Global Issues, Local Arguments : Readings for Writing
ISBN: 9780205739929 | 020573992X
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 11/13/2009
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Global Issues, Local Arguments: Readings for Writingfeatures high-interest arguments on significant global issues and emphasizes their connection to our lives-all the while developing critical thinking, rhetorical, analysis, synthesis, argumentation, and research skills.
| Preface | p. xvi |
| Exploring and Defining Globalization | p. 1 |
| Exploration One: How Wide Is Your Global View? | p. 2 |
| Exploration Two: Globalization at Work | p. 6 |
| What Does Globalization Mean? | p. 7 |
| Controversies over Definitions and Interpretations of Globalization | p. 8 |
| Controversies over Responses to Globalization | p. 11 |
| Navigating the Controversies | p. 13 | ... MORE
| Analyzing and Writing Arguments | p. 14 |
| A Brief Introduction to Argument | p. 15 |
| Issue Questions, Claims, and Stakeholders | p. 15 |
| Basel Action Network, "The e-Waste Crisis" | p. 17 |
| The Core of an Argument: A Claim with Reasons | p. 21 |
| Assumptions in Argument | p. 23 |
| The Development of an Argument: Evidence | p. 25 |
| Responses to Alternative Views | p. 26 |
| Arguments Tailored to Audiences | p. 26 |
| Ed Finn, "Harnessing Our Power as Consumers: Cost of Boycotting Sweatshop Goods Offset by the Benefits" | p. 29 |
| A Brief Introduction to Rhetorical Analysis | p. 31 |
| The Importance of Thinking and Reading Rhetorically | p. 31 |
| Identifying the Writer and the Writer's Angle of Vision | p. 33 |
| Identifying the Rhetorical Context | p. 34 |
| Examining the Use of Classical Appeals to Logos, Ethos, and Pathos | p. 35 |
| A Consideration of Style | p. 37 |
| Writing a Summary | p. 38 |
| Using Summaries in Rhetorical Analyses | p. 38 |
| Using Summaries in Arguments | p. 38 |
| How to Write a Summary | p. 39 |
| Writing a Rhetorical Analysis | p. 41 |
| The Purpose and Audience of a Rhetorical Analysis | p. 42 |
| The Structure of a Rhetorical Analysis | p. 42 |
| Analyzing the Argument | p. 43 |
| Choosing a Focus for Your Rhetorical Analysis and Writing a Thesis Statement | p. 44 |
| Drafting a Rhetorical Analysis | p. 46 |
| An Example of a Rhetorical Analysis Essay | p. 47 |
| Student Voice: "Responsibly Motivating the World?-A Rhetorical Analysis of Two Advocacy Films" by Tyler Bernard | p. 47 |
| Writing an Argument | p. 52 |
| Posing a Significant, Perplexing Issue Question | p. 52 |
| Examining Multiple Perspectives | p. 54 |
| Analyzing Your Rhetorical Context | p. 56 |
| Constructing an Argument Core | p. 57 |
| Structuring and Drafting Your Argument | p. 57 |
| Reviewing and Revising Your Draft | p. 58 |
| An Example of a Student's Researched Argument | p. 58 |
| Student Voice: "American Privilege Dangerously Perpetuates Water Inefficiency" | p. 58 |
| Trading Goods: Consumerism, Free Trade, and Sweatshops | p. 68 |
| Context for a Network of Issues | p. 68 |
| Stakes and Stakeholders | p. 71 |
| Student Voice: Thinking Beyond My American Consumerism Sweatshops | p. 74 |
| International Voices | |
| Comments from a Factory Worker Producing Clothing for Wal-Mart | p. 76 |
| Global Hot Spot: China | p. 77 |
| Readings | p. 79 |
| "Poor Man's Hero" [Interview with Johan Norberg] | p. 79 |
| Global Exchange, "Twelve Reasons to Oppose the World Trade Organization" (hand bill) | p. 88 |
| Associated Press, Wal-Mart Failed America (photograph) | p. 91 |
| "My Six-Year-Old Son Should Get a Job: Is Free Trade Always the Answer?" | p. 92 |
| "Yes, Globalization Passed Its Peak" | p. 96 |
| "When Americans No Longer Own America" | p. 100 |
| Buy American, Buy Union (photograph) | p. 104 |
| "Going Downhill: Forget GDP, Americans' Quality of Life Has Been in a Recession Since 1975 | p. 106 |
| "Bangladesh: On the Ladder of Development" | p. 108 |
| Garment Factory in Saipan (photograph) | p. 113 |
| "Sweat, Fire and Ethics" | p. 114 |
| Student Voice: "Is There Blood on These Diamonds?" | p. 119 |
| "Low Prices Come at a High Cost" | p. 123 |
| Supermarket Tennis Shoes (cartoon) | p. 125 |
| "Toxic Toys: Is This Just China Bashing?" | p. 126 |
| Low Prices Have Consequences (cartoon) | p. 129 |
| Student Voice: "Uncovere[RED]" | p. 130 |
| Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion | p. 133 |
| Writing Assignments | p. 134 |
| Trading Financial Risk and Jobs: The Global Economic Crisis | p. 138 |
| Context for a Network of Issues | p. 138 |
| Stakes and Stakeholders | p. 142 |
| Student Voice: "Thanking the Poor Economy" | p. 147 |
| International Voices | |
| Workers in a German Town Comment on Losing Their Jobs | p. 149 |
| Global Hot Spot: The United States | p. 150 |
| Readings | p. 151 |
| "The G-20 Summit: Time to Renew Commitment to Economic Freedom" | p. 151 |
| "Markets Can't Rule Themselves" | p. 155 |
| G-20 Protest (photograph) | p. 159 |
| "A Stimulus Package for the World" | p. 160 |
| "How Capitalism Will Save Us" | p. 163 |
| "All of Them Must Go" | p. 172 |
| "The Open-Door Bailout" | p. 175 |
| Job Fair (photograph) | p. 177 |
| "Testimony before the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives" | p. 178 |
| Outsourcing (cartoon) | p. 188 |
| "Testimony before the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives" | p. 188 |
| Cover of Wired magazine | p. 192 |
| "Watching Greed Murder the Economy" | p. 194 |
| Student Voice: "The United States Needs to Nationalize Now" | p. 198 |
| Apocalypse Now (cartoon) | p. 204 |
| "Prudence or Profligacy?" | p. 205 |
| "Forget Commercialism! The New Realities of Consumption and the Economy" | p. 209 |
| Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion | p. 212 |
| Writing Assignments | p. 213 |
| Crossing Borders: Immigration | p. 217 |
| Context for a Network of Issues | p. 217 |
| Stakes and Stakeholders | p. 220 |
| Student Voice: "Immigrant Pain" | p. 223 |
| International Voices | |
| Residents of a Small Town in Mexico Responding to Immigration | p. 224 |
| Global Hot Spot: Mexico | p. 225 |
| Readings | p. 226 |
| "Borders Beyond Control" | p. 226 |
| "Lecture on International Flows of Humanity" | p. 232 |
| Mexico's Ministry of Foreign Relations, From Guide for the Mexican Migrant (excerpt) | p. 239 |
| "The Special Case of Mexican Immigration" | p. 241 |
| "MALDEF and LULAC Rebuke Samuel Huntington's Theories on Latino Immigrants and Call on America to Reaffirm Its Commitment to Equal Opportunity and Democracy" | p. 246 |
| "It's Time to End Worker Exploitation" | p. 251 |
| "Transnational Labor Citizenship" | p. 254 |
| America's Leadership Team for Long Range Population-Immigration-Resource Planning, "One of Americas Best-Selling Vehicles" (advocacy ad) | p. 261 |
| "Assimilation Nation" | p. 263 |
| Europe as a Walled Fortress (cartoon) | p. 266 |
| "A Year of Living Dangerously" | p. 267 |
| "Muslim Riots in Europe: Wasn't This Part of the Programme?" | p. 271 |
| "This Carry-On about Muslim Dress" | p. 274 |
| Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion | p. 275 |
| Writing Assignments | p. 276 |
| Protecting the Environment: Water Issues and Emerging Energy Technologies | p. 280 |
| Context for a Network of Issues | p. 280 |
| Stakes and Stakeholders | p. 283 |
| Student Voice: "Changing Lives with Water" | p. 289 |
| International Voices | |
| Comments from Water Authorities in Swaziland | p. 291 |
| Global Hot Spot: Africa | p. 292 |
| Readings | p. 294 |
| "Private Water Saves Lives" | p. 294 |
| "Where Has All the Water Gone?" | p. 296 |
| "The Missing Piece: A Water Ethic" | p. 301 |
| United Nations Environment Programme, "Health and Environment" (poster) | p. 304 |
| "Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2004" | p. 306 |
| "Big Dams Are Not Sustainable But They Continue to Be Built" | p. 312 |
| Wind versus Tidal Energy (cartoon) | p. 314 |
| "Nuke Power Is Earth's Friend" | p. 315 |
| "The Energy Shortage" | p. 319 |
| Student Voice: "A Letter to Ken Salazar" | p. 320 |
| "The Ethanol Delusion" | p. 326 |
| The White House Goes Green (cartoon) | p. 329 |
| "Aiming for Energy Security, Not Independence" | p. 330 |
| "Pedaling Our Way to Energy Independence" | p. 332 |
| Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion | p. 334 |
| Writing Assignments | p. 336 |
| Feeding the World: Biotechnology, culture, and Local Food | p. 341 |
| Context for a Network of Issues | p. 341 |
| Stakes and Stakeholders | p. 343 |
| Student Voice: "Nurturing the Land or Poisoning It" | p. 348 |
| International Voices | |
| Excerpts from Interviews with Farmers and Activists in Northern India | p. 349 |
| Global Hot Spot: India | p. 350 |
| Readings | p. 352 |
| "Why You Can't Sit Down to Eat Without Making a Statement" | p. 352 |
| "Technology That Will Save Billions from Starvation" | p. 356 |
| "Biotech Snake Oil: A Quack Cure for Hunger" | p. 364 |
| "How We Can Feed the World" | p. 373 |
| Competition (cartoon) | p. 375 |
| "Gift of Food: How to Solve the Agricultural Crisis, the Health Crisis and the Crisis of Poverty" | p. 376 |
| "Power to the People" | p. 382 |
| Food Routes Network,"Where Does Your Food Come From?" (flier) | p. 385 |
| "The Vegetable-Industrial Complex" | p. 387 |
| "Deepening Our Sense of What Is Local and Regional Food" | p. 392 |
| United Nations Environment Programme, "Health and Environment" (poster) | p. 394 |
| "Going Local on a Global Scale: Rethinking Food Trade in an Era of Climate Change, Dumping, and Rural Poverty" | p. 396 |
| "Food That Travels Well" | p. 403 |
| Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion | p. 406 |
| Writing Assignments | p. 408 |
| Merging and Clashing Cultures: Media, Technology, Music, and Film | p. 411 |
| Context for a Network of Issues | p. 412 |
| Stakes and Stakeholders | p. 414 |
| Student Voice: "Cross-Culturalization in Beijing" | p. 417 |
| International Voices | |
| Yeunhwa Jang from Korea Comments on American Fast Food | p. 419 |
| Global Hot Spot: The Middle East | p. 419 |
| Readings | p. 421 |
| "When Here Sees There" | p. 421 |
| The Economist, "Behind the Digital Divide" | p. 424 |
| Cover Image from the Economist | p. 428 |
| "In Defense of Globalization: Why Cultural Exchange Is Still an Overwhelming Force for Good Globalization" | p. 430 |
| Great Mall of China (cartoon) | p. 436 |
| "The Revolution Will Be Televised" | p. 436 |
| "Mideast Rappers Take the Mic" | p. 440 |
| "Why Is Bollywood Obsessed with Producing 'Crossover FilmsÆ?" | p. 444 |
| "Shocked by Slumdog's Poverty Porn" | p. 447 |
| "Slumdog Millionaire" | p. 450 |
| "The Slumdog Look" | p. 457 |
| "A 'SlumdogÆ in Heat: Interview with Danny Boyle" | p. 458 |
| "Marvel Comics and Manifest Destiny" | p. 461 |
| Image from Spider-Man India | p. 464 |
| Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion | p. 465 |
| Writing Assignments | p. 466 |
| Defending Human Rights: Trafficking and Child Labor | p. 471 |
| Context for a Network of Issues | p. 471 |
| Stakes and Stakeholders | p. 474 |
| Student Voice: "A Human Connection" | p. 477 |
| International Voices | |
| Testimony of a Child Domestic Worker in Zambia | p. 479 |
| Testimony of a Trafficked Woman in the Sex Trade | p. 479 |
| Global Hot Spot: The Balkans and Eastern Europe | p. 480 |
| Readings | p. 481 |
| "Human Trafficking" | p. 481 |
| "Put Your Money Where Their Mouths Are" | p. 488 |
| Children's Forum (Special Session on Children-UNICEF), "A World Fit for Us" | p. 490 |
| Chadian Eight-Year-Old Soldier Smoking (photograph) | p. 493 |
| "Trafficking and Health" | p. 494 |
| International Organization for Migration, "For Sale" (poster) | p. 501 |
| "Confusion Between Prostitution and Sex Trafficking" | p. 502 |
| "Slavery in 2004" | p. 505 |
| "Ending Abuses and Improving Working Conditions for Tomato Workers" | p. 507 |
| National Human Trafficking Resource Center, "Look Beneath the Surface" (poster) | p. 513 |
| Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion | p. 514 |
| Writing Assignments | p. 515 |
| Glossary of Globalization and Argument Terms | p. 519 |
| Films on Global Issues | p. 529 |
| Answers to Chapter 1, "Global Pursuit" | p. 533 |
| Credits | p. 534 |
| Index | p. 537 |
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