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Exhaling through his nose, aiming through the scope of his rifle, Navy SEAL Chris Kyle pulled the trigger. The bullet leapt out of the rifle, screamed through the air, and directly hit its target: a woman. The women, a middle-aged Iraqi, had been attempting to set off a grenade and to blow herself up, taking many U.S. Marines along...
  “Under the bridge downtown is where I drew some blood/Under the bridge I could not get enough/Under the bridge forgot about my love/Under the bridge I gave my life away.”   Perhaps no other set of lyrics that Anthony Kiedis—the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers—wrote is as insightful or powerful as this set here. These lyrics, excerpted from...
Students have been using traditional textbooks in school for decades as a way to learn material.  Even though textbooks have served the need for good content, the traditional textbook is not without flaws: textbooks lack portability, durability, interactivity, search functions, and up-to-date material. To meet these needs, Apple Company unveiled a number of software applications this year that will...
Almost all Americans go through life knowing who the Founding Fathers are and their significance, but most people have no idea about the Founding Fathers’ connections to secret societies such as the Freemasons, the Rosicrucians, and even the Illuminati.   Dr. Robert Hieronimus presents these connections and reveals the influences that these societies had on men such as George Washington and...
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. was every part the legend that he has become today. In this “towering biography,” Edmund Morris’s Pulitzer Prize winning biography chronicles the life of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. from his birth to his appointment from Vice-President to President of the United States after President McKinley was assassinated, and everything in between (Time Magazine). This “meticulously researched and beautifully...
Christopher Paolini took over 3 years to write Inheritance, the final book in the Eragon cycle, and Inheritance is most definitely worth the wait. For those not familiar with the four books, Paolini’s bestseller series records the tale of a young adult named Eragon as he struggles to overthrow Galbatorix, an evil tyrant who rules the fantasy word of Algaesia...
It’s not every day that the Catholic Church makes an internal change. Indeed, the church has become a steady, unceasing bastion of tradition by maintaining continuity over a length of time that dwarfs nearly every other human institution in history. The Catholic mass, in particular, has maintained a shocking consistency over the centuries: the mass that Jesuit College Prep students...
The iPhone 4 was one of the best, if not the best, mobile smartphone when it hit the market in the summer of 2010.  It featured a robust five-megapixel camera, an all new design, a front-facing camera, and above all a retina display.  The retina display was so ahead of the curve that other smart phones have still failed...

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