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21st Century America – A Primer President Obama’s Unkept Promises, In His Own Words ‘I Don’t Want To Live In A Society That Does These Sort Of Things’ America’s Military: An Institution’s Uneasy Cultural Evolution American Terrorism Confessions of a Drone Pilot Murdering Children Soldiers Are Waking Up Secret Tactics 10 Everyday Products That Are…

ECS 2: Growing Up Online – 1.20.15

Instructions: Watch film entitled Growing Up Online by Frontline. The film can be found by clicking on the link. Please watch on the main screen as a whole class and take notes on important facts and statements that leap out at you. Take notes. After you watch the film, log into the blog that you…

Friday Film Course – 1.16.15

Directions: Please respond to the following prompts. You may either hand-write these or send them to me digitally to timbjornstad@me.com.  Part One – Articles & Papers: Please study these documents. I want you to write a paragraph explaining which aspect of filmmaking you are most interested in exploring and experiencing.  Nine Elements of A Great Film…

War Is A Racket

CHAPTER ONE: War Is A Racket WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket…

Beyond Religion

Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from “Beyond Religion” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved. I am an old man now. I was born in 1935 in a small village in northeastern Tibet. For reasons beyond my control, I have lived most of my adult…

Friday Film Course – 1.9.15

Articles & Papers: Nine Elements of A Great Film Four Elements of Film Formal Elements of Film Film Clips: Filmmaking Advice Friday 101: 7 Things to Know About Making Short Films Last Year In Viet Nam – Part 1 Last Year In Viet Nam – Part 2 Steven Spielberg’s Advice Joss Whedon On Filmmaking: Part…