English 102 - Spring 2009

Assessing how boys and girls influence each other. It might be worth looking up the article the author references.

This article does a good job of explaining why supporting the arts may do more than just enrich our souls, it may enrich our wallets too.

As health-care costs skyrocket, a down-to-earth approach to healing is emerging, complementing high-tech medicine with high-touch arts.

First in an occasional series exploring variations in how popular courses are taught.

More than three-fourths of young women, those ages 18-29 and known as Generation Y, want incoming President Barack Obama to make civil rights and racial justice top priorities of his administration, a survey says.

First in a series of occasional short takes on unusual courses in local schools.

Passing rates plunged among Illinois ' bilingual students this year after they were given the same exams as other students, and dozens of public schools have been deemed failing as a result.

Have Americans been seduced into overeating by the so-called health halo associated with certain foods and restaurants?

Tuition and fees increased 439 percent from 1982 to 2007, while median family income rose 147 percent.

How the moving image is upending the printed word.

Hanging out online helps teenagers develop "technological skills and literacy," a researcher on a new study said.

Children and teenagers who play violent video games show increased physical aggression months afterward, according to new research that adds another layer of evidence to the continuing debate over the video-game habits of the youngest generation.

Parents and students in a growing number of schools can track fluctuations in a grade-point average from the nearest computer in real time, a ritual that can become as addictive as watching political polls or a stock-market index.

High schoolers are being hired by community groups to teach children about healthy eating and living

In an age of carefully scheduled activities and educational pressure, child development specialists advocate more playtime for children.

Brain scans are helping neurologists and other scientists develop new learning techniques.

Traditional calculations of graduation rates ignore students who succeed in graduating but don't do it in four years.

This article is concerned with what it may mean to individuals to engage in practices that are physically challenging and risky. The article questions the assumptions that psychological health is commensurate with maintaining physical safety, and that risking one's health and physical safety is necessarily a sign of psychopathology. The research was based upon semi-structured interviews with eight extreme sport practitioners. The interviews were analysed using Colaizzi's version of the phenomenological method. The article explicates the themes identified in the analysis, and discusses their implications for health psychology theory and practice. Also available through the Electronic Journal Center at OhioLINK.

Time for a little fun. I know you've asked yourself this question: why do people engage in those dangerous sports like hang gliding, bungee jumping and rock climbing?

The fear that drives many of us away from the risks of extreme sports maybe the same ingredient that keeps top athletes coming back for more.