a portable anthology Cohen Samuel creator Cohen, Samuel S. editor. text essay Essays. Essays. mau Boston Bedford/st. Martins 2017 2017 Fifth edition. monographic eng

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xxviii, 452p. "The carefully chosen selections in 50 Essays include both classic essays and high-interest, high-quality contemporary readings to hold your interest and inspire your writing. 50 Essays will help you acquire the critical thinking and academic writing skills you need to succeed, without making a dent in your bank account." -- Introduction for Students: Active Reading, Critical Thinking, and the Writing Process -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, To My One Love -- Sherman Alexie, The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me -- Gloria Anzald�ua, How to Tame a Wild Tongue -- Barbara Lazear Ascher, On Compassion -- James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son -- James Boswell, On War -- William F. Buckley Jr., Why Don't We Complain? -- Alan Burdick, The Truth about Invasive Species -- Nicholas Carr, Is Google Making Us Stupid? -- Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Paranoid Style of American Policing -- Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Mar�ia -- Daniel Defoe, The Education of Women -- Joan Didion, On Keeping a Notebook -- Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read and Write -- Brian Doyle, Joyas Voladores -- Barbara Ehrenreich, Serving in Florida -- Lars Eighner, On Dumpster Diving -- Stephanie Ericsson, The Ways We Lie -- Malcolm Gladwell, Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted -- Christina Henr�iquez, Lunch -- Langston Hughes, Salvation -- Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me -- Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence -- Camden Joy, Surviving Sinatra -- Jamaica Kincaid, The Ugly Tourist -- Stephen King, Reading to Write -- Verlyn Klinkenborg, Our Vanishing Night -- Audre Lorde, The Fourth of July -- Nancy Mairs, On Being a Cripple -- Malcolm X, Learning to Read -- John McPhee, The Search for Marvin Gardens -- Lydia Millet, Victor's Hall -- Bharati Mukherjee, Two Ways to Belong in America -- George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant -- Plato, The Allegory of the Cave -- Richard Rodriguez, Aria: Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood -- Mike Rose, "I Just Wanna Be Average" -- Oliver Sacks, My Periodic Table -- David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day -- Brent Staples, Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space -- John Jeremiah Sullivan, Feet in Smoke -- Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal -- Amy Tan, Mother Tongue -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience -- James Thurber, The Subjunctive Mood -- Miya Tokumitsu, In the Name of Love -- E.B. White, Once More to the Lake -- Colson Whitehead, The Loser Edit -- Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women -- Dave Zirin, Pre-Game. edited by Samuel Cohen. Includes index. Includes Bibliographies and Index American essays English essays College readers American essays College readers English essays PS682 .A15 2017 808.4 9781319043728 1319043720 9781319044305 1319044301 2021425860 ZQP 220309 20251124112416.0 22459006 eng