In discourse communities the focus is on texts and language, the genres that enable members throughout the world to maintain their goals, regulate their membership, and communicate effectively with one another. As students engage with discipline, as they move from exposure to experience, they begin to understand that the different communities on campus are quite distinct, that apparently common terms have different meanings, apparently shared tools have different uses, apparently related objects have different interpretations, as they work in a particular community they start to understand both it’s particularities and what joining takes, as these involve language, practice, culture and conceptual universe, not just mountains of facts. People are born or taken involuntarily by their families and cultures, into some communities of practice. These first culture communities may be religious, tribal, social, or economic, and they may be central to an individuals daily life experiences. Academic communities are selected and voluntary. Discourse communities can also be professional. Every major profession has it’s organizations, practices, textual conventions, and it’s genres.. Active community members also carry on informal exchanges at conferences through email interest groups, in memos, hakway discussions at the office, in laboratories and elsewhere, the results of which may be woven intertextually into public, published texts. 

1. Email i wrote yesterday
2. Poem i wrote in middle school
3. Country music playlist
4. The prison guard
5. My nurse
6. Support groups
7. Teachers 
8. Chick fil-a
9. ESPN
10. Medical researcher

ACE’s or Adverse Childhood Experiences are traumatic events that occur mainly between the ages of 0-17 and these events can include abuse, neglect, or violence in the home or also in the community. Toxic stress can occur if a child experiences very tough adversity which can include physical or mental abuse, family economic struggles, exposure to violence, etc. If you’re a kid that grows up in poverty and violence or racism it really affects your development growing up and even as an adult. If you see and hear these things on a daily basis it distracts you from what you need to do whether it’s school or extracurricular activities. When you grow up in these situations it’s very hard to get out and make it to where you want to get in life. ACE’s can have a big impact not only on literacy but school in general. Growing up with these kinds of distractions especially if you are a young kid it is very hard to get your school work completed. A lot of these families didn’t take their education seriously and don’t push their kids in school. Dedication and hard work is your best bet in getting out of these toxic environments.

Dr. Mona Brought the issue to the local government about the water crisis in Flint and caught the attention of local and national news to promote how big of an issue it was and how it needs to be fixed. The poverty in flint was also a big issue because their only access to water was from tap. The people couldn’t afford to buy bottled water so they were forced to drink the lead water. Drinking water with lead in it has a big impact on the minds of the people. At the start of the CoronaVirus, everyone I knew thought that the beer Corona was the cause of the sickness. I simply told these people that they were wrong and that this was actually a huge problem. To make our world a better place in the time we are living in at the moment, we all need to find a way to work together.