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 Winston
Calculus: 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
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French Rouge (4): McDougal Littell
Spanish Paso A Paso (1): ScottForesman
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Linguistics: An Exploration of World LanguagesThomson Heinle
Probability and StatisticsW.H. Freeman and Company
Economics: Houghton Mifflin Company

Holt, Rinehart, and Winston -- Harcourt
McGraw Hill College -- McGraw Hill
Houghton Mifflin Company -- Houghton Mifflin
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. -- Wiley
Pearson Benjamin Cummings -- Pearson
Heinle & Heinle Thomson Learning -- The Thompson Corporation
Wadsworth Thomson Learning -- The Thompson Corporation
Mechanics Thomson Brooks/Cole -- The Thompson Corporation
McDougal Littell -- Houghton Mifflin
ScottForesman -- Pearson
Bedford/St. Martins -- affiliated with Bedford, Freeman, and Worth
Thomson Heinle -- The Thompson Corporation
W.H. Freeman and Company -- affiliated with Bedford, Freeman, and Worth

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Network seems to be very film noir and full of dark humor. It is a gutsy attack at the broadcasting industry shamelessly displaying that the only importance is that of ratings. Since I tend to enjoy dark social commentaries like this I feel that I will enjoy the movie and maybe even get something out of it.

The demographic for my chosen show, "Dexter," I think would be in the 18-49 range, and possibly mostly male. I don't know anyone else who watches the show, consequently I cannot say for sure. It is probably a similar demographic for any crime show. Since I somewhat fit the frame that tends to be associated with those kind of shows.

The show is written by Jeff Lindsay and produced by Daniel Cerone. The show is on Showtime which is a premium cable channel and only available there since the show is still in its first season. Showtime is owned by another media giant, CBS.

I still like "Dexter" and it makes sense that the show is good because CBS, the parent company of Showtime, is very selective in their TV shows and rarely ever airs what it feels to be a dud show.

The main difference between “America’s Most Wanted” and The Thin Blue Line, is time. With The Thin Blue Line, Errol Morris had a substantially greater amount of time to tell the story in its entirety. This was a huge benefit since it was faceted with many details it needed much time for them to be allocated properly.

When watching both, I noticed that The Thin Blue Line placed much emphasis on the crime rather than the characters. It became evident rather quickly who was guilty and who was innocent. This allowed for a deeper examination of the crime itself, which was more vital to the solving of the murder. With “America’s Most Wanted,” the act of the crime is quickly summarized and more detail is placed upon the suspect. Since there is less time available, coupled with a shorter attention span of the audience, the suspect is what the show is aiming for, not a solving of the crime.

With Errol Morris, his audience is more aware of what they are watching. When watching such a film, the viewers were informed of what the film was about, its length, and the fact that they had to pay an admission fee to watch it. This audience would be expected to be smarter than the average audience. With an audience that is commonly associated with “America’s Most Wanted,” the viewers tend to be browsing channels, bored, or similar to the blonde found in The Thin Blue Line, people who do not care about the crime, but more about the fame associated with the capture of a suspect regardless of status.

The use of reenactments would work well on television. This makes a crime personal and relatable to any audience. The similar works with location; when an audience knows where the crime happened in relation to other landmarks, it also helps people relate to it more. If the crime is in some obscure location, it deters interest away from people as they feel it is unimportant.

What wouldn’t work however are the extended interviews. The whole purpose of the show is to make the audience alert that someone is still at large. By having large amounts of people interviewing, one does not share that feeling that someone out there is still roaming free and are deadly.

While “America’s Most Wanted” has benevolent goals, it has become diluted down through culture as more an entertainment group than a law enforcement one. It has been juxtaposed with similar low-culture shows such as “Cops” and “World’s Wildest Police Videos.” The shows have to pack much information into a shorter time span and consequently quality suffers. The Thin Blue Line was a thought out, and very articulate documentation of a crime that focused on all the details and ends systematically. Not to mention that Errol Morris has had prior reputation that was more highly regarded.