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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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E. B. White, "Once More to the Lake" | |
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Maxine Hong Kingston, "No Name Woman" | |
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Alice Walker, "Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self" | |
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Gary Shteyngart, "Sixty-Nine Cents" | |
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[*]David Jacobsen, "Reflections: Growing-Up Grown" | |
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Sandra Cisneros, "The Storyteller" | |
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[*]Focus: Are "Chinese Mothers" Superior? | |
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[*]Amy Chua, "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior" | |
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[*]David Brooks, "Amy Chua Is a Wimp" | |
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[*]Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld, "Why I Love My Strict Chinese Mom" | |
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Issues in Education | |
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Lynda Barry, "The Sanctuary of School" | |
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John Holt, "School Is Bad for Children" | |
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Maya Angelou, "Graduation" | |
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Bich Minh Nguyen, "The Good Immigrant Student" | |
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Charles Murray, "Should the Obama Generation Drop Out?" | |
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[*]Scott Adams, "How to Get a Real Education" | |
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[*]Johann N. Neem, "Online Higher Education's Individualist Fallacy" | |
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Christina Hoff Sommers, "For More Balance on Campuses" | |
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Fiction: Edward P. Jones, "The First Day" | |
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[*] Focus: Is a College Education Worth the Money? | |
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Daniel S. Cheever, Jr., "Is College Worth the Money?" | |
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[*]Jacques Steinberg, "Plan B: Skip College" | |
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[*]Liz Dwyer, "Is College Worth the Money? Answers from Six New | |
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Graduates" [*]Stephen G. Emerson, "Is College Worth the Money?" | |
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The Politics of Language | |
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[*]Oscar Hijuelos, "Lost in Time and Words, a Child Begins Anew" | |
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Amy Tan, "Mother Tongue" | |
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[*]Jasmin Darznik, "Persian, English" | |
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Frederick Douglass, "Learning to Read and Write" | |
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Alleen Pace Nilsen, "Sexism in English: Embodiment and Language" | |
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Jonathan Kozol, "The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society" | |
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[*]Christopher M. Fairman, "Saying It Is Hurtful; Banning It Is Worse" | |
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Focus: Is Texting Destroying the English Language? | |
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John Humphrys, "I h8 txt msgs: How Texting Is Wrecking Our Language" | |
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David Crystal, "2b or not 2b?" | |
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Louis Menand, "Thumbspeak: Is Texting Here to Stay?" | |
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Media and Society | |
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[*]Peter Funt, "So Much Media, So Little News" | |
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Salman Rushdie, "Reality TV: A Dearth of Talent and the Death of Morality" | |
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[*]Jonathan V. Last, "TV for Tots: Not What You Remember" | |
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Mary Eberstadt, "Eminem Is Right" | |
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[*]Max Brooks, "The Movies That Rose from the Grave" | |
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[*]Eli Pariser, "When the Internet Thinks It Knows You" | |
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[*]Nicholas Carr, "Does the Internet Make You Dumber?" | |
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[*]Steven Pinker, "Mind over Mass Media" | |
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[*]Jane McGonigal, "Reality Is Broken" | |
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Focus: Does Social Networking Connect Us or Keep Us Apart? | |
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Alice Mathias, "The Fakebook Generation" | |
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[*]David Carr, "Why Twitter Will Endure" | |
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[*]Sherry Turkle, "Connectivity and Its Discontents" | |
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Gender and Identity | |
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Poetry: Marge Piercy, "Barbie Doll" | |
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Poetry: Sharon Olds, "Rite of Passage" | |
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E. J. Graff, "The M/F Boxes" | |
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[*]Jennifer Finney Boylan, "Is My Marriage Gay?" | |
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[*]Kathleen Deveny, "Who You Callin' a Lady?" | |
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[*]Karen S. Sibert, "Don't Quit This Day Job" | |
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Judy Brady, "Why I Want a Wife" | |
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Glenn Sacks, "Stay-at-Home Dads" | |
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Deborah Tannen, "Marked Women" | |
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Focus: Who Has It Harder, Girls or Boys? | |
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Stephen Hinshaw, "What Is the Triple Bind?" | |
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Christina Hoff Sommers, "The War Against Boys" | |
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Rosalind C. Barnett and Caryl Rivers, "Men Are from Earth, and So Are | |
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Women: It's Faulty Research That Sets Them Apart" | |
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Culture and Identity | |
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[*] Photo Essay: Tattoos and Cultural Identity | |
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[*] Poetry: Rhina Espaillat, "Bilingual/Bilingue" | |
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[*]Elizabeth Wong, "The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl" | |
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[*]Clara E. Rodrguez, "What It Means to Be Latino" | |
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Judith Ortiz Cofer, "The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named | |
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Maria" | |
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Jeffery Sheler and Michael Betzold, "Muslim in America" | |
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[*]Sherman Alexie, "I Hated Tonto (Still Do)" | |
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[*]Brett Krutzsch, "The Gayest One" | |
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[*]Melanie Scheller, "On the Meaning of Plumbing and Poverty" | |
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[*]Focus: Are We Moving toward a Post-Racial Society? | |
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[*]Brent Staples, "Why Race Isn't as 'Black' and 'White' as We Think" | |
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[*]John H. McWhorter, "Why I'm Black, Not African American" | |
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[*]Elizabeth Chang, "Why Obama Should Not Have Checked 'Black' on His Census Form" | |
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The American Dream | |
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[*]David M. Ewalt and Michael Noer, "Forbes Special Report: The American | |
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Dream" | |
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Richard Wright, "The Library Card" | |
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Gish Jen, "Coming into the Country" | |
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Brent Staples, "Just Walk On By" | |
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[*]Kiran Desai, "Fatherland" | |
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[*]Azar Nafisi, "Vagabond Nation" | |
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Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence | |
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Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address | |
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Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream" | |
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[*] Poetry: Pat Mora, "La Migra" | |
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[*]Focus: Should Undocumented Immigrants Have a Path to Citizenship? | |
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[*]Jose Antonio Vargas, "Outlaw: My Life in America as an Undocumented Immigrant" | |
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[*]Rory O'Connor, "Jose Antonio Vargas Is an American Hero" | |
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[*]Esther Cepeda, "Jose Antonio Vargas's Lies Deserve No Sympathy" | |
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Why We Work | |
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Andrew Curry, "Why We Work" | |
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Gary Soto, "One Last Time" | |
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Arlie Hochschild, "The Second Shift" | |
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[*]David Brooks, "It's Not About You" | |
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[*]Lynn Peril, "Do Secretaries Have a Future?" | |
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Robert B. Reich, "Don't Blame Wal-Mart" | |
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "Delusions of Grandeur" | |
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[*]Warren Farrell, "Exploiting the Gender Gap" | |
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Fiction: John Updike, "A & P" | |
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[*] Focus: Are Internships Work Experience or Exploitation? | |
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[*]Ross Perlin, "Unpaid Interns, Complicit Colleges" | |
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[*]Elizabeth Cronin, "Interning or Indentured?" | |
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[*]"Unpaid Interns: Rewarded or Exploited?" | |
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Making Ethical Choices | |
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Poetry: Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken" | |
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Poetry: Linda Pastan, "Ethics" | |
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[*]David A. Hoekema, "The Unacknowledged Ethicists on Campuses" | |
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George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant" | |
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Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail" | |
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Claire McCarthy, "Dog Lab" | |
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Fiction: Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" | |
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[*] Focus: What Has Happened to Academic Integrity? | |
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[*]University of California Davis, "Why Academic Integrity Matters" | |
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[*]Richard A. Posner, "The Truth about Plagiarism" | |
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[*]David Callahan, "A Better Way to Prevent Cheating: Appeal to Fairness" | |
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Facing the Future | |
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[*] Poetry: Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach" | |
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John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address | |
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Rachel Carson,"The Obligation to Endure" | |
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[*]Joel Kotkin, "The Changing Demographics of America" | |
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William C. Symonds, Brian Grow, and John Cady, "Earthly Empires" | |
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[*]Neal Gabler, "The Elusive Big Idea" | |
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[*]Michael S. Malone, "The Next American Frontier" | |
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[*]Neal Stephenson, "Innovation Starvation" | |
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[*]Focus: What Comes Next? | |
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[*]Hilda L. Solis, Commencement Speech, Los Angeles City College, 2010 | |
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[*]Paul Hawken, Commencement Speech, University of Portland, 2009 | |
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[*]Colin Powell, Commencement Speech, Howard University, 1994 | |
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Credits | |
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Index of Authors and Titles | |