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Reading the World | |
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Education | |
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*Greek Schoolchildren (460 BCE) | |
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"Encouraging Learning" (circa 250 BCE) | |
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"On Liberal and Vocational Studies" (ca. 55 CE) | |
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"Manners to Be Observed by Teachers and Students" (1096) | |
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Page from the New England Primer (1777) | |
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"National Education" (1791) | |
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"Learning to Read and Write" (1845) | |
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"Knowledge Its Own End" (1852) | |
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"The Banking Concept of Education" (1970, revised 1993) | |
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"O Americano, Outra Vez" (1985) | |
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"Education: A Lifelong Process" (1989) | |
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Human Nature | |
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Shrine of the Dead Man (14,000 BCE) | |
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"The Speech of Aristophanes" (385 BCE) | |
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"Man's Nature is Good" (circa 300 BCE) | |
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"Man's Nature Is Evil" (circa 300 BCE) | |
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"The Precious Garland" (circa 200 BCE) | |
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Vitruvian Man (1487) | |
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from Leviathan (1651) | |
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Igbo Mother and Child (19th-20th century) | |
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"The Individual and the Pattern of Culture" (1934) | |
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*"The Fitness of Human Nature" (1988) | |
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Law and Government | |
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The Papyrus of Ani (1240 BCE) | |
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from the Tao te Ching (400 BCE) | |
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"On the Perfect State" (circa 900) | |
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from The Treasure of the City of Ladies (1405) | |
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from The Prince (1513) | |
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"A Letter to Queen Victoria" (1839) | |
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Triumph of the Will (1935) | |
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"Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963) | |
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"In Quest of Democracy" (1990) | |
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"Nuremberg or National Amnesia: A Third Way" (1997) | |
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War and Peace | |
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from The Art of War (400-320 BCE) | |
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"Against Offensive Warfare" (circa 425 BCE) | |
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from Summa Theologica (1265-74) | |
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*Progress of an Aztec Warrior (1541) | |
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Liberty Leading the People (1830) | |
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Guernica (1937) | |
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"Warfare: An Invention-Not a Biological Necessity" (1940) | |
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"Pacifism and the War" (1942) | |
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"The Unsurrendered People" (1965) | |
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"What Is a Just War?" (2003) | |
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Wealth, Poverty, and Social Class | |
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"Against Music" (circa 425 BCE) | |
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New Testament: Luke, Chapter 16 (circa 90 CE) | |
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Gin Lane (1751) | |
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from Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) | |
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"Economic and Moral Progress" (1916) | |
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"Migrant Mother" (1936) | |
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"The Day of the Dead" (1961) | |
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"Africans Are Not Poor" (1965) | |
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"Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor" (1974) | |
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"The Stool Makers of Jobra Village" (1999) | |
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"A More Perfect Union" (2008) | |
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Science and Nature | |
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Cosmological Chart of Ptolemy's Universe (circa 150 BCE) | |
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*Beatus Map (776 CE) | |
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from On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy (1190 CE)Averro�s | |
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"The Guide for the Perplexed" (circa 1200) | |
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Joseph Wright of Derby: An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768) | |
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"Natural Selection" (1859) | |
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"The Obligation to Endure" (1962) | |
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"The Sacred Balance" (1997) | |
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"The Universe in a Grain of Sand" (2001) | |
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"The Climate Emergency" (2004) | |
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*The Galaxy Cluster Abell 2667 (2007) | |
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Language and Rhetoric | |
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"Pericles' Funeral Oration" (circa 387 BCE) | |
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from Gorgias (380 BCE) | |
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from Rhetoric (350 BCE) | |
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"The Present State of Rhetorical Theory" (1900) | |
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Freedom of Speech (1943) | |
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"Language and the Destiny of Man" (1972) | |
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Ad for Chinese Population Policy (1980) | |
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"The Power and Beauty of Language" (1987) | |
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"How to Tame a Wild Tongue" (1987) | |
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"Nobel Lecture" (1993) | |
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A Guide to Reading and Writing | |
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Reading Ideas | |
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Prereading | |
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Annotating | |
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Identifying Patterns | |
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Reading Visual Texts | |
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Summarizing | |
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Reading with a Critical Eye | |
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Generating Ideas | |
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Considering Expectations | |
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Exploring Your Topic | |
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Achieving Subtlety | |
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Structuring Ideas | |
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Thesis Statements | |
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Introductions | |
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Transitions | |
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Conclusions | |
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Supporting Ideas | |
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Supporting Claims | |
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Logos: Appealing to Reason | |
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Pathos: Emotional Appeals | |
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The Writer's Ethos | |
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Synthesizing Ideas | |
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Summarizing Multiple Sources | |
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Comparing and Contrasting | |
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Finding Themes and Patterns | |
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Synthesizing Ideas to Form Your Own Argument | |
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Incorporating Ideas | |
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Finding Sources | |
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Finding and Evaluating Sources | |
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Quoting, Summarizing, and Paraphrasing | |
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Giving Credit through Proper Attribution | |
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Revising and Editing | |
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Rethinking | |
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Rewriting | |
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Editing | |