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| A Reader's Guide To The World Of Writing | |
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| Reading and Thinking about Literature: A World of Meaning | |
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| Meaningless Words and the World of Meaning | |
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| Literary Form and Assumptions about Meaning | |
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| the Point of Literary Meaning | |
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| Forming Literary Meaning | |
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| Making Sense | |
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| Making Meaning out of Misunderstanding | |
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| Wrong Channel | |
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| Deciphering Meaning: the Riddle Game | |
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| the Riddle as a Literary Device | |
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| Metaphors | |
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| Reading for What Does Not Make Sense | |
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| Strategies for Reading Critically | |
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| Writer @ Work: the Reading Process | |
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| the Possessive | |
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| Student Writing: Justin Schiel reads and annotates the Possessive | |
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| Clarity and Ambiguity of Language | |
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| Working with Ambiguity in Literary Writing | |
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| Reading versus Writing | |
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| Working with Clarity in Nonliterary Writing: the Summary | |
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| Student Writing: Four Summaries of The Possessive | |
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| Clarity and Ambiguity in Storytelling | |
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| Before the Law | |
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| Student Writing: Two Summaries of Before the Law | |
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| the Wife's Story | |
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| Clarity and Ambiguity of Argument: Summarizing an Essay | |
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| I Hate Trees | |
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| Student Writing: Melissa Kim, A Summary of Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks, "I Hate Trees" | |
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| Clarity and Ambiguity in Literary Genres | |
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| Plot Conventions and Expectations | |
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| Happy Endings | |
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| Clarity and Ambiguity in Visual Culture | |
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| Visual Assumptions | |
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| Writing a Summary of an Image | |
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| Letter Rack with Christian V's Proclamation | |
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| Student Writing: Alan Green, A Summary of Letter Rack with Christian V's Proclamation | |
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| Looking Back: A World of Meaning | |
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| Argument, Critical Thinking, and the Process of Writing: Writing in the World | |
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| Crafting an Argument | |
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| Analyzing an Argumentative Essay | |
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| the Rewards of Living a Solitary Life | |
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| Making Your Own Argument | |
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| Argument versus Thesis | |
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| From Idea to Thesis | |
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| Dead Men's Path | |
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| Student Idea Map for "Dead Men's Path" | |
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| Critical Thinking: Reading, Questioning, Writing | |
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| Writer @ Work: Critical Thinking from First Impressions to Finished Paper | |
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| Critical Thinking Step by Step | |
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| August | |
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| Student Writing: Katherine Randall, sample writing from drafts to final paper | |
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| Student Writing: Three Summaries of August | |
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| Critical Thinking in a Comparison Paper | |
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| Blackberries | |
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| Blackberries | |
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| Student Writing: Cynthia Wilson, Leave the Picking to the Boys | |
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| Thinking Critically about Visual Culture | |
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| Signs | |
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| Still Images | |
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| Sequential Images | |
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| Moving Images | |
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| Interactive Images | |
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| Looking Back: Writing in the World | |
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| Investigating the World: Planning, Writing, and Revising a Research Paper | |
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| Finding a Topic | |
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| Student Writing: Rob Lanney, Paper Topic and Revised Paper Topic | |
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| Finding, Evaluating, and Summarizing Your Sources in the Annotated Bibliography | |
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| Primary Sources and Secondary Sources | |
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| the MLA Works-Cited List | |
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| Plagiarism and How to Avoid It | |
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| the Annotated Bibliography | |
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| Student Writing: Rob Lanney, Annotated Bibliography-Source #1 | |
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| From the Annotated Bibliography to the First Draft | |
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| Making an Outline | |
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| Student Writing: Rob Lanney, the Castle in Productions and Films of Hamlet-An Outline | |
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| Writing the First Draft | |
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| MLA In-Text Citations | |
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| Writer @ Work: Revising | |
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| Student Writing: Rob Lanney, Hamlet's Elsinore-Initial draft | |
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| Student Writing: Rob Lanney, Hamlet's Elsinore | |
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| Student Writing: Lorraine Betesh, the Brooklyn Bridge in Illustrations and Photographs | |
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| Looking Back: Investigating the World | |
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| The Writer's World: Genres and the Craft of Literature | |
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| Stories: Describing the World | |
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| What Is Fiction? | |
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| Fiction and History | |
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| Types of Fiction | |
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| the Craft of Fiction | |
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| A Gentleman's C | |
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| the Materials of Fiction | |
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| the Tools of Fiction | |
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| Writer @ Work: Description | |
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| Snow | |
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| Student Writing: Hashim Naseem, The Motherland | |
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| Describing the World: Topics for Essays | |
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| Looking Back: Describing the World | |
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| Poetry: Imagining the World | |
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| What Is Poetry? | |
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| Prosody: An Introduction | |
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| from Metrical Feet- Lesson for a Boy | |
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| Poetic Diction | |
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| Poetic Forms | |
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| Writer @ Work: Three Poems about Social Relations | |
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| London | |
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| Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | |
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| Singapore | |
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| Student Writing: Melissa Pabon, Summaries of London, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, and Singapore | |
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| Student Writing: Melissa Pabon, The Importance of Everyday Occurrences in London, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, and Singapore | |
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| Imagining the World: Topics for Essays | |
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| Writer @ Work: Reading and Writing Essays | |
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| Student Writing: Scott Nathanson, the Meaning of Death | |
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| Types of Essays | |
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| Looking Back: Imagining the World | |
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| Plays: Staging the World | |
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| What Is a Play? | |
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| Trifles | |
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| Dramatic Structure | |
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| Characters | |
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| Staging | |
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| Form and Genre | |
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| Writer @ Work: Writing about a Live or a Taped Performance | |
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| Krapp's Last Tape | |
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| Student Writing: Joshua Cohen, Notes on Krapp's Last Tape, directed by Atom Egoyan | |
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| Student Writing: Joshua Cohen, Response Paper on Krapp's Last Tape | |
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| Staging the World: Topics for Essays | |
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| Looking Back: Staging the World | |
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| Essays: Explaining the World | |
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| What Is Nonfiction? | |
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| the Essay | |
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| the Death of the Moth | |
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| Death of a Moth | |
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| Analyzing an Essay | |
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| Writer @ Work: Arguing with an Essay | |
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| How Susie Bayer's T-Shirt Ended Up on Yusuf Mama's Back | |
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| Student Writing: Jacquelynn Messina, The Used Clothes Trade: Who Benefits? | |
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| Explaining the World: Topics for Essays | |
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| Looking Back: Explaining the World | |
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| Working with Literary Devices: Writing the World | |
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| Literary Devices | |
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| Patterns of Repetition | |
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| Patterns of Inversion | |
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| Patterns of Contradiction | |
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| Ambiguity and Double Meaning | |
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| Imagery | |
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| Referring to Other Texts | |
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| Word Pictures | |
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| Drawing of the Sosibios Vase | |
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| Ode on a Grecian Urn | |
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| Greek Slave | |
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| On Hiram Powers' Greek Slave | |
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| Peter Brueghel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus | |
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| Landscape with the Fall of Icarus | |
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| Mus�e des Beaux Arts | |
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| Lines on Brueghel's Icarus | |
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| Heroic Simile | |
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| movie still from The Seven Samurai | |
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| Writing the World: Topics for Essays | |
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| the Reader's World: Exploring the Themes of Literature | |
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| Me and You: the World Closest to Us | |
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| Photographs from The Family of Man | |
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| FAMILIES | |
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| Dagoberto Gilb, Look on the Bright Side | |
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| A Good Man Is Hard to Find | |
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| Sonny's Blues | |
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| A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease | |
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| Everyday Use | |
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| There Is No Word for Goodbye | |
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| Those Winter Sundays | |
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| wishes for sons | |
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| Daystar | |
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| Coward | |
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| Hamlet, Prince of Denmark | |
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| Buckeye | |
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| Amy Tan, from Mother Tongue | |
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| Families: Topics for Essays | |
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| Children And Adolescents | |
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| Girl | |
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| The Kid's Guide to Divorce | |
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| Araby | |
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| A & P | |
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| Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, Little Red Cap | |
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| Red Riding Hood | |
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| The Wolf's Postscript to "Little Red Riding Hood" | |
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| Behind Grandma's House | |
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| Martin Espada, Why I Went to College | |
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| Salvation | |
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| Children and Adolescents: Topics for Essays | |
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| Lovers | |
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| The Chrysanthemums | |
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| Haruki Murakami, The Year of Spaghetti | |
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| Love and Other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape | |
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| What She Said to Her Girl Friend | |
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| Three tanka | |
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| How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st (Sonnet 128) | |
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| Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Sonnet 116) | |
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| When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (Sonnet 29) | |
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| The Flea | |
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| Rime Riche | |
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| Annabel Lee | |
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| The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | |
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| A Book of Music | |
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| from Hateful Things | |
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| Marrying Absurd | |
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| Lovers: Topics for Essays | |
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| Working Further with the World Closest to Us | |
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| Reading Globally, Writing Locally: Marjane Satrapi and the Literature of the Middle East | |
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| from Persepolis | |
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| Iran and Israel | |
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| From 1001 Nights: The Wonderful Bag | |
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| The Diameter of the Bomb | |
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| Wildpeace | |
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| Who Am I without Exile? | |
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| Working Further with the Literature of the Middle East | |
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| Beliefs and Ethics: The Worlds around Us | |
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| Images of Good and Evil in the World | |
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| Beliefs: Creations And Beginnings | |
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| from Genesis | |
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| Imagine There's No Heaven | |
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| Murmurs | |
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| All at One Point | |
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| Creation and Beginnings: Topics for Essays | |
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| Ethics: Destuction And Endings | |
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| Young Goodman Brown | |
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| The Story of an Hour | |
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| Hills Like White Elephants | |
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| The Things They Carried | |
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| Tobias Wolff, Bullet in the Brain | |
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| Complete Destruction | |
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| Fire and Ice | |
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| Death, Be Not Proud | |
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| Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night | |
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| I like a look of Agony | |
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| Because I could not stop for Death - | |
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| I felt a Funeral, in my Brain | |
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| I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - | |
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| It was not Death, for I stood up | |
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| A Toad, can die of Light - | |
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| Tell all the Truth but tell it slant - | |
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| Dulce et Decorum Est | |
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| The Colonel | |
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| Antigone | |
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| Destruction and Endings: Topics for Essays | |
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| Working Further with the Worlds Around Us | |
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| Reading Globally, Writing Locally: Naguib Mahfouz and the Literature of Africa | |
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| Half a Day | |
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| Zaabalawi | |
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| How to Write about Africa | |
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| To learn how to speak . . . | |
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| You Will Forget | |
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| Working Further with the Literature of Africa | |
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| Spaces and Places: the World We Live in | |