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leiadeer2017

William Safire - On Language - Woman vs. Female - 0 views

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    This article discusses the use and comparison of the two words "women" and "female." It takes a political, social, and economical aspect to show very interesting examples of how the two words differ. "Both words can function as nouns, but female, unlike woman, can also be an adjective. In an Oscar Hammerstein II lyric from "Flower Drum Song," written 50 years ago, a young woman glad to be a girl sings, "I'm strictly a female female" - the first use an adjective; the second, a noun. Adjectives are by their nature stretchable, happily taking "more" or "less": you can say "more female," but you cannot say "more woman"; you would have to say "more womanly." In modifying another noun, woman is what the O.E.D. labels an apposite noun - explaining, even identifying, the noun it "stands next to" - but syntactically stronger than an adjective. Both words can be used as modifiers of nouns, but the noun woman has more weight."
Lara Cowell

Jeffrey Epstein and the Myth of the 'Underage Woman' - The Atlantic - 1 views

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    The article, which is about serial sexual predator and businessman, the late Jeffrey Epstein, also explores the media's use of the term "underage woman" and the socially-sanctioned sexism behind the term: a way to lessen the seriousness of pedophilia and abuse.
Kody Dunford

Why don't people like the sound of "woman president"? - 0 views

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    Why don't people like the sound of "woman president"? MANY people find the phrase "female president" annoying. But oddly enough, many others find " woman president" to be a problem, too. The problem is not that these expressions are ungrammatical, as Johnson explained in his past column. Yet both have their critics.
mmaretzki

YouTube - Broca's aphasia - Sarah Scott - teenage stroke - 0 views

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    Video of a 19 year old woman in English who suffered a stroke nine months earlier that resulted in Broca's aphasia, from which she's slowly recovering.
Lisa Stewart

Whale Songs and Elephant Loves [Speaking of Faith® from American Public Media] - 1 views

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    wonderful radio interview with the woman who first discovered the songs of whales and is now researching how elephants communicate outside of human auditory range
krystinwong15

Who Have Better Memories: Men or Women? | Britannica Blog - 0 views

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    Information about even the tiniest details of our daily lives zooms along neurons in our brains and is processed and saved in some predetermined location. How and what information is stored in the memory is in part dependent on whether an individual is a man or a woman.
caitlyniwamura13

Can Depression Affect Your Ability To Talk And Think? - 0 views

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    A woman shares her experiences with depression, and how it affected her motor skills.
Lara Cowell

Could You Talk to a Caveman? - 0 views

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    Mark Pagel, at the University of Reading, talks about ultra-conserved words--words that have survived 10K years: I, ashes, woman, even possibly spit. He theorizes that such words derive from a common protolanguage.
Ryan Catalani

Radiolab podcast: "Words" - 1 views

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    Three amazing stories about language: "We meet a woman who taught a 27-year-old man the first words of his life, hear a firsthand account of what it feels like to have the language center of your brain wiped out by a stroke, and retrace the birth of a brand new language 30 years ago." (also, the transcript is here: http://www.radiolab.org/2010/aug/09/transcript/)
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    i'm enjoying it right now! check out the video, too. i'll try to bookmark it (my first!).
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    Ahh...I see Ryan found it first! Thanks, Ryan!
Katie Yoshida

Old Spice - Scent Vacation - 11 views

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R2cnxz27LI The commercial starts with a "old spice man", who is a guy who is considered the ultimate dream guy because he is able to take his woman from a beach in F...

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Alex Hino

Essays, Admission Information, Undergraduate Admission, U.Va. - 16 views

  • Any student who has already learned the basics of showing should think about taking a risk on the college essay. What kind of risk? Think about starting an essay with: "I sat in the back of the police car." Or, as in the example (below): " The woman wanted breasts."
  • People wonder if they will be penalized if they do take a risk in an application. They want to know, in other words, if there is any risk in taking a risk. Yes, there is. I can say, however, that my experience in the admissions field has led me to conclude the great majority of admissions officers are an open-minded lot
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      The line "a Good essay always shows; a weak essay always tells" is a concept that is true in all real life situations.  we learned and had practice with this in acting class (yes acting), that it means a lot more if you show emotion rather than just saying i'm sad or happy.  i find that this is true for college essays too: in order to stand out you need to be the one that make the reader think and invision what you are saying; that is what would make you stand out.
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    • Alex Hino
       
      Appealing to all of the sense through just words seems like a tricky task.
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    I think the best piece of advice from this is to show, not tell. I also like the idea of taking a risk, as long as the topic of choice isn't offensive or makes someone feel uncomfortable.
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    I thought a piece of good advice was to try to stand-out. Use a "hook" to bring the reader in, take risks, and don't conform to what you think the college would want the essay to be written about (Be yourself and show your voice through the writing).
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    I agree with Stephanie, in that I think the best advice is to show and not tell. It seems we are so used to "telling," because of all the analytical papers and what not we write that we sometimes get stuck telling instead of showing. We need to break this habit and start showing and appealing to all five senses in our writing.
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    "We are not looking for students who all think the same way, believe the same thing, or write the same essay". I found that quote very interesting and it shows just how important it is to take risks while writing the essays. By taking a risk it would show that your writing is different and unique.
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    I agree with Kaylin that being yourself is the best way to catch the reader's attention and show your own voice. Colleges don't want to read essays about the generic stories you think they want to hear. Instead they want to read a story coming from memories and thoughts in your head so they can feel as if they know the "real" you instead of the persona put on the paper.
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    "If we are what we eat, we are also what we write." I liked this article because it was basically saying that you have to display your true self in every way that you can through your writing. Trying to stray from being generic and vague. From this article, I know that what makes a good college essay stand out is to not be afraid to use your sensory but then have reason as to why you're using it and don't just simply "tell", let the reader know exactly what's going on in full specifics as much as possible, use a hook that can work in your favor, and lastly remain original and unique.
Lara Cowell

This Is What It's Like To Be Awake During Brain Surgery - 0 views

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    The recent advent of brain-mapping technology-which allows doctors to create a precise digital replica of a person's brain cartography--has made more surgeons comfortable with the concept of keeping patients awake while they operate. This article profiles a woman, Brittany Capone, who's having open-brain surgery to remove a tumor that's dangerously close to a region in the brain that controls speech and the ability to comprehend language. By doing the operation while she is awake and speaking, her surgeon, Dr. Philip Gutin, can figure out exactly where the offending growth ends and the area of the brain called the Wernicke's center begins. This way, Gutin can see how close he can cut without permanently affecting his patient's ability to talk. What neurosurgeons are learning through mapping and documenting their experiences is also informing general knowledge about where brain structures are located and the slightly different positions they can take in different people.
briahnialejo20

Why you should use gender-neutral language in the workplace | totaljobs - 0 views

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    People in the workforce are working away from just gender binary pronouns or references. Using more gender-neutral pronouns opens up a safe environment for all people. For example, using the term "they" to describe one person helps you escape awkwardness and stumbling between "he" or "she" pronouns. This is more apparent in workplaces because now, people are not just man or woman, there are many more existing genders.
allstonpleus19

Origin/History of the English Language - 0 views

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    English originated in England and is the dominant language in many countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia. It is also the official language of India, the Philippines, Singapore, island nations in the Carribean Sea and Pacific Ocean, and many countries in Africa, including South Africa. About a third of the world's population uses English and it is the first choice of foreign language in most other countries in the world. The parent language of English Proto-Indo-European was used about 5,000 years ago by nomads. The closest language to modern English is Frisian, used by the Dutch province of Friesland. During the course of many millennia, modern English has slowly gotten simpler and less inflected. In English, only nouns, pronouns (he, him, his), adjectives (big, bigger, biggest) and verbs are inflected. English is the only European language to use uninflected adjectives (tall man & tall woman versus Spanish el hombre alto & la mujer alta. For the verb "ride", English has 5 forms (ride, rides, rode, riding, ridden) versus German reiten that has 16 forms. The simplification and loss of inflection has made English more flexible functionally and more open in vocabulary. English has "borrowed" words from other languages (e.g. cannibal, cigar, guerrilla, matador, mosquito, tornado, vanilla, etc. From Greek, English "borrowed": alchemy, alcohol, algebra, arsenal, assassin, elixir, mosque, sugar, syrup, zero, cipher etc. From Hebrew is: amen, hallelujah, manna, messiah, seraph, leviathan, shibboleth, etc. There are many other words in the English dictionary that are taken from other languages. Many countries speak or use English, but not in the same way we use it. The article is very long and goes through phonology (sounds), morphology inflection (grammar forms of tense, case, voice, person, gender, etc), composition, syntax (sentence forms), vocabulary, orthography (spelling systems) of English. It also gives
beccaverghese20

She's the Next President. Wait, Did You Read That Right? - 1 views

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    A new study shows how certain ideas are still deeply ingrained the public's minds as masculine. For example, most of the public associates the president with a man. In fact, the study showed that when articles or people used "her" or feminine pronouns people's reading times increased because of the confusion caused in their brain. Many people don't use "she" when referring to a hypothetical president. The way that language can sometimes gender certain occupations has some important implications. That is why many states and representatives are trying to change the language to make it more inclusive. For example, Kamala Harris, when she was California's attorney general, and changed all the wording of the statutes that referred to the attorney general as a man. This is because gendering occupations can lead to an ingrained bias. However, with more women in politics, biases could change. For example, in UK, where there have been 2 female prime ministers, the study was replicated and it was found that people were comfortable using "she" or "her" when stating the next prospective prime minister.
kpick21

Why are Adults Allowed to Swear but Children Aren't? - 0 views

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    This article delves into why swearing isn't in an appropriate part of children's lexicon. It discusses the power that swear words have and the right of passage to adulthood the first time that someone uses them. Swear words also allow people to release their anger. In past generations, swearing was seen as an absolute no no, but nowadays, swearing has become a more acceptable way of expressing one's self. In the future, swearing will probably become a normal part of a child's vocabulary.
Lara Cowell

How the Karen Meme Confronts History of White Womanhood | Time - 3 views

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    This article examines the origin, history, and evolving use of the pejorative term "Karen" on social media. The label publicly lambasts whiny, middle-aged white women who shamelessly display entitlement, privilege, and racism - and who tend to call the police when they don't get what they want.
jsaelua23

These women are trying to save the Olelo Niihau dialect from extinction - 0 views

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    This article shares the perspective of a woman who was raised in Ni'ihau. She conveys her passion and the importance of perpetuating the unique Ni'ihau dialect.
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