UNIT ONE Language PRE-READING ACTIVITES TEXT A Is Our Language in Decay? TEXT B Language and Electronics: The Coming Global Tongue TEXT C Chinese Whispers UNrr Two Literature PRE-READING ACTIVITES TEXT A Works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Its Place in Latin American and World Literature TEXT B A Novelist of Moral Power and Passion TEXT C A Literary Remembrance UNIT THREE History PRE-READING ACTIVITIES TEXT A The Worst Winters TEXT B The Greatest Century That Ever Was TEXT C Archaeology UNIT FOUR Philosophy eRE-READING ACTIVITIES TEXT A Philosophy TEXT B The Philosopher and His Shadow TEXT C When a "White Horse" Is Not a "Horse" UNIT FIVE Law PRE-READING ACTIVITIES TEXT A Texas Case Could Shape the Future of Gun Control TEXT B Criminal Justice TEXT C Judges Who Support the Right to Die UNIT SIX Sociology PRE-READING ACTIVITIES TEXT A Sociology TEXT B Four Possible Sources/Mechanisms for the Emergence of Social Types TEXT C Four Possible Sources/Mechanisms for the Emergence of Social Types (continued) UNrr SEVEN Art PRE-READING ACTIVITIES TEXT A Impossible Liberties: Contemporary Artists on the Life of Their Work over Time TEXT B From Mozart to Mahler A Listening Guide to Classical Music TEXT C Form vs. Function: Texas Researcher Devises Method for Understanding UNIT EIGHT Journalism PRE-READING ACTIVITIES TEXT A Technology Alters Journalists' Job TEXT B Tall Tales vs. Truth at the Tabloids TEXT C Too Good to Be True: Fabrications in Boston Globe Columns Lead to Smith's Fall from Grace UNIT NINE Political Science PRE-READING ACTIVITIES TEXT A So, What Do Political Scientists Do? TEXT B Political Science TEXT C Mary Ross UNIT TEN Religion ERE-READING ACTIVITIES TEXT A One Nation But Under Whose God? TEXT B A Professor's View TEXT C Can Prayer Harm? KEY TO EXERCISES