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| Preface For Instructors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Reading Effectively | |
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| The Writing Process | |
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| A New Millennium on Campus | |
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| Student Debt | |
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| Econ 101: College Is the Time to Budget | |
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| From University Class President to Bank Robber | |
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| Fury over Student Loan Kickback Allegation | |
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| Generation Debt: The Dirty Business of Deregulated Credit | |
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| Debt Education: Bad for the Young, Bad for America | |
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| An Alert to the Dangers of Student Debt: The Student Debt Initiative | |
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| Making Connections | |
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| Taking Action | |
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| Digital Distractions | |
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| The Multitasking Generation | |
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| The Next Step in Brain Evolution | |
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| The Techno-Flux Effect | |
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| Meet the Life Hackers | |
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| Just Too Much: Young Folks Burn Out on Online Sharing | |
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| Hooked on the Web: Help is on the Way | |
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| Making Connections | |
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| Taking Action | |
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| Cyber U.-Education Online | |
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| School Away From School | |
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| To: Professor@University.edu Subject: Why It's All About Me | |
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| Internet Creates New Opportunities for Cheating, but Also Learning | |
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| Don't Discredit My Online Degree | |
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| Learning, Virtually | |
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| A Congressman Questions the Quality and Rigor of Online Education | |
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| Making Connections | |
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| Taking Action | |
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| Agents of Change | |
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| Getting Involved | |
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| My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student | |
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| Gen Y's Ego Trip | |
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| Shaped by 9/11, Millennials Are Socially Conscious | |
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| Political Engagement and Service Learning, a Gandhian Perspective | |
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| Generation We and the 2008 Election | |
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| Reflections of a Non-Political Man | |
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| Making Connections | |
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| Taking Action | |
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| Volunteerism-Is it for You? | |
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| Fixing? Helping? Or Serving? | |
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| "Alternative" Spring Breaks: Helping Poor and Homeless | |
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| Why Young People Are Volunteering in Record Numbers | |
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| Putting the "National" in National Service | |
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| Doing Disservice: The Benefits and Limits of Volunteerism | |
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| Voluntary Work and the Needs of Strangers | |
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| Making Connections | |
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| Taking Action | |
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| Maybe Heroism Isn't Dead | |
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| Heroes I Have Taught-and Who Have Taught Me | |
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| Jesuit Greg Boyle, Gang Priest | |
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| Heroism and Biology | |
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| What Is a Hero? | |
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| Heroines and Role Models | |
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| The Ambivalence of Political Courage | |
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| Making Connections | |
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| Taking Action | |
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| Media-Mirrors or Makers of Change? | |
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| The Culture of Television | |
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| Take a Break from TV-Yeah, Right | |
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| Image Slaves: Everybody Wants to Be on Television | |
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| Watching TV Makes You Smarter | |
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| Tuning In, Tuning Out | |
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| Does Television Erode Social Capital? | |
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| The CSI Effect | |
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| Making Connections | |
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| Taking Action | |
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| Body Image-If You Don't Like It, Change It | |
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| Pretty Unreal | |
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| The Price of Perfection | |
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| For You, My Lovely, A Facelift | |
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| Mirror, Mirror on the Wall... Are Muscular Men the Best of All? | |
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| "Thinspiration": Online Websites Promote Eating Disorders | |
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| The Ugliness Problem | |
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| Making Connections | |
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| Taking Action | |
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| Dirty Secrets-What We Don't Know and Why | |
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| Whitewash at Ground Zero | |
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| They Die Piece by Piece | |
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| Whistleblower or Troublemaker, Bunny Greenhouse Isn't Backing Down | |
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| Weaving Your Community's Master Narrative | |
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| Best Coverage Money Can Buy | |
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| Secret Service: Against Privacy and Transparency | |
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| Making Connections | |
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| Taking Action | |
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| The Challenge of Change | |
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| Burning Issues-Energy and Cars | |
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| America's Great Headache | |
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| The Autonomist Manifesto | |
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| Kicking the Petroleum Habit: Ending Auto-Domination | |
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| Fueling Our Transportation Future | |
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| The Long Emergency | |
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| Can America Go Green? | |
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| Making Connections | |
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| Taking Action | |
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| America Behind Bars | |
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| My So-Called Life | |
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| Hotel California: Prisons and Punishment | |
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| Toxic Recycling | |
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| Hundreds of Thousands of Inmates Mentally 3 | |
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| Dying Well in Corrections: Why Should We Care? | |
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| Changing the Lives of Prisoners: A New Agenda | |
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| Making Connections | |
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| Taking Action | |
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| Who Is a Patriot? | |
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| Footprints on the Flag | |
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| Patriotism and Sacrifice | |
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| And Our Flag Was Still There | |
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| Facing Away from the Flag | |
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| Representative Thune Introduces Flag Protection Amendment | |
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| Desecration | |
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| Making Connections | |
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| Taking Action | |
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| Writing With Sources | |
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| The Research Paper | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index of Authors and Titles | |