Shannon Lewis Simpson

Fourth-quarter honor roll listed at Gulf Shores High School

GULF SHORES, Alabama -- Students at Gulf Shores High School who made the honor roll for the fourth quarter include the following.

ALL A’s

12th grade: Nicholas Anagnostopoulos, Joshua Braydan Bateman, Briana Elizabeth Bodine, Tyler Kelton Bullock, John Martin Carl, Sarah Millicent Cassady, Clayton James Gates, Christine Marie Glanding, Kimberly Lynn Glanding, Mary Caroline Howard, Laura Nicole Jones, Cole Prescott Linam, Sarah Catherine Lindley, Shuji Lee Miller, James Zachary Morton, Laura Olivia Murray, Taylor Austin Plankers, Trenton William Rankin, Taylor Andress Shannon, John Ames Sobera III, Taylor Caroline Suggs, Matthew Scott Taylor and Kirby Elizabeth Webb.

11th grade: Barcley Michelle Boyd, Shelby Dacy Chapman, Allen Lee Clayton, Keily Dayana Cruz, Travis Michael Gravengaard, Charles Caleb Haney, Amber M. Howell, Basch Barnett Jernigan, Virginia Taylor Jones, Chelsea Nicole Keblaitis, Sarah Baylee King, Alexis Nicole Martin, Chase Elliott Martinez, Hannah Danielle Mayfield, Dharmik Kashyap Mehta, Kerri Cathleen O’Connor, Alexander James Olsson, Chelsey Renee Petroski, Courtney Brooke Pope, Sarah Marie Rienzi, Sophie Cathrine Simantel, Tyler Dean Stargel, Alec Vincent Szapiel, Christopher Von Tilley, Sarah Christine Uter, Jesse Lee White and Shannon Paige Wright.

10th grade: Olivia Grace Callaway, Dillon M. Gnall, Victor Almeida Gomes, Thomas Daniel Hanson, Hayley Brooke Healan, Amanda Alejandra Lee, Anna Olivia Melton, Alina Jade Myer, Ross Nelson Roberts and Nathan Reed Taylor.

Ninth grade: Kelsey Paige Alexander, Carolina Cohen Braga, Sarah Catherine Carl, Jeffrey O’Gwynn Chambliss Jr., Lakean Nicole Epperson, Nathaniel Robert Hubenthal, Taylor Rhaine Johns, Amy Jane Johnson, Dakota Ann Jones, Katelin Y. Jones, Savannah Dawn Kichler, Lee Michael McVay, Hannah Marie Millson, Sai Jayesh Patel, Nathaniel Gage Polchlopek, Jamie Carl Rasinen, David Joseph Schoen, Caroline Crutcher White, Logan James Whitehead, Robert Lake Wiese, Nathaniel Robert Wood and Zhenyu Zhang.

A-B HONORS

12th grade: Kaitlin Grace Alexander, Colin Joseph Anderson, Channing Nichol Bateman-White, James Madison Beech III, Courtney Michelle Brannon, Logan Christopher Canan, Courtney Hayes Carter, Jacob Patrick Carver, Rebecca Ann Chapman, Cecelia Bridgett Chavez, Brittany DeLacee Corbett, Meagan Lynn Davis, Kevin Thomas Denton, Kayla Ashlyn Duke, Andrea Nichole Dumond, Jennifer Leigh Flowers, Kenneth Jose Ford, Thomas Clayton Gilbert, Patrick Dylan Glass, Dakota Linden Horn, Kalyn Bridget Hudson, Brelyn Marie James, Madison Carly Kruk, Cayla Marie Marcet, Ridge Brandt Martin, William Alan McBride, Theresa Michelle McDorman, Jacquelyne Kaye McKiernan, Patrick Shane O’Neill, Amber Nicholle Parks, Laura Marie Peavy, Zachary Tyler Peoples, Samantha Mariella Pollock, Brian Preston Ray, Tyner Chase Reeves, Crystal Lee Richardson, Lauren Marie Rivers, Tristan Alexander Robinson, Lauren Joyce Rollin, Nicole Michelle Roney, Shaun Dylan Searcy, Savannah Layne Session, Jessica Renee Simpson, Colten Emerson Smith, Ashleigh Nicole Still, Emily Jayne Stokes, Allison Elaine Taylor, Andrew Joseph Tranchina, Shayna Lyn Turner, Jazmin Valerio and Abigail Ann Whitworth.

The Modern Historian, the Canadian Medievalist, and other such ...

At the University of Western Ontario , and some I developed while interning at L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site . In this reproduction all the footnotes are left out, so if you are looking for references please look to the paper I did for Mapping Medievalism at the Canadian Frontier. I have, however, included my bibliography and all my visual aids. I would like to start off with a clip. During the 2010 Winter Olympics this ad ran in the province of Ontario nearly once a commercial break. It was part of a larger campaign for Newfoundland and Labrador tourism, though this was the ad they chose to run most frequently. While you watch, take note of the way that North America’s Norse heritage is being presented. What I can identify as public knowledge about North America’s Norse heritage comes from informal discussions with tourists, from the study of the way that promoters of heritage frame the Norse-North American connection in order to appeal to the public and finally from cursorily studying the historiography. From my research and my experiences I can tell you that this advertising campaign was widely successful. Through talking with people I discovered that a great many of them (I would be so bold to say as one out of three people) had seen the advertisement and had decided to visit L’Anse aux Meadows because of it. For many it was a case of “well we always wanted to come and then we saw that advertisement, you know, with the children.” It was so successful amongst North American audiences that tourism numbers, I can say unofficially, were the highest they had ever been, despite the drop off in American tourism that resulted from the closing gap between the two dollars. stunning than other, perhaps more easily accessed, parts of the province. The draw was this emphasis on a medieval European past that genuinely belonged to North Americans. If we listen to the words of this advertisement, in it the province is appealing to everything that makes the ‘Vikings’ popular amongst North American audiences. The advertisement is emphasizing and then reasserting exactly what North Americans think about their own Norse heritage. I argue that the North American public understands their Norse heritage as part of their origins mythology as a settler/invader nation. This is seen through the continuous coupling of Norse explorers such as Leifr Eiríksson with late medieval European explorers, specifically Christopher Columbus.

Youth and age in the medieval north

Norse world at the turn of the first millenium

The Viking Age: Ireland and the West: Papers from the Proceedings of the Fifteenth Viking Congress, Cork, 18-27 August 2005

The Far Traveler, Voyages of a Viking Woman

Viking and medieval Scandinavia