75 Readings : An Anthology

by Santi V. Buscemi; Charlotte Smith

• ISBN13: 9780070920675
• ISBN10: 0070920672
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education

Summary

"75 Readings" and "75 Readings Plus" offer an outstanding collection of the most popular essays for first-year writing, at an affordable price. This edition boasts new readings about social issues and the environment, expanded argumentation coverage, and a section on mixed strategies readings employing multiple rhetorical modes.

Table of Contents

Narration A Hanging Salvation Grandmother's Victory No Name Woman

Traveling South Don't Get Comfortable

Description Fifth Avenue,Uptown

The Death of the Moth The Way To Rainy Mountain Alias Benowitz Shoe Repair Once More to the Lake Marrying Absurd

Process The Spider and the Wasp How To Cook a Carp Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain Writing Drafts Honey Harvest How to Paint a Fresco

Definition Women's Beauty: Put Down or Power Source?

What is Poverty?

Faith of the Father Erotica and Pornagraphy Fire In the Sky

On Being a Cripple

Classification and Division Predictable Crises of Adulthood Four Kinds of Reading Growing Up Asian in America

The Truth About Lying

Doublespeak

Politics: The Art of Bamboozling

Comparison and Contrast

The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers Two Views of the Mississippi Discordant Fruit

The Men We Carry in Our Minds

Example and Illustration A Few Kind Words For Superstition Patterns of Eating

The Anthropology of Manners

Fecundity Crime of Compassion Black Men and Public Space

Cause and Effect How Do You Know It's Good Pain Is Not the Ultimate Enemy Watching

The Grasshopper Get

The Goodies White Guilt Where Have All The Parents Gone? If Hitler Asked You To Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably

Analogy The Myth of the Cave The Myth of Sisyphus "But a Watch in the Night":A Scientific Fable Am I Blue? Gawk Shows

Body Ritual Among the Nacirema The Cosmic Prison

Argument and Persuasion Argument Issue

Media Ethics Mike Wallace

The Press Needs a National Monitor Don Hewitt: Mea Culpa? Not Mea! Issue: Welfare Reform A Step Back to the Workhouse Lifeboat Ethics

The Case Against Helping the Poor Issue: Free Speech Should This Student Have Been Expelled? Shouting "Fire!" Issue: Diet

Let's Go Veggie

Where's the Beef? Issue: Rape Rape and Modern Sex War

Common Decency Persuasion A Modest Proposal I Have a Dream Who Shot Johnny?

Bilingual Education:Outdated and Unrealistic Food Pets Die For

Why I Want a Wife

Mixed Strategies Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and The Extinction of the Dinosaurs Distancing the Homeless

The Rules of the Game:Rodeo Mother Tongue On Seeing England for the First Time

On Dumpster Living

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