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http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160829-how-laughter-makes-us-better-people https://www.theguardian.com/culture/commentisfree/2018/aug/25/audiences-love-serious-comedy-make-people-laugh http://www.movieoutline.com/articles/why-comedy-makes-everything-better.html https://www.humanityinaction.org/knowledgebase/174-when-the-truth-hurts-tell-a-joke-why-america-needs-its-comedians http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4652099.stm https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/the-most-controversial-comedians-of-all-time/ MY ARTICLE PLAN/IDEAS Main points --- Line between comedy and offence, are we allowed to laugh at someone else's reality?? Should we? Is that right? Maybe just religion????? Comedy is subjective, but needed in society There is a thin line between comedy and offence >>EVIDENCE<< Religion --- Book of Mormon musical, potentially offensive but won nine Tonys. Some people walked out due to content. There are wars over religion, is it an appropriate topic ...

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/exercises/grammar/grammar_tutorial/page_41.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN5R2LWhTrY    EP1 If boys and girls are treated differently, they will act differently Very few differences in their brains Brains development is related to society Experiences teach children different skills and attitudes based on gender Girls underestimate their abilities and have lower confidence and self-esteem The only emotion boys could express well was emotion Girls underestimate, boys overestimate Girls had lower confidence and boys had trouble with sympathy Seeing men and women in professions they don't usually do can help their perceptions Less then 10% of engineers and less than 20% architects are women Boys may be encouraged to play games based on spacial awareness When adults choose toys for children this could lead them to conform to stereotypes, forcing on identity onto them Boys get angry when they don't achieve ambitions and can't verbalize their emotions  Interventions may not work on their own http...

Deborah Tannen's Six Contrasts 1- Status vs Support Men like to feel dominant in conversation whereas women use their language to support the ideas of others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1jzdSzGHnA 2- Independence vs Intimacy Men are concerned with status and don't want to be reliant whereas women want to feel close to the people they communicate with. 3- Advice vs Understanding Men like to offer solutions as they see it as a challenge whereas women want to be empathetic with others and understand their problems. 4- Information vs Feelings Men are concerned with information and details to help them with challenges whereas women want to know people's feelings in order to help. 5- Orders vs Proposals Men like to give orders to show status in given situations whereas women propose ideas so as not to offend people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Vw2XBeDmk 6- Conflict vs Compromise Men cause conflict in order to gain/show status whereas women will com...

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2702un On average, men do better in spatial awareness tests etc. and women are better at reading emotions Differences in the brain do not necessarily relate to behavioral differences Monkeys who have not have been socialised still had toy preferences. Boys = trucks  Girls = dolls More males have autism than females Males with autism could show the extreme male profile Higher testosterone shows a more male brain Differences in the brain generally occur in teenage years (13-18). This could be due to their social pressures Pain is more uncomfortable for females. They have less tolerance

http://eslbrains.com/txtng-is-killing-language-jk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAGgKE82034  What speaking style says about you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOce0pijzE0  The new battle of the sexes https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2702un

The Guardian Text A Analysis The Guardian is a newspaper and this text is in the form of an article that was featured. Its purpose is to inform readers of the negative connotations of the noun ‘immigrant’ and the audience is the older generation who read The Guardian. The writer has repeated use of the pronoun ‘they’ in order to highlight how the migrants feel. The lexis ‘they’ isolates he migrants and targets them as a group of people, dehumanising them in the process. This is evident in the quotation ‘they are all migrants’ which not only isolates them but generalises the whole group of individuals by using the lexis ‘all’. The writer realises this issue by stating that ‘we are losing sight of the fact that they are human’ and addresses the dehumanising pronoun ‘they’ but putting it alongside ‘people’: a noun that the reader can relate to. The reader is also able to relate to the syndetic list at the beginning, ‘They are people-men, women and children, fathers and mothers, ...