RENT TEXTBOOKS

Quote from William Stafford, You Must Revise Your Life. Amy Wu, Stop the Clock. Condensed version of Wu's essay. Brian Courtney, Freedom from Choice. Passage from Factor Nine News 1997. Passage from Deborah Prothrow-Stith's Deadly Consequences showing logos. Passage from Deborah Prothrow-Stith's Deadly Consequences showing pathos. Passage from Deborah Prothrow-Stith's Deadly Consequences... MORE showing ethos. Passage from S. I. Hayakawa's Language in Thought and Action. Passage about young couple by Richard Selzer from Mortal Lessons. Passage from Gore's Tear-Jerking Speech by columnist Joan Beck. Passage from McVeigh Attorney: Don't Be Swayed by Sympathy. Passage from McVeigh Attorney: Don't Be Swayed by Sympathy. Bob Greene, His Name Was Eric; He Wouldn't Steel, So His Life was Stolen . Passage from King's Dream speech showing ethos. Mark Schoofs, The Way We Were. Lori B. Andrews, Human Cloning: Assessing the Ethical and Legal Quandaries. Ryan Grady Sample, Bigger, but Not Better.

Quote by Dona Hickey on Multisyllabic Words. Quote by Richard Selzer, Showing His Love for Long Words. Memo to Ms. Edwards, Director of Purchasing. Revised Memo. Quote from Was Fetal Cell Used? Showing Objective Voice. Paragraph by Sherry Turkle, from the The Second Shelf. Newspaper Article Medicine Attacks Cold Virus. Letter to Mrs. Bixby from Lincoln. Letter from Kaiser Wilhelm. Quote by Mary Pipher from The Shelter of Each Other.

Deborah Tannen, How to Turn Debate into Dialogue. Mitch Albom, Don't Shoot Holes in Gun Control Bills. Thomas Sowell, Mass Shootings and Mass Hysteria. Passage from What Must Be Done, Newsweek (8-23-99). Passage from J. Kozol's Illiterate America. Passage from Selling Bodies and Souls, Baltimore Sun. Quote from Sample. Passage from Carl Rogers. Charlton Heston and Wayne LaPierre, National Rifle Association, America Needs to Hear What Its President Won't. American Civil Liberties Union, Gun Control. Thomas Sowell, Aborted Knowledge. Facts in Brief by the Alan Guttmacher Institute: Induced Abortion. On Embryo and Fetus from Lee Silver, Remaking Eden. Additional readings on abortion in this book. Mitch Albom, Detroit Will Rue Its Deal with Devil. American Gaming Association, Gaming Industry Myths & Facts. James C. Dobson, Sounding the Alarm on Gambling. Dr. Kent Hovind, Dr. Hovind's $250,000 Offer. Eugenie Scott, Creation Science: A Continuing Threat to Education. R.J. Berry, Between God and Darwin. The American Civil Liberties Union, Who Are You Taking to the Prom This Year? Andrew Sullivan, Let Gays Marry. William Bennett, Leave Marriage Alone. Sharon Underwood, I've Had Enough of Your Anti-Gay Venom. First Amendment Cyber-Tribune FACT, Attacks on Student Free Speech Rights. Triangle Foundation, Hip Hop Homophobe: Armed and Dangerous. The American Civil Liberties Union, Popular Music under Siege. Scott Carlson, Lawsuit Pits 2 Instructors against Anonymous “Teacher Review” Postings. Franklyn Haiman, Even Ugly Speech Deserves Protection. Bruce Springsteen, from American Skin (41 Shots). The Christian Century, Race, Crime, and Justice. Mark Goldblatt, We're Hard-Wired to Stereotype. Mona Charen, Those Racist Cabbies. Jeffrey Prescott, New Facts on Racial Profiling.Anna Quindlen, The Problem of the Color Line.

Passage from Living Like Weasels by Annie Dillard.

Passage by Robert Pirsig from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. S. Covey, Paradigm Shift. Passage by R. Selzer about Alexis St. Martin and William Beaumont. Passage by William Laurence on Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki. Passage by student Annie Grover: Just One of the Guys. Passage by G. Will from A Week of Sheer Fakery. Passage by student Mike Slater on Tannen's book. Passage by J. Alter of Newsweek on Diana and Mother Teresa. Passage by S. Levy of Newsweek on World Wide Wake. Passage by R. Selzer, Down from Troy. Passage by D. Tannen, You Just Don't Understand. Passage by King, from Letter from Birmingham Jail. Passage on numbers and colors by R. Coe from Process, Form, and Substance. Passage on classifying smokers. Passage by D. Tannen on stereotyping. Passage by S. Covey on types of listening. Passage by S. I. Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action on easing fear. Passage from D. Prothrow-Stith on effects of violence. Passage from J. Kozol on effects of illiteracy. Susan Ager, Cool Comfort Steals Summer's Seasoning. Stephen King, Why We Crave Horror Movies. Langston Hughes, That Word “Black” . Editorial, USA TODAY, Blowing Smoke on Teens. Thomas Sowell, Human Parasites Are Infesting Society. Dan Olson, I Need a Minivan…Not! D. Tannen, Asymmetries: Women and Men Talking at Cross-Purposes. Ellen Goodman, Linking Crime, Abortion Rates Makes Everyone Queasy.

Example from Winston Churchill's speech. Example from Ernest Boyer, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Example from Hillary Clinton's speech. Example from news account on O.J. Simpson. Essay Baby, Baby, Baby, 3 Has Its Charms by Susan Ager. Example from Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence. Example from Louise Erdrich, The Blue Jay's Dance.

Dr. John Stone, Death. Passage from Ken Macrorie, Telling Writing. Quote from Peter Elbow. Quote from Walt Whitman. Student essay: Kelly Betzold, Quiet's Noise. Passage from A Time for Everything, Ecclesiastes. John Gray, Wallets and Purses. D. Tannen, Intimacy and Independence. Passage on ironies in families by Mary Pipher. Passage by G. Will on ironies in E. Tenner's book When Things Bite Back. Student essay: Jennifer Peacock, Learn the Hard Way. Student essay: Hanjun Kwon, One Hundred Percent: Unattractive Score. Student essay: Eryn Hart, The Best Balance of All. Passage about shoes frowning and smiling. Passage on surprise by Jerome Bruner, On Knowing. Emotional Bank Account Analogy by S. Covey. Analogy from King, I Have a Dream. Essay by Sir James Jeans, Why the Sky Is Blue. Song Lyrics by Bruce Springsteen, Streets of Philadelphia. Lucille Clifton, Wishes for Sons. Sydney J. Harris, Hate Is Simple, Love Complex. Dorothy Noyes, Senior-Teener, A New Hybrid. Dave Barry, The Evil Eye.

Examples of antithesis by Sydney J. Harris from Winners and Losers.

Passage from Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action. David Rothenberg, How the Web Destroys the Quality of Students' Research Papers. Letter by Richard Cummins. Letter by Sharon Stoerger. Letter by Kenneth J. Zanca. Letter by Jere L. Bacharach.

Sports Illustrated Columnist Rick Reilly, The Swooshification of the World. Gavin McMacken, Analyzing Rhetoric with a Swoosh. Leonard Pitts Jr., No Contest: Books Beat Sport Anytime. Anna Quindlen, Whoever We Are, Loss Finds Us and Defines Us. Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream.

Quote Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination. Theodore Roethke, My Papa's Waltz. Emily Dickinson, A Narrow Fellow in the Grass. Theodore Roethke, Root Cellar. Sylvia Plath, Metaphors. William Stafford, Traveling through the Dark. Anne Caston, Eye for an Eye. Student essay: Jennifer Klaiss, Eye for an Eye—Is It Right? William Stafford, One Time. Sharon Olds, Milk Bubble Ruins. Li-Young Lee, Early in the Morning. Emily Dickinson, A Bird Came Down the Walk. Naomi Shihab Nye, Famous. Herb Scott, The Grocer's Children. Joy Harjo, I Give You Back. Lucille Clipton, Jasper Texas 1998. William Blake, A Poison Tree. Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer. Quote Flannery O'Connor. Stuart Dybek, Lights. Stuart Dybek, Maroon. Anne Caston, Flying Out with the Wounded. Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour. Ernest Hemingway, The End of Something. Stuart Dybek, Pet Milk. Richard Selzer, Brute. Richard Selzer, Abortion. Richard Selzer, Toenails. Quote from Bill & Beth Go to the Movies. Passage from Student Review of The Blues Brothers.

Quote by Loren Estelman on doing research.

When Elephants Weep. Harry Schwartz, Cloning Dolly May Be Biggest News. Mark Schoofs, Fear and Wonder.

Julie Mitchell, A Review of Research on Cloning Humans. Julie Mitchell, Should Humans Be Cloned?

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