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| Rhetorical Contents | |
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| Preface for the Teacher | |
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| Preface for the Student | |
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| Writing, the "Writing Process," and You | |
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| Literacy Narratives | |
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| Composing Your Own Literacy Narrative | |
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| Family and Community | |
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| How the Wicked Sons Were Duped, Indian Folklore | |
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| People Like Us, David Brooks | |
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| Changing My Name after Sixty Years, Tom Rosenberg | |
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| Where the Land is Stepped on, the Sky ., Trikartikaningsih Byas | |
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| We Kissed the Tomato and Then the Sky, Dana Wehle | |
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| Focusing on Friends, Steve Tesich | |
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| Treasures, Mahwash Shoaib | |
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| Two Lives, Shirley Geok-lin Lim | |
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| For My Indian Daughter, Lewis (Johnson) Sawaquat | |
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| The Night I was Nobody, John Edgar Wideman | |
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| The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me, Sherman Alexie | |
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| One Voice, Susan G. Madera | |
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| Solidarity, Charles Neuman | |
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| Gender Issues | |
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| The Wise Daughter, Swahili Folktale | |
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| Apollo and Daphne, Greek Legend | |
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| Shrouded in Contradiction, Gelareh Asayesh | |
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| To Be a Man, Gary Soto | |
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| Man-Made Misery, Thomas M. Colicino | |
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| Why Are Gay Men So Feared? Dennis Altman | |
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| Gay, Anna Quindlen | |
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| Why Do We Hate Our Bodies? Gillianne N. Duncan | |
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| The Gravity of Mark Beuhrle, Jason Barone | |
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| He and I, Natalia Ginzburg | |
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| The Storm, Kate Chopin | |
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| Education | |
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| The Bar of Gold | |
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| A View from the Bridge Cherokee Paul McDonald | |
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| Mute in an English-Only World, Chang-Rae Lee | |
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| A Letter to a Child Like Me, Josÿ Torres | |
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| Always Living in Spanish, Marjorie Agosin | |
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| The Mistress of Make Believe, Doris Viloria | |
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| Dropout to Graduate, Laura Kuehn | |
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| The Fender-Bender, Ramòn "Tianguis" Pÿrez | |
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| When the Simulated Patient Is For Real, Taneisha Grant | |
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| Multiple Dimensions of Love: From the Artist's Eyes, Giovanni J. Gelardi | |
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| From Poets in the Kitchen, Paule Marshall | |
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| My Pen Writes in Blue and White, Vincent Cremona | |
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| Work | |
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| My Young Men Shall Never Work, Chief Smohalla (as told by Herbert J. Spinden) | |
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| Life Stories, Michael Dorris | |
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| Why We Work, Andrew Curry | |
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| Essential Work by John Patterson | |
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| Black Hair, Gary Soto | |
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| Work Hard���Quit Right! Thomas M. Colicino | |
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| Working Like a Dog, Charles Neuman | |
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| Forty-Five a Month, R.K. Narayan | |
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| Free and Equal, Lalita Gandbhir | |
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| Traditions | |
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| In the Beginning: Bantu Creation Story, African Legend | |
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| Quichÿ-Mayan Creation Story, Quichÿ-Mayan Legend | |
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| Footbinding, John King Fairbank | |
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| The Algonquin Cinderella, Native American Myth | |
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| Cinderella's Stepsisters, Toni Morrison | |
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| Seven Days of Mourning, Yael Yarimi | |
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| New (and Improved) Delhi, Gautam Bhatia | |
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| The Lottery, Shirley Jackson | |
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| Stone Throwing in India: An Annual Bash, Mark Fineman | |
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| The Losing Champion, Ramon Mendez, Jr | |
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| Cultural Encounters | |
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| The Falsehood of Truth, Senegalese Myth | |
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| The Wise Rogue, Jewish Folktale (as told by Moses Gaster) | |
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| Fraternity, Garrett Hongo | |
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| Passion and the Dream, Linda Stanley | |
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| On Leaving New York, Emma Wunsch | |
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| The Man I Killed, Tim O'Brien | |
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| Child of the Lot, Ariela Rutkin-Becker | |
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| What's in a Name? Gloria Naylor | |
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| Konglish, Kenneth Woo | |
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| Popular Culture | |
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| The Pleasures of Text, Charles McGrath | |
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| Can You Hear Me Now?, Sherry Turkle | |
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| Too Much Technology?, Katherine Larios | |
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| Is That Video Game Programming You? John Misak | |
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| The Timeless Culture, Tom Lee | |
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| Whatever Happened to Rock 'n Roll? James Geasor | |
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| Well if you can't hold the torch .then why pass it? Todd Craig | |
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| Why We Crave Horror Movies, Stephen King | |
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| Why Does Wall-E Listen to Broadway Musicals? Martin Kutnowski | |
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| Rhetorical and Cultural Glossary | |
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| Geographic Index | |
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| Credits | |