What Matters in America : Reading and Writing about Contemporary Culture

by Goshgarian, Gary

ISBN13:

9780321250292

ISBN10:

032125029X

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

1/1/2007

Publisher(s):

Longman

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What Matters in America invites you to consider these and other questions about the culture of contemporary America. The readings and visuals in What Matters in America pick up on and explore issues and events that you hear and read about in the news every day. What Matters in America encourages you to take what you know about American culture and ask questions, explore other points of view, and become more aware of your own place in this diverse and ever-changing culture. Book jacket.

Rhetorical Contents	p. xv
Preface	p. xix
Introduction: Critical Reading and Thinking	p. 1
What is Critical Thinking?	p. 1
Why Read Critically?	p. 2
Reading and Interpreting a Visual World	p. 7
How Does Advertising Influence Us?	p. 12
A Brand by Any Other Name	p. 14
Brand Cool	p. 20
On Sale at Old Navy: Cool Clothes for Identical Zombies!	p. 24
With These Words I Can Sell You Anything	p. 31
Sample ADS and Study Questions	p. 40
Visual Connections: Follow the Flock	p. 50
Topical Connections	p. 52
Are There Limits to Our Right to Privacy?	p. 54
Privacy Is Overrated	p. 56
The Case for a National ID Card	p. 62
National ID Cards: 5 Reasons Why They Should Be Rejected	p. 66
Sample AD and Study Questions	p. 72
I Spy	p. 74
When Cameras Are Too Candid	p. 78
Visual Connections: Caught on Camera	p. 83
Topical Connections	p. 85
Do the Media Promote a Culture of Fear?	p. 86
Extreme Reality: How Media Coverage Exaggerates Risks and Dangers	p. 88
Who's Taking the Kids?	p. 92
The Female Fear Factor	p. 96
Heads Above the Hype	p. 104
Calling All Angels (Song Lyric)	p. 108
The Violence Reporting Project: A New Approach to Covering Crime	p. 110
Visual Connections: It's a Scary World	p. 116
Topical Connections	p. 117
Do Campus Speech Codes Violate Students' Rights?	p. 120
Muzzling Free Speech	p. 122
Hate Cannot Be Tolerated	p. 126
Free Speech Sucks!... But Censorship Sucks Even More	p. 129
Difficult Conversations	p. 134
Censor This?	p. 139
Policy Statement on Discriminatory Harassment	p. 142
Visual Connections: Silencing Free Speech	p. 146
Topical Connections	p. 148
Should Gay Marriage Be Legal?	p. 150
The 'M-Word': Why It Matters to Me	p. 152
Same-Sex Marriage	p. 156
Gay Marriage-And Marriage	p. 160
Marriage Devalued (Cartoon)	p. 168
Abolish Marriage	p. 170
Visual Connections: God-Ordained Marriage?	p. 175
Topical Connections	p. 176
Can Racial Profiling Be Justified?	p. 178
Blind Spot	p. 180
What Looks Like Profiling Might Just Be Good Policing	p. 184
Are You a Terrorist, or Do You Play One on TV?	p. 188
Ragtime, My Time	p. 195
Racial Profiling Goes Beyond Black and White	p. 200
Visual Connections: Pulling Teeth	p. 207
Topical Connections	p. 209
Are Designer Humans in Our Future?	p. 212
Baby, It's You and You and You	p. 214
Me, My Clone, and I	p. 220
The Genetic Bill of Rights	p. 224
The Last Human	p. 227
Enough	p. 233
Visual Connections: The Art of Human Cloning	p. 242
Topical Connections	p. 244
Can Television Violence Influence Behavior?	p. 246
Violence on Television-What Do Children Learn? What Can Parents Do?	p. 248
Beyond Banning War and Superhero Play	p. 252
Hate Violence? Turn It Off!	p. 257
Television's Global Marketing Strategy Creates a Damaging and Alienated Window on the World	p. 261
Stop Blaming Kids and TV	p. 267
Visual Connections: Through the Eyes of a Child	p. 273
Topical Connections	p. 275
Is Fast Food Responsible for a Crisis in Public Health?	p. 278
Finding Fault for the Fat	p. 280
There's No Place Like Work	p. 340
Visual Connections: Juggling Family and Work	p. 349
Topical Connections	p. 350
Credits	p. 353
Index of Authors and Titles	p. 359
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