Global issues, local arguments: readings for writing

Preface

1. Exploring and Defining Globalization

Exploration One: How Wide Is Your Global View?

Exploration Two: Globalization at Work

What Does Globalization Mean?

Controversies over Definitions and Interpretations of Globalization

Controversies over Responses to Globalization

Exploration Three: Your Global Positioning Profile

2. Analyzing and Writing Arguments

A Brief Introduction to Argument

Issue Questions, Claims, and Stakeholders

Basel Action Network, "The e-Waste Crisis"

The Core of an Argument: A Claim with Reasons

Assumptions in Argument

The Development of an Argument: Evidence

Responses to Alternative Views

Arguments Tailored to Audiences

Ed Finn, "Harnessing Our Power as Consumers: Cost of Boycotting Sweatshop Goods Offset by the Benefits"

A Brief Introduction to Rhetorical Analysis

The Importance of Thinking and Reading Rhetorically

Identifying the Writer and the Writer's Angle of Vision

Identifying the Rhetorical Context

Examining the Use of Classical Appeals to Logos, Ethos, and Pathos

A Consideration of Style

Writing a Summary

Using Summaries in Rhetorical Analyses

Using Summaries in Arguments

How to Write a Summary

Writing a Rhetorical Analysis

The Purpose and Audience of a Rhetorical Analysis

The Structure of a Rhetorical Analysis

Analyzing the Argument

Choosing a Focus for Your Rhetorical Analysis and Writing a Thesis Statement

Three Sample Thesis Statements

Drafting a Rhetorical Analysis

An Example of a Rhetorical Analysis Essay

Student Voice: "Ha-Joon Chang's Vital Discussion of Free Trade and Developing Nations: A Rhetorical Analysis" / Lydia Wheeler

Writing an Argument

Posing a Significant, Perplexing Issue Question

Using Reflective or Narrative Writing to Discover Your Interests and Values

Student Voice: "Informal Writing to Discover Personal Investment in an Issue Question" / Lindsey Egan

Examining Multiple Perspectives

Analyzing Your Rhetorical Context

Constructing an Argument Core

Structuring and Drafting Your Argument

Reviewing and Revising Your Draft

An Example of a Student's Researched Argument

Student Voice: "American Privilege Dangerously Perpetuates Water Inefficiency" / Lindsey Egan

3. Trading Goods and Jobs

Sweatshops, Corporate Responsibility, and Consumerism

Context for a Network of Issues

Stakes and Stakeholders

Thinking Visually: Working Conditions in Global Factories

Student Voice: "Thinking Beyond My American Consumerism" / Tiffany Anderson

International Voices: Apple's Manufacturers in China Reveal Disregard for Workers Global Hot Spot: The United States

Readings

"Sweat, Fire and Ethics" / Bob Jeffcott

"Bangladesh: On the Ladder of Development" / Jeffrey D. Sachs

"We Are What We Trade" / David Sirota

Global Exchange, "Top Twelve Reasons to Oppose the World Trade Organization" (campaign flier)

"Made in China" (cartoon) / Matt Wuerker

Student Voice: "Uncove[RED]" by Nicole Cesmat

"My Six-Year-Old Son Should Get a Job: Is Free Trade Always the Answer?" / Ha-Joon Chang

"Let's Admit It: Globalization Has Losers" / Steven Rattner

"Watching Greed Murder the Economy" / Paul Craig Roberts

"A Time for Action: Jobs, Prosperity, and National Goals" / Ralph E. Gomory

"Buy American Hurts America" / Daniella Markheim

"Buy American, Buy Union" (photograph) / Rebecca Cook

Gallup's Jim Clifton on The Coming Jobs War / Dan Schawbel

"So If We Stop Buying" (cartoon) / Jeff Danziger

"Tarrifs and the Perils of Freer Trade: It's Complicated" / Allan Tanny

Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Writing Assignments

4. Crossing Borders

Immigration

Context for a Network of Issues

Stakes and Stakeholders

Thinking Visually: Illegal Immigration

Student Voice: "La Migra" / Esperanza Borboa

International Voices: Factors Contributing to New Immigration Patterns in Mexico

Global Hot Spot: European Union

Readings

"Lecture on International Flows of Humanity" / Kofi Annan

"Illegal Immigration Is Immoral" / Victor Davis Hanson

"Help Wanted-Stop Illegal Immigration" (cartoon) / Steve Breen

"Why Mexico's Drug War Is Unwinnable" / Laura Carlsen

"Free Trade: As U.S. Corn Flows South, Mexicans Stop Farming" / Tim Johnson

Mexico's Ministry of Foreign Relations, From Guide for the Mexican Migrant

"The Special Case of Mexican Immigration" / Samuel P. Huntington

Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), "MALDEF and LULAC Rebuke Samuel Huntington's Theories on Latino Immigrants and Call on America to Reaffirm Its Commitment to Equal Opportunity and Democracy"

"The Arizona Syndrome: Propaganda and the Politics of Fear" / David L. Altheide

Associated Press, "Tennessee Daily Life" (photograph) / Brandon Dill

Student Voice: "Arizona's HB 2281's Attack on Education and Equality: Let's End the Ban on Ethnic Studies" / Carlos Sibaja Garcia

"The Next Immigration Challenge" / Dowell Myers

"Let's Fashion a Made-in-Canada Approach to the Burka" / Sheema Khan

"How to Integrate Europe's Muslims" / Jonathan Laurence

Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Writing Assignments

5. Protecting the Environment

Water Issues and Competing Energy-Technologies

Context for a Network of Issues

Stakes and Stakeholders

Thinking Visually: Water Use

Student Voice: "Changing Lives with Water" / Malia Burns-Rozyeki

International Voices: Comments from Water Authorities in Swaziland

Global Hot Spot: Africa

Readings

"Address to the UN General Assembly on Need to Conserve Water" / Maude Barlow

"Droughtbusters" / Anita Hamilton

"Water for Life" / Sandra Postel

United Nations Environment Programme, "Health and Environment" (poster)

"The Most Important News Story of the Day/Millennium" / Bill McKibben

"Stop the Keystone XL" / Dave Coles

"Building the Keystone XL Pipeline: A Necessary Evil" / Richard Korman

"Reflections on Tar Sands Action: The Collective Will to Address Climate Change" / Sarah Bean

"Shale Gas Revolution" / David Brooks

"Safety First, Fracking Second" / Scientific American

"Nuclear Power after Fukushima" / Rod Adams

America, "After Fukushima"

"Wind Versus Tidal Energy" (cartoon) / Adrian Raeside

Student Voice: "A Letter to Ken Salazar" / Tine Sommer

"Pedaling Our Way to Energy Independence" / Jonathan Facelli

Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Writing Assignments

6. Merging and Clashing Cultures

Graffiti, Comics, and Music

Context for a Network of Issues

Stakes and Stakeholders

Thinking Visually: Street Art as Activism and Advertising

Student Voice: "A Fascination with Anime," / Owen Johnson

International Voices: Iraquis Comment on Their Adoption of American Cultural Forms

Global Hot Spot: Nigeria

Readings

"Is Graffiti Art or Vandalism?" / Mugambi Kiai

"Photo of Street Art" (photograph) / Shepard Fairey

"Graffiti Taggers Are Just a Pain in the Arts" / Michael Pernar

"Public Art, Political Space: The Rearticulation of Power in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia" / Michael Caster

"Photo of Street Art in Beijing, China" (photograph) / Michael Caster

"Photo of Street Art in Managua, Nicaragua" (photograph) / Michael Caster

"Marvel Comics and Manifest Destiny" / David Adesnik

"Image from Spider-Man: India" (illustration) / Jeevan J. Kang

"The 99 Aspires to Teach Muslim Principles" / Brian Truitt

"Poster of The 99" (poster) / Naif Al-Mutawa

"Trading Cape for the Burqa" / Andrea Peyser

"Super Muslims" / Suzy Hansen

"The Secret Virus of Hip-Hop" / Kris Saknussemm

"Leveraging Hip-Hop in US Foreign Policy" / Hishaam Aidi

"The Mixtape of the Revolution" / Sujatha Fernandes

Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Writing Assignments

7. Global Netizens

Social Media's Role in Social and Political Change

Context for a Network of Issues

Stakes and Stakeholders

Thinking Visually: The Global Digital Divide

Student Voice: "The Ripples of a Tunisian Twitter Experience" / John Wood

International Voices: Translators at Global Voices Make Social Media Messages Widely Available

Global Hot Spot: Russia

Readings

"When Here Sees There" / George Packer

"Are Mobil Phones Bridging the Digital Divide or Deepening It?" / Brett Davidson

"The Revolutionary Force of Facebook and Twitter" / Jillian C. York

"Small Change" / Malcolm Gladwell

"Digital Dualism Versus Augmented Reality" / Nathan Jurgenson

Despair Inc., "Social Media Venn Diagram" (illustration) / Justin Sewell

"The Rise of the Occupy Insurgency, The World's First Internet Revolution #OWS" / Nozomi Hayase

"Twitter Does Not Cause Revolutions, People Do" / Harini Calamur

"Agitprop 2.0 on Occupy Wall Street's Social Media Revolution" / Kyle Chayka

"The Internet is a Tyrant's Friend" / Evgeny Morozov

"Stop, or I'll Tweet" (cartoon) / Walt Handelsman

"New Laws Needed to Protect Social Media" / Kenneth Roth

"An Absence of Evidence" (conversational exchange) / Malcolm Gladwell / Clay Shirky

Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Writing Assignments

8. Defending Human Rights

Human Trafficking, Forced Child Labor, and Rape as a Weapon of War

Context for a Network of Issues

Stakes and Stakeholders

Thinking Visually: The Trafficking of Girls

Student Voice: "A Human Connection" / Victoria Herradura

International Voices: Comments from Women Working for Peace and Equality

Global Hot Spot: Democratic Republic of Congo

Readings

"Human Trafficking" / David A. Feingold

"Supply and Demand: Human Trafficking in the Global Economy" / Siddharth Kara

National Human Trafficking Resource Center, "Look Beneath the Surface" (poster)

Sarah Castle, and Aisse Diarra, "Trafficking and Health" / Joanna Busza

"Sex Trafficking and HIV/AIDS: A Deadly Junction for Women and Girls" / Amanda Kloer

Shared Hope International, "This Man Wants to Rent Your Daughter" (billboard)

Representative Frank R. Wolf, "Sex Trafficking Needs to Be Stopped"

"Child Soldiers: A Worldwide Scourge" / Jo Becker

"Chadian Eight-Year-Old Soldier Smoking" (photograph) / Luc Novovitch

"Rape as a Weapon of War: Men Suffer, Too" / Emily Rauhala

"Ten Radical Acts for Congo in the New Year" / Eve Ensler

Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Writing Assignments

9. Fighting Global Disease

Pandemics, Antibiotic Resistance, AIDS, and Maternal Health

Context for a Network of Issues

Stakes and Stakeholders

Thinking Visually: The Threat of Pandemics

Student Voice: "Experiencing the SARS Pandemic" / Mark Merin

International Voices: Liberian President Promotes Sanitation To Reduce Widespread Disease

Global Hot Spot: Sub-Saharan Africa

Readings

"The Age of Pandemics" / Larry Brillant

"The Impact of Disparities in Health on Pandemic Preparedness" / David Satcher

"Ten Years Later, What's Changed?" / Ali S. Khan

"Antimicrobial Resistance: No Action Today, No Cure Tomorrow" / Anuj Sharma

Scientific American, "Healthy Growth for U.S. Farms"

"Resistance Is Futile" / Megan McArdle

"Africa's Condom Conundrum: Fighting HIV in Africa" / Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu

"AIDS Prevention Images from Africa" (billboards)

"AIDS in America-Forgotten but Not Gone" / Wafaa M. El-Sadr / Kenneth H. Mayer / Sally L. Hodder

"Viral Vows" / Regan Hofmann

"Family Health Makes Moral and Economic Sense" / Melinda Gates

Chapter Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Writing Assignments

Glossary of Globalization and Argument Terms

Answers to Chapter 1, "Global Pursuit"

Credits

Index