75 readings a cross the curriculum

Author

• Anson, Chris

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008

Language

English

ISBN

9780073405766

Series

Subject(s)

• COLLEGE READERS
• ENGLISH LANGUAGEE-RHETORIC

Notes

. Bibliography: p. 547-553. Index: p. 554-573

Abstract

This new offering in McGraw-Hill's line of inexpensive readers gathers seventy-five multidisciplinary essays together at a student-friendly price. Organized around specific disciplines with the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences, 75 Readings Across the Curriculum helps students make connections between disciplines and provides excellent models for writing.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

xviii, 573 p.

Dimension

21 cm.

Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

pt. 1. HUMANITIES. On keeping a notebook / Joan Didion --
Aria / Richard Rodriguez --
Coming to an awareness of language / Malcolm X --
Death of the moth / Virginia Woolf --
Metaphors we live by / George Lakoff and Mark Johnson --
Whose Canon is it anyway / Henry Louis Gates --
No name woman / Maxine Hong Kingston --
How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldua --
The meanings of a word / Gloria Naylor --
Language and literature from a Pueblo Indian perspective / Leslie Marmon Silko --
Politics and the English Language / George Orwell --
Salvation / Langston Hughes --
The way to rainy mountain / N. Scott Momaday --
Follow your bliss / Joseph Campbell --
The rival conceptions of God / C.S. Lewis --
Mystery of Zen / Gilbert Highet --
Culture of disbelief / Stephen L. Carter --
Value of philosophy / Bertrand Russell --
Allegory of the cave / Plato --
Death and justice / Edward I. Koch --
What really ails America / William J. Bennett --
If Hitler asked you to electrocute a stranger would you? Probably / Philip Meyer --
Why we crave horror movies / Stephen King --
Talk TV / Jeanne Albronda Heaton --
Money power elect: where's the hip-hop agenda / Raquel Cepeda --
Sex lies and advertising / Gloria Steinem --
Red, white and beer / Dave Barry --
pt. 2. SOCIAL SCIENCES. Learning to read and write / Frederick Douglass --
Graduation / Maya Angelou --
I just wanna be average / Mike Rose --
Keeping close to home class and education --
Recoloring the campus life / Shelby Steele --
Harmful myth of Asian superiority / Ronald Takaki --
How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston --
Black men and public spaces / Brent Staples --
The myth of the Latin woman: I just met a girl named Maria / Judith Ortiz Cofer --
I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr --
Ain't I a woman / Sojourner Truth --
I'm sorry, I'm not apologizing: conversational rituals / Deborah Tannen --
Beauty: when the other dancer is the self / Alice Walker --
The female body / Margaret Atwood --
The men we carry in our minds / Scott Russell Sanders --
The making of a divorce culture / Barbara Dafoe whitehead --
Why I [still] want a wife / Judy Brady --
On black fathering / Cornel West --
Evan's two moms / Anna Quindlen --
Cinderella: a story of sibling rivalry and Oedipal conflicts / Bruno Bettleheim --
Qualities of the prince / Niccolo Machiavelli --
Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson --
Declaration of sentiments / Elizabeth Cady Stanton --
The meaning of democracy / E.B. White --
Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau --
Letter from Birmingham City Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr --
A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift --
Who makes the clothes we wear / Jesse Jackson --
Nickel-and-dimed: on not getting by in America / Barbara Ehrenreich --
What is poverty / Jo Goodwin Parker --
Gilded lilies and liberal guilt / Patricia J. Williams --
Work in corporate America / Russell Baker --
pt. 3. SCIENCES. Virtual students, digital classroom / Neil Postman --
Virtual community / Howard Rheingold --
Cyberspace: if you don't love it, leave it / Esther Dyson --
Can we know the Universe / Carl Sagan --
Obligation to endure / Rachel Carson --
Saving nature, but only for man / Charles Krauthammer --
Clan of the one-breasted women / Terry T Williams --
The stone horse / Barry Lopez --
Greenest campuses: an idiosyncratic guide / Noel Perrin --
terrifying normalcy of AIDs / Stephen Jay Gould --
Active and passive Euthanasia / James Rachels --
We do abortions here / Sallie Tisdale --
Technology of medicine / Lewis Thomas --
Remarks by the Presidents on Stem Cell Research / George W. Bush.

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