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That Lean and Hungry Look
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I Want to Be Miss America
Maya Angelou
The Reach of the Imagination*
A Nation of Welfare Families
David Bruck
Aaron Copland
Graduation
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How to Tame a Wild Tongue*
Francis Bacon
The Four Idols
Francis Bacon
Of Studies
James Baldwin
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In Depth, But Shallowly
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Should Drugs Be Legalized?*
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What Really Ails America
Wendell Berry
Home of the Free*
The Death Penalty
How We Listen to Music
William F. Buckley Jr.
Charles Darwin
Why Don’t We Complain?
Understanding Natural Selection
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Alexis de Tocqueville
The Myth of Sisyphus*
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Why We Don’t Need Animal
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Some Reflections on American
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Richard Delgado
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Fable for Tomorrow
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Stephen Chapman
Joan Didion
The Prisoner’s Dilemma
On Keeping a Notebook*
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John Donne
Demystifying Multiculturalism
No Man Is an Island
John Ciardi
Frederick Douglass
Is Everybody Happy?
Learning to Read and Write
Sandra Cisneros
Frederick Douglass
Only Daughter
Resurrection
Boring from Within: The Art
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Judith Ortiz Cofer
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How Teachers Make Children
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Langston Hughes
David Gelernter
Salvation*
On Dumpster Diving*
Unplugged: The Myth of
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Peter Elbow
Nathan Glazer
How It Feels to Be
Colored Me
Desperation Writing
Some Very Modest Proposals
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Molly Ivins
Stephen Jay Gould
William James
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Living Wage Fight Goes On
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Working at McDonald’s
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Nobel Prize Award Speech
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How Dictionaries Are Made
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Laura Fraser
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Really Cool: Authenticity,
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Why We Crave Horror Movies
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Learning the Language*
Torture Should Not Be
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Naomi Klein
Why I Stopped Being a
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Milton Friedman
Prohibition and Drugs*
Thomas L. Friedman
Globalization: The Super-Story
Martin Gansberg
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Roald Hoffman
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Alleen Pace Nilsen
James Rachels
Shitty First Drafts
Sexism in English: Embodiment
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Active and Passive Euthanasia*
Jennifer Lee
I Think, Therefore IM
Michael Levin
The Case for Torture
Abraham Lincoln
Naomi Shihab Nye
Ishmael Reed
To Any Would-Be Terrorists
America: The Multinational
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George Orwell
Paul Roberts
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George Orwell
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Shooting an Elephant
A Free Man’s Worship
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Bertrand Russell
Heloisa Sabin
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Testing Has Raised Students’
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Lucia Perillo
Male Body Image in America
William Lutz
The World of Doublespeak
Karl Marx
From The Communist Manifesto
The Limits to Growth
What Is Poverty?
A Definition of Terms*
Noel Perrin
Barbara Mellix
The Androgynous Man
From Outside, In
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Horace Miner
Body Ritual Among the
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Joan Morgan
Sex, Lies, and Videos*
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Motherhood: Who Needs It?
The Study of Mathematics
Animal Research Saves Human
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Margaret Sanger
The Cause of War
Eric Schlosser
What We Eat
Sam Schulman
Gay Marriage—and Marriage*
The Allegory of the Cave
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Plato
What Are “Class” and
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A Modest Proposal
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Peter Singer
The Singer Solution to World
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Society of Professional
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Amy Tan
Mother Tongue
Deborah Tannen
There Is No Unmarked Woman
Henry David Thoreau
Code of Ethics
The Battle of the Ants
William Stafford
Henry David Thoreau
A Way of Writing
Civil Disobedience
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Henry David Thoreau
Declaration of Sentiments and
Resolutions
Where I Lived, and What I Lived
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Sojourner Truth
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Why Young Women Are More
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Two Ways of Seeing a River
Mark Twain
Uncle John’s Farm
Reg Weaver
NCLB’s Excessive Reliance on
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Edward O. Wilson
The Writing Life
Marie Winn
Television: The Plug-In Drug
Mary Wollstonecraft
From A Vindication of the Rights
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Elizabeth Wong
The Struggle to Be an AllAmerican Girl
Virginia Woolf
Professions for Women
William Zinsser
Clutter
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Sonny’s Blues
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The Most Dangerous Game
Ambrose Bierce
Kate Chopin
Joseph Conrad
An Occurrence at Owl Creek
Bridge
Désirée’s Baby
Heart of Darkness
Kate Chopin
Stephen Crane
The Story of an Hour
The Open Boat
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Arthur Conan Doyle
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Battle Royal
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Louise Erdrich
W. W. Jacobs
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The Red Convertible*
The Monkey’s Paw
The Cask of Amontillado
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sarah Orne Jewett
Edgar Allan Poe
Winter Dreams
A White Heron
The Fall of the House of Usher
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
James Joyce
Edgar Allan Poe
The Yellow Wallpaper
Araby
The Tell-Tale Heart
Nathaniel Hawthorne
James Joyce
Saki
The Birthmark
Eveline
The Open Window
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Jamaica Kincaid
John Steinbeck
Rappaccini’s Daughter
Girl*
The Chrysanthemums
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mary Lavin
Amy Tan
Young Goodman Brown
The Widow’s Son
Two Kinds
Ernest Hemingway
D. H. Lawrence
John Updike
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place*
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Hills Like White Elephants*
O. Henry
The Gift of the Magi
Zora Neale Hurston
Sweat
The Horse Dealer’s Daughter
A&P
Jack London
Alice Walker
To Build a Fire
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Guy de Maupassant
Eudora Welty
The Necklace
A Worn Path
Herman Melville
Richard Wright
Bartleby, the Scrivener
The Man Who Was Almost
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Tim O’Brien
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Anonymous
W. H. Auden
William Blake
Lord Randal
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The Garden of Love
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A Poison Tree
Kubla Khan
The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock
William Blake
Stephen Crane
The Sick Rose
Do not weep, maiden, for war is
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T. S. Eliot
Countee Cullen
Anne Finch, Countess of
Winchelsea
William Blake
The Tyger
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Anne Bradstreet
To My Dear and Loving
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Riches I hold in light esteem
Gwendolyn Brooks
The Bean Eaters
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We Real Cool
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How do I love thee? Let me
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Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
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My Last Duchess
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Porphyria’s Lover
Robert Burns
Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for
Death—
Emily Dickinson
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From The Introduction
Philip Freneau
The Indian Burying Ground
Robert Frost
After Apple-Picking
Robert Frost
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Sense—
Birches
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Robert Frost
Robert Frost
Home Burial
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Mending Wall
Death Be Not Proud
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Stopping by Woods on a
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Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken
A Red, Red Rose
A Valediction: Forbidding
Mourning
Thomas Gray
Lord George Gordon
Byron
Mark Doty
Elegy Written in a Country
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She walks in Beauty
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When thou must home
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Thomas Hardy
Seamus Heaney
Richard Lovelace
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
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Harlem
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The Negro Speaks of Rivers
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
On My First Son
Wild Swans
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Still to be Neat
How Soon Hath Time
Mary (Sidney) Herbert,
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Allison Joseph
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On Being Told I Don’t Speak
Like a Black Person
Lycidas
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The Collar
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Robert Herrick
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The Eve of St. Agnes
When I consider how my light is
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Upon Julia’s Clothes
La Belle Dame Sans Merci Linda Hogan
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Wilfred Owen
The History of Red
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Dulce et Decorum Est
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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God’s Grandeur
Ode to a Nightingale
Barbie Doll
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Pied Beauty
To Autumn
Annabel Lee
Gerard Manley Hopkins
John Keats
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When I have fears that I may
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In a Station of the Metro
Loving in truth, and fain in verse
my love to show
A Noiseless Patient Spider
Ezra Pound
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A
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Christopher Smart
Queen Elizabeth I
Edmund Spenser
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Walter Raleigh
From Jubilate Agno
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Gertrude Stein
Susie Asado
When Lilacs Last in the
Dooryard Bloom’d
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Jonathan Swift
Richard Cory
A Description of the Morning
William Carlos Williams
Theodore Roethke
Edward Taylor
My Papa’s Waltz
Housewifery
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Crossing the Bar
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Up-Hill
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William Shakespeare
Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare
The Lady of Shallott
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Tears, Idle Tears
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Ulysses
Dylan Thomas
William Carlos Williams
This Is Just to Say
William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
William Wordsworth
Lines Composed a Few Miles
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William Wordsworth
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
William Wordsworth
The world is too much with us
Do not go gentle into that good
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Lady Mary Wroth
Edmund Waller
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Song
Sonnet 130
Phyllis Wheatley
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William Shakespeare
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Literary Criticism and Literary
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Working with Sources: Using
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Janet E. Gardner
Barbara Fister
Reading and Writing about
Literature §
Working with Sources: Using
MLA, Seventh Edition Style
Janet E. Gardner
Margaret Price
Working with Sources and
Avoiding Plagiarism
Writing about Literature
Janet E. Gardner
Common Writing Assignments †
The Role of Good Reading †
Janet E. Gardner
Insider’s Guides to
College Success
Insider’s Guide to Academic
Planning
Insider’s Guide to Beating Test
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Insider’s Guide to Building
Confidence
Writing a Literary Research
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Insider’s Guide to Career
Services
Janet E. Gardner
Insider’s Guide to College
Ethics and Personal
Responsibility
Writing about Plays
Janet E. Gardner
Janet E. Gardner
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Glossary of Critical and Literary
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Janet E. Gardner
Writing about Stories †
Janet E. Gardner
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