English Composition I
Subtitle: Butler Community College
Series: Mercury Reader
Publisher: Pearson
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 632
Copyright date: 2016
Table of contents: title: Foreword
pagenum: 1; title: Narration; title: Narrative Introduction
pagenum: 3; title: Salvation
pagenum: 12
authors: Langston Hughes; title: Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self
pagenum: 16
authors: Alice Walker; title: Texts
pagenum: 26
authors: Ursula K. LeGuin; title: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
pagenum: 30
authors: Sherman Alexie; title: I Just Wanna Be Average
pagenum: 38
authors: Mike Rose; title: Trust Me, In These Parts, Hot Dogs Actually Repel Bears
pagenum: 54
authors: Ian Frazier; title: There Will Come Soft Rains
pagenum: 61
authors: Ray Bradbury; title: Graduation
pagenum: 69
authors: Maya Angelou; title: The Chase
pagenum: 83
authors: Annie Dillard; title: Description; title: Description Introduction
pagenum: 89; title: Everything Has a Name
pagenum: 91
authors: Helen Keller; title: The Knife
pagenum: 96
authors: Richard Selzer; title: The Way to Rainy Mountain
pagenum: 102
authors: N. Scott Momaday; title: Letters From the Frontier, 1934
pagenum: 111
authors: Everett Ruess; title: On Dumpster Diving
pagenum: 116
authors: Lars Eighner; title: Videotape
pagenum: 131
authors: Don DeLillo; title: Building Plans: What the World Trade Center Meant
pagenum: 139
authors: Paul Goldberger; title: From On Seeing England for the First Time
pagenum: 146
authors: Jamaica Kincaid; title: Illustration; title: Illustration Introduction
pagenum: 151; title: The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society
pagenum: 153
authors: Jonathan Kozol; title: Shame
pagenum: 164
authors: Dick Gregory; title: Sex, Lies, and Conversation
pagenum: 171
authors: Deborah Tannen; title: The Culture of Martyrdom: How Suicide Bombing Became Not Just a Means but an End
pagenum: 179
authors: David Brooks; title: Virtual Sex, Lies and Cyberspace
pagenum: 186
authors: Amy Harmon; title: Marked for Mayhem
pagenum: 195
authors: Chuck Hustmyre; Jay Dixit; title: Eternal Curves
pagenum: 203
authors: Will Lassek; Steve Gaulin; title: The Inheritance of Tools
pagenum: 213
authors: Scott Russell Sanders; title: Comparison and Contrast; title: Comparison and Contrast Introduction
pagenum: 223; title: Reading the River
pagenum: 227
authors: Mark Twain; title: Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts
pagenum: 231
authors: Bruce Catton; title: The Gender Blur
pagenum: 237
authors: Deborah Blum; title: Neat People vs. Sloppy People
pagenum: 247
authors: Suzanne Britt Jordan; title: That Lean and Hungry Look
pagenum: 251
authors: Suzanne Britt Jordan; title: But What Do You Mean?
pagenum: 256
authors: Deborah Tannen; title: Division and Classification; title: Division and Classification Introduction
pagenum: 267; title: Three Kinds of Discipline
pagenum: 269
authors: John Holt; title: The Things They Carried
pagenum: 274
authors: Tim O'Brien; title: Open Letter from a Millennial: Quit Telling Us We're Not Special
pagenum: 294
authors: Kate "Sierra" Townsend; title: The Female Body
pagenum: 301
authors: Margaret Atwood; title: Historical Fiction to Historical Fact: "Gangs of New York" and the Whitewashing of History
pagenum: 307
authors: Benjamin Justice; title: Definition; title: Definition Introduction
pagenum: 317; title: Don't You Think It's Time to Start Thinking?
pagenum: 320
authors: Northrop Frye; title: Faustian Economics: Hell Hath No Limits
pagenum: 324
authors: Wendell Berry; title: The Perils of Indifference
pagenum: 337
authors: Elie Wiesel; title: Why I Want a Wife
pagenum: 344
authors: Judy Brady; title: Writing
pagenum: 348
authors: William Stafford; title: We Are Our Own Metaphor
pagenum: 352
authors: Mary Catherine Bateson; title: Process Analysis; title: Process Analysis Introduction
pagenum: 357; title: The Maker's Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts
pagenum: 363
authors: Donald M. Murray; title: Why I Write
pagenum: 369
authors: Joan Didion; title: How to Say Nothing in 500 Words
pagenum: 377
authors: Paul Roberts; title: Seeing
pagenum: 392
authors: Annie Dillard; title: Learning to Read and Write
pagenum: 402
authors: Frederick Douglass; title: Why Are We Dressing Our Daughters Like This?
pagenum: 411
authors: Lianne George; title: The Montessori Method
pagenum: 423
authors: Maria Montessori; title: A Homemade Education
pagenum: 436
authors: Malcolm X; title: Cause and Effect; title: Cause and Effect Introduction
pagenum: 449; title: The Red Convertible
pagenum: 452
authors: Louise Erdrich; title: Black Men and Public Space
pagenum: 463
authors: Brent Staples; title: Water Incorporated: The Commodification of the World's Water
pagenum: 469
authors: Maude Barlow; title: Death Watch in the Desert
pagenum: 478
authors: Tim Vanderpool; title: The Case Against College
pagenum: 489
authors: Caroline Bird; title: 2000 Thoughts: A Liberal Education is Key to a Civil Society
pagenum: 495
authors: James Downey; title: I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read: How American High School Students Learn to Loathe Literature
pagenum: 499
authors: Francine Prose; title: Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price
pagenum: 515
authors: Matt Richtel; title: Into the Electronic Millennium
pagenum: 527
authors: Sven Birkerts; title: From: Reading At Risk
pagenum: 538
authors: National Endowment for the Arts; title: By the Numbers: Is the Twentieth Century's Global Technological Leader Becoming an Idiocracy?
pagenum: 549
authors: Neil deGrasse Tyson; title: Additional Readings; title: The Declaration of Independence
pagenum: 561
authors: Thomas Jefferson; title: Letter from Birmingham Jail
pagenum: 567
authors: Martin Luther King, Jr.; title: Civil Disobedience
pagenum: 589
authors: Henry David Thoreau; title: The Allegory of the Cave
pagenum: 612
authors: Plato; title: The Story of an Hour
pagenum: 618
authors: Kate Chopin; title: The Myth of Sisyphus
pagenum: 624
authors: Albert Camus; title: Mid-Term Break
pagenum: 629
authors: Seamus Heaney