Crossfire · an argument rhetoric and reader

Includes index;STRATEGIES FOR WRITING ARGUMENTS -- Understanding Persuasion : thinking like a critic -- Sample Argument for Analysis -- Perils of prohibition / Elizabeth M. Whelan -- Why so much aid for AIDS? / Jeff Jacoby -- Finding Arguments : Thinking Like a Writer -- Shaping Arguments : Thinking like an Architect -- Indian bones / Clara Spotted Elk -- A Cup of conscience / Michaele Fields -- Simply killing / John O'Sullivan -- Addressing Audiences : Thinking Like a Reader -- Dream of a long fur coat / Barbara Drews -- Using Evidence : Thinking Like an Advocate -- RU 486 : the French abortion pill and its benefits / Meg Kelley -- Establishing claims : Thinking Like a Skeptic -- The Case for corture / Michael Levin -- For the love of the game / Melissa Spokas -- Testing Arguments : Thinking Like a Cross-Examiner -- Documenting arguments : Thinking Like a Researcher -- The SAT : is it an effective predictor of college success? / David Prez -- CURRENT DEBATES -- Gender Identity -- Being Male -- The Men we carry in our minds / Scott Russell Sanders -- Men as success objects / Warren Farrell -- Conan and Me / Bill Persky -- Being Female -- Feminity / Susan Brownmiller -- Wears jump suit, sensible shoes, uses husband's last name, Deborah Tannen -- Just a fierce / Katherine Dunn -- Oppositions : Feminism -- Feminist / Anna Quindlen -- The Failure of feminism / Kay Ebeling -- Race and Identity -- Identity and Stereotypes -- Cultural baggage / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Cultural etiquette : a guide / Amoja Three Rivers -- What's behind the "Asian mask"? / Alexandra Tantranon-Saur -- The Revolt of the Black bourgoisie / Leonce Caiter -- Presumed guilty / Anton Shamas -- Affirmative Action -- Harping on racism / Roger Wilkins -- Affirmative action : the price of preference / Shelby Steele -- It's past time to speak out / Charles G. Adams -- Oppositions -- Immigration policy -- A Statue with limitations / B. Meredith Burke -- The Big news mix / Renee Loth -- SOCIAL ISSUES -- Social Issues -- Gun Control -- The Right to bear arms / Warren E. Burger -- A Case against firearms / Sarah Brady -- Gun owners are not bad people / Warren Cassidy -- Handguns in our homes put our children at risk / Derrick Z. Jackson -- Poverty and Homelessness -- Helping and hating the homeless / Peter Marin -- Brother don't spare a dime / Christopher Awalt -- Yes, something will work : work / Mickey Kaus -- The Culture of cruelty / Ruth Conniff -- Teenage Pregnancy -- Countering the culture of sex / Ellen Goodman -- The Name of the game is shame / Jonathan Alter -- In defense of teenated mothers /Mike Males -- Menaces to society? / Stephanie Contz -- Oppositions: Capital Punishment -- The Death penalty is justice / Edward I. Kock -- No death penalty / David Bruck -- ETHICAL AND MORAL ISSUES -- Euthanasia -- Scared to death of dying / Herbert Hendin -- Dead complicated / Elizabeth Rosenthal -- Abortion -- Some thoughts about abortion / Anna quindlen -- Which way Black America? Pro-choice / Faye Wattleton -- Which way Black America? Anti-abortion / Pamela Carr -- An Abortionist's credo / Elizabeth Karlin -- Animals in Research -- Animal liberation / Peter Singer -- I am the enemy / Ron Karpati -- Why worry about the animals? / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Oppositions -- Legalization of drugs -- The American nightmare / William J. Bennett -- It's time to legalize marijuana / Peter Gorman -- FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION -- Movie and Television Violence -- Honey, I warped the kids / Carl M. Cannon -- Violence is us / Robert Scheer -- In praise of gore /Andrew Klavan -- Racial Slurs -- Regulating racist speech on campus / Charles R. Lawrence III -- Free Speech on campus / Nat Hentoff -- In praise of censure / Garry Wills -- Oppositions -- Pornography -- Let's put pornography back in the closet / Susan Brownmiller -- I am a first amendment junkie / Susan Jacoby -- EDUCATION -- The Classroom Experience -- Killing the spirit / Page Smith -- College of future: not a pretty picture / Patricia Nelson Limerick -- A Liberating curriculum / Robert F. Borkat -- A War against grade inflation / Jackson Toby -- Multiculturalism -- The Debate has been misscast from the start / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Too many have let enthusiasm outrun reason / Kenneth T. Jakson -- Oppositions -- Curriculum wars -- Cultural literacy / E.D. Hirsch, Jr. -- Cult-lit / Barbara Hernstein Smith -- Advertising -- Consumerism -- Work and spend / Juliet B. Schor -- The Hard sell / Deborah Baldwin -- Delectable materialism / Michael Schudson -- The Language of Advertising -- A Word from our Sponsor / Patricia Volk -- With These words I can sell you anything / William Lutz -- The Language of advertising / Charles A .O'Heill -- Tapping the youth market / Madeline Drexler -- Oppositions -- Sex in Advertising -- Sex in advertising / Edward A. McCabe -- Sex is still doing the selling / John Carroll -- ARGUMENTS THAT SHAPE HISTORY -- The Allegory of the cave / Plato -- A Modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- The Declaration of independence -- Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau -- Declaration of sentiments and resolutions / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- On the natural superiority of the Aryan race / Adolf Hitler -- Warfare : an invention, not a biological necessity / Margaret Mead -- The Obligation to endure / Rachel Carson -- Letter from Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King, Jr

A contemporary argument/reader that provides clear instructions on how to write argumentative education; race; homelessness freedom of speech; gun control; animal rights; & views of abortion. Also included are 9 classic arguments written by Plato, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Jefferson, Rachel Carson, & Martin Luther King, Jr.