75 Readings : An Anthology
by Buscemi, Santi; Smith, CharlotteEdition: 11th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-02-10
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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75 Readingsoffers an outstanding collection of the most popular essays for first-year writing, at an affordable price. The readings represent a wide variety of authors, disciplines, issues, and interests, and, at an affordable price,75 Readingsprovides an excellent value for students..
Table of Contents
| indicates new to the Eleventh Edition | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Narration 1 | |
| Shooting an Elephant Langston Hughes:Salvation | |
| Language | |
| Thirty-eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police | |
| The Plague | |
| Description | |
| Fifth Avenue, Uptown | |
| Once More to the Lake | |
| Marrying Absurd Judith | |
| A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican | |
| Revisiting Sacred Ground | |
| Monuments to Our Better Nature | |
| Process Analysis | |
| Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall | |
| Writing | |
| Alone on the Hilltop | |
| Ehrlich:Chronicles of Ice | |
| Definition | |
| Women’s Beauty: Put Down or Power Source? | |
| What Is Poverty? | |
| The Company Man | |
| Meanings of a Word | |
| The Green-Eyed Monster | |
| Pride | |
| Classification And Division | |
| Predictable Crises of Adulthood | |
| Growing Up Asian in America | |
| The Truth about Lying | |
| Doublespeak | |
| 9 Failures of the Imagination | |
| What Secrets Tell | |
| Comparison And Contrast | |
| :Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts | |
| Talk in the Intimate Relationship | |
| His and Hers | |
| Two Views of the Mississippi Scott | |
| The Men We Carry in Our Minds | |
| Neat People vs. Sloppy People | |
| Two Ways to Belong in America | |
| China's | |
| Can It Have Capatilism Without Democracy? A Prediction | |
| Example And Illustration | |
| A Few Kind Words for Superstition | |
| The Anthropology of Manners | |
| Black Men and Public Space | |
| Clutter Bailey White:Forbidden Things | |
| Silk Parachute | |
| The Search for the World’s | |
| Cause And Effect | |
| White Guilt Barbara | |
| Where Have All the Parents Gone? | |
| If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably | |
| The Arrow of Time | |
| Shattered Sudan David Ewing Duncan:DNA as Destiny | |
| Our Oceans Are Turning into Plastic . . .Are We? | |
| Analogy Plato:The Myth of the Cave | |
| Am I Blue? | |
| Body Ritual Among the Nacirema | |
| The Cosmic Prison | |
| Living Like Weasels | |
| Argument And Persuasion Argument | |
| Economics and Social Responsibility | |
| A Step Back to the Workhouse? | |
| Lifeboat Ethics | |
| The Case Against Helping the Poor | |
| The Details of Life Free Speech Nat Hentoff:Should This Student Have Been Expelled? | |
| Shouting "Fire!" | |
| Global Warming Is Eroding Glacial Ice | |
| Global Warming Is Not a Threat to Polar Ice PERSUASION | |
| A Modest Proposal Martin Luther King, Jr.:I Have a Dream | |
| Bilingual Education: Outdated and Unrealistic Naomi Shahib Nye:To Any Would-Be Terrorists | |
| Why I Want a Wife Medicine | |
| An Indian Father’s Plea | |
| Mixed Strategies | |
| Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs Amy Tan | |
| Lars Eighner:On Dumpster Diving | |
| This Is a Religious War Sandra Cisneros:Only Daughter | |
| Coyote vs. Acme | |
| Test Day | |
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