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Themes for Composition

EDUCATION


Nathan Glazer Some Very Modest Proposals for the Improvement of American Education
John Holt How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading
Sophronia Liu So Tsi-Fai
Richard Rodriguez The Achievement of Desire
David Sedaris Me Talk Pretty One Day
Fan Shen The Classroom and the Wider Culture: Identity as a Key to Learning English Composition
Theodore R. Sizer What High School Is

FAMILY


Joan Didion Marrying Absurd
Maxine Hong Kingston No Name Woman
William Severini Kowinski Kids in the Mall: Growing up Controlled
Sam Schulman Gay Marriage—and Marriage
Gary Soto The Grandfather
Lindsy Van Gelder Marriage as a Restricted Club
Cornel West On Black Fathering
E. B. White Once More to the Lake

GENDER


Natalie Angier Men, Women, Sex, and Darwin
K. C. Cole Women in Science
Gretel Ehrlich About Men
Beverly Gross Bitch
Lynne Luciano Male Body Image in America
Alleen Pace Nilsen Sexism in English: Embodiment and Language
Betty Rollin Motherhood: Who Needs It?
Paul Theroux Being a Man
Naomi Wolf The Beauty Myth
Virginia Woolf Professions for Women

POP CULTURE


Suzanne Britt That Lean and Hungry Look
Jib Fowles Advertising's Fifteen Basic Appeals
Emily Hegarty Really Cool: Authenticity, Identity, and Popular Music
Patrick Vala-Haynes What Does Online Shopping Cost Us?

RACE AND CULTURE


Paula Gunn Allen Where I Come From Is Like This
Curtis Chang Streets of Gold: The Myth of the Model Minority
Linda Chavez Demystifying Multiculturalism
Judith Ortiz Cofer The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria
Garrett Kaoru Hongo Kubota
Michael Patrick MacDonald Returning to Southie
N. Scott Momaday The Way to Rainy Mountain
Joan Morgan Sex, Lies, and Videos
Bharati Mukherjee Two Ways to Belong in America
Jack Shaheen The Media's Image of Arabs
Alice Walker In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

WORK AND CLASS


Dalton Conley Tip Jars and the New Economy
Barbara Ehrenreich Serving in Florida
Lars Eighner On Dumpster Diving
Amitai Etzioni Working at McDonald's
Milton Friedman Social Responsibility of Business and Labor
Jo Goodwin Parker What Is Poverty?
Anna Quindlen Homeless
Shelby Steele On Being Black and Middle Class
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