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| Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing | |
| Preparing to Read Critical | |
| Reading Annotating Note Taking | |
| Questioning the Text Beyond Content: Focusing on Structure Paraphrasing, Summarizing | |
| Quoting Paraphrasing | |
| Summarizing Quoting | |
| The Writing Process | |
| Prewriting | |
| Drafting | |
| Revision | |
| School and College | |
| How, What, and Why Do We Learn? | |
| “Education” | |
| “Graduation” | |
| “Sex Ed” | |
| "When Bright Girls Decide That Math Is "a Waste of Time" | |
| "How to Mark a Book" | |
| "Why America’s Universities Are Better Than Its Schools" | |
| “The Good News Is | |
| These Are Not the Best Years of Your Life” | |
| “America Skips School” Classic and Contemporary | |
| What is the Value of Education? | |
| “Learning to Read and Write” | |
| “The Lonely Good Company of Books”Connections | |
| Family Roles and Gender Roles | |
| What Makes Us Who We Are? | |
| "An American Childhood" | |
| "Parenting as an Industry" | |
| "Immigrants and Family Values" | |
| “Crazy Salad” | |
| “The Female Body” | |
| “Being a Man” | |
| “America’s Emerging Gay Culture” | |
| "Sex, Lies and Conversation | |
| Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other? | |
| Classic and Contemporary: How Much Do Families Matter? | |
| Ruth Benedict: "Are Families Passe?" | |
| Barbara Kingsolver: "Stone Soup" Connections | |
| History and Culture | |
| Where Did We Come From and Where Are We Going? | |
| Judith Ortiz Cofer | |
| "The Myth of the Latin Woman | |
| I Just Met a Girl Named Maria" | |
| "The Way to Rainy Mountain" | |
| "Salvation" | |
| "The Woman Warrior" | |
| "The Fear of Losing a Culture" | |
| "The Arab World" | |
| "Canadians: What Do They Want?" | |
| "Some Reflections on American Manners Classic and Contemporary | |
| Are We Heading Toward a World Culture? | |
| Oliver Goldsmith: "National Prejudices" | |
| "The Cult of Ethnicity" Connections | |
| Government, Politics, and Social Justice | |
| How Do We Decide What Is Fair? | |
| "Straight Line to Calamity" | |
| "The Circle of Governments" | |
| "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts" | |
| "The Penalty of Death" | |
| "The Myths of Racial Division" | |
| "The World House" | |
| "The Divine Revolution" | |
| "Stranger in the Village" Classic and Contemporary | |
| What Is the American Dream? | |
| "The Declaration of Independence" | |
| "I Have a Dream" Connections | |
| Work, Business, and Economics | |
| How Do We Earn Our Keep? | |
| "Men at Work" | |
| "Ambition" | |
| "What Is the Point of Working? | |
| "Being a Secretary Can Be Hazardous to Your Health" | |
| "My Wood" | |
| "Los Pobres" | |
| "Why the Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer" | |
| "A Modest Proposal" Classic and Contemporary | |
| Does Equal Opportunity Exist? | |
| "Professions for Women" | |
| "Delusions of Grandeur" Connections | |
| Philosophy, Ethics, and Religion | |
| What Do We Believe? | |
| "I Listen to My Parents and I Wonder What They Believe" | |
| "What Really Ails America" | |
| "The Autobiography of a Confluence" | |
| "The Allegory of the Cave" | |
| "No Man Is an Island" | |
| "The Mystery of Zen" | |
| "The Culture of Disbelief" | |
| "The Rival Conceptions of God" Classic and Contemporary | |
| What Is the Value of Life? | |
| "The Death of the Moth" | |
| "Death of a Moth" Connections | |
| Media and the Arts: How Do We Express Ourselves? | |
| "On Keeping a Notebook" | |
| "The Writing Life" | |
| "Loose Ends" | |
| "Television Addiction" | |
| "2 Live Crew, Decoded" | |
| "Red, White, and Beer" | |
| "In Our Image" | |
| "Saving the Life That Is Your Own | |
| The Importance of Models in the Artist''s Life" Classic and Contemporary | |
| Who Controls the Power of Language? | |
| "Politics and the English Language" | |
| "Who''s in Charge of the English Language?" Connections | |
| Science and Technology | |
| What Can Science Teach Us? | |
| “Natural Selection” | |
| “The Study of Mathematics” | |
| “Cholesterol” | |
| “Can We Know the Universe? | |
| Reflections on a Grain of Salt" | |
| “Macho” | |
| “On Being the Right Size” | |
| “The Terrifying Normalcy of AIDS" | |
| “The Clan of the One-breasted Women” Classic and Contemporary | |
| What Is Technological Progress? | |
| "The Monastery and the Clock" | |
| "The Age of Simulation" Connections | |
| Nature and the Environment | |
| How Do We Relate to the Natural World? | |
| “The Obligation to Endure | |
| “Wyoming: The Solace of Open Spaces” | |
| “Two Views of the Mississippi” | |
| “High Tide In Tuscon” | |
| “The Spider and the Wasp” | |
| “Against Nature” | |
| “Americans and the Land” | |
| "Letter to President Pierce, 1855" Classic and Contemporary | |
| Can We Own Nature? | |
| “Economy” | |
| “Building Fence” Connections | |
| Appendix: A Guide to Research and Documentation | |
| Glossary of Terms | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Index | |
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