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Author Johnson, June, 1953-

Title Global issues, local arguments : readings for writing / June Johnson, Seattle University.

Publication Info. Boston : Pearson, [2014]

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  909.831 J633g 2014    ---  Available
Edition Third edition.
Instructor's Review Copy
Description xviii, 525 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note Includes index.
Contents Preface -- 1. Exploring and Defining Globalization -- Exploration One: How Wide Is Your Global View? -- Exploration Two: Globalization at Work -- What Does Globalization Mean? -- Controversies over Definitions and Interpretations of Globalization -- Controversies over Responses to Globalization -- Exploration Three: Your Global Positioning Profile -- 2. Analyzing and Writing Arguments -- A Brief Introduction to Argument -- Issue Questions, Claims, and Stakeholders -- Basel Action Network, "The e-Waste Crisis" -- The Core of an Argument: A Claim with Reasons -- Assumptions in Argument -- The Development of an Argument: Evidence -- Responses to Alternative Views -- Arguments Tailored to Audiences -- Ed Finn, "Harnessing Our Power as Consumers: Cost of Boycotting Sweatshop Goods Offset by the Benefits" -- A Brief Introduction to Rhetorical Analysis -- The Importance of Thinking and Reading Rhetorically -- Identifying the Writer and the Writer's Angle of Vision -- Identifying the Rhetorical Context -- Examining the Use of Classical Appeals to Logos, Ethos, and Pathos -- A Consideration of Style -- Writing a Summary -- Using Summaries in Rhetorical Analyses -- Using Summaries in Arguments -- How to Write a Summary -- Writing a Rhetorical Analysis -- The Purpose and Audience of a Rhetorical Analysis -- The Structure of a Rhetorical Analysis -- Analyzing the Argument -- Choosing a Focus for Your Rhetorical Analysis and Writing a Thesis Statement -- Three Sample Thesis Statements -- Drafting a Rhetorical Analysis -- An Example of a Rhetorical Analysis Essay -- Student Voice: "Ha-Joon Chang's Vital Discussion of Free Trade and Developing Nations: A Rhetorical Analysis" / Lydia Wheeler -- Writing an Argument -- Posing a Significant, Perplexing Issue Question -- Using Reflective or Narrative Writing to Discover Your Interests and Values -- Student Voice: "Informal Writing to Discover Personal Investment in an Issue Question" / Lindsey Egan -- Examining Multiple Perspectives -- Analyzing Your Rhetorical Context -- Constructing an Argument Core -- Structuring and Drafting Your Argument -- Reviewing and Revising Your Draft -- An Example of a Student's Researched Argument -- Student Voice: "American Privilege Dangerously Perpetuates Water Inefficiency" / Lindsey Egan -- 3. Trading Goods and Jobs -- Sweatshops, Corporate Responsibility, and Consumerism -- Context for a Network of Issues -- Stakes and Stakeholders -- Thinking Visually: Working Conditions in Global Factories -- Student Voice: "Thinking Beyond My American Consumerism" / Tiffany Anderson -- International Voices: Apple's Manufacturers in China Reveal Disregard for Workers Global Hot Spot: The United States -- Readings -- "Sweat, Fire and Ethics" / Bob Jeffcott -- "Bangladesh: On the Ladder of Development" / Jeffrey D. Sachs -- "We Are What We Trade" / David Sirota -- Global Exchange, "Top Twelve Reasons to Oppose the World Trade Organization" (campaign flier) -- "Made in China" (cartoon) / Matt Wuerker -- Student Voice: "Uncove[RED]" by Nicole Cesmat -- "My Six-Year-Old Son Should Get a Job: Is Free Trade Always the Answer?" / Ha-Joon Chang -- "Let's Admit It: Globalization Has Losers" / Steven Rattner -- "Watching Greed Murder the Economy" / Paul Craig Roberts -- "A Time for Action: Jobs, Prosperity, and National Goals" / Ralph E. Gomory -- "Buy American Hurts America" / Daniella Markheim -- "Buy American, Buy Union" (photograph) / Rebecca Cook -- Gallup's Jim Clifton on The Coming Jobs War / Dan Schawbel -- "So If We Stop Buying" (cartoon) / Jeff Danziger -- "Tarrifs and the Perils of Freer Trade: It's Complicated" / Allan Tanny -- Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Writing Assignments -- 4. Crossing Borders -- Immigration -- Context for a Network of Issues -- Stakes and Stakeholders -- Thinking Visually: Illegal Immigration -- Student Voice: "La Migra" / Esperanza Borboa -- International Voices: Factors Contributing to New Immigration Patterns in Mexico -- Global Hot Spot: European Union -- Readings -- "Lecture on International Flows of Humanity" / Kofi Annan -- "Illegal Immigration Is Immoral" / Victor Davis Hanson -- "Help Wanted-Stop Illegal Immigration" (cartoon) / Steve Breen -- "Why Mexico's Drug War Is Unwinnable" / Laura Carlsen -- "Free Trade: As U.S. Corn Flows South, Mexicans Stop Farming" / Tim Johnson -- Mexico's Ministry of Foreign Relations, From Guide for the Mexican Migrant -- "The Special Case of Mexican Immigration" / Samuel P. Huntington -- Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), "MALDEF and LULAC Rebuke Samuel Huntington's Theories on Latino Immigrants and Call on America to Reaffirm Its Commitment to Equal Opportunity and Democracy" -- "The Arizona Syndrome: Propaganda and the Politics of Fear" / David L. Altheide -- Associated Press, "Tennessee Daily Life" (photograph) / Brandon Dill -- Student Voice: "Arizona's HB 2281's Attack on Education and Equality: Let's End the Ban on Ethnic Studies" / Carlos Sibaja Garcia -- "The Next Immigration Challenge" / Dowell Myers -- "Let's Fashion a Made-in-Canada Approach to the Burka" / Sheema Khan -- "How to Integrate Europe's Muslims" / Jonathan Laurence -- Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Writing Assignments -- 5. Protecting the Environment -- Water Issues and Competing Energy-Technologies -- Context for a Network of Issues -- Stakes and Stakeholders -- Thinking Visually: Water Use -- Student Voice: "Changing Lives with Water" / Malia Burns-Rozyeki -- International Voices: Comments from Water Authorities in Swaziland -- Global Hot Spot: Africa -- Readings -- "Address to the UN General Assembly on Need to Conserve Water" / Maude Barlow -- "Droughtbusters" / Anita Hamilton -- "Water for Life" / Sandra Postel -- United Nations Environment Programme, "Health and Environment" (poster) -- "The Most Important News Story of the Day/Millennium" / Bill McKibben
"Stop the Keystone XL" / Dave Coles -- "Building the Keystone XL Pipeline: A Necessary Evil" / Richard Korman -- "Reflections on Tar Sands Action: The Collective Will to Address Climate Change" / Sarah Bean -- "Shale Gas Revolution" / David Brooks -- "Safety First, Fracking Second" / Scientific American -- "Nuclear Power after Fukushima" / Rod Adams -- America, "After Fukushima" -- "Wind Versus Tidal Energy" (cartoon) / Adrian Raeside -- Student Voice: "A Letter to Ken Salazar" / Tine Sommer -- "Pedaling Our Way to Energy Independence" / Jonathan Facelli -- Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Writing Assignments -- 6. Merging and Clashing Cultures -- Graffiti, Comics, and Music -- Context for a Network of Issues -- Stakes and Stakeholders -- Thinking Visually: Street Art as Activism and Advertising -- Student Voice: "A Fascination with Anime," / Owen Johnson -- International Voices: Iraquis Comment on Their Adoption of American Cultural Forms -- Global Hot Spot: Nigeria -- Readings -- "Is Graffiti Art or Vandalism?" / Mugambi Kiai -- "Photo of Street Art" (photograph) / Shepard Fairey -- "Graffiti Taggers Are Just a Pain in the Arts" / Michael Pernar -- "Public Art, Political Space: The Rearticulation of Power in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia" / Michael Caster -- "Photo of Street Art in Beijing, China" (photograph) / Michael Caster -- "Photo of Street Art in Managua, Nicaragua" (photograph) / Michael Caster -- "Marvel Comics and Manifest Destiny" / David Adesnik -- "Image from Spider-Man: India" (illustration) / Jeevan J. Kang -- "The 99 Aspires to Teach Muslim Principles" / Brian Truitt -- "Poster of The 99" (poster) / Naif Al-Mutawa -- "Trading Cape for the Burqa" / Andrea Peyser -- "Super Muslims" / Suzy Hansen -- "The Secret Virus of Hip-Hop" / Kris Saknussemm -- "Leveraging Hip-Hop in US Foreign Policy" / Hishaam Aidi -- "The Mixtape of the Revolution" / Sujatha Fernandes -- Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Writing Assignments -- 7. Global Netizens -- Social Media's Role in Social and Political Change -- Context for a Network of Issues -- Stakes and Stakeholders -- Thinking Visually: The Global Digital Divide -- Student Voice: "The Ripples of a Tunisian Twitter Experience" / John Wood -- International Voices: Translators at Global Voices Make Social Media Messages Widely Available -- Global Hot Spot: Russia -- Readings -- "When Here Sees There" / George Packer -- "Are Mobil Phones Bridging the Digital Divide or Deepening It?" / Brett Davidson -- "The Revolutionary Force of Facebook and Twitter" / Jillian C. York -- "Small Change" / Malcolm Gladwell -- "Digital Dualism Versus Augmented Reality" / Nathan Jurgenson -- Despair Inc., "Social Media Venn Diagram" (illustration) / Justin Sewell -- "The Rise of the Occupy Insurgency, The World's First Internet Revolution #OWS" / Nozomi Hayase -- "Twitter Does Not Cause Revolutions, People Do" / Harini Calamur -- "Agitprop 2.0 on Occupy Wall Street's Social Media Revolution" / Kyle Chayka -- "The Internet is a Tyrant's Friend" / Evgeny Morozov -- "Stop, or I'll Tweet" (cartoon) / Walt Handelsman -- "New Laws Needed to Protect Social Media" / Kenneth Roth -- "An Absence of Evidence" (conversational exchange) / Malcolm Gladwell / Clay Shirky -- Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Writing Assignments -- 8. Defending Human Rights -- Human Trafficking, Forced Child Labor, and Rape as a Weapon of War -- Context for a Network of Issues -- Stakes and Stakeholders -- Thinking Visually: The Trafficking of Girls -- Student Voice: "A Human Connection" / Victoria Herradura -- International Voices: Comments from Women Working for Peace and Equality -- Global Hot Spot: Democratic Republic of Congo -- Readings -- "Human Trafficking" / David A. Feingold -- "Supply and Demand: Human Trafficking in the Global Economy" / Siddharth Kara -- National Human Trafficking Resource Center, "Look Beneath the Surface" (poster) -- Sarah Castle, and Aisse Diarra, "Trafficking and Health" / Joanna Busza -- "Sex Trafficking and HIV/AIDS: A Deadly Junction for Women and Girls" / Amanda Kloer -- Shared Hope International, "This Man Wants to Rent Your Daughter" (billboard) -- Representative Frank R. Wolf, "Sex Trafficking Needs to Be Stopped" -- "Child Soldiers: A Worldwide Scourge" / Jo Becker -- "Chadian Eight-Year-Old Soldier Smoking" (photograph) / Luc Novovitch -- "Rape as a Weapon of War: Men Suffer, Too" / Emily Rauhala -- "Ten Radical Acts for Congo in the New Year" / Eve Ensler -- Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Writing Assignments -- 9. Fighting Global Disease -- Pandemics, Antibiotic Resistance, AIDS, and Maternal Health -- Context for a Network of Issues -- Stakes and Stakeholders -- Thinking Visually: The Threat of Pandemics -- Student Voice: "Experiencing the SARS Pandemic" / Mark Merin -- International Voices: Liberian President Promotes Sanitation To Reduce Widespread Disease -- Global Hot Spot: Sub-Saharan Africa -- Readings -- "The Age of Pandemics" / Larry Brillant -- "The Impact of Disparities in Health on Pandemic Preparedness" / David Satcher -- "Ten Years Later, What's Changed?" / Ali S. Khan -- "Antimicrobial Resistance: No Action Today, No Cure Tomorrow" / Anuj Sharma -- Scientific American, "Healthy Growth for U.S. Farms" -- "Resistance Is Futile" / Megan McArdle -- "Africa's Condom Conundrum: Fighting HIV in Africa" / Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu -- "AIDS Prevention Images from Africa" (billboards) -- "AIDS in America-Forgotten but Not Gone" / Wafaa M. El-Sadr / Kenneth H. Mayer / Sally L. Hodder -- "Viral Vows" / Regan Hofmann -- "Family Health Makes Moral and Economic Sense" / Melinda Gates -- Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion -- Writing Assignments -- Glossary of Globalization and Argument Terms -- Answers to Chapter 1, "Global Pursuit" -- Credits -- Index
Subject History, Modern -- 21st century -- Sources.
History, Modern. (OCoLC)fst00958367
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
ISBN 9780205886159 (alk. paper)
0205886159 (alk. paper)

 
    
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