Essays from Contemporary Culture Text

by Ackley, Katherine Anne

• ISBN13: 9780155071315
• ISBN10: 0155071319
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-16
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This careful revision contains beautifully crafted essays from contemporary culture that encourage students to make informed opinions about topics that matter to them. Ackley is widely praised for her ability to engage students in active and critical reading and the author's writing prompts are unsurpassed at getting students to jump in and start writing.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Transitions	1	(44)
``Who Shall I Be?'': The Allure of a Fresh Start	3	(5)
Jennifer Crichton
One Man's Kids	8	(3)
Daniel Meier
Rootlessness	11	(4)
David Morris
An Urge for Going	15	(4)
Richard Ford
The Psychological Challenges of Y2K	19	(3)
Gordon Davidson
Corinne McLaughlin
White Breast Flats	22	(5)
Emilie Gallant
Grandma's Story	27	(3)
Lynn Randall
Once More to the Lake	30	(5)
E. B. White
Silence (fiction)	35	(10)
Larry Watson
Insights	45	(42)
Think About It: Ways We Know, and Don't	46	(5)
Frank Conroy
Living Like Weasels	51	(4)
Annie Dillard
To Gabriella, a Young Writer	55	(4)
Pat Mora
Remembering Karen	59	(7)
Zoe Landale
Trips from There to Here	66	(7)
Marjorie Simmins
Learning the Hard Way	73	(3)
Michael Denne
Shooting an Elephant	76	(6)
George Orwell
The Story of an Hour (fiction)	82	(5)
Kate Chopin
Self-Perception	87	(48)
You're Short, Besides!	88	(7)
Sucheng Chan
On Being a Cripple	95	(10)
Nancy Mairs
What's in a Name?	105	(5)
Lini S. Kadaba
Who's a Hillbilly?	110	(2)
Rebecca Thomas Kirkendall
The Androgynous Male	112	(4)
Noel Perrin
Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space	116	(4)
Brent Staples
Complexion	120	(6)
Richard Rodriguez
The Loudest Voice (fiction)	126	(9)
Grace Paley
Role Models and Heroes	135	(52)
On Excellence	136	(4)
Cynthia Ozick
Deems	140	(5)
Russell Baker
It's Too Bad We Don't Have Another Roy	145	(2)
Bill Thompson
Italianita in a World Made of Love and Need	147	(9)
Thom Tammaro
The Teacher Who Changed My Life	156	(4)
Nicholas Gage
I Became Her Target	160	(3)
Roger Wilkins
Lessons from Two Ghosts	163	(4)
Scott Fisher
Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts	167	(4)
Bruce Catton
The Revolt of ``Mother'' (fiction)	171	(16)
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Relationships	187	(40)
Sex, Lies, and Conversation	188	(5)
Deborah Tannen
The Silent Friendship of Men	193	(3)
Roger Rosenblatt
Study Denouncing Fathers Sends Danger Signals	196	(2)
Kathleen Parker
I Don't Like What You're Wearing	198	(2)
David Updike
Love Story	200	(4)
Carol Tavris
Men and Women in Search of Common Ground	204	(8)
Wendell Berry
Over 40 and Unmarried	212	(2)
Ron Beathard
I'm Not Sick, I'm Just in Love	214	(3)
Katherine Davis
Vows (fiction)	217	(10)
Julie Showalter
Popular Culture	227	(56)
Rap Music and the Demonization of Young Black Males	229	(5)
Tricia Rose
Rock Lyrics and Violence against Women	234	(3)
Caryl Rivers
Political Entertainment	237	(9)
Michael Parenti
A Sickness in the Soul	246	(3)
Michael Medved
Is God Really Dead in Beverly Hills? Religion and the Movies	249	(10)
Stanley Rothman
Movies, Morality, and Conservative Complaints	259	(3)
Christopher Sharrett
Bang, You're Dead	262	(3)
Richard Corliss
Do Ask, Do Tell	265	(8)
Joshua Gamson
Menace to Society	273	(5)
John Davidson
Beating the Same Old Dead Horse	278	(5)
Joe Saltzman
Ethics, Morals, and Values	283	(58)
It's Failure, Not Success	285	(2)
Ellen Goodman
Are We Living in a Moral Stone Age?	287	(7)
Christina Hoff Sommers
Making the Grade	294	(3)
Kurt Wiesenfeld
Infamy and Immortality	297	(2)
David A. Kaplan
Woodstock's Message Is Still True	299	(3)
Steven Doloff
Can't Live Without It	302	(11)
Alan Thein Durning
The Quality of Mercy Killing	313	(3)
Roger Rosenblatt
Mercy Denied to Roswell Gilbert	316	(6)
Derek Humphrey
First and Last, Do No Harm	322	(3)
Charles Krauthammer
Living Is the Mystery	325	(3)
M. Scott Peck
The Guest (fiction)	328	(13)
Albert Camus
Prejudice and Discrimination	341	(40)
Prejudice, Conflict, and Ethnoviolence: A National Dilemma	343	(6)
Joan C. Weiss
The Ruses of Racism	349	(4)
Michel Wieviorka
A Woman from He-Dog	353	(6)
Mary Crow Dog
The Affirmative Action Debate	359	(4)
Stephen Steinberg
Why Women Don't Get Paid What They're Worth	363	(5)
Marilyn Webb
Have We Lost Our Sense of Humor?	368	(3)
Gerald F. Kreyche
The Word Police	371	(5)
Michiko Kakutani
Symbolic Arguments	376	(5)
William Raspberry
Violence	381	(36)
War Culture	382	(3)
Ellen Goodman
Old Enough to Kill?	385	(2)
Anna Quindlen
Why I Bought a Gun	387	(5)
Gail Buchalter
Guns Us	392	(3)
Matthew Maranz
Gun Crazy	395	(2)
Nicholas Von Hoffman
The War Against Women	397	(6)
Carol Lynn Mithers
Violence Against Whom?	403	(7)
Warren Farrell
Pilgrimage to Nonviolence	410	(7)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Permissions and Acknowledgments	417