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Jenni Young

Rod McPhee: Accent prejudice isn't merely unkind it's self-defeating too - 1 views

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Language Part 1 Accents Identity Bias Discrimination UK

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    To this day whenever I'm addressed by someone with crisp received pronunciation I still feel the instinctive need to tug my forelock and sink into a deep curtsy (opinion column)
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28% of Britons feel discriminated against due to accent - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Accents Identity Bias Discrimination UK

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    As part of a Tonight programme investigating whether social stigma and snobbery still exist towards regional accents, an exclusive poll reveals that more than a quarter of Britons feel they have been discriminated against because of the way they speak.
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'Yes we can' - Barack Obama's lesson in American rhetoric - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Obama Speeches Persuasion

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    On the fifth anniversary of Barack Obama's acceptance address, David Edgar explores what unites - and divides - the great American speeches of the last 150 years (Guardian)
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Accentuate the positive - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Accents UK Class Opinion

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    If you want to help the white working class, try tackling your own prejudices about accents (Guardian opinion column)
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The Bluest Eye - Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company - 0 views

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Literature Part 4 Morrison Bluest Eye Study guide

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    Study guide for a theatre adaptation of The Bluest Eye gives lots of background and context. Good revision.
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The Bluest Eye as a Bildungsroman - 0 views

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Literature Part 4 Bluest Eye Bildungsroman Study guide

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    The Bluest Eye has often been labeled by critics as a bildungsroman, or a novel that chronicles the process by which characters enter the adult world.
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Politically Correct Bedtime Stories - Little Red Riding Hood - 0 views

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Written Tasks Fairy tale Text types WT Parody

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    Excerpt from James Finn Garner's updated version of the classic fairy tale.
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Revolting Rhymes - Goldilocks and the Three Bears - 0 views

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Written Tasks Text types WT Parody

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    Roald Dahl's version of the classic fairy tale.
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Tax the Rich: An animated fairy tale - 0 views

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Mass communication Fairy tale Written Tasks Text types WT

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    Parody of a fairy tale.
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Robots or Aliens as Parents? Colleges Gauge Applicants' Creativity - 0 views

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College apps

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    More US universities are including offbeat essay topics on students' admissions applications to separate the highly creative from the highly ordinary.
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Images spark racism debate in Thailand - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Racism Advertising Thailand

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    Newley Purnell explores how ads for "charcoal" doughnuts and skin-whitening cream have sparked a heated debate about racism in Thailand (New Yorker)
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Is your costume racist? - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Culture Stereotypes Racism Halloween

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    Halloween costume checklist
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Shocking Video Reveals Photoshop Trickery - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Image Beauty Photoshop

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    Time-lapse video shows how photo-retouching software transforms a model's appearance
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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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Dark Girls: Race, beauty, and bias - 0 views

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Literature Bluest Eye Part 4 Beauty Race

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    9-minute trailer for the documentary Dark Girls. In it, African American women discuss their own experiences of bias toward dark-skinned women, both in pop culture broadly and from people in their own lives.
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See Why We Have An Absolutely Ridiculous Standard Of Beauty In Just 37 Seconds - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 1 Image Gender Beauty

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    Video.
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Why was Cheryl Cole fired? - 0 views

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Language Part 1 Identity Accents

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    Catherine Gee considers whether Cheryl Cole was fired from the US X Factor because of her strong Geordie (Newcastle) accent. (The Telegraph)
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How to Tame a Wild Tongue by Gloria Anzaldua - 1 views

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Language Part 1 Identity Culture Bilingualism Code-switching Spanish

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    Anzaldua, poet, feminist, and writer, writes in "How to Tame a wild Tongue" about her life as an Hispanic immigrant to the US, and how the new language and culture were "forced" upon her.
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Teenagers Prove Fickle When Choosing Social Networks - 0 views

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Mass communication Part 2 Social media Teens Twitter Facebook

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    Last year, reports consistently found that teens were not very interested in Twitter but were unhealthily addicted to Facebook. Now that seems to be flipping. (NYT)
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