Across Cultures: A Reader for Writers

by Gillespie, Sheena; Becker, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780321475299
• ISBN10: 0321475291
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

Designed to offer an appealing anthology where there is an increased interest in connections between and among cultures,Across Cultures,strives to promote understanding of diverse cultures among students. The book advocates acceptance of the diversity of voices, while suggesting ways to probe the correspondences, interrelationships, and mutual benefits of that diversity. Diversity and the interrelationship General Interest

Table of Contents

Asterisks after titles identify student writings

Rhetorical Contents?

Preface for the Teache?

Preface for the Student

Writing, The Writing Process, And You

Literacy Narrative?

Composing Your Own Literacy Narratives

Family and Community?

Luke 10:29-37

The Good Samaritan

But who is my neighbor?

People Like Us We dont really care about diversity all that much in America, even though we talk about it a great deal

Changing My Name After Sixty Years I want to be remembered by the name I was born with

We kissed the Tomato and Then the Sky This seventy-nine year-old woman was a juggler extraordinaire, but a jugglers art is both exhilarating and unsettling to watch

Focusing on Friends It now seems to me that I was totally monogamous when it came to male friends

Mother Tongue Lately, Ive been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks

Treasures This is what a childs trove of bright and diffused memories is made of-shared words and shared silences

Lim Two Lives Oh Asia, that nets its children in ties of blood so binding that they cut the spirit

For My Indian Daughter I didnt have an Indian name. I didnt speak the Indian language

The Night I was Nobody One minute youre a person, the next moment somebody starts treating you as if youre not

The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life

Madera One Voice

That first, and last, semester at Brooklyn College was a dream that turned into a nightmare

The Knowing Eye

Gender Issues?

The simplest thing is to bottle up your wife

Greek Legend Apollo and Daphne Suddenly, she felt her feet become rooted in the earth

Shrouded in Contradiction To wear hijab-Islamic covering-is to invite contradiction. Sometimes I hate it. Sometimes I value it

The Power of Marriage Men are more likely to want to trade up when a younger trophy wife comes along

The Male Myth I have always disliked being a man

To Be a Man Im looking the part and living well---the car, the house, and the suits in the closet

Life Intrudes If we cant train the street fighters to be gentlemen, must we train the gentlemen to be street fighters?

Why Are Gay Men So Feared? In many societies, the links between men are stronger than the relations that link them to women

At that moment he understood that it would be more soothing to his parents to think he was a heroin addict than that he was a homosexual

The Gravity of Mark Beuhrle

He has since moved to Cleveland, and while we are now able to get along, its more of a friendly relationship than that of father and son. His words no longer carry any weight

Gillianne N. Duncan Why Do We Hate Our Bodies?

Why must the media attack women so much? My answer? The world is run by men and a small number of over achieving women with low self- esteem

Blackberries And the child began to understand that they

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