The Arlington Reader: Contexts and Connections - 3rd Edition Book

Preface for InstructorsIntroduction: Reading and Writing in Context
     Reading in Context
     Writing in Context  CHAPTER 1. SPEAKING, READING, WRITINGHow does language make us human? *Paula Scher, Fogelson-Lubliner, and Neville Brody and Jeff Knowles, Better Signs of Trouble [icons]Eudora Welty, Listening Amy Tan, Mother Tongue Leslie Marmon Silko, Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective Sherman Alexie, The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me Richard Wright, From Fighting Words Scott McCloud, Reading the Comics Joan Didion, On Keeping a NotebookContexts for On Keeping a Notebook Why I Write -- Tom Wolfe, The New Journalism -- Last Words o Interview (1999) -- Wendy Bishop, Revision is a Recursive Process -- Katherine Anne Porter, You Do Not Create a Style. You Work…Peter Elbow, Freewriting
| Paired Readings: Why We Write
| Stephen King, Write or Die
| *Elie Wiesel, Why I Write: Making No Become Yes
*Philip Niemeyer, Picturing the Past Ten Years [graphics]
Marjorie Agosín, Always Living in Spanish
*David Brown, Science Reporting and Evidence-Based Journalism  CHAPTER 2. IDENTITY WITH ATTITUDEWho am I, and why does it matter?  Franz Boas and George Hunt, An “Authentic” Indian [photograph]
Eric Liu, Notes of a Native Speaker Esmeralda Santiago, Jíbara Bobbie Ann Mason, Being Country Art Spiegelman, Mein Kampf (My Struggle) [graphic essay]
Maxine Hong Kingston, On Discovery Sherman Alexie, What Sacagawea Means to Me N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain Contexts for The Way to Rainy Mountain Rainy Mountain [photograph] -- East of My Grandmother's House -- I Invented History -- Disturbing the Spirits: Indian Bones Must Stay in the Ground -- The Native Voice -- The Whole Journey -- Three Voices o Paula Gunn Allen, Voice of the Turtle: American Indian Literature, 1900-1970 -- Portrait of N. Scott Momaday [photograph] *Heather King, The Closest to Love We Ever Get
| Paired Readings: Double Consciousness
| James Baldwin Stranger in the Village
| W.E.B. Du Bois, The “Veil” of Self-Consciousness Sojourner Truth, Ain't I a Woman?
Bob Daemmrich, Nobody Knows I'm Gay [photograph]
Gloria Anzaldúa, From Beyond Traditional Notions of Identity Deirdre N. McCloskey, Yes, Ma'am  CHAPTER 3. RELATIONSHIPS AND LIFE CHOICESLife, love, work, play-what's the best balance?  Kim Warp, Rising Sea Levels--An Alternative Theory [cartoon]
Anna Quindlen, Anniversary
*Brian Doyle, Joyas Voladoras E.B. White, Once More to the Lake
*Gregory Orr, Return to Hayneville Scott Russell Sanders, Under the Influence: Paying the Price of My Father's Booze Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens Contexts for In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens James Baldwin, Autobiographical Notes -- Amiri Baraka, The Myth of Negro Literature -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, The Negro Family: The Case for National Action -- My Grandmother Takes in Washing [poster] -- Interview (1983) -- Toni Morrison, The Pain of Being Black | Paired Readings: Working With Your Hands
| Barbara Ehrenreich, Serving in Florida
| Malcolm Gladwell, The Physical Genius Mary Ellen Mark, The Damm Family in Their Car, Los Angeles, 1987 [photograph]
*Matthew B. Crawford, The Case for Working with Your Hands
*Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women”  CHAPTER 4. EDUCATION AND THE AMERICAN CHARACTERWhat do we teach? What do we learn? And why does this matter?  Simon McComb, Education in Open Air [photograph]
*Stanley Fish, Gerald Graff, James MacGregor Burns, Nancy Hopkins, College Advice, From People Who Have Been There Awhile David Sedaris, What I Learned And What I Said at Princeton
*Charles M Schultz, Peanuts: Slow Reading [cartoon]
Jonathan Kozol, The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society Deborah Franklin, “Informed Consent” - What Information? What Consent?
*Social Psychology Network, Tips on Informed Consent Dave Leonhardt, The College Dropout Boom Richard Rodriguez, Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood
Contexts for “Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood”
Rodriguez at Eighteen [photograph] -- Interview Excerpt -- Slouching towards Los Angeles -- Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude -- Rodriguez as a Mask [photograph] Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy -- Paul Zweig, The Child of Two Cultures o Interview (1999) Will Counts, Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, September 4, 1957 [photograph]
| Paired Readings: Knowing the World
| Plato, The Allegory of the Cave
| Howard Gardner, Who Owns Intelligence?
*Marjane Satrapi , The Convocation Linda Simon, The Naked Source  *CHAPTER 5. WIRED-BE CAREFUL WHAT WE WISH FORWhat are the consequences of life in the high-tech fast lane?  Roz Chast, The IMs of Romeo and Juliet [cartoon]
Denis Baron, The New Technologies of the Word
*Nicholas Carr, Is Google Making Us Stupid?
*Ray Kurzweil, Frontiers
*Sherry Turkle , How Computers Change the Way We Think
*Contexts for “How Computers Change the Way We Think”
From The Human Spirit in a Computer Culture -- From Life on the Screen: Identity and The Age of the Internet -- Larry Williams, Multitasking Man -- Inner History: Collection and ReCollection in the Digital Archive -- James Gleick, from Cyber-Neologiferation -- John Hockenberry, from The Blogs of War -- William Deresiewicz, from Faux Friendship  *G. Anthony Gorry, Empathy in the Virtual World
| *Paired Readings: Wired Privacy
| *Esther Dyson, Reflections on Privacy 2.0
| *Daniel J. Solove, The End of Privacy?
*Cathy Guisewite, We Saw Paris [cartoon]
*Amitai Etzioni with Radhika Bhat, Second Chances, Social Forgiveness, and the Internet Michael J. Bugeja, Facing the Facebook
*Joseph Fuller, The Terminator Comes to Wall Street  CHAPTER 6. SCIENCE--DISCOVERY, INVENTION, CONTROVERSYIf we're so smart, why don't we live in utopia?  Henry Groskinsky, Replaceable You [photograph]
Ellen Goodman, Cure or Quest for Perfection?
Bill McKibben, Designer Genes
*Freeman Dyson, Our Biotech Future
*Lewis Thomas, The Technology of Medicine Stephen Jay Gould, Evolution as Fact and Theory Contexts for Evolution as Fact and Theory Thomas Henry Huxley, Evolution and Ethics -- Phillip E. Johnson, The Unraveling of Scientific Materialism -- James Gleick, Stephen Jay Gould: Breaking Tradition with Darwin *Marisa Acocella Marchetto, How Chemo Works [frame from graphic memoir]
Charles Darwin, Understanding Natural Selection
| Paired Readings: Bad Science
| Robert L. Park, The Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science
| Stanley Fish, Academic Cross-Dressing: How Intelligent Design Gets its Arguments from the |Left Natalie Angier, Men, Women, Sex, And Darwin Edward O. Wilson, Microbes 3, Humans 2  CHAPTER 7. ETHICSWhat principles do-and should-we live by?  Leonard Freed, Martin Luther King Jr. after Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Baltimore, 1963 [photograph]
Jeffrey Wattles, The Golden Rule-One or Many, Gold or Glitter?
John Donne, Meditation 17 (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
*United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights Martin Luther King, Jr. , Letter from Birmingham Jail Contexts for Letter from Birmingham Jail Eight Clergymen's Statement -- Brooks Hays, A Southern Moderate Speaks -- King and Abernathy Under Arrest [photograph] -- King and Abernathy [photograph] -- T. Olin Binkley, Southern Baptist Seminaries -- Will Herberg, A Religious 'Right' to Violate the Law? -- Boycotts Will Be Used -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Defines “Black Power”George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant Lynda Barry, Hate [graphic essay]
| *Paired Readings: Ethics of Eating and Cooking
| *Michael Pollan, An Ethic of Eating
| *Barbara Kingsolver, Home Cooking
*Edward Hoagland, Children Are Diamonds Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother [photograph]
Peter Singer, The Singer Solution to World Poverty Kelly Ritter, The Economics of Authorship: Online Paper Mills, Student Writers, and First-Year Composition
*Natasha Singer and Duff Wilson, Medical Editors Push for Ghostwriting Crackdown  *CHAPTER 8. THE ENVIRONMENTWill we save it or lose it? Will this be the end of the world as we know it?
*James P. Blair, Haiti and the Dominican Republic [photograph]
Terry Tempest Williams, The Clan of One-Breasted Women
*Al Gore, A Planetary Emergency
*Wangari Maathai, The Green Belt Movement
*Vaclav Havel, Our Moral Footprint Henry David Thoreau, Where I Lived and What I Lived For Annie Dillard, Heaven and Earth in Jest Contexts for “Heaven and Earth in Jest”
Annie Dillard [photograph] -- Henry David Thoreau, from Journal -- from The Koran --
Blaise Pascal, Pensées -- Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco -- Wendell Berry, A Secular Pilgrimage Rachel Carson, The Obligation to Endure
| Paired Readings: Troubled Ecosystems
| William E. Rees, Life in the Lap of Luxury as Ecosystems Collapse
| *Sandra Postel, Troubled Waters
*Paul Saunders, Kangerlua Glacier Melting
*Jared Diamond, The World as Polder
*Wendell Berry, Faustian Economics
 
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