2202205           Introduction to English Composition         First Semester 1998

Growing Up in a Violent World: Readings
The following are some titles of professional essays dealing with growing up or with violence:

Growing Up
Growing Up
Pain Is Not the Ultimate Enemy, Norman Cousins (Readings, 288)
Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs, Stephen Jay Gould (Readings, 391)
Three Kinds of Discipline, John Holt (Kirszner, 391)
Kids in the Mall: Growing Up Controlled, William Severini Kowinski (Cavitch, 348)

Family
The Anger of a Child, Adrienne Rich (Cavitch, 107)
Home is Where to Learn How to Hate, Leo Rosten (Cavitch, 112)
It's Just Too Late, Calvin Trillin (Cavitch, 131)

Education
The Farce Called "Grading", Arthur E. Lean (Readings, 365)
College Pressures, William Zinsser (Kirszner, 373)
Finishing School, Maya Angelou (Kirszner, 57)

Violence
People
Distancing the Homeless, Jonathan Kozol (Readings, 261)
Helping and Hating the Homeless, Peter Marin (Cavitch, 296)
The Penalty of Death, H. L. Mencken (Readings, 400)
Murder: Passion and Pathology, Ellen Currie (Kirszner, 332)
38 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police, Martin Gansberg (Kirszner, 70)

Women
The Ambivalence of Abortion, Linda Bird Francke (Cavitch, 542)

Discrimination
I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr. (Readings, 371)
Thriving as an Outsider, Even an Outcast, in Smalltown America, Louie Crew (Cavitch, 38)

Animals
Shooting an Elephant, George Orwell (Kirszner, 85)
Animal Rights versus Human Health, Albert Rosenfeld (Kirszner, 510)

Media & Technology
Why I am not Going to Buy a Computer, Wendell Berry (Readings, 384)
Television: The Plug-In Drug, Marie Winn (Kirszner, 271)

Reference

75 Readings: An Anthology.  4th ed.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993.
CL  808.0427 S497 1993

Kirszner, Laurie G. and Stephen R. Mandell.  Patterns for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide.  4th ed.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.
CL  808.042 7 K61P

Cavitch, David.  Life Studies: A Thematic Reader.  3rd ed.  New York: A Bedford Book, St. Martin's Press, 1989.
CL  808.042 7 L722