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* - indicates selection new to this editionChapter One: Narration*George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant Langston Hughes: Salvation Related Reading: Angelou, Grandmother's Victory, Ch1Maya Angelou: Grandmother's Victory Related Reading: Cofer, A Partial Remembrance..., Ch 2 Noda, Growing Up Asian in America, Ch 5Maxine Hong Kingston: No Name Woman*Macolm X: Coming to an Awareness of LanguageRelated Reading: Naylor, Meanings of a Word Ch 4 Steele, Black Men and Public Space, Ch 7 *David Sedaris: Me Talk Pretty One DayChapter Two: Description James Baldwin: Fifth Avenue, Uptown Related Reading: Steele, Black Men and Public Space, Ch 7 Virginia Woolf: The Death of the MothN. Scott Momaday: The Way to Rainy Mountain Related Reading: Angelou, Grandmother's Victory, Ch1 E.B. White: Once More to the LakeJoan Didion: Marrying Absurd Related Reading: Fox, Gawk Shows, Ch 9*Judith Ortiz Cofer: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican ChildhoodRelated Reading: Angelou, Grandmother's Victory, Ch1 Hughes: Salvation, Ch 1 Chapter Three: Process AnalysisAlexander Petrunkevitch: The Spider and the Wasp Jessica Mitford: Behind the Formaldehyde CurtainSue Hubbell: Honey Harvest Richard Marius: Writing DraftsAdam Goodheart: How to Paint a Fresco *Diane Ackerman: Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall Related Reading: Petrunkevitch, The Spider and the Wasp, Ch 3 Cole, The Arrow of Time, Ch 8Chapter Four: DefinitionSusan Sontag: Women's Beauty: Put Down of Power Source? Jo Goodwin Parker: What is Poverty? Related Reading: Ehrenreich, A Step Back to the Workhouse? Ch 10 Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics, Ch 10Gloria Steinem: Erotica and PornographyNancy Mairs: On Being a Cripple *Gloria Naylor: Meanings of a WordRelated Reading: Malcolm X, Coming to an Awareness..., Ch 1*Ellen Goodman: The Company ManRelated Reading: Lutz, Doublespeak Ch 5Chapter Five: Classification and Division Gail Sheehy: Predictable Crises of Adulthood Donald Hall: Four Kinds of ReadingKesaya E. Noda: Growing Up Asian in AmericaRelated Reading: Angelou, Grandmother's Victory Ch 1Judity Viorst: The Truth about LyingWilliam Lutz: Doublespeak*Jonathan Lethem: 9 Failures of the ImaginationChapter Six: Comparison and Contrast May Sarton: The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life Bruce Catton: Grant and Lee: As Study in Contrasts Deborah Tannen: Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and HersMark Twain: Two Views of the MississippiScott Russell Sanders: The Men We Carry in Our Minds Related Reading: Staples, Black Men and Public Space, Ch 7 Goodman, The Company Man, Ch 4*Suzanne Britt: Neat People vs. Sloppy PeopleChapter Seven: Example and Illustration Robertson Davies: A Few Kind Words for SupersitionPeter Farb and George Armelagos: Patterns of EatingEdward T. Hall: The Anthropology of Manners Barbara Huttman: A Crime of Compassion Brent Staples: Black men and Public Space Related Reading: Sanders: The Men We Carry in Our Minds, Ch 6 *Franz Kafka, Letter to His FatherChapter Eight: Cause and Effect Norman Cousins: Pain Is Not the Ultimate EnemyShelby Steele: White GuiltBarbara Dafoe Whitehead: Where Have All the Parents Gone?Related Reading: Cofer, A Partial Remembrance...., Ch 2 Philip Meyer: If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Strange, Would You? Probably *K.C. Cole: The Arrow of TimeRelated Reading: Ackerman, Why Leaves Turn Color..., Ch 3*Calvin Trillin: It's Just Too LateChapter Nine: Analogy Plato: The Myth of the CaveAlbert Camus: The Myth of SisyphusAlice Walker: Am I Blue?Nicols Fox: Gawk ShowHarace Miner: Body Ritual Among the Nacirema Loren Eiseley: The Cosmic PrisonChapter Ten: Argument and Persuasion ARGUMENT Welfare Reform Barbara Ehrenreich: A Step Back to the Workhouse? Garrett Hardin: Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the PoorRelated Reading: Whitehead, Where Have All the Parents Gone? Ch 8 Free Speech Nat Hentoff: Should This Student Have Been Expelled? Alan M. Dershowiz: Shouting "Fire!"*Wendy Kaminer: Virtual RapeRape Camille Paglia: Rape and Modern Sex WarSusan Jacoby: Common Decency PERSUASION Jonathan Swift: A Modest ProposalRelated Reading: Parker, What Is Poverty? Ch 4 Marine Luther King, Jr.: I Have a DreamRelated Reading: Malcolm X, Coming to an Awareness, Ch 1Debra Dickerson: Who Shot Johnny?Richard Rodriguez: Bilingual Education: Outdated and Unrealistic *Judy Brady: Why I Want a Wife*Naomi Shahib Nye: To Any Would-Be Terrorists*Jonathan Kozol: The Details of LifeChapter Eleven: Mixed StrategiesStephen J. Gould: Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of DinosaursAmy Tan: Mother Tongue Lars Eighner: On Dumpster Diving *Andrew Sullivan: This Is a Religious WarRelated Reading: Nye: To Any Would-Be Terrorists, Ch 10 *Sandra Cisneros: Only DaughterRelated Reading: Cofer, A Partial Remembrance..., Ch 2 *Annie Dillard: Total Eclipse*Ian Frazier: Coyote vs. AcmeRelated Reading: Goodman, The Company Man, Ch 4