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"Pleasing Passages": Style In The Old English Pastoral Care, Ray Moye

Quidditas

The Old English Pastoral Care, a translation of Gregory the Great's Liber Regula Pastoralis which King Alfred completed sometime in the first few years of the 890s, was the first in a series of translations of Latin Christian works in English that would serve as the foundation of Alfred's program of cultural and educational reform aimed at restoring England's preeminence as a leading Christian intellectual center. This reputation that the land had enjoyed during the glory days of Bede and Alcuin had been lost as a consequence of continual Viking invasions in the eighth and ninth centuries, with the …

Luci And Lujean's, Michael Smith

Inscape

No abstract provided.

The Great Bean-Count Schism, Scott R. Parkin

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

A Storyteller In Zion: Essays And Speeches By Orson Scott Card, Thomas C. Clark

BYU Studies

Orson Scott Card. A Storyteller in Zion: Essays and Speeches by Orson Scott Card. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1993. 215 pp. $11.95.

General Diagnosis Of Salitrón, A Village In San Juan Ermita, Department Of Chiquimula, Fredy Samuel Coronado López

Theses and Dissertations

This study reports on the development of a diagnostic tool to assess the current socio-economic and cultural conditions as well as physical and natural resources among the rural communities of Salitrón and San Juan Ermita, Chiquimula, Guatemala. This diagnostic tool revealed the current situation in these communities, especially in the population dedicated to agricultural production. Several alternative recommendations are provided to improve development projects in these communities. This project was made possible through the participation of CUNORI (Centro Universitario de Oriente) agricultural students.

"Yet I Must Submit": Mormon Women's Perspectives On Death And Dying 1847-1900, Julie Paige Hemming Savage

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores Mormon women's experiences with death as revealed in their personal writings from 1847-1900. The study includes an examination of women's involvement in caring for the sick and tending to the dead, as well as an exploration of women's personal reactions to death. A careful reading of Mormon women's writings from this period reveals that Mormonism equipped believers with powerful doctrines and rituals which helped women cope with the sorrow and profound grief that accompanied the deaths of those they loved. In addition, members living in Mormon communities rendered invaluable physical, emotional, and spiritual support to each other …

Vol. 13, Pi Sigma Alpha Review, Pi Sigma Alpha Review

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

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The Cavendishes, The Evelyns, And Teasing In Verse And Prose, James Fitzmaurice

Quidditas

It is often noted by those who study seventeenth-century women writers that Mary Evelyn, wife to the famous diarist, pronounced Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle, "rambling as her books, aiming at science, difficulties, high notions, terminating commonly in nonsense, oaths, and obscenity." Such evidence is sometimes used to show that Margaret Cavendish deserved to be called "Mad Madge of Newcastle," an epithet that frequently made its way into biographical references to her in after ages. Nevertheless, it as easily might be the case Mary Evelyn was merely a little miffed with the attentions her husband, John, paid the not unattractive …

Why The Southern African Development Council Should Participate In The World Engergy Efficiency Association, Kevin Ellsworth

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

No abstract provided.

Cooperation, Conflict, And Compromise: Women, Men, And The Environment In Salt Lake City, 1890-1930, Thomas G. Alexander

BYU Studies

Through efforts that crossed religious, political, and gender lines, Salt Lake City citizens realized some success in clearing their acrid air and promoting a "City Beautiful" and functional.

Four Lds Views On Harold Bloom, M. Gerald Bradford, Eugene England, Truman G. Madsen, Charles Radall Paul, Richard F. Haglund

BYU Studies

Harold Bloom. The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation. New York: Touchstone with Simon and Schuster, 1993. 271 pp. Index. Paperback, $12.00.

Sacred Connections: Lds Pottery In The Native American Southwest, Richard G. Oman

BYU Studies

LDS themes expressed via tribal art traditions provide a path to appreciating the Native American artists' connections to the land, the family, and a spirituality in and through all things.

Quechua Texts Of Perception, Janis B. Nuckolls

Faculty Publications

Recent work by anthropologists, folklorists, and semioticians has made significant strides in our understanding of the dynamics and poetics of spoken utterances. Such work has been motivated, generally, by the goal of understanding verbal expression in terms of its own unique structures and expressive modalities. The following paper will contribute to this line of inquiry. It offers an analysis of a form of expression, sound symbolism, that is widely used by people whose languages have not been written down. The main advantage of this analysis is that it rescues sound symbolism from the irrational abyss into which it has often …

El Léxico Disponible De La República Dominicana, Orlando Alba

Books

No abstract provided.

Impediments To The Cultivation Of The Folk School Spirit In A North American Context: The Case Of Grand View College, Dennis Bielfeldt

The Bridge

In the 1995-96 academic year Grand View College will

celebrate its first hundred years of life. In anticipation of

this milestone, suggestions have been made to designate

1994-95 the "Year of Grundtvig," and to formally observe

with the entire Grand View community the influence of

the great Dane upon the college and its educational philosophy.

What, after all, could be more fitting for a college

whose most recent Academic Mission Statement proudly

declares its founding "by Danish immigrants who sought

to give the educational vision and ideals of N.F.S.

Grundtvig an institutional presence?"

Full Issue

The Bridge

No abstract provided.

Anders Kristian Andersen 1825-1920, Anders K. Andersen

The Bridge

Richard Sandager was given this manuscript (written in

Danish by his grandfather) when he visited Denmark in

1965. He received it from A. Kristian Andersen, another

grandson of Anders Kristian Andersen, who lived on the

old family farm. He was a Representative to the Danish

Parliament in Copenhagen at that time.

Miss Dickinson And Perverse Pubescent Prurience, Chris Crowe

Faculty Publications

Right then, sound, time, and my heart stopped while Lexi and I were transported to another dimension at the center of the universe.

A Swiss Phenomenon: Bauernmalerei (Peasant Painting), Walter Angst

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Ever since, some 50,000 years ago, the paleolithic Cro-Magnon aborigine of Altamira (a large cave near Santander in Northern Spain) painted magnificent pictures of wild animals on their cave walls, people of all kinds from many lands have used colorants to embellish the interiors of dwellings. The use of pigments mixed with various binders for decorating peoples' surroundings as an expression of the human desire for beauty has fluctuated throughout the centuries, but has never totally abated.

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.

Soil And Vegetation Development In An Abandoned Sheep Corral On Degraded Subalpine Rangeland, James O. Klemmedson, Arthur R. Tiedemann

Great Basin Naturalist

Vegetation and soils inside and outside an abandoned sheep corral on degraded subalpine range of the Wasatch Plateau were studied to determine the influence of approximately 37 years' use of the corral on soil and plant development. Vegetal and surface cover were estimated. Herbage, litter, and soils were sampled inside and outside the corral and analyzed for C_org, N, P, and S. Soil pH, bulk density, and CO₃–C also were measured. Storage (mass/unit area) of C_org, N, P, and S was determined for each component. Yield and vegetal composition were significantly affected inside the …

Selenium Geochemical Relationships Of Some Northern Nevada Soils, Stephen Poole, Glenn Gross, Robert Potts

Great Basin Naturalist

Soil samples, one from each of 10 locations in northern Nevada, were evaluated for redox potential, total and extractable selenium, phosphate, free iron oxide, total and ferrous iron. Mole fractions for extractable selenium species were calculated from redox potentials. Data were used to extrapolate general geochemical relationships for soil selenium at the sample sites. Results obtained from one sample per location allowed only the most general conclusions to be drawn. Soil phosphate levels, which affect the adsorption of selenite species on iron oxide by competing for adsorption sites, were not correlated with levels of extractable selenium in this study. This …

Seed Production In Gentiana Newberryi (Gentianaceae), Myra E. Barnes, Richard W. Rust

Great Basin Naturalist

Experimental manipulations and observations in one population of Gentiana newberryi Gray flowers over 2 years showed significant variation in seed production relative to pollinator and soil water availability. When pollinators were rare, there was a significant relationship between number of bees present and number of mature seeds produced, and supplemental hand cross-pollination (xenogamy) did improve seed set in Gentiana newberryi Gray. When pollinators were abundant, supplemental hand cross-pollination did not increase seed set. Self-fertilized seeds (autogamy) germinated at the same rate as cross-pollinated seeds. Seed production in unvisited flowers is probably limited anatomically and is not influenced by the type …

Use Of A Secondary Nest In Great Basin Desert Thatch Ants (Formica Obscuripes Forel), James D. Mciver, Trygve Steen

Great Basin Naturalist

Workers of Great Basin Desert thatch ants (Formica obscuripes Forel) dig simple secondary nests at the base of plants upon which they tend aphids and scales. These secondary nests house only foragers, with the number of foragers occupying each nest positively correlated with the number of worker-tended Homoptera feeding on plant foliage above. Thatch ant secondary nests are cooler than 25 cm below the dome top of the primary nest and maintain a significantly more constant temperature than is observed on the ground surface or in the plant canopy. Thatch ant foragers use secondary nests for at least two …

Full Issue, Vol. 54 No. 4

Great Basin Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Opportunistic Breeding After Summer Rains By Arizona Tiger Salamanders, Linda J. Allison, Paul E. Brunkow, James P. Collins

Great Basin Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Comparison Of Reproductive Timing To Snow Conditions In Wild Onions And White-Crowned Sparrows At High Altitude, Martin L. Morton

Great Basin Naturalist

Timing of reproduction was assessed for wild onions and White-crowned Sparrows in relation to snow conditions on the same subalpine meadow in the Sierra Nevada for 21 years. Flowering date and clutch initiation date were both highly correlated with snow conditions, being later as snowpack was deeper. Interannual variation in schedule was 46 days for onions and 33 days for sparrows. There was nearly a fivefold difference in snowpack depth, and date of snow disappearance varied interannually by 72 days. Compensation for late-lying snows occurred in both species but was greater in sparrows than in onions because the nest-building behavior …

Geostatistical Analysis Of Resource Islands Under Artemisia Tridentata In The Shrub-Steppe, Jonathan J. Halvorson, Harvey Bolton Jr., Jeffrey L. Smith, Richard E. Rossi

Great Basin Naturalist

Desert plants can influence the pattern of resources in soil resulting in small-scale enriched zones. Although conceptually simple, the shape, size, and orientation of these "resource islands" are difficult to study in detail using conventional sampling regimes. To demonstrate and alternative approach, we sampled soil under and around individual Artemisia tridentata (sagebrush), a dominant shrub of cool desert environments, and analyzed the samples with univariate statistics and geostatistics. Univariate statistics revealed that soil variables like total inorganic-N, soluble-C, and microbial biomass-C were distributed with highest mean values within about 25 cm of the plant axis and significantly lower mean values …

Cosmic Dishtowels, Casualene Meyer

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

“Tryed And Purified As Gold”: Mormon Women's “Lives”, Maureen Ursenbach Beecher

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.