Table Of Content***New to this editionIntroductionWhat Are Essays?Essays: Maya Angelou, GraduationAnne Applebaum, The Torture MythJames Baldwin, Stranger in the VillageMichael Bérubé, Paying for FreedomJudy Brady, I Want a WifeDavid Brooks, I Am Not Charlie Hebdo***William F. Buckley Jr., Why Don't We Complain?Rachel Carson, A Fable for TomorrowHillary Rodham Clinton, Speech to the Fourth World Conference on Women***Ta-Nehisi Coates, In Defense of a Loaded Word***Joan Didion, On Keeping a NotebookAnnie Dillard, The Stunt PilotFrederick Douglass, Learning to ReadBarbara Ehrenreich, War Without Humans: Modern Blood Rites Revisited***Dwight David Eisenhower, Inaugural Address***Louise Erdrich, Z: The Movie That Changed My LifeAtul Gawande, Why Boston's Hospitals Were Ready***Tavi Gevinson, Editor's Letter, December 2014: First Person***Stephen Jay Gould, The Median Isn't the MessageAngelina Grimké, Speech in Pennsylvania HallSam Harris, The Myth of "Moderation" in ReligionS. I. Hayakawa, How Dictionaries Are MadeZoë Heller, Rape on the Campus***Debra Humphreys and Patrick Kelly, How Liberal Arts and Sciences Majors Fare in Employment: A Report on Earnings and Long-Term Career Paths***Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored MeThomas Jefferson, The Declaration of IndependenceRobert F. Kennedy, On the Death of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham JailMaxine Hong Kingston, No Name WomanMichael Kinsley, The Intellectual Free Lunch***Jonathan Kozol, The Human Cost of an Illiterate SocietyAbraham Lincoln, First Inaugural AddressThe Gettysburg AddressBret Lott, AtonementMalcolm X, A Homemade EducationN. Scott Momaday, An American Land EthicCarla R. Monroe, Why Are "Bad Boys" Always Black?***George Orwell, Shooting an ElephantLeonard Pitts, Fox Faux News Forces Rare Apology***Katha Pollitt, Why Boys Don't Play with DollsRichard Posner, Frank v. Walker***Ronald Reagan, A Time for ChoosingRichard Rodriguez, "Blaxicans" and Other Reinvented AmericansRichard Rorty, The Unpatriotic AcademyWilliam D. Ruckelshaus, Lee M. Thomas, William K. Reilly, and Christine Todd Whitman, A Republican Case for Climate ActionSalman Rushdie, Abortion in IndiaChief Seattle, Letter to President PierceSenate Select Committee on Intelligence, Committee Study of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program***Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments and ResolutionsJonathan Swift, A Modest ProposalAmy Tan, Mother TongueDeborah Tannen, Conversational StylesHenry David Thoreau, Civil DisobedienceAlice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' GardensEudora Welty, ListeningE. B. White, Once More to the LakeVirginia Woolf, In Search of a Room of One's OwnBiographical SketchesGlossaryPermissions Acknowledgments
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