Viewpoints

Violence by Anastasia Toufexis. STUDENT ESSAY: My Private Prison by Jody Nelson. On the Net. 5 .Viewpoints on Cultural Differences. Veiled Intentions: Don't Judge a Muslim Girl by Her Covering by Maysan Haydar. It Could Happen Here by Laila Al-Marayati. The Great Divide by Michael Quintanilla. Where I come from Is Like This by Paula Gunn Allen. Forget the Melting Pot: Make Mine a Salad Bowl by Hannibal B. Johnson. Cultural Baggage by Barbara Ehrenreich. Fish Cheeks by Amy Tan. After Two Years in the Melting Pot by Liu Zongren. STUDENT ESSAY: On Being White by Mara Joseph. On the Net. 6. Viewpoints on Social Concerns. Your Mirror Image? by Francine Russo. Memories of a Sweet, Lethal, Smoke-Filled Home by Dean P. Johnson. Shut Up About My Truck by Ace Atkins. Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Kids by Anna Quindlen. Why We Need a Draft by Cpl. Mark Finelli. Gagging Protesters by the Manual by Mathew Rothschild. Bottomless Drinking Ban on College Campuses by Lis Wiehl. Binge Drinking Is a Normal Impulse by Jennie Bristow. STUDENT ESSAY: Should I Believe in God? by Amy Kimoto. On the Net. 7. Viewpoints on Family and Marital Relationships. The Estrangement by Jamaica Kincaid. The Perfect Family by Alice Hoffman. A Worldwide Family by Diana Abu-Jaber. Black Unlike Me by Jana Wolff. Boys Mow Lawns, Girls Wash Dishes by Sue Shellenbarger. Speaking Out: Why Gay Marriages Would Be Harmful by Robert Benne and Gerald McDermott. Who Care if Gays Marry? by Gregory Blair. STUDENT ESSAY: My Younger Sibling by Anne Rishi. On the Net. 8. Viewpoints on Work. Women Still Fighting for Job Equality by DeWayn e Wickham. The Company Man by Ellen Goodman. Less Is More by Jeff Yeager. A Father's Character by Hal Lancaster. Two Cheers for Sweatshops by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn. Outsourcing Jobs Leaves the American White-Collar Worker Behind by Susan Gawlowicz. How Outsourcing Can Benefit Your Business as found at www.productivitytools.com. STUDENT ESSAY: Oh, I'm Just a Housewife by Roy Wilson. On the Net. 9. Viewpoints on the Media and Technology. Calling the C-Word the C-Word by James Poniewozik. The Issue Isn't Sex, It's Violence by Caryl Rivers. Making Them Squirm by John Tierney. The Dumbing of America by Susan Jacoby. Televising Humiliation by Adam Cohen. The Future of the Web by Joseph F. Coates. What the Internet Cannot Do by the Editors of The Economist. STUDENT ESSAY: TV News: Journalism or Propaganda? by Jim Stone. On the Net. 10. Viewpoints on Human Rights. Justice by Alan Dershowitz. Is Torture Ever Justified? by the Editor of The Economist. Verses of Suffering by Marc Falkoff. Gitmo Conditions Have Improved by the Associated Press. Death and Justice by Edward I. Koch. Casting the First Stone by Lloyd Steffen. On the Net. Appendix. Acknowledgments. Index.