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The Size Of An Idea 118, Jared R. Lynn Feb 2014

The Size Of An Idea 118, Jared R. Lynn

Journal of Undergraduate Research

My proposal was to create five larger than life-size heads out of aluminum. I did this to explore the importance of scale in the perception of sculptural objects. Scale, in this instance, is the size of an object as it relates to the viewer. If an object, is larger, it has more presence. Consequently, it will hold the viewers attention longer. My sculpted heads are much larger than normal human heads, and therefore they portray larger than normal human emotions. Outlined below is a brief chronicle of the process required to complete this endeavor.

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Dislocation Sense Of Place In The Western U.S., Darren Jenkins Feb 2014

Dislocation Sense Of Place In The Western U.S., Darren Jenkins

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I received the Research and Creative Works Grant Scholarship to pursue a project concerning our “sense of place” in the western United States. The concept was to travel to six major cities west of the Rockies (Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Francisco, Salt Lake, and Seattle) and collect an extensive amount of two types of images from each city. The two types of images to be collected were moving film images taken by actually being in a place, and mass media images representing that same place. I intended to keep in mind the differences between the attitudes I felt …

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Summary Of Creative Research Grant Results, Carin C. Fausett Feb 2014

Summary Of Creative Research Grant Results, Carin C. Fausett

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In the original proposal, I indicated that this Creative Research Grant would enable me to widen my scope of artistic ability and possibility. My ability would improve through increased production which this grant would make possible through the purchase of materials and tools. The results of being accepted for this grant was a large body of work, which consisted of 25 pieces, supported by original poetry and a four page paper that explained the ideas behind the visual work. The work was completed between Jan.- june 1995. Opening night was June 19, and the show lasted until the 30th. It …

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Recreating The Creation, Kristen Ellsworth Feb 2014

Recreating The Creation, Kristen Ellsworth

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I proposed to create a series of seven full-sheet fine arts prints to serve as a final project to be exhibited April 1995. Having completed the project on schedule, I am pleased to report that the body of work consists of eight I 7 x 22 inch bleed etchings.

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Larry Doby: A Study In Racial Integration, Jeffrey Heber Cluff Feb 2014

Larry Doby: A Study In Racial Integration, Jeffrey Heber Cluff

Journal of Undergraduate Research

0n July 5, 194 7, a young, left-handed batter stepped to the plate at Chicago’s Comiskey Park. Runners were on first and third with one out in the top of the seventh inning. The Cleveland Indians trailed the Chicago White Sox 5-l as the 22-year-old from Patterson, New Jersey settled into the batter’s box. Five pitches and a strikeout later he strode back to the dugout to a loud round of applause.

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New York City Internship In Book Cover Illustration, Cameron Davidson Feb 2014

New York City Internship In Book Cover Illustration, Cameron Davidson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

This creative work and research project was divided into two parts. The first and majority of the project was to intern with a company in New York, and the second was to illustrate four adult/young adult book covers that would promote a higher quality of moral values while still meeting the requirements of the commissioned piece.

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Textual Fingerprinting: Uncovering Book Of Mormon Material In The Joseph Smith Translation Of The Bible, Donald Patrick Bradley Feb 2014

Textual Fingerprinting: Uncovering Book Of Mormon Material In The Joseph Smith Translation Of The Bible, Donald Patrick Bradley

Journal of Undergraduate Research

During the first three years of the LDS Church, Joseph Smith spent much of his time revising or retranslating the Bible. He intended to clarify obscure passages, restore lost truths, and weed out errors that had found their way into the sacred text. Although the resulting “Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible” (or JST) is scripture to nine million Latter-day Saints, little is known about how it was produced. Did joseph Smith bring it forth solely by direct revelation? Did he use his own judgment in revising some passages? Were there yet other sources he used besides his own mind …

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Provo, Utah During The Roaring Twenties, Chelsea Schofield, Dr. Brian Cannon Feb 2014

Provo, Utah During The Roaring Twenties, Chelsea Schofield, Dr. Brian Cannon

Journal of Undergraduate Research

When I began my paper, I searched past General Conference talks to discover instruction given to members of the LDS church by their leaders through the moral decay of the 1920’s. I concluded that the issue of morality and moral decay raised great concern among the brethren of the church. Upholding these laws and living in accordance to these moral principles is stressed today, just as it was in the 1920’s.

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Abinadi, An Opera In Two Acts, Meredith Ryan Taylor, Dr. David Sargent Feb 2014

Abinadi, An Opera In Two Acts, Meredith Ryan Taylor, Dr. David Sargent

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Abinadi, at the time of this report, has not been completed. Originally the opera was intended to be finished with an orchestration requiring soloists, chorus and a small instrumental ensemble of not more than twenty players. Early on in the process of writing, Dr. Lawrence Vincent (head of BYU opera) expressed an interest in somehow staging the work, but was unsure that the funds would be available for an orchestra. In consideration of this and the prospect of having the work staged I decided to reduce the amount of instrumentalists to three- two pianists and a woodwind specialist (the cast …

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A Brief Survey Of American Indian Religious Tradition Represented In Stained Glass Windows, Andrew Kosorok Feb 2014

A Brief Survey Of American Indian Religious Tradition Represented In Stained Glass Windows, Andrew Kosorok

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The research project consisted of the design of five windows, each representing a religious tradition of a Native American group, in a style reminiscent of that group. Each religious tradition was picked because of its correspondence or similarity to a Christian tradition. The five groups were the Columbia Plateau Indians, the Hopi, the Aztecs, the Quiche Maya, and the Indians of the Northwest Coast.

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The Second Language Acquisition Of Spanish Phonology, Scott M. Alvord Feb 2014

The Second Language Acquisition Of Spanish Phonology, Scott M. Alvord

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In October of 2010 I applied for a Mentoring Environment Grant (MEG) with Rob Martinsen. Our project, “The Second Language Acquisition of Spanish Phonology” was awarded the grant of $20,000.00. In order to carry out this project we formed a research group that includes four graduate students (Joshua Tanner, Ixchel Zarco, Ariel Bean, and Brandon Rogers) and three undergraduate students (Alex Aldrich, Debora Taylor and Martha Perez).

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There Used To Be A Ballpark ••• A Portrait Of Derks Field, Brady Tuckett Feb 2014

There Used To Be A Ballpark ••• A Portrait Of Derks Field, Brady Tuckett

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In early 1992, it was announced that Salt Lake City’s minor league ballpark, Derks Field, was going to be tom down. Soon after reading these headlines, I became interested in making a documentary about the history of baseball in Salt Lake City. As a child, I attended many baseball games in Derks Field with my grandfather, to whom I have dedicated this documentary.

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Final Report, Kristina Potter, Dr. Susan Easton Black Feb 2014

Final Report, Kristina Potter, Dr. Susan Easton Black

Journal of Undergraduate Research

No abstract provided.

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Tolstoy And Mormonism, Gary L. Browning, Dr. Melvin K. Richardson Feb 2014

Tolstoy And Mormonism, Gary L. Browning, Dr. Melvin K. Richardson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

When Leo Tolstoy was a young boy, his older brother told him that the secret of life was written on a green stick, buried under an oak tree in the woods of Yasnaya Polyana, the Tolstoy family estate in the beautiful rolling hills of tsarist Russia. All his life, Tolstoy, the great Russian author and humanist, searched for the green stick and its contents. He sought answers to the perplexing puzzles of life that ultimate truth, contained upon the green stick, would provide. In his works and in his spiritual strivings, Tolstoy always remained committed to this ideal, that ultimate …

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Illustrating A Children’S Book, Charles B. Stubbs Feb 2014

Illustrating A Children’S Book, Charles B. Stubbs

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The project I proposed last fall was to research the children’s book market and to write and illustrate a book that would teach family values to young children. I proposed to make a copy or partially finished copy of the book including illustrations and to prepare the copy for publication approval. Currently, all my proposed goals have been reached. However, this has not occurred without revision and change along the road of research and discovery.

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Summary Of My Involvement In The Production Of The Animated Short, Rupert, Scott Porter, Dr. Brent Adams Feb 2014

Summary Of My Involvement In The Production Of The Animated Short, Rupert, Scott Porter, Dr. Brent Adams

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I have been working with a group of about 20 students on a completely computer animated cartoon named “Rupert”. The cartoon will be approximately 5 minutes long and deals with a young boy who learns about microbes. Whenever he hears new details about microbes, we see what Rupert images that the microbes would look like that perform that particular function. For example, when Rupert hears that microbes can make us sick, he imagines microbes with weapons on the attack while when he hears that microbes are used to make some foods, he imagines a factory where all the workers are …

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A Traditional And Modern Children’S Book, Maryn Roos Feb 2014

A Traditional And Modern Children’S Book, Maryn Roos

Journal of Undergraduate Research

First, I would like to thank the University for the generosity in giving this grant to me. As a result of the money I received, I experienced and learned many things that might have taken longer and had been harder to learn.

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8 Minutes At 325°, Todd Wahlquist Feb 2014

8 Minutes At 325°, Todd Wahlquist

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The making of a film can be very taxing, both mentally and financially, and I appreciate very much the Office of Research and Creative Work helping to lessen both of those demands. The total budget for my film was approximately $5,000; therefore, the $1,000 provided by the Research and Creative Work Office was a significant factor in my being able to complete the final stages of post-production this past spring.

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The Underlying Cause Of Willehalm’S Sinful Behavior, David O'Dell Neville Feb 2014

The Underlying Cause Of Willehalm’S Sinful Behavior, David O'Dell Neville

Journal of Undergraduate Research

According to the stipulations required of recipients of the Research and Creative Work scholarships, a two page report is to be turned in to your office by August 31, 1994. The report should detail what was accomplished with these funds, as well as descriptions of the successes, failures, and processes encountered. Although my project has not yet been completed, the majority of the work has been finished. I would like to share with you now some of the experiences and challenges that I faced up to the present moment.

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Peter French, His 1813 Inn, And The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Josh E. Probert, Dr. Larry C. Porter Feb 2014

Peter French, His 1813 Inn, And The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Josh E. Probert, Dr. Larry C. Porter

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I spent 10 days in Northeastern Ohio and Western New York this summer researching Peter French and his property which was purchased by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1833. While in Ohio I visited several historical repositories including the Western Reserve Historical Society, Lake County Historical Society, and the Morley Public Library in Painesville. Altogether, the research project was successful. The information obtained will be extremely valuable to the LDS Church Historical Department whom I will report to in an oral presentation on September 15, 1998.

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The New Language Policy In South Africa: A Sociolinguistic Analysis And Implication For The Bantu Languages, Richard Cameron Blake Feb 2014

The New Language Policy In South Africa: A Sociolinguistic Analysis And Implication For The Bantu Languages, Richard Cameron Blake

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In April, 1994, the first all-race presidential and parliamentary elections were held In South Africa after several years of multi-party constitutional negotiations. J’ielson Mandela, a political-prisoner-turned-president, was given the charge to uphold the new constitution, one In which all South Africans are regarded equally, regardless of race. Part of that constitution is a new language policy designed to reflect the wide diversity of languages In the country. Under the new language policy, 11 languages (nine of them spoken by different African tribal groups) are now recognized as official languages instead of only English and Afrikaans (a Dutch-based language spoken by …

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Orca Scholarship Final Paper, Jana Rogers, Linda Sullivan Feb 2014

Orca Scholarship Final Paper, Jana Rogers, Linda Sullivan

Journal of Undergraduate Research

My ORCA project was creating a children’s book that teaches children international awareness. Creating a book of this nature has always been a dream. Receiving the ORCA scholarship helped finance my endeavor. Now that it is created I hope that this book will be able to influence our children in being culturally aware.

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A Presentation Of The Mapping Of Lbn434 And Its Ramifications On The Assumption Of Clear Seeing At High Galactic Latitudes, Kristen Adams Feb 2014

A Presentation Of The Mapping Of Lbn434 And Its Ramifications On The Assumption Of Clear Seeing At High Galactic Latitudes, Kristen Adams

Journal of Undergraduate Research

We recorded three to four images of each section of the nebula. Each group of images was identical in the data recorded; thus, after reduction, the individual images of each group could be combined directly to yield a higher intensity signal output. To reduce the data, I performed the following ~tandard CCD procedures:

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The Saints At War, Geoffrey Wright, Dr. Robert Freeman Feb 2014

The Saints At War, Geoffrey Wright, Dr. Robert Freeman

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The scriptures tell us, “If all had been, and were, and ever would be, like unto Moroni, behold, the very powers of hell would have been shaken forever…”1 Moroni was an example of faith- his faith inspired him to fight in defense, of his family, religion and liberty. Moroni “was a strong and a mighty man; he was a man of perfect understanding; yea, a man who did not delight in bloodshed; a man whose soul did joy in the liberty and the freedom of his country, and his brethren from bondage and slavery; yea, a man whose heart did …

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Retelling Obasuteyama: The Value Of Alternative Medical Institutions In Japan, Benjamin E. Mizukawa, Dr. Leslie Williams Feb 2014

Retelling Obasuteyama: The Value Of Alternative Medical Institutions In Japan, Benjamin E. Mizukawa, Dr. Leslie Williams

Journal of Undergraduate Research

My original proposal suggested alternative medical institutions appearing in response to Japan’s swelling elderly population provide a desirable option to both the elderly and their families in a society where multi-generation households are common yet strained. Rather than being a repository for useless old people, like the “Obasute” mountain in the Japanese folk tale, such institutions provide the elderly with meaningful socialization and activity while easing tension between them and the family that tends them at home. Accomplishing this simultaneously with regular supervision of health and chronic pain demonstrates an intact value towards respecting and caring for the elderly. Accordingly, …

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Annotated Listing Of Materials On Denmark In The Harold B. Lee Lmrary, Leland Harrison Feb 2014

Annotated Listing Of Materials On Denmark In The Harold B. Lee Lmrary, Leland Harrison

Journal of Undergraduate Research

This particular project’s goal was to list all materials on Denmark located in the Harold B. Lee Library. The primary focus was the works about Danish history, no matter what language they were published in. The scope of the project changed to all Scandinavian books and periodicals located in the central and northern sections of the fourth floor in the library. This was highly appropriate, since most of the materials refer to Denmark and due to the magnitude of materials to be processed. The library’s collection of Scandinavian materials in the library exceeds that of other local universities, but it …

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Document Collection And Data Entry For A Refined Huguenot Immigrant Database With An Emphasis On New York And Rhode Island, Kirk Skidmore, Jacob Ekins, Byron R. Merrill Feb 2014

Document Collection And Data Entry For A Refined Huguenot Immigrant Database With An Emphasis On New York And Rhode Island, Kirk Skidmore, Jacob Ekins, Byron R. Merrill

Journal of Undergraduate Research

During the 16th and 17th centuries, the Huguenots (French Protestants) suffered bitter religious persecution at the hands of their fellow countrymen. Some recanted their faith but many continued to live, some publicly and others privately, according to the dictates of their consciences. Difficulties for these did not ameliorate. Persecutions, robbings, and bloodshed caused thousands upon thousands to seek refuge in countries near and far. Huguenots, of whom many were artisans and merchants, chose to bring their industry and religious values to the British Colonies and began life anew. They were an active minority and soon held positions of rank and …

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Russian Sign Language Glossary Of Lds Terms, Nathan Boyce, Dr. Christopher Wakeland Feb 2014

Russian Sign Language Glossary Of Lds Terms, Nathan Boyce, Dr. Christopher Wakeland

Journal of Undergraduate Research

There are over ten missions in the Church among Russian speakers. The largest group is in Kiev, where the first deaf branch in the former Soviet Union was formed. There are around sixty deaf members there. Since many words used commonly in the Church are not used commonly outside of it, deaf people have had to make up their own signs for these new words. Many words have no signs and are spelled. Several similarly written, but different-meaning words are given the same sign. This results from members in isolated cities not thinking up the same signs.

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Mistress As Metaphor: The Written Woman In Martial, Elizabeth L. Long Feb 2014

Mistress As Metaphor: The Written Woman In Martial, Elizabeth L. Long

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Martial features women as his subjects in roughly twenty-five percent of his epigrams .I Just as his other epigrams explore a wide range of subjects and themes, these poems differ in the ways that they use women. Some are merely crude jests2; others explore mythological or historical subjects3; still others, such as l 0.35 and 1 0.38, written about Sulpicia the satirist, are encomiastic. In addition, some of the poems about women can be read as programmatic statements about Martial’s and others’ poetry. Martial employs various programmatic devices to explain his epigrams. Although these types of poems occur throughout the …

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Venezuelan Portraits, Trenton Hickman Feb 2014

Venezuelan Portraits, Trenton Hickman

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Several months ago, the Office of Research and Creative Work accepted my proposal to prove poet Richard Hugo’s concept of the poetic “triggering town” by spending two weeks in Venezuela and then letting the sensory data I gathered “trigger” a substantial body of poetry. The research grant would enable me to 1) make the information-gathering trip to Venezuela, 2) write a body of Venezuela poems (I estimated 40), and 3) revise the poems for Fall 1994 submission to literary magazines around the country.

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