The Riverside reader /
[edited by] Joseph F. Trimmer, Maxine Hairston.
- Sixth edition.
- xxv, 641 pages ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Guidelines for Reading an Essay -- Sample Analysis of an Essay: -- How Reading Changed My Life / Guidelines for Writing an Essay -- A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe / Deloris / The Veil / My Name is Margaret / Basketball Season / The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria / Digging / Shooting an Elephant / The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant / Digging Limestone / Making Stained Glass / How Many It Takes / Drawing an Experience / Third World Driving Hints and Tips / Campus Racism / Arranging a Marriage in India / The Knife / The Golden Darters / FDR and Truman / Howard and Rush / Don Hong-Oai, "At Play" and "Tianzi Mountains" -- Two Views of the River / Cowboys v Mounties / Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa / A Tale of Two Divorces / Shakespeare in the Bush / Everyday Use / Conservation is Good Work / Gentlemen! Start Your Engines / Cloud Chart / The Truth about Lying / Shades of Black / Mother Tongue / Four Kinds of Chance / Five Myths about Immigration / Revelation / Consumption / Personality / Ad Busters, Photo of Tattoos -- A Word's Meaning Can Often Depend on Who Says It / The Hoax / Pain / Attention! Multitaskers / On Friendship / The Lesson / The Little Death / Barrier-Free Design / Endurance / Comforting Thoughts / Peak Performances: Why Records Fall / How Flowers Changed the World / Examined Life / The Movie That Changed My Life / The Star / Organ Shortage / Genetic Engineering / Physicians Against Landmines -- A Debate About Racism -- I Have a Dream / A Chinaman's Chance: Reflections on the American Dream / A Debate about Windmills -- An Ill Wind Off Cape Cod / Cape Wind is Sound for the Sound / A Debate about Family -- Stone Soup / Women and the Future of Fatherhood / A Debate about the Death Penalty -- The Death Penalty / Execution / Harrison Bergeron / A Match to the Heart / Lars Eighner, "My Daily Dives into the Dumpster" TBD -- The Technology of Medicine / Using and Documenting Sources -- Student Research Paper. Anna Quindlen -- Maxine Hong Kingston -- Lauren Briner -- Marjane Satrapi -- Maya Angelou -- Donna Tartt -- Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Andre Dubus -- George Orwell -- W.D. Wetherell -- Scott Russell Sanders -- Sara Temple -- James Stevenson -- Ann Zwinger -- P.J. O'Rourke -- Nikki Giovanni -- Serena Nanda -- Richard Selzer -- Elizabeth Winthrop -- David McCullough -- Nathan M. Harms -- Mark Twain -- Sarah Vowell -- David Sedaris -- Anne Roiphe -- Laura Bohannan -- Alice Walker -- Wendell Berry -- Gareth Tucker -- Roz Chast -- Judith Viorst -- Mary Mebane -- Amy Tan -- James H. Austin -- David Cole -- Flannery O'Connor -- Jeremy Rifkin -- Jason Utesch -- Gloria Naylor -- John Berendt -- Diane Ackerman -- James Gleich -- Francine du Plessix Gray -- Toni Cade Bambara -- Alan Devoe -- Emily Linderman -- Frank Hurley -- Calvin Trillin -- Daniel Goleman -- Loren Eisley -- Malcolm Gladwell -- Terry McMillan -- Arthur C. Clarke -- Alexander Tabarrok -- Jim F. Soloman -- Martin Luther King, Jr -- Eric Liu -- Robert F Kennedy, Jr -- Francis Broadhurst -- Barbara Kingsolver -- Barbara Dafoe Whitehead -- H.L. Mencken -- Anna Quindlen -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr -- Gretel Ehrlich -- Lewis Thomas --
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