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Reborn In Adversity - Memoir Excerpt And Review Of Resiliency Research: Risks And Traits, Alina Patterson May 2013

Reborn In Adversity - Memoir Excerpt And Review Of Resiliency Research: Risks And Traits, Alina Patterson

Master of Liberal Studies Theses

Reborn in Adversity describes the journey one young girl makes as she seeks to self-actualize amidst multiple risk factors or packages. Raised in an abusive, hypocritical, and assaultive family, the author is faced with crisis after crises along each milestone of life. Once she leaves her abusive family, the risks and crises multiply in magnitude and number. In this journey she exhibits multiple resiliency traits that allow at risk children to rebound from adversity. She does more than rebound, as she is convinced that she has become a “better person” than she would have been had she not been tested …


The Chess Players, Gerry A. Wolfson-Grande May 2013

The Chess Players, Gerry A. Wolfson-Grande

Master of Liberal Studies Theses

Originally conducted primarily as a game of war and strategy, chess has evolved to reflect historical developments in Western civilization as well as inspired literary and artistic endeavors in such a fashion as to provide comment, often as metaphor, on the human condition and our place in a cosmos influenced as frequently by chance as by order. The evolution of the game itself, particularly the promotion of a weak and relatively unimportant piece to the most powerful, at a time when a similar shift was taking place in the real world, ensured its survival as it served as an educational …


Selections From "Leafmold", F. Daniel Rzicznek Feb 2013

Selections From "Leafmold", F. Daniel Rzicznek

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Purgatory's Cubicle, Jade Sylvan Feb 2013

Purgatory's Cubicle, Jade Sylvan

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What Binghamton Puts On Their Postcards, Scott Fynboe Feb 2013

What Binghamton Puts On Their Postcards, Scott Fynboe

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April 3, 8pm Ct, Scott Fynboe Feb 2013

April 3, 8pm Ct, Scott Fynboe

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Death Comes To Town, Scott Fynboe Feb 2013

Death Comes To Town, Scott Fynboe

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I Will Tell You About The Exhibit Of Porcelain Sunflower Seeds By Ai Wei Wei., Claudia M. Reder Feb 2013

I Will Tell You About The Exhibit Of Porcelain Sunflower Seeds By Ai Wei Wei., Claudia M. Reder

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More, Eliza Tudor Feb 2013

More, Eliza Tudor

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Gaza, Glenn Shaheen Feb 2013

Gaza, Glenn Shaheen

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Europe, Glenn Shaheen Feb 2013

Europe, Glenn Shaheen

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American Experiment, Glenn Shaheen Feb 2013

American Experiment, Glenn Shaheen

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Something Understood, Michelle Matthees Feb 2013

Something Understood, Michelle Matthees

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Eastern Orphan Subtext, Michelle Matthees Feb 2013

Eastern Orphan Subtext, Michelle Matthees

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Guns In The Basement, Michelle Matthees Feb 2013

Guns In The Basement, Michelle Matthees

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Thug Sonnets, Matt Reeck Feb 2013

Thug Sonnets, Matt Reeck

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Your First Family Portrait, Marissa Schwalm Feb 2013

Your First Family Portrait, Marissa Schwalm

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Daniel Burnham Made Plans, Angela Spoto Feb 2013

Daniel Burnham Made Plans, Angela Spoto

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Interferometric Analysis Of A Composite Structure, Angela Spoto Feb 2013

Interferometric Analysis Of A Composite Structure, Angela Spoto

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Of Things Tangible, Sandy Olson Hill Feb 2013

Of Things Tangible, Sandy Olson Hill

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Abandon The Vehicular Eye, Jesse Glass Feb 2013

Abandon The Vehicular Eye, Jesse Glass

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That We May Be At Peace, Josh Wardrip Feb 2013

That We May Be At Peace, Josh Wardrip

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Swans In Retrograde, Marvin I. Guymon Feb 2013

Swans In Retrograde, Marvin I. Guymon

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The People’S Museum Of Musical Heritage, James Brubaker Feb 2013

The People’S Museum Of Musical Heritage, James Brubaker

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As Your Boyfriend’S Head Lays In His Own Vomit Like A Rot Candy Apple On A Rot Couch During A Rot Summer, Jaylee Alde Feb 2013

As Your Boyfriend’S Head Lays In His Own Vomit Like A Rot Candy Apple On A Rot Couch During A Rot Summer, Jaylee Alde

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My Pearl, Jaylee Alde Feb 2013

My Pearl, Jaylee Alde

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The Lyrica Cantos I-Iii, Michael Filas Feb 2013

The Lyrica Cantos I-Iii, Michael Filas

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Red Cross, Anna Elena Eyre Feb 2013

Red Cross, Anna Elena Eyre

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Y, Changming Yuan Feb 2013

Y, Changming Yuan

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Six Untitled Poems From "Lizard", Sarah Rosenthal Feb 2013

Six Untitled Poems From "Lizard", Sarah Rosenthal

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