Accentuate the positive - 0 views
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Jenni Young on 04 Nov 13If you want to help the white working class, try tackling your own prejudices about accents (Guardian opinion column)
'Yes we can' - Barack Obama's lesson in American rhetoric - 0 views
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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)
28% of Britons feel discriminated against due to accent - 0 views
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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.
Rod McPhee: Accent prejudice isn't merely unkind it's self-defeating too - 1 views
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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)
Speaking out for regional accents - 1 views
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Reaction to a prize-winning novelist who recommended that children be forced to take elocution lessons, to "wipe out" their accents (BBC News 1999)
Language of Persuasion - 1 views
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Media "persuaders" use a variety of techniques to grab our attention, to establish credibility and trust, to stimulate desire for the product or policy, and to motivate us to act (buy, vote, give money, etc). From the Media Literacy Project
Amnesty International - Write for Rights 2013 - 0 views
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Amnesty's annual campaign encourages people to write to activists and ordinary citizens imprisoned for standing up for their rights.
What are you saying cuz? - 0 views
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No idea what cuzzies, sweet as, wop-wops or wuss mean? Kiwi slang classes at Wellington Central library have been helping migrants tackle these kinds of words, without being too hard out.
John Agard - Poetry Archive - 0 views
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John Agard - biography and some readings of his poems, including "Flag" and "Checking out my history"
The MPAA's backwards logic: Sex is dangerous, sexism is fine - 0 views
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"The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a consensual sexual scenario..." (MPAA = Motion Picture Association of America)
David Goldblatt: Photographer bears witness to Apartheid - 0 views
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South African photographer David Goldblatt's photos are a stark reminder of the hardships of Apartheid.
Traditionally pro-CPP media see new market with with CNRP - 0 views
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In the prelude to and direct aftermath of July's national election, local Khmer-language media largely ignored the opposition's growing street rallies and demonstrations.
Local Newspaper CEO Congratulates CPP on Election Victory - 0 views
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Chris Dawe, CEO of The Phnom Penh Post, has formally congratulated Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling CPP on winning the contested July national election, according to state-owned news website Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP).
Bloomberg News Is Said to Curb Articles That Might Anger China - 0 views
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Employees of Bloomberg News said that it chose not to publish investigative articles about China's leadership because of worries that it would be evicted from the country.
Artist Shows What Disney Princesses' Happily-Ever-Afters Really Look Like - 1 views
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Photographer Dina Goldstein imagines what lives of the Disney princesses turned out to be if we left all the fairy tale luck and charm aside.
This Video Goes From Ordinary To Breathlessly Disturbing At 30 Seconds - 0 views
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Amnesty International PSA about torture
They Loved Your G.P.A. Then They Saw Your Tweets - 0 views
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More colleges are finding the social media posts of their applicants - and sometimes denying admission as a result
Who Made That College Application? - 0 views
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From an eight-page form and a photograph to the Common App.
English Proficiency Falters Among the French - 0 views
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While English proficiency among European adults is generally increasing, proficiency in France is both low and declining.
PG-13 movies match R rating for violence, study says - 0 views
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The prevalence of gun violence in top PG-13 movies has more than tripled since the rating was introduced in the mid-1980s, a study says.
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