Legacies with the Decisive Writer Author:Schmidt, Bogarad, Raign 'Legacies' challenges students to enter the world of the new millennium, a culturally diverse place in which people's fates are crucially interconnected. It also introduces students to the analysis of literature and to critical thinking. The readings-fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction-represent complex and exciting traditions from 500 B.C. ... more »to the first decade of the twenty-first century. They include both global masterpieces and contemporary works from Lao-Tzu to Luisa Valenzuela, from Sophocles to Rita Dove, from Rabindranath Tagore to Ernest Hemingway. As a thematic exploration of the individual in social, political, and cultural contexts, 'Legacies' engages us in intellectual inquiry and provides the personal pleasures associate with the arts.« less