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Many of these essays are linked to Internet sites. Please let your instructor know if they disappear, which happens on occasion.
Some of the selections are in library databases. You will be prompted to log in with your TMCC credentials.
- A World without Wine (Sandra Allen) - scroll down to the sentence "We chose wine because it's a canary in a coal mine..."
- Bad Feminist (Roxane Gay) - click the PDF Full Text link on the left side of the page. You will need your TMCC credentials to access this essay.
- Blue Collar Brilliance (Rose)
- Clean Sweep (Kohls)
- "Coco," a Story about Borders and Loss (Tolentino)
- Emoji Are Ruining Grasp of English (Pullum)
- How Factory Farms Play Chicken with Antibiotics (Philpott)
- How Junk Food Can End Obesity (Freedman) - Limited number of free articles, print or save article if you need to access to it multiple times.
- Is Art a Waste of Time (Southan) [this form of the essay is titled Is It OK to Make Art?]
- Is College Doomed (titled here The Future of College; Wood). click the PDF Full Text link on the left side of the page. You will need your TMCC credentials to access this essay.
- It's 2018, and Gay Men Still Can't Give Blood in America (Trujillo & Hastings)
- King Coal and the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum (Whelan)
- The Limits of Friendship (Konnikova)
- Making Conversation (Appiah)
- Monsanto's Harvest of Fear (Barlett & Steele) - Limited number of free articles, print or save article if you need to access to it multiple times.
- My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant (Vargas)
- The City College of New York Commencement Speech (Obama)
- The Egg and the Sperm (Martin)
- The Illusion of Safety/The Safety of Illusion (Gay)
- The Internet is Not Ruining Grammar (Wildfire) - Limited number of free articles, print or save article if you need to access to it multiple times.
- The Logic of Stupid Poor People (Cottom)
- The (Native) American Dream (Walker) - click the PDF Full Text link on the left side of the page. You will need your TMCC credentials to access this essay.
- Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education (Yo-Yo Ma)
- On Meaningful Observation (Maeda)
- The Oil We Eat: Following the Food Chain Back to Iraq (Manning) click the PDF Full Text link on the left side of the page. You will need your TMCC credentials to access this essay.
- Paper Tigers (Yang)
- The Psychology of Taking a Knee (Smith & Keltner)
- Race, Ethnicity, Surgery (O'Connor)
- The Sanctuary of Schools (Barry)
- Sisterhood is Complicated (Padawer)
- The Talk: After Ferguson... (Canedy)
- The War Photo No One would Publish (DeGhett)
- To Siri, with Love (Newman)
- The Surety of Fools (Kahneman)
- Touching the Earth (hooks)
- We are a Camera (Paumgarten)
- What I Learned at War (Duckworth)
- Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A's (Staples)
- Why Kids Sext (Rosin) click the PDF Full Text link on the left side of the page. You will need your TMCC credentials to access this essay.
- Why Nice Guys Finish Last (Serano) You will need your TMCC credentials to access this essay.
- Why the Post Office Makes America Great (Tufekci)
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