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Reel to Real is a guide to help adults and youth create innovative learning opportunities using videos or current and classic movies that are available on video. Movies are selected which both interest youth and which offer insights into life and faith. R
Customer Reviews:
contents.......2007-09-14
Contact, Marvin's Room, Spitfire Grill, My Best Friend's Wedding, In and Out, Grease; Feature: Who Does Hollywood Say That I Am? (Jesus of Nazareth, The Gospel According to Matthew, Jesus, Godspell)
Good choice for youth ministry.......2001-05-30
My husband and I have just recently began using the Reel to Real curriculum with our church's jr youth group and have been very impressed. The kids love wathcing the movies, and tying them to biblical characters, references, and principles heps the youth remember what you are teaching. The only thing I would change is that some of the movies are a little too mature for our group. While they might be fine for high school groups and great for college groups, our groups is younger (grades 3-8), so some of the subjects are too advanced. So I appredciate it even more when they include movies targeted to younger ages - such as Sleeping Beauty in this one.
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For many New Yorkers, the removal of the Brooklyn Dodgers--perhaps the most popular baseball team of all time--to Los Angeles in 1957 remains one of the most traumatic events since World War II. Neil J. Sullivan's controversial reassessment of a story that has reached almost mythic proportions in its many retellings shifts responsibility for the move onto the local governmental maneuverings that occurred on both sides of the continent. Conventional wisdom has it that Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley cold-heartedly abandoned the devoted Brooklyn fans for the easy money of Los Angeles. Sullivan argues that O'Malley had, in fact, wanted to stay in Brooklyn, hoping to build a new stadium with his own money. Situated in an increasingly unsafe neighborhood and without parking facilities, Ebbets Field had become obsolete. Yet an uncooperative New York City administration, led by Robert Moses, blocked O'Malley's plan to use the ideal site at the Atlantic Avenue Long Island Railroad terminal. A political battle over the Dodgers' move also erupted in Los Angeles. Mayor Poulson's suggestion to use Chavez Ravine as the new stadium site triggered opposition from residents concerned about a giveaway. Eventually a telethon campaign that enlisted the help of celebrities such as Groucho Marx, George Burns, and Ronald Reagan enabled the approval of the deal. Set against a backdrop of sporting passion and rivalry, and appearing over thirty years after the Dodgers' last season in Brooklyn, this engrossing book offers new insights into the power struggles existing in the nation's two largest cities.
Customer Reviews:
Highly objective and wothwhile.......2005-08-29
I was a sad 10-year-old Brooklyn kid when I learned the dodgers were going to leave us. Like most everyone around, I tended to blame Walter O'Malley's greed. Yet in the end it may have been O'Malley's vanity more than his greed that was most responsible for the fateful decision.
As Neil Sullivan so well points out, a strong case can be made that O'Malley didn't really want to leave at first. If he just wanted to take off, he would not have had the Dodgers play some of their home games in Jersey City. That had to be nothing more than an attempt to get the indifferent New York politicos to take him more seriously. In addition, O'Malley's family roots were all in New York. O'Malley wanted to build a ballpark at the junction of Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues, an ideal location as many subway lines converged there as well as the Long Island Railroad. O'Malley, in other words, believed in public transportation that would make it easy for the average working person to get to the ballpark.
Robert Moses, who blocked O'Malley's path at every opportunity was determined to get the Dodgers out of urban Brooklyn and into what was then semi-suburban Queens. Moses hated the subway system and loved the automobile. It was he who insisted on building the Cross-Bronx Expressway, which tore the heart out of certain neighborhoods in that borough and today is both a bottleneck and an eyesore. Anything to accommodate suburbanites at the expense of the working stiffs. Moses claimeed that putting a ballpark at Flatbush and Atlantic would have caused many thriving businesses to relocate. In fact the Flatbush-Atlantic junction rapidly deteriorated and most of those thriving businesses went under on their own.
The bottom line was that the unelected Parks Commissioner Moses considered himself the czar of all recreation in New York and was not about to let anyone build a ballpark anywhere except where he (Moses) wanted it. In fact what O'Malley proposed was an urban renewal project that was none of the Parks Commissioner's business. But New York's mayor at the time, Robert F. Wagner had the backbone of a jellyfish and was not about to stand up to Moses.
O'Malley, who had invested considerable time and effort on the Flatbush-Atlantic site, finally got tired of being strung along and had no desire to become Moses' tenant and underling in Queens. He saw an opportunity in L.A. and took it. And so today we have ugly Shea Stadium, neo-Stalinist in design, named for a politico, and built under the aegis of Moses, far more unattractive than O'Malley's Dodger Stadium. People can't wait for Shea Stadium to be torn down and replaced by a building with some charm, while O'Malley's beautiful ballpark wil last indefinitely into the future.
Neil Sullivan's book is an excellent read and highly recommended.
A Reminder to a Forgotten Person!.......2003-08-10
I have recently read the book "Dodgers Move West" written by Neil Sullivan. On the whole, I must state that this is a good book to get a historical perspective and behind the scenes movers and shakers without having extensive knowledge of the topic. Where the book seems to lose some focus is when Mr. Sullivan repeats certain facts such as Walter O'Malley's position regarding the relocation of the Brooklyn Dodgers to California. However, Mr. Sullivan provides a good compare and contrast with the situation involving the New York Giants move to California. The strength of this long forgotten book is the role played by NYC Parks Commissioner, Robert Moses. With recent books supporting the same thesis it can be clearly stated that the most influential (and forgotten) person responsible for Brooklyn losing the Dodgers is Robert Moses. What this book has done is to provide me with the incentive to read a class called "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro. Can you guess whois the "Power Broker" ?
Misses The Deeper Meaning.......2001-06-25
The problem with Neal Sullivan's book is not in the facutal information that he's gathered surrounding the events that led to the Dodgers move west. The problem lies in the fact that his desire to approach the subject with a cold detachment forces him to overlook the deeper emotional impact of this move, and ultimately avoid completely the ethical questions surrounding the Dodgers move west and the lasting scars it left on Brooklyn.
Sullivan's thesis is that Walter O'Malley, the most reviled man in New York City, did not set out to move the Dodgers to Los Angeles and would have stayed in Brooklyn had he received the land he wanted. He makes a compelling case that ultimately Robert Moses, who wanted only the eventual Flushing Meadow site of Shea Stadium developed for stadium use, was perhaps the greater villain in the whole affair. And he argues that O'Malley was less the conniving evil figure that the tradtional view of works like "Bums" and "The Boys Of Summer" would indicate.
This part of Sullivan's thesis has some merit to it. Where Sullivan ultimately loses me is his degenerating into something bordering on O'Malley sycophancy. He argues that Walter O'Malley deserves induction in the Hall of Fame for having supposedly had the the foresight to expand baseball to the west, a community that had long been denied baseball, and because the Dodgers achieved success in Los Angeles. And he argues that because Ebbets Field had been built under the "free market" model of baseball economics, Walter O'Malley ultimately had every right to do what he wanted to do with his own ball club.
This however, is where Sullivan is dead wrong. First, Walter O'Malley does not deserve induction into the Hall of Fame simply for being the first beneficiary of an idea that other owners and men were envisioning much sooner. Nor for that matter does O'Malley merit induction simply because he presided over successful teams, because under that model George Steinbrenner should be a candidate for induction as well. The success of the Dodgers in Los Angeles ultimately rests with its players and front office management like Buzzie Bavasi and Al Campanis, not O'Malley.
Finally, Sullivan's determination to prove that O'Malley was in the technical right to do what he felt was necessary to make more money for his franchise, conveniently overlooks a salient point. Walter O'Malley may have been the team's owner, but the Dodgers were not a longstanding family business as the Giants had been with Horace Stoneham. O'Malley was an outsider who had forced his way to the top and had been principal owner for less than a decade when he decided that he had the right to take something that had been the heart and soul of a community for 67 years away from them forever, even though his financial situation wasn't comparable to that of franchise owners in Philadelphia, St. Louis and Boston who had moved earlier in the decade (as well as that of Horace Stoneham). Technically, O'Malley had the right to move, but ethically and morally, the Brooklyn Dodgers did not belong to O'Malley the man, they belonged to the people of Brooklyn. If Walter O'Malley wasn't making good money from the team, then his first obligation was to cut his losses, sell and let other local ownership try their hand at improving the situation. This is ultimately the ethical side that should separate a sports franchise ownership apart from any other business, when it is a part of the community and Neal Sullivan misses the boat completely on this point in his determination to whitewash the heart of the matter and make O'Malley look good in the end.
The O'Malley Bunko.......2001-05-25
Perhaps inevitably an academic who was not on the scene close up is the one would give us the O'Malley house version of why the the Dodgers abandoned Brooklyn. Sullivan argues that Walter O'Malley would have kept the team in Brooklyn if only New York's big bad politicos had given him a site where he could erect a ball park with his own funds. But as Roger Kahn points out in "The Era", O'Malley did not actually have sufficient funds. Journalists around at the time -- the late 1950s -- were not fooled by O'Malley, whom Branch Rickey called "the most devious man I ever met." Sullivan has done some hard research but unfortunately it is wasted as he swallows the O'Malley line like a very hungry trout.
The real reasons behind the dodgers move to Los Angeles.......1999-08-27
Sullivan's masterful research draws the reader into the battle, fiancially and politically, to keep the Dodgers in brooklyn. This book takes you behind the scenes like no other. It's not just O'Malley packing up and leaving. I'll guarantee you at the end of this book, you'll be blown away at the many chances the Dodgers had at actually staying in Brooklyn. Also, you'll look at Robert Moses in a different way, and how I feel that he is as much to blame for the move too.
Average customer rating:
- An interesting story but I would have liked a little more analysis
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An interesting story but I would have liked a little more analysis.......2006-12-17
This is a decent urban history book that covers the reasons for the movement of people from the east to the west coast. It follows the baseball team the dodgers as they decide to get out of New York and head to Los Angeles. It understands the significance of the automobile and the attraction in the post world war 2 era to move towards the west coast. The widespread use of the airplane makes it possible for teams to head out that far so that they can travel. This is a light read that is very well done and is good for either fans of sports or urban history.
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From Jersey tomatoes and blueberries, the Tigers of Princeton and the Scarlet Knights of Rutgers, the songs of the Boss and the Chairman of the Board, New Jersey has long provided a treasure trove of exceptional sons and daughters, legends and folklore, amazing facts and figures — not to mention a wealth of jokes. Whether going "down the shore," getting lost in the Pine Barrens, dining on great cuisine in Newark's Ironbound district, or driving down the Turnpike, traveling around New Jersey captures the imagination. Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into New Jersey presents over 300 pages of interesting and entertaining articles covering tons of little-known facts about the Garden State.
Customer Reviews:
Trenton Makes, The World Takes.......2007-01-06
So far, about half way through the book and I find the acticles as good or better than the General BR series. I love American History, and this book is quite an addictive read! Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein would be proud, as they are both written about as New Jersey residents.
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A must for cat-lovers of all ages! Did you know that Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows when their cats died? Do you know how cats purr? (Don't worry, neither do scientists!) Covers trivia, cats in history and legends, derivations and explanations of words and expressions with cat in them (like the cat-alog you're reading now!) + health & training tips and information about cat shows and organizations in New Mexico. Includes Kitty Litter Cat Trivia, the Cat's Pajamas, Cat Stats & more + history, math, science, a writing activity, cat careers + bibliography, index, glossary and appendix. Purrfect for all readers! Free teacher's guide gives specific suggestions and instructions on how to get max educational value from this book. You may not exactly worship your cat like the ancient Egyptians did, but if you love it, you'll love this book!
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In this book you'll discover unusual facts, some historic, some as recent as today's headlines, that you'll find hard to believe, but they will be true! A compilation of the strange people and strange happenings that always seem to get left out of the history books. Serves both to reinforce knowledge about New Mexico and introduce new ideas. Bite-sized bits of information are interspersed with longer pieces; why not read aloud one of these hard-to-believes to your class each day?! Also makes a very popular check-out book for the library. Free teacher's guide gives specific suggestions and instructions on how to get max educational value from this book. As you can see, Carole Marsh finds quality education under many guises!
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More than 12 thousand years ago the first dog was domesticated, and dogs have been a favorite pet ever since! This book includes Famous New Mexico Dog Tales, A Breed Apart, Obedience School, Doggone Trivia, Hot Dogs, Canine Cuisine and more + bibliography, glossary, appendix and index. Read about dog clubs and shows in New Mexico, the ten most popular dog breeds in New Mexico, and the rarest and strangest dog breeds anywhere! Which breed has webbed feet, white eyes and loves Cajun food? Which breed was declared a national treasure in Japan? Where did your breed of dog come from? The answers to these questions and many more can be found in this book. Free teacher's guide gives specific suggestions and instructions on how to get max educational value from this book. Put some bite into history! No matter what the subject, you can count on Carole Marsh to cover the history, geography, science, math, literature & many other aspects. That's her trademark - she can charm the smarts into kids - they have fun & learn too!
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More than 12 thousand years ago the first dog was domesticated, and dogs have been a favorite pet ever since! This book includes Famous New Mexico Dog Tales, A Breed Apart, Obedience School, Doggone Trivia, Hot Dogs, Canine Cuisine and more + bibliography, glossary, appendix and index. Read about dog clubs and shows in New Mexico, the ten most popular dog breeds in New Mexico, and the rarest and strangest dog breeds anywhere! Which breed has webbed feet, white eyes and loves Cajun food? Which breed was declared a national treasure in Japan? Where did your breed of dog come from? The answers to these questions and many more can be found in this book. Free teacher's guide gives specific suggestions and instructions on how to get max educational value from this book. Put some bite into history! No matter what the subject, you can count on Carole Marsh to cover the history, geography, science, math, literature & many other aspects. That's her trademark - she can charm the smarts into kids - they have fun & learn too!
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A must for cat-lovers of all ages! Did you know that Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows when their cats died? Do you know how cats purr? (Don't worry, neither do scientists!) Covers trivia, cats in history and legends, derivations and explanations of words and expressions with cat in them (like the cat-alog you're reading now!) + health & training tips and information about cat shows and organizations in New Mexico. Includes Kitty Litter Cat Trivia, the Cat's Pajamas, Cat Stats & more + history, math, science, a writing activity, cat careers + bibliography, index, glossary and appendix. Purrfect for all readers! Free teacher's guide gives specific suggestions and instructions on how to get max educational value from this book. You may not exactly worship your cat like the ancient Egyptians did, but if you love it, you'll love this book!
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In this book you'll discover unusual facts, some historic, some as recent as today's headlines, that you'll find hard to believe, but they will be true! A compilation of the strange people and strange happenings that always seem to get left out of the history books. Serves both to reinforce knowledge about New Mexico and introduce new ideas. Bite-sized bits of information are interspersed with longer pieces; why not read aloud one of these hard-to-believes to your class each day?! Also makes a very popular check-out book for the library. Free teacher's guide gives specific suggestions and instructions on how to get max educational value from this book. As you can see, Carole Marsh finds quality education under many guises!
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Would your students believe that a 3-month school year might not be a good thing? Would you believe that Nintendo is concerned with children's education? Believe it or not, there's lots of fascinating information about schools in New Mexico. You won't believe how much things have changed, and how much they've stayed the same. New Mexico students once wrote on birch bark and had to make their own ink; now they use pink candy-filled erasers! In the eighteenth century, Thomas Jefferson lamented the lack of science teachers - this sounds familiar today! This book will teach you about the history of schools in New Mexico, but mostly it will help you and your students see that school can be interesting . . . and there's always more to learn. Free teacher's guide gives specific suggestions and instructions on how to get max educational value from this book. Something students & teachers can enjoy equally together - perhaps the best lesson of all?!
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Updated to cover Flash MX, the newest version of Macromedia Flash, ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition is the one book no serious Flash developer should be without. ActionScript is Macromedia's programming language for Flash MX, the popular authoring tool for creating rich internet applications and animations for the Web. With Macromedia's new focus on application development, ActionScript now includes a direct drawing API, loading of external MP3 and JPG files, improved sound control, an extensive set of text formatting tools, complete support for component development using movie clip subclasses, local data storage, accessibility features, and much more. And ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide is the most complete, up-to-date reference available for the latest version of this language. Author Colin Moock, one of the most universally respected developers in the Flash community, has added hundreds of new code examples to show new Flash MX techniques in the real world: how to draw circles, save data to disk, convert arrays to onscreen tables, create reusable components, and preload variables, XML, and sounds. The book's language reference alone has nearly doubled from the first edition, with more than 250 new classes, objects, methods, and properties. You'll find exhaustive coverage of dozens of undocumented, under-documented, and mis-documented features. Along with the new material, Colin Moock has meticulously revised the entire text to conform to Flash MX best-coding practices. In particular, objected-oriented programming and the new event model get special attention in light of changes to Flash MX ActionScript. From sending data between two movies to creating getter/setter properties, the new edition of this book demystifies the often-confusing new features of Flash MX, giving developers easy access to its powerful new capabilities. ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide is structured so non-programmers can learn how to use ActionScript and programmers can take their skills to new heights. If you are in the market to really learn about the hows and whys of ActionScript, then this is the book for you.
Customer Reviews:
Cover ActionScript2 which will not run on Flash CS3.......2007-09-24
This book looks pretty good and the first chapter was very promising. However I must tell my experience so at least people don't waste time and get frustrated like I did.
The very first example of the book, the Multiple-Choice Quiz will NOT run on latest Flash CS3. It turns out that Flash CS3 (ActionScript3) decided to kill backwards compatibility and throw away the onRelease method for its buttons. So you get a bunch of compile errors. I managed to find out by myself that with AS3 you must use addEventListener to handle clicks to SimpleButton.
Anyways, the line:
totalOutput_txt.text = "Your final score is: " + totalCorrect + "/2.";
Is not compiling either with the error:
1120: Access of undefined property totalOutput_txt.
The totalOutput_txt is being created by "reflection" with the line:
createTextField("totalOutput_txt", 1, 150, 200, 200, 20);
But it looks like Flash CS3 does not like this. Again, another compatibility problem with CS3...
There goes my first star out. Now comes my second start out:
This book assumes that you DO KNOW how to play with FLASH, how to play with the timeline, etc. It does make a good effort to guide you through the steps to create the movie frames, etc, but I felt that I needed a flash designer near me to explain me what was going on.
Anyway, I was looking for a book like: Flash + AS for Java Programmers, but I guess I am asking too much. If anyone has a recommendation for me, please reply in this comment!
A difficult read but good for AS references.......2007-08-19
This book proved to be valuable for looking up new ways of implementing Action Script into my Flash projects. There were many examples of action script that can easily be found in the books index.
Glad I didn't throw it away.......2007-07-03
Was going through my books looking to get some space on the shelf for new ones and had this in my hand ready to go but for some reason couldn't do it. I hadn't done Flash/Flex (Flesh? Flax?) in a couple of years (moved mostly to C#) then recently I got a chance to do the quirky & kludgey beast of computing again with Flash8 and This Old Book Still Had The Goods.
If you don't own it, buy it. If you are thinking it's past its prime... buy it anyway :)
Oh, gotta say this: if you're thinking of buying into FMS... buy Wowza instead - it's more flexible and it's not priced as arrogantly as the ancient "Adobe" server.
The best.......2007-06-27
Hands down, the best ActionScript book in my library. Good for building a solid understanding of AS, but definitely not for someone looking for a few quick tricks, effects or tutorials.
A good book for coders, but designers will probably want something far less intense.
Best ActionScript foundation.......2007-06-21
It is a book that directly is recommendable for whatever it wants to program with ActionScript.
It is not necessary to enter the details of the book because everything is recommendable.
All the proportionate examples are practical and functional.
The author is a recognized programmer of ActionScript and has the Web www.moock.org.
It is necessary to consider that includes neither the components nor classes MX.
To be a programmer it is necessary to know how everything what the book author explains.
Directly recommendable, whatever the direction that is wanted to give later to the programming with ActionScript.
Next to this book also it is recommendable "Essential ActionScript 2.0" of he same author.
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