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88 Open Essays - A Reader for Students of Composition & Rhetoric

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88 Open Essays - A Reader for Students of Composition & Rhetoric

This book is a free and open resource to composition instructors and students, full of essays that could supplement OER rhetoric and writing texts that lacked readings. All of the essays in this reader are versatile rhetorically and thematically. It is arranged alphabetically by author name. Each essay has a series of hashtags that apply to the essay in some way. You can search for essays thematically that relate to topics like education, the environment, politics, or health.

Literature and LiteracyHumanities
Author
Sarah Wangler & Tina Ulrich
Publisher
Northwestern Michigan College
Source
LibreTexts
License
CC BY-SA
Language
EN
Category
English
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Contents· 89 sections
  1. Open Essays
  2. 01: The Danger of a Single Story (Adichie)
  3. 02: The Story We Tell about Millennials and Who We Leave Out (Allen)
  4. 03: How the New Aladdin Stacks Up Against a Century of Hollywood Stereotyping (Alsultany)
  5. 04: Mushrooms: Natures Greatest Decomposers (Anderson)
  6. 05: Six Short Essays (Anderson)
  7. 06: Tools and Tasks (Anonymous)
  8. 07: Jamaica Leads in Richard Branson-Backed Plan for a Caribbean Climate Revolution (Ashtine and Rogers)
  9. 08: In Review: Raising Eyebrows (Bamburg)
  10. 09: Is Burning Trash a Good Way to Handle It Waste Incineration in 5 Charts (Baptista)
  11. 10: How to Save the Middle Class When Jobs Dont Pay (Barnes)
  12. 11: The Emotional Lives of Animals (Bekoff)
  13. 12: Must the President Be a Moral Leader (Blake)
  14. 13: The Plot to Privatize Common Knowledge (Bollier)
  15. 14: Shadows of the Bat: Constructions of Good and Evil in the Batman Movies of Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan (Born)
  16. 15: Public Beats Private: Six Reasons Why (Buchheit)
  17. 16: Misinformation and Biases Infect Social Media Both Intentionally and Accidentally (Ciampaglia and Filippo Menczer)
  18. 17: Habits and Virtues: Does It Matter if a Leader Kicks a Dog (Ciulla)
  19. 18: Seed Libraries Fight for the Right to Share (Cook)
  20. 19: The Defense Department Is Worried about Climate Change and Also a Huge Carbon Emitter (Crawford)
  21. 20: Male Teachers Are Most Likely to Rate Highly in University Student Feedback (Crossley Johnston and Fan)
  22. 21: Despite Public Pledges Leading Scientific Journals Still Allow Statistical Misconduct and Refuse to Correct It (Doctorow)
  23. 22: Writing in the Age of Distraction (Doctorow)
  24. 23: No Food No Water No Sleep: Is Brazil Torturing Student Protesters (Paula)
  25. 24: Measles: Why Its So Deadly and Why Vaccination Is So Vital (Duprex)
  26. 25: Hope and Mourning in the Anthropocene: Understanding Ecological Grief (Ellis and Cunsolo)
  27. 26: Hydropower Dams Can Harm Coastal Areas Far Downstream (Ezcurra and Aburto)
  28. 27: Everything You Need to Know About the Radical Roots of Wonder Woman (Finke)
  29. 28: Why Sex Gets Better in Older Age (Forbes Eaton and Krueger)
  30. 29: Are Batman and Superman the Barometer of Our Times A Review of Superheroes in Crisis (Franco)
  31. 30: No You Dont Need to Go to Holiday Parties If You Feel Lonely (Gajwani)
  32. 31: To Seek Common Ground on Lifes Big Questions We Need Science Literacy (Garlick)
  33. 32: How I Celebrate Life on the Day of the Dead (Gonzalez)
  34. 33: Do Interest-Free Loans Make Sense No But They Do Make a Difference (Green)
  35. 34: We Are Still Here: Native Americans Win a Voice in Government (Hansen and Keeler)
  36. 35: Cheaper Versions of the Most Expensive Drugs May Be Coming but Monopolies Will Likely Remain (Heled)
  37. 36: Getting a Scientific Message Across Means Taking Human Nature into Account (Hendricks)
  38. 37: Jessie Simmons: How a Schoolteacher Became an Unsung Hero of the Civil Rights Movement (Hill-Jackson)
  39. 38: Why Rituals Are Good for Your Health (Honarvar)
  40. 39: The Dirt on Soil Loss from the Midwest Floods (Ippolito and Al-Kaisi)
  41. 40: Who Are the 1 in 4 American Women Who Choose Abortion (Ireland)
  42. 41: The Politics of Fear: How It Manipulates Us to Tribalism (Javanbakht)
  43. 42: To Feel Happier We Have to Resolve to the Life We Evolved to Live (Javanbakht)
  44. 43: 48 Hours as a Muslim American: A Professor Reflects (Khalil)
  45. 44: So What Really Is Jihad (Khalil)
  46. 45: Mapping the US Counties where Traffic Air Pollution Hurts Children the Most (Khreis)
  47. 46: Why Native Americans Do Not Separate Religion from Science (LaPier)
  48. 47: Juneteenth - Freedoms Promise Is Still Denied to Thousands of Blacks Unable to Make Bail (Larson)
  49. 48: Guardians of the Galaxy and the Fall of the Classic Hero (Lewis)
  50. 49: Wastewater Is an Asset It Contains Nutrients Energy and Precious Metals and Scientists Are Learning How to Recover Them (Li)
  51. 50: Memorial Day (Lively)
  52. 51: Does Recycling Actually Conserve or Preserve Things (MacBride)
  53. 52: Concerning the Way in Which Princes Should Keep Faith - The Prince Chapter 18 (Machiavelli)
  54. 53: The 1995 Anime Ghost in the Shell Is More Relevant than Ever in Todays Technologically Complex Society (Maynard)
  55. 54: What the Ban on Gene-Edited Babies Means for Family Planning (Menke)
  56. 55: There Is More than One Religious View on Abortion - Heres What Jewish Texts Say (Mikva)
  57. 56: Why Women From Asia Are Confronting U.S. Fracking: Oil Extraction Equals Plastic Production (Morrison)
  58. 57: How to Increase Your Chances of Sticking with Your Resolutions (Nonterah)
  59. 58: Minorities Face More Obstacles to a Lifesaving Organ Transplant (Nonterah)
  60. 59: The Blue (Oomen)
  61. 60: How Rural Areas Like Floridas Panhandle Can Become More Hurricane-Ready (Ozguven)
  62. 61: Cold Hard Harvest: Making the Case for Frozen Produce (Pandolfi)
  63. 62: I Studied Buttons for 7 Years and Learned These 5 Lessons about How and Why People Push Them (Plotnick)
  64. 63: California Knew the Carr Wildfire Could Happen. It Failed to Prevent it. (Schneider)
  65. 64: Ending the Secrecy of the Student Debt Crisis (Schorin)
  66. 65: Ending the Secrecy of the Student Debt Crisis (Senderowicz)
  67. 66: Education in the (Dis)Information Age (Shaffer)
  68. 67: What the US Could Learn about Vaccination from Nigeria (Shankar)
  69. 68: Book Review - The End of Ownership (Sheehan)
  70. 69: A Syrian Asks Herself: Am I Capable of Killing (Shehwaro)
  71. 70: Visiting First Place School: Reflections on Other-Centric Education Private Education and Identity (Shepard)
  72. 71: A Feminists Guide to Rom-Coms and How to Watch Them (Sutriasa)
  73. 72: Fix the Machine Not the Person (Swartz)
  74. 73: Catwomans Hyde: A Comparative Reading of the 2002 Catwoman Relaunch and Stevensons Novella (Syn)
  75. 74: How a Green New Deal Could Exploit Developing Countries (Taiwo)
  76. 75: Capturing Carbon to Fight Climate Change is Dividing Environmentalists (Taiwo and Buck)
  77. 76: Time Wasnt Always Money: Decolonizing Time in Diaspora (Villasenor)
  78. 77: Why Good People Turn Bad Online (Vince)
  79. 78: Taking the Native American Narrative Beyond Reservations (Vizcarra)
  80. 79: Which Future Would You Choose (Walljaspar and Klein)
  81. 80: America's Walking Renaissance (Walljasper)
  82. 81: Austin Indiana: The HIV Capital of Small-Town America (Wapner)
  83. 82: On Reparations the Question Isnt If but When and How (Warfield)
  84. 83: Youre Not Going to Get Accepted into a Top University on Merit Alone (Warikoo)
  85. 84: Chicagos Urban Prep Academy Known for 100 College Acceptance Rates Put Reputation Ahead of Results (Warren)
  86. 85: Recent Attempts at Reparations Show that World War II Is Not Over (Webster)
  87. 86: The Black Muslim Female Fashion Trailblazers Who Came before Model Halima Aden (Wheeler)
  88. 87: For a Flooded Midwest Climate Forecasts Offer Little Comfort (Wu)
  89. 88: Think You Love Your Valentine Whats Beneath the Surface May Be More Complicated (Zayas and Shoda)