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Negative events are more likely to be newsworthy than positive ones.

Respond to one of the three essay prompts below

Life stages are fixed and stable periods in time in the life cycle.

African Americans using the “N word” can be seen as a form of ____________.

Which of the following is not a collocation often found with the word elderly?

Turning a noun (e.g. friend) into a verb (e.g. friending) is a process called nominalization

Analyze the two memes below, explaining how they (don’t) successfully follow each of the rules of memes. Meme #1   Meme #2

_______________ is about authority and control of public spaces and buildings in a consumer culture and can be found on most city surfaces.

Ethnicity is primarily connected to the biology of a person.

Look at the following headlines. What positions do you think the authors take based on the language used? What can be gleaned from things like transitivity patterns, word choice (i.e. syntagmatic vs. paradigmatic axes), and presupposition? Republicans Choose a New Speaker Nominee, Then Quickly Undercut Him(The New York Times, Accessed Oct. 11, 2023) House Republicans choose Scalise as their candidate for speaker after McCarthy’s ouster(Fox News, Accessed Oct. 11, 2023) Steve Scalise Secures GOP Nod for Speaker but Fails to Win 217 Votes (Breitbart, Accessed Oct. 11, 2023) Republicans Nominate Steve Scalise for House Speaker Over Jim Jordan(The Wall Street Journal, Accessed Oct. 11, 2023) GOP Slow-Walks Scalise – Not Sure They Have the Votes!(The Huffington Post, Accessed Oct. 11, 2023)