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| Preface for Instructors | |
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| Introduction: Finding a Trail | |
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| The Fine Art of Sighing | |
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| Self-Images | |
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| Insights: D. H. Lawrence, Mark Twain, N. Scott Momaday (poem) Rom Harr�, Fay Weldon, *Daniel Traister, Golda Meir, *Joyce Carol Oates | |
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| Shaping Up Absurd | |
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| Hamburger | |
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| I'm Listening as Hard As I Can | |
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| Black Men and Public Space | |
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| The Sad Pleasure of Travel | |
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| My Inner Shrimp | |
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| Girl (fiction) | |
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| What Is a Homosexual? | |
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| Family Ties | |
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| Insights: Robert Nisbet, Ferdinand Mount, Mavis Gallant, J. H. Plumb, Gloria Steinem, Robert Hayden (poem), Robert Weiss | |
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| Motorcycle Talk | |
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| My Father's Life | |
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| Inspired Eccentricity | |
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| It's Just Too Late | |
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| I Stand Here Ironing (fiction) | |
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| Last Things | |
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| Women and the Future of Fatherhood | |
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| The Value of Families | |
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| Significant Others | |
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| Insights: Fran�ois de La Rochefoucauld, Simone de Beauvoir, Walker Percy, Selma Fraiberg, Francesco Alberoni, Sharon Olds (poem), D. T. Suzuki | |
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| Boyfriends | |
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| Locker Room Talk | |
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| The Chemistry of Love | |
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| On the Fringes of the Physical World | |
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| Focusing on Friends | |
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| My Best White Friend | |
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| Propelled by Love | |
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| For Better or Worse? | |
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| What We Talk about When We Talk about Love (fiction) | |
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| Group Pictures | |
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| Insights: John Donne, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodor Reik, W. E. B. DuBois, Emma Lazarus (poem), Oscar Wilde, Alexis de Tocqueville, *Andrew Hacker, Judith Martin | |
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| Mother Tongue | |
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| In the Kitchen | |
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| Why Do Catholics Stay in the Church? Because of the | |
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| Life Stories | |
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| On Being Black and Middle Class | |
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| The Ghetto Cityscape | |
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| The Burden of Race | |
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| Everyday Use (fiction) | |
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| Learning Curves | |
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| Insights: D. H. Lawrence, William Cory, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edith Hamilton, *Stephen L. Carter, Philip Levine (poem), Richard Wright | |
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| Graduation | |
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| The Misery of Silence | |
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| Knowing Poems | |
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| In Praise of the Humble Comma | |
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| Public and Private Language | |
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| Multiple Intelligences | |
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| The Necessity of Myths | |
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| Books and the End of Literature | |
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| Ocean of Words (fiction) | |
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| Work Rules | |
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| Insights: Vince Lombardi, Wilfred Sheed, Margaret Lowe Benston, Nikki Giovanni, Marie Curie, Vincent Van Gogh, *Mart�n Espada (poem) | |
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| This Pen for Hire | |
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| Black Hair | |
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| A&P (fiction) | |
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| Reflections of a Bookstore Type | |
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| Professions for Women | |
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| Women Warriors | |
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| Forum: Work and Power | |
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| The Virtual Job | |
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| Winners and Losers in the Information Age | |
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| Warning: This Is a Rights-Free Workplace | |
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| Possessions | |
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| Insights: Matthew 19:24, Henry David Thoreau, Edna O'Brien, Henry James, Colette, *Peter Stallybrass, Andrew Carnegie, John Kenneth Galbraith, Richard Wilbur (poem) | |
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| The Car | |
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| My Wood | |
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| Two Cheers for Materialism | |
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| Mail Order America | |
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| Dumpster Diving | |
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| Gifts and Honor: An Exchange | |
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| The Lesson (fiction) | |
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| Chocolate and Divinity | |
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| Media Images | |
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| Insights: Mark Crispin Miller, Ruth Rosen, Gerald Early, Louis Menand, Louise Erdrich (poem) | |
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| The Shipping News | |
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| Watch and Learn | |
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| Animation Nation | |
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| Getting Close to the Machine | |
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| The Conversion | |
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| A Wasteland of One's Own | |
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| The Luck Business | |
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| The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (fiction) | |
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| Letter from a War Zone | |
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| Dilemmas | |
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| Insights: E. M. Forster, Alan Wolfe, George Orwell, Karl Menninger, Margaret Mead, Robert Frost (poem), Agnes De Mille | |
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| We Do Abortions Here | |
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| K. C. Cole, Calculated Risks | |
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| A Modest Proposal | |
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| Our Brutality to Animals | |
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| Shooting an Elephant | |
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| Sunday in the Park | |
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| Steroids and Sports | |
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| The Moral Repugnance of Cloning | |
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| Forum: Guns and Aims | |
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| Leave Him Alone | |
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| Should Children Play with Guns? | |
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| Your Constitution Is Killing You | |
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| Appendix: Working with Sources | |
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| Rhetorical Index | |
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| Index of Authors and Titles | |