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This is the list of Political Science 71: Intro to Law reading I need to complete this weekend before I even start studying directly for the final on Wednesday:



http://eee.uci.edu/04f/67070/reading/appl_control.htm

http://eee.uci.edu/04f/67070/reading/nominee_religion.htm

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/lazarus/20020305.html

http://www.adherents.com/adh_sc.html

http://eee.uci.edu/04f/67070/reading/oconnor_bio.htm

http://eee.uci.edu/04f/67070/reading/bushgore_order.doc

http://eee.uci.edu/04f/67070/reading/ABA_votecase.doc

http://eee.uci.edu/04f/67070/reading/jury_workings.htm

http://eee.uci.edu/04f/67070/reading/blindjustice.htm

http://eee.uci.edu/04f/67070/reading/jury_religion.htm

http://eee.uci.edu/04f/67070/reading/ABA_power12.doc

http://eee.uci.edu/04f/67070/reading/juror_independence.htm

http://eee.uci.edu/04f/67070/reading/judicial_candor.htm

http://eee.uci.edu/04f/67070/reading/scaliapalooza.htm

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/sebok/20011217.html

http://eee.uci.edu/04f/67070/reading/jury_burgers.htm

Comments

[kimera.livejournal.com]

Sadly, no. It's just a very boring paper that explains why four proposed structures for double-object VPs could not POSSIBLY be correct... and then ends with "But suppose one of the structures rejected earlier IS correct..." and justifies it with "linear precedence"... aka common-fucking-sense.

I hate Syntax.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

What course are you studying?

I preferred syntax over morphology or phonology when I was taking linguistics. But if I have to study something with grammar or English I'll take semantics, if such a subject were offered.

[kimera.livejournal.com]

This syntax class.

I love phonology, on the other hand. Give me feature matricies over tree diagrams any day! ;) although it's funny... everyone I know says that HPSG (another syntactic model) is super-hard and to avoid it at all costs... but I was looking through a book on it the other day, and it was just like "this makes so much more SENSE..." I think because it works in a way like autosegmental theory in Phonology, describing all the individual features that make up the whole.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

::follows link::

Man, I need to take a prerequisit class just to understand the summary description of your class.

Actually, I was pretty decent at tree diagrams. We only did a little bit of them in Intro to Linguistics, but it was like being in middle school again and identifying parts of speech. Then again, we didn't get all that complicated ones to deal with, either.

I have this weird level of ability when it comes to diagrams and charts and spatial comprehension ability.

Tree diagrams (be it Linguistics or my Statistics class) are easy for me to understand and come naturally, yet I have terrible trouble understanding bar graphs. I mean, I can read the labels, but the big picture of what it's saying takes me like 5 tries of looking at it to figure out. And I sucked at geometry-- but I've very good at art design and interior design. But you'd think they'd all be the same part of your brain, right? If I naturally get tree diagrams then I ought to naturally get bar graphs and geometry, since it's all visual representations of information, right? But give me algebra over geometry and trig any day.

[kimera.livejournal.com]

Tree diagrams start off rather easy to understand. It's when you get into X-bar theory and binary branching and all that that things get complicated. It's like... *nothing* starts out in the same place that it is in the actual, uttered sentence. And there's all these unpronounced elements that I *always* forget about.

Heh, and geometry was literally the only reason I passed Principles 11 (aka Mathematics, I have no idea why they decided to call it that... Canadian schools are weird).