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Across Cultures: A Reader for Writers

by: Gillespie, Sheena; Becker, Robert

Across Cultures: A Reader for Writers

by: Gillespie, Sheena; Becker, Robert

ISBN 13:
9780321475299
ISBN 10:
0321475291
Edition: 7th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2008
Publisher: Longman
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Designed to offer an appealing anthology where there is an increased interest in connections between and among cultures,Across Cultures,strives to promote understanding of diverse cultures among students. The book advocates acceptance of the diversity of voices, while suggesting ways to probe the correspondences, interrelationships, and mutual benefits of that diversity. Diversity and the interrelationship General Interest

Asterisks after titles identify student writings
Rhetorical Contents?
Preface for the Teache?
Preface for the Student
Writing, The Writing Process, And You
Literacy Narrative?
Composing Your Own Literacy Narratives
Family and Community?
Luke 10:29-37
The Good Samaritan
But who is my neighbor?
People Like Us We dont really care about diversity all that much in America, even though we talk about it a great deal
Changing My Name After Sixty Years I want to be remembered by the name I was born with
We kissed the Tomato and Then the Sky This seventy-nine year-old woman was a juggler extraordinaire, but a jugglers art is both exhilarating and unsettling to watch
Focusing on Friends It now seems to me that I was totally monogamous when it came to male friends
Mother Tongue Lately, Ive been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks
Treasures This is what a childs trove of bright and diffused memories is made of-shared words and shared silences
Lim Two Lives Oh Asia, that nets its children in ties of blood so binding that they cut the spirit
For My Indian Daughter I didnt have an Indian name. I didnt speak the Indian language
The Night I was Nobody One minute youre a person, the next moment somebody starts treating you as if youre not
The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life
Madera One Voice
That first, and last, semester at Brooklyn College was a dream that turned into a nightmare
The Knowing Eye
Gender Issues?
The simplest thing is to bottle up your wife
Greek Legend Apollo and Daphne Suddenly, she felt her feet become rooted in the earth
Shrouded in Contradiction To wear hijab-Islamic covering-is to invite contradiction. Sometimes I hate it. Sometimes I value it
The Power of Marriage Men are more likely to want to trade up when a younger trophy wife comes along
The Male Myth I have always disliked being a man
To Be a Man Im looking the part and living well---the car, the house, and the suits in the closet
Life Intrudes If we cant train the street fighters to be gentlemen, must we train the gentlemen to be street fighters?
Why Are Gay Men So Feared? In many societies, the links between men are stronger than the relations that link them to women
At that moment he understood that it would be more soothing to his parents to think he was a heroin addict than that he was a homosexual
The Gravity of Mark Beuhrle
He has since moved to Cleveland, and while we are now able to get along, its more of a friendly relationship than that of father and son. His words no longer carry any weight
Gillianne N. Duncan Why Do We Hate Our Bodies?
Why must the media attack women so much? My answer? The world is run by men and a small number of over achieving women with low self- esteem
Blackberries And the child began to understand that they
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