The Blair Reader Exploring Issues and Ideas
ISBN: 9780205728442 | 0205728448
Edition: 7thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/7/2010
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The Blair Reader is a thematic reader with over 100 classic and contemporary readings. Themes include family, gender, education, language, and the enviorment. New focus topics include reading on texting and social networking.
| Topical Clusters | p. x |
| Rhetorical Table of Contents | p. xx |
| Preface | p. xxviii |
| Introduction: Becoming A Critical Reader | p. 1 |
| Family and Memory | p. 12 |
| Poetry: Linda Hogan, "Heritage" | p. 15 |
| Poetry: Robert Hayden, "Those Winter Sundays" | p. 17 |
| "My Grandmother's Dumpling" | p. 18 |
| "Once More to the Lake" | p. 24 |
| "No Name Wo... MORE | p. 29 |
| "Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self" | p. 40 |
| "Sixty-Nine Cents" | p. 47 |
| "The Storyteller" | p. 50 |
| Issues in Education | p. 58 |
| "The Sanctuary of School" | p. 61 |
| "School Is Bad for Children" | p. 64 |
| "Graduation" | p. 69 |
| "The Good Immigrant Student" | p. 79 |
| "School's Out" | p. 87 |
| "Should the Obama Generation Drop Out?" | p. 99 |
| "Is College Worth the Money?" | p. 102 |
| "For More Balance on Campuses" | p. 104 |
| Fiction: Edward P. Jones, "The First Day" | p. 107 |
| Focus: How Much Do a College's Facilities Really Matter? | p. 111 |
| "In Iowa, 2 Colleges Separated by 150 Miles and $1.37 Billion: Grinnell College" | p. 111 |
| "In Iowa, 2 Colleges Separated by 150 Miles and $1.37 Billion: Clarke College" | p. 118 |
| Photo Essay, from The Chronicle of Higher Education | p. 124 |
| The Politics of Language | p. 128 |
| Poetry;"Baca Grande" | p. 131 |
| "Aria" | p. 133 |
| "Mother Tongue" | p. 140 |
| "Learning to Read and Write" | p. 145 |
| "Sexism in English: Embodiment and Language" | p. 150 |
| "The Loaded Language of Science" | p. 161 |
| "The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society" | p. 164 |
| "Politics and the English Language" | p. 172 |
| Focus: Is Texting Destroying the English Language? | p. 184 |
| "I h8 txt msgs: How Texting Is Wrecking Our Language" | p. 185 |
| "2b or not 2b?" | p. 188 |
| "Thumbspeak: Is Texting Here to Stay?" | p. 196 |
| Media and Society | p. 204 |
| "Television: The Plug-In Drug" | p. 207 |
| "Reality TV: A Dearth of Talent and the Death of Morality" | p. 215 |
| "The Revolution Will Be Televised" | p. 218 |
| "Eminem Is Right" | p. 223 |
| Editors of the Rocky Mountain News, "Goodbye, Colorado" | p. 230 |
| "News You Can Endow" | p. 231 |
| "The Universe of Meaning" | p. 234 |
| Poetry: "Dear John Wayne" | p. 236 |
| Focus: Does Social Networking Connect Us or Keep Us Apart? | p. 238 |
| "The Fakebook Generation" | p. 239 |
| "What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace" | p. 241 |
| "To Twitter or Not to Twitter?" | p. 244 |
| "Does Social Networking Really Connect You to Humanity?" | p. 247 |
| "Social Networking: Crossing Digital Divide Can Pay Dividends" | p. 250 |
| Gender and Identit | p. 256 |
| Poetry: "Barbie Doll" | p. 259 |
| Poetry: "Rite of Passage" | p. 260 |
| "Gardenland, Sacramento, California" | p. 262 |
| "The M/F Boxes" | p. 269 |
| "Why I Want a Wife" | p. 275 |
| "Stay-at-Home Dads" | p. 277 |
| "Man Bashing: Trivial Pursuit or a Truth with Consequences?" | p. 280 |
| "Without Apology: Girls, Women, and the Desire to Fight" | p. 286 |
| "Marked Women" | p. 294 |
| Focus: Who Has It Harder, Girls or Boys? | p. 300 |
| "What Is the Triple Bind?" | p. 301 |
| "The War Against Boys" | p. 309 |
| "Men Are from Earth, and So Are Women: It's Faulty Research That Sets Them Apart" | p. 314 |
| The American Dream | p. 324 |
| Poetry: Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus" | p. 327 |
| "What Sacagawea Means to Me (and Perhaps to You)" | p. 328 |
| "The Library Card" | p. 330 |
| "Becoming American" | p. 339 |
| "The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria" | p. 346 |
| "Coming into the Country" | p. 351 |
| "Just Walk On By" | p. 354 |
| "On Dumpster Diving" | p. 358 |
| "Where Evil Dwells: Reflections on the Columbine School Massacre" | p. 369 |
| Focus: What Is the American Dream? | p. 374 |
| The Declaration of Independence | p. 375 |
| The Gettysburg Address | p. 378 |
| Inaugural Address | p. 380 |
| "I Have a Dream" | p. 383 |
| "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" | p. 387 |
| Why We Work | p. 394 |
| "Why We Work" | p. 397 |
| "One Last Time" | p. 402 |
| "Professions for Women" | p. 410 |
| "The Second Shift" | p. 415 |
| "Behind the Counter" | p. 421 |
| "Selling in Minnesota" | p. 428 |
| "Don't Blame Wal-Mart" | p. 432 |
| "Delusions of Grandeur" | p. 435 |
| Fiction: John Updike, "A & P" | p. 438 |
| Focus: Is Outsourcing Bad for America? | p. 444 |
| "Let Someone Else Do It: The Impulse Behind Everything" | p. 445 |
| "Missed Target: Is Outsourcing Really so Bad?" | p. 448 |
| "Fair Exchange: Who Benefits from Outsourcing?" | p. 454 |
| Saving the Planet | p. 464 |
| from "Through the Stories We Hear Who We Are" | p. 467 |
| "The American Forests" | p. 468 |
| "Being Kind to the Land" | p. 470 |
| "The Obligation to Endure" | p. 474 |
| "Fateful Voice of a Generation Still Drowns Out Real Science" | p. 480 |
| "The Conquest of Garbage" | p. 484 |
| "Built to Last" | p. 490 |
| Fiction: Steven Millhauser, "The Invasion from Outer Space" | p. 495 |
| Focus: How Can We Create a More Sustainable Environment? | p. 499 |
| "The Challenge to Environmentalism" | p. 500 |
| "Green, Greener, Greenest" | p. 503 |
| "Why Bother?" | p. 508 |
| Religion in America | p. 518 |
| "Salvation" | p. 521 |
| "New Superstitions for Old" | p. 523 |
| "Our Faith in Science" | p. 527 |
| "Among the Believers" | p. 530 |
| "Kicking the Secularist Habit" | p. 533 |
| "Turning Faith into Elevator Music" | p. 537 |
| "Muslim in America" | p. 540 |
| "Earthly Empires" | p. 544 |
| "I Believe in an America Where the Separation of Church and State Is Absolute" | p. 551 |
| Fiction: Raymond Carver, "Cathedral" | p. 555 |
| Focus: Is There Intelligent Design in Nature? | p. 568 |
| "Finding Design in Nature" | p. 569 |
| "Why Intelligent Design Isn't" | p. 571 |
| "Finding Darwin's God" | p. 581 |
| Making Choices | p. 596 |
| Poetry: Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken" | p. 599 |
| Poetry: Linda Pastan, "Ethics" | p. 600 |
| "Shooting an Elephant" | p. 601 |
| "Letter from Birmingham Jail" | p. 608 |
| "Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against 'Aid' That Harms" | p. 623 |
| "Dog Lab" | p. 632 |
| "The Perils of Obedience" | p. 639 |
| Commencement Speech | p. 652 |
| "And Then They Came for Me" | p. 658 |
| Fiction: Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" | p. 665 |
| Credits | p. 673 |
| Index of Authors and Titles | p. 681 |
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