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Mother Tongue
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Amy Tan Classification--different types of language in Tan's life, in relation to her mother
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Territorial Behavior
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Desmond Morris Classification--types of territory (tribal, family, and personal) and how we defend them
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The Dog Ate My Disk, and Other Tales of Woe
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Carolyn Foster Segal Classification--excuses for not doing homework (family, best friend, dorm life, technology, the totally bizarre)
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What Secrets Tell
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Luc Sante Classification--types of secrets (personal, romantic, gossip, trade, formulas, societies, mystical, state, atomic) and why we ned them
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College Pressures
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William Zinsser (p. 262) Classification--4 kinds of pressure college students are under (economic, parental, peer, self-incuded) and why it's unnecessary
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Salvation
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Langston Hughes (p. 656) Remembering church revival ceremony when he was 13, he faked being "saved" because he was pressured and he didn't feel it
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First Communion
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Edward Rivera (p. 658) receiving first communion, whole process was a mess, eventually denied communion ("not ready to receive")
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Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self
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Alice Walker (p. 46) journey to accepting blind eye
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The Wheels of Freedom: Bicycles in China
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Fred Strebeigh (p. 215) benefit of bikes, his experience in Tiananmen Square
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Beer Can
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John Updike (p. 336 gray Norton) descriptive essay, how the design of the beer can has changed for the worse
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Fish Cheeks (Diversity Essay)
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Amy Tan blending of american & chinese cultures at christmas dinner w/ mayor's family, learned not to be ashamed
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A View From the Bridge (Diversity Essay)
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Cherokee Paul McDonald helps little boy fishing, annoyed at first but figures out he's blind
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If You Are What You Eat... (Diversity Essay)
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Geeta Kothari her experience w/ indian food v. american food
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Spanglish (Diversity Essay)
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Janice Castro, Dan Cook, Christina Garcia growth of spanish+english in language & culture
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Ethnic Definitions Hinder Society's Enlightenment (Diversity Essay)
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Rudy De La Torre people should define themselves by who they are, not by their ethnicity
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On Dumpster Diving
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Lars Eighner (p. 27) how to dumpster dive and why it's beneficial
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Gettysburg Address
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Abraham Lincoln (p. 339) short speech during civil war, we should keep fighting to honor those who have died
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Existentialism
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Jean-Paul Sartre (p. 719) definition essay--what is existentialism (man is nothing else but what he makes of himself)
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A Class Divided (Movie)
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experiment w/ prejudice, telling the blue eyed kids/brown eyes kids they're superior
