Unit One
Text A Alfred North Whitehead: Universities and Their Function
Text B Miriam Cox: The College Is for Everyone Cult
Unit Two
Text A Amy Tan: Mother Tongue
Text B Michiko Kakutani: The Word Police
Unit Three
Text A Lin Yutang: The Problem of Happiness
Text B John Ciardi: What Is Happiness
Unit Four
Text A Mark Twain: Remembering the Farm
Text B E.M. Forster: My Wood
Unit Five
Text A Amy Wu: A Different Kind of Mother
Text B Raymond Carver: My Father's Ufe
Unit Six
Text A Nora Ephron: Speaking of Pictures
Text B Marie Winn: Television: The Plug-in Drug
Unit Seven
Text A Richard Le Gallienne: How to Get the Best out of Books
Text B Mortimer J. Adler: Reading: From Many Rules to One Habit
Unit Eight
Text A Brigid Brophy: Women Are Prisoners of Their Sex
Text B llene Kantrov: Women's Business
Unit Nine
Text A E.B. White: Walden
Text B Henry David Thoreau: What I Lived for
Unit Ten
Text A Rachel Carson: Silent Spring
Text B Dawn Stover: Not So Silent Spring
Unit Eleven
Text A William Golding: Thinking as a Hobby
Text B Winston Churchill: Painting as a Pastime
Unit Twelve
Text A John Dewey: Does Human Nature Change?
Text B Irwin Edman: A Reasonable Life in a Mad World
Unit Thirteen
Text A Peter Ackroyd: Shakespeare's School Days
Text B David Bevington: The Biographical Problem
Unit Fourteen
Text A Walter T. Stace: Man Against Darkness
Text B D.H. Lawrence: The State of Funk
Unit Fifteen
Text A Aldous Huxley: Fashions in Love
Text B Shana Alexander: The Fine Art of Marital Fighting
Unit Sixteen
Text A Ralph Waldo Emerson: English Manners
Text B Ku Hung-Ming: The Spirit of the Chinese People

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