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  Title

  The seagull reader. Essays

  Author

  Kelly, Joseph, 1962-  

  Publisher:

  W.W. Norton & Co.,

  Pub date:

  c2008.

  Pages:

  xi, 439 p. ;

  ISBN:

  9780393930924

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Aurora Campus.
  

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    Aurora Campus	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    PS682 .S43 2008	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  9780393930924 (pbk.)

  ISBN:

  0393930920 (pbk.)

  Title:

  The seagull reader. Essays / edited by Joseph Kelly.

  Edition:

  2nd ed.

  Publication info:

  New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2008.

  Physical description:

  xi, 439 p. ; 21 cm.

  Contents:

  Graduation / Maya Angelou -- The torture myth / Anne Applebaum -- Recipe / Nicholson Baker -- Stranger in the village / James Baldwin -- Paying for freedom / Michael Bérubé -- I want a wife / Judy Brady -- Why don't we complain? / William F. Buckley Jr. -- A fable for tomorrow / Rachel Carson -- One side can be wrong / Richard Dawkins, Jerry Coyne -- On keeping a notebook / Joan Didion -- The stunt pilot / Annie Dillard.

  Contents:

  Learning to read / Frederick Douglass -- In defense of talk shows / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Z : the movie that changed my life / Louise Erdrich -- The median isn't the message / Stephen Jay Gould -- Speech in Pennsylvania Hall / Angelina Grimké -- The myth of "moderation" in religion / Sam Harris -- How dictionaries are made / S.I. Hayakawa -- Daddy's philosophy / Jim Hightower -- How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston -- What I did to Morris Udall / Molly Ivins -- The Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson -- On the death of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. / Robert F. Kennedy -- Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King Jr. -- No name woman / Maxine Hong Kingston -- The human cost of an illiterate society / Jonathan Kozol -- Time lines / Lewis Lapham -- First inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln -- The Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln -- Atonement / Bret Lott -- Bodies in motion and at rest / Thomas Lynch -- A homemade education / Malcolm X -- An American land ethic / N. Scott Momaday.

  Contents:

  Shooting an elephant / George Orwell -- On 9/11, innocence was lost once again / Leonard Pitts -- Why boys don't play with dolls / Katha Pollitt -- A time for choosing / Ronald Reagan -- "Blaxicans" and other reinvented Americans / Richard Rodriguez -- The unpatriotic academy / Richard Rorty -- Abortion in India / Salman Rushdie -- Letter to President Pierce / Chief Seattle -- Me talk pretty one day / David Sedaris -- Declaration of sentiments and resolutions / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Black men and public space / Brent Staples -- A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- Mother tongue / Amy Tan -- Conversational styles / Deborah Tannen -- Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau -- University days / James Thurber -- In search of our mothers' gardens / Alice Walker -- Listening / Eudora Welty -- Once more to the lake / E.B. White -- Virtues versus values / George Will -- In search of a room of one's own / Virginia Woolf -- College pressures / William Zinsser.

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  AURORA

  Subject term:

  American essays.

  Subject term:

  English essays.

  Subject term:

  College readers.

  Added Entry-Personal Name:

  Kelly, Joseph, 1962-

  HTTP:

  http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0717/2007019246.html

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