American Voices: Culture and Community (book alone)

by LAGUARDIA

• ISBN13: 9780072982640
• ISBN10: 0072982640
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-23
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Table of Contents

To the Instructor	xxi
To the Student	xxvii
Alternative Rhetorical Table of Contents	xxxi
About the Editors	xxxvii
PREVIEW: Reading, Writing, Thinking, Viewing	2	(576)
Becoming a Better Reader	3	(6)
Becoming a Better Writer	9	(13)
Writing and Thinking	22	(4)
Writing and the Computer	26	(15)
Visual Literacy: Word and Image	30	(11)
THE ELOQUENT IMAGE: Alternative Energy	35	(2)
LANGUAGE OF SIGNS: Janitors on Strike	37	(2)
NONVERBAL LANGUAGE: Lost Generation	39	(2)
WRITING WORKSHOP: Starting a Journal	41	(3)
1 INITIATION: Growing Up American	44	(52)
Visual Literacy 1: CANDID PHOTOGRAPHY: Rainy Day	45	(2)
MARY CROW DOG, "Lakota Woman"	47	(6)
"You can't live forever off the deeds of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. You can't wear their eagle feathers, freeload off their legends. You have to make your own legends now."
Interview: SANDIP ROY-CHOWDHURY, "Interpreter of the Second Generation"	53	(5)
"When I went to Calcutta, my relatives would think of me so much as American. A foreigner. In America it's always, you are from India. When did you come here?"
Interview: GARRISON KEILLOR, "Born Among the Born Again"	58	(5)
"In a town where everyone was either Lutheran or Catholic, we were neither one. We were Sanctified Brethren, a sect so tiny that nobody but us and God knew about it."
Interview: ADRIANA BARTON, "Growing Up Hippie"	63	(5)
"Growing up in my family was a trip."
Short Story: SANDRA CISNEROS, "Mericans"	68	(18)
Young Americans encounter tradition-bound Old Country relatives and culture tourists from the more recent past.
FORUM: Bridging the Cultures	72	(1)
CAROLINE HWANG, "The Good Daughter"	73	(3)
"Children of immigrants are living paradoxes. We are the first generation and the last. We are in this country for its opportunities, yet filial duty binds us."
NGUYEN LOUIE, Student Essay: "A Daughter's Story"	76	(4)
"I am a Chinese-Korean-American young woman. Being a feminist is an integral part of who I am, but it is not all that I am."
KEVIN JANDA, Student Essay: "Culture as a Two-Way Street"	80	(3)
"As we are moving further away from the original immigrants we are moving further from our roots, but we can never lose our past."
MARA JOSEPH, "On Being White"	83	(3)
"I agree with those who say that people should never be judged based on the color of their skin—so why are these same people often the first to judge me for the color of mine?"
WRITING WORKSHOP I: Drawing on Your Experience	86	(10)
2 SCHOOL: Learners and Institutions	96	(60)
Visual Literacy 2: HEADLINES: Education in the News	97	(2)
MIKE ROSE, "Going to School in East L.A."	99	(5)
"As you walk around the room, you say. 'Hey, we're somebody!'"
JEFF ZORN, "My Daughter, Child #008458743"	104	(3)
Failing Our Kids: Why the Testing Craze Won't Fix Our Schools — Campus Magazine Headline
THAD WILLIAMSON, "Bad as They Wanna Be"	107	(6)
SHAUGHNESSY BISHOP-STALL, "A Day in the Life of a Lab Rat"	113	(5)
"I am here because my money ran out before my school term, my lease, and my need for food."
MICHAEL I. SANDEL, "Marketers Are Storming the Schoolhouse"	118	(4)
"Corporations consider young kids and teenagers as consumers in training." — Student reader
STANFORD REPORT, "Electronic Communication May Aid Social Interaction"	122	(5)
"The computers became a tool for building, rather than destroying, social relations."
Poem: LOUISE ERDRICH, "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways"	127	(14)
"Home's the place we head for in our sleep." Young runaways are returned to forced schooling separating them from their homes and culture.
FORUM: Free to Worship	129	(1)
EMILY LESK, "My 60-Second Protest from the Hallway"	130	(3)
"I understand how she felt because I wouldn't want to be pressured into prayers other than my own and especially at school." —Student reader
LORETTA JOHNSON, "Prayer Isn't Always Allowed"	133	(4)
"Which school was right? To me, it's the one that allowed references to God during the graduation ceremonies."
NILES ELLIOT GOLDSTEIN, "My Online Synagogue"	137	(4)
"Contemporary faith stands at the cutting edge of technology." —Student reader
WRITING WORKSHOP 2: From Reading to Writing	141	(15)
3 INVENTING AMERICA: Diversity and Community	156	(60)
Visual Literacy 3: COMMITTED PHOTOGRAPHY: Americanos	157	(4)
ANNA QUINDLEN, "The Mosaic vs. the Myth"	161	(4)
"There is some disagreement over which wordsmith first substituted 'mosaic' for 'melting pot' as a way of describing America, but it is undoubtedly a more apt description."
RICHARD RODRIGUEZ, "Notes from a Changing America"	165	(5)
"In truth, America exists entire, despite of the segmented descriptions offered by our Census Bureau."
ANA VECIANA-SUAREZ, "My Lowly Thatched Cottage"	170	(5)
"We all need a place where we belong... a place where we can listen quietly to the stirrings of the heart and wispers of the soul."
ARTURO MADRID, "Diversity and Its Discontents"	175	(9)
"My ancestors' presence in what is now the United States antedates Plymouth Rock... But I have always known that I was the other, even before I knew the vocabulary or understood the significance of otherness."
JEREMIAH CREEDON, "The Spiritually Diverse Society"	184	(3)
The transition to a spiritually diverse society has led to a "new perception of religion: a personalized, customized form of faith views which meets personal needs."
Poem: CHITRA DIVAKARUNI, "Indian Movie, New Jersey"	187	(14)
Nostalgia movies take first generationimmigrants from India back to a world without hostile neighbors or ungrateful offspring.
FORUM: Redeeming Past Injustice	190	(11)
MATTHEW KAUFFMAN, "The Day the Slaves Got Their Way"	191	(1)
The seizure of the Amistad touched off a two-year legal battle by a small group of abolitionists "determined to prove that the Africans were enslaved illegally and should be freed."
CYNTHIA TUCKER, "Jefferson, Hemings Affair Can't Be Denied"	194	(1)
"Black Americans are not only integral to the American experience. We are also in the family."
SUZAN SHOWN HARJO, "I Won't Be Celebrating Columbus Day"	198	(1)
"Native people will memorialize those who did not survive the invasion of 1492. It is fitting for others to join us to begin an era of respect and rediscovery."
WRITING WORKSHOP 3: Exploring Internet and Nonprint Sources	201	(15)
4 IDENTITY: Rethinking Race	216	(72)
Visual Literacy 4: IMAGE AS DOCUMENT: Alabama Department Store	217	(3)
ZORA NEALE HURSTON, "How It Feels to Be Colored Me"	220	(5)
"The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said 'On the line!' The Reconstruction said 'Get set!'; and the generation before me said 'Go!'"
REBECCA WINGERS, "Success Bought at High Cost"	225	(4)
Brown v. Board of Education: What is the legacy of what Time magazine calls "a historic Supreme Court decision"?
MIRIAM SCHULMAN, "Affirmative Action or Negative Action"	229	(6)
"However imperfect, affirmative action has made a small dent in the inequities that have chracterized the distribution of jobs and educational opportunities in the United States."
DAVID BERNSTEIN, "Mixed like Me"	235	(8)
"I was always good for a sound bite in the school newspaper, and as a unique case—a black Jewish conservative—I had opportunities to comment with some authority on a range of issues."
FOX BUTTERFIELD, "Why They Excel"	243	(6)
"The academic success of many Asian Americans has prompted growing concern among educators, parents, and others students."
NOY THRUPKAEW, "The Myth of the Model Minority"	249	(7)
"Southeast Asian immigrants have started to embrace that most American of activities, political protest."
Short Story: ALICE WALKER, "Everyday Use"	256	(9)
The quilt as a symbol of African American tradition has a different meaning for the traditional mother and her city sophisticate daughter.
FORUM: Educating about Race	265	(13)
RICHARD COHEN, "Our Children Are Our Future—Unfortunately They're Bigots"	266	(3)
"Younger Americans apparently know little about—and did not see on television—the civil rights struggles of the 1950's and 1960's, everything from the police dogs of Birmingham to the murder of civil rights workers."
PATRICIA SMITH, "The Tiny, Brown Professor"	269	(3)
"Here, I was assured, teaching tolerance was a priority. Well, that took care of the kids. The parents were another story."
JOAN RYAN, "Home Truths about Race"	272	(2)
"I invited readers to share their views on how 'to instill in our children the ideal that color doesn't matter.'"
CYNTHIA TUCKER, "Double Standard on Drug Sentences"	274	(4)
"We have created laws designed to make the streets safe. And we have designed laws whose only result is to ensure that entire neighborhoods regularly send their young men off to prison."
WRITING WORKSHOP 4: Pushing Toward a Thesis	278	(10)
5 ROLES: Constructing Gender	288	(60)
Visual Literacy 5: CULTURE WATCH: What Meets the Eye	289	(2)
LISA M. KRIEGER, "Few Women Pick Computer Science"	291	(3)
"Many female Internet users repeatedly say the digital world still heavily reflects male perspectives."
RUTH CONNIFF, "The Joy of Women's Sports"	294	(9)
"The effect of Title IX is evident in the freedom, strength, and joy of a whole generation of young women."
IM JUNG KWUON, "Facing Down Abusers"	303	(3)
"A criminal charge plus 52 classes encourages an abuser to give up violence and intimidation as control strategies."
ANJULA RAZDAN, "What's Love Got to Do with It?"	306	(6)
"Who hasn't at some point—at the end of an ill-fated relationship or midway through a dinner with the third 'date from hell' this month—longed for a matchmaker to find the right partner?"
SUE HUTCHISON, "The New Mornism"	312	(3)
"Stories about the mom debate usually focus on the narrow segment of the population that can afford to stay home."
ROBERT BLY, "The Community of Men"	315	(5)
"The journey many American men have taken into softness, or receptivity, or 'development of the feminine side,' has been an immensely valuable journey, but more travel lies ahead."
Poem: WALT WHITMAN, "A Glimpse"	320	(18)
The "poet of democracy," who in sweeping nineteenth-century poems celebrated America as a "nation of nations," embracing all ethnic origins, races, and social classes, records a quiet tender moment between gay lovers surrounded by a noisy smutty heterosexual world.
FORUM: Gay in America	322	(16)
ELIZABETH BIRCH, "A Day to Leave the Closet"	323	(1)
"We are conservative and liberal, often people of faith, of all races and socioeconomic classes. We are, and always have been, an integral part of America."
WILLIAM BENNETT, "Love, Marriage, and the Law"	327	(1)
"I believe that overall, allowing same-sex marriages would do significant, long-term social damage."
CAROLYN LOCHHEAD, "Gay Pairs Wed in Massachusetts"	330	(1)
"Lesbian and gay couples lined up at city halls to register their intent to marry, allowed to do so with the full legal sanction of their state's highest court."
L.A. CHUNG, "Attitudes on Marriage Change Slowly"	335	(1)
"You don't recognize the problems or the harm unless you've lived it."
WRITING WORKSHOP Organizing Your Writing	338	(10)
6 OUTSIDERS: Hearing the Unheard Voices	348	(68)
Visual Literacy 6: HONOR LABOR: Voices from the Fields	349	(3)
ANNIE DOWNEY, "Is There Life after Welfare?"	352	(3)
"I call the welfare office, gather old bills, look for day care, write for my degree project, graduate with my son slung on my hip, breast-feeding."
AMANDA COYNE, "Mother's Day in Federal Prison"	355	(7)
"That boyfriend talked and he got three years. She didn't know anything. Had nothing to tell them. They gave her tell years."
NATHAN MCCALL, "Time"	362	(11)
"I'd heard white people brag about being free, white, and twenty-one. There I was, black, twenty-one, and in the penitentiary. It seemed I'd gotten it all wrong."
ANDRE DUBUS, "Why the Able-Bodied Still Don't Get It"	373	(5)
"I wanted to yell at someone, wanted above all to put someone in a wheelchair fin' one long pushing, pulling, muscle-aching, mind-absorbing day."
TOMAS ROBLES, "Ferrying Dreamers to the Other Side"	378	(6)
"Americans are never going to stand a chance of controlling illegal immigration until they're honest with themselves about what really causes it."
Poem: BETHLYN MADISON WEBSTER, "Stamps"	384	(17)
In a society that begrudges the food stamps helping the working poor and the unemployed feed their families, a poet rebels against the smug superiority of the affluent.
FORUM: Class in a Classless Society	386	(15)
ADAIR LARA, "Class Struggle on the Refrigerator"	387	(1)
"A boyfriend who was watching me decorate the house for Christmas once informed me that it was very working class of me to hang holiday cards from a string across a mantel."
MOLLY IVINS, Book Review: "You Can't Get By on Nickels and Dimes"	390	(1)
"Working more than 40 hours a week at $6-to-$7 an hour in variously priced markets...Ehrenreich found she could not make a no frills living."
GENE NICHOL, "Educating for Privilege"	395	(1)
"Educating for privilege is powerfully at odds with who we say we are."
MARY BRIDGES, "Poverty Up, Women Still Down"	398	(1)
"Readjusting statistics is unlikely to improve the condition of those 34.6 million people who live on poverty wages, still unable to afford basic necessities."
WRITING WORKSHOP 6: Feedback and Revision	401	(15)
7 MEDIA WATCH: Virtual Reality	416	(52)
Visual Literacy 7: LAYOUT: Formatting Your Message	417	(3)
AMANDA FAllONE, "Game Over"	420	(4)
"Unlike most reed-thin models and actresses, Cybermodels have no need for breast augmentation, airbrushing, padded bras."
GEORGE DE STEFANO, "Ungood Fellas"	424	(7)
"Although real mafiosi are venal and violent, films and TV too often have presented them far more sympathetically than they deserve—The Sopranos is just the latest case in point."
EDMUND TIJERINA, "A Battle between Citizenship, Ancestry"	431	(5)
A new film about the Battle of Alamo revives the discussion about the divided loyalties of Mexican Americans whose ancestors fought on "both sides of the wall."
ROGER ANGELL, "Return of the Cliché Expert"	436	(4)
"None of this is rocket science. But, yes, my plate is full."
Satire: ANDREA FREUD LOEWENSTEIN, "Sister from Another Planet Probes the Soaps"	440	(18)
"All of my sample were hostile toward their own gender, whom they perceived as rivals in their never-ending fight to possess the opposite sex."
FORUM: The Fencing In of Cyberspace	446	(12)
ADAIR LARA, "On the Internet, We All Own a Press"	447	(1)
"The little guy has a voice now."
ROB MORSE, "Yes, Virginia, There Is a First Amendment"	450	(1)
"The First Amendment protects against prior restraint of speech on the basis of content. There's no restraint as capricious as a machine looking for key words."
JESSIE SCANLON, "7 Ways to Squelch the Net"	455	(1)
"Censors rely on software filters, e-cops, and loyalty oaths. Here's a look at the surveillance technologies in use today—and how to get around them."
WRITING WORKSHOP 7: Comparing and Contrasting	458	(10)
8 ROLE MODELS: Searching for Heroes	468	(42)
Visual Literacy 8: UNSUNG HEROES: Female Firefighter	469	(3)
ARTHUR ASHE, "A Black Athlete Looks at Education"	472	(3)
"There must be some way to assure that those who try but don't make it to pro sports don't wind up on street corners or in unemployment lines."
AMBRE BROWN MORLEY AND NICOLE OSTROW, "Whistleblower: A Question of Conscience"	475	(3)
Microbiologist David Franklin said conscience made him blow the whistle on Pfizer Inc.'s Warner Lambert unit over promoting the epilepsy drug Neurontin for off-label uses.
NANCY GIBBS AND RICHARD STENGEL, "Jessica Lynch: The Interview"	478	(4)
"If women can't be in the military, you're going to have your son or your grandson or your father or your brother that's out there, who may not want to be there and who may still get hurt."
STEVEN WIN, "Get Motivated!"	482	(5)
"Anyone with a computer can get rich by spending 10 minutes a day buying and selling stocks online. Seventeen percent is totally doable in any market."
Poem: ROBERT HAYDEN, "Frederick Douglass"	487	(13)
During the Civil Rights era, writers and artists like Robert Hayden rewrote American history by honoring leaders in the struggle against injustice.
FORUM: Exceptional Lives	489	(11)
ANDREW DELBANCO, Book Review: "The Autobiography of Billy Graham"	490	(1)
"They had a camera there, and as you walked by, you could see yourself on the screen. We never thought it would amount to anything, though. It seemed too incredible!" The rest is evangelical history.
LESLIE GORNSTEIN, "The Digital Amazon"	494	(1)
She became the founder of Digital Amazon, a Web consulting firm, and also "the brain behind Amazon City, an online women's community, and one of the driving forces behind the growing women's presence in cyberspace."
DAVE FORD, "Public Interest Lawyer"	496	(1)
"You have to keep moving forward. I guess the point is not to lose heart."
WRITING WORKSHOP 8: Weighing Your Options	500	(10)
9 LANGUAGE: Bond or Barrier?	510	(68)
Visual Literacy 9: HEADLINES: Spinning the News	511	(3)
DEBORAH TANNEN, "Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers"	514	(11)
"Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication."
BERNICE SANDER, "Men and Women Talking"	525	(6)
"Women's behavioral style—listening, clarifying and providing affirmative verbal and nonverbal feedback such as nodding—encourages others to speak and participate."
AMOJA THREE RIVERS, "Cultural Etiquette: A Guide"	531	(5)
"Cultural etiquette is intended for people of all 'races,' not necessarily just 'white' people, because no one living in Western society is exempt from the influences of racism, racial stereotypes, race and cultural prejudices."
ANDREW BROWNSTEIN, "A Battle over a Name in the Land of the Sioux"	536	(6)
"Onlookers at a homecoming parade performed the Atlanta Braves' 'tomahawk chop' as dancing American Indian children passed on a float, and then yelled at them to 'go back to the reservation.'"
JORGE R. MANCILLAS, "Bilingualism: Assimilation Is More Than ABCs"	542	(4)
"This is a priceless resource: a new generation of Americans committed to preserving and strengthening a democratic and pluralistic U.S. society, but also having a birthright familiarity with Latin American, Asian, or Middle Eastern societies."
ROBIN TOLMACH LAKOFF, "Power of Words in Wartime"	546	(3)
"Bullets and bombs are not the only tools of war. Words, too, play their part."
Poem: JOHN HEAVISIDE, "A Gathering of Deafs"	549	(18)
A student poet marvels at the supple rich sign language of the hearing-impaired.
FORUM: Language and Social Class	552	(15)
MARK FRANCIS COHEN, "Small Tawk"	553	(1)
"Brooklynese is more than a local thing. It is perhaps the most recognizable regionalism in the world, thanks mainly to movies and television, which have transformed it into an emblem of class as much as of place."
TONI COOK, Interview: "Ebonies: Opening Pandora's Box"	556	(1)
"Everyone in my family, whether it was Mom or Dad, they were always crusaders. You never earned the right to snub your nose at anybody based on speech patterns."
ANGELO FIGUEROA, "Ebonies Plan Is Worth a Listen"	564	(1)
"This fact remains: Black kids who grow up in the inner-city speak in a distinct dialect that makes learning standard English a major challenge."
WRITING WORKSHOP 9: Writing to Define	567	(11)
10 VIOLENCE: Living at Risk	578	(50)
Visual Literacy 10: SURVEILLANCE CAMERA: The Face of Terror	579	(2)
BEN FOX, News Story: "Friends Knew Alleged Gunman's Plans"	581	(5)
"While staying overnight Saturday with his friend Joshua Stevens, 15, Williams spoke specificially about shooting up the school."
LINDA M. HASSELSTROM, "A Peaceful Woman Explains Why She Carries a Gun"	586	(5)
"I am a peace-loving woman. But events in the past 10 years have convinced me I am safer when I carry a pistol."
FRED BARBASCH, "Beyond the Finger Pointing"	591	(6)
"Might those Americans who genuinely believe in a constitutional right to bear arms accept a revision of the amendment to suit the era of automatic weapons?"
TOBIAS WOLFF, "White Man"	597	(5)
"I was the tallest man out there by at least a head, and I had to stay right next to the radio operator, who had this big squawking box on his back and a long antenna whipping back and forth over his helmet. And of course I was white."
Poem: GWENDOLYN BROOKS, "The Boy Died in My Alley"	602	(16)
An eloquent African American poet voices her overwhelming grief and helpless bystander's guilt as a witness to the senseless destruction of youth in her community.
FORUM: Tough on Crime	605	(13)
NATHAN GLAZER, "The Broken Window Theory"	606	(1)
"New York City alone, with 3 percent of the American population, accounted for a large part of the national plunge in crime."
STEVEN MUSIL, Student editorial: "Emotions Clouding Rational Decisions"	610	(1)
"Many of us who were working at Chili's at the time of the murder were hoping for the death sentence. We wanted to see him die in the gas chamber for what he did to you."
FAMILIES TO AMEND THREE STRIKES "A Threat to Justice"	612	(1)
"The state has built 19 prisons and only two universities in the last ten years."
EDITORIAL: SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, "Fruitless Punishment"	616	(1)
According to a Justice Department report, 2,078,570 Americans were in prison in early 2004. When people on probation or parole were added to the "correctional population," a record 6.9 million Americans were under the control of the criminal justice system.
WRITING WORKSHOP 10: Writing to Persuade	618	(10)
11 ENVIRONMENT: Saving the Planet	628	(42)
Visual Literacy 11: NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY: The Return of the Condor	629	(3)
MARIE DE SANTIS, "The Last of the Wild Salmon"	632	(3)
In a classic essay, the wild salmon's struggle to return to its spawning grounds becomes a symbol of the "secret of life."
JACK HILL, "The Book of the Tree-Sitters"	635	(4)
"You can't replant a thousand-year-old forest. We're destroying something we don't understand."
JANE KAY, "California Condor's Comeback"	639	(4)
"For at least a while longer—and we most prayerfully hope, for thousands of years to come—the California condor is again a free-living species."
Poem: MARGARET ATWOOD, "Dreams of the Animals"	643	(15)
A sharp-eyed critic of our callous modern civilization indicts our abuse of our fellow creatures and our denial of our kinship with the animal world.
FORUM: The Endangered Ecosphere	646	(12)
MOLLY IVINS, "Don't Mention Global Warming"	647	(1)
"We continue to report global warming as though it were a 'debate' among scientists. It is not."
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, "Saving Nature, But Only for Man"	650	(1)
"A sane environmentalism, the only kind of environmentalism that will win universal public support, begins by unashamedly declaring that nature is here to serve man."
MARK SAGOFF, "Feeding Ten Billion People"	653	(1)
Biotechnology introduces "an entirely new stage in humankind's attempts to produce more crops and plants."
WRITING WORKSHOP 11: Arguing Your Case	658	(12)
12 TOMORROWS: Imagining the Future	670	(115)
Visual Literacy 12: COMPUTER GRAPHICS: The Android Future	671	(3)
T.A. BADGER, "Workers Whose Jobs Go Overseas Look for Help"	674	(4)
"It could be you tomorrow."
RUBEN NAVARETTE, "Outsourcing Myth Undercuts the U.S."	678	(3)
Americans "have nothing to be afraid of...they can compete with Indians or anyone else."
STEVEN FINDLAY, "For Many, Good Health Care Barely Exists"	681	(5)
"57,000 Americans—insured and uninsured—die needlessly each year because they do not receive the best care."
JEROME P. KASSIRER, "Federal Foolishness and Marijuana"	686	(4)
"I believe that a federal policy that prohibits physicians from alleviating suffering for seriously ill patients is misguided, heavy-handed, and inhumane."
MARC COOPER, "America's Last Honest Place"	690	(6)
"Las Vegas is the most efficient machine ever designed to relieve the willing or the weak of their earthly fortunes, whether that weakness is gambling, sex, drink, spectacle, or consumption."
OLGA CABROL, "Life and Death among the Xerox People"	696	(18)
"I wrote urgent xxxxxxxxxxx's everyday to faces flat as paper."
FORUM: Terror Invades America	699	(15)
DAVID GRANN, "Manhattan Dispatch"	700	(1)
"His Polaroid had just come into focus and you could see, through smoke, one of the towers still standing. 'You'll never see that again,' he said."
PAUL BERMAN, "Brooklyn Dispatch: Under the Bridge"	704	(1)
"By late morning, huge parades of people from Manhattan had begun to make their way on foot across the bridges into Brooklyn and were dragging themselves along Atlantic Avenue."
KEN GARCIA, "America's Wealth Draws Hatred"	706	(1)
"Our leaders may be quick to portray suicidal zealots as madmen and extremists, but it doesn't explain why there may be thousands of people ready to do harm to the United States."
ELLEN GOODMAN, "Prime Target Is Women"	708	(1)
"For more than a century, arguments about tradition and change have taken place over women's bodies and women's rights."
DAVID KAY, "The New Terrorism"	711	(1)
"We need to identify the root causes that are changing our national security posture today and changing the threats that we face in the world."
WRITING WORKSHOP 12: Research-Based Writing	714	(71)
Glossary of Terms	785	(2)
Credits	787	(8)
Index of Authors and Titles	795