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Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

The 2022 Brigham Young University Prelaw Review (Journal) continues to demonstrate Brigham Young University’s commitment to excellence in scholarship and student development. Throughout this past year, it has been a privilege to work with ambitious students who want to produce the best possible undergraduate legal journal.

Esports And Title Ix: Addressing Scholarship Distribution Across Gender Lines In Collegiate Esports Programs, Adam Martin

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

Since its implementation in 1972, Title IX protects people in the United States from discrimination on the basis of sex under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. Currently, women do not receive scholarship funds from universities with esports programs proportionate to their overall participation in esports. The Department of Education’s Office of Civil rights, which oversees Title IX implementation, currently does not have a concrete definition for “sport.” Instead, they evaluate any given activity as a “sport” under Title IX on a case-by- case basis using the following three criteria: whether or not the activity has a …

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Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

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Kindness In The Bardo: Empathy As A Catalyst For Healing In Victims Of Dissociation, Julia Dorothea Chopelas

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

In George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo, a host of undead characters find themselves in a spiritual limbo based on the bardo. Although they won’t admit it to themselves, Roger Bevins III and Hans Vollman are most certainly dead. Despite their supernatural makeup as ghosts, Bevins and Vollman bear strong psychological resonance with the living: they are human, heartbroken, and lost. For the ghosts of Oak Hills Cemetery, the inefficient coping mechanism of dissociation perpetuates their afterlife imprisonment in the bardo. Bevins and Vollman suffer from a variety of dissociative symptoms, their minds’ psychological defense against the trauma that has …

Assimilation In The United States: Semitism And Asian Americanism, Megan Gibson

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

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How Gender Affects Writing: Jackson’S And Fitzgerald’S Portrayals Of Mental Illness, Cryslin A. Ledbetter

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

Cryslin Ledbetter's essay, "How Gender Affects Writing: Jackson’s and Fitzgerald’s Portrayals of Mental Illness" examines the similarities and differences between Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle and Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night. Through a careful comparison of male and female writers, the author analyzes defining factors that effect the final product of each novel.

Datadescription-Detection Of Sulfur Dioxide By Broadband Cavity-Enhanced Absorption Spectroscopy (Bbceas), Ryan Thalman, Nitish Bhardwaj, Callum Flowerday, Jaron C. Hansen

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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion: Crucial For Organizational Learning And Health Equity, Bret Lyman, Joy Parchment, Kaitlyn C. George

Faculty Publications

Achieving health equity requires a diversity of perspectives, values, and insights, yet the composition of the United States’ nursing workforce does not reflect the communities where they practice. Nurse leaders can advance health equity and exemplary clinical outcomes by creating diverse, equitable, and inclusive health care teams. Such teams are well-equipped for organizational learning, a crucial process for advancing health equity. Nurse leaders advance health equity by fostering diversity, equity, inclusion, and thus organizational learning in the workplace.

"I Don't Think You Understand": Performativity And Comprehensibility In Washington Square, Robyn Amy Peterson

Theses and Dissertations

Washington Square, like The Portrait of a Lady, is an open-ended Henry James novel that concludes ambiguously and unhappily, counter to the trend of many other Victorian novels. While many contemporary Victorian novels center on marriage and inheritance plots, concluding their protagonists' struggles with felicitous performative utterances of "I do" and "I bequeath," Catherine Sloper's future is less clear: at the conclusion of Washington Square, she remains both unmarried and disinherited. Both characters and readers alike seem stymied by Catherine's motivations at the end of the novel, as famously studied in Judith Butler's essay, "Values of Difficulty." Catherine seems calculable, …

Be With Me: Well-Being And Singling Contact; The Moderating Role Of Autistic Traits, Michelle Lupien Lieber

Theses and Dissertations

Sibling contact (synchronous or asynchronous) in young adulthood may have implications for individual well-being (health, life satisfaction & depressive symptoms). This link may be moderated by each individuals' traits, specifically autistic characteristics. Current literature has examined sibling contact, mediums of contact, autism relationships, but has yet to consider sibling contact moderated by autistic traits. This study analyzed data from 390 young adults 61% female, mean age = 25.65) who gave self-reports over two collection waves. Structural Equation Models found that regardless of autistic traits, synchronous contact was linked with increased life satisfaction as well as lower depressive symptoms, and asynchronous …

"A Crash Of Worlds": How Red Dead Redemption Ii Creates A World Where Players Experience Empathy Through Character Performance, Heather Rose Moser

Theses and Dissertations

Players of an open-world video game are more than merely audience members watching a narrative play out--they actively participate and perform in the world. Drawing from scholars like Edmund Husserl, Konstantin Stanislavski, Ossy Wulansari, and PJ Manney, this paper explores principles of performance, phenomenology, and empathy to examine how open-world role-playing games, specifically Red Dead Redemption II, help players experience empathy. Constructing this experience through character attachment, length of play, and identification in a safe experimental space, these games become a bridge leading to greater empathy for people who are different from the player. The immersive nature of these games …

The Materials Of Traditions, Victoria Jensen

Theses and Dissertations

The homes we grow up in have a great impact on the homes we create as adults. Many of the traditions I saw in my childhood home were expressions of love within our family. These everyday traditions helped not only to build bonds within my nuclear family, but also with the chosen family I have formed as an adult. Repeating these traditions, or at least my best memory of them, has helped me in building my own home now. The ways I interact with my friends often reflects those same traditions I learned from home. I brought a few of …

Spydrnet - An Open-Source Python Netlist Representation For Analysis And Transformation, Dallin Mark Skouson

Theses and Dissertations

SpyDrNet is an open-source structural netlist representation framework written in Python that allows users to create, analyze, and manipulate structural netlists. The internal format was designed to hold generic source structural netlists. Verilog and EDIF netlists generated by Vivado were read and written by SpyDrNet. Additional API functionality was built around the netlist representation. An application applying triple modular redundancy and duplication with compare was created and successfully used.

Examining The Perceptions Of Fake News, Verification, And Notices On Twitter, Brendan Patrick Gwynn

Theses and Dissertations

The rise of social media platforms has had a significant impact on the conventional model of gatekeeping. With increased access to information--as well as the ability to contribute to the public discourse--individuals no longer need to rely on the mass media for news. These realities have led to increased conversations surrounding credibility in the digital age. Although not a new concept, fake news has become increasingly common in recent years. The web--particularly social media outlets, like Twitter--have enhanced the spread of misinformation. To combat this, social media platforms have introduced gatekeeping features like verification marks and warning labels. However, questions …

A Descriptive Analysis Of Severe Maternal Morbidities In Southern Arizona, Joseph Sherman

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Introduction

Maternal morbidities and maternal deaths are rising at an alarming rate throughout the United States, despite advances in medicine and technology (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2020). In 2020, maternal deaths climbed to its highest peak in thirty years, at 23.8 deaths per 100,000 births (CDC 2020; CDC 2022b). Maternal morbidities have also increased by nearly 200% from 1993 to 2014 (CDC, 2021). The startling rise in both maternal morbidities and maternal deaths is likely exacerbated by limited access to healthcare and the pervasiveness of chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease (Carroll, 2017; Geller …

An Eye To The Sky: Describing Characteristics Of Weather App Users Through Q Method, Danielle Wardinsky Hallows

Theses and Dissertations

The world revolves around weather information - whether the need is to understand, prepare for, or navigate weather. Although traditional television viewership of weather forecasts are on the decline, mobile weather applications are becoming the new media medium for weather information. In fact, the total number of app downloads in the weather market reached 69.5 million at the end of 2021 (Statista, 2021). As a result, understanding the characteristics of weather app users and what those users are looking for is pertinent to research regarding weather communication. While weather is an ongoing phenomenon sought to be understood by people for …

Accessibility Of Mental Health Services Within The American Deaf Community, Hali E. Hartman

Student Works

The prolonged state of silence in which members of the American Deaf community dwell daily may be causing them to experience elevated levels of adverse mental health effects (Gryglewicz et al., 2017). To increase the accessibility of mental health services for suffering deaf individuals, anti-discrimination laws have been enacted throughout history (“Americans With Disabilities Act,” 2022; Horton et al., 2012; Schniedewind et al., 2020; Vernon, 2006). Despite such strides, more should be done to improve existing resources. Increasing the number of deaf professionals working in mental healthcare settings and educating hearing providers on the language and culture of the Deaf …

Comparing Survival And Cause-Specific Mortality Of Different Translocation Release Methods For Desert Bighorn Sheep, Taylor S. Daily, Carlos E. Gonzalez, Louis A. Harveson, Warren C. Conway, Froylan Hernandez

Western North American Naturalist

Historically, desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis mexicana) were prevalent throughout the Trans-Pecos region of Texas. However, they were extirpated by the 1960s due to unregulated hunting, habitat loss, predation, and disease transmission from livestock. Restoration efforts have been successfully conducted by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to increase population numbers of resident (i.e., animals that currently populate a region of interest) desert bighorn sheep at Black Gap Wildlife Management Area (BGWMA) through the use of translocations. Because there is a lack of knowledge on alternative release methods for large mammal translocations, our goals were to monitor cause-specific …

Identification Of Sources Of Air Pollution Using Novel Analytical Techniques And Instruments, Nitish Bhardwaj

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation is a collection of studies that investigates the issue of air pollution in the field of environmental chemistry. My thesis consists of research works done to measure the concentration of particulate matter (PM) and gas-phase species in ambient air. High concentrations of PM is a significant problem in Utah and in other regions of the world. Particles having an aerodynamic diameter of 2.5 micrometers and smaller play a crucial role in air pollution and pose serious health risks when inhaled. PM is composed of both organic and inorganic components. The organic fraction in PM ranges from 10-90% of …

Nutritional Messaging: To Eat Or Not To Eat?, Christina Triptow

Theses and Dissertations

There is a great deal of diet-specific processed foods on the market today. With so many options it can become difficult for consumers to decide what products to purchase. This situation is further intensified by the plethora of contradictory messages found in food advertising, especially in weight loss and dieting food advertising, but also seen in government nutrition campaigns and all over the internet on platforms like social media, blogs, and so forth. These messages can be confusing and frustrating for consumers as they try to decipher which foods they should eat to reach their health or weight loss goals. …

Narrative Archetypes And Paratextuality: Analysis Of Three Films By Christopher Nolan, Alycia Burnett

Theses and Dissertations

Nonlinear films display unconventional narratives that leave ambiguous endings that create rewatchability, making audiences want to rewatch and review the films. These films also create conversation on social media outlets and infiltrate discussion on popular culture. This rhetorical analysis examines narrative structure, narrative archetypes, and paratextuality of three nonlinear Christopher Nolan films: Inception, Interstellar, and Tenet. By examining how these different forms of narrative display the moral messaging and structure within each film, this analysis provides context in how nonlinear narratives promote rewatchability and create continuous paratexts. Through Nolan's films, nonlinear film styles create more than rewatchability as Nolan specifically …

Virtual Advertising In The Nba: How Arousal Level And Visual Attention Alter Brand Recall And Recognition, Caleb H. Porter

Theses and Dissertations

During the 2020 season, the NBA implemented, for the first time, the use of virtual advertisements. Virtual advertisements are digitally superimposed ads directly on the court that are visible to anyone viewing the broadcasted version of a game. This study used eye-tracking and galvanic skin response (GSR) in conjunction with the limited capacity model of motivated mediated message processing (LC4MP; Lang, 2006a) to a) determine virtual advertising's effectiveness compared to traditional in-stadium advertising and to b) monitor the effect emotional arousal has on advertising recall and recognition. A sample of 176 fans of the Utah Jazz viewed one of four …

Will You Be My Friend?, Jessica Mellor

Children's Book and Media Review

Mouse is quite shy and has trouble finding friends, so he goes on a search for the perfect friend. Peacocks are too fancy, bees are too busy, and hawks are too scary. But mouse gets a sudden clue that he might already have a friend somewhere in a tree. Now he searches all the trees for his mysterious friend. He gets not one, but two more clues, but still can't find this friend. Turns out he has a friend right before his eyes, who asks him quite hurriedly if he could be the prize.

You Are Enough, Emma Patton

Children's Book and Media Review

In modern society, so much value is placed on appearance. Especially during the transitional times of adolescence, with normal body changes occurring and the pressure to perform, fitness and diet culture create a slippery slope to obsessive habits. In You Are Enough, the author speaks to any individual who is struggling with their relationship with food and exercise. Jen Petro-Roy uses her past experience suffering and then recovering from an eating disorder to normalize this issue and also encourage her readers to get help, regardless of the severity or exact nature of their struggles. From this book, readers can learn …

The Rizzlerunk Club: Best Buds Under Frogs, Aubrey Parry

Children's Book and Media Review

Lily knows she’s doomed to a life with no friends when she throws up in front of everyone at recess. That’s why she’s surprised when she begins to like Darby, the very girl who made fun of her every day in class. Soon, the two become best friends and create their own club, the Rizzlerunk Club, named after the captain of a ship that sank in a nearby lake. Everything changes when Darby’s former best friend comes back to school and gets invited to join their club. Lily realizes the old friend is not a good influence on either of …

Who Killed Darius Drake?, Lindsey Smith

Children's Book and Media Review

A note written in blood asking “Who killed Darius Drake?” comes from an unknown sender—but Darius Drake is actually still alive, and he is determined to find out who is threatening him. Arthur Bash, intimidator-for-hire, and Darius Drake, the orphaned genius, team up to find clues and solve a decades-old mystery involving missing diamonds. As the boys move from one clue to the next, they encounter a series of potential suspects until the boys face their enemy and the fight for their lives.

Flora And Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures, Jessica Bess

Children's Book and Media Review

When Flora witnesses a tragic accident involving a squirrel and a vacuum, her adventure begins. Enter Ulysses—a superhero squirrel who can lift heavy objects, fly, and type poetry. Flora’s mother is not happy when her already-odd daughter has brought home a squirrel as a “friend” and orders her ex-husband to get rid of the squirrel. On an outing with her father, Flora’s father develops a liking for Ulysses as he saves him from a crazy cat and causes a ruckus in the diner. Flora’s mother is left with no choice but to kidnap Ulysses, leaving Flora and her father to …

Firehouse!, Jana Carter

Children's Book and Media Review

Edward and his friend Judy have the chance to find out what it’s like to be firefighters when they spend an exciting day at the firehouse. They participate in several fun activities as they learn all about the job. As the firefighters practice a fire drill, Edward realizes how demanding the life of a firefighter can be. When Edward gets into a bit of trouble, he’s the one who needs help from those with more experience. But later in the day, he proves that he's learned his lesson when he helps to rescue a stranded cat. After such an exciting …

Feelings Matter: Feeling Scared, Carly Atchley

Children's Book and Media Review

What does it mean to feel scared, and when does it happen? It could be climbing to tall heights on the playground, being in a big crowd, or starting your first day at a new school. When we feel scared, our hearts may beat fast or we may feel as though we want to run and hide, but this is normal. In fact, our friends may have some of the same fears that we do! Talking to a trusted friend or adult about our fears can help us to stay calm, even when we might be afraid.

Fablehaven, Cassidy Wells

Children's Book and Media Review

Fablehaven is home to fairies, witches, satyrs, trolls, and many other mystical creatures, both good and bad. Yet nobody knows this incredible preserve exists save for the people that live on it. That is, until Kendra and Seth are forced to spend the summer at their grandparents’ house. They are reluctant to go, but soon discover that their grandfather’s property is home to many secrets and incredible beings from all over the world. When powerful forces of evil are unleashed, it is up to Kendra and Seth to come together to save their grandparents and the magical world of Fablehaven.