88 open essays : a reader for students of composition & rhetoric / edited by Sarah Wangler & Tina Ulrich.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Original Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Message to Instructors -- Message to Students -- Introduction to this Edition -- I. Readings -- 1: The Danger of a Single Story (Adichie) -- 2: The Story We Tell about Millennials — and Who We Leave Out (Allen) -- 3: How the New “Aladdin” Stacks Up Against a Century of Hollywood Stereotyping (Alsultany) -- 4: Mushrooms: “Nature’s Greatest Decomposers” (Anderson) -- 5: Six Short Essays (Anderson) -- 6: Tools and Tasks (Anonymous) -- 7: Jamaica Leads in Richard Branson-Backed Plan for a Caribbean Climate Revolution (Ashtine & Rogers) -- 8: In Review: Raising Eyebrows (Bamburg) -- 9: Is Burning Trash a Good Way to Handle It? Waste Incineration in 5 Charts (Baptista) -- 10: How to Save the Middle Class When Jobs Don’t Pay (Barnes) -- 11: The Emotional Lives of Animals (Bekoff) -- 12: Must the President Be a Moral Leader? (Blake) -- 13: The Plot to Privatize Common Knowledge (Bollier) -- 14: Shadows of the Bat: Constructions of Good and Evil in the Batman Movies of Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan (Born) -- 15: Public Beats Private: Six Reasons Why (Buchheit) -- 16: Misinformation and Biases Infect Social Media, Both Intentionally and Accidentally (Ciampaglia and Filippo Menczer) -- 17: Habits and Virtues: Does It Matter if a Leader Kicks a Dog? (Ciulla) -- 18: Seed Libraries Fight for the Right to Share (Cook) -- 19: The Defense Department Is Worried about Climate Change – and Also a Huge Carbon Emitter (Crawford) -- 20: Male Teachers Are Most Likely to Rate Highly in University Student Feedback (Crossley, Johnston, and Fan) -- 21: Despite Public Pledges, Leading Scientific Journals Still Allow Statistical Misconduct and Refuse to Correct It (Doctorow) -- 22: Writing in the Age of Distraction (Doctorow) -- 23: No Food, No Water, No Sleep: Is Brazil Torturing Student Protesters? (Paula) -- 24: Measles: Why It’s So Deadly, and Why Vaccination Is So Vital (Duprex) -- 25: Hope and Mourning in the Anthropocene: Understanding Ecological Grief (Ellis & Cunsolo) -- 26: Hydropower Dams Can Harm Coastal Areas Far Downstream (Ezcurra & Aburto) -- 27: Everything You Need to Know About the Radical Roots of Wonder Woman (Finke) -- 28: Why Sex Gets Better in Older Age (Forbes, Eaton, and Krueger) -- 29: Are Batman and Superman the Barometer of Our Times? A Review of ‘Superheroes in Crisis’ (Franco) -- 30: No, You Don’t Need to Go to Holiday Parties If You Feel Lonely (Gajwani) -- 31: To Seek Common Ground on Life’s Big Questions, We Need Science Literacy (Garlick) -- 32: How I Celebrate Life on the Day of the Dead (González) -- 33: Do Interest-Free Loans Make Sense? No, But They Do Make a Difference (Green) -- 34: “We Are Still Here”: Native Americans Win a Voice in Government (Hansen & Keeler) -- 35: Cheaper Versions of the Most Expensive Drugs May Be Coming, but Monopolies Will Likely Remain (Heled) -- 36: Getting a Scientific Message Across Means Taking Human Nature into Account (Hendricks) -- 37: Jessie Simmons: How a Schoolteacher Became an Unsung Hero of the Civil Rights Movement (Hill-Jackson) -- 38: Why Rituals Are Good for Your Health (Honarvar) -- 39: The Dirt on Soil Loss from the Midwest Floods (Ippolito & Al-Kaisi) -- 40: Who Are the 1 in 4 American Women Who Choose Abortion? (Ireland) -- 41: The Politics of Fear: How It Manipulates Us to Tribalism (Javanbakht) -- 42: To Feel Happier, We Have to Resolve to the Life We Evolved to Live (Javanbakht) -- 43: 48 Hours as a Muslim American: A Professor Reflects (Khalil)

44: So, What Really Is Jihad? (Khalil) -- 45: Mapping the US Counties where Traffic Air Pollution Hurts Children the Most (Khreis) -- 46: Why Native Americans Do Not Separate Religion from Science (LaPier) -- 47: Juneteenth - Freedom’s Promise Is Still Denied to Thousands of Blacks Unable to Make Bail (Larson) -- 48: Guardians of the Galaxy and the Fall of the Classic Hero (Lewis) -- 49: Wastewater Is an Asset – It Contains Nutrients, Energy and Precious Metals, and Scientists Are Learning How to Recover Them (Li) -- 50: Memorial Day (Lively) -- 51: Does Recycling Actually Conserve or Preserve Things? (MacBride) -- 52: Concerning the Way in Which Princes Should Keep Faith - The Prince, Chapter 18 (Machiavelli) -- 53: The 1995 Anime “Ghost in the Shell” Is More Relevant than Ever in Today’s Technologically Complex Society (Maynard) -- 54: What the Ban on Gene-Edited Babies Means for Family Planning (Menke) -- 55: There Is More than One Religious View on Abortion - Here’s What Jewish Texts Say (Mikva) -- 56: Why Women From Asia Are Confronting U.S. Fracking: Oil Extraction Equals Plastic Production (Morrison) -- 57: How to Increase Your Chances of Sticking with Your Resolutions (Nonterah) -- 58: Minorities Face More Obstacles to a Lifesaving Organ Transplant (Nonterah) -- 59: The Blue (Oomen) -- 60: How Rural Areas Like Florida’s Panhandle Can Become More Hurricane-Ready (Ozguven) -- 61: Cold, Hard Harvest: Making the Case for Frozen Produce (Pandolfi) -- 62: I Studied Buttons for 7 Years and Learned These 5 Lessons about How and Why People Push Them (Plotnick) -- 63: California Knew the Carr Wildfire Could Happen. It Failed to Prevent it. (Schneider) -- 64: Ending the Secrecy of the Student Debt Crisis (Schorin) -- 65: Ending the Secrecy of the Student Debt Crisis (Senderowicz) -- 66: Education in the (Dis)Information Age (Shaffer) -- 67: What the US Could Learn about Vaccination from Nigeria (Shankar) -- 68: Book Review - The End of Ownership (Sheehan) -- 69: A Syrian Asks Herself: Am I Capable of Killing? (Shehwaro) -- 70: Visiting First Place School: Reflections on Other-Centric Education, Private Education, & Identity (Shepard) -- 71: A Feminist’s Guide to Rom-Coms and How to Watch Them (Sutriasa) -- 72: Fix the Machine, Not the Person (Swartz) -- 73: Catwoman’s Hyde: A Comparative Reading of the 2002 Catwoman Relaunch and Stevenson’s Novella (Syn) -- 74: How a Green New Deal Could Exploit Developing Countries (Táíwò) -- 75: Capturing Carbon to Fight Climate Change is Dividing Environmentalists (Táíwò and Buck) -- 76: Time Wasn’t Always Money: Decolonizing Time in Diaspora (Villaseñor) -- 77: Why Good People Turn Bad Online (Vince) -- 78: Taking the Native American Narrative Beyond Reservations (Vizcarra) -- 79: Which Future Would You Choose? (Walljaspar & Klein) -- 80: America's Walking Renaissance (Walljasper) -- 81: Austin, Indiana: The HIV Capital of Small-Town America (Wapner) -- 82: On Reparations, the Question Isn’t If, but When and How (Warfield) -- 83: You’re Not Going to Get Accepted into a Top University on Merit Alone (Warikoo) -- 84: Chicago’s Urban Prep Academy – Known for 100% College Acceptance Rates – Put Reputation Ahead of Results (Warren) -- 85: Recent Attempts at Reparations Show that World War II Is Not Over (Webster) -- 86: The Black Muslim Female Fashion Trailblazers Who Came before Model Halima Aden (Wheeler) -- 87: For a Flooded Midwest, Climate Forecasts Offer Little Comfort (Wu) -- 88: Think You Love Your Valentine? What’s Beneath the Surface May Be More Complicated (Zayas & Shoda) -- Index