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Topical Clusters | |
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Rhetorical Table of Contents | |
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Preface | |
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Introduction: Becoming A Critical Reader | |
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Family and Memory | |
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Poetry: Linda Hogan, "Heritage" | |
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Poetry: Robert Hayden, "Those Winter Sundays" | |
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"My Grandmother's Dumpling" | |
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"Once More to the Lake" | |
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"No Name Woman" | |
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"Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self" | |
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"Sixty-Nine Cents" | |
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"The Storyteller" | |
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Issues in Education | |
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"The Sanctuary of School" | |
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"School Is Bad for Children" | |
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"Graduation" | |
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"The Good Immigrant Student" | |
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"School's Out" | |
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"Should the Obama Generation Drop Out?" | |
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"Is College Worth the Money?" | |
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"For More Balance on Campuses" | |
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Fiction: Edward P. Jones, "The First Day" | |
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Focus: How Much Do a College's Facilities Really Matter? | |
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"In Iowa, 2 Colleges Separated by 150 Miles and $1.37 Billion: Grinnell College" | |
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"In Iowa, 2 Colleges Separated by 150 Miles and $1.37 Billion: Clarke College" | |
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Photo Essay, from The Chronicle of Higher Education | |
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The Politics of Language | |
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Poetry;"Baca Grande" | |
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"Aria" | |
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"Mother Tongue" | |
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"Learning to Read and Write" | |
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"Sexism in English: Embodiment and Language" | |
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"The Loaded Language of Science" | |
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"The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society" | |
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"Politics and the English Language" | |
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Focus: Is Texting Destroying the English Language? | |
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"I h8 txt msgs: How Texting Is Wrecking Our Language" | |
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"2b or not 2b?" | |
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"Thumbspeak: Is Texting Here to Stay?" | |
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Media and Society | |
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"Television: The Plug-In Drug" | |
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"Reality TV: A Dearth of Talent and the Death of Morality" | |
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"The Revolution Will Be Televised" | |
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"Eminem Is Right" | |
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Editors of the Rocky Mountain News, "Goodbye, Colorado" | |
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"News You Can Endow" | |
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"The Universe of Meaning" | |
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Poetry: "Dear John Wayne" | |
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Focus: Does Social Networking Connect Us or Keep Us Apart? | |
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"The Fakebook Generation" | |
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"What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace" | |
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"To Twitter or Not to Twitter?" | |
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"Does Social Networking Really Connect You to Humanity?" | |
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"Social Networking: Crossing Digital Divide Can Pay Dividends" | |
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Gender and Identit | |
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Poetry: "Barbie Doll" | |
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Poetry: "Rite of Passage" | |
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"Gardenland, Sacramento, California" | |
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"The M/F Boxes" | |
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"Why I Want a Wife" | |
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"Stay-at-Home Dads" | |
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"Man Bashing: Trivial Pursuit or a Truth with Consequences?" | |
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"Without Apology: Girls, Women, and the Desire to Fight" | |
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"Marked Women" | |
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Focus: Who Has It Harder, Girls or Boys? | |
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"What Is the Triple Bind?" | |
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"The War Against Boys" | |
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"Men Are from Earth, and So Are Women: It's Faulty Research That Sets Them Apart" | |
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The American Dream | |
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Poetry: Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus" | |
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"What Sacagawea Means to Me (and Perhaps to You)" | |
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"The Library Card" | |
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"Becoming American" | |
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"The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria" | |
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"Coming into the Country" | |
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"Just Walk On By" | |
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"On Dumpster Diving" | |
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"Where Evil Dwells: Reflections on the Columbine School Massacre" | |
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Focus: What Is the American Dream? | |
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The Declaration of Independence | |
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The Gettysburg Address | |
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Inaugural Address | |
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"I Have a Dream" | |
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"Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" | |
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Why We Work | |
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"Why We Work" | |
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"One Last Time" | |
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"Professions for Women" | |
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"The Second Shift" | |
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"Behind the Counter" | |
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"Selling in Minnesota" | |
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"Don't Blame Wal-Mart" | |
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"Delusions of Grandeur" | |
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Fiction: John Updike, "A & P" | |
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Focus: Is Outsourcing Bad for America? | |
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"Let Someone Else Do It: The Impulse Behind Everything" | |
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"Missed Target: Is Outsourcing Really so Bad?" | |
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"Fair Exchange: Who Benefits from Outsourcing?" | |
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Saving the Planet | |
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from "Through the Stories We Hear Who We Are" | |
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"The American Forests" | |
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"Being Kind to the Land" | |
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"The Obligation to Endure" | |
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"Fateful Voice of a Generation Still Drowns Out Real Science" | |
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"The Conquest of Garbage" | |
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"Built to Last" | |
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Fiction: Steven Millhauser, "The Invasion from Outer Space" | |
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Focus: How Can We Create a More Sustainable Environment? | |
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"The Challenge to Environmentalism" | |
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"Green, Greener, Greenest" | |
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"Why Bother?" | |
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Religion in America | |
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"Salvation" | |
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"New Superstitions for Old" | |
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"Our Faith in Science" | |
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"Among the Believers" | |
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"Kicking the Secularist Habit" | |
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"Turning Faith into Elevator Music" | |
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"Muslim in America" | |
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"Earthly Empires" | |
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"I Believe in an America Where the Separation of Church and State Is Absolute" | |
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Fiction: Raymond Carver, "Cathedral" | |
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Focus: Is There Intelligent Design in Nature? | |
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"Finding Design in Nature" | |
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"Why Intelligent Design Isn't" | |
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"Finding Darwin's God" | |
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Making Choices | |
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Poetry: Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken" | |
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Poetry: Linda Pastan, "Ethics" | |
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"Shooting an Elephant" | |
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"Letter from Birmingham Jail" | |
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"Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against 'Aid' That Harms" | |
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"Dog Lab" | |
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"The Perils of Obedience" | |
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Commencement Speech | |
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"And Then They Came for Me" | |
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Fiction: Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" | |
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Credits | |
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Index of Authors and Titles | |