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| Introduction | |
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| Message | |
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| Method | |
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| Medium | |
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| Understanding Message, Method, Medium | |
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| Understanding Texts: Audience, Purpose, and Context | |
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| Reading and Writing about Texts | |
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| Annotated essay: Stephen Jay Gould, A Time of Gifts | |
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| Annotated photograph: Lauren Greenfield, Sara, 19 | |
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| Annotated advertisement: Negative Population Growth, Remember when this was heavy traffic? | |
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| Annotated comic strip: Art Spiegelman, A Father's Guiding Hand, "Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?!" | |
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| An Annotated Student Essay | |
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| Annotated student essay: Milos Kosic (Northwest College), It's Not the Name that Matters | |
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| How to Use this Book | |
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| Depicting Identities | |
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| Home Movies | |
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| (memoir) Judith Ortiz Cofer, Silent Dancing | |
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| (photo & book cover) Judith Ortiz Cover | |
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| Silent Dancing | |
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| (poem) Judith Ortiz Cofer, Lessons of the Past | |
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| Our Stuff, Our Selves | |
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| (personal essay) John Freyer, All My Life for Sale | |
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| (objects) John Freyer, Objects for Sale | |
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| (webscreen) eBay | |
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| You Are What You Eat | |
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| (essay) Amanda Hesser, Shop Write | |
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| (lists) Grocerylist.org, shopping lists | |
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| (photo essay) Leigh Belanger, What's in Your Fridge? | |
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| (photo essay) Lauren Greenfield, The Food Court | |
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| (brief argument) Michael Pollan, We Are What We Eat | |
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| What's in a Name? | |
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| (personal essay) Manuel Munoz, Leave Your Name at the Border | |
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| (illustrations) David Heatley, Luis; Greg Klee, William, Bill, Billy | |
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| (persuasive essay) Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner, Trading Up: Where Baby Names Come From? | |
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| (maps & charts) National Geographic, Top Baby Names | |
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| (sidebar) The New York Times, What Happens to Hurricane Names? | |
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| (essay) Maya Lin, Between Art and Architecture | |
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| (photo) Todd Gipstein, The Vietnam Veterans Memorial | |
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| Family Photos | |
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| (essay) Janet Malcolm, The Family of Mann | |
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| (photo) Sally Mann, Jessie Bites | |
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| (photo) Sally Mann, Blowing Bubbles | |
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| (photo) Sally Mann, Emmet, Jessie, and Virginia | |
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| (photo) Sally Mann, Candy Cigarette | |
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| (essay/interview) Melissa Harris and Jessie Mann, On Being Photographed | |
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| The Mona Lisa | |
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| (portrait) Leonardo DaVinci, The Mona Lisa | |
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| (essay) Joseph A. Harriss, Seeking Mona Lisa | |
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| (portrait) Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q | |
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| (object) Constantin Boym, Mona Lisa Clock | |
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| portrait: Andy Warhol, Mona Lisa: 1963 | |
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| (ad) Breathe Right, Mona Lisa | |
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| (portraits) Lillian Schwartz, Mona/Leo; Da Vinci Timeline | |
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| Telling Stories | |
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| Fairytales and Urban Legends | |
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| (fairytale) Charles Perrault, Little Red Riding Hood (Le Petit Chaperon Rouge), 1697 | |
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| (fairytale) unknown author, Little Red Riding Hood, 1908 | |
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| (illustrations) Charles Perrault edition, Gustave Dore: Little Red Riding Hood | |
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| (essay) Catherine Orenstein, Little Red Riding Hood: Dances with Wolves | |
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| (urban legend) David Emery, The Hook | |
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| (comic strip) Jan Harold Brunvand (writer) and DC Comics (artists), The Hook | |
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| (movie poster) I Always Know What You Did Last Summer | |
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| Mini-Narratives | |
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| (images, narratives) Wired magazine, Very Short Stories | |
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| (found artifacts) FOUND magazine, Action! List!; Stupid x 3 | |
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| (found photo) SCIENCE | |
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| (cartoon / magazine cover) Chris Ware / The New Yorker, Family | |
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| Imagined Narratives: Stories without Words | |
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| (painting) Edward Hopper, Office at Night | |
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| (essay) Kathryn Shattuck, Edward Hopper's Office at Night: A Close Reading | |
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| (annotated painting and sketches) Kathryn Shattuck, On Edward Hopper's Office at Night | |
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| (photo) Jeff Wall, Man with a Rifle | |
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| (analytical essay) Philip Gefter, Photographic Icons: Fact, Fiction, or Metaphor? | |
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| (photo essay) Mathew Brady, Ruth Orkin, Joe Rosenthal, United Press International, The New York Times, Edward Keating, Iconic Images | |
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| Stories on Film: What Makes a Cult Classic? | |
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| (essay) Salman Rushdie, Out of Kansas | |
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| (movie poster) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Wizard of Oz, 1939 | |
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| (movie stills) The Wizard of Oz | |
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| (analytical essay) Joe Morgenstern, Little Miss Sunshine: How One Scene Can Say Everything | |
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| (movie still) Little Miss Sunshine: Abigail Breslin and Paul Dano | |
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| (personal essay) Roger Ebert, Star Wars | |
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| (movie stills) Star Wars | |
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| (brief interview) Joseph Campbell, On the Mythology of Star Wars | |
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| Photojournalism | |
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| (analytical essay) Wendy Lesser, Weegee | |
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| (photos) Weegee, Newsboy; Mulberry Street Caf�©; Dancing | |