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Onion: We just fooled the Chinese government! - CNN.com - 0 views

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    onion fooled China re Kim Jung Un
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100 Wise Words For Everyone. Number 28 Is Gold. - 1 views

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    Lang and Cultural Context  A great list in general of 'wise advice'
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Georgian alphabet (Mkhedruli) - 0 views

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    languages and their origins and scripts
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Who Runs The World? 'Time' Magazine Says Beyoncé : Code Switch : NPR - 0 views

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    Cover of Magazine choice of Most Influential People
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Nothing Twice - A Jersey tribute to the great poet Wisława Szymborska - YouTube - 0 views

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    nothing twice poem, read by polish people 
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BBC News - 10 slang phrases that perfectly sum up their era - 1 views

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    Part 1 example of language in cultural context
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Rives: The Museum of Four in the Morning | Talk Video | TED.com - 0 views

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    Part 3 the power of poetry (Szymborska's btw), finding links in coincidences, crowdsourcing and storytelling.
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http://www.manovich.net/LNM/Manovich.pdf - 0 views

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    Part 2 Language and Literature  Lev Manichov's New Media - New Media Object
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Marshall Mcluhan Full lecture: The medium is the message - 1977 part 1 v 3 - YouTube - 0 views

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    The Medium is the Message lecture by Mashall McLuhan
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Toy Ads and Learning Gender - YouTube - 0 views

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      FOA gender in ads
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    Part 2 Language and Literature : Learning Gender roles
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A Vision of the Future From Those Likely to Invent It - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Technology replacing the future
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Short Forms: When Social Media and Short Fiction Intersect - The Toronto Review of Books - 0 views

  • Zoe Whittall’s story “This Just Isn’t Working Out,” published in This Magazine and posted on this.org, uses one-way email communications to chronicle a set of strained relationships
  • Greg Kearney’s “Do You Want to Burn to Death and Look Like Steak with Hair” from his collection Pretty, and Jessica Westhead’s “And Also Sharks,”
  • resonates for readers immersed in the world of Tumblr and Blogger, mySpace and Pinterest
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  • Zadie Smith announced her rejection of Facebook in the New York Review of Books. She accused the service of encouraging superficiality in human exchanges,
  • The recent work of writer Megan Stielstra is an emblematic example of the hybridity that characterizes new short work infused with online elements.
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      Great topic sentence - shows the return to the thesis statement
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    How stories have changed because of technology changes, Part 2
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The Abuse of Ukraine's Best-Known Poet : The New Yorker - 1 views

  • Serhiy Zhadan
  • Zhadan’s beating has caused a great deal of protest among Russians, and referred me to a statement released by the Russian PEN Center, which reads, in part, “We are observing a severe noetic crisis, akin to what was described by Orwell: the meanings of the words ‘peace,’ ‘war,’ ‘fascism,’ and ’democracy,’ ‘defense,’ and ‘invasion’ are shamelessly warped.”)
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    Orwellian - warped slogans of peace and war
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Putin Receives Strong Words of Support in Ninety-Minute Conversation with Self : The Ne... - 1 views

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    Ukrainian crisis SATIRE example
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The 2 Teenagers Who Run the Wildly Popular Twitter Feed @HistoryInPics - Alexis C. Madr... - 0 views

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    @EarthPix
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