ABORTION: PRO AND CON
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| Commonweal |
Too Many Abortions |
| Ellen Willis |
Putting Women Back into the Abortion Debate |
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ADVERTISING: IGNORE IT IF YOU
CAN
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| Jib Fowles |
Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals |
| Kalle Lasn |
Hype |
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ANIMAL RESEARCH: PRO AND CON
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| Peggy Carlson |
Why We Don't Need Animal Experimentation |
| Heloisa Sabin |
Animal Research Saves Human Lives |
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ARGUMENTS FOR ENVIRONMENTALISM
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| Rachel Carson |
The Obligation to Endure |
| Edward O. Wilson |
Is Humanity Suicidal? |
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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: PRO AND CON
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| David Bruck |
The Death Penalty |
| Edward I. Koch |
Death and Justice: How Capital Punishment Affirms Life |
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CIVILIZATIONS IN CONFLICT
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| Bernard Lewis |
The Roots of Muslim Rage |
| Edward Said |
Clashing Civilizations? |
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CONFORMITY: TWO CASE STUDIES
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| Solomon E. Asch |
Opinions and Social Pressure |
| Stanley Milgram |
The Perils of Obedience |
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THE DANGERS OF DOUBLESPEAK
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| William Lutz |
The World of Doublespeak |
| George Orwell |
Politics and the English Language |
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DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE
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| Thomas Jefferson |
The Declaration of Independence |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions |
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DRAFTING PROSE
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| Peter Elbow |
Desperation Writing |
| Anne Lamott |
Shitty First Drafts |
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DRUG LEGALIZATION: PRO AND CON
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| William J. Bennett |
Should Drugs Be Legalized? |
| Milton Friedman |
Prohibition and Drugs |
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FREE SPEECH: PRO AND CON
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| Richard Delgado |
Hate Cannot Be Tolerated |
| Susan Jacoby |
Notes from a Free-Speech Junkie |
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THE "FRESHMAN ESSAY":
TWO CRITIQUES
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| Wayne C. Booth |
Boring from Within: The Art of the Freshman Essay |
| Paul Roberts |
How to Say Nothing in Five Hundred Words |
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GAY MARRIAGE: DIFFERING VIEWS IN
FAVOR
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| Sam Schulman |
Gay Marriage—and Marriage |
| Lindsy Van Gelder |
Marriage as a Restricted Club |
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HIGH SCHOOL EDUCUATION: PROBLEMS
AND SOLUTIONS
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| Nathan Glazer |
Some Very Modest Proposals for the Improvement of American
Education |
| Theodore R. Sizer |
What High School Is |
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HOMELESSNESS TWO VIEWS
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| Lars Eighner |
On Dumpster Diving |
| Anna Quindlen |
Homeless |
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THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE STATE
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| Martin Luther King Jr. |
Letter from Birmingham Jail |
| Plato |
Crito |
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LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL IDENTITY
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| Gloria Anzaldúa |
How to Tame a Wild Tongue |
| Richard Rodriguez |
The Achievement of Desire |
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LANGUAGE TRADITIONS
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| James Baldwin |
If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? |
| Leslie Marmon Silko |
Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective |
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LEARNING A NEW LANGUAGE
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| Perri Klass |
Learning the Language |
| David Sedaris |
Me Talk Pretty One Day |
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LEAVING THE LANGUAGE OF HOME
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| Barbara Mellix |
From Outside, In |
| Richard Rodriguez |
Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood |
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LOOKING "AMERICAN"
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| Julia Alvarez |
I Want to Be Miss America |
| Grace Suh |
The Eye of the Beholder |
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MAKING THE CASE FOR EVOLUTION
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| Charles Darwin |
Understanding Natural Selection |
| Stephen Jay Gould |
Evolution as Fact and Theory |
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MALE BODY IMAGE: PERSONAL AND
CULTURAL VIEWS
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| Lynne Luciano |
Male Body Image in America |
| John Updike |
The Disposable Rocket |
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MARKING GENDER
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| Aaron H. Devor |
Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meanings of
Gender |
| Deborah Tannen |
There Is No Unmarked Woman |
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MEDIA STEREOTYPES: TWO EXAMPLES
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| Joan Morgan |
Sex, Lies, and Videos |
| Jack Shaheen |
The Media's Image of Arabs |
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MULTICULTURALISM: PRO AND CON
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| Linda Chavez |
Demystifying Multiculturalism |
| Ishmael Reed |
America: The Multinational Society |
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MYTHS OF BEAUTY: FEMALE AND MALE
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| Lynne Luciano |
Male Body Image in America |
| Naomi Wolf |
The Beauty Myth |
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"NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND": PRO AND CON
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| Rod Paige |
Testing Has Raised Students' Expectations, and Progress in Learning Is Evident Nationwide |
| Reg Weaver |
NCLB's Excessive Reliance on Testing Is Unrealistic,
Arbitrary, and Frequently Unfair |
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OUR DOLLS, OURSELVES
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| Katha Pollitt |
Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls |
| Emily Prager |
Our Barbies, Ourselves |
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PASSIVITY AND POPULAR CULTURE
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| William Severini Kowinski |
Kids in the Mall: Growing up Controlled |
| Marie Winn |
Television: The Plug-In Drug |
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POVERTY: IS IT INEVITABLE?
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| Garrett Hardin |
Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor |
| Peter Singer |
The Singer Solution to World Poverty |
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THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE
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| Stephen Jay Gould |
Evolution as Fact and Theory |
| Thomas S. Kuhn |
The Route to Normal Science |
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REASONS FOR WRITING
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| Joan Didion |
On Keeping a Notebook |
| George Orwell |
Why I Write |
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REGIMENTING EDUCATION
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| John Holt |
How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading |
| Theodore R. Sizer |
What High School Is |
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REMEMBERING HOME
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| Paula Gunn Allen |
Where I Come From Is Like This |
| N. Scott Momaday |
The Way to Rainy Mountain |
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SCIENTIFIC MYTHMAKING
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| Lee Ann Fisher Baron |
The Influence of "Junk Science" and the Role of
Science Education |
| Emily Martin |
The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance
Based on Stereotypical Male–Female Roles |
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STRUGGLING FOR LITERACY
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| Frederick Douglass |
Learning to Read and Write |
| Malcolm X |
Coming to an Awareness of Language |
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TORTURE: IS IT PERMISSIBLE?
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| Philip B. Heymann |
Torture Should Not Be Authorized |
| Clinton R. Van Zandt |
It Should Be Permissible to Torture Suspected Terrorists to
Gather Information |
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