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The Problem That Has Two Names - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...roblem-that-has-two-names.html Language Identity Names Gender Part 1
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  • Jenni Young on 27 Aug 13
     
    Like others wanting it both ways, I held on to my professional name while also taking on my husband's. Op-Ed from NYT
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Good written English, passion, and a positive attitude will clinch that university place - 0 views

www.acs-schools.com/...nch-that-university-place.aspx College apps
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    Results of research into what universities are looking for in applicants.
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Hacking Language Learning - endangered languages - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch Language Part 1 Language Death
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    TEDx talk on endangered languages
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Language learning: Bridge to a better world - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch Language Culture Part 1 Bilingualism South Africa Xhosa
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    South African Craig Makhosi Charnock's TEDx talk on learning Xhosa to show respect for the language and culture.
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Saudi Arabia passes law against domestic violence - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ia-law-domestic-violence-women Mass communication Advertising Gender Violence Saudi Arabia Part 2
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    Saudi Arabia - campaign against violence against women
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Saudi Arabian domestic violence campaign shows woman in niqab with black eye - 0 views

www.telegraph.co.uk/...n-in-niqab-with-black-eye.html Mass communication Part 2 Advertising Gender Violence Saudi Arabia
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    Saudi Arabia has begun its first campaign against the "dark phenomenon" of domestic violence, using an image of a woman with a bruised left eye behind her niqab.
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Disruptions: More Connected, Yet More Alone - 0 views

bits.blogs.nytimes.com/...-more-connected-yet-more-alone Mass communication Part 2 Technology Community
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    A YouTube video about pervasive smartphone use may have landed at a moment when people start questioning if something has gone too far and start doing something about it.
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Asian Names Are Too Hard To Deal With; Can You Change Yours? - 4 views

www.john-zhu.com/...deal-with-can-you-change-yours Language Identity Asian Names Texas USA Race
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    Blog
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Undercover job hunters reveal huge race bias in Britain's workplaces - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...mination-employment-undercover Language Names Part 1 Discrimination Race UK
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    Civil servants created false identities to send CVs to hundreds of employers in sting to uncover discrimination
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Employers discriminate against Muslims, study finds - 1 views

www.independent.co.uk/...slims-study-finds-2141134.html Language Names Part 1 Discrimination
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    Muslims face "massive discrimination" when applying for jobs, according to the first scientifically validated study of anti-Muslim bias among employers in France.
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The joy of being called Morven Crumlish - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...y-being-called-morven-crumlish Language Names Part 1 Identity
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    Spellcheck calls me Moron and coffee people think I am Marvin. But I like my unusual name
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Name Discrimination: Texas Theory - 2 views

wikis.la.utexas.edu/...name-discrimination Language Names Part 1 Discrimination Race
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    In order to truly treat all people equally, we must ensure that individuals with ethnic sounding names are not discriminated against.
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Personal names and identity in Pakistan - 2 views

tribune.com.pk/...names-and-identity-in-pakistan Language Names Identity Part 1 Discrimination
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    Names are so important that a human being can lose his or her life only because of the wrong name in the wrong place.
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Your Birth Name Is Your Identity? Says Who? - 1 views

www.patheos.com/...is-your-identity-says-who.html Language Names Identity Gender Part 1
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    Response to Guardian article "Why should married women change their names? Let men change theirs" by Jill Filipovic
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Who ruined English: Brits or Yanks? - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...who-ruined-english-brits-yanks Language Part 1 Varieties of English American v British
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    Lexical jingoists like to cast blame for supposed perversions of usage and meaning. The reality is that English is a flexible friend
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Jafaican it? No we're not - 3 views

www.theguardian.com/...mind-your-language-jafaican Language Identity Accents Language change Part 1
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  • Jenni Young on 03 Sep 13
     
    Blog. Comedians might play the patois of multicultural Britain for laughs, but spoken English has been drawing on influences from other languages and dialects for centuries
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Clumsy and cack-handed? Lefties are leaders, not losers - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...mind-your-language-left-handed Language Part 1 Discrimination Left-handed
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    The stigmatising language faced by left-handed people has not hampered their success
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