DVD List

1. 9
2. 12 rounds
3. 28 days later
4. 30 days of night
5. 40-year-old virgin
6. 50 first dates
7. 88 minutes
8. 300
9. 500 days of summer
10. 2012
11. A knight’s tale
12. A lot like love
13. A series of unfortunate events
14. Accepted
15. Adjustment bureau
16. adventureland
17. Alice
18. Alice upside down
19. Alvin and the chipmunks
20. American pie
21. American psycho
22. Amityville horror
23. The Andromeda strain
24. Are we there yet
25. Assassination of a high school president
26. Avatar
27. Awake
28. The backup plan
29. Balls of fury
30. Bandits
31. Baseketball
32. Batman 1+2
33. Batman 3+4
34. Battle los angeles
35. Be kind rewind
36. Beastly
37. Beetlejuince
38. Blade
39. Blood
40. The boondock saints
41. The boondock saints 2
42. The bounty hunter
43. The box
44. Bride wars
45. Bring it on
46. brokeback mountain
47. Brothers grimm
48. Bruce almighty
49. Buried
50. Burn after reading
51. Case 39
52. The cat in the hat
53. Catch that kid
54. Cats and dogs
55. The cave
56. Charlie and the chocolate factory
57. Children of men
58. The condemned
59. Confessions of a teenage drama queen
60. The covenant
61. Cowboys and aliens
62. Crank
63. The crazies
64. Crazy stupid love
65. Cry baby
66. Damage
67. Dan in real life
68. Date night
69. The day after tomorrow
70. day breakers
71. The day the earth stood still
72. Dead silence
73. Death race
74. Definitely, maybe
75. Despicable me
76. Devour
77. The dilemma
78. Dinner for schmucks
79. District 9
80. Disturbia
81. dodge ball
82. Donnie darko
83. Dracula
84. Dracula 2000
85. Dragonheart
86. drillbit taylor
87. Dude where’s my car
88. Due date
89. Eagle eye
90. Eragon
91. The eye
92. Failure to launch
93. Fame
94. Faster
95. The fifth element
96. Fighting
97. The fog
98. The forgotten
99. Friday the 13th
100. Futurama: the beast with a billion backs
101. Gabriel
102. Garfield
103. Garfield: a tail of two kitties
104. Gattaca
105. Get smart
106. Girl, interrupted
107. Ghost town
108. Good luck chuck
109. Goosebumps: say cheese and die
110. The green mile
111. Hancock
112. The hangover
113. The hangover part 2
114. Hannibal rising
115. The Hannibal lector collection (man hunter, silence of the lambs, Hannibal)
116. The happening
117. Happy feet
118. Hard candy
119. Harry potter and the sorcerer’s stone
120. Harry potter and the chamber of secrets
121. Harry potter and the prison of Azkaban
122. Harry potter and the goblet of fire
123. Harry potter and the order of the phoenix
124. Harry potter and the half blood prince
125. Harry potter and the deathly hallows part 1
126. The haunted airman
127. The haunting in Connecticut
128. Hellboy
129. Hellboy 2
130. Hercules
131. Hitch
132. Hitcher
133. Hitman
134. The holiday
135. Horrible bosses
136. Horseman
137. Horton hears a who
138. Hot fuzz
139. Hot tub time machine
140. How the grinch stole Christmas
141. How to be
142. How to lose friends and alienate people
143. How to train your dragon
144. Hunt to kill
145. I am legend
146. I love you, man
147. I love you Philip Morris
148. I, robot
149. I spit on your grave
150. Ice age
151. Ice age 2
152. Ice age 3
153. In the land of women
154. Inception
155. Inside man
156. Interview with the vampire
157. The invention of lying
158. The invisible
159. Iron man
160. It’s kind of a funny story
161. jarhead
162. Jeff Dunham: arguing with myself
163. Jeff Dunham: spark of insanity
164. Journey to the center of the earth
165. Jumper
166. Juno
167. Just go with it
168. Just Wright
169. Kick ass
170. Killers
171. Kingdom of heaven
172. Knight and day
173. Knowing
174. Knocked up
175. Kung fu panda
176. Labyrinth
177. Last house on the left
178. Law abiding citizen
179. Legendary
180. Legally blonde
181. Let me in
182. Little miss sunshine
183. Little Nicky
184. Live free or die hard
185. The longest yard
186. The losers
187. The lost boys
188. Lost boys 2
189. Lost boys 3
190. Love and other drugs
191. The lovely bones
192. Mall cop
193. Mama’s boy
194. The marine
195. Matilda
196. Mean girls
197. Meet the Robinsons
198. Meet the Spartans
199. Men in black
200. Men in black 2
201. The men who star at goats
202. The messengers
203. Michael Clayton
204. The midnight meat train
205. Miss congeniality
206. Miss congeniality 2
207. Monkeybone
208. Monster, inc
209. Mr and mrs smith
210. My soul to take
211. National treasure
212. Newsies
213. Never cry werewolf
214. The never-ending story
215. Nick and Norah’s infinite play list
216. Night at the museum
217. Nightmare on elm street 1-4
218. Nightmare on elm street 4-8
219. Nim’s island
220. The nines
221. Observe and report
222. October sky
223. Open house
224. Open season
225. The orphanage
226. The other side of heaven
227. p.s. I love you
228. Panic room
229. Pan’s labyrinth
230. Paper heart
231. Peaceful warrior
232. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: the lighting thief
233. Perfect getaway
234. The phantom of the opera
235. Pineapple express
236. Pirates of the Caribbean
237. Pirates of the Caribbean 2
238. Pirates of the Caribbean 3
239. Prince of Persia
240. Prom night
241. Public enemies
242. Pulse
243. Quarantine
244. Quarantine 2
245. Racing stripes
246. Ray
247. Red dragon
248. Red eye
249. Reign over me
250. Remember me
251. Rendition
252. Resident evil 4
253. Riding the bullet
254. Robin hood men in tights
255. Robots
256. rock n Rolla
257. The rocky horror picture show
258. The runaways
259. Run fatboy run
260. s. darko
261. Santa claus is comin’ to town
262. Saw
263. Saw 2
264. Saw 3
265. Saw 4
266. Saw 5
267. Saw 6
268. Saw 7
269. Scary movie
270. Scary movie 2
271. Scary movie 3
272. Scary movie 4
273. School for scoundrels
274. School of rock
275. Scooby-doo
276. Scooby-doo original mysteries
277. Scott pilgrim vs. the world
278. See no evil
279. Seven
280. Shanghai noon 1+2
281. Shark tale
282. Shaun of the dead
283. She’s out of my league
284. The shining
285. Shrek
286. Shrek 2
287. Shrek 3
288. Shrek 4
289. Sin city
290. Smart people
291. Smokin’ aces
292. Sorority row
293. South park bigger, longer, and uncut
294. Spiderwick chronicles
295. The spongebob squarepants movie
296. Stick it
297. Stone
298. The stranger
299. The strangers
300. Sucker punch
301. Summer’s moon
302. Superbad
303. Sweeny tood
304. The switch
305. Sydney white
306. Terminator salvation
307. The tourist
308. Training day
309. Traitor
310. Transformers
311. The transporter
312. Tremors
313. The truman show
314. Tucker and dale vs. evil
315. Tuxedo
316. Ts: Twilight in forks
317. Ts: destination forks
318. Ts: Twilight (2 copies)
319. Ts: New moon (3 copies)
320. Ts: Eclipse
321. Ultraviolet
322. The uninvited
323. Unknown
324. Untraceable
325. Up in the air
326. Urban legends
327. Urban legends 2
328. V for vendetta
329. The vampire’s assistant
330. Walking tall
331. Walle
332. Wanted
333. Watchmen
334. Welcome to the rileys
335. What a girl wants
336. When in Rome
337. Where the wild things are
338. Without a paddle
339. The wolfman
340. Wrong side of town
341. Wrong turn 1+2
342. The xfiles
343. Xmen first class
344. Xmen orgins; wolverine
345. Year one
346. The year without a santa claus
347. Yes man
348. Youth in revolt
349. Zack and miri make a porno
350. Zodiac
351. Zombie dairies
352. Zoolander

 These movies are listed separately for a reason, but they will also be reviewed:

1. Clerks
2. Mallrats
3. Dogma
4. Jay and silent bob strike back
5. Clerks 2
6. Emperor’s new groove
7. Kronk’s new groove
8. Forgetting sarah marshall
9. Get him to the greek
10. The dukes of hazard / starsky and hutch
11. My blood valentine / april fool’s day
12. A little princess / the secret garden
13. Desperado / once upon a time in mexico 

An End to Oil Drilling?



U.S. offshore oil fire.

Richard Charter wrote in an article about the announcement made on December first that the Obama administration will not allow offshore oil drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico or off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts as part of the next five-year drilling plan. Although this sounds like a huge step forward the plan still allows Arctic drilling to move forward.

I feel like this is a good step forward after the BP oil spill disaster. There is already so much oil in the water from run off that we really don't need to be adding any more. I just can't imagine that anything bad can come from NOT drilling from oil.

This material relates to class because we are talking about aquatic ecosystems right now which can be highly affected by oil, especially oil spills. A stop to drilling will be a great thing for many aqatic ecosystems around America.

Why Save the Polar Bears?

In the article I read this week I've learned a few things about polar bears. You always hear people going on and on about polar bears and why we need to save them from extinction, but why? I understand that any animal going extinction is a big deal, but animals all across the world are in danger of being extincted so why are polar bears getting so much attention? Well I think I finally understand why.

Do you know that polar bears are the largest predations on earth?! They are twice the size of a tiger! Polar bears only weigh about one pound when born, but they can weigh up to 1,700 pounds as adults! This definitely seems like one of the reasons that polar bears get so much attention. I feel like these are the kinds of things that they need to talk about whenever they say how much troubles polar bears are going through with their habits being destroyed.   

This article discusses what can be done to help save the polar bears from extinction. There are many actions being taken to try to stop this from happening. Many different acts are trying to be passed that will help save polar bears from all of the troubles they are facing that are causing their species to dwindle.

 

Recently in class we've been talking about food chains. I have to imagine that if the largest predator were to go extincted that it would severely negatively affect food chains. Populations of animals would probably go crazy! Without polar bears who will eat the seals? And if seal populations go up then the fish populations are sure to go down, so what will happen then?  

I think this article finally clears up the questions I had about the importance of polar bears in the animal kingdom. It's obvious to me know why it is so important that will keep polar bears from going extincted. Save the polar bears!

"Protect Polar Bears" Video

WARNING: video a bit graphic at some points!

How NOT to Clean Up an Oil Spill!

Today I learned from Brian Merchant's article "People are Dropping Dead" from BP Dispersants: Toxicologist how the BP oil spill is being cleaned up. Now I think everyone knows about the tragic oil spill in the Gulf and how much difficulty there was with trying to clean it all up. Well it seems that the solution found for cleaning up the spoil has turned out to have negative effects.

A chemical cocktail called Corexit, which is untested, has had 1.9 million gallons dumped on the Gulf in an effort to break up the oil. There's only one problem, the chemical has turned out to be toxic. Local residents are being afflicted by respiratory sickness and worse, some people have DIED from exposure! The symptoms being experienced include: "headaches, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pains, chest pains, respiratory system damage, skin sensitization, hypertension, central nervous system depression, neurotoxic effects, genetic mutations, cardiac arrhythmia, and cardiovascular damage."

I think this is completely crazy! I also can't believe that I haven't heard about it until now! I just can't believe that they would try to solve this problem by using untested chemicals! It's completely irresponsible and insane!

I think this relates to class because the way we solve problems now is going to affect future generations. We need to be more careful or there could be no environment left for the future!

Where to Find the Greenest Cars



In Megan Treacy's article 'Honda Crowned Greenest Automaker' she writes about the fifth annual ranking of the greenest automaker. With 2008 being the most recent year that they had complete data models from Environmental Protection Agency and Transportation Department it is possible that the outcome of the research is a bit out of date, but at the time of 2008 the greenest of the automakers was Honda. Of the top eight automakers selling cars in the United States, together making up 92% of the vehicles available in the United States, Toyota trailed in second with help from their Prius and Hyundai was in third; following behind the top three was Volkswagen, Nissan, Ford, GM, and Crysler. 

The Honda Insight



To calculate these results the predicted impact of the automakers' fleets on global warming- based largely on miles per gallon- as well as the smog-forming emissions of the engines were taken and compared. The study said that "selling a modest number of clean and efficient models" was not enough to be considered a green automaker; all of their vehicles had to do well. In all five years of the study each year Honda was come in first. 



I find this information to be very interesting. I never realized that they did an annual ranking of the greenest automaker, I thought they only did them for the cars themselves. I think this is a good way for people to see where it is best to get environmentally friendly cars which is great for anyone who is trying to find a way to be more green.

This relates to class because being more green is obviously what the world needs to all be shooting for. Everyone needs to do what they can to lower pollution and the use of resources so that Earth will go a little less negatively affected. Another thing this got me thinking about was what we talked about in class on Wednesday involving the amounts of oil in the water. 51% of the oil in the waters comes off of the land; main example used in class is when we go to fill up our cars and a drop or two of oil comes out of the hose and follows onto the ground. If everyone drove greener cars that get better miles to the gallon then we wouldn't have to fill up our tanks as much which should lead to less oil being spilled onto land and then washing into the waters.   

So if you're looking for a green car you might want to check out Honda!

Video from 2007 when Honda won Greenest Automaker:

Video found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qXfYVMMHnc

Sunny California



One of California's many solar farms.



All of us know that our now acquired need for electricity takes up a lot of resources to be provided to us, so my question would be, Why aren’t we trying to find different sources of power? There are natural resources that can be used to provide us with our electricity, so why are we not all switching to these ways? Well one state is moving forward and it’s California.

California is the nation’s largest solar producer and are moving forward to have one-third of the state solar powered by 2020. I feel like more states should be taking this step forward to switch to natural resources of power, and thanks to California’s aggressive move forward with solar power the rest of the U.S. is now realizing “that solar is here, not a technology of the future.” I’m glad that California’s use of solar power is encouraging other states to move forward with the use of alternative sources of power.

This article relates to class because resource depletion is one of the six major environmental problems. I believe that switching to solar power would lower of resource use and help out the environment dramatically.

Our Air is Being Polluted!

How would you like to be breathing in this air?

I have never really given any thought to the air that I am breathing in every day, but after reading this article I have started to. What is in the air that we are breathing, and is it killing us?

It is true that in Texas alone (Texas containing the most operating plants in all the nation) there are 400,000 tons per year of ozone-forming pollution, more than 227 million tons per year of carbon dioxide, huge quantities of soot and other fine particle pollution, and almost 14,000 pounds per year of mercury. So with pollution being one of the top environmental problems why is nothing being done to stop it? There has been something done. A suit was filled on behalf of Sierra Club for Texas's evasion of the Clean Air Act that has been in affect for forty years and is to be followed by all of the nation. Earthjustice associate attorney Khushi Desai had this to say about the lawsuit: 

"We maintain that Texas's continued evasion of its Clean Air Act obligations has unduly compromised the health of its own citizens, as well as those residing in downwind states, for far too long. Our suit says that EPA must, as the law requires, finally address Texas' failures and take action to implement national air quality standards in the state."

After talking in class about our top six environmental problems I was surprised to hear that Texas was contributing so harshly to our pollution problem. I was also unaware of the Clean Air Act. With pollution essentially being against the law then how has Texas evaded it for so long? And how is it that pollution is still such a major problem?

It is true that breathing in this polluted air can make you SICK! A girl by the name of Raviya Ismail went to a hearing in Texas about air pollution (How ironic is that?) and after only a few days was beginning to feel run down with burning eyes and labored breathing that she believes it was caused by breathing in this polluted air! With this problem putting people at risk I am glad to hear that it has finally been acknowledged and will hopefully be dealt with very soon because it is not only the occupants of Texas that are suffering but also all the occupants in states surrounding it. That's a lot of people breathing in polluted air!