English Composition I

Butler Community College

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English Composition I

Butler Community College

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Pearson
Language
English
Pages
632

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Table of Contents

Foreword
Page 1
Narration
Narrative Introduction
Page 3
Salvation
Page 12
Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self
Page 16
Texts
Page 26
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Page 30
I Just Wanna Be Average
Page 38
Trust Me, In These Parts, Hot Dogs Actually Repel Bears
Page 54
There Will Come Soft Rains
Page 61
Graduation
Page 69
The Chase
Page 83
Description
Description Introduction
Page 89
Everything Has a Name
Page 91
The Knife
Page 96
The Way to Rainy Mountain
Page 102
Letters From the Frontier, 1934
Page 111
On Dumpster Diving
Page 116
Videotape
Page 131
Building Plans: What the World Trade Center Meant
Page 139
From On Seeing England for the First Time
Page 146
Illustration
Illustration Introduction
Page 151
The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society
Page 153
Shame
Page 164
Sex, Lies, and Conversation
Page 171
The Culture of Martyrdom: How Suicide Bombing Became Not Just a Means but an End
Page 179
Virtual Sex, Lies and Cyberspace
Page 186
Marked for Mayhem
Page 195
Eternal Curves
Page 203
The Inheritance of Tools
Page 213
Comparison and Contrast
Comparison and Contrast Introduction
Page 223
Reading the River
Page 227
Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts
Page 231
The Gender Blur
Page 237
Neat People vs. Sloppy People
Page 247
That Lean and Hungry Look
Page 251
But What Do You Mean?
Page 256
Division and Classification
Division and Classification Introduction
Page 267
Three Kinds of Discipline
Page 269
The Things They Carried
Page 274
Open Letter from a Millennial: Quit Telling Us We're Not Special
Page 294
The Female Body
Page 301
Historical Fiction to Historical Fact: "Gangs of New York" and the Whitewashing of History
Page 307
Definition
Definition Introduction
Page 317
Don't You Think It's Time to Start Thinking?
Page 320
Faustian Economics: Hell Hath No Limits
Page 324
The Perils of Indifference
Page 337
Why I Want a Wife
Page 344
Writing
Page 348
We Are Our Own Metaphor
Page 352
Process Analysis
Process Analysis Introduction
Page 357
The Maker's Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts
Page 363
Why I Write
Page 369
How to Say Nothing in 500 Words
Page 377
Seeing
Page 392
Learning to Read and Write
Page 402
Why Are We Dressing Our Daughters Like This?
Page 411
The Montessori Method
Page 423
A Homemade Education
Page 436
Cause and Effect
Cause and Effect Introduction
Page 449
The Red Convertible
Page 452
Black Men and Public Space
Page 463
Water Incorporated: The Commodification of the World's Water
Page 469
Death Watch in the Desert
Page 478
The Case Against College
Page 489
2000 Thoughts: A Liberal Education is Key to a Civil Society
Page 495
I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read: How American High School Students Learn to Loathe Literature
Page 499
Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price
Page 515
Into the Electronic Millennium
Page 527
From: Reading At Risk
Page 538
By the Numbers: Is the Twentieth Century's Global Technological Leader Becoming an Idiocracy?
Page 549
Additional Readings
The Declaration of Independence
Page 561
Letter from Birmingham Jail
Page 567
Civil Disobedience
Page 589
The Allegory of the Cave
Page 612
The Story of an Hour
Page 618
The Myth of Sisyphus
Page 624
Mid-Term Break
Page 629

Edition Notes

Published in
Boston
Series
Mercury Reader
Copyright Date
2016

The Physical Object

Format
paperback
Pagination
632p.
Number of pages
632

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL51604316M
Internet Archive
isbn_1323359486
ISBN 10
1323359486

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL38024788W

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