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Part of the Penguin Academics series, Major Themes for Modern Writers is a thematically-organized reader offering a balance of contemporary and classic readings with minimal apparatus and a high-quality but low cost design.  

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Author:   Harvey S. Wiener
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.513kg
ISBN:  

9780321441720

ISBN 10:   0321441729
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   26 October 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Preface Rhetorical Contents CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Reading And Writing About Major Themes Critical Reading Informed Writing CHAPTER 2. All in The Family Introduction Once More to the Lake, E. B. White The Burden of a Happy Childhood, Mary Cantwell Looking Straight at Gay Parents, Karen S. Peterson In the Kitchen, Henry Louis Gates Jr Stone Soup, Barbara Kingsolver The Children of Divorce, Judith S. Wallerstein and Sandra Blakeslee The Deadbeat Dad, David Blankenhorn The Parent Trap, Judith Warner CHAPTER 3 WHAT IS EDUCATION? Introduction The Paterson Public Library, Judith Ortiz Cofer University Days, James Thurber Prison Studies, Malcolm X They Treat Girls Differently, Don't They? Timothy Harper Indoctrination Isn't Teaching, Shelby Steele Campus Climate Control, Katie Roiphe Curtailing High School: A Radical Proposal, Leon Botstein Making the Grade, James Atlas CHAPTER 4 A LIFE OF WORK, A QUEST FOR WEALTH Introduction Sweatshops Are Back, William Branigin Showing Off, Quentin Hardy A Sense of Change, John Updike The Return of the Happy Housewife, Charlotte Allen Black Hair, Gary Soto Where the Brains Are, Richard Florida Waking Up the Rake, Linda Hogan The Dispossessed, William Deresiewicz CHAPTER 5. LAW, JUSTICE AND THE DEMOCRATIC WAY Introduction A Hanging, George Orwell Death and Justice, Edward I. Koch Continuing the Search for Kinder Executions, Mark Essig Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr. When They Get Out, Sasha Abramsky Happy National Apathy Day, Will Durst The Tyranny of the Majority, Lani Guinier Does Eating Salmon Lower The Murder Rate? Stephen Mihm CHAPTER 6. GENDER DYNAMICS Introduction Why Should Males Exist? Matt Ridley The Failure of Feminism, Phyllis Chesler No Name Woman, Maxine Hong Kingston Listening to Men, Then and Now, Deborah Tannen I Want a Wife, Judy Brady The Hate Epidemic, David Leavitt All About Eve, Cynthia Russett Marrying Absurd, Joan Didion CHAPTER 7 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN A COMPLEX WORLD Introduction From Pole to Shining Pole, Al Gore The Case for Evolution, In Real Life, David P. Barash What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace, Brent Staples One Thing They Aren't: Maternal, Natalie Angier When Germs Travel, Howard Markel Meet Joe Blog, Lev Grossman The Spider and the Wasp, Alexander Petrunkevitch Humanities and Science, Lewis Thomas CHAPTER 8 LANGUAGE AND WORD POWER Introduction The Quare Gene, Tony Earley An Offering to the Power of Language, Sandra Cisneros Why Does `Everybody' Now Put `Everything' in Quotation Marks? Barbara Carton Body in Trouble, Nancy Mairs A Small Plea to Delete a Ubiquitous Expletive, Elizabeth Austin Mute in an English-Only World, Chang-rae Lee Public and Private Language, Richard Rodriguez Last Words, Walter Benn Michaels CHAPTER 9 BELIEFS, VALUES, AND THE HUMAN CONDITION Introduction I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King Jr. The Ways We Lie, Stephanie Ericsson Salvation, Langston Hughes Who Are You Animal Rights Activists Anyway? Tom Regan Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns, Molly Ivins If Torture Works..., Michael Ignatieff The Last Word on the Last Breath, Jan Hoffman Superhero Worship, Virginia Postrel Credits Index Additional Titles of Interest

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