APPENDIX VIII | 501 APPENDIX VIII: TEXTS ASSIGNED, 2007/2008–2017/2018 Text Assignments "Introduction" and "Welcome to Crisis Ministry" 1 from Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream (2008) / Adam W. Shepard "Lisa and American Anti-Intellectualism" from 1 The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer (2001) / Aeon J. Skoble "Only Connect…" The Goals of a Liberal 2 Education (1998) / William Cronan "What Is Service Learning?" from Learning 1 through Serving: A Student Guidebook for Service-Learning Across the Disciplines (2013) / Christine M. Cress $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in 2 America (2015) / H. Luke Shaefer and Kathryn Edin “They Say, I Say": The Moves That Matter in 1 Academic Writing (Third Edition) (2014) / Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in 4 the Cafeteria?” and Other Conversations About Race (1997) / Beverly Daniel Tatum 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina (2007) / 3 Chris Rose 1000 Dollars and an Idea: Entrepreneur to 1 Billionaire (2009) / Sam Wyly 127 Hours Between a Rock and a Hard Place 1 (2004) / Aron Ralston 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before 2 Columbus (2005) / Charles Mann 1984 (1949) / George Orwell 2 29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change 1 Your Life (2009) / Cami Walker 31 Hours (2009) / Masha Hamilton 1 365 Days, 365 Plays (2006) / Suzan-Lori Parks 1 420 Characters (2011) / Lou Beach 1 A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka 2 (2014) / Lev Golinkin 502 | TEXTS ASSIGNED, 2007/2008–2017/2018 Text Assignments A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and 1 Power (2014) / Jimmy Carter A Chance in the World: An Orphan Boy, A 3 Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home (2012) / Steve Pemberton A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants (2008) / 2 Jaed Coffin A Companion for Owls: Being the Commonplace 1 Book of D. Boone Long Hunter, Back Woodsman, &c. (2004) / Maurice Manning A Complicated Kindness (2004) / Miriam Toews 1 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1 (1889) / Mark Twain A Conservationist Manifesto (2009) / Scott 1 Russell Sanders A Country for All: An Immigrant Manifesto 1 (2010) / Jorge Ramos A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern- 1 Day Slavery (2008) / E. Benjamin Skinner A Cup of Water Under My Bed (2014) / 2 Daisy Hernandez A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and 8 Redemption in the Age of Attention (2014) / Matt Richtel A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural 1 America (1993) / Ronald Takaki A Dog's Purpose: A Novel for Humans (2010) / 1 W. Bruce Cameron A Farewell to Arms (1929) / Ernest Hemingway 1 A Few Good Men (1990) / Aaron Sorkin 4 A Gate at the Stairs (2009) / Lorrie Moore 1 A Girl Named Nina (2013) / Norma Tamayo 1 A Good Fall (2009) / Ha Jin 2 A Good Man, Rediscovering My Father, Sargent 1 Shriver (2012) / Mark Shriver A Gracious Plenty (1997) / Sheri Reynolds 1 A Higher Standard: Leadership Strategies from 1 America's First Female Four-Star General (2015) / Ann Dunwoody APPENDIX VIII | 503 Text Assignments A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza 1 Employee's Guide to Saving the World (2014) / Rachel Cantor A Home on the Field: How One Championship 5 Soccer Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America (2006) / Paul Cuadros A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey 15 from the Inner City to the Ivy League (1998) / Ron Suskind A Hope More Powerful than the Sea: One 1 Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival (2017) / Melissa Fleming A Human Being Died That Night: A South 1 African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid (2003) / Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela A Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and 1 Honor (2008) Dana Canedy A Land More Kind Than Home (2012) / 2 Wiley Cash A Lesson Before Dying (1993) / Ernest J. Gaines 5 A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 45 (2007) / Ishmael Beah A Long Way Home (2013) / Saroo Brierley 3 A Man Called Ove (2012) / Fredrik Backman 1 A Man of the People (1967) / Chinua Achebe 1 A Masque of Mercy (1945) / Robert Frost 1 A Masque of Reason (1945) / Robert Frost 1 A Mercy (2008) / Toni Morrison 1 A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at 6 Little Rock Central High School (2009) / Carlotta Walls Lanier A More Beautiful Question: The Power of 2 Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas (2014) / Warren Berger A Painted House (2001) / John Grisham 1 A Paradise Built In Hell: The Extraordinary 1 Communities That Arise in Disaster (2009) / Rebecca Solnit A Parchment of Leaves (2002) / Silas House 1 504 | TEXTS ASSIGNED, 2007/2008–2017/2018 Text Assignments A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating 1 Opportunity (2014) Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart 6 in the Middle of the Ocean (2009) / Tori Murden McClure A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, 2 Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison (2008) / Dwayne Betts A Raisin in the Sun (1959) / Lorraine Hansberry 1 A Room of One's Own (1929) / Virginia Woolf 2 A Sand County Almanac (1949) / Aldo Leopold 2 A School for My Village: A Promise to the 2 Orphans of Nyaka (2010) / Twesigye Jackson Kaguri A State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of 1 California (2010) / Laura Cunningham A Step Toward Falling (2015) / 1 Cammie McGovern A Tale for the Time Being (2013) / Ruth Ozeki 6 A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) / 6 Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2005) / 1 Yiyun Li A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) / 1 Jennifer Egan A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on 2 the Appalachian Trail (1998) / Bill Bryson A Whole New Mind: Moving from the 4 Information Age to the Conceptual Age (2005) / Daniel H. Pink A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary 1 Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice (2009) / Malalai Joya A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge (2009) / 5 Josh Neufield About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of 1 Memory (1998) / Barry Lopez Above Us Only Sky (2015) / Michele 1 Young-Stone APPENDIX VIII | 505 Text Assignments Across a Hundred Mountains (2006) / 1 Reyna Grande Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, 18 the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation (2007) / Eboo Patel Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (2005) / 3 John De Graaf, David Wann and Thomas H. Naylor After the Lost War: A Narrative (1989) / 1 Andrew Hudgins Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s 1 Future (2010) / Robert B. Reich Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto 1 (2014) / Steve Almond Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and 1 Faith in the New China (2014) / Evan Osnos Air: The Restless Shaper of the World (2012) / 1 William Bryant Logan Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) / 1 Lewis Carroll All American Boys (2015) / Jason Reynolds and 1 Brandon Kiely All American: Two Young Men, the 2001 Army- 1 Navy Game and the War They Fought in Iraq (2013) / Steve Eubanks All But My Life (1957) / Gerda Weissmann Klein 1 All Our Names (2014) / Dinaw Mengestu 1 All Over but the Shoutin' (1991) / Rick Bragg 3 All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) / Erich 3 Maria Remarque All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (1999) / 2 Michael Patrick MacDonald All the Light We Cannot See (2014) / 4 Anthony Doerr All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and 1 the Rise of an Independent Nation (2016) / Rebecca Traister Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from 2 Homelessness to Hope (2012) / Kevin Ryan and Tina Kelley 506 | TEXTS ASSIGNED, 2007/2008–2017/2018 Text Assignments Alone Together: Why We Expect More From 2 Technology and Less From Each Other (2011) / Sherry Turkle Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned 1 (1998) / Walter Mosley Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in 1 L.A. (1993) / Luis J. Rodriguez Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the 1 Conscience of a Nation (1995) / Jonathan Kozol Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the 2 Heroic Campaign to End Slavery (2007) / Eric Metaxas America, 1908: The Dawn of Flight, the Race to 1 the Pole, the Invention of the Model T, and the Making of a Modern Nation (2007) / Jim Rasenberger American Born Chinese (2007) / Gene 1 Luen Yang American Boy (2011) / Larry Watson 1 American Dervish (2012) / Ayad Akhtar 1 American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to 1 Save Ford Motor Company (2012) / Bryce Hoffman American Nerd: The Story of My People 1 (2008) / Benjamin Nugent American Woman (2003) / Susan Choi 1 Americanah (2013) / Chimamanda Adichie 16 An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth: What 1 Going to Space Taught Me About Ingenuity, Determination, and Being Prepared for Anything (2013) / Chris Hadfield An Enemy of the People (1882) / Henrik Ibsen 2 An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments (2014) / 2 Ali Almossawi An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global 4 Warming (2007) / Al Gore An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 3 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny (2011) / Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography (2006) / 8 Paul Rusesabagina APPENDIX VIII | 507 Text Assignments An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and 1 Madness (1995) / Kay Redfield Jamison Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone 3 Wrong (2012) / Raymond Bonner And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (Y no se lo 2 tragó la tierra) (1971) / Tomás Rivera And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die 1 in Viral Culture (2009) / Bill Wasik Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, 1 Lincoln and Modern Life (2009) / Adam Gopnik Anil's Ghost (2000) / Michael Ondaatje 1 Animal Dreams (1990) / Barbara Kingsolver 1 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life 5 (2007) / Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, and Steven L.