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Lady Of The Joust: Defining And Classifying Flat Character Arcs, Rachael Michelle Varner Mar 2023

Lady Of The Joust: Defining And Classifying Flat Character Arcs, Rachael Michelle Varner

Masters Theses

Character arcs outline the growth or development a character experiences throughout a narrative. Of the three major types—Positive Change, Negative Change, and Flat—the third is often glossed over or ignored in academic settings. The Artist Statement addresses my experience writing a novel when I did not understand what Flat Arcs entailed and thus failed to recognize why my protagonist resisted the more popular Positive Change formula. In the Critical Paper, my analysis of texts dedicated to the craft of character arcs revealed that there are no consistent criteria by which to define or categorize them. Nevertheless, my research suggests that …


How A Balanced Christian Message In Film Can Inspire Christ-Like Transformation, Makayla Marrin Jacobs Mar 2023

How A Balanced Christian Message In Film Can Inspire Christ-Like Transformation, Makayla Marrin Jacobs

Masters Theses

This thesis will attempt to examine the need for a balanced Christian message in film and how everyday acts of the Christian faith can inspire Christ-like transformation within society. This thesis will also explore the importance of developing faith and spiritual disciplines through the creative screenplay, All Hail the Hoodlums. Throughout history, living as a faithful Christian and practicing spiritual disciplines can appear to go directly against society’s natural flow as belief in a Creator oppose man’s selfishness and sinful nature. Seemingly, society at large currently projects that believing in a Monotheistic and Triune God and having a deep personal …


Because The World Hasn't Ended Yet, Todd Davis Mar 2023

Because The World Hasn't Ended Yet, Todd Davis

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Pileated Woodpecker, Audubon Plate Cxi, Noah Davis Mar 2023

Pileated Woodpecker, Audubon Plate Cxi, Noah Davis

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


From Mônadenok, David Crews Mar 2023

From Mônadenok, David Crews

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Winter Morning, Marcyn Del Clements Mar 2023

Winter Morning, Marcyn Del Clements

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Living In The Wilderness: Another Year, Robin Chapman Mar 2023

Living In The Wilderness: Another Year, Robin Chapman

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Kintsugi Trail, Polly Brown Mar 2023

Kintsugi Trail, Polly Brown

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Snappers, Francis Blessington Mar 2023

Snappers, Francis Blessington

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


A Peak Ahead: Risks, Decisions, And Adventure, Christine Woodside Mar 2023

A Peak Ahead: Risks, Decisions, And Adventure, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

Looking ahead to Summer/Fall 2023, the journal planned to publish stories on an 800-mile bicycling and kayaking loop in New England, an essay on the connection between whitewater rescue techniques and keeping young people safe, and a literary essay on walking in Scotland.


Books And Media Mar 2023

Books And Media

Appalachia

A literary essay on the term “white death” when it means avalanche, by former University of Alaska Anchorage creative writing program director David Stevenson. Reviews of: The Naturalist's Companion: A Field Guide to Observing and Understanding Wildlife, by Dave Hall; This Wild Land: Two Decades of Adventure in the Shadow of Katahdin, by Andrew Vietze; Tangled Roots: The Appalachian Trail and American Environmental Politics, by Sarah Mittlefehldt; Imaginary Peaks, by Katie Ives; Don't Sing to Me of Electric Fences, by Dave Seter; Dammed If You Don't, by Chris Kalman.


Valley And Skyline Sketches Mar 2023

Valley And Skyline Sketches

Appalachia

Memories of a Franconia, New Hampshire childhood, by Gayle Greene. A college student tries to reconnect with his father in Lone Pine, California, by Dylan Campbell. The sight of a badger trailside brings up memories of Stacy Allana Clark’s recently departed uncle. Skiing in Mount Washington’s Tuckerman Ravine brings up years of memories for Douglass Teschner.


News And Notes Mar 2023

News And Notes

Appalachia

A $1.1 million federal grant funds extensive trail work on the Franconia Ridge in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, to be led by the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Trails Department and the White Mountain National Forest. Excerpts of the latest Mount Washington Master Plan, written by representatives of government and businesses in the area, outlines the Cog Railway’s plans for a hotel high on the mountain. University of New Hampshire researchers discuss huge increase in hiking after the COVID-19 pandemic.


In Memoriam Mar 2023

In Memoriam

Appalachia

Poet, essayist, Appalachia contributor and former Connecticut deputy environmental commissioner David K. Leff, by Christine Woodside.


Alpina Mar 2023

Alpina

Appalachia

Among the many updates on mountaineering in the greater ranges: More information on a Denali climber who in May 2021 called for a rescue he did not need. Clint Helander and Andres Marin climb Shaft of the Abyss on Golgotha in Alaska. Among many “firsts” on Everest in 2022, Lucy Westlake, 18, becomes the youngest American woman to summit. Polish mountaineer Marek Raganowicz climbs a new route on the North Face of Polar Sun Arm on Baffin Island. Three climbers achieve a new route on Cerro Torre in Patagonia. Reviews of eight mountaineering films, including Infinite Storm (Bleecker Street …


Accidents Mar 2023

Accidents

Appalachia

Reports of rescues and accidents in New Hampshire’s White Mountains during the cold weather and pre-meltout months of late 2021 and winter/spring 2022. The editors describe the role the mind plays in planning and executing hikes. Two incidents of poor planning complicated by medical conditions in the Franconia Ridge area are examined. A hiker slips on the Fishin’ Jimmy Trail. In April, a skier suffers a long fall and multiple injuries in the Great Gulf Wilderness. Cardiac trouble plagues a guest at Carter Notch Hut in March. A hiker falls long and hard while trying to take a photo on …


Letters Mar 2023

Letters

Appalachia

Musings on the good and bad of cell phones in response to Stephen Kurczy’s “Do Cell Phones Belong in the Mountains?” Summer/Fall 2022). An ALS sufferer’s moving response to Rachel Curtis’s piece on losing her hiking partner to ALS (“Preparing: A Wrong Turn, a Dangerous River, and an Absent Partner”). Thoughts on problems of trail apps.


Quickwater: New England's Whitewater Canoeing Heritage, Rick Spedden Mar 2023

Quickwater: New England's Whitewater Canoeing Heritage, Rick Spedden

Appalachia

A canoeist whose parents met on an Appalachian Mountain Club whitewater trip tells the story of mid-twentieth-century AMC water exploration.


Slowing Down: A Young Naturalist Lagging Behind A Group Pulls A Stranger Into Her World, Elissa Ely Mar 2023

Slowing Down: A Young Naturalist Lagging Behind A Group Pulls A Stranger Into Her World, Elissa Ely

Appalachia

Hurrying down Mount Monadnock ahead of a storm, the writer encounters a student with much to teach her.


Day Four: A Rescuer's Account Of A Hiker's Baffling Survival, James Mason Mar 2023

Day Four: A Rescuer's Account Of A Hiker's Baffling Survival, James Mason

Appalachia

In early of May 2009, teams from New Hampshire search-and-rescue organizations try to locate a man missing for four days below the Franconia Ridge. The outcome is astonishing.


White Mountain Mysteries: A Bushwhacker And His Brother Decode Remote Place Names, William Geller Mar 2023

White Mountain Mysteries: A Bushwhacker And His Brother Decode Remote Place Names, William Geller

Appalachia

Stories of mysterious places off trail in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, each trip lasting three days in the fall.


Waterman Fund Essay Winner: What Climate Models Don't Show: A Scientist's Work On A Future Forest Model Can Feel Personal, Olivia Box Mar 2023

Waterman Fund Essay Winner: What Climate Models Don't Show: A Scientist's Work On A Future Forest Model Can Feel Personal, Olivia Box

Appalachia

The author, the winner of our annual essay contest for emerging writers, keeps adjusting her computer model of the impact of the Asian longhorned beetle on future New England forests.


Laughter At High Altitude: Encounter With A Pair Of Elands, Daniel Hudon Mar 2023

Laughter At High Altitude: Encounter With A Pair Of Elands, Daniel Hudon

Appalachia

In South Africa’s central Drakensberg mountains, these docile antelopes seem mildly curious about a human.


Photographing Wildlife: How To Capture An Image Without Forsaking A Wild Animal, Lisa Ballard Mar 2023

Photographing Wildlife: How To Capture An Image Without Forsaking A Wild Animal, Lisa Ballard

Appalachia

Lisa Ballard, an award-winning outdoor photographer, says that one must be physically fit and study an animal’s habitat, food, and life cycle in order to take photos.


The Harpy Eaglet: Real Encounters With A Feathered Phantasma, Christina Devin Vojta Mar 2023

The Harpy Eaglet: Real Encounters With A Feathered Phantasma, Christina Devin Vojta

Appalachia

The author answered an ad, “Field assistant needed for research on monkeys and harpy eagles in Peru” and got the job observing harpy eagle chicks, the size of bald eagles.


The Thrush Sings Me Home: What Is Killing The Birds Of My Heart?, Amy Boyd Mar 2023

The Thrush Sings Me Home: What Is Killing The Birds Of My Heart?, Amy Boyd

Appalachia

Amy Boyd writes of her heartbreak seeing dead wood thrushes in her town. Habitat destruction and climate change will reduce these beautiful birds’ numbers by 80 percent over the next 60 years.


Mama Bear And Me: Sharing Inner Knowledge In A Few Glances, Katie Baptist Mar 2023

Mama Bear And Me: Sharing Inner Knowledge In A Few Glances, Katie Baptist

Appalachia

A woman camping alone in northern California's Yolla Bolly Wilderness meets a mother bear at an uncomfortably close range.


Interviews With Bears: Trailside, Near New York City, Margaret Redmond Whitehead Mar 2023

Interviews With Bears: Trailside, Near New York City, Margaret Redmond Whitehead

Appalachia

The author encounters bears both in wild parts of the Appalachian Trail and in the settled Trailside Museums & Zoo near Bear Mountain, New York. She reveals the blurred lines between human and bear territory.


The Long Way Home: Danger Defines The Meaning Of Safety, Christine Woodside Mar 2023

The Long Way Home: Danger Defines The Meaning Of Safety, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

The editor-in-chief explores risk at the rushing edges of Bumpus Brook in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.


Appalachia Winter/Spring 2023: Complete Issue Mar 2023

Appalachia Winter/Spring 2023: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Winter/Spring 2023 - Volume LXXIV, Number 1 - Issue #255. Encounters with Animals: Glimpsing the Soul of Nature