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Snow Globe, Mike White

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 151

Folk Tale, Chelsea Woodard

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 152-153

The Mime, Rachel Richardson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 126

Her Familiars, Eric Bilman

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 182-185

Forest Cemetery, Shane Seely

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 128

Spyglass, Kara Van De Graaf

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 143

Sinatra And The Ordre De La Santé Publique, Stefanie Worthman

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 156

Birmingham Poetry Review 41 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 199-213

Domestic Drama, Tess Alexandra Congo

Honors Theses and Capstones

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Aesthetic Is Key, Esther Outlaw

The Messenger

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Stand Your Ground, Whitney Paul

The Messenger

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Dancing Dahlias, Zak Kerr

The Messenger

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Forum Magazine, Fall 2014

Forum Magazine

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Forum Magazine, Graduation Issue, 2014

Forum Magazine

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My Second Home, Basa Village, Jeff Rasley

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Article for Synchronized Chaos about the author’s journeys to Basa Village in Nepal.

T&C Magazine Issue 06 - Winter 2014, T&C Media

T&C Magazine

Articles include: A Perspective Challenged // The Danger of Burnt Popcorn // From Service to School // Lost in the Archives // Alumni with Cool Careers // Men With Spirit // Deaf: A Culture, Not a Disability // The Path of Passion // Where in the World Are You From? // Politically Uncharged // 13 Tips for Staying Warm // Paid to Live

T&C Magazine Issue 02 - Winter 2014, T&C Media

T&C Magazine

Articles include: Honor Code Uncovered // Winter Chills Bring Community Thrills // Inside Unpaid Internships // Looking for Love in Virtual Places // "3, 2, 1 ... Action" // Uptown Eats // A New Spin at Otterbein // Performing Arts Students Breathe Life into Campus // Beyond Borders // Save the Date // A Winter Wonder Wardrobe // Palm-Powered Play

Book Review: Bonnet Strings: An Amish Woman's Ties To Two Worlds And Others, Melanie Springer Mock

Faculty Publications - Department of English

Excerpt: "In Entering the Wild, Janzen narrates the process of crafting these hymns; and I found this chapter, titled “Three Women and the Lost Coin: How Three Women Found Me,” the memoir’s most compelling. In 1990, Janzen was asked to be on a committee to recreate a Mennonite hymnal that might “nourish . . . congregations for twenty years or more.” The committee, wanting to include several hymns honoring the feminine characteristics of God, turned to Janzen. Janzen describes encountering the work of three mystic women—Julian of Norwich, Hildegard von Bingen, and Mechtild of Magdeburg—and 􀂡nding there “the possibilities of …

Remembering Auschwitz-Birkenau: Children’S Shadows, Rachel Anderson

OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

I’m going to share some of my feelings I had jotted down in my travel journal from March 13th, the day we went to Auschwitz-Birkenau:

Upon arrival in Auschwitz, it did not feel like I had entered a concentration camp, or any kind of place of suffering to be frank. I did not get that feeling until I was standing under the “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign. That is when a wave of anguish and terror swept over me. From that moment on until we got back onto the bus to head back to Kraków, I had the largest lump in …

Remembering Auschwitz-Birkenau: "The Smallest Victims", Nichole Delasalas

OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

This was my first experience overseas, so naturally I was nervous. It was overwhelming to think that we were going to Paris and Krakow where our major objective was to learn more about the Holocaust and those involved. In Paris there were not as many distinct reminders about what Holocaust victims went through, but in Krakow, it was all but obvious, especially at Auschwitz-Birkenau. I was not sure how to feel about Auschwitz. Was there a right and a wrong way to feel? I knew a place with such an awful and graphic history deserved the utmost respect for those …

Remembering Auschwitz-Birkenau: "Ghostly Presence", Ciara Clark

OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

I don't believe in ghosts, but I've never felt more haunted than I did the day we visited Auschwitz. There is so much to try to explain that I don't know where to begin. The whole way there was a long, stomach-churning journey. Our tour guide switched on a movie in the tour bus on the way there, and I am certain not many of us watched it. We had already studied the Holocaust, and we did not want to look at gut-wrenching pictures of victims taken in the place we were about to visit. Arriving in the parking lot …

Sites Of Memory: "Hopefulness", Stephanie Hawthorne

OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

I have had the opportunity to participate in this study abroad class twice, once as an undergrad and again this year as a graduate. As a rather sensitive an empathetic person, prior to the trip last year, I was afraid that I would be too emotional to appreciate the intellectual aspects of my experience, and I was also was afraid that I might have strangely been de-sensitized as a result of the many classes I have taken at ODU in studying the Holocaust. As it turned out, I was often moved to tears on that first trip and even overwhelmed …

Sites Of Memory: "Tallitot", Emma Needham

OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

I want to briefly talk about a different perspective that I have of this study abroad course; a Jewish perspective. I just want to start by saying that the melancholy nature of this trip and its experiences were made ten times harder for me because I was the only Jewish student in my class. That is not to say that this was not a hard trip for everyone, but I experienced it in a very different way. My classmates were all very kind and supportive of me, but I had no one with the same religious and spiritual connection to …

Sites Of Memory: "Some Seen, Some Forgotten", Chelsea Patten

OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

When I first decided that I wanted to take part in a study abroad trip I figured that I would travel to another country, explore a new culture, eat some good food and maybe practice some new language skills. I had no idea that I would end up on a trip to France and Poland to study the Holocaust. I have been on many trips in my life, however the depth and emotional experience during this study abroad class surpasses pretty much every other trip. Admittedly during the trip I was not able to show much emotion, that’s just the …

Dark Tourism: "Rage", Jackson Blaschum

OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

Auschwitz was a very strange day for me. I found myself trying to control the emotions that flooded over me upon entering the camp. These were not the same feelings of sadness that many of my classmates felt, but anger, even rage. I found myself struggling to control the anger I felt that the human race was capable of committing such horrible acts of violence. I doubt that I will ever forget the various exhibits in the camp. Among these were two tons of human hair collected from women who arrived at the camp, roughly 40,000 women, which was taken …

Dark Tourism: "Wide-Awake", Andrea Schlabach

OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

As I look back, when I decided to go on this study abroad, I definitely was not ready for what I was about to experience. When most people learn about the Holocaust, people say it is sad and they cannot believe something like this could have happened in the world, and for myself, I thought each of those things. But it is more than just that. While I was in both Paris and Kraków, one of the most important things I discovered was how the world reacted to the Holocaust. Paris especially bothered me.

Dark Tourism: "Antisemitism", Suzan Czocschke

OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

One of the first things I saw when we arrived in Poland was a six-pointed star with a line through it spray-painted on the side of a building. That immediately sent a chill through me and reminded me of something that Esther Sénot, an Auschwitz survivor who had spoken with us in France, had said. During an emotional exchange she had commented that the current situation in France reminds her of the early 1940’s.

Reflective Insight: "No Happy Endings", Raven Bland

OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

I am a freshman at Old Dominion University on my first trip abroad, and I was rather nervous going into this trip. A part of me felt like an underdog, due to my age, my lack of academic experience, and just experience as a whole, but this trip was nothing like I expected.

Reflective Insight: "Survivors", Thomas Tucker

OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

I chose to go on the French Holocaust trip because I had never been out of the country, and I also wanted to learn more about the Holocaust. I never would have imagined that I would get to experience the things that I did. From meeting with a Holocaust survivor the first night, to seeing the Płazów concentration camp that was depicted in the movie Schindler’s List the whole trip was an eye opening experience for me. One of the best moments that I had during the trip was meeting with the Holocaust survivors. These survivors definitely left an impression …

Reflective Insight: "Lessons Learned", Stephanie Walters

OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

After returning from my study abroad experience, many people have asked me how was the trip? What did you experience? Was it fun? Not many people asked me what I learned, or how I felt. The emotions and knowledge that I have encountered on this trip is a complex subject to grapple with. The Holocaust, or Shoah as Europeans call it, was a tragedy that devastated millions of families. I often thought what would I have done if this happened to my family? How would I be able to move forward after the slaughter of the people that I held …