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AP Lang - Essay Readings
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Author NameEssay TitleURL/LINKBook Location
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intro activityLangston HughesSalvation (see both links)
https://www.chino.k12.ca.us/cms/lib8/CA01902308/Centricity/Domain/2273/Salvation.Annotated.pdf
http://www.centerforfiction.org/forwriters/the-model-short-story/quotsalvationquot-by-langston-hughes/
see 50 essays AP English pg48
Prentice Hall 92
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everyone readsSojourner TruthAin't I a Woman?
https://www.bhamcityschools.org/cms/lib/AL01001646/Centricity/Domain/5481/English%20Language%20Arts%20Grade%2010%20Curriculum%20Guide/Week%201-%20English%2010%20Resource.pdf
50 essays pg423
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MISC Essay/Speeches Lists
https://tetw.org/Greats
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10 best speeches in American History
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/looking-at-10-great-speeches-in-american-history
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40 best essays of all time
https://rafalreyzer.com/40-best-essays-of-all-time/
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Top 10 Essays Since 1950
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/54337-the-top-10-essays-since-1950.html
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American Rhetoric Top 100 (political) speeches
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/top100speechesall.html
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35 greatest speeches in history
https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/the-35-greatest-speeches-in-history/
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Historical Speeches/Docs & The Best Known Essays& The Greeks/Classics
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Dalai LamaNobel Prize speech
https://www.dalailama.com/messages/acceptance-speeches/nobel-peace-prize/nobel-peace-prize-nobel-lecture
Essay connection 598
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Thomas JeffersonDeclaration of Independence
http://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/rebellion/text8/decindep.pdf
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Winston ChurchillWe shall fight on the beaches (speech)
http://www.pieropolidoro.it/semiotica/churchill040640.pdf
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Jonathan SwiftA Modest Proposal
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/30827_modestproposal.pdf
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EB WhiteOnce More to the Lake
http://fd.valenciacollege.edu/file/jcarpen1/Week_3_EBWhiteLakeEssay.pdf
essay connection 122
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George OrwellShooting an Elephant
http://jfs.monroe.k12.al.us/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=9704638
50 essays pg 276
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George Orwell A Hanging
https://piper.asu.edu/sites/default/files/orwell_hanging.pdf
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Maung Htin AungGeorge Orwell and Burman
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15T_H0ahdJLr_t2XcMLs4MwkXPs-uVOHY/view?usp=sharing
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Ralph Waldo EmersonSelf Reliance
https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/essays/selfreliance.html
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Henry David ThoreauWhere I Lived, and What I Lived For
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/webpub/english/bedguide8e/Public%20Domain%20Readings/Thoreau%20Where%20I%20Lived%20and%20What%20I%20Lived%20For.pdf
50 essays pg 416
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William FaulknerNobel Prize speech
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1949/faulkner/speech/
writing america 773
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Robert KennedySpeech on the death of MLK
http://www.garrard.k12.ky.us/userfiles/107/Classes/9625/userfiles/107/my%20files/robert%20kennedy%20speech%20about%20mlk%20assassination.pdf?id=548750
writing america 825
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PlatoAllegory of the Cave (has many translations)
https://yale.learningu.org/download/ca778ca3-7e93-4fa6-a03f-471e6f15028f/H2664_Allegory%20of%20the%20Cave%20.pdf
50 essays pg284
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African-American Voices
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/11r7PNwkMOxhkoN_KlJddDQQDpt5094F_/view?usp=sharing
MLK Jr.Letter from Birmingham Jail
https://www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets/documents/susi-letter-from-birmingham-jail.pdf
knowing & writing pg111 & patterns for college 566
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MLK Jr.I Have a Dream speech
https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/I%20Have%20a%20Dream%20by%20Martin%20Luther%20King%20Jr.pdf
suggestion - read Langston Hughes' Harlem poem
the critical eye 385
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James BaldwinNotes of a Native Son
https://www.whatsoproudlywehail.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Baldwin_Notes-of-a-Native-Son.pdf
Knowing & Writing 80
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James BaldwinStranger in the Village
https://www.janvaneyck.nl/site/assets/files/2312/baldwin.pdf
NOTE: can watch documentary "I Am Not Your Negro" on Baldwin
Seagull Reader 19
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James BaldwinA Talk to Teachers
https://serendipstudio.org/oneworld/system/files/Baldwin%2C%20J.%2C%20A%20Talk%20to%20Teachers%2C%20pp.%20678-686.pdf
Language of Composition 197
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Alice WalkerIn Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
https://www.dentonisd.org/cms/lib/TX21000245/Centricity/Domain/1171/Mothers%20Gardens%20Text.pdf
50 essays pg425
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Maya AngelouGraduation
https://eng101wlac.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/graduation.pdf
Seagull Reader 3
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Nikki GiovanniCampus Racism 101
http://spa.walsingham.org/ClassDocuments/25885/Campus%20Racism%20101.pdf
river reader 127
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Frederick DouglassWhat to the Slave is the 4th of July
http://masshumanities.org/files/programs/douglass/speech_abridged_med.pdf
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Alex HaleyMy Furthest Back Person - The African
https://4.files.edl.io/50d1/10/15/18/124929-d070de90-1481-4ae7-8df3-6f79cfc07f09.pdf
norton sampler pg 42
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Malcolm XA Homemade Education / Learning to Read
http://chawkinsteaching.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/9/7/12977279/malcolm_x_homemade_education.pdf
50 essays pg245
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Zora Neale HurstonHow It Feels to Be Colored Me
http://www.casa-arts.org/cms/lib/PA01925203/Centricity/Domain/50/Hurston%20How%20it%20Feels%20to%20Be%20Colored%20Me.pdf
50 essays pg 158
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Coretta Scott KingThe Death Penalty is a Step Back
https://mrjanota.weebly.com/uploads/4/6/7/4/46743291/coretta_scott_king_speech.pdf
mcgraw hill reader 88
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Booker T Washington (and others)
The Atlanta Exposition Address
https://p1cdn4static.sharpschool.com/UserFiles/Servers/Server_10640642/File/bugge/Chapter%2017/washingtonvsdubois.PDF
language of composition 417
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Brent Staples
Just Walk on By (a black man's power to alter public space)
http://myweb.scu.edu.tw/~jmklassen/scu100b/rdngconv/Staples.pdf
dolphin reader 323 & prentice hall 536
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Shelby SteeleOn Being Black and Middle Class
https://browne150.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/on-being-black-and-middle-class.pdf
50 essay pg366
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Ta Nehisi Coates(pick one)
https://medium.com/s/best-of-ta-nehisi-coates
or the one on Kanye perhaps:
https://www.theatlantic.com/author/ta-nehisi-coates/
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Asian (& Indian) Voices
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Amy TanMother Tongue
http://www.umsl.edu/~alexanderjm/Mother%20Tongue%20by%20Tan.pdf
50 essays pg402
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Amy ChuaWhy Chinese Mothers Are Superior
http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/Chinese_mothers.pdf
patterns for college writers 410
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Maxine Hong KingstonNo Name Woman
https://ursulastange.com/courses/documents/NoNameWoman.doc
compact reader 374
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Eric Liu
A Chinaman's Chance: Reflections on the American Dream
http://www.drvalverde.com/uploads/1/0/5/3/10538520/chinaman%E2%80%99s_chance_-_reflections_of_the_american_dream_-_jan_18_2018_-_2-49_pm.pdf
7 min audio:
https://www.npr.org/books/titles/339553334/a-chinamans-chance-one-familys-journey-and-the-chinese-american-dream
river reader 410
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Santha Rama RauBy Any Other Name
https://www.cusd80.com/cms/lib/AZ01001175/Centricity/Domain/2112/Unit_2-136-141.pdf
mcgraw hill reader 128
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Bharati MukherjeeAmerican Dreamer
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1997/01/american-dreamer/
mcgraw hill reader 332
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Bharati MukherjeeTwo Ways to Belong in America
http://kilpatricksl.weebly.com/uploads/8/1/8/2/81826774/two_ways_to_belong_in_america.pdf
50 essays 272
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KondoOn Being a Conceptual Anamoly
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gw7yY23PC0gTWTihPgVN9nonfZSwApac/view?usp=sharing
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Marie Myung-Ok LeeI Was An Anchor Baby
http://articles.latimes.com/print/2010/sep/08/opinion/la-oe-lee-anchor-baby-20100908
common threads 392
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Latino/Hispanic Voices
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Richard RodriguezPrivate Language, Public Language
http://simontechnology.org/ourpages/auto/2013/1/10/56844747/Richard%20Rodriguez%20Private%20and%20Public%20Language.pdf
compact reader 207
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Richard RodriguezNone of this is Fair
http://heep.unipus.cn/bookdata/9787560053325y.pdf
prentice hall 470
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Gloria AnzalduaHow to Tame a Wild Tongue
https://www.everettsd.org/cms/lib07/WA01920133/Centricity/Domain/965/Anzaldua-Wild-Tongue.pdf
Language of compostion 725
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Marjorie AgosinAlways Living in Spanish
http://havlicek.weebly.com/uploads/6/8/5/2/685209/alwayslivinginspanish-magosin.pdf
Language of composition 735
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Judith Cofer
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria
https://www.quia.com/files/quia/users/amccann10/Myth_of_a_Latin_Woman
50 essays pg 71
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Native American Voices
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Chief Seattle speech to President Pierce
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B04AA4i4sOu8SG1YejdmVFFlZEE/view?usp=sharing
seagull reader pg202
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(see Language section)Leslie Marmon Silko
Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective
50 essay pg346
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N. Scott MomadayThe Way to Rainy Mountain
http://www.b-g.k12.ky.us/userfiles/1049/The%20Way%20to%20Rainy%20Mountain.pdf
50 essays pg 265
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Gay Voices
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Andrew SullivanWhat are Homosexuals For?
https://washingtonlee.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/legacy_assets/washingtonlee/392479bd57-What_Are_Homosexuals_For_FULL_TEXT.pdf
50 essays pg 380
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Susan SontagNotes on Camp
https://monoskop.org/images/5/59/Sontag_Susan_1964_Notes_on_Camp.pdf
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Feminist Voices
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Judy Syfers / Judy BradyI Want a Wife
https://www.wsfcs.k12.nc.us/cms/lib/NC01001395/Centricity/Domain/10659/I%20Want%20a%20Wife.pdf
compact reader 249
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Alice MunroBoys and Girls
http://www.giuliotortello.it/shortstories/boys_and_girls.pdf
Dolphin Reader 116
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Natalie AngierWhy Men Don't Last
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/17/health/why-men-don-t-last-self-destruction-as-a-way-of-life.html
essay connection 299
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Margaret AtwoodThe Female Body
https://web.stanford.edu/~jonahw/AOE-SM10/Readings/Atwood-FemaleBody.pdf
prentice hall 414
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Virginia WoolfThe Death of the Moth (not really feminist)
https://www.sanjuan.edu/cms/lib8/CA01902727/Centricity/Domain/3981/Death%20of%20A%20Moth-Virginia%20Woolf%20copy.pdf
50 essays pg 475
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Roger EbertGo Gentle into that Good Night
https://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/go-gentle-into-that-good-night
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Iranian graphic novelMarjane SatrapiThe Veil (Persepolis)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vRH6z0cohrEFdSSJz5hPatEIGDn3ugbN/view?usp=sharing
Language of Composition 1067
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Virginia WoolfShakespeare's SIster
https://readcomp.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/pdf_woolf.pdf
or
https://www.allaccelerated.org/tucson/wp-content/uploads/file-manager/Jennifer.Wittman/2017/ap-english-language-and-composition/supplementary-reading/Shakespeares.Sister._Woolf.pdf
the critical eye 537
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MISC & Single Issue / Social Issues Essays
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How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading By John Holt
http://mrirwin.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/70869274/Holt,%20John%20-%20How%20Teachers%20Make%20Children%20Hate%20Reading.pdf
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Trial By Fire
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/07/trial-by-fire
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Sarah VowellShooting Dad
http://www.anderson.k12.ky.us/Downloads/Vowell%20-%20Shooting%20Dad.pdf
Bedford Reader 164
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comicDave BarryLost/Turkeys in the Kitchen
http://msarcand.weebly.com/uploads/2/3/5/7/23579644/turkeys_in_the_kitchen_00001.pdf
https://www.docholley.com/upload/Lost%20in%20the%20Kitchen%20-%20Rhetorical%20Analysis%20Packet.pdf
50 essay pg 61
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comicJessica MitfordBehind the Formaldehyde Curtain
http://eng121.net/online%20textbook/process/Behind%20the%20Formaldehyde%20Curtain.pdf
50 essays pg255
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Malcolm GladwellThe Order of Things (about college rankings, etc)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/02/14/the-order-of-things
river reader 233
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Mark TwainTwo Views of the River
http://www.gmsdk12.org/Downloads/Twain-2Views2.pdf
river reader 155
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Margaret LaurenceWhere the World Began
rowlandelaa30.weebly.com/uploads/3/8/2/7/38279827/where_the_world_began.doc
lexington reader 211
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Vicki HearneWhat's Wrong with Animal Rights
https://researchwrit.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/article-hearne_whats-wrong-with-animal-rights.pdf
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Scott SandersThe Inheritance of Tools
http://www.stjoe.k12.in.us/ourpages/auto/2013/5/2/47907868/Inheritance%20of%20Tools%20Sanders%20text%20copy.pdf
50 essays pg 331
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Horace MinerBody Ritual among the Nacirema
https://www.sfu.ca/~palys/Miner-1956-BodyRitualAmongTheNacirema.pdf
norton sampler 242
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David Foster Wallace
This is Water (Kenyon college commencement speech)
https://fs.blog/2012/04/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/
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David Foster WallaceConsider the Lobster
http://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf
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Judith ViorstThe Truth About Lying
https://teachtheprof.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/viorstthe-truth-about-lying-judith-viorst2-1.pdf
river reader 205
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Wilbert RideauWhy Prisons Don't Work
http://www.heal-online.org/wilbert.pdf
sundance reader pg 579
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Meg GreenfieldWhy Nothing is "Wrong" Anymore
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/07/22/why-nothing-is-wrong-anymore/8ecbcb88-efea-4b95-85b5-b42f503786ed/?utm_term=.055f948c4b96
sundacne reader pg406
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Paul RubinEnvironmentalism as Religions
http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2010/04/environmentalism-as-religion.html
patterns for college writing 399 (might struggle to see it in URL)
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Gail SheehyPredictable Crises of Adulthood
https://www.dcs.k12.oh.us/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=4476&dataid=9012&FileName=AP%20-%20Article%20-%20Predictable%20Crisis%20of%20Adulthood.pdf
riverside reader 263
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techJared LanierYou are Not a Gadget (can stop on pg 17)
https://cmapspublic3.ihmc.us/rid=1MHHS4T68-C8ZML1-6DRW/YouAreNotAGadget-Jaron%20Lanier.pdf
writing america 715
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Carl SaganCan We Know the Universe (on a grain of salt)
http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/pmo/eng/Sagan-KnowTheUniverse.pdf
mcgraw hill reader 572
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Malcolm GladwellWhy the Revolution will not be Tweeted
https://web.stanford.edu/class/comm1a/readings/gladwell-small-change.pdf
Language of composition 344
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Lars EighnerOn Dumpster Diving
https://1.cdn.edl.io/utv3XeO5mT3Qmj0fLfNsmaJRMChuM3sEwGp6cWsEFl08pYhB.pdf
Language of compostion 421
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Matthew CrawfordThe Case for Working with your Hands
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24labor-t.html
Language of compostion 449
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Roberta IsraeloffDon't Know Much About History
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kLrBc7EM8KtN1nVtp_5NL3E3g_7gyG3m/view?usp=sharing
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Charles KrauthammerIn Plain English: Let's Make It Official
https://ralouie.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/annotate1.pdf
Language of compostion 742