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...
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...
Slowly descending the snowy mountains, approaching the Imperial camp, panic fills the hearts of the hand bound rebels. Your guiltless character, having crossed the border into “Skyrim,” finds himself among the suspected rebels and becomes entangled in their executions. The cart escorting the prisoners to their executions moves slowly through the small, urban town. The houses, few in number,...
Today, Wednesday, November 30, 2011, Jesuit’s Not for Sale Club will be screening The Dark Side of Chocolate in Hughes Hall. This film by Miki Mistrati and U. Roberto Romano is a documentary about the illegal use of child slaves who are trafficked to the Ivory Coast for the gathering and selling of cocoa beans.
Luckily, we live in Dallas,...
Five seconds. Five seconds of machine-gun fire was all it took for the modern FBI to be created. The Kansas City Massacre of 1933, which at the time was the second deadliest murder of law-enforcement officers in American history, left four government officials bloodily murdered in a train station parking lot, sparking a shock wave felt all the...
