The school continued to evolve in the last years of the 20th century under the leadership of President John Van De Wetering ( 1981 – 1997 ), who launched the MetroCenter, SUNY Brockport's classroom complex in downtown Rochester.

During his tenure, Brockport's international education program greatly expanded to become the largest in the SUNY system and among the 10 largest in the U. S.

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Though owls are typically solitary, the literary collective noun for a group of owls is a parliament.

) Cut off to a large degree from his family, he passed a somewhat solitary boyhood, devoted to the school and to early literary efforts in the Rugby Magazine.

According to Hugh de Ferranti, iconographic and literary sources generally portray biwa hoshi as solitary and pitiable figures, though wealthy and powerful individuals also exist in such representations.

A solitary figure in 20th-century American academic life, briefly a socialist in his youth, a lapsed leftist intellectual conservative by the time he was in graduate school, a teacher of composition, a Platonist philosopher who wrote on the problem of universals and criticized nominalism, a literary and cultural critic, and a theorist of human nature and society.

" Because of her celebrity status Letourneau was unpopular with other inmates, " sassed guards and balked at work " and spent " 18 of her first 24 months " in solitary confinement.

A self-described " solitary person ", he finds it somewhat annoying being a television celebrity in Britain, where he is often recognised by members of the public, some of whom request his autograph.

The adult aardwolf is primarily solitary while foraging for food, necessary because of the scarcity and homogeneous distribution of their insect prey.

John was ordained a priest in 1567, and then indicated his intent to join the strict Carthusian order, which appealed to him because of its encouragement of solitary and silent contemplation.

But because of the extreme difficulty of the solitary life, many monks failed, either returning to their previous lives, or becoming spiritually deluded.

The Severn bore is not a self-reinforcing solitary wave or soliton but rather a shock wave which is formed because the wave is travelling faster than the wave speed in water above the Bore ( see tidal bore for more details ).

The pudú is a solitary animal whose behavior in the wild is largely unknown because of its secretive nature.

In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently no culture of the earth, no navigation nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth ; no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

The author says that because shy people " have a tendency toward self-criticism, they are often high achievers, and not just in solitary activities like research and writing.

" Kierkegaard puts it this way in another book, " We shall not say with the Preacher ( Ecclesiastes 4: 10 ), ‘ Woe to him who is alone ; if he falls, there is no one else to raise him up ,” for God is indeed still the one who both raises up and casts down, for the one who lives in association with people and the solitary one ; we shall not cry, “ Woe to him ,” but surely an “ Ah, that he might not go astray ,” because he is indeed alone in testing himself to see whether it is God ’ s call he is following or a voice of temptation, whether defiance and anger are not mixed embitteringly in his endeavor.

Standing stones, orthostats, liths, or more commonly megaliths ( because of their large and cumbersome size ) are solitary stones set vertically in the ground and come in many different varieties. Some Standing Stones or Menhirs have been built around in buildings which often have some early or current religious significance.

Some of these early prison experiments indicated that prisoners may prefer the lash over solitary, because it did not induce permanent damage and would not incite madness like solitary confinement arguably could.

Opponents of solitary confinement hold that it is a form of cruel and unusual punishment and torture because the lack of human contact, and the sensory deprivation that often go with solitary confinement, can have a severe negative impact on a prisoner's mental state that may lead to certain mental illnesses such as depression, permanent or semi-permanent changes to brain physiology, an existential crisis, and death.

They are particularly important for such studies as the genus contains species varying from solitary to permanently social, and because sociality has evolved frequently within the genus allowing comparative studies across species.

A solitary instance occurs in the First Punic War of the nomination of a dictator ( Aulus Atilius Calatinus ), for the purpose of carrying on war out of Italy ; but this was never repeated, because it was feared that so great a power might become dangerous at a distance from Rome.

In October 1918, as an artillery lieutenant Dornberger was captured by US Marines and spent two years in a French prisoner-of-war camp ( mostly in solitary confinement because of repeated escape attempts ).

Local ADF congregations are known as " groves " ( like groves of trees ), and while group rituals are often regarded as more powerful than rituals performed individually, ADF also has many solitary members ; some by choice, and some because there are no groves within easy traveling distance.

Their numbers are difficult to determine because they are solitary animals that are widely scattered across their range, but they are estimated to number fewer than 275.

During Sydney's two year disappearance between Seasons 2 and 3, Jack was again taken into custody, held in solitary confinement for a year because of his working with unsanctioned sources ( including Irina ) to learn the truth behind Sydney's apparent death.

Several species are valued ornamentals because of their finely-dissected leaves, solitary bell-shaped flowers, and plumed seed heads.

He was made an undesirable because one of his jokes put them into solitary confinement.

He was sent into solitary exile the very moment he was born because the Emperor sensed that his son could become an even more powerful master of the dark side than he was.

In spite of his observations of solitons in wave tank experiments, Scott Russell never recognized them as such, because of his focus on the " great wave of translation ," the largest amplitude solitary wave.

This discovery gave the modern basis for understanding of the soliton phenomenon: the solitary wave is recreated in the outgoing state because this is the only way to satisfy all of the conservation laws.

From the outset, she must have realized that marriage with him was out of the question, and although she was displeased by the `` unwarrantable '' interference, it seems probable that she did agree with her mother's suggestion that the poet was `` perhaps '' a man `` most fitted to live & die solitary, & in the love only of the Highest Lover ''.

The other possibility is to make arrangements for her to let out one or two of the rooms to some teacher of good family or one of those solitary old ladies that Tuxapoka is populated with -- Miss Edna Whittaker, for example.

Having murdered her husband, the prince of Colchis, she was expelled by her subjects and placed by her father on the solitary island of Aeaea.

Laura begins her tale by relating her childhood in a " picturesque and solitary " castle in the midst of an extensive forest in Styria where she lives with her father, a wealthy English widower, retired from the Austrian Service.

30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848 ) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her solitary novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.

An Italian nun named Sister Benedetta Carlini was documented to have seduced many of her sisters when possessed by a Divine spirit named " Splenditello "; to end her relationships with other women, she was placed in solitary confinement for the last 40 years of her life.

She named the project after a sign she saw in the abode of Pope Celestine V, which translates as ' a room of one's own ', and which Smith felt best described her solitary method of photography.

** Social workers in Los Angeles, California take custody of Genie, a girl who had been kept in solitary confinement since her birth.

Elizabeth was only too aware that the deposed Ivan VI, whom she had imprisoned in the Schlusselburg Fortress and placed in solitary confinement, was a threat to her throne.

Her husband appeared to sincerely mourn her death: according to one account, he " privily departed to a solitary place and would no man should resort unto him ".

Hugh Luke argues that " By ending her story with the picture of the Earth's solitary inhabitant, she has brought nearly the whole weight of the novel to bear upon the idea that the condition of the individual being is essentially isolated and therefore ultimately tragic " ( xvii ).

Contemplating her life in solitary confinement, she remembers her power and goes back to exact revenge on everyone who tormented her.

It is there, somewhere in Wessex, that she spends her final days, solitary, thoughtful and not altogether unhappy.

He recommends that temples to Ceres be sited in rural areas: " in a solitary spot out of the city, to which the public are not necessarily led but for the purpose of sacrificing to her.

In her discussion of thinking, she focuses mainly on Socrates and his notion of thinking as a solitary dialogue between Me and Myself.

In addition to her rigorous exercise routines Elisabeth practised what could be called a true beauty cult, but one that was highly ascetic, solitary, and prone to bizarre, eccentric, and almost mystic routines.

They are mostly solitary animals, and the mother raises litters of up to four young on her own.