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Jenni Young

The Name's Du Xiao Hua, But Call Me Steve - 1 views

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Language Part 1 Names Identity Non-English names Chinese

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    What's up with Chinese people having English names? Writer Huan Tsu wonders why Chinese people are so keen to adopt English names?
  • Jenni Young on 21 Aug 14
     
    What's up with Chinese people having English names? Writer Huan Tsu wonders why Chinese people are so keen to adopt English names?
  • Jenni Young on 21 Aug 14
     
    What's up with Chinese people having English names? Writer Huan Tsu wonders why Chinese people are so keen to adopt English names?
Jenni Young

Lyrics for Poor Unfortunate Souls (from The Little Mermaid) - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Gender Women Talk Men Talk WT2 Mass communication Disney Little Mermaid

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  • Jenni Young on 26 Jan 14
     
    Ursula's song, 'Poor Unfortunate Souls' from The Little Mermaid - where Ariel gives up her voice: "The men up there don't like a lot of blabber / They think a girl who gossips is a bore!"
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Meet the new X-Men: All women - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Comics X-Men Gender Character

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  • Jenni Young on 10 Oct 13
     
    For the first time in its 50-year history, the X-Men will be made up entirely of women: Storm, Rogue, Jubilee, Kitty Pryde, Rachel Grey and Psylocke make up the mutant team in "X-Men" #1, in stores May 29.
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Last Words: The Dying of Languages | Worldwatch Institute - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Global languages Language Death

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  • Jenni Young on 25 Mar 14
     
    Millennia of human experience are wrapped up in the planet's many languages, and this linguistic diversity may be as essential to our cultural health as biological diversity is to our physical health (Blog)
  • Jenni Young on 25 Mar 14
     
    Millennia of human experience are wrapped up in the planet's many languages, and this linguistic diversity may be as essential to our cultural health as biological diversity is to our physical health (Blog)
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The Death And Uneasy Rebirth Of Cambodia's Psychedelic Rock : Code Switch : NPR - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Pop Cambodia

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    An unlikely music nearly silenced by the Khmer Rouge is being replayed and remixed by young performers of Cambodian descent. But changing up the oldies has landed some musicians in hot water.
  • Jenni Young on 18 Aug 14
     
    An unlikely music nearly silenced by the Khmer Rouge is being replayed and remixed by young performers of Cambodian descent. But changing up the oldies has landed some musicians in hot water.
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Aria: A memoir of a bilingual childhood by Richard Rodriguez - 1 views

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Language Identity Culture Bilingualism

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    autobiographical essay about growing up in a Spanish-speaking family in California.
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Do women really talk more? - 0 views

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Language Gender Stereotypes

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  • Jenni Young on 07 Mar 13
     
    Article from The Guardian. A bestselling book claims that women say an average of 20,000 words a day and men only 7,000. Can it be true? We wired up two writers to find out.
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My Asian Americana - 1 views

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Language Culture Identity Cambodia Asian-American

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  • Jenni Young on 15 May 13
     
    Exiles and ex-pats unite as a community to present images of an Americana they left behind. One half live outside the US by choice while the other half has been forcibly returned. All are Americans. Each raised with the memories, mannerisms, and a distinct cultural identity of growing up Asian in America.
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At School Papers, the Ink Is Drying Up - 0 views

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Mass communication Journalism Technology

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  • Jenni Young on 30 May 13
     
    Fewer resources, lack of interest and the Internet have led to fewer high school newspapers in New York city's public schools.
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Will the Kalq keyboard finally spell the end for qwerty? - 0 views

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Mass communication Technology

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  • Jenni Young on 26 Apr 13
     
    Researchers at the University of St Andrews have developed a split-screen keyboard that they claim can increase typing speeds for touchscreen users. Will it get the thumbs up? from Guardian.
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Black Twitter: A virtual community ready to hashtag out a response to cultural issues -... - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Language Part 1 Race Culture Twitter Social Media

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  • Jenni Young on 22 Jan 14
     
    The social media community is open to anyone, but it's up to you to learn the language (Washington Post).
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Women really do talk more than men (13,000 words a day more to be precise) - 0 views

www.dailymail.co.uk/...-13-000-words-day-precise.html

Language Part 1 Gender Stereotypes Men Talk Women Talk

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  • Jenni Young on 16 Jan 14
     
    Researchers from the University of Maryland say the reason women are more talkative - and speak up to 20,000 words a day - is because of higher levels of the Foxp2 protein (Mail Online)
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Teachers spot trouble in a name - 1 views

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Language Part 1 Names Identity Bias

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  • Jenni Young on 11 Sep 13
     
    Teachers in the UK think they can tell which pupils are likely to play up by looking at their names, a survey suggests
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Does It Taste As Sweet To Say 'I Love You' In Another Language? : Code Switch : NPR - 2 views

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Language Part 1 Culture Identity Bilingualism

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  • Jenni Young on 01 Mar 14
     
    When it comes to cross-cultural and bilingual relationships, not everyone speaks the same language of love. The language with the deepest emotional resonance tends to be the one that was spoken by each romantic partner at home when they were growing up.
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Words From a Father to His Daughter (From the Makeup Aisle) - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Gender Beauty Image Language Advertising

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    Maybe a father's words can deliver his daughter through this gauntlet of institutionalized shame and into a deep, unshakeable sense of her own worthiness and beauty. A look at how the language of make-up ads can affect girls.
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Why We WAM! | Women Action and the Media - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Gender Representation

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  • Jenni Young on 11 Mar 14
     
    There are over 3.3 billion women living in the world today. Yet if you judge solely by the mainstream media you might conclude those 3.3 billion people are less intelligent, less articulate, less funny, have less to say about issues (even those directly affecting them) or perhaps only make up 5 to 30% of the population.
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A Culture Clings to Its Reflection in a Cleaned-Up Soap Opera - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...n-a-cleaned-up-soap-opera.html

Language Culture Mass communication Language loss

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  • Jenni Young on 02 Aug 13
     
    "Baktun," made entirely in the Mayan language, might be the cleanest telenovela in Mexico.
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Resisting the Siren Call of the Screen - 1 views

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Mass communication Social media Part 2

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  • Jenni Young on 19 Aug 13
     
    Book review: three new books examine the search for balance in a wired world, especially for children growing up in the digital age.
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The French protect their language like the British protect their currency - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...language-french-identity

Language Part 1 Culture Identity Global English French

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  • Jenni Young on 27 Sep 13
     
    A row over using English in universities has blown up in France, where language is at the heart of the national identity
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Ad Takes Off Online: Less Doll, More Awl - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Advertising Gender Children

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  • Jenni Young on 22 Nov 13
     
    The complicated Rube Goldberg machine in a viral video ad from a start-up toy company called GoldieBlox has a simple goal: to show girls that being an engineer is cool.
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