Browsing Dissertations and Theses by Subject "identity"
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Emerging Adults and Chronic Pain: Exploring the Impact of Chronic Pain on Emerging Adults and their Ability to Adapt
(East Carolina University, 2022-11-10)Emerging adulthood is a period of exploration and uncertainty where individuals between 18 and 29 years old investigate the abundance of opportunities available to them in regard to love, work, and worldviews. Although ... -
Familial and Cultural Conflicts as Related to Identity: the 1.5 and Second Generation's Imperfect Records
(East Carolina University, 2018-04-24)The bicultural struggles of the 1.5 and second generation characters in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban, Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, and David Wong Louie's The Barbarians Are Coming are ... -
Redefining the Postcolonial Identity Through the Deconstruction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Novels
(East Carolina University, 2015-12-10)In her 2009 TED Talk, “The Danger of a Single Story,” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explains that when one group is defined by one story, they are reduced to one-dimensional caricatures; they are objectified. The danger in a ...