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Resilience

Volume IX, Number IV

We all face challenges and change, falls and failure. Now more than ever, resilience is crucial to thriving in our world. In this issue of KidSpirit, young contributors plumb the depths of their experiences to explore the strength of the human spirit.

Cover Artwork: Haemaru Chung

The Big Question

Why Are We Resilient?

by Vanita Sharma

After spending hours, even years, vying for a position on varsity while watching my sister rise up through the ranks and observing my peers compete in the official leagues, I was desperate to make the team.

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Features

I Came, I Adapted, I Thrived: Resilience in Our Globalized World

by Nathan Zhang

I still remember the day in 2012 when my mom told me that we were going to move to China because of her job relocation.

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Features

Resilience Through Passion

by Huzaifa Liaqat

We all have a passion.

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Awesome Moments

I'm Positive!

by Raavee Tripathi
Awesome Moments

Disorder or Cure?

by Xinru Yin
Interfaith Connections

The Absence Beneath My Skis

by Olivia Bailey
Interfaith Connections

Just Keep Swimming

by Abraham Weitzman
Interfaith Connections

Why I Am Me

by Nargis Kachrumathur
Media

A Review of Anna and the Swallow Man

by Ameena Naqvi
Media

The Red Flower: A Review of The Jungle Book

by Andrew Lu

Poetry

Wake Up

by Rand Ang Siong Lin

Wake up now.
Wake up, you with your head lying low
Battered by looks, words, and actions
Always in a constant state of mental tension
Being told that however hard you buck up,
you won’t add up.

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No One Knows

by Pragya Natarajan

Glass Street

by Eliza Moore

Fresh Mangoes

by Yani Li

The Abyss Under the Bed

by Haemaru Chung

PerSpectives

Resilience

by Nick Stuart

There was a camera crew following him around and they were filming me filming him, and they asked me if he was the most remarkable person I had ever interviewed.

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Check out the Group Guide for this issue.

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