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The Little, Brown Reader,one of the best-known and most respected thematic readers available today, continues its tradition of excellence by bringing together contemporary and classic readings with extensive critical reading and writing instruction and numerous illustrations. The strength of The Little, Brown Reader has always been its distinctive collection of readings and its unmatched apparatus; the Tenth Edition enhances both features, further improving the text's focus on critical thinking and writing. Little Brown works in every classrooma range of themes and a flexible format encourage a variety of teaching styles. The readings are well balanced with selections by well-known writers, new writers, and students.

Rhetorical Contents

xix

Preface

xxv

1 A Writer Reads

(18)

Previewing

... MORE

Skimming

(3)

J.H. Plumb

The Dying Family

(4)

Highlighting, Underlining, Annotating

(3)

Summarizing

(1)

Critical Thinking: Analyzing the Text

(2)

Tone and Persona

(3)

2 A Reader Writes

(24)

C.S. Lewis

We Have No "Right to Happiness"

(4)

Responding to an Essay

(1)

The Writing Process

(5)

Keeping a Journal

(1)

Questioning the Text Again

(1)

Summaries, Jottings, Outlines, and Lists

(2)

Getting Ready to Write a Draft

(6)

Drafting an Essay: On "We Have No 'Right to Happiness-

(2)

Revising and Editing a Draft

(1)

A Revised Draft: Persuasive Strategies in C.S. Lewis's "We Have No 'Right to Happiness-

(2)

Rethinking the Thesis: Preliminary Notes

(1)

The Final Version: Style and Argument: An Examination of C. S. Lewis's "We Have No 'Right to Happiness'"

(7)

A Brief Overview of the Final Version

(10)

A CHECKLIST FOR ANALYZING AND EVALUATING AN ESSAY THAT YOU ARE WRITING ABOUT

(3)

3 Academic Writing

(28)

Kinds of Prose

(1)

More about Critical Thinking: Analysis and Evaluation

(4)

Joining the Conversation: Writing about Differing Views

(7)

Writing about Essays Less Directly Related: A Student's Notes and Journal Entries

(2)

The Student's Final Version: Two Ways of Thinking about Today's Families

(3)

Interviewing

(4)

Guidelines for Conducting the Interview and Writing the Essay

(3)

Topics for Writing

(1)

Using Quotations

(1)

Avoiding Plagiarism

(7)

Acknowledging Sources

(4)

Fair Use of Common Knowledge

(1)

"But How Else Can I Put It?"

(3)

A CHECKLIST FOR AVOIDING PLAGIARISM

(1)

A CHECKLIST FOR EDITING: THIRTEEN QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF

(1)

Mark Edmundson

How Teachers Can Stop Cheaters

(3)

4 Writing an Argument

(34)

The Aims of an Argumentative Essay

(1)

Negotiating Agreements: The Approach of Carl R. Rogers

(6)

A CHECKLIST FOR ROGERIAN ARGUMENT

(1)

Three Kinds of Evidence: Examples, Testimony, Statistics

(3)

Examples

(2)

Testimony

(1)

Statistics

(1)

How Much Evidence Is Enough?

(1)

Avoiding Fallacies

(4)

Drafting an Argument

(3)

Imagining an Audience

(1)

Getting Started

(1)

Writing a Draft

(1)

Revising a Draft

(1)

Organizing an Argument

(1)

A Word about Beginnings and Endings

(1)

Persona and Style

(1)

An Overview: An Examination of an Argument

(1)

Richard Rhodes

Hollow Claims about Fantasy Violence

(6)

The Analysis Analyzed

(4)

Two Arguments for Analysis

(1)

Gary Shapiro

Lasting Impression-Downloading Is Illegal

(3)

Cary Sherman

Perspective: Honest Talk about Downloads

100

(8)

A CHECKLIST FOR REVISING DRAFTS OF ARGUMENTS

104

(1)

5 Reading and Writing about Pictures

105

(30)

The Language of Pictures

106

(1)

Writing about Art

107

(1)

Writing about an Advertisement

108

(2)

A CHECKLIST FOR ANALYZING ADVERTISEMENTS

110

(1)

Writing about a Political Cartoon

110

(2)

A CHECKLIST FOR ANALYZING POLITICAL CARTOONS

111

(1)

Lou Jacobs Jr.

What Qualities Does a Good Photograph Have?

112

(5)

"A little honest controversy about the visual success of a print or slide can be a healthy thing."

Three Essays by Students

116

(1)

Joan Daremo

Edvard Munch's The Scream

117

(2)

Zoe Morales

Dancing at Durango

119

(5)

Jason Green

Did Dorothea Lange Pose Her Subject for Migrant Mother?

124

(9)

Last Words: Photographers on Photography

133

(2)

6 All in the Family

135

(78)

ILLUSTRATIONS

Joanne Leonard

Sonia

136

(1)

Pablo Picasso

The Acrobat's Family with a Monkey

137

(1)

SHORT VIEWS

138

(2)

Anonymous (William James?), Marcel Proust, Leo Tolstoy, James Boswell, Jessie Bernard, Jane Austen

Lewis Coser

The Family

140

(1)

A sociologist defines the family and, in fewer than five hundred words, gives an idea of its variety.

Francis Bacon

Of Marriage and Single Life

141

(2)

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

Joan Didion

On Going Home

143

(3)

Is going home-is leaving home-possible?

Gabrielle Glaser

Scenes from an Intermarriage

146

(5)

The author of a book on interfaith marriage believes that, although the future always looks bright, down the road someone usually loses.

Anonymous

Confessions of an Erstwhile Child

151

(5)

Should children have the legal right to escape impossible families? A victim argues that a closely bound family structure compounds craziness.

Julie Matthaei

Political Economy and Family Policy

156

(12)

The "natural" family system is inadequate, oppressive, and is coming apart at the seams.

Katharine Graham

On Money, Religion, and Sex

168

(4)

In her account of her "strange childhood," Katharine Graham discloses "the feeling, which we all shared to some extent, of believing we were never quite going about things correctly."

Arlie Hochschild

The Second Shift: Employed Women Are Putting in Another Day of Work at Home

172

(5)

At home, there's a "leisure gap" between men and women.

Judy Brady

I Want a Wife

177

(3)

A wife looks at the services she performs and decides that she'd like a wife.

Black Elk

High Horse's Courting

180

(5)

An Oglala Sioux holy man tells us what a hard time, in the old days, a young man had getting the girl he wanted.

Josh Quittner

Keeping Up with Your Kids

185

(6)

To spy or spy not? Should parents use software to monitor their children's online activities, or are there better ways to protect children?

Celia E. Rothenberg

Child of Divorce

191

(5)

An undergraduate reflects on the impact of divorce on her, her brother, and her parents.

Jamaica Kincaid

Girl (story)

196

(2)

"Try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming."

Robert Hayden

Those Winter Sundays (poem)

198

(1)

"No one ever thanked him."

A Casebook on Gay Marriage

199

(14)

Ellen Willis

Can Marriage Be Saved?

199

(1)

"Marriage [whether heterosexual or homosexual], in the sense of a ceremonial commitment of people to merge their lives, is properly a social ritual reflecting religious or personal conviction, and should not have legal status."

Andrew Sullivan

Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage

201

(1)

"But gay marriage is not a radical step. It avoids the mess of domestic partnership: it is humane; it is conservative in the best sense of the word."

Lisa Schiffren

Gay Marriage, an Oxymoron

206

(1)

"For most Americans, the marital union-as distinguished from other sexual relationships and legal and economic partnerships-is imbued with an aspect of holiness."

Anonymous

Gay Marriage in the States (editorial)

208

(2)

Marcy E. Feller and Bill Banuchi

Letters Responding to Anonymous Editorial on Gay Marriage

210

(1)

A newspaper editorial suggesting that discussions of gay marriage in the fifty states will provide "social laboratories for the nation" evokes a range of responses.

7 Identities

213

(66)

ILLUSTRATIONS

Dorothea Lange

Grandfather and Grandchildren Awaiting Evacuation Bus, Hayward, California

214

(1)

Marion Post Wolcott

Behind the Bar, Birney, Montana

215

(1)

SHORT VIEWS

216

(2)

Margaret Mead, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Simone de Beauvoir, Israel Zangwill, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Vladimir I. Lenin, Joyce Carol Oates, Martin Luther King Jr., Zora Neale Hurston, Shirley Chisholm

Stephen Jay Gould

Women's Brains

218

(5)

On the "irrelevant and highly injurious" biological labeling of women and other disadvantaged groups.

Katha Pollitt

Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls

223

(3)

Social conditioning, not biology, is the answer, this author says.

Paul Theroux

The Male Myth

226

(4)

"It is very hard to imagine any concept of manliness that does not belittle women."

Bharati Mukherjee

Two Ways to Belong in America

230

(3)

A native of India, now a long-time resident and citizen of the United States, compares her responses to adjusting to life in America with those of her sister, also a U. S. resident but not a citizen.

Emily Tsao

Thoughts of an Oriental Girl

233

(2)

A college sophomore questions the value of describing Asian Americans and other minorities as "people of color."

Gloria Naylor

A Question of Language

235

(3)

What does the word "nigger" mean?

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Double Identity

238

(7)

"In my family, to serve another could be uplifting, a gracious gesture that elevated oneself. For many white Americans it seems that serving another is degrading, an indication of dependency or weakness in character, or a low place on the social ladder."

Richard Rodriguez (with Scott London)

A View from the Melting Pot

245

(6)

"In the LA of the future, no one will need say, 'Let's celebrate diversity.' Diversity is going to be a fundamental part of our lives."

David Brooks

People Like Us

251

(5)

"People show few signs of being truly interested in building diverse communities....People want to be around others who are roughly like themselves."

Brent Staples

The "Scientific" War on the Poor

256

(3)

The ugly politics of I.Q.

Amy Tan

Snapshot: Lost Lives of Women

259

(3)

The writer examines "a picture of secrets and tragedies."

Pat Mora

Immigrants (poem)

262

(1)

The hopes of immigrant parents.

A Casebook on Race

263

(16)

Columbia Encyclopedia

Race

263

(1)

An encyclopedia defines race and distinguishes it from racism.

Sharon Begley

Three Is Not Enough

265

(1)

"Changing our thinking about race will require a revolution in thought as profound, and profoundly unsettling, as anything science has ever demanded."

Shelby Steele

Hailing While Black

270

(1)

"The real debate over racial profiling is not about stops and searches on the New Jersey Turnpike. It is about the degree of racism in America and the distribution of power it justifies."

Randall Kennedy

Blind Spot

272

(1)

Those who debate the pros and cons of racial profiling ought to acknowledge "the simple truth that their adversaries have something useful to say."

Stanley Crouch

Race Is Over

274

(1)

Ten decades up the road, few people will take seriously, accept, or submit to any forms of segregation that are marching along under the intellectually ragged flag of "diversity."

Countee Cullen

Incident (poem)

278

(1)

A grown man remembers only one thing from his childhood visit to Baltimore.

8 Teaching and Learning

279

(104)

ILLUSTRATIONS

Winslow Homer

Blackboard

280

(1)

Ron James

The Lesson-Planning a Career

281

(1)

SHORT VIEWS

282

(5)

Francis Bacon, Paul Goodman, Paul B. Diederich, Hasidic Tale, William Cory, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Emma Goldman, Jesse Jackson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alan Watts, D. H. Lawrence, Prince Kropotkin, John Ruskin, Confucius, Anonymous Zen Anecdote, Joseph Wood Krutch, Phyllis Bottome

Plato

The Myth of the Cave

287

(7)

A great teacher explains in a metaphor the progress of the mind from opinion to knowledge.

Richard Wright

Writing and Reading

294

(11)

"My reading had created a vast sense of distance between me and the world in which I lived."

Richard Rodriguez

Public and Private Language

305

(5)

By age seven, Richard Rodriguez learns "the great lesson of school, that I had a public identity."

Maya Angelou

Graduation

310

(10)

A dispiriting commencement address and a spontaneous reaction to it.

Neil Postman

Order in the Classroom

320

(6)

"School is not a radio station or a television program."

Robert Coles

On Raising Moral Children

326

(5)

A psychiatrist discusses the ways in which adults shape children's behavior.

Mary Field Belenky, Blythe McVicker Clinchy, Nancy Rule Goldberger, and Jill Mattuck Tarule

How Women Learn

331

(3)

"Every woman, regardless of age, social class, ethnicity, and academic achievement, needs to know that she is capable of intelligent thought...."

Fan Shen

The Classroom and the Wider Culture

334

(10)

According to Fan Shen, who migrated from China to Nebraska, "To try to be 'myself,' which I knew was a key to learning English composition, meant not to be my Chinese self at all."

David Gelernter

Unplugged

344

(3)

A professor of computer science offers a surprising comment: "The computer's potential to do good is modestly greater than a book's in some areas. Its potential to do harm is vastly greater, across the board."

Hubert B. Herring

On the Eve of Extinction: Four Years of High School

347

(2)

What can be done to overcome high school "senior slump"?

Nadya Labi

Classrooms for Sale

349

(7)

Should schools let Campbell's soup pay for the overhead projector?

Amy Tan

In the Canon, for All the Wrong Reasons

352

(4)

An Asian-American writer is not altogether comfortable now that her book is required reading.

Dave Eggers

Serve or Fail

356

(4)

Colleges-except perhaps community colleges, whose students "have considerable family and work demands"-should require students to perform community service. "Perhaps every 25 hours of service could be traded for one class credit, with a maximum of three credits a year."

Brent Staples

What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace

360

(2)

Life lessons don't come in a virtual form.

Stanley Fish

Why We Built the Ivory Tower

362

(3)

"The practices of responsible citizenship and moral behavior should be encouraged in our young adults-but it's not the business of the university to do so, except when the morality in question is the morality that penalizes cheating, plagiarism and shoddy teaching...."

Wu-tsu Fa-yen

Zen and the Art of Burglary (story)

365

(1)

A teacher tells a story to teach what otherwise cannot be taught.

Toni Cade Bambara

The Lesson (story)

366

(7)

A city kid begins to learn about money.

A Casebook on Testing and Grading

373

(10)

Paul Goodman

A Proposal to Abolish Grading

373

(1)

"Grading hinders teaching and creates a bad spirit."

Diane Ravitch

In Defense of Testing

376

(1)

"Tests and standards are a necessary fact of life."

Joy Alonso

Two Cheers for Examinations

378

(1)

"After reading all of the essays I felt pretty good, I felt something of the satisfaction that I hope students felt after they finished writing their examinations."

9 Work and Play

383

(68)

ILLUSTRATIONS

Dorothea Lange

Lettuce Cutters, Salinas Valley

384

(1)

Helen Levitt

Children

385

(1)

SHORT VIEWS

386

(3)

Mark Twain, The Duke of Wellington, Richard Milhouse Nixon, Barbara Ehrenreich, Karl Marx, Smohalla, Lost Star, John Ruskin, Eric Nesterenko, Vince Lombardi, Howard Cosell, George Orwell, Friedrich Nietzsche, Walt Whitman, Ken Bums, Bion

Bertrand Russell

Work

389

(6)

A philosopher examines the connections between work and happiness.

W.H. Auden

Work, Labor, and Play

395

(2)

In a modern technological society few people have jobs they enjoy, but the prospect of more leisure is not cheerful either.

John Updike

Early Inklings

397

(2)

"'You're hired': sweet words, in this life of getting and spending. I have heard them rather rarely...."

Gloria Steinem

The Importance of Work

399

(5)

Both men and women have the "human right" to a job. "But women have more cause to fight for it," and have better reasons than "weworkbecausewehaveto."

Felice N. Schwartz

The "Mommy Track" Isn't Anti-Woman

404

(2)

A debate on what employees can do to help parents balance careers and family responsibilities.

Pat Schroeder, Lois Brenner, Hope Dellon, Anita M. Harris, Peg McAulay Byrd

Letters Responding to Felice N. Schwartz

406

(4)

Virginia Woolf

Professions for Women

410

(5)

Women must confront two obstacles on entering new professions.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Delusions of Grandeur

415

(3)

How many African-American athletes are at work today? "...an African-American youngster has about as much chance of becoming a professional athlete as he or she does of winning the lottery"

Sir Thomas More

Work and Play in Utopia

418

(6)

The inventor of the word "utopia" sets forth some ideas about reducing the work week and about the proper use of leisure.

Black Elk

War Games

424

(2)

A Sioux remembers the games of his youth.

Marie Winn

The End of Play

426

(7)

Childhood, once a time of play, today is increasingly "purposeful, success-oriented, competitive." What are the causes of this change? And what are the consequences of "the end of childhood"?

James Paul Gee

From Video Games, Learning about Learning

433

(3)

"If the principles of learning in good video games are good, then better theories of learning are embedded in the video games many children in elementary and particularly in high school play than in the schools they attend."

James C. McKinley Jr.

It Isn't Just a Game: Clues to Avid Rooting

436

(6)

A report on how psychologists look at fans.

John Updike

A&P (story)

442

(6)

"I said I quit."

W.H. Auden

The Unknown Citizen (poem)

448

(4)

"Was he free? Was he happy? The question in absurd."

10 Messages

451

(70)

ILLUSTRATIONS

Jill Posener

Born Kicking, Graffiti on Billboard, London

452

(1)

Anonymous

Sapolio

453

(1)

SHORT VIEWS

454

(2)

Voltaire, Marianne Moore, Derek Walcott, Jane Wagner, Emily Dickinson, Howard Nemerov, Wendell Berry, Anonymous, Rosalie Maggio, Benjamin Cardozo, Gary Snyder, Ann Beattie

Abraham Lincoln

Address at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery

456

(1)

A two-minute speech that shows signs of enduring.

Gilbert Highet

The Gettysburg Address

457

(6)

A classicist analyzes a speech that we may think we already know well.

Robin Lakoff

You Are What You Say

463

(6)

A linguistic double standard turns women into "communicative cripples-damned if we do, and damned if we don't."

Barbara Lawrence

Four-Letter Words Can Hurt You

469

(2)

The best-known obscene words are sadistic and dehumanizing-and their object is almost always female.

Edward T. Hall

Proxemics in the Arab World

471

(8)

Why Americans and Arabs find each other pushy, rude, or simply incomprehensible.

Deborah Tannen

The Workings of Conversational Style

479

(12)

"Our talk is saying something about our relationship."

Steven Pinker

The Game of the Name

491

(3)

The author of The Language Instinct says that "people learn a word by witnessing other people using it, so when they use a word, they provide a history of their reading and listening."

James B. Twitchell

The Marlboro Man: The Perfect Campaign

494

(7)

The perfect ad campaign.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

501

(5)

The women at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention adopt a new declaration, accusing men of failures and crimes parallel to those that led Jefferson in 1776 to denounce King George III.

Melinda Ledden Sidak

Mob Mentality: Why Intellectuals Love The Sopranos

506

(4)

"Could it be that part of the appeal of this show is that Tony Soprano, terrible husband, loutish father, bad citizen...in some sense insists on the distinction between right and wrong?"

Stevie Smith

Not Waving but Drowning (poem)

510

(1)

What a dead man was trying to say all his life.

A Casebook on E-Mail

511

(11)

Nicholas Negroponte

Being Asynchronous

511

(1)

A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology explains why e-mail is a blessing.

Judith Kleinfeld

Check Your E-Mail; You May Be Fired

512

(1)

"Certain kinds of bad news may best be delivered over e-mail."

Rob Nixon

Please Don't E-Mail Me about This Article

514

(1)

E-mail is a great convenience, but "I just need periods in my life when it is less relentless and less convenient."

Ed Boland

In Modern E-Mail Romances "Trash" Is Just a Click Away

517

(1)

How e-mail has changed dating.

11 Law and Order

521

(60)

ILLUSTRATIONS

Bernie Boston

Flower Power

522

(1)

Norman Rockwell

The Problem We All Live With

523

(1)

SHORT VIEWS

524

(3)

African Proverb, Kurt Weis and Michael F. Milakovich, Niccolo Machiavelli, G.C. Lichtenberg, Andrew Fletcher, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, William Blake, Anatole France, Louis D. Brandeis, H.L. Mencken, Mae West

Thomas Jefferson

The Declaration of Independence

527

(8)

"We hold these truths to be self-evident."

Henry David Thoreau

From "Civil Disobedience"

531

(4)

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."

Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonviolent Resistance

535

(5)

"Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral."

Martin Luther King Jr.

Letter from Birmingham Jail

540

(14)

An imprisoned civil rights leader argues that victims of unjust laws have the right to break those laws as long as they use nonviolent tactics.

Cathy Booth Thomas

A New Scarlet Letter

554

(3)

A Texas judge forces sex offenders to broadcast their crimes with house signs and bumper stickers.

Michael Chabon

Solitude and the Fortresses of Youth

557

(3)

A novelist and filmwriter argues that when we censor violent prose, we deny our humanity.

Chesa Boudin

Making Time Count

560

(6)

A young man whose parents have been in prison since he was an infant talks about what was done and might be done to assist such families to maintain healthy relationships.

Derek Bok

Protecting Freedom of Expression on the Campus

566

(3)

A university president engages with "the problem of trying to reconcile the rights of free speech with the desire to avoid racial tension."

Michael Levin

The Case for Torture

569

(3)

"I am not advocating torture as punishment....I am advocating torture as an acceptable measure for preventing future evils."

George Orwell

Shooting and Elephant

572

(6)

As a young British police officer in Burma, Orwell learns the true nature of imperialism.

John (?)

The Woman Taken in Adultery (story)

578

(1)

"He that is without sin, let him first cast a stone at her."

Mitsuye Yamada

To the Lady (poem)

579

(3)

An American woman of Japanese parentage reflects on the internment of Japanese-Americans in 1942.

12 Consuming Desires

581

(64)

ILLUSTRATIONS

Grant Wood

American Gothic

582

(1)

Richard Hamilton

Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?

583

(1)

SHORT VIEWS

584

(2)

Chinese Proverb, Hebrew Bible, William Blake, Marcel Duchamp, Anonymous, George Bernard Shaw, G.C. Lichtenberg, Diane White, Anonymous, Alison Lurie, Rudi Gernreich, Kenneth Clark, Le Corbusier, Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peter Farb and George Armelagos

The Patterns of Eating

586

(4)

The anthropology of table manners.

David Gerard Hogan

Fast Food

590

(3)

Despite criticism, "fast food continues its rapid international growth."

Jacob Alexander

Nitrite: Preservative or Carcinogen?

593

(10)

An undergraduate's research paper provides food for thought.

Donna Maurer

Vegetarianism

603

(3)

An historian offers reflections on what sorts of people are vegetarians, and why.

Paul Goldberger

Quick! Before It Crumbles!

606

(3)

An architecture critic looks at cookie architecture.

Peter Singer

Animal Liberation

609

(12)

A philosopher argues that we have no right to eat "pieces of slaughtered nonhumans" or to experiment on nonhumans "in order to benefit humanity"

Jonathan Swift

A Modest Proposal

621

(7)

An eighteenth-century Irish satirist tells his countrymen how they may make children "sound, useful members of the commonwealth."

Jimmy Carter

My Boyhood Home

628

(7)

President Carter recalls his childhood on his family's peanut farm in Plains, Georgia. "There is little doubt that I now recall those days with more fondness than they deserve."

Jane Jacobs

A Good Neighborhood

635

(3)

On privacy and contact in the city streets.

E.B. White

The Door (story)

638

(4)

A fable about the assaults of progress on the modern psyche

James Wright

Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota (poem)

642

(3)

13 Body and Soul

645

(50)

ILLUSTRATIONS

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Place de l'Europe, 1932

646

(1)

Ken Gray

Lifted Lotus

647

(1)

SHORT VIEWS

648

(2)

W.B. Yeats, Napoleon, Walt Whitman, Woody Allen, Epictetus, D.H. Lawrence, Henry David Thoreau, John Locke, Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Plato, Samuel Johnson, Frederick Douglass, Ray Charles, Friedrich Nietzsche, Oscar Wilde, Nigerian Proverb, Jesus

Anonymous

Muddy Road (story)

650

(1)

A Zen anecdote about body and mind.

D.T. Suzuki

What Is Zen?

650

(4)

A Japanese Buddhist tries to teach Westerners the nature of enlightenment.

Langston Hughes

Salvation

654

(3)

"I was saved from sin when I was going on thirteen. But not really saved. It happened like this."

Henry David Thoreau

Economy

657

(11)

"The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation."

Natalie Angier

The Sandbox: Bully for You: Why Push Comes to Shove

668

(5)

"It's hard to see how bullying behavior in schools can be eliminated when bullying behavior among adults is not only common but often applauded-at least if it results in wild success."

Robert Santos

My Men

673

(5)

A veteran of the Vietnam War recalls hunger, killings, and rape: "It was so horrifying. I tried to think of what I would be like if this took place in my hometown. This may have been a turning point in my life."

Rogelio R. Gomez

Foul Shots

678

(3)

A Mexican-American remembers the shame he felt in the presence of Anglos.

Plato

Crito

681

(12)

Socrates helps Crito to see that "we ought not to render evil for evil."

Robert Frost

Design (poem)