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Spoken Language. Educational documentaries. Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography - Language. Linguistic Methods. Power. Gender. What happened when I started a feminist society at schoolWhy I started a feminist society at school. I am 17 years old and I am a feminist.

What happened when I started a feminist society at schoolWhy I started a feminist society at school

I believe in gender equality, and am under no illusion about how far we are from achieving it. Identifying as a feminist has become particularly important to me since a school trip I took to Cambridge last year. A group of men in a car started wolf-whistling and shouting sexual remarks at my friends and me.

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CLA. Investigation. The blog formerly known as English Language @SFX. DCblog. Bethkemp.co.uk. Language Today (Language_Today) Linguistics Research Digest. Language Log. An important rallying cry and usage distinction made by allies of undocumented workers in the current cultural battle over immigration in the United States is Elie Wiesel's assertion above: "No human being is illegal.

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" In the quote, Wiesel gives examples of the kinds of adjectives that he feels can denote properties of people (fat, skinny, beautiful, right, and wrong). On the other hand, calling a person 'illegal', he says, is a contradiction in terms. Here's a more elaborated statement of the idea, quoted from this website. East Norfolk English Language.