Presenting students with essays by pop culture personalities, this new reader is uniquely poised to grab student interest and get them excited about reading, debating, and writing.
With its mixture of serious and light-hear, Celebrity Writing in America: A Thematic Reader for Composition
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- Celebrity Writing in America: A Thematic Reader for Composition
- Written by author William Vesterman
- Published by Longman, October 2005
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Presenting students with essays by pop culture personalities, this new reader is uniquely poised to grab student interest and get them excited about reading, debating, and writing.
With its mixture of serious and light-hear
- Presenting students with essays by pop culture personalities, this new reader is uniquely poised to grab student interest and get them excited about reading, debating, and writing.With its mixture of serious and light-hearted non-fiction works by celeb
| Rhetorical Contents | xv | | Preface | xxi | | To the Student | xxv | Part I | Constructing and Representing a Private Self | 1 | 1 | Origins and Turning Points | 3 | 1 | Christmas in New York | 6 | 2 | Homemade in Texas | 11 | 3 | It's a Jersey Thing | 15 | 4 | Friendless in Frisco | 18 | 5 | Growing Up Poor in Consuelo | 23 | 6 | My Struggle to Read | 27 | 7 | Responding To Suicide | 31 | 8 | The Mystery and Religion of Music | 36 | 2 | Becoming and Overcoming | 43 | 1 | Being a Queen | 46 | 2 | Caddy Shot | 51 | 3 | "Now I'm Concerned" | 55 | 4 | Back in the Saddle | 62 | 5 | Cinderella's Stepsisters | 65 | 6 | Weight Training | 69 | 7 | On First Looking Into Emily Post's Etiquette | 75 | 8 | My First Album | 81 | 9 | Procrastination | 86 | 3 | Significant Others | 95 | 1 | George Harrison | 97 | 2 | With Woody Allen, a House Is Not a Home | 100 | 3 | Don't Block the Blessings | 104 | 4 | Michael O'Donoghue | 111 | 5 | Impotent Demon | 115 | 6 | Eulogy for Tito Puente | 119 | 7 | Do it for Someone You Love | 121 | 8 | Personnel: Up Close and Personal | 123 | Part II | Constructing a Public Persona | 129 | 4 | Finding a Language and a Style | 131 | 1 | A Text for Textbook Writers | 133 | 2 | %@* | 136 | 3 | Rudeness Can Be Lethal | 139 | 4 | Rockology | 142 | 5 | On the One | 145 | 6 | My Favorite Guys | 150 | 7 | Got Milk? | 154 | 8 | Writing Is Easy! | 156 | 9 | On Writing | 162 | 5 | Self-Presentation | 171 | 1 | Commencement Address at William and Mary | 173 | 2 | Give Fur the Cold Shoulder | 179 | 3 | On Nudity | 181 | 4 | Rainbow Imperative | 187 | 5 | Where in the Hell Can I Find a Muumuu? | 192 | 6 | White People | 197 | 7 | We Teach People How to Treat Us | 202 | 6 | A Business-like Manner | 209 | 1 | Let's Talk About Dollars and Cents | 213 | 2 | The Art of Negotiation | 217 | 3 | Fashioning Sales | 221 | 4 | The Nike Deal | 227 | 5 | Problems of a Two-Career Family | 231 | 6 | Art and Money in Movies | 235 | 7 | "Free" Music Can Free the Artist | 238 | 8 | Adopt the Web Lifestyle | 241 | 9 | Bringing Beloved to the Screen | 245 | Part III | Making a Lasting Contribution | 257 | 7 | Serving Your Country and Your World | 259 | 1 | Black Tankers of World War II | 262 | 2 | The Duties of Citizenship | 266 | 3 | Mission to Ecuador | 274 | 4 | Conservatives Promote Independence | 282 | 5 | Use the Media For Public Health! | 288 | 6 | The Big Apple's Big Blowup | 292 | 7 | Why Does Rosie Perez Wear the Bracelet? | 295 | 8 | Letter from Birmingham Jail | 297 | 8 | Classic Performers | 319 | 1 | True Tales of the Miss America Pageant | 322 | 2 | Sex, Lies, & Advertising | 329 | 3 | Steven Spielberg: The Moviemaker | 350 | 4 | A Slice of History | 354 | 5 | My Most Exciting Picture | 358 | 6 | In Defense of Rock and Roll | 370 | 7 | Changing Times | 380 | 8 | Springtime for the Music Man in Me | 381 | 9 | Race and the Record | 389 | 10 | Why Does Barry Bonds Wear the Bracelet? | 393 | | Celebrity Web Sites | 397 | | Index | 401 |
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