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Short Essays on Popular Themes

ETHICS: WHAT WE THINK IS RIGHT


Milton Friedman Prohibition and Drugs
Vicki Hearne What's Wrong with Animal Rights?
Langston Hughes Salvation
Anna Quindlen Homeless
Heloisa Sabin Animal Research Saves Human Lives

IDENTITY: WHO WE ARE


Julia Alvarez I Want to Be Miss America
Suzanne Britt Neat People vs. Sloppy People
Edwidge Danticat We Are Ugly, but We Are Here
Noel Perrin The Androgynous Man
Katha Pollitt Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls
Grace Suh The Eye of the Beholder
Sojourner Truth A'n't I a Woman?

LANGUAGE: HOW WE USE WORDS


James Baldwin If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?
Peter Elbow Desperation Writing
Anne Lamott Shitty First Drafts

POPULAR CULTURE: HOW WE ENTERTAIN OURSELVES


Ronnie Dugger Corporate Takeover of the Media
Linda Kulman Materialism: Our Consuming Interest
Kalle Lasn Hype
Joan Morgan Sex, Lies, and Videos
Emily Prager Our Barbies, Ourselves
Jack Shaheen The Media's Image of Arabs

SCIENCE: HOW WE UNDERSTAND THE PHYSICAL WORLD


Diane Ackerman Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall
Lee Ann Fisher Baron The Influence of "Junk Science" and the Role of Science Education
Rachel Carson Fable for Tomorrow
K. C. Cole Women in Science
James H. Jeans Why the Sky Looks Blue

WORK: WHAT WE DO


Dalton Conley Tip Jars and the New Economy
Amitai Etzioni Working at McDonald's
Milton Friedman Social Responsibility of Business and Labor
Molly Ivins Living Wage Fight Goes On
Perri Klass Learning the Language
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