NARRATION
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| Maya Angelou |
Graduation |
| Judith Ortiz Cofer |
Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto
Rican Childhood |
| Frederick Douglass |
Learning to Read and Write |
| Sophronia Liu |
So Tsi-Fai |
| N. Scott Momaday |
The Way to Rainy Mountain |
| George Orwell |
Shooting an Elephant |
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DESCRIPTION
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| Julia Alvarez |
I Want to Be Miss America |
| Bernard Cooper |
A Clack of Tiny Sparks: Remembrances of a Gay Boyhood |
| Rosemarie Garland-Thomson |
The FDR Memorial: Who Speaks from the Wheelchair? |
| William Least Heat-Moon |
A List of Nothing in Particular |
| E. B. White |
Once More to the Lake |
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EXAMPLE
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| Paula Gunn Allen |
Where I Come From Is Like This |
| Dave Barry |
In Depth, but Shallowly |
| Barbara Ehrenreich |
Serving in Florida |
| Darrell Huff |
How to Lie with Statistics |
| Alice Walker |
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens |
| Elizabeth Wong |
The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl |
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COMPARISON AND CONTRAST
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| Suzanne Britt |
Neat People vs. Sloppy People |
| Bruce Catton |
Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts |
| Dinesh D'Souza |
America the Beautiful: What We're Fighting For |
| Zora Neale Hurston |
How It Feels to Be Colored Me |
| Bharati Mukherjee |
Two Ways to Belong in America |
| Mark Twain |
Two Ways of Seeing a River |
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PROCESS
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| Diane Ackerman |
Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall |
| Lars Eighner |
On Dumpster Diving |
| Peter Elbow |
Desperation Writing |
| S. I. Hayakawa |
How Dictionaries Are Made |
| Jessica Mitford |
Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain |
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DIVISION AND CLASSIFICATION
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| Russell Baker |
The Plot against People |
| Donald Hall |
Four Ways of Reading |
| Emily Prager |
Our Barbies, Ourselves |
| Amy Tan |
Mother Tongue |
| Beverly Daniel Tatum |
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? |
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DEFINITION
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| James Baldwin |
If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? |
| Judy Brady |
I Want a Wife |
| Beverly Gross |
Bitch |
| Stephen King |
Why We Crave Horror Movies |
| Jo Goodwin Parker |
What Is Poverty? |
| James Rachels |
Active and Passive Euthanasia |
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CAUSE AND EFFECT
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| Bernard Lewis |
The Roots of Muslim Rage |
| Margaret Sanger |
The Cause of War |
| Gloria Steinem |
Why Young Women Are More Conservative |
| Marie Winn |
Television: The Plug-In Drug |
| William Zinsser |
College Pressures |
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ARGUMENT
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| Susan Brownmiller |
Let's Put Pornography Back in the Closet |
| William F. Buckley Jr. |
Why Don't We Complain? |
| Thomas Jefferson |
The Declaration of Independence |
| Martin Luther King Jr. |
Letter from Birmingham Jail |
| Daniel Lazare |
Your Constitution Is Killing You |
| Eric Schlosser |
What We Eat |
| Peter Singer |
The Singer Solution to World Poverty |
| Jonathan Swift |
A Modest Proposal |
| Ellen Willis |
Putting Women Back into the Abortion Debate |
| Virginia Woolf |
Professions for Women |
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