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Yoan Lee

Paralympic gold medallist Sophie Christensen: 'It didn't come easy' - 4 views

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    Sophie Christiansen has just heard we want to take a photo of her. "Well I'm not looking very glamorous, am I?" She looks at Pippa, her publicist/helper/dresser/bodyguard. "You'll have to help with my hair," says the triple gold medal-winning equestrian before manoeuvring herself into her diasability scooter and whizzing across the media lounge.
Long Pham

Rise of China can benefit world: Kevin Rudd |Asia-Pacific |chinadaily.com.cn - 6 views

  • Rise of China can benefit world: Kevin Rudd
  • "I believe we can embrace the rise of China in a manner that is good for China, good for the United States, good for the West, and good for the rest as well,"
  • our Chinese friends
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  • collectively
  • global collective futures
  • According to Rudd, the world faces three dominant issues in the near future: financial stability in the aftermath of the financial crisis; global sustainable development and climate change; and the rapid development of China as a global economic leader.
  • play a major role as the international system struggles to deal with the effects of the European Financial Crisis.
  • Similarly, as a country already well- experienced with the dangers of air pollution and carbon emissions, China could help promote the importance of a global climate change agenda.
  • "The international community must accept that it's entirely legitimate for China to have a louder voice at the global negotiating table,"
Kirill Musaev

Sweden suicide bomber's wife: 'I never knew my husband was a terrorist' | Mail Online - 0 views

  • Suspect was expelled from Luton mosque for trying to recruit extremists
  • Suspect was expelled from Luton mosque for trying to recruit extremists
    • Kirill Musaev
       
      prevents the readers from looking for support for their stereotypes about islam while reading the article
  • Suspect was expelled from Luton mosque for trying to recruit extremists
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  • Suspect was expelled from Luton mosque for trying to recruit extremists
    • Kirill Musaev
       
      in the beginning of the text Muslims are portrayed as peaceful and innocent of terrorism
  • Suspect was expelled from Luton mosque for trying to recruit extremists
  • Suspect was expelled from Luton mosque for trying to recruit extremists
  • Suspect was expelled from Luton mosque for trying to recruit extremists
  • Bomber visited radical 'Judgement Day' websites
    • Kirill Musaev
       
      redirects the reader's way of thoughts from stereotypes about Muslims in general to stereotypes about religious radicals
  • suicide bomber who was radicalised in Britain before carrying out a suicide bombing on a busy street in Sweden today spoke of her 'devastation'.
    • Kirill Musaev
       
      a lot of strong language - suicide bomber, radicalised, devastation
  • Iraqi-born Taimour Abdulwahab Al-Abdaly, 28
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      this part and the next part are not put together by incident
  • thrown out of a Luton mosque
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      he is not a true Muslim
  • blew up his car, then himself
    • Kirill Musaev
       
      adds a hint of horror to the article
  • spent much of the last decade in Luton
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      it was not life in an Arab country that made a terrorist out of him
  • hotbed of terrorism
    • Kirill Musaev
       
      surely an exaggeration, put here to boost the feelings the readers experience while reading the article
  • living there with his wife Mona Thwany and three young children.
    • Kirill Musaev
       
      breaks the stereotype about terrorists being psychos and outcasts
  • beauty business
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      the last words a reader expects to hear in such an article. used to create contrast
  • deemed so extreme
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      quite a strong set of words
  • kicked out
    • Kirill Musaev
       
      says it in a manner that implies that the bomber should have been diminished by the act
  • 'It was the general public, worshippers, that brought it to the committee's attention that there was someone in here teaching something that is alien to Islam - extremist views,'
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      destroys the idea (that reader might have had) that Islam promotes terrorism
    • Kirill Musaev
       
      from this moment on, evidence against Muslims' pacifism is discussed
  • high-profile extremists.
    • Kirill Musaev
       
      obviously an exaggeration
  • Last year Muslim protesters disrupted a homecoming march of soldiers returning from Afghanistan.
    • Kirill Musaev
       
      despite of all said above, gives a hint that Muslims are still not perfectly peaceful
  • radical Islamic
    • Kirill Musaev
       
      kind of links radicalism to Islam
  • Judgement Day.
    • Kirill Musaev
       
      goes together with the picture below
  • shows pictures of Tower Bridge engulfed by flames
    • Kirill Musaev
       
      adds another bit of horror that now (in readers' minds) applies to both terrorists and Muslims (since this part of the text links both concepts)
  • On the page, he says he is a member of the group Islamic Caliphate State, which seeks to establish Islamic rule worldwide and adds: ‘I’m a Muslim and I’m proud.'
    • Kirill Musaev
       
      another chunk of terror, which now mentions that terrorists are fighting to establish Islamic rule, which further links the concepts
  • Islamic flag being raised over a world in flames
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      very strong phrase, has a huge impact on the reader
  • cordoned off
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      implies that it is more than a police investigation
  • Neighbour Noreen Hussain, 30, said the person who lived at the house at the centre of police activity was a family man.
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      gives an idea that the terrorist lives in a Muslim community
  • Although she did not know him by name, she said: 'We just said hello every so often. He had two girls and one boy, and the boy was born this year. 'He loved his kids so much. He used to play with them all the time in the garden on the trampoline.'
    • Kirill Musaev
       
      breaks the stereotype that suicide bombers are cold-blooded killers, instead suggesting that a radical can hide anywhere, even in you or people you know well
  • et another terrorist incident
    • Kirill Musaev
       
      gives the reader a wrong opinion that ter. acts are a usual thing to do for a British student, unreasonable exaggeration
    • Kirill Musaev
       
      the picture makes the reader terrified by what seems to be a muslim-caused apocalypse
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      a casual picture of a person and a house. except they are placed to look like an evidence for some criminal case. 
  • trying to blow up an aeroplane with explosives hidden in his underpants
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      doesnt sound to official, instead giving an impression of how disorganized ter. acts usually are
    • Kirill Musaev
       
      a normal picture of a person, there are millions of them on the internet. except this one is a future suicide-bomber. causes the feeling best described as "they are among us"
  • referred to the presence of 500 Swedish troops among the Allies in Afghanistan and caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed drawn three years ago by Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks.
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      does not give exact quotes, leaving it up to the reader to figure out what the "reference" was. probably used to leave a room for the reader to make his own opinion on the article
  • his children were told ‘Daddy loves them’
    • Kirill Musaev
       
      probably intentionally used to cause strong feelings in the reader, which will be associated with Muslim people (a "coincidentally" placed picture on the right adds to that effect)
  • Immediately after the email arrived, Abdulwahab’s car burst into flames on a busy street in the city centre, with a series of explosions following from gas canisters stashed inside the vehicle.Around ten minutes later Abdulwahab shouted in Arabic before detonating a pipe bomb which killed him and wounded two passers-by.
    • Kirill Musaev
       
      gives the reader an idea how desperate abdulwahab was
  • chubby lady who wore a full veil
    • Kirill Musaev
       
      sounds really casual and peaceful, but includes the word "veil" which in christians' view means something radical and dangerous
  • More than 250 people have joined a group set up on Facebook titled 'RIP Taimour Abdulwahab our brother and friend'.
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      suggests that he was not the only one of his kind
  • THE BOMBER'S CHILLING LETTER The following is the full text of an email sent to a Swedish news agency before the blasts:'In the name of God the merciful. Prayers and peace to the Prophet Mohammad, peace be upon him.'Thanks to Lars Vilks and his paintings of the Prophet Mohammad, peace be upon him, and your soldiers in Afghanistan and your silence on all this so shall your children, daughters, brothers and sisters die in the same way as our brothers and sisters and children die.'Now the Islamic states have fulfilled what they promised you. We are here in Europe and in Sweden, we are a reality, not an invention, I will not say more about this.'Our actions will speak for themselves, as long as you do not end your war against Islam and humiliation of the prophet and your stupid support for the pig Vilks.'To all Muslims in Sweden I say: stop fawning and humiliating yourselves for a life of humiliation is far from Islam. Help your brothers and sisters and do not fear anything or anyone, only the God you worship.'To my family, try to forgive me. I could not sit and watch while all the injustice happens against Islam and the Prophet Mohammad, peace be upon him, when the pig Vilks did what he did.'Forgive me for my lies. I never went to the Middle East to work or earn money, I went there for jihad. I hope that you can understand me some time. I could never have told you all this or to anyone.' 
    • Kirill Musaev
       
      sounds like a typical radical speech, which would best suite a mass murderer or evil genius. used here to make the article more "epic" (boost the effect on the readers)
  • Al-Abdaly listed himself on Muslim dating website Muslima as a physical therapy graduate from Bedfordshire University.He wrote on Muslima that he was born in Baghdad and moved to Sweden in 1992 before coming to the UK in 2001.He said he was married in 2004 and had two young girls.'I want to get married again, and would like to have a big family. My wife agreed to this,' he wrote.He said he was looking for a practising Sunni Muslim who loves children and 'wants to please Allah before me'.He described himself as economically 'OK' and said that when he had extra money he gave it to the needy.'In the future, am looking for to move to an Arabic country and settle down there...' al-Abdaly added.
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      looks like a casual story of one's life, if this was not interrupted by the description how Al-Abdaly executed his bombing
  • Sweden has a military presence in Afghanistan and a Swedish cartoon that depicted the Prophet Mohammed as a dog enraged the Muslim world.
    • Kirill Musaev
       
      in a by-the-way manner says that there might have been a reason for the bombing
kazzy wazzy

Rethinking Muslim stereotypes | Matador Network - 0 views

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      Picture of a smiling supposedly Muslim woman - Gives a good image to the readers?
  • very one-sided story.
  • A reminder how
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      An expression that "reminds" the audience - The misconception of muslims
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  • SHE HAD A FRIENDLY FACE
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      In CAPITAL letters, the writer immediately introduces the sentence - Possibly shows that the physical appearance doesn't matter
  • I knew she was Muslim even before we had spoken because of the hijab that she was wearing
    • kazzy wazzy
       
      Stereotypical view on Muslims - The writer already had a view on Muslim characteristics, even before he spoke to the woman
  • quizzical
  • feverishly
    • kazzy wazzy
       
      - Quizzical --> puzzlement = The writer is confused about how she is able to come out from the Muslim country => Emphasizes the confusion going on in the writer's brain
    • kazzy wazzy
       
      Blurt --> Say sth without precaution = One fact was completely denied by the lady's statement => Illustrates how stereotypes that people convey can be very different than what it actually is 
    • kazzy wazzy
       
      Diction - Feverishly --> Struggling to so something? = Hard to process information => The information of the woman was so unexpected, the word emphasizes that fact
  • blurted
  • what should I say… allowed,
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      Not how academic/formal papers are written in
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      Stalling  - States that this website is a community website/blog post
  • ill at ease
    • kazzy wazzy
       
      "Ill as ease" = Anxious/uneasy
    • kazzy wazzy
       
      "ill at ease" adds to the negativity
    • kazzy wazzy
       
      Negative sounding words - Perhaps stresses his idiotic attitude?
  • I felt stupid, embarrassed at my ignorance
  • I had never been to an Islamic country and had no Muslim friends
    • kazzy wazzy
       
      Obvious that he'll get influenced by the stereotypical view by others
  • two sides to every coin
    • kazzy wazzy
       
      Reference to the first quote in the beginning - Backs up the idea of the  "one-sided story"
    • kazzy wazzy
       
      -> She completely understands what she is talking about
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      Diction - A sudden word that aren't normally used in daily conversations? => Sounds as if she was restrained from something that is very strict
  • battered
  • subdued
  • She was dressed formally in a pantsuit and I guessed it was for the benefit of the conference
    • kazzy wazzy
       
      "I guessed" - Assumption made from his stereotypical view on Muslim culture => Going to a "Western style" meeting (wears pantsuit) but keeps her identity as a Muslim
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      Diction - Choice of good, positive sounding words => Adds to the fact that the Muslims are actually nice people
  • liberated
  • twinkle
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      Comment section on the bottom - Characteristic of a blog post (community website) => Sharing of opinion
  • happy
  • Archived Responses to Rethinking Muslim stereotypes
Phong Tran

Nigeria Anti-Gay Marriage Bill Approved By Senate - 0 views

  • "The bill will expand Nigeria's already draconian punishments for consensual same-sex conduct and set a precedent that would threaten all Nigerians' rights to privacy, equality, free expression, association and to be free from discrimination," said Erwin van der Borght, the director of Amnesty International's Africa program.
  • Yet across the African continent, many countries already have made homosexuality punishable by jail sentences. Ugandan legislators introduced a bill that would impose the death penalty for some gays and lesbians, though it has not been passed into law two years later. Even in South Africa, the one country where gays can marry, lesbians have been brutally attacked and murdered.
  • who at times laughed at each other during the debate
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  • Under the proposed law, couples who marry could face up to 14 years each in prison. Witnesses or anyone who helps couples marry could be sentenced to 10 years behind bars
  • The bill also could target human rights and HIV-prevention programs run by the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Nigeria, which has the world's third-largest population of people living with HIV and AIDS. A U.S. Embassy spokeswoman declined to comment.
alfred L

Today's video gamer? It might not be who you think - 0 views

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    At 37, Lisa Sharp is comfortable calling herself a video-game junkie. But that wasn't always the case.
Michelle Massad

Stereotype This: "Lazy Mexicans" And Other Insolvent Myths of American Superiority - Pi... - 0 views

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    Pierre Tristam | April 15, 2011 FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam's weekly commentaries are broadcast on WNZF on Fridays just after 9 a.m. Here's this week's.
Lien Doan

Are Germans rude? Killing the stereotypes after living in Berlin | Fluent in 3 months -... - 0 views

  • Germans are actually usually really helpful so if you look like you are undergoing medieval torture as you struggle to speak the language, they’ll want to save you from that discomfort and may speak English because of that.
  • strict
  • always
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  • suggestion
  • wrong
  • very honest
  • frank
  • being bad,
  • I was dancing for several hours one night and a girl I had just met told me that I smelled and could do with a shower! It was true of course
  • genuine.
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