Preface For Instructors | p. xii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Reading Effectively | p. 1 |
The Writing Process | p. 7 |
A New Millennium on Campus | p. 17 |
Student Debt | p. 18 |
Econ 101: College Is the Time to Budget | p. 19 |
From University Class President to Bank Robber | p. 23 |
Fury over Student Loan Kickback Allegation | p. 34 |
Generation Debt: The Dirty Business of Deregulated Credit | p. 38 |
Debt Education: Bad for the Young, Bad for America | p. 45 |
An Alert to the Dangers of Student Debt: The Student Debt Initiative | p. 55 |
Making Connections | p. 58 |
Taking Action | p. 58 |
Digital Distractions | p. 60 |
The Multitasking Generation | p. 61 |
The Next Step in Brain Evolution | p. 71 |
The Techno-Flux Effect | p. 75 |
Meet the Life Hackers | p. 78 |
Just Too Much: Young Folks Burn Out on Online Sharing | p. 89 |
Hooked on the Web: Help is on the Way | p. 93 |
Making Connections | p. 98 |
Taking Action | p. 99 |
Cyber U.-Education Online | p. 100 |
School Away From School | p. 101 |
To: Professor@University.edu Subject: Why It's All About Me | p. 108 |
Internet Creates New Opportunities for Cheating, but Also Learning | p. 112 |
Don't Discredit My Online Degree | p. 116 |
Learning, Virtually | p. 118 |
A Congressman Questions the Quality and Rigor of Online Education | p. 124 |
Making Connections | p. 127 |
Taking Action | p. 127 |
Agents of Change | p. 129 |
Getting Involved | p. 130 |
My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student | p. 131 |
Gen Y's Ego Trip | p. 138 |
Shaped by 9/11, Millennials Are Socially Conscious | p. 141 |
Political Engagement and Service Learning, a Gandhian Perspective | p. 145 |
Generation We and the 2008 Election | p. 155 |
Reflections of a Non-Political Man | p. 163 |
Making Connections | p. 168 |
Taking Action | p. 169 |
Volunteerism-Is it for You? | p. 171 |
Fixing? Helping? Or Serving? | p. 172 |
"Alternative" Spring Breaks: Helping Poor and Homeless | p. 180 |
Why Young People Are Volunteering in Record Numbers | p. 182 |
Putting the "National" in National Service | p. 186 |
Doing Disservice: The Benefits and Limits of Volunteerism | p. 193 |
Voluntary Work and the Needs of Strangers | p. 198 |
Making Connections | p. 206 |
Taking Action | p. 206 |
Maybe Heroism Isn't Dead | p. 207 |
Heroes I Have Taught-and Who Have Taught Me | p. 208 |
Jesuit Greg Boyle, Gang Priest | p. 211 |
Heroism and Biology | p. 218 |
What Is a Hero? | p. 222 |
Heroines and Role Models | p. 228 |
The Ambivalence of Political Courage | p. 231 |
Making Connections | p. 239 |
Taking Action | p. 240 |
Media-Mirrors or Makers of Change? | p. 241 |
The Culture of Television | p. 242 |
Take a Break from TV-Yeah, Right | p. 243 |
Image Slaves: Everybody Wants to Be on Television | p. 245 |
Watching TV Makes You Smarter | p. 254 |
Tuning In, Tuning Out | p. 261 |
Does Television Erode Social Capital? | p. 271 |
The CSI Effect | p. 276 |
Making Connections | p. 282 |
Taking Action | p. 283 |
Body Image-If You Don't Like It, Change It | p. 284 |
Pretty Unreal | p. 285 |
The Price of Perfection | p. 289 |
For You, My Lovely, A Facelift | p. 298 |
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall... Are Muscular Men the Best of All? | p. 302 |
"Thinspiration": Online Websites Promote Eating Disorders | p. 306 |
The Ugliness Problem | p. 310 |
Making Connections | p. 312 |
Taking Action | p. 313 |
Dirty Secrets-What We Don't Know and Why | p. 315 |
Whitewash at Ground Zero | p. 316 |
They Die Piece by Piece | p. 319 |
Whistleblower or Troublemaker, Bunny Greenhouse Isn't Backing Down | p. 325 |
Weaving Your Community's Master Narrative | p. 330 |
Best Coverage Money Can Buy | p. 335 |
Secret Service: Against Privacy and Transparency | p. 338 |
Making Connections | p. 344 |
Taking Action | p. 345 |
The Challenge of Change | p. 347 |
Burning Issues-Energy and Cars | p. 348 |
America's Great Headache | p. 349 |
The Autonomist Manifesto | p. 353 |
Kicking the Petroleum Habit: Ending Auto-Domination | p. 361 |
Fueling Our Transportation Future | p. 366 |
The Long Emergency | p. 372 |
Can America Go Green? | p. 379 |
Making Connections | p. 383 |
Taking Action | p. 384 |
America Behind Bars | p. 385 |
My So-Called Life | p. 386 |
Hotel California: Prisons and Punishment | p. 394 |
Toxic Recycling | p. 398 |
Hundreds of Thousands of Inmates Mentally 3 | p. 403 |
Dying Well in Corrections: Why Should We Care? | p. 406 |
Changing the Lives of Prisoners: A New Agenda | p. 414 |
Making Connections | p. 420 |
Taking Action | p. 421 |
Who Is a Patriot? | p. 422 |
Footprints on the Flag | p. 423 |
Patriotism and Sacrifice | p. 426 |
And Our Flag Was Still There | p. 432 |
Facing Away from the Flag | p. 435 |
Representative Thune Introduces Flag Protection Amendment | p. 438 |
Desecration | p. 441 |
Making Connections | p. 444 |
Taking Action | p. 444 |
Writing With Sources | p. 445 |
The Research Paper | p. 448 |
Credits | p. 452 |
Index of Authors and Titles | p. 456 |
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