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Mountain Ninjas: Today's Motorized Beasts Of Burden, Justin Preisendorfer 2025 Dartmouth College

Mountain Ninjas: Today's Motorized Beasts Of Burden, Justin Preisendorfer

Appalachia

Motorized equipment like snowcats and helicopters have become critical tools for effective recreation management in the modern era in the White Mountain National Forest of New Hampshire.


Flight Lessons: Drones Find Their Way As Search-And-Rescue Tools, Sandy Stott 2025 Dartmouth College

Flight Lessons: Drones Find Their Way As Search-And-Rescue Tools, Sandy Stott

Appalachia

Since 2018, New Hampshire Fish & Game has begun using drones to search for lost and injured hikers in the White Mountains, complementing ground searches, trained dogs, and helicopters.


The Long Way Home: Getting Water, Christine Woodside 2025 Dartmouth College

The Long Way Home: Getting Water, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

From the outlet of Ethan Pond in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, waterlogged memories of moose, children, and swimmers resurface.


Appalachia Winter/Spring 2025: Complete Issue, 2025 Dartmouth College

Appalachia Winter/Spring 2025: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Winter/Spring 2025 - Volume LXXVI, Number 1 - Issue #259. The Humanity of Machines: Stories of drones, helicopters, and snowcats in the mountains.


The Mariana Trench Is Not Blue, Sean Scanlan 2025 CUNY New York City College of Technology

The Mariana Trench Is Not Blue, Sean Scanlan

Publications and Research

“The Mariana Trench Is Not Blue” is a short (2,300 words) creative nonfiction piece about a slice of time when I crewed on Ocean Guy, a sailboat docked in Guam in 1994. I learned about the island’s dangers during what should have been a relaxing day snorkeling with my captain and first mate at Bangi Point, a famous coral reef. Part of the tension emanates from the boat’s terrible condition and from the trench itself which contains monsters larger than any of us--they seem to follow the three of us to shore.


The Monday Manure, Zachary David Berston 2025 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

The Monday Manure, Zachary David Berston

Journalism

For my senior project, I wanted to create a new section of Mustang News that includes satire and cartoons. The section is called the Monday Manure to fit with the horse themed titles of other sections. This idea began as a project in the Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship class. While I initially had the idea to have a section that included games, I realized that it was a bit too ambitious after discussing that with the team at Mustang news. Over the course of this project, I have created several satire articles and cartoons, as well as organizing a team …


Three Walks Along Wascana Creek, Ken Wilson 2025 University of Regina, Regina SK

Three Walks Along Wascana Creek, Ken Wilson

The Goose

"Three Walks Along Wascana Creek" recalls the author's walking along Wascana Creek in Regina, Saskatchewan, in June 2021.


One Of These Things: A Poetic Exploration Of Waste And Discordant Objects, Brittany Ellsworth 2025 Grenfell Campus, Corner Brook

One Of These Things: A Poetic Exploration Of Waste And Discordant Objects, Brittany Ellsworth

The Goose

In this narrative essay, I present my thoughts and concerns about the physical waste I encounter on my adventures in my hometown of Corner Brook, NL. I also introduce and differentiate between garbage and my proposed concept of discordant objects and how these objects have inspired my poetic and creative writing practice. The essay concludes with a poem and photograph of one such discordant object.


We Are All Strays Now (Now), Grace Moore 2025 University of Otago, Aotearoa/New Zealand

We Are All Strays Now (Now), Grace Moore

The Goose

Drawing on ideas of kinship and straying, this piece of creative non-fiction considers my relationship with a "neighbourhood cat," dying from a coronavirus, just prior to the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. It addresses how we make kin with strays, and the ways in which animals insert themselves into human lives.


The Disinformation Vaccine: A Case For Integrating Comprehensive Disinformation Education Into First Year Writing Classes, Benjamin F. Jackson 2025 Georgia Southern University

The Disinformation Vaccine: A Case For Integrating Comprehensive Disinformation Education Into First Year Writing Classes, Benjamin F. Jackson

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

Students’ exposure to disinformation and misinformation is far greater than it has ever been. As the ability of generative AI to produce image, video, and audio deepfakes grows more sophisticated, disinformation will become even easier to spread and harder to detect. The rapid spread of social, political, scientific, and medical disinformation has been deadly and its potential is disastrous. Security experts now warn that dis/misinformation is the greatest threat to national security. Americans at large and students in particular have a demonstrated lack of information literacy when it comes to detecting false information, and bad actors nationally and globally are …


When I Was Five, Ceallan Hunter 2025 University of North Dakota

When I Was Five, Ceallan Hunter

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.


The Alternate Bios, Casey Fuller 2025 University of North Dakota

The Alternate Bios, Casey Fuller

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.


You Get That From Me, Robyn Duncan 2025 CUNY Hunter College

You Get That From Me, Robyn Duncan

Theses and Dissertations

You Get That From Me is a mixed-media, collage-based film that integrates personal portraits, allegorical maps, and digital collages with spoken narration to craft a stylistic memoir of a pivotal period in my life: the transition from childhood to motherhood.


Editor's Note & Content Warning, Intertidal Editors 2025 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Editor's Note & Content Warning, Intertidal Editors

Intertidal

Intertidal Vol. 3 Editor's Note and Content Warning


Editor Bios, Editor Bios 2025 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Editor Bios, Editor Bios

Intertidal

Intertidal Vol. 3 Editor Bios


Shedding, Emerging; A Rebirth, Christina Van Dueck 2025 Dominican University of California

Shedding, Emerging; A Rebirth, Christina Van Dueck

English and Creative Writing | Senior Theses

This thesis is a collection of poems; divided into two parts, the first section intimately explores physicality and essence through graphic writing, inspired by Emerson’s work that is deeply rooted in transcendentalism, idealism, and the divinity of nature. The second part of the collection breathes life into the first through an introspection of naturalistic elements based on linguistic tactility. Inspired by Emily Dickinson, this collection embodies complex celestial imagery to display the abstractness of presence and detachment. Both collections comment on the interconnectedness of human nature in its rawest form and seek to encapsulate a soulful display of the innate …


Assistant Editor Bios, Assistant Editor Bios 2025 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Assistant Editor Bios, Assistant Editor Bios

Intertidal

Intertidal Vol. 3 Assistant Editor Bios


2025 Inscape, Morehead State University. 2025 Morehead State University

2025 Inscape, Morehead State University.

Inscape: Art & Literary Magazine Archive

The 2025 edition of the Inscape: Literary and Art Magazine.


A Perspective On Imbalance: A Memoir Through The Lens Of Eating Disorders Anonymous, Samantha C. Lasky 2025 Scripps College

A Perspective On Imbalance: A Memoir Through The Lens Of Eating Disorders Anonymous, Samantha C. Lasky

Scripps Senior Theses

A Perspective on Imbalance uses a crab shell essay format within the adjusted framework of Eating Disorder Anonymous’ “Perspective on Balance” letter. This original letter speaks to how physical, social/emotional, and spiritual balance came to exist in the founder’s life after working the 12 steps of the program, but the author of this thesis felt more inclined to examine what life looks like in each of those categories before the 12 steps, as well as what happens when you choose not to work them (as this has been her experience thus far). The resulting linear prose essay includes themes of …


Duae Cypriani Soarez Praefationes Ad Opus De Arte Rhetorica Libri Tres Commentariis Rhetoricis Instructae, Marcus Porto 2025 University of Kentucky

Duae Cypriani Soarez Praefationes Ad Opus De Arte Rhetorica Libri Tres Commentariis Rhetoricis Instructae, Marcus Porto

Theses and Dissertations--Modern and Classical Languages, Literature and Cultures

De Arte Rhetorica Libri Tres (1562) written by Cyprian Soarez (1524-1593), priest and teacher of the Society of Jesus, was the standard rhetorical manual in the Ratio Studiorum and thus was used for over two centuries in Jesuit colleges throughout the world. Concerned that young students of Latin were not yet ready for the major rhetorical texts of antiquity, such as Cicero’s and Quintilian’s, Soarez wrote this manual as a digest of ancient rhetoric to the beginner. This thesis uses the rhetorical precepts found in Cyprian’s work to analyze the work’s own two prefaces. Thus, it aims at providing …


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