Brooklyn College Library LibGuides Home: ENGL 1010: English Composition: Faculty Version: Analysis, Short

Short Analysis

Eighner, Lars “On Dumpster Diving”
New England Journal of Public Policy Volume 8 Issue 1 Special Issue on Homelessness: New England and Beyond
(50E): good model of process analysis that describes and considers scavenging

Eltahawy, Mona, "Twitterholics Anonymous"
MONA'S MUSINGS: TWITTERHOLICS ANONYMOUS
Jerusalem Post JANUARY 24, 2011
Furgurson, Ernest B. “The End of History”
The American Scholar (magazine, SEPTEMBER 7, 2015. (AN): Short essay about confederate monuments. Deals with complexity of both sides. Pairs well with Staples.

Gay, Roxane, “Peculiar Benefits”
The Rumpus, May 16th, 2012. A good bridge between personal narratives and short, argumentative pieces. Discusses privilege. Would useful for practicing summary.
Gay, Roxanne, “The Careless Language of Sexual Violence”
The Rumpus, March 10th, 2011. (WP—9th edition): about language and sexual violence in contemporary media
Jefferson, Thomas, “The Declaration of Independence”
Kincaid, Jamaica “The Ugly Tourist”
Short essay about tourists, “natives“ and place.
King, Jr., Martin Luther, "I have a Dream"
Korten, Tristan “In Florida, Officials Ban Term ‘Climate Change
In Florida, officials ban term 'climate change'
BY TRISTRAM KORTEN
Florida Center for Investigative Reporting
Miami Herald, March 08, 2015 04:00 AM. Updated March 11, 2015 11:52 PM

McKibben, Bill, “Curbing Nature’s Paparazzi”
(50E): about nature photography" Harpers magazine, Nov. 1997

McWhorter, John, “Thick of Tongue: Future of Language: So what exactly is this “black sound” I am insisting exists?"
(WP—9th edition): about race and language
Guernica Magazine, 3/15/2016
Meltzer, Marisa, “The Last Feminist Taboo”
(WP—9th edition): about the politics of dieting.
Elle magazine, Dec. 19, 2013. Title on Elle Magazine: "Does Wanting to Be Thin Make You a Slave to the Man?"
Morris, Errol, “Liar, Liar Pants on Fire”
NY Times JULY 10, 2007 2:14 PM
How to think critically about images. May pair with” Regarding the Pain of Others”
Munoz, Manuel, "Leave Your Name at the Border
Aug. 1, 2007, NYTImes Opinion. Personal/argumentative essay about language, national identity, names, borders

Schwartz, Barry. "The Tyranny of Choice."
Scientific American 290, no. 4 (2004): 70-75. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26047678.
About the tyranny of having too much choice.
Slater, Lauren, “The Trouble with Self-Esteem” (PDF)
PDF version without Images.(WP, 6th edition): about parenting and self-identity. The New York Times Magazine. (Feb. 3, 2002): Lifestyle: p. 44.

Solnit, Rebecca, “Men Explain Things to Me”
(WP, 11th edition): uses personal narrative to build argument about gender and silencing
Solomon, Akiba “Thugs, Students, Rioters, Fans: Media’s Subtle Racism in Unrest Coverage”
Reflects language and race, does good comparative work, pairs well with Orwell, “Politics and the English Language”.

Sontag, Susan, “Regarding the Pain of Others”
(50E): about photography, representation, and cognition. May pair with “Liar, Liar Pants on Fire”

Staples, Brent, "Confederate Memorials as Instruments of Racial Terror"
NY Times Opinion, July 24, 2015. Short essay about confederate monuments. Good for summary. Pairs well with Furgurson.

Staples, Brent, “Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space”
(50E): personal reflection/ argumentative essay on race, gender, and stereotype
Does the Internet Make You Smarter
Shirky, Clay, "Does the Internet Make You Smarter"