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THE INSIDER

This movie has something for everyone.

Journalism students learn about how the famous US TV news program 60 Minutes goes about its business;

Consumers Advocates applaud the avalanche of truth about the evils of smoking;

Political Science students learn about the politics of marketing a dangerous product and lying to the US Congress  about its [...]

THANK YOU FOR SMOKING

This is a movie promoting the virtues of smoking.

Would you allow your kid to smoke?

REVERSIBLE ERRORS

A corporate lawyer’s interest in a decade-old murder case is piqued by a new confession that could clear the convicted killer, who sits on death row.

What did you learn from this murder mystery?

SUPERSIZE ME

HEY MAKE MY BURGER BIGGER. MAKE MY FRIES LARGER. I WANT TO DRINK A LITER OF COKE.

I WANT TO BE A BIKINI BABE!!!

COMPARE

COMPARISON OF 4TH TIER VOCATIONAL COLLEGE, 3RD TIER COLLEGE, 2ND TIER UNIVERSITY, 1ST TIER UNIVERSITY AND IVY LEAGUE UNIVERSITY

HOLISTIC ENGLISH PERCEIVED BENEFITS

The seed of discontent with China’s current English teaching pedagogy and methodology was planted in April 2002 at a Joint Venture Business Institute at the fourth tier Railroad [...]

WEANING

WEANING

Every baby is eventually weaned off its mother’s milk. Otherwise, the milk become a dependency that inhibits proper growth and development.

Chinese students of English must also be weaned off of English subtitles for English movies or they will never properly develop their complete set of English skills.

In Holistic English Sections I and [...]

Paper Chase

The Paper Chase

A true life story about the rigors of a contracts class in world famous Harvard University Law School.

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Class Action

Bean counters determine that a product recall would be more expensive than paying for the few persons injured or killed by the defective product. The lawyers do everything and anything to reduce the company liability, even engage in unethical legal tricks.

This kind of conduct in China may result in the corporate leaders being executed [...]

An Inconvenient Truth

Global warming is so serious that everybody who is living on earth shouldn’t neglect it; we should go into action so that we can protect our exclusive planet.

Fact or fiction?

ERIN BROCKOVITCH

This movie raises issues about Corporate Culture, Environmental Protection, safety in the workplace, integrity toward the workforce, female role models, class actions, and child care by single parents.

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