With the beginning of 2012 underway, it may feel overwhelming trying to get your new year in order. Have you ever wondered what makes a resolution stick? Having trouble deciding what to keep on that resume of yours?
Here are a few tips to start your 2012 in the right direction:
By Sarah Williamson | gargoyle@flagler.edu
On this day, Martin Luther King Jr. would have celebrated his 83rd birthday. The city of Jacksonville celebrated it as school groups and organizations lined the streets with performances, costumes and signs covered with King’s most monumental quotes. There was both emotion and excitement running through the crowd as his dream continues to spread. Jacksonville’s first African American Mayor, Alvin Brown, was amongst them.
By Kara Duffy | gargoyle@flagler.edu
The Internet has come to dominate the way people communicate and interact in today’s society. People use the Internet to get information easily and quickly to access anything online.
We take the Internet for granted like it is a necessity rather than a luxury, assuming that we can access and use the Internet whenever and for whatever we want.
By Kara Duffy | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Adobe plays an essential part in consumer, educational and professional technologies. As these technologies are changing, Adobe must stay as user-friendly as it has been in the past.
In 2007, Apple banned Adobe from its iPhone and from its iPad in 2010. As Apple began to expand its technologies, Adobe’s software became incompatible. Adobe Flash could not perform well on mobile devices, especially touch screen devices.
By Frank Mahoney | gargoyle@flagler.edu
The First Coast will be in the spotlight of the political world soon. CNN and the Republican Party of Florida will be hosting a republican primary debate on Jan. 26. The time and place for this event will be decided shortly by CNN.
By Frank Mahoney | gargoyle@flagler.edu
The Flagler College Model United Nations team attended its second Southern Regional Model United Nations (SRMUN) conference in Atlanta this month. This is also the second year that the Flagler team has been in existence.
Model United Nations (MUN) is an academic competition where students represent delegates from countries in the United Nations and organizations within the United Nations. These students research their assigned countries and organizations and work with other students to solve Geo-political problems.
By Amber James | gargoyle@flagler.edu
Rodderick Williams is a county sentenced inmate, in jail for violation of probation. But for five to six days a week, Williams gets to leave the jail and return to the free world, working at the Santa Maria restaurant downtown as a cook, preparing meals and prepping food, trying to turn his life around.
Williams has been part of the St Johns County work release program for the past five months.
By Tiffanie Reynolds | gargoyle@flagler.edu
On registration day, Heather Cribbs logged onto myflagler to find that the class she needed to take was no longer listed. It’s a scenario that has happened more than usual this semester, from seniors to freshmen finding more classes full or taken out all together.
“If you can’t get into it or your classes coincide, then you kinda have to choose your battle,” said Cribbs, a junior theater arts major.
Junior Johanna Falzone, a fine arts major, also had the same problem. The lack of class choice not only made it difficult to schedule her classes, but also made her feel under-appreciated as an upperclassman.
By Joshua Santos | gargoyle@flagler.edu
The city of St Augustine celebrated their 18th annual Night of Lights, Saturday, November 19th, 2011. City officials, citizens and tourist flooded the downtown area to witness the light up ceremony.
By Erica Carothers | gargoyle@flagler.edu Luli’s Cupcakes, voted St. Augustine’s number one cupcake store in 2011, is introducing new seasonal flavors that have Flagler College student’s mouths watering. “I like Luli’s Cupcakes because they are huge and delicious. Some combinations you never would think…