Agency Discourse Memo

MEMORANDUM
TO: ENGLISH 1311 STUDENTS
FROM: BIANCA VALENZUELA
SUBJECT: GIRL SCOUTS
DATE: 12/9/2010

GIRL SCOUTS OF THE USA
The Girl Scouts have a very strong mission that portrays them. The mission consists of courage, confidence and character that build a girl to make the world a better place. This agency was founded in Savannah, Georgia. The first Girl Scout troop was created on 12 March, 1912 by the founder, Juliette Gordon Low. The members right now consist of 2.4 million girls and 928,000 adult members. This organization is in more than 90 countries through the program called USA Girl Scouts Overseas.
They have different discourses that they are a part of to stay connected with the community as well as with each other. They hold meetings to discuss their progress and to get others involved as well. One of their main sources of communication is through their webpage which is http://www.girlscouts.org. In this website viewers will find different information about the organization. One thing readers can see is the values that make up the Girl Scouts. They also have information on research, new, topics for the girls, topics for the adults, career information, and Global Girl Scouting among other things. In this website you will also be able to find other types of discourse communities that they are a part of. For example, you can also find the Girl Scouts on twitter, Blogger, myspace.com, flickr, facebook, and youtube.
At first one might think that the Girl Scouts can’t help with addictions to shopping but it keeps girls staying active and shows the more important things in life. It also keeps the adult members active and keeps them occupied rather than being at the mall or at a store looking at things to buy. All of the people that are a part of the Girl Scouts donate a lot of time and effort to making it a fun and enjoyable experience for the girls and they also show them the importance of having a well and healthy balanced lifestyle that doesn’t include shopping or looking for the hottest and trendiest fashions that are out there. Although there are some girls that are in Girl Scouts that do a little bit of shopping it is all in good fun and they do not make it a habit.
There are some girls that are not in Girl Scouts or in any other organization that start with the habits of shopping at a very young age and by the time they are teens they want more and more items, which later turns into an addiction to shopping. While at the same time there are other girls that are in Girl Scouts that are out having fun and doing joyful activities that allows them to have a worry free future later on when they become teenagers.
Overall the Girl Scouts of America are a great organization. It not only cultivates young girls to have a nice healthy lifestyle that brings skills for success in the future but it also helps them stay in the right path.