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Preface I. READING IMAGES
Scott McCloud: The Language of Comics
E. M. Forster: Art for Art’s Sake
Susan Sontag: Regarding the Pain of Others
**David Wall: It is and It Isn’t: Stereotypes, Advertising, and Narrative
Peggy Orenstein: What’s Wrong With Cinderella?
**Chris Sullentrop: Transformers
**Margaret Atwood: Pornography
Color Art Portfolio
II. CONSCIOUS READING, INTELLIGENT WRITING
Notebook
Stephen King: On Writing
Malcolm X: A Homemade Education
Flannery O’Connor: The Teaching of Literature
Personal Writing
Virginia Woolf: The Angel in the House
Essays
Joseph Williams and Greg Colomb: Argument, Critical Thinking, and Rationality
Patricia Kubis and Robert M. Howland: How to Develop a Good Style
**Martha Brockenbrough: Does IM Make U Dum?
**Katie Hafner: Seeing Corporate Fingerprints in Wikipedia Edits
**Julie J.C.H. Ryan: Student Plagiarism in an Online World
Fiction
**Henry David Thoreau: Reading
Poetry
**Taylor Mali: The The Impotence of Proofreading
III. PERSONAL VALUES AND RELATIONSHIPS
Notebook
**Dan Quayle: Restoring Basic Values
Constance Matthiessen: Harry Potter and Divorce Among the Muggles
Personal Writing
Colin Powell: The Good Soldier
Judith Ortiz Cofer: Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
Mohandas K. Gandhi: My Faith in Nonviolence
Jhumpa Lahiri: My Hyphenated Identity
Nancy Mairs: On Being a Cripple
Alfred Lubrano: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams
Essays
Benoit Denizet-Lewis: Friends, “Friends with Benefits,” and the Benefits of the Local Mall
Carson McCullers: Loneliness … an American Malady
Fiction
Kate Chopin: A Respectable Woman
Poetry
**Rudyard Kipling: If
T. S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Anne Sexton, Her Kind
William Shakespeare: Sonnet 29, Sonnet 116
IV. EDUCATION
Notebook
**Samuel G. Freedman: New Class(room) War: Teacher versus Technology
**Maggie Jackson: Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
Personal Writing
**Katha Pollitt: Summers of Our Discontent
Essays
**Plato: The Allegory of the Cave
**Earl Shorris: Education as a Weapon in the Hands of the Restless Poor
**Drew Gilpin Faust: The University’s Crisis of Purpose
Lewis Thomas: The Humanities and Science
Bruno Bettelheim: The Child’s Need for Magic
Fiction
Anton Chekov: The Bet
Poetry
Langston Hughes: Theme for English B
V. POPULAR CULTURE
Notebook
**Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan: Why Vampires Never Die
**Christine Seifert: Bite Me! (Or Don’t!): Twilight as Abstinence Porn
Personal Writing
**Michael Albernethy: Male-Bashing on TV
**Gloria Steinem: Wonder Woman
Essays
Steven Levy: Facebook Grows Up
**Jay Weiner: How to Take Back Sports
**Sherry Turkle: Cuddling Up to Cyborg Babies
Joe Woodard: Pumped, Pierced, Painted, and Pagan
Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation
Fiction
Steven Moffat: “What I Did on My Christmas Holidays” By Sally Sparrow
Poetry
John Lennon: Working Class Hero
VI. ART AND SOCIETY
Notebook
Melissa Etheridge: Music as a Safe Haven
Marilyn Manson: Columbine: Who’s Fault is It?
**Charles Taylor: The Morality Police
Personal Writing
**Ludwig von Beethoven: The Helligenstadt Testament
Glenn Kurtz: Practicing
Essays
**Andrea Frasier: Why I Would Rather Have a Day Job
**George Orwell: Politics and the English Language
Roger Ebert: Great Movies
**Roger Rosenblatt: What’s That to Us?
Pete Rojas: Bootleg Culture
Fiction
Willa Cather:The Sculptor’s Funeral
Poetry
Sonia Sanchez: A Poem for Ella Fitzgerald
Walt Whitman:
Poets to Come
VII. SCIENCE AND CIVILIZATION
Notebook
**David Smith: 2050, and Immortality is Within Our Grasp
Paul Davies: How to Build a Time Machine
Personal Writing
**Tom Wolfe: One Giant Leap to Nowhere
Essays
Stephen Jay Gould: Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of the Dinosaurs
David Quammen: Was Darwin Wrong?
Nicholas Kristof: Warm, Warmer, Warmest
**James Howard Kunstler: The Long Emergency
Steve D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner: Freakenomics: The Hidden Side of Everything
Fiction Alan Lightman: A Place Where Time Stands Still
Poetry
**Affonso Romano De’Sant Anna:Letter to the Dead
VIII. FREEDOM AND HUMAN DIGNITY
Notebook
Anya Kamenetz: Generation Debt
**Barbara Ehrenreich: Selling in Minnesota
Personal Writing
**Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letter from Birmingham Jail
Essays Thomas Jefferson: The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of the Rights of Man
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Coffin Mott: Seneca Falls Convention
Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address
William Faulkner: Nobel Prize Award Speech
Chief Seattle: Speech on the Signing of the Treaty of Port Elliott, 1855
Cornel West: On Affirmative Action
**Andrew Sullivan: A Conservative Case for Gay Marriage
**Mary Gordon: A Moral Choice
Fiction
Edwidge Danticat: Breath, Eyes, Memory
Poetry
Reynolds Price: Tom, Dying of AIDS
Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach
Taha Muhammad Ali: Revenge
IX. GLOBALISM, NATIONALISM, AND CULTURAL IDENTITY
Notebook
**Barack Obama: A Lasting Peace
Anthony Shadid: Legacy of the Prophet
Wesley Clark: The Next War
Howard Gardner: Leading Beyond the Nation-State
Personal Writing
Chris Hedges: The Ten Commandments in America
**Salman Rushdie: Imagine There’s No Heaven
Essays
**Peggy Noonan: The Case for Getting Off Base
Niccolo Machiavelli: Of Cruelty and Clemency, and
Whether It Is Better to Be Loved or Feared
Aung San Suu Kyi: Freedom from Fear
**Oscar Wilde: The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Anna Quindlen: Immigration: Newcomers by Numbers
Fiction
Sherman Alexie: What You Pawn I Will Redeem
Poetry
Sarah Littlecrow-Russell: Apology to the Wasps
Wilfred Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est
