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Argument in America Essential Issues, Essential Texts

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ISBN-10: 0321172787

ISBN-13: 9780321172785

Edition: 2004

Authors: Jack Selzer

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List price: $46.20
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/9/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Introduction
Environment
Introduction
"The Slaughter of the Pigeons."
"Schroon Lake, 1846" (art work)
"Save the Hetch Hetchy Valley!"
Photos of Yosemite by Carleton Watkins
Photos of Hetch Hetchy Valley
"The Land Ethic."
"The Trouble with Wilderness."
From Silent Spring (Chapters 1 and 2)
"Am I Blue."
"The Way to Rainy Mountain."
Education
Introduction
"American Scholar."
"Liberty in Education."
"The Talented Tenth."
"Education."
"A Tale of Two Schools: How Poor Children Are Lost."
"America Skips School."
"Taking Women Students Seriously."
"What They Learn in School" (poem)
"We Real Cool" (poem)
Matt Groening Cartoon
Garry Trudeau, Doonesbury Comic
Censorship
Introduction
"Apology for Printers."
"Let's Put Pornography Back in the Closet."
"The Perils of Pornophobia."
"Pornography, Obscenity, and the Case for Censorship."
Walt Handelsman Cartoon
"The Internet: A Clear and Present Danger."
"What Part of lsquo;No Law' Don't You Understand?"
Tom the Dancing Bug Cartoon
"Copying This Article Is Strictly Forbidden."
Struggling for Liberation
Introduction
"Declaration of Independence."
"Letters to Thomas Jefferson."
"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July."
Spirituals:"Go Down, Moses"
"We Raise De Wheat"
"You Got a Right."
Letters between John Adams and Abigail Adams
Letters on Women's Rights
"Seneca Falls Declaration."
"Ain't I a Woman?"
"On Women's Right to Suffrage."
Photos of Suffrage Movement: Visual Arguments
Trifles
"A Letter to True Men."
"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" (song)
"Where I Come From."
"The Hope Speech."
"If We Must Die" (poem)
Song: "We Shall Overcome."
"I Have a Dream."
Speech at the 1984 Democratic Convention
Photos from the Civil Rights Movement
The Individual and the Community: Civil Disobedience
Introduction
"Civil Disobedience."
"Letter to Lord Irvin."
"Letter from Birmingham Jail."
Photos of the Birmingham Campaign
"Message to the Grassroots."
"Civil Disobedience: Destroyer of Democracy."
"Civil Disobedience."
"Lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King."
Photos of Nonviolent Resistance in the Hispanic Community
Becoming America(n): Immigration and Assimilation
Introduction
"Letter III: What Is an American?"
"The New Colossus" (poem)
"The Unguarded Gates" (poem)
Photographs of immigrants: Ellis Island and After
"Restriction of Immigration."
"Immigration: How It's Affecting Us."
"Stranger in the Village."
"Aria."
"Mother Tongue."