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Jenni Young

Dr Pepper Ten 'not for women' - 0 views

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    Dudes don't drink diet. Or at least that's the idea behind Dr Pepper Ten, a 10-calorie soft drink Dr Pepper Snapple Group is rolling out with a macho ad campaign that proclaims "It's not for women."
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Shrinking Women by Lily Meyers - 0 views

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    Poet Lily Meyers - on how women express themselve
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My Fair Lady - opening - 0 views

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    Video. In the opening scene of My Fair Lady (based on the play Pymalion) Professor Higgins's behaviour shows how we are judged by the way we speak. (jump to 3.50)
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Benedict Cumberbatch has an awesome message for the paparazzi - 0 views

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    The Sherlock actor was photographed holding a pointed sign while filming the show's third season in Cardiff, Wales.
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Benedict Cumberbatch Goes to War: Celebrity and Diplomacy - 0 views

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    The actor's recent stunt in Cardiff, in which he admonished celebrity photographers for not capturing "something important," suggests a misplaced faith in photography.
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Regarding the pain of others by Susan Sontag - 0 views

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    Sontag asks how we look at war, arguing that while photography can document the horrors of conflict, it cannot tell us how to evaluate the legitimacy of such horrors.
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Old Tongue by Jackie Kay - 0 views

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    Poem about losing her accent
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Old Tongue by Jackie Kay - 0 views

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    Jackie Kay reads her poem "Old Tongue", which laments the fact that those who move away from Scotland lose their Scottish words in the process.
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Old Tongue - Jackie Kay (Poetry Archive) - 0 views

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    Text and recording of poem Old Tongue
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International Dialects of English Archive - 0 views

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    The International Dialects of English Archive was created in 1997 as the first online archive of primary-source recordings of English dialects and accents around the world (audio)
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Language Varieties Website - 0 views

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    This site is about varieties of language that differ from the standard variety that is normally used in the media and taught in the schools. These include pidgins, creoles, regional dialects, minority dialects and indigenized varieties.
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    This site is about varieties of language that differ from the standard variety that is normally used in the media and taught in the schools. These include pidgins, creoles, regional dialects, minority dialects and indigenized varieties.
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Search for My Tongue - Sujata Bhatt - 0 views

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    BBC Class Clips
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Search for My Tongue (GCSE English) - 0 views

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    Discussion of Sujata Bhatt's poem about being bilingual
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Mugging de Queen's English - 0 views

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    Article in NewStatesmen about the inclusion of multi-cultural writers in the British school curriculum. The headline comes from John Agard's poem Listen Mr Oxford Don.
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Listen Mr Oxford Don (English B) - 0 views

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    Exercises on the language and meaning of John Agard's poem.
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Powerful Ads Use Real Google Searches to Show the Scope of Sexism Worldwide - 1 views

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    Here's a simple and powerful campaign idea from UN Women using real suggested search terms from Google's autocomplete feature.
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#Breaking: welcome to Cambodia's Twittersphere - 0 views

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    Cambodia's recent elections and subsequent protests have demonstrated Twitter's strength in distributing breaking news and information during fast-evolving events. Will Jackson lists the country's top Tweeps.
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Wade Davis: Dreams from endangered cultures - 0 views

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    National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world's indigenous cultures, which are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate (TED talk).
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Language-Gap Study Bolsters a Push for Pre-K - 0 views

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    A Stanford psychologist found that affluent children had learned 30 percent more words from 18 months to 2 years of age than children from low-income homes.
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