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REHUGO 1 In this bitter essay Francine Prose argues that students are not being taught properly to appreciate literature by using specific examples of students, and lesson plans made by English teachers.  __I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read__. Ed. Francine Prose. 1999. Harper's. 26 Jan. 2012.

REHUGO 2  **CITATION:** __The Traveling Bra Salesman's Lesson__. Ed. Claudia O'Keefe. 2004. . 1 Feb. 2012.
 * CATEGORY:** Essay
 * PRECIS:** In this intimate essay Claudia O’Keefe implores that Americans forget the idea of the American dream, and begin finding solutions to the current economic crisis, by using and anecdote from her own life, and factual evidence.
 * PERSONAL COMMENTARY:** I really enjoyed reading this essay. O’Keefe’s anecdote really made it easy to read, and made her argument easier to understand.

REHUGO 3  **CITATION:** Howard, Jane. "In Search of the Good Family." __Atlantic Monthly__ 31 Oct. 1998
 * CATEGORY:** Article
 * PRECIS:** In this conversational article Jane Howard states that everyone is in need of a family, and attempts to define a good family by following a logical progression of ideas that makes since to the readers.
 * PERSONAL COMMENTARY:** This article was very entertaining to read, and it was fun to try to figure out how my family compared to the one she came up with. I also thought that it was very interesting how Howard said that people made their own families out of friends if they didn’t have a real one.

REHUGO 4 **CITATION:** Ehrlich, Gretel. //About Men//. Unite d States: Penguin, 1985. Print. **CATEGORY:** Essay
 * PRECIS:** In this thoughtful essay Gretel Ehrlich argues against the modern stereotype of the rugged and proud cowboy by directly combating different aspects of this stereotype with her own evidence and reasoning.
 * PERSONAL COMMENTARY:** I really liked this essay, because in certain ways I could relate to what she was talking about. I of course have seen multiple westerns, and am familiar with the cowboy stereotype, however I also am in a family full of cowboys. It was interesting to hear her reasoning, and I agree with many of the things she is saying.

REHUGO 5
 * CITATION:** Willard, Francis. __How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle__. :, 1893.
 * CATEGORY:** Excerpt from a book
 * PRECIS:** In this inspiring excerpt Frances Willard states that just because someone says you can’t, or shouldn’t do something doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try by using an anecdote to prove her point.
 * PERSONAL COMMENTARY:** I thought this was really interesting, especially as a girl. Even though this excerpt was in the Sports and Fitness section it is also about women, and equality. I really liked how she used a story from her own life to prove her point.

REHUGO 6

**CITATION:** __Studying Islam, Strengthening the Nation__. Ed. Peter Berkowitz and Micheal McFaul. 2005. Washington Post. 9 Feb. 2012.
 * CATEGORY:** Essay
 * PRECIS:** In this frustrated essay Peter Berkowitz and Micheal McFaul argue that the Islamic and middle eastern culture are not being taught to the people of the United States by comparing and contrasting the response of the nation to the war in the Middle East to the response of the nation to the Cold War.
 * PERSONAL COMMENTARY:** I thought it was interesting to hear this point of view. I had never really thought a whole lot about how much people are being educated in the culture of the Middle East, and how important it could be. I thought that by comparing the current situation to that of the Cold War was a really great example of how different things were, and how things should change.

REHUGO 7 **CITATION:** __Silence and the Notion of the Commons__. Ed. Ursula Franklin. 1993. . 9 Feb. 2012.
 * CATEGORY:** Essay
 * PRECIS:** In this formidable essay Ursula Franklin warns that presence of “planned” silence is hurting today’s society by using facts, and a persuasive line of reasoning.
 * PERSONAL COMMENTARY:** I thought this was very interesting to read about. First of all I had never really thought about silence, or different silences or anything like that really. It made me realize however how much modern technology has effected things like silence.

REHUGO 8
 * CITATION:** __Godzilla vs. the Giant Scissors: Cutting the Antiwar Heart out of a Classic__. Ed. Brent Staples. May 2005. New York Times. 16 Feb. 2012.
 * CATEGORY:** Essay
 * PRECIS:** In this resentful essay Brent Staples implies that censorship has a very negative effect, by using the popular Japanese movie //Godzilla// as an example.
 * PERSONAL COMENTARY:** I never knew that Godzilla had so much meaning behind it. I did watch the movie several years ago, probably the Americanized version that Staples talks about and I didn’t really like it, however I think knowing about everything that it was supposed to represent is really interesting.

REHUGO 9
 * CITATION:** __Message to President Franklin Pierce__. Ed. Chief Seattle. . . 16 Feb. 2012.
 * CATEGORY:** Speech/Oral Reply
 * PRECIS:** In this cautionary speech Chief Seattle warns that the world will become permanently polluted if the “white man” continues doing the same things by using imagery, and sarcasm.
 * PERSONAL COMENTARY:** This was really cool to read because it’s about the same time period that we’re studying in history right now. His descriptions, and the imagery he used were really beautiful, and it’s weird how what he described is basically how America is today.

REHUGO 10
 * CITATION:** Goldsmith, Oliver. "National Prejudices." __British Magazine__ August 1760:.


 * CATEGORY:** Essay
 * PRECIS:** In this upbeat essay Oliver Goldsmith claims that because of prejudices for one’s country one now sees things from the point of view of the American, or Englishman, rather than that of a citizen of the world, by using a personal anecdote.
 * PERSONAL COMMENTARY:** I thought this was extremely interesting, because I never really thought about the way a person’s opinions could be affected because of where they’re from. However once you think about it it really does make sense.