Readings for the 21st Century Issues for Today's Students

by Vesterman, William

• ISBN13: 9780321107602
• ISBN10: 0321107608
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-11
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This composition reader invites students to consider themselves in the context of the new century-the academic issues, social problems, and popular culture that already define their generation and the issues and problems that their generation will have to face: from a new economy to a new technology and a new terrorism. The essays offer a lively mixture of lengths, styles, and points of view. The authors range from classic to contemporary figures, from Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Rachel Carson to Bill Gates, Neil Postman, Tipper Gore, and William Raspberry. From Tom Wolfe to Maureen Dowd, Amy Tan, and Susan Faludi. From Frank Zappa to Chuck D., from Natalie Angier to Annie Dillard, Nat Hentoff and Linda Chavez.

Table of Contents

Preface	xxiii
Students in a New Century
The Past as Prologue
A Eulogy for the Twentieth Century---The Great Relearning	2	(5)
Tom Wolfe
The Character of Our Campuses	7	(4)
Fareed Zakaria
Education---Less of It!	11	(9)
Tertius Chandler
Big Brother's Two-Minute Hate: Regulating Vice on Campus	20	(4)
Linda Bowles
What's in a (Team) Name?---The War against Indian Symbols: Athletic Tradition and Social Sensitivity	24	(7)
John J. Miller
Myth and Mayhem: How Terrorists Use Our Own Pop Culture Images against Us	31	(10)
Matt Zoller Seitz
Point/Counterpoint: Will the Internet Help Higher Education?
Linked up for Learning	41	(8)
Bill Gates
From ``The End of Education''	49	(8)
Neil Postman
Making Connections	57	(3)
Contemporary Careers---The Workplace and You
The Past as Prologue
Starting Out in Business	60	(5)
Ben Franklin
College Pays	65	(3)
Robert E. Hall
How Practical Experience Can Help Revitalize Our Tired Model of Higher Education	68	(8)
Richard M. Freeland
No Time for Fun	76	(4)
Nadya Labi
Hooked on Research: Postgraduate Studies, While Not Always Well Paid, Can Be Addictive	80	(4)
Natasha McDowell
Jill-in-a-Box: Women in Top Management	84	(8)
The Economist
The War on Sexual Harassment: Protection or Witch-Hunt?	92	(5)
Cathy Young
Automated Fabrication: Creating Ultracustomized Products	97	(6)
Marshall Burns
Point/Counterpoint: What's it Like to Work for Managers and to Manage Workers?
Dining with Cannibals	103	(4)
Pop
Sub-Middle Management Worksick Blues	107	(5)
Lotte Absence
Making Connections	112	(2)
Cybersociety---Life in the Information Age
The Past as Prologue
From ``Media and the American Mind''	114	(4)
Daniel Czitrom
Telelearning: The Multimedia Revolution in Education	118	(9)
William E. Halal
Jay Leibowitz
Is There a ``There'' in Cyberspace?	127	(8)
John Perry Barlow
The Internet in Black and White	135	(3)
Dejuan Walker
Babes in the Net	138	(4)
Sadie Plant
Thinking Outside the Mailbox	142	(5)
Heather Havrilesky
Foraging for Music in the Digital Jungle	147	(7)
Neil Straus
Digital Age Cheats Us of Honor	154	(4)
Robert S. Boynton
Point/Counterpoint: Children and Cyberporn
Shouting Fire in a Virtual Theater	158	(3)
Maureen Farsan
Children, Child Abuse, and Cyberporn: A Primer for Clear Thinkers	161	(7)
Mike Godwin
Making Connections	168	(2)
Feminine Gender---Present Tense
The Past as Prologue
The Solitude of Self	170	(7)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
She's Not Really Ill...	177	(3)
Maureen Dowd
Why Mothers Should Stay Home	180	(10)
Deborah Fallows
The False Dichotomy: Devoted Mother or Cold Careerist	190	(8)
Joan K. Peters
Feminism---It's a Black Thang!	198	(3)
Bell Hooks
Manhandled by Madison Avenue	201	(4)
Ivy Mcclure Stewart
Kate Kennedy
The Case for Sex Work	205	(5)
Silja Talvi
Point/Counterpoint: Who's to Blame for Date Rape?
It's a Jungle Out There, So Get Used to It!	210	(6)
Camille Paglia
Whose Hype?	216	(4)
Susan Faludi
Making Connections	220	(2)
The Millennial Melting Pot---Race in Twenty-First Century America
The Past as Prologue
The Arc of the Moral Universe Is Long, but It Bends toward Justice	222	(5)
Maya Angelou
The Campus Divided, and Divided Again	227	(4)
Arthur Levine
Rethinking Racial Profiling	231	(4)
John Farmer
Mother Tongue	235	(7)
Amy Tan
Barrio Boy	242	(4)
Ernesto Galarza
Tribes and Tribulations	246	(6)
Jennifer Juarez Robles
Who's White? Who's Hispanic? Who Cares?	252	(4)
Jeff Jacoby
It's Not Easy Being White	256	(4)
William Raspberry
America as a Collage	260	(5)
Ryzsard Kapuscinski
Point/Counterpoint: Reparations for Slavery?
An Idea Whose Time has Come	265	(4)
Manning Marable
Does America Owe Reparations?	269	(3)
Walter Williams
Making Connections	272	(2)
The Environment of the Twenty-First Century
The Past as Prologue
Silent Spring: A Fable for Our Time	274	(3)
Rachel Carson
In the Jungle	277	(5)
Annie Dillard
Not in My Backyard! The Waste-Disposal Crisis	282	(8)
Ted Peters
If Global Warming Is Real, How Should Mankind Repond?	290	(6)
Andrew C. Palmer
Reforest the Earth!	296	(4)
Norman Myers
How My Electric Car Saves the World	300	(3)
Trevor Carson
Sprawl Is America's Great Strength	303	(4)
The Economist
The DNA Bomb: A Terrorist Weapon	307	(9)
Erik Baard
Point/Counterpoint: Should We Fear for the Future?
Not So Fast	316	(6)
Bill McKibben
Seven Doomsday Myths about the Environment	322	(9)
Ronald Bailey
Making Connections	331	(3)
Medicine---Human Life and Human Technology
The Past as Prologue
1933 Medicine	334	(9)
Lewis Thomas
The Code of the Universe	343	(7)
James A. Haught
From ``Prescription Medicide''	350	(5)
Jack Kevorkian
Reading the Book of Life: The Context; A Pearl and a Hodgepodge: Human DNA	355	(7)
Natalie Angier
Beyond Prozac	362	(6)
Peter Jaret
When is a Mother Not a Mother?	368	(9)
Katha Pollitt
Fear and Loathing in Sex Education	377	(13)
Pratima Cranse
Point/Counterpoint: Human Cloning
Fatalist Attraction	390	(6)
Virginia Postrel
Arrogance is Key to Human Cloning	396	(4)
Ellie Tesher
Making Connections	400	(2)
Popular Culture---Is Rock and Roll Really Here to Stay?
The Past as Prologue
On ``Junk Food for the Soul'': In Defense of Rock and Roll	402	(8)
Frank Zappa
Raised on Rock-and-Roll	410	(4)
Anna Quindlen
The White Negro Revisited: White Rappers	414	(7)
Josh Ozersky
Keeping Its Cool: MTV Stays Hip---and Powerful---by Remaining Indispensable to Music, Fashion, and Movies	421	(5)
Patrick Goldstein
My Eleven Minutes of Fame on the Open Mike	426	(7)
David Pellicane
`Free' Music Can Free the Artist	433	(3)
Chuck D.
A Selected Chronology of Twentieth-Century Musical Controversy	436	(6)
Fred Bronson
Point/Counterpoint: Should We Control Content?
Curbing the Sexploitation Industry	442	(5)
Tipper Gore
Free Speech: Lyrics, Liberty, and License	447	(8)
Sam Brownback
Making Connections	455	(3)
How Should We Respond to Terrorism?
The Past as Prologue
The Crisis through a Generational Lense	458	(4)
Fred Brock
Why the Terrorists Attacked Us	462	(4)
Samuel Francis
Blaming bin Laden First	466	(4)
Christopher Hitchens
Confrontation between Islam and the West?	470	(4)
Thomas Sowell
Time to Rethink Our Immigration Policy	474	(4)
Linda Chavez
Cultural Leaders Turn a Blind Eye to Evil	478	(3)
John Leo
Let's Face the Terrifying Facts on Oil	481	(4)
Alison Ames
Point/Counterpoint: What Rights Should Terroists Have?
Ashcroft Puts Civil Liberties in Jeopardy	485	(4)
Nat Hentoff
No More Jury Trials for Terrorists	489	(4)
Michelle Malkin
Making Connections	493	(1)
Credits	494	(2)
Rhetorical Index	496	(6)
Index of Authors and Titles	502