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Art, Music and Photography

The Man Who Got Famous Because Of Global Warming

Chasing Ice is not just a movie slideshow of ice. There's even a part where the main character, James Balog, drops the F-bomb. Ultimately is was a very human story, because I still believe, even after seeing the movie, that the main message rings...

chasing ice

Glaciers are rapidly receding, we are all told this over the course of our high school class be it by a classmate, teacher, or the media. However, we are only told, not shown. James Balog's poignant film Chasing Ice delivers a shudder through the...

Chasing Ice

Chasing Ice, a film showcased in the Sundance Film Festival, clearly proved beyond a doubt that the ice caps are melting at an alarming rate that is highly affected by the human impact on the Earth. Although I was already a strong believer in the...

Literature and Inquiry

Chasing Ice, and Theory

The Sundance Film Festival is notorious for their controversial films on present day issues, this year I attended the documentary: Chasing Ice. In this documentary, a film crew follows National Geographic Photographer James Balog as he travels to...

Chasing Ice

Yesterday the senior class at my school attended a Sundance Film Festival event at the Rose Wagner Theater. We viewed a documentary titled "Chasing Ice" about James Balog, a photographer who photographed the melting of glaciers in Iceland, Greenland...

Glaciers: Nature's Most Oppressed Being

Chasing Ice is an independent documentary about the effect of climate change on our world's glacier. Glaciers are like the mine canaries in our world's ecosystem, and by studying glaciers we can find out what is going on in our atmosphere. Chasing...

Local Knowledge / Global Attitude

Chasing Ice

The seniors at Judge Memorial Catholic High School had the opportunity to go watch a film at the Sundance film festival. We were watch a documentary called, "Chasing Ice". At first my first impression was, great, we're going to a film about...

Chasing Ice Prefense

I never thought I'd want to live in Greenland among the glaciers, but that was my life before "Chasing Ice", a documentary about James Balog, a photographer who documented global warming by documenting glaciers as part of his Extreme Ice Survey....

Chasing Ice: A Brilliant Sundance Film

I was fortunate enough to watch the Sundance documentary, Chasing Ice. This film was absolutely incredible. Because the film was based off of an extremely popular social issue, the audience was very engaged. The film was well thought out and put...

Gaming and New Media

Giants Patriots II

NFL Championship Weekend is over and the Super Bowl is set. The NY Giants will face the NE Patriots 2 weeks from today in a rematch of the 2007 Super Bowl. The Patriots won a hard fought battle with the Baltimore Ravens and The Giants won a great...

RIP Joe Paterno

If you walk down any street in any city in America, and ask someone if they heard about the Penn State issues, chances are they'll say yes. Chances are the next thing they'll say is " did you hear that Joe Paterno died?" Joe Paterno was the head...

A New Gaming System??

A recent flurry of news stories appeared a week ago about the possible announcement of a new gaming system both for Sony and Microsoft. There was debate on whether the announcement would be made at the annual Consumer Electronics Show. The CES is...

Our Space (K-8)

Writing One Act Plays

I am in Language arts and need an idea for my one act play i have to write. Can anyone help me with a topic/idea?

Language Arts test

My 8th grade language arts class is currently trying to find a social networking website that will allow us to publish our written work, thoughts and feelings, and comment on multiple subjects. I'm looking for suggestions. Any feedback would be...

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