Argument : A Prentice Hall Pocket Reader

by Desmet, Christy; Houff Speak, Kathy; Church Miller, Deborah

• ISBN13: 9780131895256
• ISBN10: 0131895257
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

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Table of Contents

Arguments about People and Places

ldquo;They Knew But Littlerdquo; from ldquo;A Native Hill,rdquo;in Recollected Essays, 1965-1980 (New York: North Point Press of Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 1981)

Black Elk

ldquo;The First Curerdquo; from

Black Elk Speaks (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1932)

ldquo;Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrastsrdquo; from The American Story (Ed. Earl Schenk Miers. Reprinted by permission of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society)

ldquo;Why I Want a Wiferdquo;Ms. 1.1 (December 31, 1971) (Copyright 1971 by Judy Brady)

ldquo;We Knew What Glory Wasrdquo; New York Times (23 June, 1996)

ldquo;Shooting an Elephantrdquo; from Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays (Copyright 1946, 1950, 1974. The estate of the late Sonia Brownell Orwell and Martin Secker and Warburg Ltd. Reprinted by perrmission of A. M. Heath & Company Ltd. and Harcourt Brace & Company)

Arguments about Politics, Policy, and Social Change

ldquo;Of Girls and Chicksrdquo; from Language and the Sexes

ldquo;The Man-Made Mythrdquo; from The Descent of Woman (Copyright 1972 by Elaine Morgan. Reprinted by permission of Stein and Day Publishers and Souvenir Press, Ltd.)

ldquo;Teaching Resistance: The Racial Politics of Mass Mediardquo; from Killing Rage (New York: Henry Holt, 1995, 113-15)

ldquo;The Obligation to Endurerdquo; from Silent Spring (Copyright 1962 by Rachel Carson. Copyright renewed 1990 by Roger Christie. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company)

ldquo;Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahlers Ninth Symphonyrdquo; from Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahlers Ninth (Copyright 1982 by Lewis Thomas. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books, Inc.)

ldquo;A Modest Proposalrdquo; first published as ldquo;A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to their Parentsrdquo; (1729)

ldquo;Letter from Birmingham Jailrdquo; from Why We Can't Wait, by Martin Luther King, Jr. (Copyright 1963, 1964 by Martin Luther King, Jr. Reprinted by permission of Harper Collins Publishers)

Reflecting on Argument as a Process

ldquo;How to Tell A True War Storyrdquo; from The Things They Carried (Copyright 1990 by Tim O'Brien. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Co./Seymour Lawrence)

ldquo;Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Clausrdquo; Editorial (The New York Sun, 21 September, 1897)

ldquo;Thinking as a Hobbyrdquo; (Copyright 1961, 1989 by William Golding)

ldquo;The Median isnt the Messagerdquo; from Discover Magazine (June 1985) (Reprinted by permission of Becon Press)

ldquo;The Banking Concept of Education.rdquo;

ldquo;Silent Dancingrdquo; from Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood (Houston: Arte Publico, 1990)

ldquo;How to Turn Debate into Dialoguerdquo; from The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue (Copyright 1998 by Deborah Tannen)

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