Skip to Main Content

Freshman Common Reading Program 2014-2015: Further Exploration

!

We're Here to Help

 
chat bubble icon Text Us @
401-200-3894
telephone icon, link to Call Us Call Us
401-865-2581

 

Chapter Topics

10,000 Hour Rule

   Bedard, Kelly, and Elizabeth Dhuey. "School-Entry Policies And Skill Accumulation Across Directly And Indirectly    Affected Individuals." Journal Of Human Resources 3 (2012): 643. Project MUSE. Web. 15 Aug. 2014.   

   Carey, Benedict. " How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Talent." New York Times Online July 14, 2014.

   Sanborn, Chase. "10,000 Hours." Canadian Musician 34.6 (2012): 30. Academic Search Complete. Web. 5 Aug.    2014.

   Thompson, Angus H., Roger H. Barnsley, and George Stebelsky. "Born To Play Ball" The Relative Age Effect And    Major League Baseball." Sociology Of Sport Journal 8.2 (1991): 146-151. SocINDEX with Full Text. Web. 15 Aug.    2014.

 

The Trouble With Geniuses

   Jolly, Jennifer L. "Lewis Terman: Genetic Study Of Genius--Elementary School Students." Gifted Child Today 31.1    (2008): 27. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 15 Aug. 2014   

   Quain, John R. "Wiseguy." Popular Science 259.5 (2001): 64. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 6 Aug. 2014.

   Rigden, John S., and Roger H. Stuewer. "J. Robert Oppenheimer: Brilliance and Charisma." Physics in Perspective    Dec. 2004: 369+. Academic Search Complete. Web. 6 Aug. 2014.

   Sager, Mike. "The Smartest Man In America." Esquire 132.5 (1999): 142. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 6 Aug. 2014.

   "27 Years Of Sun." Network World 26.16 (2009): 16. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 6 Aug. 2014.

 

The Three Lessons of Joe Flom

   Jordan, Dearbail. "Joe Flom, The Sole Surviving Name Partner At Skadden, Has More Experience Than...Well,    Anyone Really." Lawyer 17.40 (2003): 14. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 6 Aug. 2014.

   Trevor, Leigh B. "Hostile Takeovers In Perspective." Vital Speeches Of The Day 54.17 (1988): 525. MasterFILE    Premier. Web. 15 Aug. 2014.


Harlan, Kentucky

   Fischer, David Hackett. Albion's seed : four British folkways in America. Oxford University Press, 1989. Book.

   Pearce, John Ed. Days of darkness: the feuds of Eastern Kentucky. University Press of Kentucky, 1994. Ebook.

 

The Ethnic Theory of Plane Crashes

   "What Air Traffic Controllers Do." Community College Week 24.18 (2012): 8. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 25 Aug.    2014.

   Larkins, Al "Jedi". "The Future Of Air Traffic Control Safety." Mobility Forum: The Journal Of The Air Mobility Command's Magazine 19.3 (2010):    4-8. Academic Search Complete. Web. 25 Aug. 2014.

   Machlis, S. (1997). "FAA orders airports to check tracking systems." Computerworld, 31(33), 14.

   Ruppenthal, Karl M. "Crashes And Consequences." Nation 201.18 (1965): 408. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 25 Aug. 2014.

 

Rice Paddies and Math Tests

   "China" Geography of the World. London: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc., 2009. Credo Reference. Web. 25 August 2014.

   Imbo, Ineke, and Jo-Anne LeFevre. "Cultural Differences In Complex Addition: Efficient Chinese Versus Adaptive Belgians And Canadians."    Journal Of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory & Cognition 35.6 (2009): 1465-1476. Academic Search Complete. Web. 25 Aug. 2014.

 

Marita's Bargain

   Ellison, Scott. "It's In The Name: A Synthetic Inquiry Of The Knowledge Is Power Program [KIPP]." Educational Studies 48.6 (2012): 550-575.    Academic Search Complete. Web. 25 Aug. 2014.

   Maranto, Robert, and James Shuls. "The First Day Of KIPP: A Case Study In Institution Building." Conference Papers -- Southern Political    Science Association (2011): 1-27. Academic Search Complete. Web. 25 Aug. 2014.

   Shuffelton, Amy B. "A Matter Of Friendship: Educational Interventions Into Culture And Poverty." Educational Theory 63.3 (2013): 299-316.    Academic Search Complete. Web. 25 Aug. 2014.