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Baker, Will. "My Children Explain the Big Issues" from In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction, Judith Kitchen, Mary Paumier Jones, editors. New York : W.W. Norton, 1996, Pg.133-135.
Cooper, Bernard. "The Fine Art of Sighing" from In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction, Judith Kitchen, Mary Paumier Jones, editors. New York : W.W. Norton, 1996, Pg.301-303.
Nye, Naomi Shihab. "Three Pokes of a Thistle" from The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction. Root, Robert L, Jr.; Steinberg, Michael, editors. New York : Pearson Education, 2nd Ed., 2002, Pg. 135-138.
Daum, Meghan. "My Misspent Youth" from My Misspent Youth: Essays. New York : Open City Books, 2001, Pg. 39-59.
Sedaris, David. "The Late Show" from Me Talk Pretty One Day. Boston : Back Bay Books, 2000, Pg. 248-264.
Prompt 10 - Why is the sky blue?
Selzer, Richard. "The Masked Marvel's Last Toehold" from The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction. New York : Pearson Education, 2nd Ed., 2002, Pg. 173-176.
Selzer, Richard. "The Masked Marvel's Last Toehold" from The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction. New York : Pearson Education, 2nd Ed., 2002, Pg. 173-176.
Gawande, Atul. "Final Cut: Medical Arrogance and the Decline of the Autopsy" from The New Yorker. March 19, 2001, Pg.1-10.