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| New readings are marked with an asterisk | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: How to Read and Write Critically | |
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| What Is Critical Thinking? | |
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| Why Read Critically? | |
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| How to Read Critically | |
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| Sample Essay for Analysis: ""Now, Cut that Out!," | |
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| What is Critical Writing? | |
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| Approaching Visuals Critically | |
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| Fashion and Flesh: The Images We Project | |
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| The Media Assault on Male Body Image | |
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| Never Too Buff | |
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| Culture Shock: Superheroes | |
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| What I Think About the Fashion World | |
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| Culture Shock: Get Real | |
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| The Natural Beauty Myth | |
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| Weighing In | |
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| My Hips, My Caderas | |
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| Reading the Blog: Eating Disorders: The Numbers | |
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| Weight of the World | |
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| Viewpoints: A Man's Guide to Slimming Couture, Scott McKeon; Why Do We Get to Laugh at Fat Guys? | |
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| Culture Shock: Norbit | |
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| Consumer Nation: Wanting It, Selling It | |
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| Shop 'til We Drop? | |
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| Targeting a New World | |
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| What's Wrong with Cinderella? | |
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| Culture Shock: Sphere of Influence: Television Commercials | |
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| Lunchbox Hegemony | |
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| A Brand by Any Other Name | |
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| Culture Shock: Branding | |
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| Branded World: The Success of the Nike Logo | |
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| Culture Shock: A Portfolio of Advertisements | |
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| Lux Populi | |
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| Viewpoints: With These Words, I Can Sell You Anything, William Lutz; The Language of Advertising | |
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| It's All Relative: The American Family in Flux | |
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| Family: Idea, Institution, and Controversy | |
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| Numbers Drop for the Married-with-Children | |
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| The Decline of Marriage | |
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| Culture Shock Marriage Trends in the United States | |
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| For Better, for Worse | |
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| The Cultural Devaluation of Child-Rearing | |
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| Culture Shock: God-Ordained Marriage | |
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| Did I Miss Something? | |
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| A New Generation Is Leading the Way | |
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| Viewpoints: Why the "M" Word Matters to Me | |
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| The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage | |
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| Culture Shock: Gay Marriage | |
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| Reading the Blog: A really, really long post about gay marriage that does not, in the end, support one side or the other | |
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| Remote Control: Television's Influence | |
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| Can TV Improve Us? | |
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| Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor | |
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| Overexposure of Violence in Our Society | |
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| Culture Shock: Turn Off Your TV Week | |
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| The Myth of Media Violence | |
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| TV's War of Words | |
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| Born Again | |
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| The Great TV Debate | |
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| Three Cheers for Reality TV | |
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| The Collapse of Big Media: The Young and the Restless | |
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| Viewpoints: AAP Discourages Television for Very Young Children, American Academy of Pediatrics; TV Can Be a Good Parent | |
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| Climate Control? The Global Warming Debate | |
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| Global Warming: Who Loses-and Who Wins? | |
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| Global Warming Is an Immediate Crisis | |
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| Culture Shock: An Inconvenient Truth | |
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| Don't Believe the Hype | |
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| Reading the Blog: Please Stop Talking about the Global Warming Consensus | |
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| Global Warming Heats Up | |
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| Culture Shock: Earth's Before and After Pics | |
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| Viewpoints: No Change in Political Climate, Ellen Goodman; On Comparing Global Warming Denial to Holocaust Denial | |
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| Sexual Politics: Diving into the Gender Gap | |
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| My Most Attractive Adversary | |
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| Male Bashing on TV | |
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| Culture Shock: Men's Fault Magazine | |
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| The Men We Carry in Our Minds | |
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| Girls, We Really Are Our Own Worst Enemies | |
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| In Search of Notorious PhDs | |
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| Culture Shock: 50 Cent | |
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| The End of History | |
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| Reading the Blog: A Thursday Musing on Anti-Feminist Young Women | |
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| The Science of Difference | |
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| An Identity Reduced to a Burka | |
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| Viewpoints: Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood, Louise Story; Homeward Bound, Linda Hirshman; The Year of Domesticity | |
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| The University System: Are We Making the Grade? | |
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| How to Get a College Education | |
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| A's for Everyone! | |
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| Culture Shock: Drinking Cartoon | |
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| Would Shakespeare Get into Swarthmore? | |
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| America's Top University | |
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| College Makeover | |
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| Who Should Get into College? | |
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| What's Wrong with Vocational School? | |
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| Higher Ed, Inc. | |
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| A Real Education | |
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| Reading the Blog: Does College Matter? | |
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| Viewpoints: Regulating Racist Speech on Campus, Charles R. Lawrence III; Muzzling Free Speech | |
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| Race and Racism: Can We Be Color-Blind? | |
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| Inequality, Race, and Remedy | |
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| People Like Us | |
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| Culture Shock: Class and Race in America: The Legacy of Hurricane Katrina | |
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| Are You a Terrorist, or Do You Play One on TV? | |
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| Racial Profiling Goes Beyond Black and White | |
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| In Defense of 24 | |
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| Please Ask Me "Who," Not "What" I Am | |
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| Getting Under My Skin | |
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| Why I'm Black, Not African American | |
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| Viewpoints: You Have the Right to Remain a Target of Racial Profiling, Eugene Robinson; The Racial Profiling Myth Lives On | |
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| The Immigration Debate: No More Melting Pot? | |
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| Forging a New Vision of America's Melting Pot | |
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| Do We Want Mexifornia? | |
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| Culture Shock: Immigrant Children | |
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| Can We Still Afford to Be a Nation of Immigrants? | |
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| Reading the Blog: Immigration Issue Explodes | |
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| Educating Illegal Immigrants | |
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| Immigration Quotas vs. Individual Rights: The Moral and Practical Case for Open Immigration | |
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| Culture Shock: U.S. Census Map | |
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| The Next Americans | |
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| Viewpoints: A Nation Divided by One Language | |
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| My Spanish Standoff | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |