75 Readings

Chapter 1: Narration. A Hanging. Salvation. Grandmothers Victory. No Name Woman. Chase. Dont Get Comfortable. Chapter 2: Description. Marrying Absurd. One More To The Lake. A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood. Fifth Avenue, Uptown. The Death of the Moth. The Way To Rainy Mountain. Alias Benowitz Shoe Repair. My Father. Chapter 3 : Process. The Spider and the Wasp. How To Cook a Carp. Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain. Writing Drafts. The Rules of the Game: Rodeo. Chapter 4: Definition. Womens Beauty: Put Down or Power Source. What is Poverty? Erotica and Pornagraphy. To Be Determined. Fire In the Sky. On Being a Cripple. Chapter 5: Classification and Division. The Climythology of America. Predictable Crises of Adulthood. Four Kinds of Reading. Growing Up Asian in America. The Truth About Lying. Doublespeak. College Pressures. Chapter 6: Comparison and Contrast. Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts. Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers. Two Views of the Mississippi. The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life. Neat People v Sloppy People. Discordant Fruit. Men We Carry in Our Minds. Chapter 7: Exemplification. A Few Kind Words For Superstition. Patterns of Eating. The Anthropology of Manners. Crimes of Compassion. Chapter 8: Cause and Effect. How Do You Know Its Good. Pain Is Not the Ultimate Enemy. Watching The Grasshopper Get The Goodies. White Guilt. Where Have All The Parents Gone. If Hitler Asked You To Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably. Nubian Diet Revealed At Last. Distancing The Homeless. Chapter 9: Analogy. Body Ritual. The Myth of the Cave. The Myth of Sisyphus. The Cosmic Prison. Am I Blue. Gawk Shoes. Chapter 10: Argument and Persuasion. Persuasion. I Want a Wife. I Have a Dream. Who Shot Johnny? A Modest Proposal. Bilingual Education. Food Pets Die For. Why Dont We Complain. But A Watch in the Night: A Scientific Fable. Argument. Issue: Media Ethics. The Press Needs a National Monitor. Mea Culpa? Not Mea! Issue: Welfare Reform. A Step Back to the Workhouse. Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor. Issue: Free Speech. Should This Student Have Been Expelled? Shouting Fire! Issue: Health. Let's Go Veggie. Where's The Beef? Issue: Rape. To Be Determined. Common Decency. Issue: Drugs. To Be Determined. To Be Determined Counter Article. For Further Reading: Mixed Metaphor. Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and The Extinction of the Dinosaurs. On Dumpster Living. Girl. Plot Against People. Homeless. Honey Harvest.