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http://www.NaturalNews.com/030091_Joycelyn_Elders_marijuana.html

This article is about marijuana and how it is less harmful than we think. The surgeon general has many points to make. We are wasting useful resources to incriminate young people. I believe in the same view as the author of this article. Marijuana is harmless.

http://www.drinkingbeer.net/BeerArticles/Liquor_Before_Beer_Never_Fear.php5

This article is about how to properly drink. It states that if you drink beer before liquor your chances to throw up are much more. I think this is absolutely true. Always drink liquor before beer.

http://www.salon.com/life/food/eat_drink/2007/12/21/absinthe

This article is about absinthe. Many people believe this drink makes you hallucinate. This article states that all of these myths are false. Absinthe is a different type of drink than average alcohol we drink in the US. This article has a lot of useful information including the legal status of absinthe. I have never tried but I agree with the article

The brand new 2011 Technine Team Bradshaw is one of the types of new age snowboards that recently have come out. These boards are the flashy type. This deck focuses less on specifications and more on graphics. The graphics on this board of a beer bottle, lighter, cigarette, pizza, and money show a lifestyle that a lot of snowboarders lead. A person might buy this board if they want others to know who they really are. Being seen with this Technine I promise you'll get attention. Notice how smooth the edges are on a radial cut. You can easily tell that the money you put into this board is more for looking cool than having the top of the line gear. One might buy this board if they feel they don't need the best new shit to do ill tricks.

The 2011 Lib Tech Skate Banana is one of the most popular snowboards out this year. With new groms (young snowboarders) wanting the best new gear it's no surprise this board gets all the hype. This board looks plain black on the bottom with some vibrant color on the brand name across the center. The graphics of this deck focus less on complicated artwork and more on simply stating the model and brand of the board. If you look closely you can see that the cuts in the side are not smooth as other boards. This serves to have more contact points with the snow. Even by just looking at this board you can tell it is top of the line.

Evaluation of The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight is one of the greatest movies of our time. Laremy Legel called Christopher Nolan’s, The Dark Knight, a masterwork. Most people would say this was a phenomenal film. This revolutionary film starred one of the best actors of all time, Heath Ledger. Christopher Nolan blew away most critics with his job directing. The Dark Knight is a film that was so popular and all around loved that it merits evaluation

I will be evaluating the Dark Knight on the directing, the characters, story line, actors, and theme.

Most aspects of this movie were great. Christopher Nolan did the directing in this film, and very well might I add. Nolan is said to be on a higher level than other filmmakers. Some critics say comparing this movie to other movies is like comparing, let’s say, The Tavern to McDonald’s. The overall quality of filmmaking in this movie is much better than other movies of our time such as Casino Royale, Transformers, and Spiderman. Nolan finds a way to show us what these people are thinking. This movie is less about the superhero versus super villain and more about the internal conflict and the choices we make.

The characters in this movie were flawless. The batman and joker obviously were great and an essential part but Harvey Dent, Alfred, Rachel, Gordon, Lucious, the detectives, and minor villains along the way were depicted beautifully.

The story line of The Dark Knight was perfect timing. Everything that happened in this movie happened at the perfect time. Being two and a half hours long some might say it would be nearly impossible to keep the watcher’s attention for that long. Comparing this movie to the Titanic, I’d say very similarly the amount of time was perfect and absolutely necessary. Every part of this movie kept me watching and wanting more without confusing me at any point like Nolan’s Inception did.

The Dark Knight starred some of the best actors of different generations. Christian Bale and Heath Ledger played the main characters the Batman and the joker. Christian Bale, the perfect actor for this part, has a lot of conflict within himself and he illustrates this quality well. This is shown by the part in the film when he must choose to save Rachel or the lives of a many families. Heath Ledger… what can be said about his role as the joker. He plays this role immaculately. He is a twisted genius in this film. The part couldn’t have been played any better.

The themes and motifs in this movie made those watching question if they, themselves, were good people. Some of the decisions Bale faces make one curious what they would do in a similar situation. The Dark Knight tells us how humans and society work. It shows us how close we are to chaos in our daily lives and asks if you need to become a monster to kill a monster (Legel).