SwapYourTextbooks.com Fights Back Against Unfair Textbook Prices

Flower Mound, TX (PRWEB) August 26, 2005

Dallas, TX. SwapYourTextbooks.com is the first and only even exchange textbook website for students nationwide. The website eliminates the need for buying and selling textbooks by giving its members the ability to trade in even exchanges. The founders of this website took the idea of trading books with your classmates to a new level. They created a unique database that allows students to trade textbooks in a way that has never been seen before. The company hopes to make higher education more attainable through the savings that come from this service.

"As a college student myself, I know how it feels to spend $ 400 on textbooks, then receive $ 100 back," said Aaron Francis, co-founder. "I then watched in awe as my classmates purchased the books I just traded in. SwapYourTextbooks.com was created on the basis that students should come together and benefit from each other."

Members will place the books they have into their SwapYourTextbooks.com inventory. The student then searches the database to locate the books they need. Students are asked to disclose the condition of their books, and members rate each other based on reliability and speed of shipping. A credit system has been created so members can trade a book for a book without being restricted to one person. Each book will be valued at one credit. This allows members to value books solely as credits and trade freely with students nationwide. According to survey data collected on the University of North Texas campus in May of 2005, an average college student will save an estimated $ 615 a year.

"With students paying such high amounts for their tuition and fees these days, the importance of lowering textbook prices is at an all-time high," said Aaron Morrison, President. SwapYourTextbooks.com is officially the first and only national even exchange website for college textbooks. The website uses a similar even exchange system that has made Netflix successful while providing the functionality and feedback options that has made eBay what it is today.

Everyone who registers by October 31 will receive a free credit. "We’re basically giving away a book just for signing up," states Brian Gilmore, Vice President. "How many college students don’t like something for free?"

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Ghetta Life: Jamaican Film Vies for Box Office Domination Against Summer Blockbusters

Kingston, Jamaica (PRWEB) June 02, 2011

As the box office begins to heat up with the regular summer fare of blockbusters, the all-Jamaican film Ghetta Life will vie for box office domination against the superheroes and villains from Hollywood. And the film has sufficient clout to make fans sit up and take notice.

Ghetta Life is written, directed and produced by Chris Browne, the director of Jamaicas highest grossing film to date Third World Cop. Set against the tumultuous backdrop of Kingstons inner-city, Ghetta Life explores one boys attempt to achieve boxing glory, despite the political divide that threatens to tear his community and country apart. His journey takes him on a path that will force him to defy his family and his community and the result will either destroy him or bring his community together.

Brownes impressive resume includes the award winning short films Entry Denied and Crossfire. The director explains that the idea to create the film was sparked when he visited the Sandy Park area several years ago and saw his first community based boxing match. He was immediately taken in by the gritty, underground nature of the scene and wanted to explore it further. He then set it against the most potent issue in Jamaica, the political tribalism that splashes blood stained green or orange lines of division across many communities.

We dont kill one another about God, like people do in some parts of the world, says Browne. But what we do kill one another over is politics. The potency with which he managed to portray this, earned the film the 2006 Hartley-Merrill International Scriptwriting Prize.

Ghetta Life combines both new and experienced talent among its all Jamaican cast and crew. The film is co-produced, on time and on budget, by Natalie Thompson and its impressive cast includes Carl Davis (Dancehall Queen, Almost Heaven, and Royal Palm Estate), Teddy Price (Small Island, Glory to Gloriana, and Royal Palm Estate), Winston Bello Bell (Third World Cop, Royal Palm Estate), Karen Robinson (Liars and a Real Girl, Soul Food, Bad As I Wanna Be: The Dennis Rodman Story).

Ghetta Life also brings a newcomer to the screen as Kevoy Burton, a student at Ardenne High tackles the lead role of Derek. Explaining that he was honoured to work with the experience cast and crew, Burton reveals that he was able to tap into his own experiences in playing this role. I realized that the character was somebody I could relate to because I grew up in a politically divided community, he said. So though his own family was not as intense on the issue, he understood the issues Derek has to face.

Actor Boy Awardee Christopher McFarlane turns his years of experience on the stage to portraying the gruesome Don Sin. This is an opportunity for people to take me a lot more seriously when it comes on to character building, he says. McFarlane notes that he hopes people will be able to see that his is not another gun movie but will instead be able to focus on its story of triumph and achievement.

I think the movie is opportune for the time, comments Davis. Its perfect for the time were in when many people considering politicians and how they contribute to the destruction of values and attitudes in the country.

So, despite the familiarity of a film set in Jamaicas ghettoes, Ghetta Life easily separates itself from previous films by its inclusion of sports but more importantly by its focus on triumph showing the ways in which Jamaicans overcome great odds and get a life.

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