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Real guys pose in underwear ads - 0 views

www.lostateminor.com/...eal-guys-pose-in-underwear-ads Mass communication Advertising Gender Image Beauty Part 2
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    UK daily The Sun decided to have some fun by getting four readers to strike similar poses in their undies.
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What real men would look like in pants ads - 0 views

www.thesun.co.uk/...ld-look-like-in-pants-ads.html Mass communication Advertising Image Beauty Gender
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    REAL women with real shapes have figured in ad campaigns for years, with brands such as Dove and M&S showing the female form as nature intended. (Daily Mail)
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Telling Tales in Proto-Indo-European - 0 views

www.archaeology.org/...ndo-european-schleichers-fable Language Part 1 History of language Proto-Indo European
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    All modern Indo-European languages are descended from a single tongue called Proto-Indo-European, or PIE, spoken by a people who lived from roughly 4500 to 2500 B.C., and left no written texts. The question became, what did PIE sound like?
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Is This How Our Ancestors Sounded? - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...guage-ancestors_n_4005545.html Language Part 1 History of language Proto-Indo European
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    Linguist Recreates Proto-Indo-European Language (AUDIO)
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Literary terms - Korean - 0 views

quizlet.com/...korean-definitions-flash-cards Literary terms Korean
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    Flashcards with literary terms in English and Korean
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Feminist parody of Robin Thicke's 'Blurred Lines' removed from Youtube for being 'inapp... - 1 views

www.independent.co.uk/...ing-inappropriate-8795998.html Mass communication Part 2 Blurred Lines Robin Thicke Sexism Rape
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    Feminist parody temporarily removed from Youtube
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So why was the Blurred Lines feminist parody removed from YouTube? - 0 views

www.independent.co.uk/...oved-from-youtube-8798573.html Mass communication Part 2 Blurred Lines Robin Thicke Sexism Rape
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    Independent Voices - opinion
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TrueCar.com Ad Rescues Clueless Women Who Could Never Buy a Car Without a Man Around - 0 views

www.adweek.com/...-car-without-man-around-151353 Mass communication Part 2 Advertising Sexism WT2
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    TV commercial offends women
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Multiples: 12 Stories in 18 Languages by 61 Authors edited by Adam Thirlwell - - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ies-languages-thirlwell-review Language Part 1 Translation
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    12 stories are translated out of the original language and then back again. A fascinating experiment in language and the effects of style
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America's fabulously mongrel language is a model of immigration reform - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...guage-model-immigration-reform Language Part 1 Language change Loanwords
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  • Jenni Young on 27 Sep 13
     
    Nativist efforts to force immigrants to learn 'proper English' are unintentionally hilarious: our very vernacular is a melting-pot
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WMDs, 'unconventional' weapons and the language of war - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ventional-weapons-language-war Language Part 1 Bias Euphemism War
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    Obama's use of the phrase 'unconventional weapons' offers a nuance that to use them is sneaky and underhand
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Should English be the official language of the EU? - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...a-english-official-language-eu Language Part 1 Culture Identity Global English
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    German president Joachim Gauck's cost-cutting proposal has been welcomed - but not by all
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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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    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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Natural born linguists: what drives multi-language speakers? - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ual-speakers-language-learning Language Culture Multilingualism Part 1 Learning languages
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    Get out there and chat to native speakers if you want to learn a language, advises a group of multilingual speakers (Guardian)
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Comparing US and world covers for Time magazine - 0 views

www.dailykos.com/...World-Covers-for-TIME-Magazine Mass communication Part 2 Magazines Time Bias
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  • Jenni Young on 26 Sep 13
     
    Each week, TIME Magazine designs covers for four markets: the U.S., Europe, Asia and the South Pacific. Often, America's cover is quite, well - different.
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How Do You Say 'Blog' in German? - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...do-you-say-blog-in-german.html Language Part 1 Language change Global English German New words
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    The editors of the German Duden dictionary added 5,000 words to the 26th edition, many of them English or of English origin. Some Germans aren't happy (NYT Op-ed)
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The Language Wars by Henry Hitchings - review - 2 views

www.theguardian.com/...hitchings-language-wars-review Language Part 1 History
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  • Jenni Young on 25 Sep 13
     
    Review of "an entertaining and thoughtful history of the pedantry, scholarship and prejudice that surround the English language"
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Who cares if immigrants have English as a second language? - 1 views

www.theguardian.com/...grants-english-second-language Language Non-native speakers Immigration Part 1
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  • Jenni Young on 25 Sep 13
     
    It's understandable to be frustrated when the person behind the counter has no English, but what really upsets people is hearing other languages in shops or on buses
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The man who kept the Lakota language alive - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...hat-kept-lakota-language-alive Language Part 1 Language revival Indigenous languages USA
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    Albert White Hat, a member of the Rosebud Sioux tribe died recently, but his work helped the Lakota language remain in existence.
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The UK riots and language: 'rioter', 'protester' or 'scum'? - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...uk-riots-language Mass communication Part 2 Bias
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  • Jenni Young on 25 Sep 13
     
    The BBC drew a small storm of criticism for using the word 'protesters' to describe the people taking part in trouble
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