75 Readings Plus (6th Ed)

by BUSCEMI S

• ISBN13: 9780072370621
• ISBN10: 0072370629
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: MCGRAW HILL PUBL CO

Summary

"75 Readings Plus" is a version of the best-selling "75 Readings" that supplies additional guidance for student readers. Both books are rhetorically arranged and collect the most popular essays for first-year writing. The readings represent a wide variety of authors, disciplines, issues, and interests, and at only $28 net, "75 Readings Plus" is an excellent value for students. . .

Table of Contents

Thematic Contents	xiii
To the Instructor	xix
Narration	1	(50)
A Hanging	2	(6)
George Orwell
Salvation	8	(4)
Langston Hughes
Related Reading: Pickering, Faith of the Father, Ch. 4
Grandmother's Victory	12	(6)
Maya Angelou
Related Reading: Noda, Growing up Asian in America, Ch. 5
No Name Woman	18	(12)
Maxine Hong Kingston
Traveling South	30	(8)
James Weldon Johnson
Related Readings: Angelou, Grandmother's Victory, Ch. 1
Noda, Growing up Asian in America, Ch. 5
Don't Get Comfortable	38	(13)
Naton Leslie
Related Reading: Sanders, The Men We Carry in Our Minds, Ch. 6
Description	51	(34)
Fifth Avenue, Uptown	52	(5)
James Baldwin
Related Readings: Staples, Black Men and Public Space, Ch. 7
The Death of the Moth	57	(4)
Virginia Woolf
The Way to Rainy Mountain	61	(6)
N. Scott Momaday
Related Reading: Angelou, Grandmother's Victory, Ch. 1
Alias Benowitz Shoe Repair	67	(6)
David Quammen
Once More to the Lake	73	(7)
E. B. White
Marrying Absurd	80	(5)
Joan Didion
Process Analysis	85	(36)
The Spider and the Wasp	86	(6)
Alexander Petrunkevitch
How to Cook a Carp	92	(5)
Euell Gibbons
Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain	97	(9)
Jessica Mitford
Writing Drafts	106	(5)
Richard Marius
Honey Harvest	111	(5)
Sue Hubbell
How to Paint a Fresco	116	(5)
Adam Goodheart
Definition	121	(39)
Women's Beauty: Put Down or Power Source?	122	(4)
Susan Sontag
What Is Poverty?	126	(6)
Jo Goodwin Parker
Related Reading: Kozol, Distancing the Homeless, Ch. 11
Faith of the Father	132	(6)
Sam Pickering
Erotica and Pornography	138	(6)
Gloria Steinem
Fire in the Sky	144	(3)
Claudia Glenn Dowling
On Being a Cripple	147	(13)
Nancy Mairs
Classification and Division	160	(54)
Predictable Crises of Adulthood	161	(9)
Gail Sheehy
Four Kinds of Reading	170	(5)
Donald Hall
Growing Up Asian in America	175	(9)
Kesaya E. Noda
Related Readings: Angelou, Grandmother's Victory, Ch. 1 Kingston, No Name Woman, Ch. 1
The Truth about Lying	184	(6)
Judith Viorst
Doublespeak	190	(7)
William Lutz
Politics: The Art of Bamboozling	197	(17)
Donna Woolfolk Cross
Related Reading: Lutz, Doublespeak Ch. 5
Comparison and Contrast	214	(36)
The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life	215	(3)
May Sarton
Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts	218	(5)
Bruce Catton
Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers	223	(12)
Deborah Tannen
Two Views of the Mississippi	235	(3)
Mark Twain
Discordant Fruit	238	(6)
Lydia Minatoya
Related Reading: Tannen, Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers, Ch. 6
The Men We Carry in Our Minds	244	(6)
Scott Russell Sanders
Related Readings: Leslie, Don't Get Comfortable, Ch. 1
Staples, Black Men and Public Space, Ch. 7
Example and Illustration	250	(36)
A Few Kind Words for Superstition	251	(4)
Robertson Davies
Patterns of Eating	255	(6)
Peter Farb
George Armelagos
The Anthropology of Manners	261	(9)
Edward T. Hall
Related Reading: Kingston, No Name Woman, Ch. 1
Fecundity	270	(6)
Annie Dillard
A Crime of Compassion	276	(4)
Barbara Huttman
Black Men and Public Space	280	(6)
Brent Staples
Related Readings: Baldwin, Fifth Avenue, Uptown, Ch. 2
Sanders, The Men We Carry in Our Minds, Ch. 6
Cause and Effect	286	(42)
How Do You Know It's Good?	287	(7)
Marya Mannes
Pain Is Not the Ultimate Enemy	294	(5)
Norman Cousins
Related Reading: Mairs, On Being a Cripple, Ch. 4
Watching the Grasshopper Get the Goodies	299	(4)
Ellen Goodman
White Guilt	303	(8)
Shelby Steele
Related Reading: Staples, Black Men and Public Space, Ch. 7
Where Have All the Parents Gone?	311	(8)
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead
If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably	319	(9)
Philip Meyer
Analogy	328	(39)
The Myth of the Cave	329	(5)
Plato
The Myth of Sisyphus	334	(4)
Albert Camus
``But a Watch in the Night'': A Scientific Fable	338	(7)
James C. Rettie
Am I Blue?	345	(5)
Alice Walker
Gawk Shows	350	(5)
Nicols Fox
Body Ritual among the Nacirema	355	(7)
Horace Miner
The Cosmic Prison	362	(5)
Loren Eiseley
Argument and Persuasion	367	(88)
Argument	368	(1)
Media Ethics	368	(1)
The Press Needs a National Monitor (With a response by Don Hewitt: Mea Culpa? Not Mea!)	368	(5)
Mike Wallace
Related Reading: Fox, Gawk Shows, Ch. 9
Welfare Reform	373	(1)
A Step Back to the Workhouse?	373	(8)
Barbara Ehrenreich
Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor	381	(8)
Garrett Hardin
Related Readings: Goodman, Watching the Grasshopper Get the Goodies, Ch. 8
Whitehead, Where Have All the Parents Gone? Ch. 8
Free Speech	389	(1)
Should This Student Have Been Expelled?	389	(8)
Nat Hentoff
Shouting ``Fire!''	397	(7)
Alan M. Dershowitz
Related Reading: Steinem, Erotica and Pornography, Ch. 4
Diet	404	(1)
Let's Go Veggie! (with a response by Alan Herscovici: Where's the Beef?)	404	(8)
Joseph Pace
Rape	412	(1)
Rape and Modern Sex War	412	(5)
Camille Paglia
Common Decency	417	(13)
Susan Jacoby
Related Readings: Steinem, Erotica and Pornography, Ch. 4
Dickerson, Who Shot Johnny? Ch. 10
Persuasion	421	(9)
A Modest Proposal	430	(1)
Jonathan Swift
Related Readings: Parker, What Is Poverty?, Ch. 4
Kozol, Distancing the Homeless, Ch. 11
I Have a Dream	430	(5)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Related Reading: Steel, White Guilt, Ch. 8
Who Shot Johnny?	435	(6)
Debra Dickerson
Bilingual Education: Outdated and Unrealistic	441	(5)
Richard Rodriguez
Food Pets Die For	446	(5)
Ann N. Martin
Related Reading: Quammen, Alias Benowitz Shoe Repair, Ch. 2
Why I Want a Wife	451	(4)
Judy Brady
Mixed Strategies	455	(60)
Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs	456	(9)
Stephen Jay Gould
Distancing the Homeless	465	(13)
Jonathan Kozol
Related Readings: Parker, What is Poverty? Ch. 4
Eighner, On Dumpster Diving, Ch. 11
The Rules of the Game: Rodeo	478	(8)
Gretel Ehrlich
Mother Tongue	486	(7)
Amy Tan
On Seeing England for the First Time	493	(10)
Jamaica Kincaid
On Dumpster Diving	503	(12)
Lars Eighner
Permissions and Acknowledgments	515	(6)
Index of Authors and Titles	521