Abbey, Edward. “Thus Far and No Further” (Quote) (Chapter 11) Adler, Mortimer J. and Charles Van Doren. “How to Read a Book” (Chapter 1)
Author Biography Links Context Links Alexie, Sherman. “Superman and Me” (Chapter 10)
Author Biography Links Context Links Alvarez, Julia. “Once Upon a Quinceañera” from Once Upon A Quinceañera: Coming of Age in the USA (Chapter 6)
Author Biography Links Context Links Angelou, Maya. “Graduation” from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Part 3)
Author Biography Links Context Links Aristotle. Excerpt from The Art of Rhetoric (Chapter 3)
Author Biography Links Context Links Aucoin, Don. “For Some, Helicopter Parenting Delivers Benefits” (Chapter 6) Barna, Daniel. “Today’s Leading Man” (Chapter 9)
Author Biography Links Context Links Bass, Rick. “Why I Hunt” (Chapter 11)
Author Biography Links Context Links Bordo, Susan. “The Globalization of Eating Disorders” (Chapter 9)
Author Biography Links Context Links Brady, Judy. “I Want a Wife” (Part 3)
Author Biography Links Context Links Brooks, David. “Love, Internet Style” (Chapter 6)
Author Biography Links Context Links Carson, Rachel. “The Obligation to Endure” from Silent Spring (Chapter 11)
Author Biography Links Context Links Chapman, Rita. “Gas-Price Savings with Keystone Pipeline Are Illusionary, but Risk of Oil Spills Are Real” (Chapter 11 Cofer, Judith Ortiz. “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria” from The Latin Deli: Prose And Poetry (Chapter 7)
Author Biography Links Context Links Collins, Billy. “Picnic, Lightning” from Picnic, Lightning (Chapter 10) Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John de. Excerpt from Letters From an American Farmer (Chapter 7) Diamond, Jared M. “The Last Americans: Environmental Collapse and the End of Civilization” (Chapter 11)
Author Biography Links Context Links Didion, Joan. “Marrying Absurd” (Part 3)
Author Biography Links Context Links Dillard, Annie. “An American Childhood” from An American Childhood (Chapter 6)
Author Biography Links Context Links Douglass, Frederick. “Learning to Read and Write” from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Chapter 5)
Author Biography Links Context Links Dyson, Esther. “Cyberspace: If You Don't Love It, Leave It” (Chapter 8)
Author Biography Links Context Links Edwards, Jonathan. “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (Part 3)
Author Biography Links Context Links Ehrenreich, Barbara. “Nickel and Dimed” from Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America (Chapter 8)
Author Biography Links Context Links Elbow, Peter. “Freewriting” from Writing Without Teachers (Chapter 2)
Author Biography Links Context Links Elizabeth I, Queen. “The Golden Speech” (Part 3)
Author Biography Links Context Links Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Education” (Part 3)
Author Biography Links Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Nature” (Chapter 11)
Author Biography Links Context Links Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Self-Reliance” (Part 3)
Author Biography Links Friedman, Thomas L. “Prologue: The Super Story” from Longitudes and Attitudes (Chapter 7)
Author Biography Links Context Links Gates, David. “Finding Neverland” (Chapter 10)
Author Biography Links Context Links Gitlin, Todd. "Supersaturation, or, The Media Torrent and Disposable Feeling" from Media Unlimited: How The Torrent Of Images And Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives (Chapter 9)
Author Biography Links Context Links Gregorian, Vartan. “America, Still on Top” (Chapter 5)
Author Biography Links Context Links Guibert, Susan. “Robo-Teacher: Computer That Can Sense Boredom” (Chapter 5) Guthrie, Woody. “This Land Is Your Land” (Chapter 11 Hall, Edward T. “The Arab World” from The Hidden Dimension (Chapter 7)
Author Biography Links Context Links Hobbes, Thomas. Excerpt from “Leviathan” (Part 3)
Author Biography Links Context Links Hughes, Langston. “Theme for English B” from The Collected Poems Of Langston Hughes (Chapter 10)
Author Biography Links Context Links Ivins, Molly. “Is Texas America?” (Chapter 8)
Author Biography Links Context Links Jacoby, Susan. “When Bright Girls Decide that Math is ‘a Waste of Time’” (Chapter 5)
Author Biography Links Context Links Jefferson, Thomas. “Declaration of Independence” (Chapter 8)
Author Biography Links Context Links Jones, Elizabeth J. Excerpt from “Address to the Women of Salem” (Chapter 8) Kakaes, Konstantin. “Why Johnny Can’t Add Without a Calculator” (Chapter 5) Kennedy, John F. “Inaugural Address” (Part 3)
Author Biography Links Context Links King, Martin Luther Jr. “I Have a Dream” (Chapter 8)
Author Biography Links Context Links King, Martin Luther Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (Part 3)
Author Biography Links Context Links Kingsolver, Barbara. “Stone Soup” from High Tide In Tucson: Essays From Now Or Never (Chapter 6)
Author Biography Links Context Links Lakoff, Robin Tolmach. “From Ancient Greece to Iraq, the Power of Words in Wartime” (Chapter 1)
Author Biography Links Context Links Lee, Fred. “Helicopter Parenting Earns Its Wings” (Chapter 6) Lincoln, Abraham. “Gettysburg Address” (Chapter 3)
Author Biography Links Context Links Lincoln, Abraham. “Second Inaugural Address” (Part 3)
Author Biography Links Context Links Lopez, Barry. “Children in the Woods” (Chapter 11)
Author Biography Links Context Links Machiavelli, Nicolo. Excerpt from The Prince (Part 3)
Author Biography Links Context Links Mairs, Nancy. “On Being a Cripple” from Plaintext (Part 3)
Author Biography Links Context Links McKibben, Bill. “The Environmental Issue from Hell” (Chapter 11)
Author Biography Links Context Links Menand, Louis. “The Graduates” (Chapter 5)
Author Biography Links Context Links Murray, Donald M. “The Maker's Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts” (Chapter 2)
Author Biography Links Context Links O’Brien, Tim. “The Things They Carried” from The Things They Carried (Part 3)
Author Biography Links Context Links Orwell, George. “Politics and the English Language” from Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays (Part 3)
Author Biography Links Context Links Orwell, George. “Shooting an Elephant” from Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays (Part 3)
Author Biography Links Context Links Paine, Thomas. Excerpt from “Common Sense” (Chapter 3)
Author Biography Links Context Links Plato. “Allegory of the Cave” (Part 3)
Author Biography Links Context Links Poe, Edgar Allen. “Philosophy of Composition” (Chapter 10)
Author Biography Links Context Links Poe, Edgar Allen. “The Raven” (Chapter 10)
Author Biography Links Context Links Priestley, J. B. “Wrong Ism” (Chapter 7)
Author Biography Links Quindlen, Anna. “Sex Ed” from Living Out Loud (Chapter 5)
Author Biography Links Context Links Ransom, John Crowe. “Janet Waking” from Selected Poems, Third Edition, Revised And Enlarged (Chapter 10) Reed, Ishmael. “America: The Multinational Society” from Writin' Is Fightin' (Chapter 7)
Author Biography Links Context Links Rich, Adrienne. “Dreamwood” (Chapter 10) Rodriquez, Richard. “The Lonely Good Company of Books” from Hunger of Memory (Chapter 5)
Author Biography Links Context Links Ross, Deborah. “Escape from Wonderland: Disney and the Female Imagination” from Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies (Chapter 9)
Author Biography Links Context Links Satrapi, Marjane. “The Veil” from Persepolis: The Story Of A Childhood (Chapter 7) Sardar, Ziauddin, and Merryl Wyn Davies. Excerpt from Why Do People Hate America? (Chapter 7) Schlafly, Phyllis. Excerpt from “The Fraud of the Equal Rights Amendment” (Chapter 8) Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr. “The Cult of Ethnicity, Good and Bad” (Chapter 1)
Author Biography Links Context Links Seattle, Chief. “Letter to President Pierce, 1855” (Chapter 11)
Author Biography Links Context Links Sedaris, David. “Me Talk Pretty One Day” from Me Talk Pretty One Day (Part 3)
Author Biography Links Context Links Sen, Amarta. “A World Not Neatly Divided” (Chapter 7)
Author Biography Links Context Links Singleman-Rickman, Lisa. “Does Texting Hurt Writing Skills?” (Chapter 5) Staples, Brent. “Black Men and Public Spaces” from “Just Walk On By” (Part 3)
Author Biography Links Context Links Steinem, Gloria. “Wonder Woman” (Chapter 9)
Author Biography Links Context Links Supreme Court. Excerpt from Phillips v. Martin Marietta Corp. (Chapter 8) Swift, Jonathan. “A Modest Proposal” (Part 3)
Author Biography Links Context Links Tannen, Deborah. “Sex, Lies and Conversation: Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other?” from You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation (Chapter 2)
Author Biography Links Context Links Thoreau, Henry David. “Nature” (Chapter 11)
Author Biography Links Context Links Thoreau, Henry David. “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” (Part 3)
Author Biography Links Context Links Tocqueville, Alexis de. Excerpt from Democracy in America (Chapter 7) Twain, Mark. “Two Views of the Mississippi” (Chapter 11)
Author Biography Links Updike, John. “Moving Along” from Just Looking (Chapter 10)
Author Biography Links Context Links Walker, Alice. “Am I Blue?” from Living by the Word: Selected Writings 1973-1987 (Chapter 11)
Author Biography Links Walker, Ashley. “What Do Athletes Salaries Say About American Values?” (Chapter 9)
Author Biography Links Context Links Warshow, Robert. “The Gangster as Tragic Hero” (Chapter 9)
Author Biography Links Context Links Watts, J.C. Jr. “Keystone XL Pipeline: A Job-Creating Win for America” (Chapter 11) Welty, Eudora. “One Writer’s Beginnings” (Chapter 10)
Author Biography Links Context Links White, E.B. “Once More to the Lake” from One Man's Meat (Chapter 6)
Author Biography Links Context Links Whitman, Walt. “O Me! O Life!” (Chapter 10) Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest (Part 3)
Author Biography Links Context Links Will, George. “Professional Baseball Players Live Life by ‘The Codes’” (Chapter 9)
Author Biography Links Context Links Wollstonecraft, Mary. “Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (Chapter 8) Woolf, Virginia. Excerpts from A Room Of One's Own (Part 3)
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