| Preface for Instructors |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction |
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Energy Problems: The Erosion of Confidence |
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We Have Seen the State of Our Union |
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Exploring Images of The Promise of America |
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| 1 The Promise of Social Equality & the Right to Vote |
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GEORGE MASON & THOMAS JEFFERSON |
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The Virginia Declaration of Rights |
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The Declaration of Independence |
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Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions |
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Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage |
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Address to the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association |
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FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT |
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The Four Freedoms: Address to Congress |
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Ask Not What Your Country Can Do for You |
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For the Equal Rights Amendment |
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President's Farewell Address to the American People: We Have Made a Difference |
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Women's Rights Are Human Rights |
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Exploring Images of The Promise of Social Equality and the Right to Vote |
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| 2 The Promise of Education |
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Our Schools and Our Children |
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Pedagogy and Political Commitment: A Comment |
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Reverse Racism, or How the Pot Got to Call the Kettle Black |
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Marketers Are Storming the Schoolhouse |
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Black College in (White) America |
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Education Reform: Teachers and Schools |
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Which Number Will You Be? |
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Where Everyone Can Overachieve |
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The Perfect Law: No Child Left Behind and the Assault on Public Schools |
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Exploring Images of The Promise of Education |
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| 3 The Promise of a Free Press |
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EDWARD S. HERMAN AND NOAM CHOMSKY |
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NEIL POSTMAN AND STEVE POWERS |
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The Bias of Language, the Bias of Pictures |
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All the News That's Fit to Bully |
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"They Think You're a Traitor" |
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You're Only As Liberal As the Man Who Owns You |
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Common Media for an Uncommon Nation |
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The Importance of Communication in a Global World: Not "Me to Me to Me" |
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DANIEL W. DREZNER AND HENRY FARRELL |
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Technology and the Rule of Law in the Digital Age |
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Exploring Images of The Promise of a Free Press |
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| 4 The Promise of Health |
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The Clan of One-Breasted Women |
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Can Managed Care Make a Difference?: Chart a Sound Course with Ethically Guiding Principles |
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The Future of Aging: Social Consequences of the Biomedical Revolution |
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Africa Is Different from a Poor American Neighborhood: AIDS as a World-Wide Socioeconomic Issue |
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Gender and Ritual: Giving Birth the American Way |
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The Moral-Hazard Myth: The Bad Idea Behind Our Failed Health-Care System |
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Exploring Images of The Promise of Health |
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| 5 The Promise of Work and Success |
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The Men We Carry in Our Minds |
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Losing: An American Tradition |
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Nobody Beats the Whiz: "What Do People Fear More Than Death?" |
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How Corporate Law Inhibits Social Responsibility: A Corporate Lawyer Proposes a "Code for Corporate Citizenship" in State Law |
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Workers of the World, Relax: The Pursuit of Happiness |
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Everyday Low Wages: The Hidden Price We All Pay for Wal-Mart |
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In Which I Am Offered a "Job" |
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Exploring Images of The Promise of Work and Success |
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| 6 The Promises of Equality and Civil Liberty |
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Letter from Birmingham Jail |
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On the Death of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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America's Best Days are Yet to Come |
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Lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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The Church of Civil Rights |
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A More Perfect Union: How the Founding Fathers Would Have Handled Gay Marriage |
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They're Coming for Your Land |
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We're Missing Some Senators |
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Exploring Images of The Promise of Equality and Civil Liberty |
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| 7 America's Promises |
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Keep America Rolling: Emerging Better, Stronger, and More Confident |
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Just War—or a Just War? |
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Torture: Thinking About the Unthinkable |
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United States and Europe: Standing Together Against Common Enemies |
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The Hope Is There: Looking Toward the Next Horizon |
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Who Are Americans to Think That Freedom Is Theirs to Spread? |
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Transformational Diplomacy |
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Exploring America's Promises |
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| Appendix I The Constitution of the United States of America and Amendments I through XXVI |
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| Credits |
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| Index |
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