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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

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Almost 300,000 Californians Think Gun-Trafficking Is Grounds For Election

Comments (0) | arrest, California, Corruption, election, FBI, gun trafficking, irony, Leland Yee, secretary of state

Matthew Tinoco
Staff Reporter

Indicted State Senator Leland Yee came in third for Secretary of State, despite his arrest in March.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Ebonics Terms You Didn't Know You Knew

Comments (0) | AAVE, African-American satire, African-American Vernacular English, Arts+Culture, bail, Black slang, Bro, Chill, Cock Blocking, colloquial English, dialect, Ebonics, ebonics in white discourse, Hammered, I'm Down, irony, Is Ebonics a language or dialect, Language, Maya Richard-Craven, My Bad, neon tommy, Oakland Ebonics 1996, Peace Out, people of color, slavery and language, slavery language barrier, Sup, the King's English

Maya Richard-Craven
Staff Writer

Common words you had no idea came from old African American Vernacular English.

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Buzz

Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Memes: The Death Or Salvation Of Society?

Comments (2) | 4chan, autistic, autistic humor, cat, cats, Comedy, doge, doges, Facebook, humor, instagram, ironic, ironic humor, irony, lolcat, lolcats, meme, meme rap, memes, meta, meta humor, Opinion, Reddit, richard dawkins, tumblr, Twitter, youtube

The advent of technology has been a major catalyst of the increased presence of memes in our society. (David Berkowitz/Flickr)

Arash Zandi
Contributor

Love 'em or hate 'em, memes have impacted our society: but what does that mean for us?

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Buzz

Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

The Irony Of Progressives

Comments (7) | abortion, babies, bigot, bigotry, children, Christians, closed minded, culture, Democrats, disagreement, gay marriage, gays, homosexuals, irony, LGBT, misogyny, Opinion, paula deen, pro-choice, pro-life, progressive movement, progressives, racism, racist, religious beliefs, Republicans, same-sex marriage, sexism, United States

(Jessie Terwilliger, Wikimedia Commons)

Calum Hayes
Columnist

Progressives automatically assume that people who disagree with their positions are closed minded.

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Buzz

Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Children Understand Irony Much Sooner Than Believed, Study Finds

Comments (1) | age 4, children, euphemism, families, hyperbole, irony, rhetorical questions, sarcasm, Science, study

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Lindy Tolbert
Staff Reporter

Information on children's grasp of language soars to new heights in a recent study.

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