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Black Box Spring 2022/2023, Dr. Amelia Chesley, Dr. Caroline Koons, Alexee Providence, Amberly Neese, Austin Perez, Benjamin Sagar, Brandon West, Caitlyn Ooms, Charles Ruddek, Charlotte Hance, Claire Ross, Dylan Johnson, Emma Sanders, James Bradley, Jonathan Adams, Kammi Matsumoto, Keith Tanner, Rashed Aldhanhani, Rayna Gallegos

Black Box

The Black Box is a creative publication dedicated to displaying the talented work of the Embry-Riddle Prescott community - endless creativity and ingenuity flow throughout the Prescott area and our goal is to display it.

If A Rifle Could, Wyatt Banks

Night Flight Journal

This short bit of prose follows a rifle through her travels across a war-torn world.

Fly By Night, Patrick J. Sherman

Night Flight Journal

A new member of the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide Campus Department of Flight participates in a night-time UAS operation, both to study the use of drones in responding to active shooter incidents by law enforcement, but also as a demonstration of proficiency to conduct future operations under the institution's daylight waiver, granted by the Federal Aviation Administration. While attempting an intricate maneuver, the newcomer finds that he has placed is aircraft in immediate peril and must make a difficult choice: confess his error in front of his new colleagues and seek help, or attempt to escape on his own and …

Heroes, Richard F. Colarco

Night Flight Journal

This is a short story. It should be read for entertainment.

A Rose Bush, Ester Gallagher

Night Flight Journal

Spring has arrived and flowers begin to awaken from their winter sleep. A rose bush thinks herself better than all the other flowers. A human woman comes to tend the garden regularly and the rose bush enjoys her presence. However, once the rose bush dazzles everyone with her newly boomed roses, the human woman returns and takes them. Devastated the rose bush finds comfort and friendship in the flowers she used to look down to. In the end the rose bush perks up and tries again at growing the perfect rose.

Literature Review Sonnet, Chelsea A. Lenoble

Night Flight Journal

This poem is a sonnet that is modeled after Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18" and demonstrates appreciation for the literature review stage of the research process.

Charmed And Dangerous, Gilbert Carbajal

Night Flight Journal

Charmed and Dangerous is about a young man named Seth. A warlock, who possesses power over the elements. The story begins with him entering a festival with his date Thea. Thea is interested in finding a special spot she’s heard about and her and Seth set off to find it. Upon finding the area everything turns to chaos. Secrets and betrayals are revealed. And a battle for life, souls, and power ensues. With an ending that leaves you wanting more.

Used And Abused, James Evans

Night Flight Journal

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Short-Short Story, Jeffrey Caudle

Night Flight Journal

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The Dawn Of A New Era, Eyon Mason

Night Flight Journal

The story starts at the election year of present-day America and looks at the outcome of a people that are tired of corrupt government practices and leaders. It branches into a realm of new ideas and true democracy. The story follows the main character Castiel, who is an activist and soon to be leader of the New America. Castiel has one friend who is an activist as well named Ishmael and this story talks about their sudden rise to leadership and the challenges and enemies that follow to.

The Eulogy, Zeeshan Khan

Night Flight Journal

The Eulogy

I didn’t know the amount of pressure that would come with being the first and only speaker at a funeral. Being a former comedian, I am not afraid of a crowd, but this crowd looks intimidating and dull. As I look around this dark and dusty church in Jacksonville, Florida. A city I’ve grown up in with my best bud Dennis, I hear my name being called. “Alexander, would you please step up and share a few words?” The Pastor says, with an eerie look on his face. I rise from my seat and walk to the podium, …

The Virginians, Andrew N. Knowles

Night Flight Journal

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Hurt To Love, Christa Kaye Jishelle Casidsid

Night Flight Journal

Family dynamics come in many different forms. Some are regarded by society as "healthy," others "toxic," but there are instances where there is a gray line. Once an only child grown to the older sibling, this daughter watches her family relationship. More particularly, she watches her parent that has been there by her side ever since she could remember. "Healthy" or "toxic" are words lost in confusion in her home. She cannot help but feel the pain of the actions and words from the years that built up in her struggle of endurance and martyr sacrifice.

Shadows In The Opera Lights, Kerry Mergler

Night Flight Journal

A look into the bounds of love and if the chains can be broken when the curtain peals back to reveal the truth.

The Battle Of Falmouth Springs, Michael L. Bise

Night Flight Journal

This story is about a group of half-witted teens that embark on their last adventure together before shipping off to basic training. This is an adventure that takes you into the depths of Stephen Foster's song, "Way Down Upon The Suwannee River."

Our secret swimming hole, campfires, old graveyards, first crushes, ghosts, and war set the scene of our last Hoorah! For this band of brothers, it was the end and a new beginning.

Night Sight, Christine R. Day

Night Flight Journal

This poem uses symbols to discuss the elusive nature of understanding and implementing change.

Targets Of Opportunity, Richard F. Colarco

Night Flight Journal

This is a short story about an Army doctor.

Night Flight, Ann Marie Ade

Night Flight Journal

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The Game, Ann Marie Ade

Night Flight Journal

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Fifty-Nine, Ann Marie Ade

Night Flight Journal

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Black Box 2020, Patricia Watkins, Rami C., Eileen Landis-Groom, Gabrielle Pingleton, Daniel Nunez, Audree Davis, Zachary Felton-Priestner, Jordan King, Caleb T. Williams, Keith Tanner, Alexa Pacheco Olguin Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Jennifer James, Marta Verdun Li Bassi, Mark Sinclair

Black Box

The Black Box is a student based creative publication serving the Embry-Riddle Prescott campus. It is our goal to provide a showcase for the creativity and talent of the Embry-Riddle students. Creative works by members of Embry-Riddle's faculty and staff are included.

The Psychology Of Dystopian And Post-Apocalyptic Stories: The Proverbial Question Of Whether Life Will Imitate Art, Donna Roberts

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic genres challenge our notions of Aristotelian mimesis vs Anti-mimesis – i.e., In the study of the human condition, does life imitate art or art imitate life? Popular culture, then and now, provides us with examples to depict the circularity of these notions and the psychological importance of exploring this aspect of human nature, particularly the contemplation of our own collective demise. While we recoil in horror at the images these genres portray, we are also morbidly fascinated by them, and we can’t help but ask ourselves . . . Could that really happen? Will that happen?

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Moving From Image To Narrative To Voice, Eileen Landis-Groom

Publications

As I review rubrics used for evaluating writing in my institution, I notice how voice often is a low priority or nonexistent criterion. Writing, however, with a voice awakens a reader; writing without a voice numbs the reader. Beginning with an image and moving to a narrative may provide writers with a voice, as it has for me. This article is a contemplation resulting from my own writing on the importance of images in generating not only a narrative but also a voice, in other words, a sense that a unique individual is conversing with another, the reader.

The Mysterious Incident Of The Missing Title: Why Did Titular Concern Vanish From Composition Studies?, John Lamothe

Publications

How much time, if any, do first-year writing instructors spend in class discussing the importance of titles on their students’ papers? Without looking at a mountain of lesson plans or interviewing a plethora of instructors from across the country, it is impossible to know what is and what isn’t commonly taught in first-year composition courses. Admittedly, introductory writing and research classes can vary greatly from institution to institution and even from instructor to instructor within the same department. However, judging by an examination of current First-Year Composition textbooks, Rhet/Comp scholars place little importance on discussing the effect of titles on …

The Drunken Cock, Chad Rohrbacher

Publications

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Depression, Chad Rohrbacher

Publications

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Resume Headings, John Lamothe

Publications

This article serves as a guide to creating resume headings.

How To Win Papers And Influence Professors: Creating Positive First Impressions Through Effective Titles, John Lamothe

Publications

By the time you finish reading this first sentence, you’ve already started forming a first impression about this article. In fact, you really started forming it after reading the title. With the words, “How to Win Papers and Influence Professors,” a spoof on the popular Dale Carnegie book, “How to Win Friends & Influence People,” I already began establishing a tone and setting up expectations for you, the reader. Whether you realized it or not, you had a reaction to that title. This shouldn’t come as a great shock. It’s human nature to form quick first impressions; we’ve all been …

Inside A King’S Mind, Benjamin Jones Jr.

Student Works

Inside A King’s Mind is a must read because it gives the reader insight into the obstacles life brings and how to change despite your circumstance. This young author uses this opportunity to help others heal from pain, struggle, defeat, and misguidance with a collage of poems at their reach. May these poems give you guidance through your life's journey.

Black Box 2019, Shane C. Baskit, Jon Haass, Alan Malnar, Ryan Mahoney, Eileen Landis-Groom, Tom Perkins, Gary L. Griffith, Patricia Watkins, Courtney Turner-Rathbone, Hugo Fonck, Kelvin Russell, Martin Kurkchubasche, Jordan King

Black Box

The Black Box is a student based creative publication serving the Embry-Riddle Prescott campus. It is our goal to provide a showcase for the creativity and talent of the Embry-Riddle students. Creative works by members of Embry-Riddle's faculty and staff are included.