75 Readings Plus

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Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1994-03-01
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill College
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Summary

The alternate version of the best selling 75 Readings, this rhetorically organized reader collects the most popular essays for first-year writing, with apparatus, at a student-friendly price.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Narration 1
Shooting an Elephant Langston Hughes:Salvation Maya Angelou:Grandmother’s
Coming to an Awareness of Language
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Thirty-eight Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police
Description
Fifth Avenue, Uptown
Once More to the Lake
A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto
Revisiting Sacred Ground
Monuments to Our Better Nature
Process Analysis
Why Leaves Turn Color in the Fall
Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain
Writing
Alone on the Hilltop
The Serpents of Paradise
Definition
Women’s Beauty: Put Down or Power Source?
What Is Poverty?
The Company Man
Meanings of a Word Tom Haines:Facing Famine
The Green-Eyed Monster
Classification And Division
Predictable Crises of Adulthood
Four Kinds of Reading
Growing Up Asian in America
The Truth about Lying
Doublespeak
9 Failures of the Imagination
Comparison And Contrast
Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts
Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers
Two Views of the Mississippi Scott
The Men We Carry in Our Minds
Neat People vs. Sloppy People
Shakespeare’s Sister
Two Ways to Belong in America
Example And Illustration
A Few Kind Words for Superstition
The Anthropology of Manners
Black Men and Public Space
Letter to His Father
Clutter Bailey White:Forbidden Things
Silk Parachute
Cause And Effect
Pain Is Not the Ultimate Enemy
Where Have All the Parents Gone?
If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably
The Arrow of Time
Shattered
DNA as Destiny
Analogy
The Myth of the Cave
Am I Blue?
Body Ritual Among the Nacirema
The Cosmic Prison
Living Like Weasels
Argument And Persuasion Argument Economics and Social Responsibilit
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