Description: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE: AMERICAN IDENTITY Joel L. Swerdlow,Changing America(Keynote) St. John De Crevecoeur,What is an American? James Baldwin,The Discovery of What It Means To Be An American Mary Gordon,The Ghosts of Ellis Island Judith Ortiz Cofer,Silent Dancing Walt Whitman,Song of Myself The American Effect: Global Perspectives on the United States, 1990-2003 CHAPTER TWO: BELIEF Gregory Rodriguez,Catholic Confession(Keynote) Selections from the King James Bible Selections from the Qur'an Selections from the Analects of Confucius Selections from the Rig Veda and the Upanishads Tom Paine,What I Believe Elizabeth Cady Stanton,The Book of Genesis Friedrich Nietzsche,God is Dead William James,The Will to Believe Paul Tillich,The Lost Dimension in Religion Dalai Lama,The Art of Happiness Karen Armstrong,History and Religion Images of Divinity CHAPTER THREE: SCIENCE Rosie Mestel,Of Mice and Men: We're Quite Similar, Genetically(Keynote) Francis Bacon,Sphinx, or science Mary Shelley,fromFrankenstein Charles Darwin,fromThe Origin of Species and The Descent of Man Stephen Jay Gould,Introduction to Darwin Luther Standing Bear,Nature Albert Einstein,Letters to and From Children Richard Feynman,The Value of Science Annie Dillard,Life on the Rocks: The Galapagos Sherry Turkle,How Computers Change The Way We Think Photo, Qafzeh skull in Times Square CHAPTER FOUR: ECONOMIC LIFE Craig S. Smith,China Juggles the Conflicting Pressures of a Society in Transition(Keynote) Adam Smith,The Wealth of Nations Karl Marx,The Communist Manifesto Louisa May Alcott,How I Went Out to Service Album: Money Matters. Six brief passages about money from Christopher Columbus, Henry Mayhew, W.H. Auden, Gertrude Stein, Edward Bellamy, and Dana Gioia. Studs Terkle,Mike Lefevre Peter Singer,The Singer Solution to World Poverty Barbara Ehrenreich,Selling in Minnesota Bertolt Brecht,A Worker Reads History "American Values"(advertisement) and"Signs of the Times"(photo) CHAPTER FIVE: DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY Fareed Zakaria,The Democratic Age(Keynote) Niccolo Machiavelli,On the Exercise of Power John Locke,fromThe Second Treatise of Civil Government Thomas Jefferson,The Declaration of Independence Mary Wollstonecraft,The Rights and Involved Duties of Mankind Considered Henry Thoreau,Civil Disobedience Thomas Babington Macaulay,Letter on Democracy Daniel J. Boorstin,Technology and Democracy Vaclav Havel,The Power of the Powerless Benjamin Barber,Jihad Vs. McWorld Gish Jen,In the American Society David Hume Kennerly, Photographs Across America CHAPTER SIX: EQUALITY: RACE AND GENDER Gloria Goodale,Black and White(Keynote) Jean-Jacques Rousseau,On the Origin of Inequality Alexis de Tocqueville,Equality and Individualism Harriet Jacobs,Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl W.E.B. DuBois,Of Our Spiritual Strivings Simone de Beauvoir,What is a Woman? Betty Friedan,The

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