UW - 2006: Fall; 2007: Winter;
UCSB - 2006: Winter; 2005: Fall, Summer, Spring, Winter; 2004: Fall
Cabrillo College - 2003: Fall, Summer, Spring, Winter; 2002: Fall

Below are some of my papers and presentations for University of Washington's iSchool (between 2007 Fall and present) .

Winter 2007

• LIS519 - Information Behavior in Human-Computer Interaction
  kPod: Selecting Kosher Products Faster:
  Proposal (PDF)
  Presentation (webpage, PPT, WMV)
  Term paper (PDF)
  
  
• LIS520 - Information Resources, Services, and Collections
  A College Professor's Dictionary (PDF)
  Hillel's Library Cataloging Tool Needs (PDF)
  Prime Reference Resources for Following Kosher Dietary Laws (PDF, group project)
  Search exercises, group projects: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (PDFs)
  
  
• LIS560 - Instructional and Training Strategies for Information Profession
  Information Literacy for Newly Orthodox Jews (PDF)
  Creating a Kosher Kitchen Workshop (PDF)
  Kashrut for Newly Orthodox Jews (webpage, PPT, WMV)


Fall 2006

• LIS500 - The Life Cycle of Information
  Gabor Por, a quick introduction (web presentation)
  
  
• LIS510 - Information Behavior
  The Lobby of the Tucker-Maxon School as an Information Ground (PDF, group project)
  The Role of Social Networks in Information Behavior (PDF)
  An Analysis of the Information Seeking Behavior of Journalists: a Literature Review and Fieldwork Summary (PDF, group project)
  Special Aspects of Journalists' Information Seeking Behavior (web presentation, PPT, group project)
  
  
• LIS541 - Internet Technologies and Application
  Information Arcitecture Resource Guide (website)
  The Tree of Life (web presentation)
  

Below are some of the papers I wrote while I attended University of California Santa Barbara between 2004 Fall and 2006 Winter .

Winter 2006

• SOC131 - Political Sociology
  Journal (166 kb)
  
  
• SOC146 - The Occult Community
  Book review of Paul Hellas's The New Age Movement: The Celebration of the Self and the Sacralization of Modernity
  
  
• SOC151 - Gender in Film and Television
  The Role of Women’s Network in Recent "Women's Films"
  Comments on these movies: So Proudly We Hail!, Now Voyager, Double Indemnity, Pinky, A Summer Place, The Nun's Story, Klute, Saturday Night Fever
  
  

Fall 2005

• RGST152 - Religion in America Today
  The Fragmented Sphere (Why figures do not add up)
  Underdefined Definitions (On Chidester's Authentic Flakes)
  Hostility, Acceptance, Participation (Family profile)
  
  
• SOC138G - Global Conflict
  Policy Brief on How to Respond to Today's Attacks (9/11/2001)
  Conflict resolution: The Israeli West Bank Separator
  Honors paper: Hungarian Politics v. Globalism
  
  
• SOC185C - Cultural Theory
  Film Journal
  
  

Summer 2005

• SOC128 - Interethnic Relations
  The Non-Existing "Other"
  Sit Where You Please
  Race/Racism in Current Sci-Fi TV Series
  
  

Spring 2005

• HIST17C - The United States Since 1920
  Declining Vigilance in Maintaining the Color Line
  1 page papers: New Deal Coalition, The Racialization of Japanese, Liberalism's Change, Five events that changed everything
  
  
• RGST104 - Problems in the Study of Religion: Sacrifice
  Creation and/versus/of Community
  
  
• RGST108 - Global Religion
  Szim Shalom - The First Hungarian Jewish Reform Community
  
  
• RGST140C - Islamic Mysticism and Religious Thought
  Sufi Dance & Body Movements – Literature Review & Filmograpy
  
  
• SOC141S - Interpersonal Relations
  The Role of Self-disclosure in Developing Liking and Disliking
  
  

Winter 2005

• ASAM5 - Asian American Literature
  On the Value of Fragmentation
  On Normalcy Analysis of "Better Luck Tomorrow"
  
  
• RGST120 - Shugendo: Japanese Mountain Cults
  Implications of the Changes in Japan's Water System for Shugendo
  
  
• RGST162C - Sikhism
  Who is Dishonored?
  
  
• SOC140 - Sociology of Aging
  Summary of Presentation on Karen A. Lyman: Bringing the Social Back In: A Critique of the Biomedicalization of Dementia
  Brief of Deborah Kestin Van Den Hoonard: Identity Foreclosure: Women's Experiences of Widowhood as Expressed in Autobiographical Accounts
  

Fall 2004

• HIST17B - The American People (19th US Century History)
  The Power of Conformity
  Lincoln's Pragmatism
  
  
• RGST130 - Judaism
  Chabad, a True Belief System

Below are some of the papers I wrote while I attended Cabrillo College between 2002 Fall and 2004 Spring. (All of them are in PDF format, in English, under 35 kb, --unless otherwise noted--date added to webpage in parenthesis.)

Fall 2003

• ANTH8 - Anthropology of Religion
  The Role of Numbers in the Jehovah's Witnesses Religion (2003-11-21)
  Continuous Reinforcement (2003-10-03)
  
  

Summer 2003

• ENGL2 - Composition and Critical Thinking
  There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Lunch (2003-07-23)
  Torn about Torture (2003-06-08)
  
  

Spring 2003

• AH10 - Appreciation/Introduction to the Visual Arts
  Journal (of the visit to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor) (2003-04-18) (176 kb)
  
  
• ANTH1 - Biological Anthropology
  SF Zoo Project (mini-website) (2003-05-15)
  Response Paper to the Article: John Rennie: 15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense (2003-05-15)
  Response Paper to the Article: Nina G. Jablonski and George Chaplin: Skin Deep (2003-05-15)
  Response Paper to the Video: The New Chimpanzees (2003-05-15)
  Response Paper to the Video: Life in the Trees (2003-05-15)
  Response Paper to the Video: Search for the First Humans (2003-05-15)
  
  
• ANTH1L - Biological Anthropology Laboratory
  Field Trip Report of the San Francisco Zoo (2003-05-05) (147 kb)
  
  
• HIST15 - Recent American History
  Abyss of Loyalty (Essay on Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s Farewell to Manzanar) (2003-03-03)
  Rich Man, Poor Man (Essay on Mike Davis’ The Case for Letting Malibu Burn) (2003-05-19)
  Power Games (US Foreign Policy Based on 1938, 1968 and 1998) (2003-05-28)
  Sick of Sickness (Essay on Anne Moody’s Coming of Age in Mississippi ) (2003-03-29)
  War, War Stupid (Essay on Jeanne Ron Kovic’s Born on the Fourth of July ) (2003-04-26)
  
  

Winter 2003

• ENGL1A - College Composition
  BP's PR (Essay on Corporate Responsibility) (2003-01-13)
  Goths Don’t Kill Themselves; People Do (Essay on Sex and Violence in Popular Culture) (2003-01-20)
  Goth vs. the Mass Media (Research Paper on a Controversial Topic) (2003-01-31) (56 kb)
  Mothers and Their Children (Essay on Mark Salzman’s The Soloist) (2003-01-27)
  
  
  
Fall 2002

• ENGL49A - Language of Films: Time in Movies (2003-01-02)
  Amores perros (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2000)
  Being There (Hal Ashby, 1979)
  Donnie Darko
  Fight Club
  Finding Forrester (Gus Van Sant, 2000)
  Following (Christopher Nolan, 1998)
  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  Kate & Leopold (James Mangold, 2001)
  Ladri di biciclette The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio de Sica, 1948)
  Ladri di saponetteThe Icicle Thief (Maurizio Nichetti, 1989)
  Les quatre cents coups (400 Blows)
  The Million Dollar Hotel (Wim Wenders, 2000)
  My Top Ten Movies of the Week
  Orlando
  Universal Inhumankind (A Clockwork Orange vs. Le Dernier Combat)
  Urga (Close to Eden) (Nikita Mihalkov, 1991)
  Windows on/of Psychology (Vertigo, Hitchcock)
  
  
• PHILO15 - Comparative Religion (2003-01-02)
  Journal entries (On Winnebago Indians, Ancient Egyptians, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Daoism, Wicca, Judaism, Christianity, Islam)
  The Navajo Religion and Taoism
  Roman Mithraism
  Sikh and Jewish Holidays
  
  
• PS1 - Political Science: Introduction to Government (2003-01-02)
  The Constitution and Freedom of Religion and Speech
  The Next Leader of the Democratic Party in the House of Representatives
  The Power and Politics of Television
  The Presidency of William Jefferson Clinton
  The Walker vs. Cheney case