50 Essays: A Portable Anthology Evaluation Copy

xxviii, 452 pages ; 21 cm, \"The carefully chosen selections in 50 Essays include both classic essays and high-interest, high-quality contemporary readings to hold your interest and inspire your writing. 50 Essays will help you acquire the critical thinking and academic writing skills you need to succeed, without making a dent in your bank account.\" --, Includes 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 Anzaldúa, 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 María -- 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 Henríquez, 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…