Essays from Contemporary Culture

by Ackley, Katherine Anne

• ISBN13: 9780838406779
• ISBN10: 0838406777
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Praised for its collection of essays on contemporary issues, the fifth edition offers more coverage of critical reading and writing and visual rhetoric.

Table of Contents

1. READING AND WRITING CRITICALLY

Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address

Garry Wills, How to Speak to a Nation’s Suffering

William Safire, A Spirit Reborn

2. ETHICS, MORALS, and VALUES

Lorri Nandrea, Having No Hand in the Matter

Ellen Goodman, It's Failure, Not Success

Kurt Wiesenfeld, Making the Grade

Christina Hoff Sommers, Are We Living in a Moral Stone Age? David A

Kaplan, Infamy and Immortality

Roger Rosenblatt, The Quality of Mercy Killing

Charles Krauthammer, First and Last, Do No Harm

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Scott Peck, Living is the Mystery

Susan Glaspell, A Jury of Her Peers (fiction)

3. TRANSITIONS

Jennifer Crichton, Who Shall I Be? The Allure of a Fresh Start

Richard Ford, An Urge for Going

Lynn Randall, Grandma's Story

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White, Once More to the Lake

Larry Watson, Silence (fiction)

4. INSIGHTS

Roger Rosenblatt, The Silent Friendship of Men

Frank Conroy, Think About It: Ways We Know, and Don't

Annie Dillard, Living Like Weasels

Michael Denne, Learning the Hard Way

Steven Doloff, Woodstock’s Message is Still True

Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour (fiction)

5. SELF-PERCEPTION

Sucheng Chan, You're Short, Besides! Nancy Mairs, On Being a Cripple

George Felton, Richard Simmons, the Twit Triumphant

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Kadaba, What’s in a Name? Rebecca Thomas Kirkendale, Who’s A Hillbilly? Noel Perrin, The Androgynous Male

Brent Staples, Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Ability to Alter Public Space

Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street(fiction)

6. ROLE MODELS AND HEROES

Bill Thompson, It’s Too Bad We Don’t Have Another Roy

Nicholas Gage, The Teacher Who Changed My Life

Roger Wilkins, I Became Her Target

Scott M

Fisher, Lessons from Two Ghosts

Jedediah Purdy, Rebel Twilight

Howard Zin, Unsung Heroes

Bruce Catton, Grant and Lee:A Study in Contrasts

7. GENDERED RELATIONSHIPS

Deborah Tannen, Sex, Lies, and Conversation

Carol Tavris, Love Story

Ron Beathard, Over Forty and Unmarried

Katherine Davis, I'm Not Sick, I'm Just in Love

Julie Showalter, Vows (fiction)

8. POPULAR CULTURE

David Segal, Where’s the Return Fire in Culture Wars? Christopher Sharrett, Movies, Morality, and Conservative Complaints

Richard Corliss, Bang, You’re Dead

John Davidson, Menace to Society

Gerard Jones, Violent Media is Good for Kids

David L

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Arnold, Cavalcade of Whimsey: Defending Springfield Against Itself

Joshua Gamson, Do Ask, Do Tell

Alan Thein Durning, Can't Live Without It

Joe Saltzman, Beating the Same Old Dead Horse

9. PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION

Mary Crow Dog, A Woman from He-Dog

Stephen Steinberg, The Affirmative Action Debate

Tricia Rose, Rap Music and the Demonization of Young Black Males

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Kreyche, Have We Lost Our Sense of Humor? Michiko Kakutani, The Word Police

William Raspberry, Symbolic Arguments

10. TERRORISM, WAR, AND VIOLENCE

Benjamin Netanyahu, Three Key Principles in the War Against Terrorism

Ellen Goodman, War Culture

Martin Luther King, Jr

Pilgrimage to Nonviolence

Charles Johnson, Menagerie: A Child’s Fable (fiction)