NARRATION
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| Kate Chopin |
The Story of an Hour |
| Martin Gansberg |
Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police |
| Langston Hughes |
Salvation |
| Sophronia Liu |
So Tsi-Fai |
| Gary Soto |
The Grandfather |
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DESCRIPTION
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| Francis Bacon |
Of Studies |
| Joan Didion |
On Going Home |
| John Keats |
Ode on a Grecian Urn |
| Geoffrey Nunberg |
Blogging in Global Lunchroom |
| Cynthia Ozick |
The Seam of the Snail |
| Virginia Woolf |
The Death of the Moth |
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EXAMPLE
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| Diane Ackerman |
We Are All a Part of Nature |
| Gwendolyn Brooks |
The Bean Eaters |
| Roald Hoffman |
The Chemist |
| Susan Jacoby |
Notes from a Free-Speech Junkie |
| Jamaica Kincaid |
Girl |
| Jack Shaheen |
The Media's Image of Arabs |
| Sojourner Truth |
A'n't I a Woman? |
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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 |
| John Ciardi |
Is Everybody Happy? |
| Michael Dorris |
For Indians, No Thanksgiving |
| Robert Frost |
The Road Not Taken |
| Mark Twain |
Two Ways of Seeing a River |
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PROCESS
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| Sue Hubbell |
The Beekeeper |
| James H. Jeans |
Why the Sky Looks Blue |
| Henry Reed |
Naming of Parts |
| Lewis Thomas |
On Natural Death |
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DIVISION AND CLASSIFICATION
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| Russell Baker |
The Plot against People |
| Lee Ann Fisher Baron |
The Influence of "Junk Science" and the Role of
Science Education |
| Michael Snider |
The Intimacy of Blogs |
| 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 |
| Peter Elbow |
Desperation Writing |
| Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux |
On Friendship |
| Marianne Moore |
Poetry |
| Noel Perrin |
The Androgynous Man |
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CAUSE AND EFFECT
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| Deb Aronson |
The Nurture of Nature |
| Dalton Conley |
Tip Jars and the New Economy |
| Ronnie Dugger |
Corporate Takeover of the Media |
| Amitai Etzioni |
Working at McDonald's |
| Langston Hughes |
Harlem |
| Katha Pollitt |
Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls |
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ARGUMENT
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| Susan Brownmiller |
Let's Put Pornography Back in the Closet |
| Milton Friedman |
Social Responsibility of Business and Labor |
| Vicki Hearne |
What's Wrong with Animal Rights? |
| Michael Levin |
The Case for Torture |
| Andrew Marvell |
To His Coy Mistress |
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