Essays,+Etc.

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= INFORMATIONAL TEXTS-- = = ** ARTICLES, ESSAYS, INTERVIEWS, LETTERS, PAMPHLETS, TRACTS, Etc.: ** =

= A -- = =//Ali's Smile: Naked Scientology// (essay collection) by William S. Burroughs= ="The American Scholar" by Ralph Waldo Emerson= ="The American Crisis" by Thomas Paine= ="Annexation" by John O’Sullivan (//United States Magazine and Democratic Review// 17, No. 1, 1845)= =The AntiFederalist Papers edited by Bill Bailey= ="The Art of Fiction" (//Paris Review// Interview) with Saul Below= ="Avante-Garde and Kitsch" (essay) by Clement Greenberg=

= B -- = ="Benjamin Banneker's Letter to Thomas Jefferson" (August 19. 1791)= ="The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience" (essay) by Roger Williams= ="Brief life of Harvard’s 'Midwife': 1595-1643" (Peter J. Gomes)=

= C -- = ="Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau= ="The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine" by Ray Kurzwell (Scientific American, March 23, 2009)= ="Common Sense" by Thomas Paine= =//The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine// (Gutenburg essay collection) by Thomas Paine= ="Control the Language, Control the Masses" by Pieter Vree= =//Crisis of the Mind// (1919) by Paul Valery [extract]=

= D -- = =//Declaration of Independence// by Thomas Jefferson= ="Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Conference, 1848"= ="A Defence of Poetry" by Percy Bysshe Shelley=

= E -- =

= F -- = ="" by Isaac Asimov= ="The Fallacy of Success" (from //All Things Considered//) by G. K. Chesterton= ="The Farmer Refuted" by Alexander Hamilton= ="A Father's Resolutions" (essay) by Cotton Mather= =//Federalist Papers// by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay= ="Fifty Years Hence" (//Strand Magazine// article, December 1931) by Winston Churchill=

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= H -- = ="The Hossack Murder" by Susan Glaspell (//Des Moines Daily News//, December 3 1900--April 19, 1901)= ="How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (essay) by Zora Neale Hurston=

**I --** ="If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?" by James Baldwin= ="'I Had Barbara': Women's Ties and Wharton's 'Roman Fever'" by Rachel Bowlby= ="" by Alice Walker= ="Is America Too Hospitable?" (//Forum// article, 1923) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman= ="Is Google Making Us Stupid?" (article) by Nicholas Carr= ="Isn’t it time we left orphanages to fairytales?" (article) by J. K. Rowling=

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= K -- =

= L -- = ="Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool" (essay) by George Orwell= ="Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (16 April, 1963) by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.= ="Letter to Albert G. Hodges" (4 April, 1864) by Abraham Lincoln= ="Letter to Martin van Buren" by Ralph Waldo Emerson= ="Letter to Robert Pleasants" (18 January, 1773) by Patrick Henry= =//Letters from an American Farmer// by J. Hector St. Jean De Crevecoeur= ="Lincoln and the Gettysburg Awakening" by Glenn LaFantasie= ="Love--in Other Words" by Harper Lee=

= M -- = ="A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift= ="More Light" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti=

= N -- = ="The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" (essay) by Langston Hughes= =//The New Star Chamber and Other Essays// by Edgar Lee Masters= =//Notes on the State of Virginia// by Thomas Jefferson=

= O -- = ="Of Cannibals" (c. 1580) by Michel de Montaigne= ="Of Education" by John Milton= ="On Being an American" (1922) by H. L. Mencken= ="On Writing" by Raymond Carver=

= P -- = ="Phillis Wheatley on Trial" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.= ="A Plea for Religious Liberty" by Roger Williams= ="Politics and the English Language" (essay) by George Orwell= =//Poor Richard's Almanack// by Benjamin Franklin= =//Preamble to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights//= ="Preface to Lyrical Ballads" (essay) by William Wordsworth=

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= R -- = ="The Right to Die--I" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman= =(//Forum// article, November 1935)=

**S --** ="Seeing" (from //Pilgrim at Tinker Creek//) by Annie Dillard= ="Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson= ="The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial" (anti-slavery tract) by Samuel Sewall= ="Society and Solitude" by Ralph Waldo Emerson= =//The Souls of Black Folk// (essay collection) by W. E. B. Du Bois= ="A Summary View of the Rights of British America" by Thomas Jefferson=

= T -- = ="These Too, Too Solid Ghosts" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (//Forum//, February 1926)= ="Thomas Jefferson's Letter to Benjamin Banneker, August 30, 1791" by Thomas Jefferson= ="Towards a Definition of American Modernism" by Daniel Joseph Singal=

**U --**

= V -- = ="Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom" (State Bill, 16 January, 1786) by Thomas Jefferson= ="The Visual Artistry of Romeo and Juliet" (essay) by James Black=

**W --** ="What America Would Be Like Without Blacks" (//Time Magazine// article, 6 April, 1970) by Ralph Ellison= ="What's new in the Gilgamesh Epic?" (essay) by Andrew George= ="" by Harper Lee= ="Why I Write" by George Orwell= ="Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper?" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman= ="Why Read Old Books?" by Mitchell Kalpakgian= ="Why We Will Soon Miss the Cold War" (essay) by John J. Mearsheimer= =//@Woman in the Nineteenth Century// by Margaret Fuller=

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**Y --** ="" by Karen Ford=

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