Tag: 10-Year

While he doesn’t possess any real magical powers, Mr. Billingham’s ability to instill a genuine enthusiasm for math inside teenagers is almost supernatural. For the previous 20 years, very few classes have enjoyed Billingham’s wizardry, as he switched from a full-time teacher to Jesuit’s Technology Director in 1996. However, this past year Billingham returned to his “absolute first love...

Among the ether of Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube that exist as our sources for day to day news, media outlets channel information to those broader platforms in order to reach a massive audience. This is the role of the press in modern times, a role protected by the Constitution of the United States of America under the 1st Amendment....

Solemnly silent, the group of 51 students waits for the chaplain to speak. "The response is: Blessed be the Lord, my rock." The team responds in unison, "Blessed be the Lord, my rock." This is not a special occasion or public display; this is the Jesuit football team sharing a prayer in their locker room, minutes before kickoff. One of...

Without paying careful attention, you can walk right past the America media headquarters on West 56th Street. The nameplate, worn and faded through years of exposure to weather, blends seamlessly into the charcoal entryway. Who knew that a doorway so humble would hold within it the creative engine behind one of the most popular magazines in the media capital...

“Rᵷibʇ si ᵷrhiʇ, anq wornᵷ is megrn, anq a bcbytnai got ne dnsiouss deing mrcnᵷ nehw eh ani’t igneranʇ napsmonk dcttor”. This sentence may seem completely unreadable, but actually it originates from a completely readable sentence in the popular novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, praised as one of the greatest works of American literature of all time, loved by many. Here’s what the...

Type. Cut. Highlight. Backspace. Cut. Backspace. Backspace. Highlight. Backspace. Type. Backspace. Type. Highlight. Enter. The exhausted student releases a sigh, dragging his hands from the keyboard and mouse across the desk, each hand gliding unevenly and at different intervals across the mahogany surface, drenched in sweat. Pulled over the edge of the wooden desktop, his hands fall to his thighs,...

Fredrick Douglas. Helen Keller. Caesar Chavez. What do these people have in common? All of them overcame hardships and difficulties to bring a message to the world. Paul McCormack represents the contemporary example of this brave heroism, devoting his entire life to the service of others despite the personal costs. He is the last man out, the last man...

"Übung macht ein Meister." A simple phrase we all hear growing up on sports teams, clubs, and in school.  Your parents have probably said this to you once or twice, that is if you speak German.  So, for all the non-fluent German speakers out there, this phrase literally translates to "practice makes a master or practice makes perfect," according to Reed...