1000722 Meet the Spartans Movie Review-Michael

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1000722 Meet the Spartans Movie Review-Michael
Meet the Spartans is directed by Jason Friedburg. The main actors are Sean Maguire, Carmen Electra, Kevin Sorbo and Ken Davitian. This a parody of the movie 300. This comedy takes scenes from a lot of movies as well. The writers change some of the movie scenes into very funny scenes.
The film opened with an old Spartan who was inspecting an ugly, talking baby ogre. The orge was taken from a scene from Shrek. The old Spartan abandoned it because of its deformity. The next child, who was Vietnamese was abandoned because of ethnicity. The last child called Leonidas was accepted and became a Spartan. He started his journey when he was a small boy and the movie followed his life. One of the most impressive scenes was when Leonidas fought Xerxes with his thirteen-people-army. Xerxes took a “Transformer Cube”, sat on a car, and transformed into a big robot which had a screen on his stomach just like Teletubbies. He called himself “Xerxestron” and was quite gigantic. At that part, Xerxestron was going to attack Leonidas but tripped over an electric wire which was part of himself. He fell down and squashed Leonidas and his army by accident. That was extremely funny; Leonidas died by chance.
I think Meet the Spartan could be improved by adding even more parody scenes because some parts of the movie scenes were not very funny. They were from other movies but the jokes fell flat. So, if the movie had more funny scenes, it could be better for a wider audience. The sound effects could also be stronger to emphasize the important parts of the movie. I also suggest cutting the last part where the main characters were dancing. I think the last part wasn’t connected to the main movie. Overall, it was a great film and you should see it.

By Alan Mozes
HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, July 20 (HealthDay News) -- Tall folks may be more likely than shorter people to develop cancer, new British research says.
Among women, the risk of breast, ovarian, uterine and bowel cancer, leukemia or melanoma appears to go up about 16 percent for every 4-inch bump in stature, the researchers said.
"Taller women in our study had increased risk of a wide range of cancers," said study co-author Jane Green, from the cancer epidemiology unit at the University of Oxford in England. "And all the evidence from past studies is that this link is seen equally in men and women."
The findings also suggest that gains in height over the 20th century -- Europeans' average height grew nearly half an inch per decade -- might help explain some of the cancer differences seen in recent generations, the researchers said.
While the study found an association between height and cancer risk, it did not prove a cause-and-effect.
One expert from the American Cancer Society said the finding should not spur panic among the more statuesque.
"Nobody will be trying to make themselves shorter to lower their cancer risk, and the current results do not mean tall people need additional cancer screening," Eric Jacobs, strategic director for pharmacoepidemiology at the cancer society, said in a statement.
And, he added, the advice to Americans of any height remains the same: "Both short and tall people can lower their risk of developing and dying from cancer by not smoking, maintaining a healthy weight, and getting the recommended cancer screening tests."
For their report, published online July 21 in The Lancet Oncology, the researchers analyzed data from the Million Women Study, conducted in the United Kingdom between 1996 and 2001.
The nearly 1.3 million middle-aged women enrolled in the study had undergone an initial routine breast-screening exam and completed a basic questionnaire that collected their weight and height.
None had been diagnosed with any cancer (other than some non-melanoma skin cancers), and they were tracked for more than nine years on average.
The study authors divided the women into six height categories, starting with those women less than 5 feet 1 inches tall, then adding four more groups of increasing height, and ending with the tallest group, which included women 5 feet 9 and taller.
Generally speaking, taller women tended to drink more alcohol and had fewer children than shorter women, the researchers found. Taller women were also less obese, less likely to smoke, wealthier, and more active.
Overall, regardless of most of these factors, taller women were significantly more likely to develop most cancers, with risk ratcheting upward with every increment in height.
One exception was that among women who smoked, smoking played a more pivotal role than height in influencing cancer risk.
The research team also reviewed the findings of 10 prior studies and found a similar association between height and cancer, a connection they said held across many different populations, including those in Europe, North America, Asia, and Australasia.
Of course, "people cannot change their height," Green acknowledged, "and being tall also has health advantages, such as lower risk of heart disease."
The American Cancer Society's Jacobs called the study "large and well designed" and he offered up some theories on what might be behind the link between height and cancer risk.
"One possibility is that taller people may have higher levels of growth-related hormones, both in childhood and in adulthood, and these growth-related hormones may modestly increase cancer risk," he said.
Many factors influence height, including childhood diet and health, genes and hormone levels, the study authors noted.
"The study is important not for individual or public health, but because it may help us to understand better how cancer develops," Green said.
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/cancer/articles/2011/07/21/are-taller-people-at-heightened-cancer-risk
TED Danny Hillis: Understanding cancer through proteomics-
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/chi_hant/danny_hillis_two_frontiers_of_cancer_treatment.html

I think the height of a person doesn’t really have any thing to do with cancer but report shows that taller people have a higher risk to get cancer. So maybe we should pay more attention to cancer.