Essays from Contemporary Culture
by Ackley, Katherine AnneEdition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-07-01
Publisher(s): Cengage Learning
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Summary
Praised for its collection of essays on contemporary issues, the fifth edition offers more coverage of critical reading and writing and visual rhetoric.
Table of Contents
| 1. READING AND WRITING CRITICALLY | |
| Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address | |
| Garry Wills, How to Speak to a Nation’s Suffering | |
| William Safire, A Spirit Reborn | |
| 2. ETHICS, MORALS, and VALUES | |
| Lorri Nandrea, Having No Hand in the Matter | |
| Ellen Goodman, It's Failure, Not Success | |
| Kurt Wiesenfeld, Making the Grade | |
| Christina Hoff Sommers, Are We Living in a Moral Stone Age? David A | |
| Kaplan, Infamy and Immortality | |
| Roger Rosenblatt, The Quality of Mercy Killing | |
| Charles Krauthammer, First and Last, Do No Harm | |
| M | |
| Scott Peck, Living is the Mystery | |
| Susan Glaspell, A Jury of Her Peers (fiction) | |
| 3. TRANSITIONS | |
| Jennifer Crichton, Who Shall I Be? The Allure of a Fresh Start | |
| Richard Ford, An Urge for Going | |
| Lynn Randall, Grandma's Story | |
| E | |
| B | |
| White, Once More to the Lake | |
| Larry Watson, Silence (fiction) | |
| 4. INSIGHTS | |
| Roger Rosenblatt, The Silent Friendship of Men | |
| Frank Conroy, Think About It: Ways We Know, and Don't | |
| Annie Dillard, Living Like Weasels | |
| Michael Denne, Learning the Hard Way | |
| Steven Doloff, Woodstock’s Message is Still True | |
| Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour (fiction) | |
| 5. SELF-PERCEPTION | |
| Sucheng Chan, You're Short, Besides! Nancy Mairs, On Being a Cripple | |
| George Felton, Richard Simmons, the Twit Triumphant | |
| Lini S | |
| Kadaba, What’s in a Name? Rebecca Thomas Kirkendale, Who’s A Hillbilly? Noel Perrin, The Androgynous Male | |
| Brent Staples, Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Ability to Alter Public Space | |
| Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street(fiction) | |
| 6. ROLE MODELS AND HEROES | |
| Bill Thompson, It’s Too Bad We Don’t Have Another Roy | |
| Nicholas Gage, The Teacher Who Changed My Life | |
| Roger Wilkins, I Became Her Target | |
| Scott M | |
| Fisher, Lessons from Two Ghosts | |
| Jedediah Purdy, Rebel Twilight | |
| Howard Zin, Unsung Heroes | |
| Bruce Catton, Grant and Lee:A Study in Contrasts | |
| 7. GENDERED RELATIONSHIPS | |
| Deborah Tannen, Sex, Lies, and Conversation | |
| Carol Tavris, Love Story | |
| Ron Beathard, Over Forty and Unmarried | |
| Katherine Davis, I'm Not Sick, I'm Just in Love | |
| Julie Showalter, Vows (fiction) | |
| 8. POPULAR CULTURE | |
| David Segal, Where’s the Return Fire in Culture Wars? Christopher Sharrett, Movies, Morality, and Conservative Complaints | |
| Richard Corliss, Bang, You’re Dead | |
| John Davidson, Menace to Society | |
| Gerard Jones, Violent Media is Good for Kids | |
| David L | |
| G | |
| Arnold, Cavalcade of Whimsey: Defending Springfield Against Itself | |
| Joshua Gamson, Do Ask, Do Tell | |
| Alan Thein Durning, Can't Live Without It | |
| Joe Saltzman, Beating the Same Old Dead Horse | |
| 9. PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION | |
| Mary Crow Dog, A Woman from He-Dog | |
| Stephen Steinberg, The Affirmative Action Debate | |
| Tricia Rose, Rap Music and the Demonization of Young Black Males | |
| Gerald F | |
| Kreyche, Have We Lost Our Sense of Humor? Michiko Kakutani, The Word Police | |
| William Raspberry, Symbolic Arguments | |
| 10. TERRORISM, WAR, AND VIOLENCE | |
| Benjamin Netanyahu, Three Key Principles in the War Against Terrorism | |
| Ellen Goodman, War Culture | |
| Martin Luther King, Jr | |
| Pilgrimage to Nonviolence | |
| Charles Johnson, Menagerie: A Child’s Fable (fiction) |
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