Jesse Friedman: School

In June 2005, I graduated the University of Chicago with a degree in linguistics. Before that, I went to the creatively-named College Preparatory School (this is a site I made, not the official one) of Oakland, California.

I've done a lot of writing over the last ten years, mostly academic papers. From the end of middle school through high school, I maintained a collection of whatever I'd find on my computer; The Writings Collection has gotten over a million hits in nine years, mostly from those finding my eigth grade term paper on Joe McCarthy.

I think the stuff I wrote in college is far more interesting. Here's the bulk of it:

Semiotics (Spring 2003)
House vs. Home: A Semoitic Analysis of Real Estate Staging

Urban Structure and Process (Spring 2003)
Globalization: Latest in a Series
At the Urban Crossroads of Network Theory and Segregated Reality
Nature or nurture?: Park and Burgess on deviance

Core Biology (Autumn 2003)
Two perspectives, one effect: How genes encourage the onset of diabetes
The struggle to control the dynamic science: Rationality and biology
The Search for a Primary Genetic Link to Stroke

Organizational Decision-Making (Autumn 2003)
The Well-Coddled Egg-Basket: Japanese Subcontracting and High Asset Specificity (Word document)
The Happy Delusion of Power: "Making Out" and Implicit Complacency (a neo-Marxist analysis of slacking off)
Getting It Right: Rational Choice and theMultiple Overhauls of Sears’ Managerial Structure
Institutionalizing a Reaction: Limited Problem-Solving, Power, and the Escalation of Bombing in North Vietnam

Introduction to the New Testament (Winter 2004)
An outline and analysis of the Book of Galatians
An outline of the Book of John

Original Intent and Constitutional Controversies (Winter 2004)
"[The] criterion of what is constitutional...is the end:" How money troubles gave rise to federal supremacy (on the Necessary and Proper Clause)

France in Western Civilization (Spring 2004, in Paris)
Shifting Authority: Erasmus and Decline of Scholasticism
Freedom: Past? Present? Future? (Interpreting Rousseau's Social Contract with Sartre and Marx)

History of Photography and Film (Autumn 2004)
A Dick of a Dick: Gittes’ Overconfidence and His Terrible Relationship with Photography and Lenses

Consumption (Autumn 2004)
Knowing its Audience: Trader Joe’s and the Reenchantment of Food Shopping

Little Red Schoolhouse (Academic and Professional Writing) (Winter 2005)
The Semantics of Surveys

Judgment and Decision Making (Winter 2005)
Unnatural Leaders: The insufficiency of group-leadership decision making studies (revised in LRS)