Blair Reader, The: Exploring Issues and Ideas, 10th edition

• Topical Clusters
• Rhetorical Table of Contents
• Preface
• Introduction

1. Becoming a Critical Reader
   • Reading and Meaning
   • Reading Critically
   • Recording Your Reactions
   • Reacting to Visual Texts
2. Writing about Reading
   • Understanding Your Assignment
   • Understanding Your Purpose
   • Understanding Your Audience
   • Writing a Response
   • Collecting Ideas
   • Developing a Thesis
   • Arranging Supporting Material
   • Drafting Your Essay
   • Revising Your Essay
3. Family and Memory
   • Poetry: Teresa J. Scollon, “Family Music”
   • Fiction: John Mauk, “The Blessed”
   • E. B. White, “Once More to the Lake”Kristin Ohlson, “The Great Forgetting”
   • Anne-Marie Oomen, “Decent Clothes, 1959”
   • Jerry Dennis, “Lake Squall, 1967: When Salmon Anglers Encountered the Power of Lake Michigan”
   • Tao Lin, “When I Moved Online. . .”
   • Focus: What Is a Family?
   • John Culhane, “For Gay Parents, Deciding between Adoption and Surrogacy Raises Tough Moral Questions”
   • Laila Lalami, “My Fictional Grandparents”
   • Sonia Sodha, “If You Have No Children, Who Will Care for You When You’re Old?”
4. Issues in Education
   • Lynda Barry, “The Sanctuary of School”
   • John Holt, “School Is Bad for Children”
   • Wendy Berliner, “Why There’s No Such Thing as a Gifted Child”
   • Johann N. Neem, “Online Higher Education’s Individualist Fallacy”
   • Christina Hoff Sommers, “For More Balance on Campuses”
   • Jill Filipovic, “We’ve Gone Too Far with ‘Trigger Warnings’”
   • Poetry: Howard Nemerov, “To David, About His Education”
   • Focus: Should a College Education Be Free?
   • Anya Kamenetz, “Is Free College Really Free?”
   • Matthew Yglesias, “Walmart’s Too-Good-to-Be-True ‘$1 a day’ College Tuition Plan, Explained”
   • Liz Dwyer, “Is College Worth the Money? Answers from Six New Graduates”
5. The Politics of Language
   • Radley Balko, “The Curious Grammar of Police Shootings”
   • Infographic: Jennifer Beese “Emoji Marketing: Are We Speaking the Same Language?”
   • Dallas Spires, “Will Text Messaging Destroy the English Language?”
   • Gary Marcus, “How Birds and Babies Learn to Talk”
   • Frederick Douglass, “Learning to Read and Write”
   • Alleen Pace Nilsen, “Sexism in English: Embodiment and Language”
   • Poetry: Charles Jensen, “Poem in Which Words Have Been Left Out”
   • Focus: How Free Should Free Speech Be?
   • Jonathan Rauch, “Kindly Inquisitors, Revisited”
   • Thane Rosenbaum, “Should Neo-Nazis be Allowed Free Speech?”
   • David Palumbo-Liu, “I’m a Stanford Professor Accused of Being a Terrorist. McCarthyism Is Back.”
6. Media and Society
   • Clay Shirky, “Last Call: The End of the Printed Newspaper”
   • Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
   • Patton Oswalt, “Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die.”
   • Quinn Norton, “The New York Times Fired My Doppelgänger”
   • David Zweig, “Escaping Twitter’s Self-Consciousness Machine”
   • Fiction: Sarah Chevallier, “If Literature’s ‘Complicated Men’ Were on Tinder”
   • Focus: What Is Fake News, and Why Does It Matter?
   • Eric Weiskott, “Before ‘Fake News’ Came False Prophecy”
   • Judith Donath, “Why Fake News Stories Thrive Online”
   • Anonymous, “I Write Fake News”
7. Gender and Identity
   • Judy Hall, “Mommy, I‘m Just Not That Kind of Girl”
   • Fleda Brown, “Unruffled”
   • Judy Brady, “Why I Want a Wife”
   • Warren Farrell and John Gray, “The Crisis of Our Sons' Education”
   • Deborah Tannen, “Marked Women”
   • Fiction: Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour”
   • Focus: How Do We Talk about Sexual Harassment?
   • Moira Donegan, “I Started the Media Men List: My Name Is Moira Donegan”
   • Katie Roiphe, “The Other Whisper Network”
   • John Kirbow, “To Clarify: An Open Letter to the Men’s Rights Movement, on the #MeToo Hashtag”
8. Culture and Identity
   • Poetry: Brenda Cárdenas, “Lecciones de lengua”
   • Reza Aslan, “Praying for Common Ground at the Christmas-Dinner Table”
   • Priscilla Frank, “Dismantling Stereotypes about Asian-American Identity through Art”
   • Jelani Cobb, “Black Panther and the Invention of ‘Africa’”
   • Jeffery Sheler and Michael Betzold, “Muslim in America”
   • Brett Krutzsch, “The Gayest One”
   • Melanie Scheller, “On the Meaning of Plumbing and Poverty”
   • Drama: Steven Korbar, “What Are You Going to Be?”
   • Focus: Do Racial Distinctions Still Matter?
   • Victoria M. Massie, “Latino and Hispanic Identities Aren’t the Same. They‘re Also Not Racial Groups.”
   • Brent Staples, “Why Race Isn’t as ‘Black’ and ‘White’ as We Think”
   • John H. McWhorter, “Why I‘m Black, Not African American”
9. The American Dream
   • Jon Meacham, “To Hope Rather than to Fear”
   • Jonathan Rieder, “Dr. King’s Righteous Fury”
   • Thomas Jefferson, “The Declaration of Independence”
   • Abraham Lincoln, “The Gettysburg Address”
   • Jose Antonio Vargas, “Outlaw: My Life in America as an Undocumented Immigrant”
   • Poetry: Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus”
   • Focus: Is the American Dream Still Attainable?
   • Joe Kennedy III, “Democratic Response to the State of the Union”
   • Neal Gabler, “The New American Dream”
10. Why We Work
    • Andrew Curry, “Why We Work”
    • Debora L. Spar, “Crashing into Ceilings: A Report from the Nine-to-Five Shift”
    • Ben Mauk, “When Work Is a Game, Who Wins?”
    • Rand Fishkin, “The Truth Shall Set You Free (from a Lot of $#*% Storms)”
    • K. C. Williams, “Teaching While Black”
    • Claire Cain Miller, “How a Common Interview Question Fuels the Gender Pay Gap (and How to Stop It)”
    • Poetry: Walt Whitman, “I Hear America Singing”
    • Focus: Is Every Worker Entitled to a Living Wage?
    • Will Perkins, “Millennial Thoughts: Minimum Wage and My Take”
    • The Daily Take Team, the Thom Hartmann Program, “If a Business Won’t Pay a Living Wage, It Shouldn’t Exist”
    • James Dorn, “The Minimum Wage Delusion, and the Death of Common Sense”
    • Carol Graham, “Is the American Dream Really Dead?”
11. Making Ethical Choices
    • Poetry: Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken”
    • Poetry: Ella Higginson, “Four-Leaf Clover”
    • Creative Nonfiction: Lynette D’Amico, “The Unsaved”
    • Jonathan Safran Foer, “How Not to Be Alone”
    • Barbara Hurd, “Fracking: A Fable”
    • Richard A. Posner, “The Truth about Plagiarism”
    • Focus: What Choices Do We Have with Our Technologies?
    • Paul Lewis, “‘Our Minds Can Be Hijacked’: The Tech Insiders Who Fear a Smartphone Dystopia”
    • Francine Berman and Vinton G. Cerf, “Social and Ethical Behavior in the Internet of Things”
    • Valery Vavilov, “The Identity Solution”
12. Facing the Future
    • Poetry: Benjamin Busch, “New World”
    • John F. Kennedy, “Inaugural Address”
    • Jon Lovett, “Lower the Voting Age to Sixteen”
    • Joel Kotkin, “The Changing Demographics of America”
    • Alexis C. Madrigal, “Future Historians Probably Won’t Understand Our Internet, and That’s Okay”
    • Alex Wagner, from “Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging”
    • Neal Stephenson, “Innovation Starvation”
    • Focus: What’s Next for the Planet (and Beyond)?
    • Bill McKibben, “A Moral Atmosphere”
    • Ruth Khasaya Oniang‘o, “Why What We Eat Is Crucial to the Climate Change Question”
    • Michio Kaku, from “The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny beyond Earth”

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