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Reading and All That Jazz book cover
Reading and All That Jazz: Tuning Up Your Reading, Thinking, and Study Skills, 2/e
Peter Mather, Glendale Community College
Rita McCarthy, Glendale Community College
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Reading Selection:
Ann Landers

The legal age for drinking varies from country to country. Do some research on the Internet and try to determine whether there is any relationship between differing ages of legal alcohol consumption and rates of adults who become dependent on alcohol. This is a good website to consult. Visit this site and click on "Drinking/Alcohol." The site also provides information on binge drinking (the consumption of five or more drinks in a row) among youth and college age students.

http://collegelife.about.com
(http://collegelife.about.com)

Many resource and support groups have become available to help problem drinkers in the past few years. However, Alcoholics Anonymous still sets the standard for self-help groups. Check out this site to take an alcohol assessment test.

http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org
(http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org)

For another self-assessment test designed specifically for students, go to this website, and click on "Are You at Risk?"

http://www.glness.com/ndhs/risk.html
(http://www.glness.com/ndhs/risk.html)

Reading Selection:
Guernica, by Rita Gilbert

Guernica is located in the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, Spain. Visit this website at

http://museoreinasofia.mcu.es
(http://museoreinasofia.mcu.es)

Reading Selection:
The Yellow Ribbon, by Pete Hamill

To read a more recent column by Pete Hamill, visit this following website. Click on "Search Archives." Then click on Pete Hamill" in the columnist category. Find a column of Hamill's of interest to you.

http://www.nydailynews.com
(http://www.nydailynews.com)

Reading Selection:
An excerpt from A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson

There are approximately 58,000 brown bears left in North America. According to National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore, the brown bear is a wildly unpredictable animal--some members of this endangered species are as sweet-tempered as Mary Poppins and others are as wicked as Charles Manson. Visit the National Geographic website for an online interview with Sartore on the difficulties of photographing bears.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0107
(http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0107)

Reading Selection:
Blizzard Under Blue Sky, by Pam Houston

Three excellent websites that deal with mental health and depression are the following:

http://depression.cmhc.com (CMHC Systems)
(http://depression.cmhc.com)

http://www.nimh.nih.gov (National Institute of Mental Health)
(http://www.nimh.nih.gov)

http://www.nmha.org (National Mental Health Association)
(http://www.nmha.org)

Click depression screening. The NMHA site includes a self-assessment test to help you determine whether you are suffering from depression.








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