Perspectives on Argument

by Wood, Nancy

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The argument text with the most complete coverage of the research paper Offering a thorough grounding in argumentation and critical thinking, reading and writing, this rhetoric and reader also offers the most complete coverage of the research paper found in any argument text. In Perspectives on Argument, Nancy Wood supports you with: a superior presentation of the research paper -- one that places all research topics in the context of writing your argument research paper, from beginning to end. a full range of perspectives on argument: classical, Toulmin, Rogerian, visual argument, arguing about literature, and more. her exceptionally friendly and accessible writing style. This outstanding learning tool is key to your success in class and will help you argue clearly and convincingly in college and beyond.

Alternate Table of Contents

xxiii

Preface

xxvii

Acknowledgments

xxxii

PART I Engaging with Argument for Reading and Writing

(124)

A Perspective on Argument

(26)

What Is Your Current Perspective on Argument?

(1)

A Definition of Argument

(1)

Recognizing Traditional and Consensual Argument

(2)

Under What Conditions Does Argument Work Best?

(3)

Under What Conditions Does Argument Fail?

(2)

Engaging with Issues

(4)

How Should You Engage with Issues?

(1)

Review Questions

(1)

Exercises and Activities

(1)

Essays for Analysis

Pay Your Own Way! (Then Thank Mom)

(2)

Audrey Rock-Richardson

The Laptop Ate My Attention Span

(4)

Abby Ellin

The Barbie Controversy

(3)

Prisna Virasin

Identifying Your Preferred Argument Style

(34)

The Adversarial and Consensual Styles of Argument

(1)

Individual Styles of Argument

(1)

Influence of Background, Experience, and Role Models

(1)

Influence of Gender

(2)

Influence of Culture

(2)

A Study of the Influence of Students' Gender and Culture on Their Argument Style

(3)

Influence of Nationality

(4)

Review Questions

(1)

Exercises and Activities

(3)

Essays for Analysis

We Knew What Glory Was

(2)

Shirlee Taylor Haizlip

We're Fighting Terror, But Killing Freedom

(2)

Randall Hamud

A View from Berkeley

(3)

Chang-Lin Tien

Giving People a Second Chance

(2)

Ernest Martinez

One of Our Own: Training Native Teachers for the 21st Century

(3)

Suzette Brewer

Why I Want a Wife

(2)

Judy Brady

A Simple ``Hai'' Won't Do

(2)

Reiko Hatsumi

The Rhetorical Situation: Understanding Audience and Context

(20)

Analyze the Rhetorical Situation When You Read an Argument

(5)

Text

(1)

Reader

(1)

Author

(1)

Constraints

(2)

Exigence

(2)

Example of an Analysis of a Rhetorical Situation from the Reader's Point of View

(1)

Use the Rhetorical Situation When You Write Argument

(5)

What Is the Exigence?

(1)

Who Is the Reader or Audience?

(1)

What Are Some of the Constraints?

(1)

Who Is the Author?

(1)

How Should the Text Be Developed to Fit the Situation?

(1)

Example of an Analysis of a Rhetorical Situation When You Are the Writer

(2)

Conducting an Audience Analysis

(3)

Determine the Audience's Initial Position and Consider How It Might Change

(1)

Analyze the Audience's Discourse Community

(1)

Analyze and Adapt to a Familiar Audience

(1)

Construct an Unfamiliar Audience

(1)

Review Questions

(1)

Exercises and Activities

Essays for Analysis

``A'' Is for ``Absent''

(9)

Chris Piper

Driving Down the Highway, Mourning the Death of American Radio

(7)

Brent Staples

Reading, Thinking, and Writing about Issues

(42)

Getting Started on a Writing Assignment

(5)

Analyze the Assignment and Allocate Time

(1)

Identify an Issue, Narrow It, and Test It

(1)

Do Some Initial Writing, Reading, and Thinking

(4)

Talk It Through

(1)

Read to Develop Arguments for Your Paper

(7)

Recognizing Written Argument

(1)

Academic Argument

(1)

Read While Continuing to Think and Write

(1)

Survey and Skim to Save Time

(1)

Identify and Read the Information in the Introduction, Body, and Conclusion

(1)

Look for Claims, Subclaims, Support, and Transitions

(1)

Read with an Open Mind and Analyze the Common Ground between You and the Author

(1)

Understand the Key Words

(1)

Underline, Annotate, and Summarize Ideas

(1)

Write Outlines or Maps

(1)

Take Notes and Avoid Plagiarism

(3)

Write Your Paper, Read It, Think about It, and Revise It

(7)

Refocus Your Issue and Reconsider Your Audience

(1)

Make an Extended Outline to Guide Your Writing

100

(1)

Write the First Draft

100

(1)

Break Through Writer's Block

101

(1)

Revise the Draft

101

(5)

Organize Your Own Process for Reading, Thinking, and Writing about Issues

106

(1)

Practice Your Process by Writing These Papers

106

(5)

The Summary-Response Paper

106

(1)

The Summary-Analysis-Response Paper

107

(1)

The Exploratory Paper

108

(1)

How to Write an Exploratory Paper

109

(2)

Submit Your Paper for Peer Review

111

(1)

Review Questions

111

(1)

Exercises and Activities

112

Essays for Analysis

Cloning Nine Lives + One

(19)

Karen Breslau

A Lifelong Activist's Last Fight

113

(3)

Kevin Fedarko

The Year That Changed Everything

116

(2)

Lance Morrow

Kids and Chores: All Work and No Pay?

118

(3)

Jeff D. Opdyke

The Controversy Behind Barbie

121

(4)

Prisna Virasin

PART II Understanding the Nature of Argument for Reading and Writing

125

(166)

The Essential Parts of an Argument: The Toulmin Model

127

(30)

The Outcomes of Argument: Probability versus Certainty

127

(1)

The Parts of an Argument according to the Toulmin Model

128

(13)

Claim

132

(2)

Support

134

(3)

Warrants

137

(2)

Backing

139

(1)

Rebuttal

140

(1)

Qualifiers

141

(1)

Value of the Toulmin Model for Reading and Writing Argument

141

(1)

Review Questions

142

(1)

Exercises and Activities

142

(2)

Essays for Analysis

Sense of Community Advertisement

144

(1)

What's Happened to Disney Films?

145

(2)

John Evans

Toulmin Analysis of ``What's Happened to Disney Films?''

147

(2)

Beth Brunk

American Value Systems

149

(8)

Richard D. Rieke

Malcolm O. Sillars

Types of Claims

157

(38)

Getting a Sense of the Purpose and Parts of an Argument

158

(1)

Five Types of Claims

158

(14)

Claims of Fact

159

(2)

Claims of Definition

161

(3)

Claims of Cause

164

(3)

Claims of Value

167

(3)

Claims of Policy

170

(2)

Claims and Argument in Real Life

172

(2)

Value of the Claims and the Claim Questions for Reading and Writing Argument

174

(1)

Review Questions

175

(1)

Exercises and Activities

175

Essays for Analysis

Debunking the Digital Divide

160

(3)

Robert Samuelson

Zygotes and People Aren't Quite the Same

163

(2)

Michael S. Gazzaniga

Paying the Price of Female Neglect

165

(3)

Susan Dentzer

What's Wrong with Standard Tests?

168

(3)

Ted Sizer

Doctors Call for Fair Competition

171

(5)

Let's Stop Scaring Ourselves

176

(3)

Michael Crichton

Unintelligent Design

179

(2)

Jim Holt

When It's All Too Much

181

(3)

Barry Schwartz

Devising New Math to Define Poverty

184

(2)

Louis Uchitelle

No Need to Stew: A Few Tips to Cope with Life's Annoyances

186

(3)

Ian Urgina

Bringing Up Adultolescents

189

(6)

Peg Tyre

Types of Proof

195

(34)

The Traditional Categories of Proof

195

(2)

Types of Logical Proof: Logos

197

(10)

A Mnemonic Device

198

(1)

Argument from Sign

198

(1)

Argument from Induction

199

(1)

Argument from Cause

200

(1)

Argument from Deduction

201

(1)

Argument from Historical, Literal, or Figurative Analogy

202

(3)

Argument from Definition

205

(1)

Argument from Statistics

205

(2)

Proof That Builds Credibility: Ethos

207

(1)

Argument from Authority

207

(1)

Types of Emotional Proof: Pathos

208

(2)

Motivational Proofs

208

(1)

Value Proofs

209

(1)

A Mnemonic Device

210

(1)

Logos, Ethos, and Pathos Communicated through Language and Style

210

(4)

Language That Appeals to Logic

210

(1)

Language That Develops Ethos

211

(1)

Language That Appeals to Emotion

212

(2)

Ethics and Morality in Argument

214

(1)

Value of the Proofs for Reading and Writing Argument

215

(1)

Review Questions

216

(1)

Exercises and Activities

216

(1)

Essays for Analysis

Meet the Philip Morris Generation, Advertisement

217

(1)

Campus Climate Control

218

(2)

Katie Roiphe

The Good Enough Mother

220

(3)

Anna Quindlen

The Declaration of Independence

223

(6)

Thomas Jefferson

The Fallacies or Pseudoproofs

229

(16)

Fallacies in Logic

230

(2)

Fallacies That Affect Character or Ethos

232

(1)

Emotional Fallacies

233

(1)

Review Questions

234

(1)

Exercises and Activities

234

(1)

Essays for Analysis

Vitamin Advertisement

235

(1)

The Latest from the Feminist ``Front''

236

(4)

Rush Limbaugh

Minor Problems?

240

(5)

Kelly Dickerson

Rogerian Argument and Common Ground

245

(46)

Achieving Common Ground in Rogerian Argument

247

(1)

Rogerian Argument as Strategy

248

(2)

Writing Rogerian Argument

250

(1)

Variations of Rogerian Argument

250

(2)

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Rogerian Argument

252

(1)

Review Questions

253

(1)

Exercises and Activities

253

(1)

Essays for Analysis

We Won't Let This War Pull Us Apart

254

(4)

Marykate Morse

Human Cloning: Is It a Viable Option?

258

(4)

Angela A. Boatwright

Let Those Who Ride Decide!

262

(3)

Eric Hartman

Dear Boss

265

(6)

Elizabeth Nabhan

Appendix to Chapter 9: Review and Synthesis of the Strategies for Reading and Writing Argument

271

(3)

Rhetorical Situation for Martin Luther King Jr.'s ``Letter from Birmingham Jail''

271

(2)

Reading the Letters and Reporting to the Class

273

(1)

Letters for Analysis

A Call for Unity: A Letter from Eight White Clergymen

274

(2)

Letter from Birmingham Jail

276

(15)

Martin Luther King Jr.

PART III Writing a Research Paper That Presents an Argument

291

(114)

The Research Paper: Clarifying Purpose and Understanding the Audience

293

(16)

Understanding the Assignment and Getting Started

293

(1)

Writing a Claim and Clarifying Your Purpose

294

(2)

The Rhetorical Situation

295

(1)

Questions to Plan Claim and Purpose

295

(1)

Some Preliminary Questions to Help You Develop Your Claim

296

(2)

Developing a Research Plan

298

(1)

Understanding the Audience

299

(2)

Analyzing Your Class as Your Audience

301

(3)

Constructing an Unfamiliar Audience

304

(1)

Using Information about Your Audience

304

(1)

New Yorker Cartoon

305

(1)

Review Questions

306

(1)

Exercises and Activities

306

(3)

The Research Paper: Research and Invention

309

(24)

Get Organized for Research

310

(1)

Locating Sources for Research

311

(4)

Learn to Use the Library's Online Catalog

311

(1)

Learn to Find a Library Book

312

(1)

Use Library Subscription Services to Find Articles

312

(1)

Learn to Use Research Navigator

313

(1)

Learn to Find a Printed Journal or Magazine Article

314

(1)

Learn to Find Newspaper Articles

314

(1)

Learn to Find Reference Materials and Government Documents

314

(1)

Make Appropriate Use of the World Wide Web

314

(1)

Evaluate Both Print and Online Sources

315

(2)

Analyze the Author's Purpose

316

(1)

Analyze the Rhetorical Situation of Your Sources

316

(1)

Evaluate the Credibility of Your Sources

316

(1)

Create a Bibliography

317

(3)

Survey, Skim, and Read Selectively

320

(1)

Develop a System for Taking and Organizing Your Notes

321

(3)

Two Invention Strategies to Help You Think Creatively about Your Research and Expand Your Own Ideas

324

(2)

Use Burke's Pentad to Get the Big Picture and Establish Cause

324

(2)

Use Chains of Reasons to Develop Lines of Argument

326

(1)

Review Questions

326

(1)

Exercises and Activities

327

(1)

Annotated Bibliography

328

(5)

Human Cloning: An Annotated Bibliography

328

(5)

Angela A. Boatwright

The Research Paper: Organizing, Writing, and Revising

333

(72)

Classical Organization of Arguments

333

(1)

The Six Parts of Classical Organization

334

(1)

Classical and Modern Organization

334

(1)

Use Organizational Patterns to Help You Think and Organize

335

(2)

Claim with Reasons (or Reasons Followed by Claim)

335

(1)

Cause and Effect (or Effect and Cause)

336

(1)

Applied Criteria

336

(1)

Problem-Solution

336

(1)

Chronology or Narrative

337

(1)

Deduction

337

(1)

Induction

337

(1)

Comparison and Contrast

337

(1)

Incorporate Ideas from Your Exploratory Paper

337

(1)

How to Match Patterns and Support to Claims

338

(1)

Outline Your Paper and Cross-Reference Your Notes

339

(3)

Incorporating Research into Your First Draft

342

(4)

Clearly Identify Words and Ideas from Outside Sources to Avoid Plagiarism

344

(1)

Document Your Sources

345

(1)

Make Revisions and Prepare the Final Copy

346

(1)

Review Questions

347

(1)

Exercises and Activities

347

(4)

Appendix to Chapter 12: How to Document Sources Using MLA and APA Styles

351

(2)

MLA: How to Cite Sources in the Body of the Text

353

(5)

MLA: How to Cite Sources in the ``Works Cited'' Page

358

(10)

MLA: Student Paper in MLA Style

368

(11)

The Big Barbie Controversy

368

(11)

Prisna Virasin

Questions on the Researched Position Paper, MLA Style

379

(2)

APA: How to Cite Sources in the Body of the Text

381

(4)

APA: How to Cite Sources in the ``References'' Page

385

(9)

APA: Student Paper in APA Style

394

(10)

Alaskan Wolf Management

394

(10)

Darrell D. Greer

Questions on the Researched Position Paper, APA Style

404

(1)

PART IV Further Applications: Visual and Oral Argument/Argument and Literature

405

(68)

Visual and Oral Argument

407

(28)

Recognizing Visual and Oral Argument

408

(1)

Why Visual Argument Is Convincing: Eight Special Features

408

(7)

Why Oral Argument Is Convincing: Four Special Features

415

(2)

Using Argument Theory to Critique Visual and Oral Argument

417

(1)

Sample Analysis of a Visual Argument

417

(3)

Add Visual Argument to Support Written and Oral Argument

420

(3)

Create Visual Arguments That Stand Alone

423

(3)

Review Questions

426

(1)

Exercises and Activities

426

(1)

Visual and Oral Arguments for Analysis

EduGene Cloning Kit

427

(4)

I Have a Dream

431

(4)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Color Portfolio of Visual Arguments and Questions for Discussion and Writing

Plate 1: The West Bank Barrier Built by Israel

Plate 2: Buzz Aldrin on the Moon

Plate 3: Bringing Up Adultolescents

Plate 4: The Creation of Adam

Plate 5: Play Ball

Plate 6: Robot with Grappler Holding a Wounded Palestinian

Plate 7: Hands

Plate 8: Tree near El Paso, Texas

Plate 9: Will the Human Soul Be Next?

Plate 10: Art (student example of visual argument)

Argument and Literature

435

(38)

Finding and Analyzing Arguments in Literature

436

(4)

What Is at Issue? What Is the Claim?

436

(2)

Characters Making Arguments

438

(2)

Writing Arguments about Literature

440

(2)

Review Questions

442

(1)

Exercises and Activities

442

(1)

Literature for Analysis

Theme for English B

443

(1)

Langston Hughes

Totally like whatever, you know?

444

(2)

Taylor Mali

Mending Wall

446

(2)

Robert Frost

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

448

(5)

Ursula K. Le Guin

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country

453

(8)

Jonathan Swift

Synthesis of Chapters 1--14: Summary Charts

461

(12)

Trace: The Rhetorical Situation

462

(1)

The Process: Reading and Writing

463

(1)

The Toulmin Model

464

(1)

Types of Claims

465

(2)

Types of Proof and Tests of Validity

467

(6)

PART V The Reader

473

(4)

Introduction to ``The Reader'': Reading and Writing about Issue Areas

475

(1)

Purpose of ``The Reader''

475

(1)

How to Use ``The Reader''

476

(1)

Questions to Help You Read Critically and Analytically

476

(1)

Questions to Help You Read Creatively and Move from Reading to Writing

476

(1)

Section I: Issues concerning Families and Personal Relationships

477

(31)

The Issues

477

(1)

Web Sites for Further Exploration and Research

477

(1)

The Rhetorical Situation

478

(1)

What is the Status of the Traditional American Family? How Far Are We Willing to Go to Establish Alternatives?

479

(11)

Questions to Consider before You Read

479

(1)

Nostalgia as Ideology

479

(3)

Stephanie Coontz

Arguments Against Same-Sex Marriage

482

(4)

James C. Dobson

Marriage As We See It

486

(2)

Chris Glaser

The Childless Revolution

488

(2)

Madelyn Cain

What Causes Personal Relationships to Succeed or Fail?

490

(18)

Questions to Consider before You Read

490

(1)

The Mystery of Attraction

490

(6)

Harville Hendrix

Whatever Happened to Teen Romance?

496

(3)

Benoit Denizet-Lewis

The Man Date

499

(4)

Jennifer 8. Lee

State of the Union

503

(2)

Jay Walljasper

The Second Shift

505

(1)

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

Questions to Help You Think and Write about Families and Personal Relationships

506

(2)

Section II: Issues concerning Modern Technology

508

(39)

The Issues

508

(1)

Web Sites for Further Exploration and Research

509

(1)

The Rhetorical Situation

509

(2)

How Do Computers and the Internet Affect the People Who Use Them?

511

(6)

Questions to Consider before You Read

511

(1)

Youths Adopt, Drive Technological Advances

511

(3)

Martha Irvine

What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace

514

(1)

Brent Staples

The Boss in the Machine

515

(2)

Ellen Ullman

What Policies Should Govern the Use of Human Stem Cells in Research and Medicine?

517

(12)

Questions to Consider before You Read

517

(1)

The Other Stem-Cell Debate

517

(6)

Jamie Shreeve

Price to Pay: The Misuse of Embryos

523

(3)

Amy Laura Hall

Bioethics Panel Suggests Stem Cell Alternatives

526

(2)

Nicholas Wade

Ethics of a New Science

528

(1)

Claudia Wallis

What Policies Should Govern Genetic Engineering of Humans?

529

(18)

Questions to Consider before You Read

529

(1)

Reprogenetics: A Glimpse of Things to Come

529

(5)

Lee M. Silver

Ultimate Therapy: Commercial Eugenics in the 21st Century

534

(6)

Jeremy Rifkin

Better Living though Genetics

540

(6)

James Wood

Questions to Help You Think and Write about Modern Technology

546

(1)

Section III: Issues concerning Crime and the Treatment of Criminals

547

(32)

The Issues

547

(1)

Web Sites for Further Exploration and Research

548

(1)

The Rhetorical Situation

548

(1)

How Should We Treat Convicted Criminals?

549

(14)

Questions to Consider before You Read

549

(1)

Reflections from a Life Behind Bars: Build Colleges, Not Prisons

549

(4)

James Gilligan

Uncaptive Minds: What Teaching a College-Level Class at a Maximum Security Correctional Facility Did for the Inmates---And for Me

553

(5)

Ian Buruma

Getting Tough on Crime

558

(3)

Richard Taylor

A Beaten Path Back to Prison

561

(2)

Jennifer Gonnerman

What Should Be Done With Young Offenders?

563

(16)

Questions to Consider before You Read

563

(1)

The Characteristics of Youth

563

(2)

Aristotle

Too Young to Die

565

(1)

Claudia Wallis

A Brain Too Young for Good Judgment

566

(2)

Daniel R. Weinberger

Not So Alone

568

(5)

Gfrard Jones

Out of Jail, into Temptation: A Day in a Life

573

(5)

Alan Feuer

Questions to Help You Think and Write about Crime and the Treatment of Criminals

578

(1)

Section IV: Issues concerning Race, Culture, and Identity

579

(29)

The Issues

579

(1)

Web Sites for Further Exploration and Research

579

(1)

The Rhetorical Situation

580

(1)

How Do Race and Culture Contribute to an Individual's Sense of Identity?

581

(14)

Questions to Consider before You Read

581

(1)

The Matter of Whiteness

581

(4)

Richard Dyer

DNA Test Gives Students Ethnic Shocks

585

(2)

Emma Daly

Documented / Undocumented

587

(3)

Guillermo Gomez-Pena

On Being a Conceptual Anomaly

590

(5)

Dorinne K. Kondo

To What Extent Should Individuals Allow Their Cultural Heritage to be Assimilated?

595

(13)

Questions to Consider before You Read

595

(1)

Asian Identity Crisis

595

(2)

Yahlin Chang

Educating Ourselves into Coexistence

597

(3)

Anouar Majid

American Jews and the Problem of Identity

600

(7)

Edward S. Shapiro

Questions to Help You Think and Write about Race, Culture, and Identity

607

(1)

Section V: Issues Associated with Civic Responsibility

608

(31)

The Issues

608

(1)

Web Sites for Further Exploration and Research

609

(1)

The Rhetorical Situation

609

(2)

Who is Responsible for the Welfare of Disadvantaged Individuals: Government Agencies, Nongovernmental Organizations Such as Churches and Charities, or the Disadvantaged Themselves?

611

(14)

Questions to Consider before You Read

611

(1)

Between Hammers and Anvils

611

(1)

Jim Wright

Report Finds AmeriCorps Fosters Greater Sense of Civic Responsibility

612

(2)

David Tarrant

For the Health of the Nation: An Evangelical Call to Civic Responsibility

614

(6)

David Neff

September 11, 2001: The Case for Universal Service

620

(3)

Robert E. Litan

Becoming a Community Organizer

623

(2)

Barack Obama

To What Extent is the Individual Citizen Responsible for Contributing to the Larger Society?

625

(14)

Questions to Consider before You Read

625

(1)

Inaugural Address

626

(2)

John F. Kennedy

The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over

628

(2)

William Graham Sumner

Because We Can, We Do

630

(2)

Tracy Kidder

Love of Country: Patriotism Born of a Grandfather's Inspiration

632

(2)

Norman Lear

From Long Walk to Freedom

634

(2)

Nelson Mandela

The AmeriCorps Experience: Two Students' Perspectives

636

(2)

David Brankey

Dianna Ball

Questions to Help You Think and Write about Civic Responsibility

638

(1)

Section VI: Issues Associated with Poverty

639

(40)

The Issues

639

(1)

Web Sites for Further Exploration and Research

640

(1)

The Rhetorical Situation

641

(1)

Can World Poverty be Eliminated? What May Be Effective?

642

(18)

Questions to Consider before You Read

642

(1)

The End of Poverty

642

(7)

Jeffrey D. Sachs

U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDG)

649

(2)

A Better Way to Fight Poverty

651

(1)

Four Billion New Consumers

652

(5)

C. K. Prahalad

Allen L. Hammond

The Progression from Poverty to Profit---for All; How Can the Impoverished Many, Who Need a Hand Up, Help the Rich Corporate Few, Who Have Reached a Profit Plateau in the Developed World

657

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Andy Goldberg

Can Individuals in the United States Work Their Way Out of Poverty if They Want to Do So?

660

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Questions to Consider before You Read

660

(1)

Poverty: The Forgotten Crusade

661

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James Patterson

Peter Kim

At the Edge of Poverty

662

(6)

David K. Shipler

Fifteen Years on the Bottom Rung

668

(5)

Anthony DePalma

Class and the American Dream

673

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Bankruptcy Reform Hits Women Hard

674

(3)

Marilyn Gardner

Questions to Help You Think and Write about Poverty

677

(2)

Section VII: Issues concerning War and Peace

679

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The Issues

679

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Web Sites for Further Exploration and Research

680

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The Rhetorical Situation

680

(1)

Is War Inevitable?

681

(13)

Questions to Consider before You Read

681

(1)

The Moral Equivalent of War

681

(4)

William James

Warfare: An Invention---Not a Biological Necessity

685

(5)

Margaret Mfad

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

690

(4)

Chris Hedges

How Do People Justify War?

694

(8)

Questions to Consider before You Read

694

(1)

At War with Themselves

695

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Haim Watzman

Why We Fight

696

(4)

William J. Bennett

How Can We Understand Their Hatred?

700

(2)

Elie Wiesel

What Might Help Establish Peace?

702

(13)

Questions to Consider before You Read

702

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Getting to Peace

702

(4)

William L. Ury

The Atomic Bomb

706

(4)

Richard Rhodes

All You Need Is Love

710

(4)

Bruce Hoffman

Questions to Help You Think and Write about War and Peace

714

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Credits

715

(4)

Topic Index

719

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Author-Title Index

726

Perspectives on Argument

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