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Rhetorical Contents | p. xiii |
Preface | p. xxiii |
Thinking, Reading, and Writing About the New Global Era | p. 1 |
Critical Thinking | p. 3 |
Narration and Description | p. 5 |
Exposition | p. 6 |
Argument and Persuasion | p. 8 |
Thinking About an Essay: Nicholas D. Kristof, "Love and Race" | p. 11 |
Reading Critically | p. 13 |
Steps to Reading Critically | p. 16 |
Reading Visual Texts | p. 17 |
Reading an Essay Critically: Susan Bordo, "The Globalization of Eating Disorders" | p. 18 |
Writing in Response to Reading | p. 22 |
Prewriting | p. 23 |
Drafting | p. 24 |
Revision | p. 25 |
Writing in Response to an Essay: Lorraine Ali, "Not Ignorant, Not Helpless" | p. 26 |
New American Mosaic: Are We Becoming a Universal Nation? | p. 29 |
"All Things Asian Are Becoming Us" | p. 31 |
"The Way to Rainy Mountain" | p. 35 |
"America: The Multinational Society" | p. 42 |
"Two Americas?" | p. 47 |
"American Dreamer" | p. 52 |
"The Cult of Ethnicity" | p. 59 |
"Arabs in Foreign Lands" | p. 63 |
America and the World: How Do Others Perceive Us? | p. 67 |
"Stranger in the Arab-Muslim World" | p. 70 |
"Americans Are Tuning Out the World" | p. 77 |
"An Obsession the World Doesn't Share" | p. 81 |
"Fashionable Anti-Americanism" | p. 86 |
"America's New Empire for Liberty" | p. 95 |
"In Search of Pro-Americanism" | p. 101 |
"Waking Up from the American Dream" | p. 109 |
Speaking in Tongues: Does Language Unify or Divide Us? | p. 117 |
"Mother Tongue" | p. 120 |
"Mute in an English-Only World" | p. 126 |
"If You Can't Master English, Try Globish" | p. 130 |
"Lingua Franchise" | p. 134 |
"Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language" | p. 138 |
"Multilingual America" | p. 146 |
"Reading the History of the World" | p. 254 |
Global Relationships: Are Sex and Gender Roles Changing? | p. 159 |
"Arranged Marriages Get a Little Reshuffling" | p. 161 |
"In Africa, AIDS Has a Woman's Face" | p. 166 |
"The Muslim in the Mirror" | p. 171 |
"Justice for Women" | p. 179 |
"The Veiled Threat" | p. 182 |
"Family Values" | p. 197 |
"Life on the Global Assembly Line" | p. 205 |
The Challenge of Globalization: What Are the Consequences? | p. 215 |
"Prologue: The Super-Story" | p. 218 |
"The Global Village Finally Arrives" | p. 223 |
"The Noble Feat of Nike" | p. 227 |
"Fear Not Globalization" | p. 231 |
"Globalisation" | p. 235 |
"Toward a New Cosmopolitanism" | p. 245 |
"The Educated Student: Global Citizen or Global Consumer?" | p. 261 |
Culture Wars: Whose Culture Is It, Anyway? | p. 272 |
"Cultural Baggage" | p. 274 |
"It's a Mall World After All" | p. 278 |
"Whose Culture Is It, Anyway?" | p. 284 |
"Hygiene and Repression" | p. 287 |
"Besieged by 'Friends'" | p. 292 |
"The Culture of Liberty" | p. 295 |
"On Seeing England for the First Time" | p. 304 |
The Clash of Civilizations: Is Conflict Avoidable? | p. 315 |
"American Dream Boat'" | p. 317 |
"When Afghanistan Was at Peace" | p. 322 |
"The World in 1500-or the West as a Backwater" | p. 326 |
"Fundamentalism Is Here to Stay" | p. 329 |
"The West and the Rest: Intercivilizational Issues" | p. 335 |
"It's the Women, Stupid" | p. 340 |
"A World Not Neatly Divided" | p. 345 |
"Andalusia's Journey" | p. 349 |
The Age of Terror: What Is the Just Response? | p. 363 |
"To Any Would-Be Terrorists" | p. 365 |
"Blood Diamonds" | p. 371 |
"Letter from New York" | p. 377 |
"Generation Jihad" | p. 384 |
"Bad Luck: Why Americans Exaggerate the Terrorist Threat" | p. 391 |
"The Algebra of Infinite Justice" | p. 395 |
Global Aid: Can We Reduce Disease and Poverty? | p. 402 |
"What I Did on My Summer Vacation" | p. 404 |
"Cities Without Slums" | p. 413 |
"A Threat Worse Than Terror" | p. 417 |
"Technology Won't Feed World's Hungry" | p. 421 |
"A Development Nightmare" | p. 424 |
"Follow the Money" | p. 427 |
"AIDS in Africa" | p. 433 |
The Fate of the Earth: Can We Preserve the Global Environment? | p. 443 |
"The Obligation to Endure" | p. 445 |
"Talking Trash" | p. 452 |
"Lessons from Lost Worlds" | p. 455 |
"Driving Global Warming" | p. 459 |
"In the Jungle" | p. 464 |
"Digging Up the Roots" | p. 469 |
"In Defense of Nature, Human and Non-human" | p. 474 |
"A Hole in the World" | p. 479 |
Conducting Research in the New Global Era | p. 485 |
Introduction | |
The Research Process | |
The Writing Process | |
Documentation | |
Glossary of Rhetorical Terms | p. 509 |
Glossary of Globalization Terms | p. 515 |
Credits | p. 521 |
Index | p. 525 |
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