Magnet Textbook List

Junior History: McGraw Hill College

Junior English: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston (Harcourt Brace and Company)

Pre-Calculus: Houghton Mifflin Company

Physics I: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.Senior

English: Holt, Rinehart, and WinstonCalculus: Houghton Mifflin Company

AP Biology: Pearson Benjamin Cummings

AP English: Heinle & Heinle Thomson Learning

AP European History: Wadsworth Thomson Learning

AP Government and Politics: US Houghton Mifflin CompanyPearson Longman

AP Physics C: Mechanics Thomson Brooks/Cole

French Blanc (3): McDougal Littell

French Rouge (4): McDougal Littell

Spanish Paso A Paso (1): ScottForesman

Spanish Paso A Paso (3): ScottForesman

Spanish (4):

Communications/Media: Bedford/St. Martins

Linguistics: An Exploration of World Languages - Thomson Heinle

Probability and Statistics: W.H. Freeman and Company

Economics: Houghton Mifflin Company

Holt, Rinehart, and Winston -- HarcourtMcGraw Hill College -- McGraw HillHoughton Mifflin Company -- Houghton MifflinJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc. -- WileyPearson Benjamin Cummings -- PearsonHeinle & Heinle Thomson Learning -- The Thompson CorporationWadsworth Thomson Learning -- The Thompson CorporationMechanics Thomson Brooks/Cole -- The Thompson CorporationMcDougal Littell -- Houghton MifflinScottForesman -- PearsonBedford/St. Martins -- affiliated with Bedford, Freeman, and WorthThomson Heinle -- The Thompson CorporationW.H. Freeman and Company -- affiliated with Bedford, Freeman, and Worth

Reading Materials at Home

5 News Blogs

Wasted Blog

CBS News Blog: Public Eye

Guardian Unlimited

Wired News Blogs

Reuters Blogs

Network Post-Review

After watching Network, there is no doubt in my mind why the critics gave such high ratings for this movie in my previous post. It was a great film to view in this class. The way they portrayed the whole movie influences you to believe that situations like these may actually happen. Some people are that mentally deranged that they would kill a human being over television ratings. You can never know what to expect fro some people these days.

Network's Reviews

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/
http://www.currentfilm.com/dvdreviews/networkdvd.html
http://www.thezreview.co.uk/dvdreviews/c/controversialclassics.htm
http://mywebsite.register.com/db5/00464/hollywood2you.tv/_download/H2YOUDVDfilmArchive062706.pdf

From the following reviews which were written by various viewers of the film , Network seems like a very exciting and interesting film. All of Network's reviews were 5 stars, 4 stars, and mostly in the high ratings. Since it is very true that all television shows and companies go for are viewer ratings, I'm curious as to what they do about this. Also, from reading reviews, it reminds me of the movie Rollerball, where the companies would kill and injure players of this new sport just for higher television ratings. Overall, Network seems to be a film i would like, and if it has won plenty of Oscars and Academy Awards, I'm pretty convinced to watch it.

Favortie Cable Television Show

My favorite cable television show on cable is Degrassi. I don't really watch tv as much and but out of the shows I've seen, Degrassi is one of my favorite shows. This show is about teenage drama and life. It includes many episodes about events or situations teenagers and youth are involved in such as drugs, sex, alcohol, fighting, backstabbing, cheating, puberty, lying, stress and even death. Degrassi is the high school all the characters go to and start all the drama in. I think I am a very likely person to be interested in this show. Since the show includes such drastic, hectic, and serious issues, the target audience would most likely include teens, like in the show, in their high school years. It has bee airing since the 1980s in Canada. The producers of this show are Linda Schuymer and Stephen Stohn. Linda Schuymer would have probably known about a lot of youth stress because she was a former teacher. Degrassi: The Next Generation is originally a Canadian show broadcasted in CBC, but in the United States, the show airs on PBS and The N/Noggin. It is owned by Viacom, who are the same owners of Nickelodeon. It’s rise in popularity came when it started airing on The N, and also, when Kevin Smith was guest starred in a few episodes. I think in the near future Degrassi will make its way into regular network television. The way the show has been progressing throughout the years, it seems very likely.

Thing Blue Line vs. America's Most Wanted

Thin Blue Line by Errol Morris:

• begining of the film
• camera begins on a map, keeps constantly zooming in to final location
  
• music plays a big role in film
• sets a mood and feeling
• parts with more music gives more suspense and excitement
  
• has reinactments of murder with more specific detail
• during film, the murder is played over and over again
  
• photos of officer killed
• drawn picture of where the officer was shot
• includes past newpaper articles and headlines on the story
• give setting and date
• partner of officer killed
  
• focusing on throwing her drink out the window in slow motion after hearing gun shots
• shows the electrocution chair
• includes many interviewers
• film was mostly composed of different people included with the murder
• has much longer time length than "America's Most Wanted"
• gives Morris the ability to give more specifics, details, and better scenes, setup
• more formal
  

America's Most Wanted by

• has a narrarator explaining the story
• main speaker of the film
• has the newscast feel to it
• much shorter time period
• not able to go into too much detail and specifics
• close up on telephone transition
• blurred view to hide the witness' identity
• uses victims little sisters' to speak on camera
• make the situation feel deeper
• more informal
  
• doesnt include reinactments
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