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Alternative Contents
*Paired Readings
*Thematic Contents
Introduction: Emerging as a Critical Thinker and Academic Writer The Readings Madeleine Albright, Faith and Diplomacy Julia Alvarez, from Once Upon a Quinceanera
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Making Conversation and The Primacy of Practice
*Arwa Aburawa, Veiled Threat: The Guerrilla Graffiti of Princess Hijab *Namit Arora, What Do We Deserve? *Brian Christian, Authenticating
*Patricia Churchland, Networking: Genes, Brains, and Behavior
Dalai Lama, Ethics and the New Genetics e-Pages *Elizabeth Dickinson, The Future of Food [infographic] e-Pages *Charles Duhigg and David Barboza, In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad [multimedia essay] Helen Epstein, AIDS, Inc. e-Pages *Sabrina Rubin Erdely, Kiki Kannibal: The Girl Who Played With Fire [essay with images] Thomas Friedman, The Dell Threory of Conflict Prevention
Francis Fukuyama, Human Dignity
Daniel Gilbert, Reporting Live from Tomorrow *Malcolm Gladwell, Small Change
*Hal Herzog, Animals Like Us *Mara Hvistendahl, Missing: 163 Million Women *Rachel Kadish, Who Is This Man, and Why Is He Screaming? *Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs *Andrew Marantz, My Summer at an Indian Call Center *Steve Mumford, The Things They Carry *Manuel Muoz, Leave Your Name at the Border Rebekah Nathan, Community and Diversity Steve Olson, The End of Race: Hawaii and the Mixing of Peoples Marshall Poe, The Hive *Jayme Poisson, Parents Keep Childs Gender Secret Michael Pollan, The Animals: Practicing Complexity e-Pages *Portfolio [Infographics]
Drake Martinet, Stacy Green, Will You Marry Me? Buckfire & Buckfire, Student Bullying carinsurancecomparison.org, The Real Effects of Drunken Driving *Postsecret, Portfolio of Postcards *Jennifer Pozner, Ghetto Bitches, China Dolls, and Cha Cha Divas Richard Restak, Attention Deficit: The Brain Syndrome of Our Era e-Pages *Alexandra Samuel, "Plug in Better": A Manifesto [essay] *Dan Savage and Urvashi Vaid, It Gets Better and Action Makes it Better Leslie Savan, What's Black, Then White, and Said All Over? *Peter Singer, Visible Man: Ethics in a World Without Secrets James Surowiecki, Committees, Juries, and Teams: The Columbia Disaster and How Small Groups Can Be Made to Work *Tom Vanderbilt, Shut Up, I Can't Hear You: Anonymity, Aggression, and the Problems of Communicating While Driving *David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster Bill Wasik, My Crowd Experiment: The Mob Project e-Pages *Wired.com, Call of Duty: Afghanistan [video] *Wesley Yang, Paper Tigers
Kenji Yoshino, Preface and The New Civil Rights Assignment Sequences SEQUENCE 1 Identity: Rites/Rights of Passage SEQUENCE 2 Cosmopolitanism: Ethical Conflict in a Global Economy SEQUENCE 3 Ethics: Yes We Can, But Should We? The Politics of Science SEQUENCE 4 Communication: The Talking Cure SEQUENCE 5 Art: Revelations, Displays, and Cultures SEQUENCE 6 Communities: Trouble with a Capital "C" SEQUENCE 7 Deep Impact: Technology and Our World SEQUENCE 8 Assimilation: The Melting Not SEQUENCE 9 Putting the "I" in Team: The Practices of Collaboration
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