Mother Tongue
Amy TanClassification--different types of language in Tan's life, in relation to her mother
Territorial Behavior
Desmond MorrisClassification--types of territory (tribal, family, and personal) and how we defend them
The Dog Ate My Disk, and Other Tales of Woe
Carolyn Foster SegalClassification--excuses for not doing homework (family, best friend, dorm life, technology, the totally bizarre)
What Secrets Tell
Luc SanteClassification--types of secrets (personal, romantic, gossip, trade, formulas, societies, mystical, state, atomic) and why we ned them
College Pressures
William Zinsser (p. 262)Classification--4 kinds of pressure college students are under (economic, parental, peer, self-incuded) and why it's unnecessary
Salvation
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

First Communion
Edward Rivera (p. 658)receiving first communion, whole process was a mess, eventually denied communion ("not ready to receive")
Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self
Alice Walker (p. 46)journey to accepting blind eye
The Wheels of Freedom: Bicycles in China
Fred Strebeigh (p. 215)benefit of bikes, his experience in Tiananmen Square
Beer Can
John Updike (p. 336 gray Norton)descriptive essay, how the design of the beer can has changed for the worse
Fish Cheeks (Diversity Essay)
Amy Tanblending of american & chinese cultures at christmas dinner w/ mayor's family, learned not to be ashamed
A View From the Bridge (Diversity Essay)
Cherokee Paul McDonaldhelps little boy fishing, annoyed at first but figures out he's blind
If You Are What You Eat.

.. (Diversity Essay)

Geeta Kothariher experience w/ indian food v. american food
Spanglish (Diversity Essay)
Janice Castro, Dan Cook, Christina Garciagrowth of spanish+english in language & culture
Ethnic Definitions Hinder Society's Enlightenment (Diversity Essay)
Rudy De La Torrepeople should define themselves by who they are, not by their ethnicity
On Dumpster Diving
Lars Eighner (p. 27)how to dumpster dive and why it's beneficial
Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln (p. 339)short speech during civil war, we should keep fighting to honor those who have died
Existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre (p.

719)definition essay--what is existentialism (man is nothing else but what he makes of himself)

A Class Divided (Movie)
experiment w/ prejudice, telling the blue eyed kids/brown eyes kids they're superior