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Swiss American Historical Society Review

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The Federal Charter Of 1291 And The Founding Of The Swiss State, Albert Winkler Feb 2014

The Federal Charter Of 1291 And The Founding Of The Swiss State, Albert Winkler

Swiss American Historical Society Review

M ost countries have a national holiday to celebrate their identity or independence, often symbolized by some heroic event or defining moment. Switzerland's day of remembrance is August 1, which commemorates the creation of an alliance in 1291 when the states of Uri, Schwyz, and Nidwalden (part of Unterwalden) established a "perpetual league" by authorizing the "Federal Charter" or Bundesbrief. This pact was perhaps an early step toward the founding of the Swiss state, because it helped define the policies relating to sovereignty, internal affairs, mutual aid, and resistance to external threats. However, the document's nature, authenticity, and actual significance …

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The Deification Of Man In Early Christianity, William Laduke, Dr. James L. Siebach Jan 2014

The Deification Of Man In Early Christianity, William Laduke, Dr. James L. Siebach

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Although I have not yet researched the subject as thoroughly as I had planned, I have discovered some interesting things about the deification of man in early Christianity. I began by searching the secondary literature and found that there was much more written on the subject than I had expected. The idea of deification was commonplace; for many, it was synonymous with salvation.

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Un Conjunto De Únicos(1): An Essay Exploring Relationships Between Individuality And Community In The Context Of Language, Todd Leishman, Dr. Brandie Siegried Jan 2014

Un Conjunto De Únicos(1): An Essay Exploring Relationships Between Individuality And Community In The Context Of Language, Todd Leishman, Dr. Brandie Siegried

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In literature and science, in art and religion, two ideas emerge that shape the people and the peoples that we are. Education in all these things brings with it a blossoming awareness of our uniqueness as individuals. No two are the same, genetically or psychologically, in personality, spirit, or experience. Revelation teaches us we are each of infinite worth as individuals.

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Summary Of Creative Development Of “Fields Of Light” Screenplay, T. Ryan Little, Sharon Swenson Jan 2014

Summary Of Creative Development Of “Fields Of Light” Screenplay, T. Ryan Little, Sharon Swenson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The objective of this project was to write a screenplay for a film that would share gospel insights without being didactic in its presentation. Did I succeed? I believe I’m on the right track. I felt that a good place to start would be to view films made by LDS film makers such as Keith Merrill, Blair Treu, Matt Whitaker, Russ Holt and Stan Ferguson. Some of these wonderful films are The Lamb of God, Mountain of the Lord, Nora’s Christmas, Easter Dream and Legacy. These are great films that have touched the lives of members of the church as …

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Orca Final Report, Dan Lemmon, Tom Lefler, Doug Stout Jan 2014

Orca Final Report, Dan Lemmon, Tom Lefler, Doug Stout

Journal of Undergraduate Research

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John A. Widtsoe’S Contribution To Higher Education For Women, Aurelia W. Lau, Dr. Alan K. Parrish Jan 2014

John A. Widtsoe’S Contribution To Higher Education For Women, Aurelia W. Lau, Dr. Alan K. Parrish

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Dr. Widtsoe encouraged many women throughout his life to obtain the benefits of higher education.

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Transcription Of 19th Century Documents From The Archives Of The British East India Company, Ngaio Palmer, Paul Kerry Jan 2014

Transcription Of 19th Century Documents From The Archives Of The British East India Company, Ngaio Palmer, Paul Kerry

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In May 2000, I traveled to England to pursue research for my honors thesis at the British Library and the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. In the course of my research, I happened to come across two case files of documents relating to the dubious business relationship between the private press of my great, great, great-grandfather, George Wood, and Dr. James Rind, the superintendent of the Government Lithographic Press of Calcutta, ca. 1829.

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Royal Correspondence In The Lancut Archive, Thomas M. Pearson, Dr. Douglas Tobler Jan 2014

Royal Correspondence In The Lancut Archive, Thomas M. Pearson, Dr. Douglas Tobler

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In 1980, BYU’s acquisition librarian purchased a large collection (96 boxes) of historical documents, which originated from the Lancut castle in southeastern Poland. The archive is a wonderful social, economic, and cultural record of the noble families that lived at the castle. The materials cover a wide span of time, ranging from the 15th century up until the onset of World War II, and include letters, maps, legal documents, genealogies, grants and charters, estate inventories, and other original documents. Because the archive has been in private hands for so many years, these materials have only recently become available for scholarly …

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Forgotten Battles Of The Civil War: Victories Over Disease In Nashville, Tennessee, And New Orleans, Louisiana, Michael Packer, Dr. Mary Stovall Richards Jan 2014

Forgotten Battles Of The Civil War: Victories Over Disease In Nashville, Tennessee, And New Orleans, Louisiana, Michael Packer, Dr. Mary Stovall Richards

Journal of Undergraduate Research

During the Civil War disease was a major problem. Many different diseases combined to cause immense problems for civilians and army personnel alike. More soldiers died from disease than from battle. While medical knowledge was growing, physicians had neither the knowledge nor the understanding to combat most diseases. Doctors both North and South had little success against many illnesses.

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Continued Neglect: Albuquerque Women’S Literacy, 1848-1870, Lori Rasmussen, Dr. Mary Stovall Richards Jan 2014

Continued Neglect: Albuquerque Women’S Literacy, 1848-1870, Lori Rasmussen, Dr. Mary Stovall Richards

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The rhetoric of the Mexican-American War, and indeed, the entire expansionist era, claimed that the United States had a God-given responsibility to spread their white, Protestant, capitalistic, and democratic civilization to the heathen of the world. Though sometimes implied, and sometimes explicit, the notion included the idea of educating the barbarians who held a tenuous grasp on the land. Education in this sense meant indoctrination into American culture, including the English language, high literacy rates, gender roles, and a multitude of other facets.1 During the middle part of the nineteenth century, Northern states moved rapidly toward a truly literate …

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Searching For Julia Jacquette, Natalie Thompson Nielson, Dr. Michael Phillips Jan 2014

Searching For Julia Jacquette, Natalie Thompson Nielson, Dr. Michael Phillips

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I applied for the ORCA grant hoping to learn more about the contemporary artist Julia Jacquette. I had first discovered her work on the website for New York’s Museum of Modern Art, which was showing a few representative works from artists currently on display. Her work caught my interest because of its originality, its post-feminist themes, and most importantly, its interplay between word and image, and I decided to research her more thoroughly for my honors thesis. I had researched her as much as I could when I applied for this grant, and I was hoping that the grant would …

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Four Poems, Four Voices: Fragmented Authorship In Fernando Pessoa, James Peter Rasmussen, Dr. Steven P. Sondrup Jan 2014

Four Poems, Four Voices: Fragmented Authorship In Fernando Pessoa, James Peter Rasmussen, Dr. Steven P. Sondrup

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The poetry of Fernando Pessoa contributes in a highly original way to a significant twentieth-century aesthetic development: the attempt to overthrow Romantic conceptions of authorship. Through the creation of his “heteronyms”—invented poets with a large degree of independence in style, form, imagery, and thought to whom he attributes his poetry—Pessoa’s poetry fragments into many distinct voices and thus challenges the notion of coherent authorial identity. Fernando Pessoa’s heteronymic structure itself is thus a quintessentially modern voice. The heteronyms challenge, as critic Darlene J. Sadlier writes, “the notion of coherent identity” (118).1 With the fragmentation of the poetic voice, the romantic …

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Economics And Education Vs. Griots: Threats To Traditional Performers In The Senegalese Arts, Joseph B. Hill, Dr. Michael D. Phillips Jan 2014

Economics And Education Vs. Griots: Threats To Traditional Performers In The Senegalese Arts, Joseph B. Hill, Dr. Michael D. Phillips

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In much of West Africa, the griot is the central figure in the performing arts. Traditionally, only those born into the griot caste perform publicly in any capacity, be it in music, dance, historical recitation, public speaking, or jesting. Although other castes look down on such work, griots embrace it and carefully guard their monopoly. Immune to most social sanctions, griots speak good and bad with impunity, and nobles pay dearly to ensure that griots say only good (1).

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Employment And Education Surveys With The African Members Of The Lds Church In Paris, Rachel Newton, Dr. Michael Bush Jan 2014

Employment And Education Surveys With The African Members Of The Lds Church In Paris, Rachel Newton, Dr. Michael Bush

Journal of Undergraduate Research

As the world becomes more and more international, residents of third-world countries are immigrating en masse to more developed countries, where they see a promise of a better life — a higher standard of living and acceptance into the world community, from which they feel excluded in their own countries. In France, a large majority of these immigrants are African; the French colonized twenty-one present countries on the African continent and taught the natives their language and many of their customs, so France seems the natural place for these former colonies to look to as their “land of opportunity.” This …

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The Evolution Of The Gaucho, Josh Whitlock, Dr. David Laraway Jan 2014

The Evolution Of The Gaucho, Josh Whitlock, Dr. David Laraway

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The term gaucho refers to the national hero of Argentina and Uruguay—a once free-roaming and self-sufficient individual, roughly the equivalent of the cowboy in the United States. These heroes are of central importance to the countries they have traditionally inhabited. A quote at the entrance of the Museo del Gaucho y la Moneda in Montevideo, Uruguay reads (as translated to English) “To study the gaucho is to put your hand in the open chest of the fatherland and to touch, to feel warm and alive the beating of it’s own heart.” The gaucho is an intriguing and multifaceted figure with …

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Allusions To Home, Gary Barton, Lisa F. Jones Jan 2014

Allusions To Home, Gary Barton, Lisa F. Jones

Journal of Undergraduate Research

What differentiates a home from a shelter? What is a mother’s role in creating the environment we call home? What role does art and craft play in the creation of that environment? These are some of the questions I had in mind as I began this project. Although I had been working in a similar direction the previous year, I found that the questions I chose to address in my project presented a challenge, because home holds different meanings for each of us. There are many possible answers to each of the questions, all according to a persons experience. The …

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Syrian Arabic Synonyms, Jeremy Leland Palmer, Dr. Dil Parkinson Jan 2014

Syrian Arabic Synonyms, Jeremy Leland Palmer, Dr. Dil Parkinson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In Arabic there is a fundamental schism between the formal standard language and the scores of dialects spoken throughout Middle Eastern countries. Nearly all newspapers, magazines and television programs throughout the Middle East exclusively utilize the formal standard language. In contrast, the spoken dialects are rarely recorded in a written or audio format, even though they are what the people of the Middle East actually use in daily communication. Unfortunately, most grammar books and dictionaries are only available in the formal variant. The dearth of colloquial language-learning materials causes extreme difficulty for students who want to become more familiar with …

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The Art Of Healing: An Inquiry Into And The Implications Of Practical Knowledge Grounded In Morality, Dennis Packard, Dr. Jared Inouye Jan 2014

The Art Of Healing: An Inquiry Into And The Implications Of Practical Knowledge Grounded In Morality, Dennis Packard, Dr. Jared Inouye

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I proposed to articulate the art of healing by examining the relationship between morality and practical knowledge. I proposed to examine this relationship by extensively interviewing and working with a local neurosurgeon. I hypothesized that his reputation as an excellent surgeon—a healer—was grounded in his moral way of being. One of the practical applications of my project was to show that if doctors are to be healers, then a doctor’s formal education usually isn’t sufficient and that measures to morally educate doctors ought to be taken. Another one of the practical applications was to show that the education doctors receive …

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Two Competing Visions Of Education During The Early History Of The Medieval University, Joni Poppitz Stimpson, Dr. Eric Dursteler Jan 2014

Two Competing Visions Of Education During The Early History Of The Medieval University, Joni Poppitz Stimpson, Dr. Eric Dursteler

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Last December, I proposed to the ORCA scholarship committee to study the origins of the medieval university. A semester earlier I had completed a History 490 paper which had broadly dealt with the history of the early university. The conclusion of that paper identified a central conflict in the development of the university, and it was this conflict which I continued to study with support from ORCA.

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La Dama Duende: Re-Creation Of Spanish Golden Age Theatre, Jason Yancey, Dr. Dale Pratt Jan 2014

La Dama Duende: Re-Creation Of Spanish Golden Age Theatre, Jason Yancey, Dr. Dale Pratt

Journal of Undergraduate Research

During the 16th and 17th centuries, Spain experienced a literary explosion of unequalled comparison. Dozens of authors lent their pens to create some of the most brilliant and influential works of all time, such as Cervantes’ Don Quijote de la Mancha, or characters such as Tirso de Molina’s widely popular don Juan from El burlador de Sevilla. This era of greatness, known as the Spanish Golden Age, was perhaps most renowned for its quantity and quality of theatre works. Sadly, these magnificent plays are rarely performed on a modern stage. Our objective for this project was not only to …

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A Multimedia Collection Of Spanish Dialectical Variations, Jonathan Whiting, Dr. Orlando Alba Jan 2014

A Multimedia Collection Of Spanish Dialectical Variations, Jonathan Whiting, Dr. Orlando Alba

Journal of Undergraduate Research

At least twenty countries on three different continents recognize Spanish as an official language and this doesn’t include countries like the United States that still have a sizeable Spanish-speaking population. With so much ethnic and geographic diversity in the Spanish-speaking world, it is only natural to expect a great deal of linguistic diversity as well.

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The Gender Roles Of Rural Mexican Women, Caroline Victoria Raynor, Dr. Doug Weatherford Jan 2014

The Gender Roles Of Rural Mexican Women, Caroline Victoria Raynor, Dr. Doug Weatherford

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The gender roles of Mexican women seem rather obvious to most people. You envision submissive women, cooking, cleaning and raising children. While this is in most part true, life is changing in the rural villages near Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico. As I began this research, I intended to define what the roles of these women consisted of. I found that the roles are not as rigid as one would imagine, and the women are not as docile as I had thought.

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On-Line Language Learning, Peter Rich, Dr. Devon Asay Jan 2014

On-Line Language Learning, Peter Rich, Dr. Devon Asay

Journal of Undergraduate Research

As technology improves and its popularity increase, more and more people are turning to electronic methods of education. CALL, computer assisted language learning, is one particular field that has tried to jump on the bandwagon. However, recreating real environments and random interaction poses a constant challenge for CALL developers and administrators and very few effective CALL systems exist. That is, live interaction continues to be more effective than nearly every CALL system.

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The Course Of Memory: Li-Young Lee And The American Tradition, Karl Thomas Rees, Dr. Keith Lawrence Jan 2014

The Course Of Memory: Li-Young Lee And The American Tradition, Karl Thomas Rees, Dr. Keith Lawrence

Journal of Undergraduate Research

My research, which I successfully defended as an Honors Thesis for August 2001 graduation, explored the poetry of contemporary Asian American poet, Li-Young Lee. Specifically, I was interested in how his poetry interacts with the American literary tradition. This project was an extension of a twelve-page essay I originally wrote in 1999 for an Asian American Literature course taught by Professor Keith Lawrence. The essay was subsequently published with further improvements in Insight, BYU’s Honors academic journal. The final product was sixty-five pages long, including a works cited list and an appendix. It will soon be available in the …

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Internet Radio, Basketball, And High School Life, Scott Raab, Dr. Sirpa Grierson Jan 2014

Internet Radio, Basketball, And High School Life, Scott Raab, Dr. Sirpa Grierson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The high school years will always be magical because they never happen again. The new freedoms that many middle class American youth either inherit or seize have made the brief collection of academic years a type of Brigadoon. Although they live in a very different world, high school students of the 21st century will do exactly as their predecessors: what ever they want. When a high school student decides that he or she wants to create an internet based radio station for his school with minimal effort and maximal possibilities, it is entirely possible.

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Finding Poland In Stanis³Aw Wyspianski’S Wesele, Nicholas G. Newton, Walter Whipple Jan 2014

Finding Poland In Stanis³Aw Wyspianski’S Wesele, Nicholas G. Newton, Walter Whipple

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Towards the end of Stanis³aw Wyspianski’s Wesele (The Wedding), “the Poet”, speaking to the newly married bride describes Poland as something that you can only find in your heart. “A to Polska w³asnie”. The turn of the 19th century in Poland, when this wedding took place, was a very turbulent time in Poland’s history. In 1795, only four years after Poland wrote Europe’s first constitution, the final division of Poland was made by Russia, Prussia and Austria leaving nothing of the former Polish republic. Cracow, part of the Austrian province of Galicia, created a unique place where the ideas of …

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Mariia: The Chronicle Of A Life, Spencer Scoville, Walter Whipple Jan 2014

Mariia: The Chronicle Of A Life, Spencer Scoville, Walter Whipple

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Last year, I proposed to complete a translation of Ukrainian author Ulas Samchuk’s novella Mariia. The process of translating and researching has been both more challenging and more rewarding than I anticipated. I completed the translation of the first section of Mariia, along with a research paper discussing the symbolism of the first section.

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The Samara Mormons Of Russia: An Accident Of History, James W. Scott, Dr. Gary Browning Jan 2014

The Samara Mormons Of Russia: An Accident Of History, James W. Scott, Dr. Gary Browning

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The discovery of Russian sectarians popularly known as Mormons has generated great interest among missionaries and members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in recent years, and several informative articles have appeared on the subject.1 This article summarizes my findings from three weeks of archival and village research on the Russian Mormons in May 2001, and sheds new light on hitherto unresolved historical questions regarding the origin of the title Mormon in Russia, the geography of the movement, and its eventual fate.2

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The Quintessence Of Tian In Classical Chinese Literature, Richard Torgerson, Dr. David Honey Jan 2014

The Quintessence Of Tian In Classical Chinese Literature, Richard Torgerson, Dr. David Honey

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Tian, commonly translated as Heaven, was the core of religious and political ideology during the beginning of the Zhou dynasty.i The Zhou dynasty (1027- 221 BC) was a period started and shaped by a belief in Tian, Tianming (the right to rule bestowed by Heaven), and the Tianzi (the emperor – or son of Heaven). But just what, or who, was Tian to the Chinese during the Zhou dynasty? During this study I examined five modern and five ancient scholars’ views concerning Tian. I utilized Classical Chinese texts and numerous translations, with a special focus on the Book of …

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