow up being a neighbour, and as such we are expected to know how to behave, as a neighbour should. Various studies have given us an insight into to what is actually expected of a good neighbour. The following piece of work examines the argument that
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Community Evaluation Community Evaluation The purpose of this essay is to compare the similarities and differences between five different communities. Represented are Bland County, Virginia, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Dunedin, Florida, Rio Vista, California, and Washington, D.C. The definition of community according to Bartle (2012) is, “The concept of community is a set of interactions, human behaviors that have meaning and expectations between its members. Not just action, but actions based on
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