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Freeze Frame: Reading and Writing
Chapter 1: Description and Narration
Lori Jakiela, “You’ll Love the Way We Fly”
*Ellen A. Laird, Prime Suspect, Second Row Center
Kelly Ruth Winter, "Tommy”
Mary Roach, “A Terrible Thing to Waste: You Do Not Need Brains To Go To The Harvard Brain Bank, Only A Brain”
* Alex Abadi, “What Is So Close, Yet So Far, Alex?” (student selection)
Flavius Stan, “The Night of Oranges” (student selection)*
* Matthew Gooi, Coming to America
Magdoline Asfahani, “Time to Look and Listen” (student selection)
* Ann Telnaes, And Women Are Created Equal (editorial cartoon)
Chapter 2: Example
Lena Williams, “A Black Fan of Country Music Finally Tells All”
* Gina Barreca, Why English Professors Love Country Music
Stacey Wilkins, “Stop Ordering Me Around”
Allison Silverman, “Have Fun”
* Richard O’Mara, Baltimore Tales
Chapter 3: Definition
Diane Ackerman, “Chocolate Equals Love”
Henry Han Xi Lau, “I Was a Member of the Kung Fu Crew” (student selection)
William Raspberry, “The Handicap of Definition”
* Derek Jensen, High on Progress
* Rick Kirkman, Jerry Scott, “Baby Blues” (cartoon)
Chapter 4: Comparison, Contrast, Division, and Classification
Lynnika Butler, “Living on Tokyo Time”
* Frank Deford, Watching the Clock: A Sport All Its Own
Denise Leight, “Playing House” (student selection)
* Wise Geek, What Are the Different Types of Social Networks
* John C. Abell, Five Reasons Why E-Books Aren’t There Yet
Frank Deford, “Who’s Watching? Reality TV and Sports”
* David Pierce, Top Tablet Comparison: iPad vs. Xoom vs. TouchPad vs. Playbook
Russell Baker, “The Plot Against People”
* Mike Twohy, “Very, Sort of, Very Sort of” (cartoon)
* Steve Kelley and Jeff Parker, “Dustin” (cartoon)
Chapter 5: Process
Laura Carlson, “Runner” (student selection)
* Kate Hopper,Becoming a Sanvicenteña: Five Stages
Dave Barry, “Independence Day”
Naomi Wolf, “A Woman’s Place”
Chapter 6: Cause and Effect
Bjorn Skogquist, “Tiffany Stephenson — An Apology” (student selection)
Oliver Sacks, “When Music Heals Body and Soul”
* Alexandar Reinaldo Perez, “On the Gettysburg Address” (student selection)
Andrew Sullivan, “We Have Retreated into the iWorld”
Visual: John Deering, “The Class of 2008” (cartoon)
Chapter 7: On Using Argument
Barbara Ehrenreich, “Dance, Dance, Revolution”
* Patricia J. Williams, “Freshman Specimen”
Anne Applebaum, “Veiled Insult”
Jay Bookman, “Guest Workers and the U.S. Heritage”
Robert J. Samuelson, “We Don’t Need ‘Guest Workers’”
Darrin Bell, “All These Illegal’s,” (comic strip)
Steve Kelley, “Americans and Jobs” (cartoon)
* Sandra Steingraber, “When Cowboys Cry: In Today’s Wild West, Energy Corporations are the New Outlaws”
* Pennsylvania Independent Oil and Gas Association, “Protecting the Environment”
* Mindy Lubber, “Drilling Down Deep”
* Signe Wilkinson “Would Madam Care for Water?” (cartoon)
* EnergyTomorrow.org, “With Smart Policies, Secure Supplies From the United States and Canada Could Provide 92% of America’s Liquid Fuel Needs by 2030.” (ad)
Chapter 8: Multiple Modes: Two Topics, Six Views
Place
* Johon Wideman, Life in ‘My Town”
* Stuart Overlin, Paducah, Kentucky
Mario Suarez, El Hoyo
Freedom, Censorship, and Education
Ursula LeGuin, "Whose Lathe?"
Anna Quindlen, “With a No. 2 Pencil, Delete”
Michael Chabon, “Solitude and the Fortress of Youth”
Credits
Index of Authors, Essays, and Terms
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