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A Museum Teaches Tolerance Through Jim Crow - 0 views

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    The ugliness of racism is at the heart of a new museum in Michigan.
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Text Messaging and IM: Linguistic Comparison of American College Data - 0 views

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    An American University study of college students' texting and instant messaging habits
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When did our plainest punctuation mark become so aggressive? - 0 views

www.newrepublic.com/...ion-mark-has-become-sign-anger Language Punctuation Language change Part 1 Mass communication Part 2 Internet
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    The period was always the humblest of punctuation marks. Recently, however, it's started getting angry.
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What the ... . - 0 views

www.slate.com/...hat_are_they_really_for.2.html Language Punctuation Language change Part 1 Mass communication Part 2 Internet
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    Why everyone and your mother started using ellipses ... everywhere
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Star Types and Stereotypes: Asian-Americans as Leading Ladies - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...ericans-as-leading-ladies.html Mass communication Part 2 Asian Stereotypes TV Gender
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    Beyond Lucy Liu and Maggie Q's success as female leads on television, Asian-American actresses often play characters shaped to reflect longstanding stereotypes.
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Ad Takes Off Online: Less Doll, More Awl - 0 views

bits.blogs.nytimes.com/...ages-girls-to-become-engineers Mass communication Part 2 Advertising Gender Children
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    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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"There's no excuse for rape": Hard-hitting campaign launched in Bristol Read more: htt... - 0 views

www.bristolpost.co.uk/...story.html Mass communication Part 2 Advertising PSA Gender Rape
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    Anti-rape campaign in Bristol, England
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Key and Peele - Obama's anger translator - 0 views

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    When Obama addresses his fellow Americans, his anger translator Luther helps him get his real message across. Key and Peele comedy sketch
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Substitute Teacher: Key & Peele - 1 views

www.youtube.com/watch Language Part 1 Names Identity Code-switching Comedy Key & Peele
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    A substitute teacher from the inner city refuses to be messed with while taking attendance. Key and Peele comedy sketch about names.
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For Key And Peele, Biracial Roots Bestow Special Comedic 'Power' - 1 views

www.npr.org/...s-bestow-special-comedic-power 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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The Gettysburg Address - 0 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html Mass communication Part 2 Speeches Lincoln Gettysburg Text types
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    A transcription of the standard text of the Gettysburg Address, delivered by President Abraham Lincoln in Gettysburg, Pa., at the dedication of a memorial cemetery on November 19, 1863.
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Annals of Biography: Angels and Ages : The New Yorker - 0 views

www.newyorker.com/...070528fa_fact_gopnik Mass communication Part 1 Speeches Lincoln Gettysburg Text types
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    Adam Gopnik looks at the Gettysbury Address, Lincoln's language and its legacy (discussion of the language of the speech is in second half of article)
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This Awesome Ad, Set to the Beastie Boys, Is How to Get Girls to Become Engineers - 0 views

www.slate.com/...ges_young_girls_to_pursue.html Mass communication Part 2 Gender Children Advertising
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    Commercial from a toy company called GoldieBlox, which has developed a set of interactive books and games to "disrupt the pink aisle and inspire the future generation of female engineers."
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And the Word of the Year Is... Selfie! : The New Yorker - 0 views

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    Silvia Killingsworth explores the history and culture surrounding the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year for 2013: "selfie" (blog)
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Selfie is Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...f-the-year-oed-olinguito-twerk Language Language change New words
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    Ubiquitous noun for social media self-portraits faces down newly discovered cute mammal the olinguito in annual contest
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Killing Us Softly 3 - 0 views

vimeo.com/73409328 Mass communication Part 2 Advertising Gender Sexism Image Killing Us Softly
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    Video documentary about advertising's image of women
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Killing Us Softly 4 on Vimeo - 0 views

vimeo.com/73446465 Mass communication Part 2 Advertising Gender Sexism Image Killing Us Softly
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    Advertising's image of women (video)
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Multilingualism: Johnson: Do different languages confer different personalities? | The ... - 0 views

www.economist.com/...multilingualism Language Part 1 Identity Multilingualism Culture
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    Many multilinguals report different personalities, or even different worldviews, when they speak their different languages.
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