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On Dumpster Divingby Lars Eighner
Essay on life as a homeless dumpster diver. Explains just how
much one can learn from
anothers garbage.
The Idea of World Citizenship in Greek and Roman Antiuit!by
Martha Nussbaum
Multicultural education in antiquity. The task of world
citizenship requires the would-beworld citizen to become a
sensitive and empathic interpreter. Education at all ages
shouldcultivate the capacity for such interpreting. Involves
philosophy ethics and political science.
TheGood "e#s Is$ These Are "ot The %est &ears of &our
Life' by Gloria Steinem
While student years are the peak time of rebellion and openness
to change for men, thats
not necessarily the same for women. Indeed, the reverse is more
often true women may
be the one group that grows more radical with age.
A (odest )roposalby Jonathan Swift!"#$ classic satire
recommending that the %ritish upper classes deal with the poor
by
encouraging them to eat their own young.
Dirt! *ecret in +raternit! Drinking *ongsby Katrina oley and
Sheila Moreland
&.'. (imes article that details the fact that some
fraternity drinking songs glorify rapeand promote violence towards
women.
%eautiful *enoritas and Other )la!sby !olores "rida
)ole of women in contemporary society, addressing specifically
the various sterotypes of
&atinas and compares them to reality.
*peakby Laurie #alse $nderson
' story about rape, recovery, and confession. *elinda is at
first shamed by her peers for
calling the police, and it isnt until she discovers her voice
through art that she is able to
cope with and address what happened to her. It is a story about
bullying, violence, and+(- finding your voice and identity. (he
book is often the target of censorship, and the
author responds, %ut censoring books that deal with difficult,
adolescent issues does not
protect anybody. /uite the opposite. It leaves kids in the
darkness and makes themvulnerable. 0ensorship is the child of fear
and the father of ignorance. 1ur children
cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from
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The *carlet I,isby James #urst'ward3winning short story loaded
with symbolism about a brother and his weaker
younger brother. (hey bond, but the older brother pushes the
younger too hard.
+are#ell to (anzanarby Jeanne %a&atsu&i #ouston and
James #ouston
'utobiography about life as a 4apanese3'merican before, during,
and after internment at
the *an5anar prison camp.
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Lord of the -illby 'heodore 'aylor
tory about a boy who discovers a human body in a jaguar cage at
an animal preserve.
The Outsidersby S.E. #inton
0oming of age in !$86s small3town 'merica. tay gold,
+onyboy.
The Roadby (ormac Mc(arthy
#66" +ulit5er for fiction. 9ather and son travel together
through a post3apocalpytic world.
)ersepolis by M. Satra)i
:raphic novel about growing up as a female in Iran before,
during, and after the Islamic
)evolution. 1ne character lifts herself up from deepest throes
of depression.
A Thousand *plendid *unsby #osseini
*ultigenerational story about class and gender in
'fghanistan.
!onn Esmonde * Nelly urtado&yrics to a song that was
released in #66$. ;ot taught in school.
*e. /ducation in Our *choolsby Jill Kuhn
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The %ook Thiefby Mar&us /usa&
' book set in ;a5i :ermany and narrated by a very busy -eath. It
is the story of a girl
who is ripped away from her parents and suffers tragedy before
being taken in by a fosterfamily, which teaches her to read. (he
foster family takes in a 4ewish boy to live in the
basement.
&ear of Wondersby Geraldine roo&s
et during the black plague a small English town in the
!"thcentury, it tells the tale of
survival, terror, and loss during an uncertain Auarantine. Its
themes include witchcraft,madness, and repressed sexuality, but
also the power of women and trust.
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