Table Of Contents
Sarah Wangler and Tina Ulrich
- 88 Open Essays – A Reader for Students of Composition & Rhetoric
- Original Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Message to Instructors
- Message to Students
- Introduction to this Edition
- 1: The Danger of a Single Story (Adichie)
- 2: The Story We Tell about Millennials — and Who We Leave Out (Allen)
- 3: How the New “Aladdin” Stacks Up Against a Century of Hollywood Stereotyping (Alsultany)
- 4: Mushrooms: “Nature’s Greatest Decomposers” (Anderson)
- 5: Six Short Essays (Anderson)
- 6: Tools and Tasks (Anonymous)
- 7: Jamaica Leads in Richard Branson-Backed Plan for a Caribbean Climate Revolution (Ashtine & Rogers)
- 8: In Review: Raising Eyebrows (Bamburg)
- 9: Is Burning Trash a Good Way to Handle It? Waste Incineration in 5 Charts (Baptista)
- 10: How to Save the Middle Class When Jobs Don’t Pay (Barnes)
- 11: The Emotional Lives of Animals (Bekoff)
- 12: Must the President Be a Moral Leader? (Blake)
- 13: The Plot to Privatize Common Knowledge (Bollier)
- 14: Shadows of the Bat: Constructions of Good and Evil in the Batman Movies of Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan (Born)
- 15: Public Beats Private: Six Reasons Why (Buchheit)
- 16: Misinformation and Biases Infect Social Media, Both Intentionally and Accidentally (Ciampaglia and Filippo Menczer)
- 17: Habits and Virtues: Does It Matter if a Leader Kicks a Dog? (Ciulla)
- 18: Seed Libraries Fight for the Right to Share (Cook)
- 19: The Defense Department Is Worried about Climate Change – and Also a Huge Carbon Emitter (Crawford)
- 20: Male Teachers Are Most Likely to Rate Highly in University Student Feedback (Crossley, Johnston, and Fan)
- 21: Despite Public Pledges, Leading Scientific Journals Still Allow Statistical Misconduct and Refuse to Correct It (Doctorow)
- 22: Writing in the Age of Distraction (Doctorow)
- 23: No Food, No Water, No Sleep: Is Brazil Torturing Student Protesters? (Paula)
- 24: Measles: Why It’s So Deadly, and Why Vaccination Is So Vital (Duprex)
- 25: Hope and Mourning in the Anthropocene: Understanding Ecological Grief (Ellis & Cunsolo)
- 26: Hydropower Dams Can Harm Coastal Areas Far Downstream (Ezcurra & Aburto)
- 27: Everything You Need to Know About the Radical Roots of Wonder Woman (Finke)
- 28: Why Sex Gets Better in Older Age (Forbes, Eaton, and Krueger)
- 29: Are Batman and Superman the Barometer of Our Times? A Review of ‘Superheroes in Crisis’ (Franco)
- 30: No, You Don’t Need to Go to Holiday Parties If You Feel Lonely (Gajwani)
- 31: To Seek Common Ground on Life’s Big Questions, We Need Science Literacy (Garlick)
- 32: How I Celebrate Life on the Day of the Dead (González)
- 33: Do Interest-Free Loans Make Sense? No, But They Do Make a Difference (Green)
- 34: “We Are Still Here”: Native Americans Win a Voice in Government (Hansen & Keeler)
- 35: Cheaper Versions of the Most Expensive Drugs May Be Coming, but Monopolies Will Likely Remain (Heled)
- 36: Getting a Scientific Message Across Means Taking Human Nature into Account (Hendricks)
- 37: Jessie Simmons: How a Schoolteacher Became an Unsung Hero of the Civil Rights Movement (Hill-Jackson)
- 38: Why Rituals Are Good for Your Health (Honarvar)
- 39: The Dirt on Soil Loss from the Midwest Floods (Ippolito & Al-Kaisi)
- 40: Who Are the 1 in 4 American Women Who Choose Abortion? (Ireland)
- 41: The Politics of Fear: How It Manipulates Us to Tribalism (Javanbakht)
- 42: To Feel Happier, We Have to Resolve to the Life We Evolved to Live (Javanbakht)
- 43: 48 Hours as a Muslim American: A Professor Reflects (Khalil)
- 44: So, What Really Is Jihad? (Khalil)
- 45: Mapping the US Counties where Traffic Air Pollution Hurts Children the Most (Khreis)
- 46: Why Native Americans Do Not Separate Religion from Science (LaPier)
- 47: Juneteenth – Freedom’s Promise Is Still Denied to Thousands of Blacks Unable to Make Bail (Larson)
- 48: Guardians of the Galaxy and the Fall of the Classic Hero (Lewis)
- 49: Wastewater Is an Asset – It Contains Nutrients, Energy and Precious Metals, and Scientists Are Learning How to Recover Them (Li)
- 50: Memorial Day (Lively)
- 51: Does Recycling Actually Conserve or Preserve Things? (MacBride)
- 52: Concerning the Way in Which Princes Should Keep Faith – The Prince, Chapter 18 (Machiavelli)
- 53: The 1995 Anime “Ghost in the Shell” Is More Relevant than Ever in Today’s Technologically Complex Society (Maynard)
- 54: What the Ban on Gene-Edited Babies Means for Family Planning (Menke)
- 55: There Is More than One Religious View on Abortion – Here’s What Jewish Texts Say (Mikva)
- 56: Why Women From Asia Are Confronting U.S. Fracking: Oil Extraction Equals Plastic Production (Morrison)
- 57: How to Increase Your Chances of Sticking with Your Resolutions (Nonterah)
- 58: Minorities Face More Obstacles to a Lifesaving Organ Transplant (Nonterah)
- 59: The Blue (Oomen)
- 60: How Rural Areas Like Florida’s Panhandle Can Become More Hurricane-Ready (Ozguven)
- 61: Cold, Hard Harvest: Making the Case for Frozen Produce (Pandolfi)
- 62: I Studied Buttons for 7 Years and Learned These 5 Lessons about How and Why People Push Them (Plotnick)
- 63: California Knew the Carr Wildfire Could Happen. It Failed to Prevent it. (Schneider)
- 64: Ending the Secrecy of the Student Debt Crisis (Schorin)
- 65: Ending the Secrecy of the Student Debt Crisis (Senderowicz)
- 66: Education in the (Dis)Information Age (Shaffer)
- 67: What the US Could Learn about Vaccination from Nigeria (Shankar)
- 68: Book Review – The End of Ownership (Sheehan)
- 69: A Syrian Asks Herself: Am I Capable of Killing? (Shehwaro)
- 70: Visiting First Place School: Reflections on Other-Centric Education, Private Education, & Identity (Shepard)
- 71: A Feminist’s Guide to Rom-Coms and How to Watch Them (Sutriasa)
- 72: Fix the Machine, Not the Person (Swartz)
- 73: Catwoman’s Hyde: A Comparative Reading of the 2002 Catwoman Relaunch and Stevenson’s Novella (Syn)
- 74: How a Green New Deal Could Exploit Developing Countries (Táíwò)
- 75: Capturing Carbon to Fight Climate Change is Dividing Environmentalists (Táíwò and Buck)
- 76: Time Wasn’t Always Money: Decolonizing Time in Diaspora (Villaseñor)
- 77: Why Good People Turn Bad Online (Vince)
- 78: Taking the Native American Narrative Beyond Reservations (Vizcarra)
- 79: Which Future Would You Choose? (Walljaspar & Klein)
- 80: America’s Walking Renaissance (Walljasper)
- 81: Austin, Indiana: The HIV Capital of Small-Town America (Wapner)
- 82: On Reparations, the Question Isn’t If, but When and How (Warfield)
- 83: You’re Not Going to Get Accepted into a Top University on Merit Alone (Warikoo)
- 84: Chicago’s Urban Prep Academy – Known for 100% College Acceptance Rates – Put Reputation Ahead of Results (Warren)
- 85: Recent Attempts at Reparations Show that World War II Is Not Over (Webster)
- 86: The Black Muslim Female Fashion Trailblazers Who Came before Model Halima Aden (Wheeler)
- 87: For a Flooded Midwest, Climate Forecasts Offer Little Comfort (Wu)
- 88: Think You Love Your Valentine? What’s Beneath the Surface May Be More Complicated (Zayas & Shoda)
- Index
