The summer is a great time for a person to sit back, relax, and crack open a new novel. One great idea would be to start the Alex Hawke Spy Adventure Series by Ted Bell. The Hawke Series contains six action-packed thrillers about the life of British Intelligence spy Lord Alexander Hawke who “makes James Bond look like a...
The calculator is without a doubt the most utilized mathematical tool in courses ranging from Algebra I, the base math course at Jesuit, to AP BC Calculus, the highest. So why not use the best?
In a rapidly expanding online world, however, the “best” is not always available on the portable devices that have come to define our generation. Built...
2011, The Roundup writing staff, tired of reading the pedestrian D Magazine yearly burger reviews, decided to turn their ardent journalism skills toward finding the number one hamburger in the greater Dallas area. As has become the norm with The Roundup staff, our writers exhaustively researched their project, tirelessly pouring over hamburgers from the four corners of the Metroplex...
The stories of Americans who gathered in jubilation after the death of Osama bin Laden Sunday night initially struck me as glorious, inspiring, and empowering, to list just a few adjectives. I watched the Phillies vs. Mets game in Philadelphia, which was interrupted for more than 10 minutes in the ninth inning by “USA!” chants around the stadium; the...
It’s springtime, a time for Easter, Spring Break, the NBA and NHL playoffs, the NFL draft, and the beginning of the end of the school year. Unfortunately, spring also means a weak season for movies. As of April 28, four of the top five films at the box office had “rotten” ratings on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes,...
On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, George W. Bush marched into the White House Situation Room, a lynchpin of governmental communication and intelligence.
As the faces of senior White House deputies and military commanders in the Middle East flashed across a video screen, the forty-third President of the United States began to ask some final questions about the proposed strategy of...
People always seem shocked when I tell them I’m from Denton. Typical responses include, “How do you drive down here EVERY DAY?!?” or “Why do you live there?” Admittedly, it is very odd.
Even though we get a nice HOV lane most of the way down, my typical “commute” can take 40 or so minutes on a good day. And...
There are few things that American society appreciates more than finality. We love to record the final letter of the final word, dot the period, and definitively close the book on an issue. As an inherently task-oriented society, we rejoice in the opportunity to check a long-standing item off our to-do list and focus our energies on the next...
