The New World Reader Thinking and Writing about the Global Community

by Muller, Gilbert H.

• ISBN13: 9780618395941
• ISBN10: 0618395946
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-22
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This multicultural, thematic reader takes on thought-provoking, global issues.The New World Readerpresents first-year writing students with 66 timely essays by established writers on the most significant issues of the post-September 11th world. Working with recently published selections from well-known writers, students will have the opportunity to consider such strategic questions as the changing face of America, the challenges and consequences of globalization, the just response to terror, the international digital revolution, and the fate of the global environment. Challenged by notable contemporary thinkers and writers, students will be encouraged--individually and as members of a community--to come to grips with a world that is now subject to complex transformations. Sixty-six lively selections by well-known writers feature such authors as Annie Dillard, Barbara Ehrenreich, Thomas L. Friedman, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Barbara Kingsolver, Mario Vargas Llosa, George Orwell, and Arundhati Roy. A consistent editorial apparatus with a sequenced approach to exercises includes brief chapter introductions, author headnotes, and prereading questions that offer students a preview of the central issues raised by the writers in each section. Exercise sets follow each essay, giving students writing, reading, discussion, and exploration opportunities. Carefully integrated visual materials enrich and enliven the issues raised in the written selections. The dynamic, interactive web site provides instructors with prompts for teaching chapter material and essays, answers to questions, and additional questions and activities. For students, the site offers engaging visual and music portfolios, sample student essays, interactive guidelines for grammar and writing, and links to other sites.

Table of Contents

Rhetorical Contents	xiv
Preface	xxiii
Thinking, Reading, and Writing About the New Global Era	1	(28)
Critical Thinking	3	(6)
Narration and Description	4	(1)
Exposition	5	(2)
Argument and Persuasion	7	(2)
Thinking About an Essay: Nicholas D. Kristof, ``Love and Race''	9	(3)
Reading Critically	12	(4)
Experiential Theories of Reader Response	13	(1)
Textual Theories of Reader Response	13	(1)
Psychological Theories of Reader Response	13	(1)
Social Theories of Reader Response	14	(1)
Cultural Theories of Reader Response	14	(1)
Steps to Reading Critically	14	(1)
Reading Visual Texts	15	(1)
Reading an Essay Critically: Ray Gonzalez, ``The Ladybugs''	16	(4)
Writing in Response to Reading	20	(4)
Prewriting	21	(1)
Drafting	22	(1)
Revision	23	(1)
Writing in Response to an Essay: Patricia Leigh-Brown, ``At Muslim Prom, It's Girls-Only Night''	24	(5)
New American Mosaic: Are We Becoming a Universal Nation?	29	(46)
``The Way to Rainy Mountain''	31	(7)
N. Scott Momaday
``America: The Multinational Society''	38	(5)
Ishmael Reed
``Our Rainbow Underclass''	43	(3)
Mortimer B. Zuckerman
``Asian Immigrants: Actors in History''	46	(9)
Ronald Takaki
``American Dreamer''	55	(7)
Bharati Mukherjee
``The Cult of Ethnicity''	62	(3)
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
``Go North, Young Man''	65	(10)
Richard Rodriguez
Speaking in Tongues: Does Language Unify or Divide?	75	(42)
``Mother Tongue''	77	(7)
Amy Tan
``Mute in an English-Only World''	84	(4)
Chang-rae Lee
``Spanglish''	88	(3)
Janice Castro with
Dan Cook
Cristina Garcia
``If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?''	91	(5)
James Baldwin
``Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language''	96	(8)
Ilan Stavans
``Multilingual America''	104	(8)
William H. Frey
``Reading the History of the World''	112	(5)
Isabel Allende
Global Relationships: Are Sex and Gender Roles Changing?	117	(44)
``Arranged Marriages Get a Little Reshuffling''	119	(4)
Lizette Alvarez
``In Africa, AIDS Has a Woman's Face''	123	(5)
Kofi A. Annan
``Polygamy''	128	(4)
Ann Grace Mojtabai
``Justice for Women''	132	(3)
Ellen Goodman
``Family Values''	135	(8)
Richard Rodriguez
``Traveling Alone''	143	(7)
Mary Morris
``Life on the Global Assembly Line''	150	(11)
Barbara Ehrenreich
Annette Fuentes
Photo Essay
The Challenge of Globalization: What Are the Consequences?	161	(50)
``Prologue: The Super-Story''	163	(5)
Thomas L. Friedman
``The Global Village Finally Arrives''	168	(5)
Pico Iyer
``The Noble Feat of Nike''	173	(4)
Johan Norberg
``Fear Not Globalization''	177	(3)
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
``Globalisation''	180	(10)
Anthony Giddens
``On Seeing England for the First Time''	190	(11)
Jamaica Kincaid
``The Educated Student: Global Citizen or Global Consumer?''	201	(10)
Benjamin Barber
Culture Wars: Whose Culture Is It, Anyway?	211	(52)
``Cultural Baggage''	213	(4)
Barbara Ehrenreich
``Eat All of Your McAfrika, Honey''	217	(4)
Carol Norris
``Whose Culture Is It, Anyway?''	221	(3)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
``Hygiene and Repression''	224	(6)
Octavio Paz
``That's Entertainment? Hollywood's Contribution to Anti-Americanism Abroad''	230	(13)
Michael Medved
``The Culture of Liberty''	243	(8)
Mario Vargas Llosa
``Simpson Agonistes''	251	(12)
Paul A. Cantor
The Clash of Civilizations: Is Conflict Avoidable?	263	(44)
``Shooting an Elephant''	265	(8)
George Orwell
``When Afghanistan Was at Peace''	273	(3)
Margaret Atwood
``The World in 1500---or the West as a Backwater''	276	(3)
Dinesh D'Souza
``American Dream Boat'''	279	(5)
K. Oanh Ha
``The West and the Rest: Intercivilizational Issues''	284	(5)
Samuel P. Huntington
``A World Not Neatly Divided''	289	(3)
Amartya Sen
``Andalusia's Journey''	292	(15)
Edward Said
The Age of Terror: What Is the Just Response?	307	(38)
``To Any Would-Be Terrorists''	310	(5)
Naomi Shihab Nye
``One Day, Now Broken in Two''	315	(3)
Anna Quindlen
``And Our Flag Was Still There''	318	(4)
Barbara Kingsolver
``Letter from New York''	322	(7)
Peter Carey
``Bad Luck: Why Americans Exaggerate the Terrorist Threat''	329	(4)
Jeffrey Rosen
``Blaming America First''	333	(6)
Todd Gitlin
``The Algebra of Infinite Justice''	339	(6)
Arundhati Roy
The Digital Revolution: Will It Bring Us Together?	345	(44)
``The Electronic Gap''	347	(3)
Paul Kennedy
``A Map of the Network Society''	350	(6)
Esther Dyson
``Big Brother Is Us''	356	(8)
James Gleick
``Webbed, Wired, and Worried''	364	(3)
Thomas L. Friedman
``Fear, the New Virus of a Connected Era''	367	(5)
Michiko Kakutani
``Silicon Snake Oil''	372	(9)
Clifford Stoll
``The Digital Revolution and the New Reformation''	381	(8)
Ali Mazrui
Alamin Mazrui
The Fate of the Earth: Can We Preserve the Global Environment?	389	(38)
``The Obligation to Endure''	391	(7)
Rachel Carson
``Talking Trash''	398	(3)
Andy Rooney
``Driving Global Warming''	401	(4)
Bill McKibben
``In the Jungle''	405	(5)
Annie Dillard
``Digging Up the Roots''	410	(5)
Jane Goodall
``In Defense of Nature, Human and Non-Human	415	(6)
Francis Fukuyama
``A Hole in the World''	421	(6)
Jonathan Schell
A Casebook on the Contemporary Middle East: Why Does It Matter?	427	(62)
``The Storyteller's Daughter''	431	(5)
Saira Shah
``Villages and Compounds''	436	(4)
Tamim Ansary
``Blind Imperial Arrogance''	440	(4)
Edward Said
``We Have Done the Gruntwork of Peace''	444	(6)
Amos Oz
``The Veiled Threat''	450	(14)
Azar Nafisi
``Stranger in the Arab-Muslim World''	464	(7)
Fouad Ajami
``And They Call This Paradise''	471	(5)
Amira Hass
``The Neo-Con Triumph''	476	(5)
Hassan Nafaa
``Awarding of Nobel Peace Prize to Iranian Female Judge Provokes Controversy''	481	(2)
Marjane Satrapi
``For Iranian Women, a Controversial Victory''	483	(6)
Shirin Ebadi
Appendix A. Conducting Research in the New Global Era	489	(32)
Introduction	489	(1)
The Research Process	490	(12)
The Writing Process	502	(2)
Documentation	504	(8)
Sample Student Research Paper	512	(9)
Appendix B. Glossary of Rhetorical Terms	521	(6)
Appendix C. Glossary of Globalization Terms	527	(6)
Credits	533	(6)
Index	539