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Jenni Young

Powerful Ads Use Real Google Searches to Show the Scope of Sexism Worldwide - 1 views

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Mass communication Part 2 PSA Women's Rights Sexism Google

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    Here's a simple and powerful campaign idea from UN Women using real suggested search terms from Google's autocomplete feature.
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Gender and the body language of power - 0 views

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Language Gender Part 1 Body language Power

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    Philosopher Sandra Lee Bartky once observed that being feminine often means using one's body to portray powerlessness.
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Two Song Cycles by Liza Lim : The New Yorker - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Identity Culture Language Death

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    Music and language: Liza Lim's opera "Mother Tongue" addresses the power of language to shape consciousness, and what is lost when languages die away. Review has some relevant ideas about language and culture (Review)
  • Jenni Young on 28 Apr 14
     
    Music and language: Liza Lim's opera "Mother Tongue" addresses the power of language to shape consciousness, and what is lost when languages die away. Review has some relevant ideas about language and culture.
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This is why your brain wants to swear | David Shariatmadari | Comment is free | theguar... - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Vocabulary Swearing Taboo

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    A recent study shows that children are adept at absorbing swearwords. That's the power of linguistic taboos for you
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    A recent study shows that children are adept at absorbing swearwords. That's the power of linguistic taboos for you
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The first advertisement on the moon's surface - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Advertising Moon

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    A Japanese beverage maker and pharmaceutical company, Otsuka, is planning to send a specially designed canister of its powered sports drink Pocari Sweat to the moon.
  • Jenni Young on 16 May 14
     
    A Japanese beverage maker and pharmaceutical company, Otsuka, is planning to send a specially designed canister of its powered sports drink Pocari Sweat to the moon.
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Poem of the week: Words by Edward Thomas | Books | theguardian.com - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Identity Bilingualism Welsh Vocabulary Poetry

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    This loose-limbed lyric on the elemental power of language seems rooted in a distinctly Welsh landscape
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    This loose-limbed lyric on the elemental power of language seems rooted in a distinctly Welsh landscape
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Patricia Lockwood's "Rape Joke" should end the rape joke debate - Salon.com - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Poetry Rape Gender Rape Joke

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    A powerful poem demonstrates why rape jokes are so damaging
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    A powerful poem demonstrates why rape jokes are so damaging
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Weapon of Choice - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Mass communication Part 2 PSA Insults Labels

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    The Weapon of Choice Project was conceived to provide a visual demonstration of the power of verbal abuse, and it is meant to provoke a conversation about the problems of domestic violence, child abuse, and bullying.
  • Jenni Young on 28 May 14
     
    The Weapon of Choice Project was conceived to provide a visual demonstration of the power of verbal abuse, and it is meant to provoke a conversation about the problems of domestic violence, child abuse, and bullying.
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Watch The Video That Coca-Cola And McDonald's Hope You Never See - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Advertising Marketing Children

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    TEDx talk about "pester power" and how big food companies target children and teenagers
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    TEDx talk about "pester power" and how big food companies target children and teenagers
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No English please, we're Gambians: president - ModernGhana.com - 0 views

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Language Part 1 English Colonialism Gambia Nationalism

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    Dakar AFP - Gambia will drop English as its official language, President Yahya Jammeh said in his latest diatribe against former colonial power Britain.
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    Dakar AFP - Gambia will drop English as its official language, President Yahya Jammeh said in his latest diatribe against former colonial power Britain.
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A Song Born When Pain Is Still Fresh - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Pop Protest Michael Brown Internet Hip-hop

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    J. Cole's song "Be Free" quickly spread around the world in hours, highlighting the power to reach listeners while emotions are still raw.
  • Jenni Young on 16 Aug 14
     
    J. Cole's song "Be Free" quickly spread around the world in hours, highlighting the power to reach listeners while emotions are still raw.
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Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity - 1 views

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Language Community

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    Biologist Mark Pagel shares an intriguing theory about why humans evolved our complex system of language. He suggests that language is a piece of "social technology" that allowed early human tribes to access a powerful new tool: cooperation.
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Blogs of Note - 0 views

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Mass communication Text types Written Tasks

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    Interesting and noteworthy Blogger-powered blogs.
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Shane Koyczan: "To This Day" ... for the bullied and beautiful - 0 views

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Language Identity Poetry Spoken Word

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    Video. Shane Koyczan makes spoken-word poetry and music. His poem "To This Day" is a powerful story of bullying and survival.
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Nora now: A short film responding to Henrik Ibsen's 'A Doll's House' - 0 views

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Literature Drama Part 3 Doll's House Written Tasks

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    Hattie Morahan, who recently played Nora in a Young Vic production of Ibsen's powerful classic about a woman taking control of her own destiny, stars in writer Nick Payne and director Carrie Cracknell's short film imagining what a modern-day Nora might look like, 130 years on from the original
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For Key And Peele, Biracial Roots Bestow Special Comedic 'Power' - 1 views

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Language Part 1 Mass communication Part 2 Code-switching Biracial Culture Identity

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    Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are the duo behind the Comedy Central sketch comedy show Key & Peele. Each has a white mother and black father, and a lot of their comedy is about race.
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"There's no excuse for rape": Hard-hitting campaign launched in Bristol Read more: htt... - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Advertising PSA Gender Rape

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    Anti-rape campaign in Bristol, England
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Dark Girls: New Documentary From Producer Bill Duke Tackles Colorism - 0 views

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Literature Part 4 Bluest Eye Beauty Race Discrimination

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    "Dark Girls" is a powerful documentary on the issue of the separation - between light-skinned and dark-skinned African-Americans.
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Marvel Editor Sana Amanat Does TEDxTeen Talk About The Positive Power Of Storytelling -... - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Comics Representation Race Gender Stereotypes

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    On March 1st 2014, Marvel Comics editor Sana Amanat participated in the 5th TEDxTeen conference hosted by the We Are Family Foundation. Amanat, the editor on Ms. Marvel, Elektra, New Warriors and Captain Marvel, did a talk entitled Myths, Misfits & Masks.
  • Jenni Young on 04 Apr 14
     
    On March 1st 2014, Marvel Comics editor Sana Amanat participated in the 5th TEDxTeen conference hosted by the We Are Family Foundation. Amanat, the editor on Ms. Marvel, Elektra, New Warriors and Captain Marvel, did a talk entitled Myths, Misfits & Masks.
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