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| PART ONE Strategies for Reading and Writing Arguments |
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CHAPTER 1 Understanding Persuasion: Thinking Like a Negotiator |
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3 | (1) |
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4 | (2) |
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Opinions Based on Personal Taste or Preference Are Not Arguable |
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Opinions Based on Judgments Are Arguable |
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6 | (1) |
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Moving from Debate to Dialogue |
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13 | (1) |
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Deborah Tannen, "Taking a 'War of Words' Too Literally" |
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SAMPLE ARGUMENTS FOR ANALYSIS |
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Michael Lewis, "The Case Against Tipping" |
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21 | (2) |
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Paul Finkelman, "This One's for the Birds" |
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CHAPTER 2 Reading Arguments: Thinking Like a Critic |
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28 | (1) |
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29 | (2) |
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31 | (3) |
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SAMPLE ARGUMENT FOR ANALYSIS |
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Henry Wechsler, 'Binge Drinking Must Be Stopped" |
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Consider Your Own Experience |
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34 | (1) |
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35 | (2) |
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Analyze and Evaluate the Reading |
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Create a Debate and Dialogue Between Two or More Readings |
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42 | (2) |
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SAMPLE ARGUMENT FOR ANALYSIS |
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Froma Harrop, "Stop Babysitting College Students" (student essay) |
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43 | (1) |
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44 | (4) |
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SAMPLE ARGUMENTS FOR ANALYSIS |
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Kathryn Stewart and Corina Sole, "Letter to the Editor" from the Washington Post |
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James C. Carter, S.J., "Letter to the Editor" from the Times-Picayune |
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47 | (1) |
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Deliberate About the Readings |
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48 | (1) |
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Look for Logical Fallacies |
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49 | (13) |
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Ad Misericordiam Argument |
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Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc |
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57 | (1) |
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58 | (1) |
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59 | (1) |
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59 | (1) |
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60 | (2) |
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CHAPTER 3 Finding Arguments: Thinking Like a Writer |
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62 | (23) |
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63 | (1) |
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63 | (1) |
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63 | (1) |
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63 | (1) |
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64 | (1) |
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64 | (2) |
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In Your Immediate Vicinity |
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64 | (1) |
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64 | (1) |
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65 | (1) |
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Developing Argumentative Topics |
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66 | (1) |
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66 | (1) |
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66 | (1) |
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Finding Ideas Worth Writing About |
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67 | (5) |
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69 | (1) |
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69 | (2) |
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71 | (1) |
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Engaging in Dialogue with Others |
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72 | (1) |
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72 | (13) |
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72 | (1) |
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Avoiding Overspecialized Topics |
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73 | (1) |
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Formulating a Working Claim |
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73 | (15) |
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SAMPLE ARGUMENT FOR ANALYSIS |
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Stephanie Bower, "What's the Rush? Speed and Mediocrity in Local Television News" (student essay) |
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75 | (10) |
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CHAPTER 4 Addressing Audiences: Thinking Like a Reader |
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85 | (38) |
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86 | (1) |
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87 | (1) |
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Guidelines for Knowing Your Audience |
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88 | (3) |
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Using Debate and Dialogue |
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90 | (1) |
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Adapting to Your Readers' Attitudes |
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91 | (18) |
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Addressing a Neutral Audience |
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92 | (1) |
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Addressing a Friendly Audience |
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93 | (1) |
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Addressing an Unfriendly Audience |
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94 | (15) |
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SAMPLE ARGUMENTS FOR ANALYSIS |
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C. Everett Koop, "Don't Forget the Smokers" |
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Jeff Jacoby, "What the Antismoking Zealots Really Crave" |
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99 | (1) |
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Robert J. Samuelson, "Media Have Fallen for Misguided Antismoking Campaign" |
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101 | (1) |
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Danise Cavallaro, "Smoking: Offended by the Numbers" (student essay) |
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103 | (6) |
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109 | (14) |
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Distinguishing Denotation and Connotation |
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109 | (1) |
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110 | (3) |
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Using Figurative Language |
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113 | (3) |
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116 | (1) |
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117 | (1) |
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Clarifying Familiar Terms |
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117 | (1) |
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118 | (1) |
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119 | (1) |
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Using Sarcasm and Humor Sparingly |
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119 | (4) |
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ChAPTER 5 Shaping Arguments: Thinking Like an Architect |
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Components of an Argument |
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123 | (5) |
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124 | (1) |
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124 | (3) |
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127 | (1) |
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SAMPLE ARGUMENT FOR ANALYSIS |
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127 | (1) |
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Clara Spotted Elk, "Indian Bones" |
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127 | (1) |
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128 | (4) |
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128 | (1) |
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129 | (1) |
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130 | (2) |
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SAMPLE ARGUMENT FOR ANALYSIS |
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130 | (1) |
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Ron Karpati, "I Am the Enemy" |
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130 | (2) |
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132 | (4) |
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132 | (1) |
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132 | (1) |
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133 | (1) |
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133 | (1) |
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134 | (2) |
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Two Basic Shapes for Arguments |
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136 | (1) |
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136 | (9) |
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SAMPLE ARGUMENT FOR ANALYSIS |
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141 | (2) |
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Bruce Wexler, "Poetry Is Dead. Does Anybody Really Care?" |
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141 | (2) |
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Analysis of a Position Argument |
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143 | (2) |
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145 | (19) |
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SAMPLE ARGUMENT FOR ANALYSIS |
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148 | (12) |
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Amanda Collins, "Bring East Bridgewater Elementary into the World" (student essay) |
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149 | (11) |
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160 | (4) |
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CHAPTER 6 Using Evidence: Thinking Like an Advocate |
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164 | (20) |
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How Much Evidence Is Enough? |
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165 | (1) |
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Why Arguments Need Supporting Evidence |
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165 | (1) |
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166 | (5) |
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Personal Experience—Yours and Others' |
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167 | (1) |
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168 | (1) |
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Factual References and Examples |
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169 | (1) |
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170 | (1) |
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Some Tips About Supporting Evidence |
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171 | (13) |
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Do You Have a Sufficient Number of Examples to Support Your Claim? |
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171 | (1) |
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Is Your Evidence Detailed Enough? |
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172 | (1) |
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Is Your Evidence Relevant to the Claim You Make or to the Conclusion You Reach? |
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172 | (1) |
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Does Your Conclusion (or Claim) Exceed the Evidence? |
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172 | (1) |
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Is Your Evidence Up-to-Date and Verifiable? |
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173 | (1) |
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Is Your Evidence Appropriate for Your Audience? |
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173 | (1) |
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Is Your Evidence Slanted? |
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174 | (11) |
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SAMPLE ARGUMENT FOR ANALYSIS |
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176 | (1) |
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Arthur Allen, "Prayer in Prison: Religion as Rehabilitation" (student essay) |
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177 | (7) |
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CHAPTER 7 Establishing Claims: Thinking Like a Skeptic |
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184 | (24) |
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184 | (1) |
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185 | (3) |
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185 | (1) |
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185 | (1) |
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185 | (1) |
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186 | (1) |
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186 | (1) |
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187 | (1) |
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188 | (6) |
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SAMPLE ARGUMENTS FOR ANALYSIS |
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190 | (4) |
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Steven Pinker, "Why They Kill Their Newborns" |
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190 | (4) |
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An Analysis Based on the Toulmin Model |
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194 | (14) |
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195 | (1) |
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Warrants, Backing, and Rebuttals |
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196 | (2) |
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198 | (4) |
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Michael Kelley, "Arguing for Infanticide" |
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199 | (3) |
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SAMPLE STUDENT ARGUEMNT OFR ANALYSIS |
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202 | (8) |
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Lowell Putnam, "Did I Miss Something?" (student essay) |
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202 | (6) |
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CHAPTER 8 Using Visual Arguments: Thinking Like an Illustrator |
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208 | (44) |
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Common Forms of Visual Arguments |
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208 | (1) |
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Analyzing Visual Arguments |
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209 | (1) |
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210 | (7) |
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210 | (3) |
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Normal Rockwell's Freedom of Speech |
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213 | (4) |
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217 | (4) |
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217 | (4) |
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221 | (5) |
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223 | (2) |
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225 | (1) |
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Editorial or Political Cartoons |
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226 | (5) |
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Jack Ohman's "Cloned Embryo Department" Cartoon |
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227 | (2) |
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Pat Bagley's "Back in Aught-Five ..." Cartoon |
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229 | (1) |
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Daryl Cagle's "1 Hate Them" Cartoon |
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230 | (1) |
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231 | (3) |
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Ancillary Graphics: Tables, Charts, and Graphs |
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234 | (18) |
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234 | (3) |
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237 | (1) |
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238 | (1) |
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239 | (1) |
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Tips for Using Ancillary Graphics |
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240 | (13) |
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SAMPLE STUDENT ARGUMENT FOR ANALYSIS |
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240 | (1) |
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Lee Innes, "Olympic Babes?" (student essay) |
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242 | (10) |
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CHAPTER 9 Researching Arguments: Thinking Like an Investigator |
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252 | (26) |
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253 | (2) |
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253 | (2) |
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255 | (1) |
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255 | (2) |
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255 | (1) |
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Getting an Overview of Your Topic |
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256 | (1) |
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Compiling a Working Bibliography |
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Sample Entries for an Annotated Bibliography |
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257 | (1) |
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258 | (5) |
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258 | (2) |
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260 | (1) |
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261 | (2) |
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263 | (5) |
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263 | (1) |
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263 | (5) |
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268 | (2) |
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269 | (1) |
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269 | (1) |
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270 | (1) |
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270 | (3) |
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Incorporating Your Research |
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271 | (1) |
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272 | (1) |
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Revising and Editing Your Paper |
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273 | (5) |
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Preparing and Proofreading Your Final Manuscript |
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274 | (1) |
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275 | (3) |
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DOCUMENTATION GUIDE MLA and APA Styles |
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278 | (37) |
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Where Does the Documentation Go? |
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278 | (1) |
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279 | (1) |
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A Brief Guide to MLA and APA Styles |
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280 | (37) |
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280 | (4) |
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284 | (2) |
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286 | (2) |
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288 | (30) |
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290 | (1) |
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Shannon O'Neill, "Literature Hacked and Torn Apart: Censorship in Public Schools" (MLA) (student essay) |
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291 | (1) |
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Robin Fleishman, "Public Policy Proposal: Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Purposes" (APA) (student essay) |
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| PART TWO The Readings |
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CHAPTER 10 Advertising and Consumerism |
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317 | (94) |
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318 | (28) |
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318 | (5) |
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"With budgets that add up to hundreds of billions of dollars, the [advertising] industry exceeds the church and the school in its ability to promote images about our place in society—where we belong, why, and how we should act toward others." |
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Buy This 24-Year-Old and Get All His Friends Absolutely Free |
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323 | (8) |
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"Although we like to think of advertising as unimportant, it is in fact the most important aspect of the mass media. It is the point." |
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Friendly Persuasion: The Growing Ubiquity of Advertising, or What Happens When Everyone Becomes an Ad? |
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331 | (7) |
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"Ads have wandered away from their well-known hangouts in magazines and TV shows. Like alien-infected pod-people of early science fiction movies, they have stumbled out of these familiar media playgrounds and suddenly sprouted up everywhere." |
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Which One of These Sneakers Is Me? |
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338 | (5) |
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"The battle in which our children are engaged seems to pass beneath our radar screens, in a language we don't understand. But we see the confusion and despair that results. How did we get in this predicament, and is there a way out?" |
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READING THE VISUAL: Logos, a History |
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343 | (3) |
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Grace Conlon, Logoworks.com |
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346 | (16) |
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Two Cheers for Consumerism |
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346 | (4) |
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Face it. We're all consumerists at heart. So why doesn't anyone want to talk about it? |
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READING THE VISUAL: Powerful Drug Advertising |
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349 | (1) |
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350 | (3) |
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Six bathrooms, four bedrooms, vaulted ceiling, indoor swimming pool, great room: How much house does anyone really need? |
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Confessions of a Shop-a-holic |
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353 | (4) |
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A confessed "shop-a-holic" outlines his twelve-step program toward recovery. |
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357 | (5) |
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A small revolt takes hold in the author's New England hometown when a local minister proposes families celebrate a "$100 holiday." |
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361 | (1) |
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The Language of Advertising |
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362 | (49) |
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With These Words, I Can Sell You Anything |
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362 | (13) |
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"Advertisers use weasel words to appear to be making a claim for a product when in fact they are making no claim at all." |
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The Language of Advertising |
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375 | (9) |
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"The language of advertising is a language of finely engineered, ruthlessly purposeful messages." |
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384 | (8) |
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"Today's marketers throw terms the way they'd throw confetti...and with just about as much impact." |
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Sexuality and Advertising |
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392 | (5) |
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"One of the problems sexploitation of the female body causes is a sense of inadequacy on the part of many women, who don't have the lean and boyish, or in some cases, anorexic bodies that so many supermodels do." |
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Sample Ads and Study Questions |
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397 | (14) |
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CHAPTER 11 Gender Matters |
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411 | (29) |
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411 | (7) |
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"Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls go down in droves. They crash and burn in a social and developmental Bermuda Triangle." |
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418 | (9) |
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"Tormented by an unattainable ideal, boys are learning what girls have long known: it isn't easy living in a Baywatch world." |
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READING THE VISUAL: NEDA Ad and BOD Ad |
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425 | (2) |
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427 | (6) |
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"It isn't height or weight or strength that makes women easy targets; from infancy women are taught to be self sacrificing, passive victims." |
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Susan Faludi and Karen Lehrman |
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"Karen, I enter into this conversation with you about feminism with some misgivings. Not because I don't want to talk to you. It is just that 1 suspect it will be like a phone conversation where the connection's so bad neither party can hear the other through the static." |
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Women Have More to Say on Everything |
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440 | (3) |
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"Left to their own devices, girls go through life volubly answering questions. And boys? Multiple choice is way too complicated. Boys restrict themselves to true/false." |
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I'm Sorry, I Won't Apologize |
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443 | (5) |
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"It's as if there's a tenet that real men don't say they're sorry." |
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READING THE VISUAL: Asking for Directions |
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447 | (1) |
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448 | (2) |
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"No matter what good company I find in a man in a bar or on a commuter train, there remains that secret need to know: Will he pull me into the lifeboat when I am danger of swamping at sea?" |
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450 | (6) |
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"...the truth is that most of the women I know, in the midst of hectic, confusing and sometimes disappointing lives, find one of the greatest sources of strength in a circle of female friends." |
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Point-Counterpoint—Title IX: Battle of the Sexes Continues |
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Since its passage [Title IX] has opened the door to many educational opportunities for females, but an increase in sports programs for women has attracted the most controversy. |
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Title IX to Blame for Loss of Baseball: A Letter to the Editor of the Iowa State Daily |
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459 | (2) |
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"Just think if Title IX was imposed on life outside of school. WNBA players would have to be paid the same amount as Michael Jordan. Seem extreme? It should! And for those of you out there saying, 'Well, why don't WNBA players get paid at the same rate as Jordan?' I have one thing to say: Overall, men's sports are more exciting." |
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Title IX Creates Opportunity: Column in the Iowa State Daily |
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461 | (2) |
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"I didn't want it to come Out...but like a ticking time bomb, it was waiting for something, or someone to set it off. I am talking about my feminist nature, which stays fairly dormant until aggravated by ignorance and misinformation." |
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He's a Laker; She's a "Looker" |
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463 | (10) |
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Jennifer L. Knight and Traci A. Giuliano |
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"Coverage of women's sport is inferior to that of men's not only in quantity but in quality.... Sport commentators and writers often allude or explicitly refer to a female athlete's attractiveness, emotionality, femininity, and heterosexuality...yet male athletes are depicted as powerful, independent, dominating, and valued." |
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READING THE VISUAL: Victory Lap |
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472 | (1) |
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Wrestling with Resolutions |
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473 | (3) |
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"One resolution that the team has come up with this semester is to have a dress up day every week. Yes, that's right ... we made a resolution just to look nice for class...no sweatpants...and no sneakers." |
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CHAPTER 12 Security and Freedom |
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475 | (50) |
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Reacting to Terrorism Post-9/11 |
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476 | (18) |
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476 | (4) |
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America "was a symbol that the world need not always be the impenetrably dark place it has often been. It was a sign that someplace, somewhere, was always secure...." |
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READING THE VISUAL: Predictable |
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484 | (1) |
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Americans Don't Understand That Their Heritage Is Itself a Threat |
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480 | (5) |
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"The terrorist obsession with the World Trade Center was, in this light, not irrational. In fact it was, viewed in the context of a war of cultures, entirely understandable." |
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485 | (2) |
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"Yes, terrorists r' (also) us...ordinary people consuming much too much...committing cultural genocide on the vast majority of humanity, plundering non-western economies in the name of free trade, and imposing our lifestyle and morality on the rest of humanity." |
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487 | (4) |
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"Terrorism is calculated violence, usually against symbolic targets, designed to deliver a political or religious message.... Terrorists [tailor! their attacks to maximize publicity and get their messages out through all available channels." |
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491 | (3) |
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Terrorists depend on the cooperation of the media. It's time to stop providing it. |
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The Patriot Act and Personal Liberty |
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494 | (19) |
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494 | (8) |
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The U.S. Department of Justice presents an overview of the Patriot Act, and explains why it feels it is essential in combating terrorism. |
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READING THE VISUAL: Speaking Out Loud |
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500 | (1) |
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In Defense of the Patriot Act |
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502 | (2) |
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"Hardly a day passes without a well-publicized denunciation of the government's alleged assault on civil liberties.... The charge[s are] baseless." |
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504 | (3) |
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The director of the Cato Institute poses some questions about the Patriot Act to former Attorney General John D. Ashcroft. |
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507 | (6) |
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The director of public affairs at the Department of Justice responds to Timothy Lynch's questions to John Ashcroft. |
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National ID Cards and Personal Privacy |
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513 | (12) |
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The Case for a National ID Card |
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513 | (2) |
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Big Brother already knows where you live, says Margaret Carlson. Why not let him make you safer? |
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National ID Cards: 5 Reasons Why They Should Be Rejected |
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515 | (3) |
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"The creation of a national ID card remains a misplaced, superficial 'quick fix.'It offers only a false sense of security and will not enhance our security—but will pose serious threats to our civil liberties and civil rights. A national ID will not keep us safe or free." |
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A National ID Card Wouldn't Make Us Safer |
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518 | (3) |
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"My primary objection isn't the totalitarian potential of national IDs....My objection to the national ID card...is much simpler: It won't work." |
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521 | (5) |
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"We live in a new world, and now must make some careful adjustments to our way of life." |
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CHAPTER 13 Individual Rights and Personal Responsibility |
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525 | (65) |
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526 | (41) |
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Free Speech for You But Not for Me? |
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526 | (6) |
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"As campus officials look for ways to accommodate the growing diversity of their student bodies, an increasingly vocal number of students....say there is little room for their opinions and beliefs." |
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532 | (3) |
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"At first glance, [Shippensburg's speech] code seems like it was written for a drug-treatment center, or even a psychiatric hospital complete with 'quiet rooms' and other soothing facilities for the severely disturbed. But Shippensburg is a real university." |
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READING THE VISUAL: Student Rally |
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535 | (7) |
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"Hate speech may well make the speaker feel better, but it does not make the victim safer....permitting a person to say something hateful to another increases, not reduces, the chance that he or she will do so again. Moreover, others may feel that they can follow suit." |
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Regulating Racist Speech on Campus |
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542 | (4) |
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"University officials who have formulated policies to respond to incidents of racial harassment have been characterized in the press as 'thought police,' but such policies generally do nothing more than impose sanctions against intentional face-to-face insults." |
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The Man in the Maelstrom: An Interview with Ward Churchill |
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546 | (8) |
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"I wanted to talk about what it was I said, not my right to say it. But I've suddenly become the poster boy for academic freedom. This is something I can't back up an inch on. I simply cannot." |
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There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing, Too |
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554 | (13) |
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"Free speech...is not an independent value but a political prize, and if that prize has been captured by a politics opposed to yours, it can no longer be invoked in ways that further your purposes, for now it is an obstacle to those purposes." |
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Should Colleges Regulate Student Drinking? |
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567 | (23) |
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Welcome to the Fun-Free University |
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567 | (4) |
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"Many college administrators throughout the country are taking great pains to keep their students under tight control. The return of in loco parentis is killing student freedom." |
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571 | (4) |
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"In recent years, I have found a small but vocal group of graduates who complain that the social scene on their respective campuses provides little that is not alcohol-related" |
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Parental Notification: Fact or Fiction |
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575 | (7) |
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On campuses across the country, inebriated students are being written up and told that under a newly enacted disciplinary policy their parents will be notified. Can a school really confront student drinking in this manner? |
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READING THE VISUAL: Binge Drinking at an All-Time High |
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581 | (1) |
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All Hail the Medulla Oblongata! |
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582 | (2) |
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You are a freshman at your first frat party. Are any of those DARE lectures about the dangers and horrors of alcohol you saw in high school coming back to you? No, and when your beer cup is empty, you will likely refill it. And what's wrong with that? |
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Can Tougher Laws Slow Underage Drinking? |
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584 | (7) |
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"While 21 may be the legal drinking age in the U.S., no scientific evidence exists proving this is the age at which young people can safely begin drinking alcohol. Leaving prohibitions on alcohol largely to the family is the best tactic if the aim is to reduce binge drinking by minors." |
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READING THE VISUAL: NASULCG/Anheuser-Busch Spring Break Ad |
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587 | (3) |
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CHAPTER 14 Family and Relationships |
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590 | (59) |
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591 | (28) |
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What's Happening to Marriage? |
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591 | (5) |
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The National Marriage Project |
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"...Most Americans continue to prize and value marriages as an important life goal....But when men and women marry today, they are entering a union that looks very different from the one that their parents or grandparents entered." |
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Single Mothers: A Menace to Society? |
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596 | (8) |
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Everyone's blaming society's ills on single moms. The author is one, and she's tired of taking the heat. |
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READING THE VISUAL: Families on Television |
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602 | (2) |
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Marriage and Divorce American Style |
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604 | (7) |
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"Before betting the farm on marriage...policy makers should take another look at the research. Lt reveals that there are many kinds of marriage and not all are salutary." |
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READING THE VISUAL: 2004 Marriage Trends |
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609 | (1) |
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The National Marriage Project |
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611 | (8) |
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Interview with James Q. Wilson |
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"Marriage is a fragile institution. Unless you enforce it by social mechanisms including shame for not being married, stigma for having a child out of wedlock, then we will see marriage continue to suffer" |
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619 | (15) |
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619 | (3) |
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"When people talk about gay marriage,' they miss the point. This isn't about gay marriage. It's about marriage. It's about family. It's about love." |
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622 | (5) |
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"The reality is that I don't want to marry Liza (nor she me). In fact, I'm against same-sex marriage for the same reasons I'm against all marriage." |
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READING THE VISUAL: Wedding Day |
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625 | (2) |
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What's Love Got to Do with It? |
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627 | (4) |
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"While modern folk take for granted that marriage is about love, it's really a historically peculiar—even radical—idea." |
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"Gay Marriage" Confusions |
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631 | (3) |
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"Marriage is a social contract because the issues involved go beyond the particular individuals. Unions of a man and a woman produce the future generations on whom the fate of the whole society depends. Society has something to say about that." |
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634 | (15) |
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A 21st-Century Adoption Overview |
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634 | (2) |
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"Today it is widely accepted that adoption is not simply a legal process and social institution, but is another way of forming family relationships. And family relationships are anything but simple." |
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636 | (3) |
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Should adopted children have the right to uncover their birth parents? More states are trying to open the records. |
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639 | (3) |
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"Who's Your Daddy?" can be easily dismissed as a new low in the new 'reality' of television. But it may be more than that, underscoring, in its way, a change in our attitudes toward adoption." |
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642 | (2) |
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"Parents [who have given up their children for adoption] have counted on the presumption—usually based on a specific promise from state officials—that the stigma of an unwanted pregnancy would not be revived years later by a forced confrontation with accusatory offspring." |
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644 | (6) |
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"To hide my alien-ness, I made myself the perfect Asian American. I assimilated every stereotype there was, just out of gratitude for my salvation. You saved me, white America. I can at least make myself easier for you to deal with." |
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CHAPTER 15 Race and Ethnicity |
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649 | (67) |
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Stereotypes: How They Hurt |
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650 | (18) |
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650 | (3) |
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"Middle-class Hispanics are inevitably class straddlers...economically tethered to whites while maintaining strong emotional bonds to Hispanics." |
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The Myth of the Latina Woman |
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653 | (6) |
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"There are...thousands of Latinas without the privilege of an education or the entrée into society that I have. For them life is a struggle against the misconceptions perpetuated by the myth of the Latina as whore, domestic or criminal." |
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Fairness for America's Muslims |
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659 | (2) |
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"With negative stereotypes prevailing among more than a quarter of the American people, there is no wonder that reported hate crimes and discrimination against Muslim Americans [have] increased." |
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Sorry for Not Being a Stereotype |
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661 | (2) |
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"You don't look Indian, a woman told me once. I asked her what an Indian is supposed to look like. 'You know. Long black hair, braids, feathers, beads.'" |
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663 | (5) |
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"Stereotypes that hint at superiority in one race implicitly suggest inferiority in another. They are ultimately divisive, and in their most virulent form, even deadly." |
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READING THE VISUAL: Chief Wahoo |
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666 | (2) |
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Assimilation and Immigration |
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668 | (19) |
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The Return of the Melting Pot |
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668 | (4) |
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"We used to say e pluribus unum. Now we glorify pluribus and belittle unum. The melting pot yields to the Tower of Babel." |
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Forging a New Vision of America's Melting Pot |
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672 | (4) |
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"Rather than upholding the segregated notion of a country divided by mutually exclusive groups, Mexican-Americans might use their experience to imagine an America in which racial, ethnic and cultural groups collide to create new ways of being American." |
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Diversity and Its Discontents |
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676 | (8) |
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"In short, diversity is desirable only in principle, not in practice....We desire, we like, we admire diversity, not unlike the way the French (and others) appreciate women; that is, Vive la difference!—as long as it stays in its place." |
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Please Ask Me Who, Not "What," I Am |
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684 | (3) |
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"My ethnicity isn't obvious at first glance. But why should it matter to people I've just met?" |
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687 | (29) |
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You Can't Judge a Crook by His Color |
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687 | (6) |
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Racial profiling may be justified, but is it still wrong? |
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In Defense of Racial Profiling |
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693 | (9) |
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"By far the largest number of Americans angry about racial profiling are law-abiding black people who feel...that they are the victims of a negative stereotype. They are. Unfortunately, a negative stereotype can be correct, and even useful." |
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READING THE VISUAL: Pulling Teeth |
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700 | (1) |
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American Civil Liberties Union |
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Are You a Terrorist, or Do You Play One on TV? |
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702 | (5) |
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"Racial profiling and ethnic stereotyping are nothing new to Americans of Middle Eastern descent....Nowhere is this game of Pin-the-BombThreat-on-the-Muslim more obvious than at the airport." |
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The Racial Profiling Myth Debunked |
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707 | (5) |
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"The anti–racial profiling juggernaut has finally met its nemesis: the truth." |
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712 | (5) |
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Are we debating racism in America or merely defending our ideologies? |
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CHAPTER 16 Casebook: Young and Criminal |
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716 | (42) |
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Adult Crime, Adult Time: Outdated Juvenile Laws Thwart Justice |
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717 | |
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"Children who knowingly engage in adult conduct and adult crimes should automatically be subject to adult rules and adult prison time." |
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702 | (24) |
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"Supporters say expungement is an enlightened practice that forgives youthful transgressions. But expungement is actually an astonishingly counterproductive policy that benefits only young criminals." |
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The Maximum Security Adolescent |
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726 | (9) |
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The juvenile justice system, founded on the idea that childhood is a distinct stage of life, is being dismantled, with more and more teenagers imprisoned as adults. The tough-on-crime crowd has won, but what kind of society has been left behind? |
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The Apocalypse of Adolescence |
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735 | (12) |
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"Since the end of World War II adolescents have been chafing against an ever more impervious, unheeding social system....And now it's expressed by the kids who carry out school shootings and other acts of vicious and inexplicable violence." |
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READING THE VISUAL: Supreme Court Approves Execustion for Juveniles |
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746 | (1) |
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747 | (6) |
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Although violent crimes like the recent shooting sprees in Colorado and California are a rarity, they've become the rationale for a host of crackdown policies on teens. Will this new mood of "meanness" toward children help stop the violence? |
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READING THE VISUAL: Juvenile Arrest Rates |
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752 | (1) |
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Center for Juvenile Justice |
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From Schoolhouse to Jailhouse |
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753 | (5) |
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"The truth is, juvenile violence and school violence, in particular are on the decline. Zero tolerance and its outgrowth—overzealous arrests of students for minor conduct-are a cure in search of a disease." |
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CHAPTER 17 Casebook: Church and State |
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758 | (8) |
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"A hundred years ago, advanced thinkers were all but unanimous in dismissing religion as a relic of mankind's mental infancy. What's being dismissed today is the idea that humanity will outgrow religion." |
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Why We're Not One Nation "Under God" |
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766 | (6) |
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"Since the founding, critics of America's secularism have repeatedly sought to break down the church-state wall." |
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READING THE VISUAL: Pledge of Allegiance Protest |
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771 | (1) |
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772 | (2) |
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"Whenever an argument arises about the role that religion should play in our civic life, such as the dispute over the phrase 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance...assertions about the faith of the founders are invariably bandied about." |
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Public Prayers on State Occasions Need Not Be Divisive or Generic |
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774 | (6) |
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"Since it's difficult to imagine any...president eliminating the tradition of opening and closing the inauguration with prayer; is there a way to pray that is genuine and vet somehow speaks to our nation's expanding diversity?" |
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READING THE VISUAL: Church and State |
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778 | (1) |
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USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll |
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780 | (2) |
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"Peace on Earth? Forget it. Nowadays, Christmas is a battle in the culture wars." |
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782 | (5) |
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"The tension that we face is a larger tension about what the relationship of religion and state should be in America. We agree that the notion of a triumphant Christianity in society or in the classroom is inappropriate." |
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| Credits |
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787 | (6) |
| Index |
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