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| Topical Clusters | |
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| Rhetorical Table of Contents | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Becoming A Critical Reader | |
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| Family and Memory | |
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| Poetry: Linda Hogan, "Heritage" | |
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| Poetry: Robert Hayden, "Those Winter Sundays" | |
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| "My Grandmother's Dumpling" | |
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| "Once More to the Lake" | |
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| "No Name Woman" | |
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| "Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self" | |
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| "Sixty-Nine Cents" | |
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| "The Storyteller" | |
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| Issues in Education | |
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| "The Sanctuary of School" | |
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| "School Is Bad for Children" | |
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| "Graduation" | |
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| "The Good Immigrant Student" | |
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| "School's Out" | |
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| "Should the Obama Generation Drop Out?" | |
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| "Is College Worth the Money?" | |
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| "For More Balance on Campuses" | |
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| Fiction: Edward P. Jones, "The First Day" | |
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| Focus: How Much Do a College's Facilities Really Matter? | |
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| "In Iowa, 2 Colleges Separated by 150 Miles and $1.37 Billion: Grinnell College" | |
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| "In Iowa, 2 Colleges Separated by 150 Miles and $1.37 Billion: Clarke College" | |
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| Photo Essay, from The Chronicle of Higher Education | |
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| The Politics of Language | |
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| Poetry;"Baca Grande" | |
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| "Aria" | |
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| "Mother Tongue" | |
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| "Learning to Read and Write" | |
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| "Sexism in English: Embodiment and Language" | |
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| "The Loaded Language of Science" | |
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| "The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society" | |
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| "Politics and the English Language" | |
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| Focus: Is Texting Destroying the English Language? | |
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| "I h8 txt msgs: How Texting Is Wrecking Our Language" | |
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| "2b or not 2b?" | |
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| "Thumbspeak: Is Texting Here to Stay?" | |
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| Media and Society | |
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| "Television: The Plug-In Drug" | |
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| "Reality TV: A Dearth of Talent and the Death of Morality" | |
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| "The Revolution Will Be Televised" | |
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| "Eminem Is Right" | |
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| Editors of the Rocky Mountain News, "Goodbye, Colorado" | |
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| "News You Can Endow" | |
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| "The Universe of Meaning" | |
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| Poetry: "Dear John Wayne" | |
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| Focus: Does Social Networking Connect Us or Keep Us Apart? | |
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| "The Fakebook Generation" | |
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| "What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace" | |
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| "To Twitter or Not to Twitter?" | |
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| "Does Social Networking Really Connect You to Humanity?" | |
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| "Social Networking: Crossing Digital Divide Can Pay Dividends" | |
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| Gender and Identit | |
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| Poetry: "Barbie Doll" | |
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| Poetry: "Rite of Passage" | |
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| "Gardenland, Sacramento, California" | |
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| "The M/F Boxes" | |
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| "Why I Want a Wife" | |
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| "Stay-at-Home Dads" | |
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| "Man Bashing: Trivial Pursuit or a Truth with Consequences?" | |
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| "Without Apology: Girls, Women, and the Desire to Fight" | |
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| "Marked Women" | |
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| Focus: Who Has It Harder, Girls or Boys? | |
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| "What Is the Triple Bind?" | |
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| "The War Against Boys" | |
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| "Men Are from Earth, and So Are Women: It's Faulty Research That Sets Them Apart" | |
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| The American Dream | |
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| Poetry: Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus" | |
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| "What Sacagawea Means to Me (and Perhaps to You)" | |
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| "The Library Card" | |
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| "Becoming American" | |
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| "The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria" | |
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| "Coming into the Country" | |
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| "Just Walk On By" | |
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| "On Dumpster Diving" | |
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| "Where Evil Dwells: Reflections on the Columbine School Massacre" | |
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| Focus: What Is the American Dream? | |
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| The Declaration of Independence | |
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| The Gettysburg Address | |
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| Inaugural Address | |
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| "I Have a Dream" | |
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| "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" | |
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| Why We Work | |
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| "Why We Work" | |
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| "One Last Time" | |
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| "Professions for Women" | |
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| "The Second Shift" | |
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| "Behind the Counter" | |
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| "Selling in Minnesota" | |
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| "Don't Blame Wal-Mart" | |
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| "Delusions of Grandeur" | |
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| Fiction: John Updike, "A & P" | |
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| Focus: Is Outsourcing Bad for America? | |
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| "Let Someone Else Do It: The Impulse Behind Everything" | |
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| "Missed Target: Is Outsourcing Really so Bad?" | |
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| "Fair Exchange: Who Benefits from Outsourcing?" | |
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| Saving the Planet | |
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| from "Through the Stories We Hear Who We Are" | |
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| "The American Forests" | |
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| "Being Kind to the Land" | |
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| "The Obligation to Endure" | |
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| "Fateful Voice of a Generation Still Drowns Out Real Science" | |
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| "The Conquest of Garbage" | |
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| "Built to Last" | |
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| Fiction: Steven Millhauser, "The Invasion from Outer Space" | |
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| Focus: How Can We Create a More Sustainable Environment? | |
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| "The Challenge to Environmentalism" | |
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| "Green, Greener, Greenest" | |
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| "Why Bother?" | |
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| Religion in America | |
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| "Salvation" | |
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| "New Superstitions for Old" | |
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| "Our Faith in Science" | |
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| "Among the Believers" | |
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| "Kicking the Secularist Habit" | |
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| "Turning Faith into Elevator Music" | |
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| "Muslim in America" | |
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| "Earthly Empires" | |
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| "I Believe in an America Where the Separation of Church and State Is Absolute" | |
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| Fiction: Raymond Carver, "Cathedral" | |
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| Focus: Is There Intelligent Design in Nature? | |
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| "Finding Design in Nature" | |
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| "Why Intelligent Design Isn't" | |
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| "Finding Darwin's God" | |
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| Making Choices | |
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| Poetry: Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken" | |
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| Poetry: Linda Pastan, "Ethics" | |
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| "Shooting an Elephant" | |
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| "Letter from Birmingham Jail" | |
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| "Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against 'Aid' That Harms" | |
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| "Dog Lab" | |
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| "The Perils of Obedience" | |
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| Commencement Speech | |
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| "And Then They Came for Me" | |
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| Fiction: Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index of Authors and Titles | |