Table of Contents
1. THINKING, READING, AND WRITING ABOUT THE NEW GLOBAL ERA. Critical Thinking. Narration and Description. Exposition. Argument and Persuasion. Thinking About an Essay: Nicholas D. Kristof, "China: The Educated Giant". Reading Critically. Steps to Reading Critically. Reading Visual Texts. Reading an Essay Critically: Susan Bordo, "The Globalization of Eating Disorders". Writing in Response to Reading. Prewriting. Drafting. Revision. Writing in Response to an Essay: Chrystia Freeland, "The Rich Are Different from You and Me". 2. NEW AMERICAN MOSAIC: ARE WE BECOMING A UNIVERSAL NATION? Ellis Cose, "Red, Brown, and Blue". Bharati Mukherjee, "American Dreamer". Lee C. Bollinger, "Why Diversity Matters". Randa Jarrar, "Deportation Order". Dwight N. Hopkins, "Beyond Black and White: The Hawaiian President". Richard Rodriguez, "The 'Great Wall of America'". Firoozeh Dumas, "Mall Together Now". 3. AMERICA AND THE WORLD: HOW DO OTHERS PERCEIVE US? Oscar Martinez, "The Children Will Keep Coming". Mehdi Hasan, "Why I Could Never Hate America". Elie Wiesel, "The America I Love". Alkman Granitsas, "Americans Are Tuning Out the World". Sasha Abramsky, "Waking Up from the American Dream". Fouad Ajami, "The Anti-Americans". 4. SPEAKING IN TONGUES: DOES LANGUAGE UNIFY OR DIVIDE US? Kevin Clarke, "Tweet Like an Egyptian". Manuel Munoz, "Leave Your Name at the Border". Amy Tan, "Mother Tongue". Ana Menendez, "The Bilingual Imagination". Chang-rae Lee, "Mute in an English-Only World". Jhumpa Lahiri, "My Two Lives". Robin Tolmach Lakoff, "The Power of Words in Wartime". 5. GLOBAL RELATIONSHIPS: ARE SEX AND GENDER ROLES CHANGING? Lizette Alvarez, "Arranged Marriages Get a Little Reshuffling". Kofi A. Annan, "In Africa, AIDS Has a Woman's Face". Atul Gawande, "Naked". Elaine Sciolino, "The French, the Veil, and the Look". Mike Ceaser, "A Dark Window on Human Trafficking". Barbara Ehrenreich and Annette Fuentes, "Life on the Global Assembly Line". 6. THE CHALLENGE OF GLOBALIZATION: WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES? Thomas L. Friedman, "Prologue: The Super-Story". Dennis McCafferty, "Brave New Social World". Lisa Miller, "How to Raise a Global Kid". Johan Norberg, "The Noble Feat of Nike". Jared Diamond, "Globalization Rocked the Ancient World Too". Joseph S. Nye Jr., "Fear Not Globalization". 7. CULTURE WARS: WHOSE CULTURE IS IT, ANYWAY? Lisa See, "Have Roots, Will Travel". Henry Louis Gates Jr., "Whose Culture Is It, Anyway?". Luis Alberto Urrea, "Manifest Destiny". Mac Margolis, "It's a Mall World After All". Richard Pells, "Does the World Still Care About American Culture?" Jamaica Kincaid, "On Seeing England for the First Time". 8. THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS: IS CONFLICT AVOIDABLE? K. Oanh Ha, "American Dream Boat". Hisham Matar, "The Light". Niall Ferguson, "America's 'Oh Sh*t' Moment". Margaret Atwood, "When Afghanistan Was at Peace". Karen Armstrong, "Fundamentalism Is Here to Stay". Amartya Sen, "A World Not Neatly Divided". 9. THE AGE OF TERROR: WHAT IS THE JUST RESPONSE? Suzanne Berne, "Where Nothing Says Everything". Shiraz Maher, "Bin Laden's Final Triumph". Shirin Ebadi, "Reading a Death Warrant in Tehran". Naomi Shihab Nye, "To Any Would-Be Terrorists". Paul Krugman, "Why We Fight Wars". Reza Aslan, "Losing the 'War". 10. GLOBAL AID: CAN WE REDUCE DISEASE AND POVERTY? Morgan D. Bazilian, "Power to the Poor". Tae Yoo, "Is the Impact of Mobile Phones a Myth?". Edwidge Danticat, "A Year and a Day". Michael T. Osterholm, "What We're Afraid to Say About Ebola". Peter Singer, "The Singer Solution to World Poverty". Anuradha Mittal, "Technology Won't Feed the World's Hungry". 11. THE FATE OF THE EARTH: CAN WE PRESERVE THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT? Jane Goodall, "To Save Chimps". Naomi Klein, "The Change Within". Al Gore, "We Can't Wish Away Climate Change". Stephen R. Palumbi, "The High-Stakes Battle Over Brute-Force Engineering". Bill McKibben, "A Place That Makes Sense". Jonathan Schell, "A Hole in the World". APPENDIX A. Conducting Research in the Global Era. Introduction. The Research Process. The Writing Process. Documentation. Sample Professional Essay (MLA Style). APPENDIX B. Glossary of Rhetorical Terms. APPENDIX C. Glossary of Globalization Terms. Index.
