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| Preface | |
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| Reading and Writing Critically | |
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| The Gettysburg Address | |
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| The Gettysburg Address and the War Against Terrorism | |
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| How to Speak to a Nation's Suffering | |
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| A Spirit Reborn | |
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| Ethics, Morals, and Values | |
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| Having No Hand in the Matter | |
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| It's Failure, Not Success | |
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| Are We Living in a Moral Stone Age? | |
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| Making the Grade | |
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| Infamy and Immortality | |
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| The Quality of Mercy Killing | |
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| First and Last, Do No Harm | |
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| Living Is the Mystery | |
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| A Jury of Her Peers (fiction) | |
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| Transitions | |
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| Inaugural Address | |
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| Who Shall I Be? The Allure of a Fresh Start | |
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| An Urge for Going | |
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| Grandma's Story | |
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| Once More to the Lake | |
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| Silence (fiction) | |
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| Insights | |
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| Think About It: Ways We Know, and Don't | |
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| Living Like Weasels | |
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| To Gabriella, a Young Writer | |
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| The Silent Friendship of Men | |
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| Woodstock's Message Is Still True | |
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| Learning the Hard Way | |
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| Shooting an Elephant | |
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| The Story of an Hour (fiction) | |
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| Self-Perception | |
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| You're Short, Besides! | |
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| On Being a Cripple | |
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| The Twit Triumphant | |
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| What's in a Name? | |
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| Who's a Hillbilly? | |
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| The Androgynous Male | |
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| Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space | |
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| The House on Mango Street (fiction) | |
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| Role Models and Heroes | |
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| A Call to Courage | |
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| It's Too Bad We Don't Have Another Roy | |
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| The Teacher Who Changed My Life | |
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| I Became Her Target | |
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| Lessons from Two Ghosts | |
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| Unsung Heroes | |
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| Rebel Twilight | |
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| Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts | |
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| Gendered Relationships | |
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| Sex, Lies, and Conversation | |
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| What's the Difference Between Boys and Girls? | |
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| Love Story | |
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| Men and Women in Search of Common Ground | |
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| Over 40 and Unmarried | |
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| I'm Not Sick, I'm Just in Love | |
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| Vows (fiction) | |
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| Popular Culture | |
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| Rap Music and the Demonization of Young Black Males | |
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| Where's the Return Fire in Culture Wars? | |
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| Is Hollywood Responsible for 9-11? | |
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| Movies, Morality, and Conservative Complaints | |
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| Bang, You're Dead | |
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| Menace to Society | |
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| Beating the Same Old Dead Horse | |
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| Cavalcade of Whimsey: Defending Springfield Against Itself | |
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| Do Ask, Do Tell | |
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| Violent Media Is Good for Kids | |
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| Can't Live Without It | |
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| Prejudice and Discrimination | |
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| The Ruses of Racism | |
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| A Woman from He-Dog | |
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| The Affirmative Action Debate | |
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| Racial Privacy | |
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| Have We Lost Our Sense of Humor? | |
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| The Word Polic | |
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| Symbolic Arguments | |
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| The Lesson (fiction) | |
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| Terrorism, War, and Violence | |
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| Three Key Principles in the War Against Terrorism | |
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| Is Cyber Terror Next? | |
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| War Culture | |
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| Parenting Post-9/11 | |
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| Pilgrimage to Nonviolence | |
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| Menagerie, A Child's Fable (fiction) | |
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| Credits | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index | |