Includes index.

Includes Bibliographies and Index

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.

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