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Table of ContentsCHAPTER 1: NARRATION
George Orwell: "A Hanging”
Langston Hughes: "Salvation”
Maya Angelou: "Grandmother's Victory"
Maxine Hong Kingston: "No Name Woman"
James Weldon Johnson: “Traveling South”
Virginia Bell Dabney: “The Day the Fire Came”
Naton Leslie: “Don’t Get Comfortable” CHAPTER 2: DESCRIPTION
Margaret Laurence: "Where the World Began"
Joan Didion: "The Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador"
James Baldwin: "Fifth Avenue, Uptown"
Virginia Woolf: "The Death of the Moth"
N. Scott Momaday" "The Way to Rainy Mountain"
David Quammen: "Alias Benowitz Shoe Repair"
Doris Lessing, “My Father”
Mary Taylor Simeti: “Easter in Sicily” CHAPTER 3: PROCESS
Alexander Petrunkevitch: "The Spider and the Wasp"
Euell Gibbons: "How to Cook a Carp"
Jessica Mitford: "Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain"
Richard Marius: "Writing Drafts"
Gretel Ehrlich: "Rules of the Game: Rodeo"
Sue Hubbell: "Honey Harvest"
Adam Goodheart: "How to Paint a Fresco" CHAPTER 4: DEFINITION
Susan Sontag: "Beauty"
Jo Goodwin Parker: "What Is Poverty?"
Sam Pickering: "Faith of the Father"
Gloria Steinem: "Erotica and Pornography"
Dorothy Parker: "Good Souls"
Claudia Glenn Dowling: "Fire in the Sky"
John Leo: "Stop Murdering the Language" CHAPTER 5: CLASSIFICATION AND DIVISION
Susan Allen Toth, “Cinematypes”
David M. Ludlum: "Climythology"
Gail Sheehy: "Predictable Crises of Adulthood"
Meg Greenfield: "Why Nothing Is ‘Wrong’ Anymore"
Donald Hall: “Four Kinds of Reading”
Kesaya E. Noda: “Growing Up Asian in America”
Judith Viorst: "The Truth About Lying" CHAPTER 6: COMPARISON AND CONTRAST
Bruce Catton: "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts"
Deborah Tannen: "Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers”
Mark Twain: "Two Views of the Mississippi"
May Sarton: "The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life"
Susanne Britt: "Neat People vs. Sloppy People"
Mark Mathabane: "At the Mercy of the Cure"
Lydia Minatoya: “Discordant Fruit” CHAPTER 7: EXAMPLE AND ILLUSTRATION
William F. Buckley, Jr: “Why Don't We Complain?
Robertson Davies: “A Few Kind Words for Superstition
Annie Dillard: “Fecundity”
Peter Farb and George Armelagos: “The Patterns of Eating”
Edward T. Hall: "The Anthropology of Manners"
Jonathan Kozol: “Distancing the Homeless”
Alice Bloom: "On a Greek Holiday" CHAPTER 8: CAUSE AND EFFECT
Marya Mannes: "How Do You Know It's Good?”
Norman Cousins: “Pain Is Not the Ultimate Enemy”
Ellen Goodman: "Watching the Grasshopper Get the Goodies"
Shelby Steele: "White Guilt"
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead: "Where Have All the Parents Gone?"
Philip Meyer: "If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably”
Kathy A. Svitil: "Nubian Diet Revealed at Last" CHAPTER 9: ANALOGY
Plato: "The Myth of the Cave"
Albert Camus: "The Myth of Sisyphus"
James C. Rettie: "’But a Watch in the Night’": A Scientific Fable
Loren Eiseley: "The Cosmic Prison"
Alan M. Dershowitz: "Shouting ‘Fire!'"
Alice Walker: "Am I Blue?"
Nichols Fox: "Gawk Shows" CHAPTER 10: ARGUMENT AND PERSUASION
Argument
Nat Hentoff: "Should This Student Have Been Expelled?"
Barbara Ehrenreich: "A Step Back to the Workhouse?"
Garett Hardin: "Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor"
Stephen Jay Gould: "Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs"
Mike Wallace: “The Press Needs a National Monitor (With a response by Don Hewitt: “Mea Culpa? Not Mea!”)
Jonathan Swift: "A Modest Proposal"
Persuasion
Martin Luther King, Jr: “I Have a Dream”
Debra Dickerson: “Who Shot Johnny?”
Richard Rodriquez: “Bilingual Education: Outdated and Unrealistic”
Ann N. Martin: “Food Pets Die For”
The Nature of Wellness: “Next Time You Are Sick, You’d Better Go to the Vet…” CHAPTER 11: MIXED STRATEGIES |
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