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