| Topical Clusters | | x | |
| Rhetorical Table of Contents | | xx | |
| Preface | | xxviii | |
| Introduction: Becoming A Critical Reader | | 1 | |
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| Poetry: Linda Hogan, ``Heritage'' |
| | 15 | |
| Poetry: Robert Hayden, ``Those Winter Sundays'' |
| | 17 | |
| ``My Grandmother's Dumpling'' |
| | 18 | |
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| ``Once More to the Lake'' |
| | 24 | |
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| ``Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self'' |
| | 40 | |
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| | 58 | |
| ``The Sanctuary of School'' |
| | 61 | |
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| ``School Is Bad for Children'' |
| | 64 | |
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| | 69 | |
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| ``The Good Immigrant Student'' |
| | 79 | |
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| | 87 | |
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| ``Should the Obama Generation Drop Out?'' |
| | 99 | |
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| ``Is College Worth the Money?'' |
| | 102 | |
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| ``For More Balance on Campuses'' |
| | 104 | |
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| Fiction: Edward P. Jones, ``The First Day'' |
| | 107 | |
| Focus: How Much Do a College's Facilities Really Matter? |
| | 111 | |
| ``In Iowa, 2 Colleges Separated by 150 Miles and $1.37 Billion: Grinnell College'' |
| | 111 | |
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| ``In Iowa, 2 Colleges Separated by 150 Miles and $1.37 Billion: Clarke College'' |
| | 118 | |
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| Photo Essay, from The Chronicle of Higher Education |
| | 124 | |
| | 128 | |
| Poetry: Jim Sagel, ``Baca Grande'' |
| | 131 | |
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| | 140 | |
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| ``Learning to Read and Write'' |
| | 145 | |
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| ``Sexism in English: Embodiment and Language'' |
| | 150 | |
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| ``The Loaded Language of Science'' |
| | 161 | |
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| ``The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society'' |
| | 164 | |
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| ``Politics and the English Language'' |
| | 172 | |
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| Focus: Is Texting Destroying the English Language? |
| | 184 | |
| ``I h8 txt msgs: How Texting Is Wrecking Our Language'' |
| | 185 | |
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| | 188 | |
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| ``Thumbspeak: Is Texting Here to Stay?'' |
| | 196 | |
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| | 204 | |
| ``Television: The Plug-In Drug'' |
| | 207 | |
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| ``Reality TV: A Dearth of Talent and the Death of Morality'' |
| | 215 | |
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| ``The Revolution Will Be Televised'' |
| | 218 | |
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| | 223 | |
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| Editors of the Rocky Mountain News, ``Goodbye, Colorado'' |
| | 230 | |
| | 231 | |
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| ``The Universe of Meaning'' |
| | 234 | |
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| Poetry: Louise Erdrich, ``Dear John Wayne'' |
| | 236 | |
| Focus: Does Social Networking Connect Us or Keep Us Apart? |
| | 238 | |
| ``The Fakebook Generation'' |
| | 239 | |
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| ``What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace'' |
| | 241 | |
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| ``To Twitter or Not to Twitter?'' |
| | 244 | |
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| ``Does Social Networking Really Connect You to Humanity?'' |
| | 247 | |
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| ``Social Networking: Crossing Digital Divide Can Pay Dividends'' |
| | 250 | |
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| | 256 | |
| Poetry: Marge Piercy, ``Barbie Doll'' |
| | 259 | |
| Poetry: Sharon Olds, ``Rite of Passage'' |
| | 260 | |
| ``Gardenland, Sacramento, California'' |
| | 262 | |
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| | 269 | |
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| | 275 | |
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| | 277 | |
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| ``Man Bashing: Trivial Pursuit or a Truth with Consequences?'' |
| | 280 | |
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| ``Without Apology: Girls, Women, and the Desire to Fight'' |
| | 286 | |
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| | 294 | |
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| Focus: Who Has It Harder, Girls or Boys? |
| | 300 | |
| ``What Is the Triple Bind?'' |
| | 301 | |
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| | 309 | |
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| ``Men Are from Earth, and So Are Women: It's Faulty Research That Sets Them Apart'' |
| | 314 | |
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| | 324 | |
| Poetry: Emma Lazarus, ``The New Colossus'' |
| | 327 | |
| ``What Sacagawea Means to Me (and Perhaps to You)'' |
| | 328 | |
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| | 330 | |
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| | 339 | |
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| ``The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria'' |
| | 346 | |
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| ``Coming into the Country'' |
| | 351 | |
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| | 354 | |
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| ``Where Evil Dwells: Reflections on the Columbine School Massacre'' |
| | 369 | |
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| Focus: What Is the American Dream? |
| | 374 | |
| The Declaration of Independence |
| | 375 | |
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| ``Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions'' |
| | 387 | |
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| | 402 | |
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| ``Professions for Women'' |
| | 410 | |
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| | 415 | |
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| ``Delusions of Grandeur'' |
| | 435 | |
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| Fiction: John Updike, ``A & P'' |
| | 438 | |
| Focus: Is Outsourcing Bad for America? |
| | 444 | |
| ``Let Someone Else Do It: The Impulse Behind Everything'' |
| | 445 | |
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| ``Missed Target: Is Outsourcing Really so Bad?'' |
| | 448 | |
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| ``Fair Exchange: Who Benefits from Outsourcing?'' |
| | 454 | |
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| | 464 | |
| From ``Through the Stories We Hear Who We Are'' |
| | 467 | |
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| | 468 | |
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| ``Being Kind to the Land'' |
| | 470 | |
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| ``The Obligation to Endure'' |
| | 474 | |
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| ``Fateful Voice of a Generation Still Drowns Out Real Science'' |
| | 480 | |
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| ``The Conquest of Garbage'' |
| | 484 | |
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| | 490 | |
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| Fiction: Steven Millhauser, ``The Invasion from Outer Space'' |
| | 495 | |
| Focus: How Can We Create a More Sustainable Environment? |
| | 499 | |
| ``The Challenge to Environmentalism'' |
| | 500 | |
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| ``Green, Greener, Greenest'' |
| | 503 | |
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| | 508 | |
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| ``New Superstitions for Old'' |
| | 523 | |
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| Dalai Lama XIV, ``Our Faith in Science'' |
| | 527 | |
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| | 530 | |
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| ``Kicking the Secularist Habit'' |
| | 533 | |
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| ``Turning Faith into Elevator Music'' |
| | 537 | |
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| | 540 | |
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| ``I Believe in an America Where the Separation of Church and State Is Absolute'' |
| | 551 | |
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| Fiction: Raymond Carver, ``Cathedral'' |
| | 555 | |
| Focus: Is There Intelligent Design in Nature? |
| | 568 | |
| ``Finding Design in Nature'' |
| | 569 | |
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| ``Why Intelligent Design Isn't'' |
| | 571 | |
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| | 581 | |
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| | 596 | |
| Poetry: Robert Frost, ``The Road Not Taken'' |
| | 599 | |
| Poetry: Linda Pastan, ``Ethics'' |
| | 600 | |
| | 601 | |
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| ``Letter from Birmingham Jail'' |
| | 608 | |
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| ``Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against `Aid' That Harms'' |
| | 623 | |
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| | 632 | |
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| ``The Perils of Obedience'' |
| | 639 | |
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| | 652 | |
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| ``And Then They Came for Me'' |
| | 658 | |
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| Fiction: Ursula K. Le Guin, ``The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas'' |
| | 665 | |
| Credits | | 673 | |
| Index of Authors and Titles | | 681 | |
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