elleSAT’s Reading List - October 26
Reading Comp practice from elleSAT
Each week, we’ll be sending out articles and resources to sharpen your reading comprehension skills. The standard advice is to read more dense material to prepare for the LSAT, but we don’t particularly care for the standard recommendations. Here are some articles we read this week, along with suggestions for further reading:
The Pressing Need for mens rea Reform
Should you be convicted of a crime for doing something you didn't know was illegal? Here's a supplementary reading from Anita's Criminal Law class.
You might want to rethink using a stability ball as your desk chair
This is a Washington Post article summarizing recent studies of exercise ball users. But before you read it, check out this study cited in the above article.
If you're in school, you should have access to most of these scientific journals through your university's library. Try reading the full text and linked journal articles on this page to see how much you understand from these studies. What did they test? How? What were the results?
Then read the Post's article, which summarizes some of these studies, and see how close you got.
How BTS and Its ARMY Could Change the Music Industry
…The K-pop music business in general [has] proved just how much a band, and a company, can prosper through a direct-to-consumer relationship, driven by digital platforms and dedicated apps with lots of behind-the-scenes content that keeps fans emotionally involved. It’s engagement on a scale that no Western artist has ever achieved, despite decades of radio promotion and the best retail strategy…For the global music industry, the band’s success has meant a serious rethink of how a record company — in BTS’ case, Sony Music’s Columbia Records, which distributes the group’s music in the U.S. (though the band is not signed to the label) — builds and maintains a fan base.
The Rise of the Cult of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Talk about author attitude! This left-of-RBG commentator pulls no punches, and supports his positions in a very LSAT-ish way.
The task of glorifying Ginsburg is made easier if one conflates her early career as a litigator with her later tenure as a justice. For despite Notorious RBG’s portrayal of Ginsburg’s life and work as a unified package, there are distinctly different phases, and it’s difficult to appreciate Ginsburg’s complexity and evolution without separating the 30-something feminist dynamo from the 70-something robed bureaucrat.
