Thursday, March 28, 2024

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Jesuit has lots of interesting service programs offered over the summer. One of the most prominent is the exchange and immersion trip to Mexico at the Instituto De Ciencias in Guadalajara. The Instituto De Ciencias is a fellow Jesuit school and Jesuit Dallas has has a close relationship with the school. I got the chance to sit down and talk...
As a precursor to Nicholas Christon '24 and I's all-encompassing Fast Food Tier List (work in progress) I sought the origin of easily the best fast food restaurant we have eaten at so far. Taco Bell. Its constant, brilliant taste presented an origin that must lie somewhere beyond human existence, and I would stop at nothing to uncover its...
In the 2nd article of this series, I will be discussing the context and current trajectory of Russia, America's 2nd adversary. Recently, stimulated by the Russian invasion of the Ukraine in 2022, the discussion of Russia has intensified across a myriad of mediums, ranging from think tanks to schools. Oftentimes, we might conclude that Russia is violating the sanctity...
The air is crisp and the atmosphere palpable at the Hampshire Hills Athletic Club in Milford, New Hampshire. On this Saturday morning, attendees shuffle into rows of seats, hopeful for the chance to pose a question to one of the country's most distinctive presidential candidates. The moderator, USA Today journalist Phillip Bailey, lays out the guidelines for this town...
Devastating fires that have been raging across Australia for the past few months. More than 100 brush fires continue to burn across New South Wales and Victoria on the island's Pacific coast. What started these fires? Natural causes are to blame most of the time, like lightning strikes in drought-affected forests. Humans can also be to blame. Police in Australia have...
Drake. I saw the name and I'm sure your mind comes up with images of the Billboard Hot 100, the Toronto Raptors, and probably Toronto's CN Tower. Over the course of his 12-year long career, the Boy has mastered the art of making pop-rap hits and is arguably one of the figures most responsible for the rise of rap...
Background For Jesuit Football, when we workout we have this thing called a "Ranger Challenge," which is a way for us to get bigger, stronger, and more mentally tough. So, when we transitioned over to online workouts the grind did not stop. The first couple Ranger Challenges were workout related. These included wall-sits and who can run the furthest during...
"In this world, a man himself is nothing. And there ain't no world but this one." "You're wrong there top, I've seen another world. Sometimes I think it was just my imagination." "Well, then you've seen things I never will. We're living in a world that is blowing itself to hell faster than everybody can arrange it... in a situation like...

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