Valuable in Discourse Community

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As a freshman at University of Texas at Arlington, I enrolled in English1301 as a basic class requirement for freshman and we have discussed about the discourse community. A discourse community is a group of people gathering together to share their knowledge skills, abilities to help one another with the knowledge they have, exploring and learning the new things occur in living society and setting up the goals to achieve it together in community. My discourse community was according to Karenni families from Myanmar who just settled in U.S began in 2009, faced to many problems in U.S because of the language problem, life style, culture and environment. Therefore, we came up with the Karenni Community of Texas to preserved, promoted, built and helped Karenni families living in Texas and in Karenni State which is in Myanmar along with Karenni identities. With my communicate skills, leadership skills and computer skills from High School, I have successfully joined Karenni Community of Texas (KnCT) because of my abilities to volunteered (Pathos), Self-Confidence and loyalty (ethos) and knowledge skills such as communication, leadership and computer skills (logos) to helped KnCT families to live confidentially delight and getting along with the community to build Karenni identities in U.S and Myanmar.
In my point of view, I believed that success come from self-confidence and loyalty even though we do not have all the experience for the roles to take the action. On June 2012, KnCT held their first conference in Dallas, TX for election and all the Karenni families across the state of Texas came to participate including children and youth. There was a basis communicate and languages skills required for youth to run as KnCT youth chairman...

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...after a year from my role, the one who have disagreed with me in the roles came to me with a big prize for my hard working and outstanding youth leaders in community. He has confessed himself that he was an unfair leader for community somehow. After all, I can prove myself as a good volunteered for my community.
In my conclusion, I have successfully supported my discourse community with ethos, pathos and logos from high school and society. Therefore, I can be able to stand in front of friends and relatives in community. Similarly, most of the people have successfully joined their discourse community with logos, pathos and ethos to support their community and altogether we can change the world with these mastered appeals and being in my discourse community is very worthiness and useful for the community needed and that is what a valuable community stand for.

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