Ideas across Time

by Webb, Igor

• ISBN13: 9780072882612
• ISBN10: 0072882611
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-18
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

Ideas Across Timegives depth to students' writing by helping them make connections between their contemporary world and the important ideas that have shaped it. Beginning with a contemporary selection that ties the chapter's idea to the student's experience, each chapter proceeds to introduce students to significant and influential writers and thinkers. Thoughtful and provoking reading apparatus helps students understand challenging concepts, encourages them to develop ideas in their writing, and prompts them to research new questions.

Table of Contents

Introduction

American Identity

Changing America(Keynote)

What is an American?

The Discovery of What It Means To Be An American

The Ghosts of Ellis Island

Silent Dancing

Song of Myself The American Effect: Global Perspectives on the United States, 1990-2003

Belief

Catholic Confession(Keynote) Selections from the King James Bible Selections from the Qur'an Selections from the Analects of Confucius Selections from the Rig Veda and the Upanishads Tom Paine,What I Believe Elizabeth Cady Stanton,The Book of Genesis Friedrich Nietzsche,God is Dead William James,The Will to Believe Paul Tillich,The Lost Dimension in Religion Dalai Lama,The Art of Happiness Karen Armstrong,History and Religion Images of Divinity

Science

Of Mice and Men: We're Quite Similar, Genetically(Keynote)

Sphinx, or science

from

fromThe Origin of Species and The Descent of Man

Introduction to Darwin Luther Standing Bear

Nature Albert Einstein

Letters to and From Children

The Value of Science

Life on the Rocks: The Galapagos

How Computers Change

The Way We Think Photo

in Times Square

Economic Life

China Juggles the Conflicting Pressures of a Society in Transition(Keynote)

The Wealth of Nations

The Communist Manifesto Louisa May Alcott

How I Went Out to Service Album: Money Matters

Six brief passages about money from

Studs Terkle

The Singer Solution to World Poverty

Selling in Minnesota Bertolt Brecht

A Worker Reads History 'American Values'(advertisement) and'Signs of the Times'(photo)

Democratic Society

The Democratic Age(Keynote)

On the Exercise of Power

fromThe Second Treatise of Civil Government

The Declaration of Independence

The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered

Civil Disobedience

Macaulay,Letter on Democracy

Technology and Democracy Vaclav Havel

The Power of the Powerless

In the American Society

Photographs Across America

Quality: Race And Gender

Black and White(Keynote) Jean-Jacques Rousseau

On the Origin of Inequality Alexis de Tocqueville

Equality and Individualism Harriet Jacobs

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Of Our Spiritual Strivings Simone de Beauvoir

What is a Woman?

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