Expanding Horizons : Short Readings and Images from Unusual Topics
ISBN: 9780321276698 | 0321276698
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 6/15/2006
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"Expanding Horizons" is an off-beat collection of " Pop Culture" essays, poems, stories, and images certain to stimulate the imagination while improving both reading-writing skills. Stimulates imagination with unusual photographs, images, and writings. Students are encouraged to think beyond what they know to build connections. Unusual selections on " Pop Culture" topics. Thematic organization. Reading-Writing connection. Essay level writing courses desiring a off-beat topics to pique student interest.
| Preface for the Instructor | xv | ||||
| Introduction: An Invitation to the Reader | xix | ||||
| CHAPTER 1 URBAN LEGENDS, HOAXES, SUPERSTITIONS, AND OTHER FICTIONS | 2 | (28) | |||
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| CHAPTER 2 POPULAR CULTURE: WHAT'S HIP AND WHAT'S HOPPED-AND WHO CARES | 30 | (26) | |||
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| CHAPTER 3 IDENTITY; YOU ARE UNIQUE, JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE | 56 | (20) | |||
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| CHAPTER 5 MONEY MATTERS | 100 | (24) | |||
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| CHAPTER 6 EMPLOYMENT: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS | 124 | (22) | |||
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| CHAPTER 7 SIMPLICITY: IS IT TOO COMPLICATED? | 146 | (26) | |||
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| CHAPTER 8 FRIENDS, FAMILIES, AND PARENTHOOD | 172 | (24) | |||
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| CHAPTER 9 ETHICS, OR "DO THE RIGHT THING" | 196 | (28) | |||
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| CHAPTER 10 CENSORSHIP: SAY THE RIGHT THING- OR DON'T | 224 | (20) | |||
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| CHAPTER 11 AMERICA: RECOVERING AND REMEMBERING | 244 | (31) | |||
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| Appendix A Writing ModelS | 275 | (10) | |||
| Appendix B Research and Documenting Sources for College Papers | 285 | (8) | |||
| Credits | 293 | (2) | |||
| Index | 295 |
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