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Thematic Reading Anthology

This anthology is a curated collection of openly licensed primary texts, organized thematically, designed to be used as a reader in English composition courses. Includes personal essays, literature, video and audio files, Web writings, and long-form journalism, along with customizable assignments and instructor resources. This anthology was initially curated using materials from a variety of open sources.

Literature and LiteracyHumanities
Author
Lumen Learning
Publisher
Lumen Learning
Source
LibreTexts
Language
EN
Category
English
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Contents· 57 sections
  1. 01: Food
  2. 1.01: Video- Why Not Eat Insects
  3. 1.02: Video- The Global Food Waste Scandal
  4. 1.03: Audio- Genetically-engineered yeast is the future of flavor by Gastropod
  5. 1.04: Vermonts Farm to Ballet Project Shines the Spotlight on Conservation by Amy Overstreet
  6. 02: Literacy Narrative
  7. 2.01: Video- Language as a Window to Human Nature
  8. 2.02: Video- The Danger of a Single Story
  9. 2.03: Video- John Green on Paper Towns and Why Learning is Awesome
  10. 2.04: The Inspired Writer vs. the Real Writer by Sarah Allen
  11. 2.05: Be an Inspiration Not an Impostor by Ben Cotton
  12. 2.06: Multiple Intelligences by Fred Mednick
  13. 03: Culture
  14. 3.01: A South African Storm by Allison Howard
  15. 3.02: Body Ritual among the Nacirema by Horace Miner
  16. 3.03: Demanding Equal Political VoiceAnd Accepting Nothing Less- The Quest for Latino Political Inclusion by Louis DeSipio
  17. 3.04: Audio- Psychologys unhealthy obsession with the WEIRDest people in the world by David McRaney
  18. 04: Zombies
  19. 4.01: The Zombie as Barometer of Capitalist Anxiety by D.T. Robb
  20. 4.02: Zombies vs. animals The living dead wouldnt stand a chance by David Mizejewski
  21. 05: Nature and Conservation
  22. 5.01: Sustaining Our Commonwealth of Nature and Knowledge by Herman Daly
  23. 5.02: Plain Geology by George Otis Smith
  24. 5.03: Which water technology will save California from its long dry death By Kiki Sanford
  25. 06: Technology
  26. 6.01: That time the Internet sent a SWAT team to my moms house by Caroline Sinders
  27. 6.02: The Relationship Between Cell Phone Use and Academic Performance in a Sample of U.S. College Students by Andrew Lepp Jacob E. Barkley and Aryn C. Karpinski
  28. 6.03: Call to All Open Source Communities- Emphasize Inclusion by Meg Ford
  29. 6.04: Piracy Gave Me A Future by Daniel Starkey
  30. 07: Consumer Debt
  31. 7.01: The 182 Percent Loan- How Installment Lenders Put Borrowers in a World of Hurt by Paul Kiel and Krista Kjellman Schmidt
  32. 7.02: On Victory Drive Soldiers Defeated by Debt by Paul Kiel and Mitchell Hartman
  33. 7.03: The Payday Playbook- How High Cost Lenders Fight to Stay Legal by Paul Kiel
  34. 7.04: Whack-a-Mole- How Payday Lenders Bounce Back When States Crack Down by Paul Kiel
  35. 7.05: How One State Succeeded in Restricting Payday Loans by Paul Kiel
  36. 7.06: To Dodge Law High-Cost Lender Offers Cash for Free by Paul Kiel
  37. 7.07: When Lenders Sue Quick Cash Can Turn Into a Lifetime of Debt by Paul Kiel
  38. 08: Health Care
  39. 8.01: Death Is Part of the Job in Long-Term Care Homes by Jill Marcella and Mary Lou Kelley
  40. 8.02: On Vaccination Against Smallpox by Edward Anthony Jenner
  41. 8.03: Back to the Future- Making House Calls for Better Care Reduced Costs by K. Eric De Jonge
  42. 8.04: A Legacy for Lewis- Improving Patient Safety by Helen Haskell
  43. 8.05: Living with FASDs- In Taylors Own Words by the Centers for Disease Control
  44. 8.06: Can We Use Social Media to Support Content Validity of Patient-Reported Outcome Instruments in Medical Product Development by Margaret Rothman et al
  45. 09: Politics
  46. 9.01: Millionaire Candidates by Carl Schurz
  47. 9.02: Why Arent Governments as Transparent as They Could Be by Ryan Thornburg
  48. 9.03: Seattle and the Demons of Ambition- Apocalyspo by Frederick Moody
  49. 10: Wikipedia
  50. 10.01: What I Learned While Editing Wikipedia by Noopur Raval
  51. 10.02: Video- Jimmy Wales and the Origin of Wikipedia
  52. 10.03: Wikipedia Is Good for You by James Purdy
  53. 11: Literature
  54. 11.01: Eves Diary by Mark Twain
  55. 11.02: The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
  56. 11.03: On the Gulls Road by Willa Cather
  57. 11.04: The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams