Double Exposures: Readings for Developing Effective Writing Book

1. Choices And Consequences.

"The Road Not Taken," Robert Frost.

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Ursula K. Le Guin.

Trip into Limbo, Anonymous.

AIDS Outweighed by the Desire to Have a Child, Jane Perlez.

U.S. Flag at Center of Clash in Seattle, Bergen Record.

Congress Begins to Burn Over Flag Issue And Still No Honest Apology, Elaine Miller Holstein.

I Have a Dream, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Strange Fruit, Lewis Allan.

Black Youth Is Killed by Whites; Brooklyn Attack Is Called Racial, Ralph Blumenthal.

To Find a Home, Talila Marcus.

Lonely Men, James Kayal.

The Land of the Free, Tracy Maltby.

A Second Chance, a Student Essay, Anonymous.

Confession, Anonymous.

Doctor Tells of First Death Using His Suicide Device, Lisa Belkin.

From The Ambivalence of Abortion, Linda Bird Francke.

Hills Like White Elephants, Ernest Hemingway.

From A Defense of Abortion, Judith Jarvis Thomson.

Seattle Speaks for the Earth, Chief Seattle.

From The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson.

Crisis in the Atmosphere, WQED-TV/Pittsburgh through the Public Broadcasting System.

Computers and Kids: The Good News, Gilbert Levin.

Biological Weapons: A Dark Side of the New Genetics, David Suzuki and Peter Knudtson.

2. Men and Women, Women and Men.

Greeting Card Art, Hallmark and Ambassador.

Soliloquy, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.

Society's Rules, Richard Delgado.
College Students Discuss SexualActivity.

To Whom It May Concern, Patricia Wilson.
Ad Images.

The Girls in Their Summer Dresses, Irwin Shaw.

The Man I Love, George Gershwin.

The Girl That I Marry, Irving Berlin.

Rope, Katherine Anne Porter.

The Clod and the Pebble, William Blake.

Three Poems, Dorothy Parker.

Flying Lessons, Patricia Loftus.

I Am Less Without My Friend, Anonymous.

A Bishop Discusses Homosexuality, John Shelby Spong.

3. Transitions.

It Was a Very Good Year, Ervin Drake.

Santa, Craig Lo Grand.

Take a Giant Step, Anonymous.

High School Reunion, James Carr Wilkie.

With This Ring, Roberta Nobleman.

The Firstborn, Laurie Lee.

The Eighth Wonder, Carol Gabel.

"A Child is a Guest in the House," Betty-Ann Wilkie.

Reflections, Frances Harriet Mason.

My Father Sits in the Dark, Jerome Weidman.

Bitterness for Three Sleepwalkers, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Women Caught in the Middle of Two Generations, Public Radio Interview.

"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night," Dylan Thomas.

The Power of Wishing, Carol Gabel.

Toy Soldiers, Anonymous.

Yours, Mary Robison.

The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin.

Goodbye, Dakota, Betty-Ann Wilkie.

4. Extensions.

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, John Keats.

The Result Is Mad When Urban Wastes Become Public Art, J. Fritz Lanham.

Pictures on the Piano, a Student Group.

For Piano Alone, André Maurois.

From Off Balance: The Real World of Ballet, Susan Gordon.

A Life Defiant, Despite AIDS, Jane Gross.

A Visit with Wolf Kahn, Isabella Halsted.

From Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe, Laurie Lisle.

A Conversation with Erica, an interview.

Robert Merrill: A Voice of America, an interview.

The Entertainer, Billy Joel.

Martha and Myth, Walter Sorell.

Renaissance Man of Film, Mildred Davies Gilbert.

A Tale of Two Cultures, Maia Wechsler.

Remarks at Amherst College Upon Receiving an Honorary Degree, John F. Kennedy.

5. Double Exposures Refocused.