Table Of Contents:
INDEX OF RHETORICAL MODES xi
PREFACE xv
TO STUDENTS: READING AND WRITING WITH THE NORTON READER xix
PERSONAL REPORT

Chang-Rae Lee Coming Home Again 1(8)

Joan Didion On Going Home 9(3)

Wayson Choy The Ten Thousand Things 12(6)

Maya Angelou Graduation 18(9)

Lars Eighner On Dumpster Diving 27(9)

Nancy Mairs On Being a Cripple 36(10)

Alice Walker Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self 46(6)

E.B. White Once More to the Lake 52(6)
PEOPLE, PLACES

Scott Russell Sanders Under the Influence 58(11)

Annie Dillard Terwilliger Bunts One 69(5)

Toni Morrison Strangers 74(4)

N. Scott Momaday The Way to Rainy Mountain 78(6)

Mary Austin The Land of Little Rain 84(6)

Margaret Atwood True North 90(11)

Kathleen Norris The Holy Use of Gossip 101(5)

Fatema Mernissi The Harem Within 106(5)

David Guterson Enclosed. Encyclopedic. Endured: The Mall of America 111(13)
HUMAN NATURE

William Golding Thinking as a Hobby 124(6)

Isaac Asimov The Eureka Phenomenon 130(9)

Harvey Mansfield The Partial Eclipse of Manliness 139(8)

Scott Russell Sanders Looking at Women 147(11)

Anna Quindlen Between the Sexes, a Great Divide 158(2)

Amy Cunningham Why Women Smile 160(5)

Andrew Sullivan What Is a Homosexual? 165(5)

Elisabeth K眉bler-Ross On the Fear of Death 170(6)

Stephen Jay Gould Our Allotted Lifetimes 176(5)
CULTURAL CRITIQUE

Anthony Burgess Is America Falling Apart? 181(6)

Adam Goodheart 9.11.01: The Skyscraper and the Airplane 187(7)

Jessica Mitford Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain 194(6)

John McMurtry Kill 'Em! Crush 'Em! Eat 'Em Raw! 200(6)

Molly Ivins Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns 206(1)

Jack Hitt The Battle of the Binge 207(3)

Sonia Shah Tight Jeans and Chania Chorris 210(5)

Fred Strebeigh The Wheels of Freedom: Bicycles in China 215(10)

Maggie Helwig Hunger 225(4)

Brent Staples Black Men and Public Space 229(3)

Debra Dickerson Who Shot Johnny? 232(4)
EDUCATION

Frederick Douglass Learning to Read 236(5)

Dionne Brand Arriving at Desire 241(3)

Eudora Welty Clamorous to Learn 244(5)

John Holt How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading 249(8)

James Thurber University Days 257(5)

William Zinsser College Pressures 262(6)

Caroline Bird College Is a Waste of Time and Money 268(8)

Wayne C. Booth Boring from Within: The Art of the Freshman Essay 276(11)

Brent Staples Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A's 287(3)
LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION

Gloria Naylor "Mommy, What Does 'Nigger' Mean?" 290(3)

Maxine Hong Kingston Tongue-Tied 293(4)

Richard Rodriguez Aria 297(6)

Gloria Anzald煤a How to Tame a Wild Tongue 303(5)

Anne Fadiman The His'er Problem 308(4)

Garrison Keillor How to Write a Letter 312(3)

Postcards 315(2)

Lewis Thomas Notes on Punctuation 317(2)

George Orwell Politics and the English Language 319(11)
AN ALBUM OF STYLES 330(14)

Francis Bacon Of Youth and Age 331(2)

Ben Jonson from Timber, or Discoveries 333(1)

John Donne No Man Is an Island 334(1)

Samuel Johnson The Pyramids 334(1)

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Letter to the Countess of Bute, Lady Montagu's Daughter 335(2)

Mary Wollstonecraft from A Vindication of the Rights of Women 337(2)

Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address 339(1)

Ernest Hemingway from A Farewell to Arms 339(1)

William Faulkner Nobel Prize Award Speech 340(1)

Jamaica Kincaid The Ugly Tourist 341(3)
NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Gretel Ehrlich Spring 344(8)

Dorothy Wordsworth The Alfoxden Journal 1798 352(4)

John Muir A Wind-Storm in the Forests 356(6)

Edward Abbey The Serpents of Paradise 362(6)

Alexander Petrunkevitch The Spider and the Wasp 368(5)

Carl Sagan The Abstractions of Beasts 373(7)

Chief Seattle Letter to President Pierce, 1855 380(2)

Aldo Leopold Marshland Elegy 382(4)

Terry Tempest Williams The Clan of One-Breasted Women 386(8)
ETHICS

Michel de Montaigne That One Man's Profit Is Another's Loss 394(1)

Mark Twain Advice to Youth 395(3)

Jonathan Rauch In Defense of Prejudice 398(9)

Michael Levin The Case for Torture 407(2)

Tom Regan The Case for Animal Rights 409(11)

Aldo Leopold The Land Ethic 420(6)

Sallie Tisdale We Do Abortions Here: A Nurse's Story 426(7)

Stephen Jay Gould The Terrifying Normalcy of AIDS 433(4)

Paul Fussell Thank God for the Atom Bomb 437(13)
HISTORY

Henry David Thoreau The Battle of the Ants 450(3)

Barbara Tuchman "This Is the End of the World": The Black Death 453(13)

Cherokee Memorials 466(3)

Walt Whitman Death of Abraham Lincoln 469(8)

Hannah Arendt Denmark and the Jews 477(4)

Philip Gourevitch After the Genocide 481(7)

David McCullough Recommended Itinerary 488(5)
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

George Orwell Shooting an Elephant 493(6)

Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal 499(7)

Niccol貌 Machiavelli The Morals of the Prince 506(7)

Thomas Jefferson and Others The Declaration of Independence 513(3)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions 516(2)

Carl Becker Democracy 518(2)

E.B. White Democracy 520(1)

Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail 521(14)
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Jacob Bronowski The Nature of Scientific Reasoning 535(4)

Steven Weinberg Can Science Explain Everything? Anything? 539(12)

Henry Wechsler, Andrea Davenport, George Dowdall, Barbara Moeykens, and Sonia Castillo Health and Behavioral Consequences of Binge Drinking in College: A National Survey of Students at 140 Campuses 551(15)

Henry Wechsler, Charles Deutsch, and George Dowdall Too Many Colleges Are Still in Denial about Alcohol Abuse 566(5)

John Hockenberry The Next Brainiacs 571(13)

Melvin Konner Why the Reckless Survive 584(8)

Neil Postman Virtual Students, Digital Classroom 592(8)

Stephen Jay Gould Darwin's Middle Road 600(7)
LITERATURE, THE ARTS, AND MEDIA

Eudora Welty One Writer's Beginnings 607(6)

Vladimir Nabokov Good Readers and Good Writers 613(5)

Katha Pollitt Does a Literary Canon Matter? 618(7)

Virginia Woolf In Search of a Room of One's Own 625(10)

Susan Sontag A Century of Cinema 635(7)

Susan Allen Toth Going to the Movies 642(3)

John Updike Little Lightnings 645(2)

Moving Along 647(3)

Aaron Copland How We Listen 650(6)
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

Langston Hughes Salvation 656(2)

Edward Rivera First Communion 658(13)

Plato The Allegory of the Cave 671(3)

Henry David Thoreau Where I Lived, and What I Lived For 674(9)

Martha Nussbaum The Idea of World Citizenship in Greek and Roman Antiquity 683(14)

Virginia Woolf The Death of the Moth 697(3)

Annie Dillard Sight into Insight 700(10)

Gilbert Highet The Mystery of Zen 710(9)

Jean-Paul Sartre Existentialism 719(10)
AUTHORS 729(18)
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 747(6)
INDEX 753