Overview
Organized around eight broad themes, OUR LIVES, OUR WORLDS includes more writing instruction than most readers.
Full Product Details
Author: Richard M. Shaw ,
Jo Wana Cavins ,
Julie Bergman ,
Linda Cravens Fricker
Publisher: Cengage Learning, Inc
Imprint: Heinle & Heinle Publishers Inc.,U.S.
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.840kg
ISBN: 9780155068735
ISBN 10: 0155068733
Pages: 656
Publication Date: 26 July 2000
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Out of stock
Reviews
1. FAMILY TIES: NARRATING AND DESCRIBING. Scott Russell Sanders: The Inheritance of Tools. Home Life. Scott Russell Sanders: Under the Influence. Annie Dillard: Jokes. Alfred Kazin: The Kitchen. Tradition and Change. Alice Walker: Everyday Use. Ellen Goodman: The Family Legacy. E. B. White: Once More to the Lake. Family Stories. Elizabeth Stone: Stories Make a Family. N. Scott Momaday: The Way to Rainy Mountain. Garrett Hongo: Kubato. 2. GROWING: COMPARING, CONTRASTING, AND REFLECTING. Jane Howard: Families. Rites of Passage. Langston Hughes: Salvation. John (Fire) Lame Deer & Richard Erdoes: The Vision Quest. Maya Angelou: Graduation. Saying Goodbye. Susan Neville: Cousins. Al Sicherman: A Father's Plea: Be Scared for Your Kids. Cokie Roberts: Sister. Michael Lassell: How to Watch Your Brother Die. Personal Identity. Jillian A. Sim: Fading to White. Bharati Mukherjee: American Dreamer. Richard Rodriguez: The Purpose of Family. 3. LEARNING: USING EXAMPLES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. John Holt: How School Is Bad for Children. Insights. Dick Gregory: Shame. Frank Conroy: Think about It. Helen Keller: The Key to Language. Mentors. Mike Rose: I Just Wanna Be Average. Norman Podhoretz: A Question of Class. Samuel Scudder: Look at Your Fish. Aims of Education. Vine Deloria: The Native American Way of Knowing and Understanding. James M. Shiveley & Philip J. VanFossen: Critical Thinking and the Internet. Edith Hamilton: The Ever-Present Past. 4. COMMUNITIES: DEFINING, CLASSIFYING, AND DIVIDING. Noel Perrin: Country Codes. Codes. Gretel Ehrlich: The Solace of Open Spaces. Kyoko Mori: Polite Lies. Brent Staples: Just Walk on By. Prejudice. Melba Pattillo Beals: Warriors Don't Cry. Kim Edwards: In Rooms of Women. Joseph C. Kennedy: Presumed Guilty. Renewal. Margaret Atwood: The City Planners. Bruce Watson: A Town Makes History. Fergus M. Bordewich: Follow the Choctaws' Lead. Harvey Milk: A City of Neighborhoods. 5. SEEKING ACCEPTANCE: ANALYZING AND RESEARCHING. Donna Woolfolk Cross: Propaganda: How Not to Be Bamboozled. Race and Ethnicity. Kesaya E. Noda: Growing Up Asian in America. Daryl Strickland: The Interracial Generation. Yleana Martinez: Indios del Norte. Integration: Differing Perspectives on Segregation. Eight Alabama Clergymen: Public Statement. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letter from Birmingham Jail. Orlando Patterson: The Paradox of Integration. Assimilation. Pat Mora: Elena. Linda Chavez: Out of the Barrio. Peter D. Salins: Assimilation American Style. Spencer Sherman: The Hmong in America. 6. REDEFINING ROLE: UNDERSTANDING VIEWPOINTS. Jerrold Footlick & Elizabeth Leonard: What Happened to the Family? Traditional Roles. Ellen Goodman: The Company Man. Sam Keen: The Warrior Psyche. Susan Brownmiller: Femininity. Changing Roles. Leslie Marmon Silko: Yellow Woman and a Beauty of Spirit. Ted C. Fishman: Redefining Fatherhood. Linda Bird Francke: Requiem for a Soldier. Family Dynamics. Nina Burleigh: Are You My Father? Differing Perspectives on Same-Sex Marriage. William N. Eskridge, Jr.: Legalize Same-Sex Marriage. Bob Barr: Gay Marriage Should Not Be Legalized. 7. CULTURAL CHALLENGES: TAKING A STAND. Carl Sagan: The Rules of the Game. The Challenge of Competition. Murray Sperber: Why Most College Athletes Cannot Also Be Students. Differing Perspectives on Educational Achievement. William J. Bennett: A Nation Still at Risk. Gerald Bracey: Are U.S. Students Behind? Media Influence. John Leo: When Life Imitates Video. Michael Medved: TV Vice? Sex and Violence Aren't the Problem. Mike Males: Public Enemy Number One? A Climate of Violence. Sarah McCarthy: Fertile Ground for Terrorists. American Gangs: There Are No Children Here. Sharon Begley: Why the Young Kill. 8. ETHICAL DEBATES: PROPOSING SOLUTIONS. Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal. Life and Death. Anonymous: It's Over, Debbie. Differing Perspectives on Euthenasia. Leon R. Kass: Why Doctors Must Not Kill. James Rachels: Active and Passive Euthenasia. Playing God. Edmund R. Leach: We Scientists Have the Right to Play God. Differing Perspectives on Cloning Human Beings. Jean Bethke Elshtain: Our Bodies, Our Clones. Richard A. Epstein: A Rush to Caution: Cloning Human Beings. World Concerns. Gordon Fairclough: It Isn't Black and White. Differing Perspectives on Military Intervention. Stop U.S. Intervention: An Interview with Noam Chomsky. Michael Lerner: Compassion with Teeth: Caring Requires Intervention. Glossary. Index.
