Tuesday, March 19, 2024

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Authors Articles by David Horton '18

David Horton '18

David Horton '18
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Trepidation, fear, and anxiety are usually felt when meeting movie stars, with questions regarding what to say or how to act immediately filling one’s head. When meeting Tanner Kalina '10, these feelings are immediately erased with a warm welcome and a pleasant sense of brotherhood that can be felt from a past Jesuit graduate. Starting out acting at the ripe...
Ricky Bobby once said, "If you're not first you're last." Last weekend, the Jesuit crew team took this quote to heart after traveling up to Oklahoma City for the OKC Crew Invitational, marking the first of many major events the Rangers will compete in over the 2016 school year. Teams from all across the country competed in this vigorous...
It’s two weeks before spring break, a period which marks the beginning of events like Easter, the NHL, NBA, NCAA Basketball playoffs, and more time with family and friends. It is also less than a week away from the 2016 Oscars. With that said, we are reminded of some of the best and worst films of the year, notable...
Improving with every dribble and shot, training constantly to improve game by game, the Jesuit junior varsity basketball team continues their season, sitting with a 52% winning percentage. This winning record remains after facing some of DFW’s most dominant basketball programs. One of Jesuit’s most notable victories occurred on Saturday, January 9th, when the Rangers suited up against Flower Mound...
Put together love, wealth, and the American Dream and you have yourself what is considered to be one of the greatest novels of all time, or at least, that is what Francis Scott Fitzgerald did with The Great Gatsby in 1925. Fitzgerald was able to masterfully create a book that entailed the lives of the young and the restless...
Evidently the leading star in one of the greatest films ever produced was labeled as a Communist before the film was released, so claimed William Randolph Hearst, a newspaper tycoon on which the film is based. Perhaps it was the revolutionary cinematography the creative minds of the movie produced or the plot that kept moviegoers on the edge of...
It is a shame that today’s movies can't hold a candle to the cinema of yesteryear. Movies like Hotel Transylvania 2, Pixels, and The Maze Runner invade our screens and only occasionally are interrupted by a great movie. Kids disregard true movie magic in favor of animation and repetitive action sequences. The imperative of making a great film is...

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