English 101 - Fall 2010

Juan Zhang. Middlestadt, Susan E.Cheng-Ye Ji."Psychosocial factors underlying physical activity." International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition & Physical Activity; 2007, Vol. 4, p38-10, 10p, 8 Charts. Academic Search Complete. Web. November 18, 2010. The increase in obesity in China. Trying to prevent this by encouraging middle schooler in China the importance of being physicaly fit and excersising.

Anderson, Janna, Lee Rainie. "Does Google Make Us Stupid?" Pew Research Center. 19 Feb. 2010. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. This article questions whether if the ease of internet searching and the distractions that accompany it is decreasing people's ability to concentrate. Rather than deep reading, we now simply skim and find answers quickly causing us to not really learn about the subject fully and instead we learn only about bits and pieces of it.

Kwak, Lydia, et al. "Associations between Physical Activity, Fitness, and Academic Achievement." Journal of Pediatrics 155.6 (2009), 914-918.e1. The objective of this study was to explore the relationship between rigorous physical activity and cardiovascular fitness, and the effect it has on academic achievement. In girls, academic achievement was associated with vigorous physical activity, and in boys physical fitness was associated with academic achievement.

Rosen, Larry D., et al. "The Relationship Between "Textisms" and Formal and Informal Writing Among Young Adults." Communication Research 37.3 (2010): 420-440. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. This article is about whether or not there is a connection between textisms and the quality of writing. There has been an overwhelming increase in the use of text messaging, and in some cases young adults use messages more than talking. Two studies were performed trying to determine if there is a relationship, because not much research has been completed. On top of that most of the research has yielded different results. These two studies did not see a connection between the use of textisms and formal writing, but it did between the use of textisms and informal writing.

Salmon, Jo, et al. "Leisure-Time, Occupational, and Household Physical Activity among Professional, Skilled, and Less-Skilled Workers and Homemakers." Preventive Medicine 30.3 (2000), 191-199. This study examines the difference in the physical activity between people of different skill levels in certain jobs. Physical activity in this study could be doing activities at home, at a gym, or possibly for your job. The study concluded that no association could be made between occupation and physical activity for men, but it could for women.

Aries, Elizabeth, et al. "A Comparison of Athletes and Non-Athletes at Highly Selective Colleges: Academic Performance and Personal Development." Research in Higher Education 45.6 (2004), 577-602. This study focused on student athletes for four years at selective liberal arts and Ivy League schools. It said students spending ten or more hours had less academic credentials than non-athletes, but were not lower than expected for an athlete. It talks about engagement in the community, sociability, extroversion, drinking, and academic performance of both athletes and non-athletes.

Umbach, Paul D., et al. "Intercollegiate Athletes and Effective Educational Practices: Winning Combination or Losing Effort?." Research in Higher Education 47.6 (2006), 709 - 733. This article talks about how the education of college athletes has grown over the years. The study compares student athletes to non-athletes in their academic engagements. This study concludes that contrary to popular belief about student athletes, there is not much of a difference between the two groups when it comes to academics. When there are differences between the two the athletes were favored in academic performance.

Lorenzi, Maria , Amy J. McMillan, Linda S. Siegel, Bruno D. Zumbo, Victor Glickman, John J. Spinelli, Karen J. Goddard, Sheila L. Pritchard,Paul C. Rogers, and Mary L. McBride. "Educational outcomes among survivors of childhood cancer in British Columbia, Canada." Cancer 115 (2003): n. pag. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. The article discusses the icreased rate of cancer surviors. Which is leading to an increased rate in educational difficulities. Many of those survivors had trouble in reading specifically. This study also shows that women have a higher increased risk for learning disiblites.

Gayles, Joy Gaston. and Shouping. Hu. "The Influence of Student Engagment and Sport Participation on College Outcomes Among Division I Student Athletes." Journal of Higher Education 80.3 (2009), 315-333. This study examines college athletes that do educationally enriching activities, does it help their academic outcomes. The study found that student backgrounds had little effect on academic outcome, but engagement in activities does.

Nagarajan,Rajaram, Joseph P. Neglia, Denis R. Clohisy, Yutaka Yasui, Mark Greenberg, Melissa Hudson, Michael A. Zevon, Jean M. Tersak, Arthur Ablin, and Leslie L. Robison. "Education, employment, insurance, and marital status among 694 survivors of pediatric lower extremity bone tumors." Cancer 97 (2003): n. pag. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. The article studies the effects that childhood cancer had on people. It talks about how it effects their education, marriage, employment, ect. In the conclusion the results showed that the patients had significant differences in education and health insurence when compared with their siblings. Gender also played a big effect in the study.

Gaston-Gayles, Joy L. "Examining Academic and Athletic Motivation Among Student Athletes at a Division I University." Journal of College Student Development 45.1 (2004), 75-83. This article tries to solve the question of the motivation of college athletes to excel academically. The study took 211 college athletes at a Midwest Division I University and compared academic motivation and athletic motivation to academic performance.

Dement, William. "Sleepless at Stanford." The Sleep Well. Stanford University, Sept. 1997. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. The main focus of this article is to teach students about the importance of sleep. It talks about the all the different elements of sleep and college students sleep habits.

Sharp, Linda A. and Holly K. Sheilley. "The institution's obligations to athletes." New Directions for Higher Education 2008.142 (2008), 103 - 113. This article outlines how colleges can help make college athletes better their education. It also says how colleges do not do enough to help their athletes get a better education. Since some college sports athletes are treated so well and are given so many benefits concerning athletics their education suffers.

Mitby A., Pauline ,Leslie L. Robison, John A. Whitton, Michael A. Zevon, Iris C. Gibbs, Jean M. Tersak, Anna T. Meadows, Marilyn Stovall, Lonnie K. Zeltzer, and Ann C. Mertens. "Utilization of special education services and educational attainment among long-term survivors of childhood cancer." Cancer 97 (2003): n. page. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. Thois article is about the connection between special educators and cancer suvivors. Studying how many of the survivors and their siblings were diagnosed with learning disibilites.Also if their disibilities have anything to do with genetics. All of the children studied were at least five years progdiagnosis.

Fineran, Kerrie, et al. "The Barnum Effect and Chaos Theory: Exploring College Student ACOA Traits." Journal of College Student Psychotherapy 24.1 (2010): 17-31. ERIC. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. The text both agrees with and opposes the idea that adul tchildren of alcoholics are a distinct group. Two-hundred college students were placed into one of the four categories: Adult Children of Alcoholics, Adverse Childhood Event Group, Alcohol and Adverse Childhood Event Group and the No Adverse Event Group. These students completed tests that measured drug and alcohol use.

Zoeller, Robert F. "Exercise and Cognitive Function: Can Working Out Train the Brain, Too?." American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine 4.5 (2010), 397-409. This article studies the relationship between working out and the functions of the brain. It says that studies with children, adults, and elderly people have proved that physical activity does have a positive impact on brain functions while cognitive function in young adults does not change with physical activity. Regular aerobic exercise and fitness increase brain volume and promote brain growth.

Barrett, Betty. "The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Other Forms of Childhood Adversity on Adulthood Parenting." Journal of Child Sexual Abuse 18.5 (2009): 489-512. ERIC. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. The study looked at how the impact of child sexual abuse on adulthood parenting. The samples were primarily African-American mothers. Sexual abuse survivors showed much lower rates of affection towards their children, higher rates of aggression and mouch more frequent uses of corporal punishment than those of mothers who had not been abused.

Barrera, Maru, Amanda K., Shaw M., Kathy N.,Elizabeth Maunsell, Lisa Pogany. "Educational and social late effects of childhood cancer and related clinical, personal, and familial characteristics." Cancer 104 (2005) n. pag. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. This article notes the effects that childhood cancer had on adults. It gives percentages of how many had to repeat a grade along with how many had learning disibilities. The article also explains the socail problems they had as children leading to them not having a very close friends through school. Also it reports how their medical problems let to them physically having problems that interfied with their learning (i.e. tumors).

Boden, Joseph M., David M. Fergusson, and L. John Horwood. "Experience of Sexual Abuse in Childhood and Abortion in Adolescence and Early Adulthood." Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal 33.12 (2009): 870-876. ERIC. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. The study looks at how child sexual abuse can tie in with adolescent abortions to influence adulthood. The study that was done was a 25-year study of the heath, development and adjustment of 1,265 New Zealand children. Studies showed that if higher rates of abuse were shown, then high rates of pregnancy and abortion developed.

Hickman, Richard. "Raising Pupils' Self-Esteem through Leadership Activities in Art." International Journal of Art and Design Education 25.3 (2006): 329-340. EBSCO. Web. 18 Nov. 2010. This article describes how art can motivate students. Hickman discusses the detachment students sometimes feel from their studies and how art can help engage them. The article specifically examines leadership activities in art. It consists of observations of these activities being carried out. The piece proves how these activities ultimately build confidence in individuals.