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Smith Family (Sc 2763), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2763. History and genealogical data on the Smith family of Butler and Ohio counties in Kentucky and related families. Includes data on Thomas and Vicy (Weeks) Smith, the great-grandparents of Wyatt Earp.

Thorpe, Herbert C., 1873-1904 (Sc 2764), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2764. Letters of Herbert C. Thorpe, General Manager and Assistant Treasurer, United States Gas, Coal, and Coke Company, to his wife and father. Writing from Sturgis and Paducah soon after his arrival in Kentucky from New Jersey, Thorpe describes the stresses of his new management responsibilities and the challenges to the company in the event of a miners’ strike, and criticizes the work ethic of the miners. Thorpe died in Paducah of typhoid fever on 31 July 1904.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 89, No. 1, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• French, Jackson. State, Normal Streets Reduced to 15 MPH – Speed Limit
• French, Jackson. Grise Elevator Offline for Semester
• French, Jackson. Pearce Ford Tower’s Sex Changes
• Watson, Paul. Students Buzzing About Downing Student Union Starbucks Location
• Crumbie, Trey. Administration Looks to Recruit Fewer, But More Qualified Students
• Parker, Jacob. Crime Down from Spring, Up from Last Summer
• Crumbie, Trey. Parking & Transportation Services Adds 3 Buses to White Line
• Burton, Kristina. WKU Alumnus Chief Operating Officer of Lonely Planet – Daniel Houghton
• Vogt, Darren. Editorial Cartoon re: WKU Growth …

Christian Magic: Bible-Based Heresy, Seth Kohrman

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The Bible (the Old and the New Testaments) condemned magic. The Church Fathers followed the biblical example and also denounced magic. However, magic continued to exist among Christians and was even largely based upon biblical passages for its source of power; thus, magic survived partially on account of Christians and their ironic use of magic with help of the very scriptures that censured it. I will demonstrate first through specific examples that the Old and New Testaments as well as the Church Fathers reviled magic; however, the authors of each of these writings had their own agendas for speaking out …

Syriac Origins For The Armenian Commentary On Genesis Attributed To Ephrem The Syrian, John Manis, Dr. Kristian Heal, Neal A. Maxwell

Journal of Undergraduate Research

My experience with the ORCA mentoring program has been a useful look into scholarship as well as a valuable experience which will aid me in future educational and academic endeavors. Our main project objectives were met with a few adjustments, and I was able to gain the experience of working with a supportive and experienced professor. My growth in the mentoring program can be summarized in three areas: the overall experience of working on an academic paper start to finish, gaining an understanding of the importance scheduling and time management, and the findings of the paper itself.

Textual Variations In The Dead Sea Scrolls That Cause Theological Differences, Jason Olson, Dr. Donald Parry

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I had an incredible ORCA mentoring experience with Dr. Donald Parry. Our research project was focused on the textual variations in the Dead Sea Scrolls that cause theological differences. Our main premise was to compare the Dead Sea Scrolls Hebrew Biblical texts with the traditional Masoretic Biblical Texts.

Learning To Teach One’S Self: The Methodology Of Musicianship, Holly Miller Jones, Dr. Roger Drinkall, Dr. Dian Baker

Journal of Undergraduate Research

This research grant allowed me to spend time studying something with which I have been fascinated for years. As a long-time serious music student, I have seen a surprising disparity in the musical progress of students devoting comparable hours to practicing their instrument. I have been at times amazed at the musical proficiency of certain fellow students who spend two to four hours per day practicing; at other times, discouraged at the lack of musical proficiency of other fellow students, who spend up to twice that much time practicing.

Caragiale: An Experience In 20th Century Romanian Cinema, Michael Wilson, Dr. Anca Sprenger

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The “new wave of Romanian Cinema,” as the recent success of films by a handful of Romanian directors has been named, has made quite a splash in the pool of International Cinema. At the Cannes International Film Festival, the most prestigious film festival in the world, Romanian films have been taking the competition by surprise. In the last 4 years, Romanian directors have taken home seven prestigious awards, including two Palme d’Or, the equivalent of the grand prize given at Cannes. A.O. Scott, a film critic for the New York Times, puts it this way:

Windows Of France: A Collage Of French Culture Through The Eye Of A Camera, Kimberly A. Ingram, Dr. Michael D. Bush

Journal of Undergraduate Research

This grant has enabled me to embark upon an exciting project that will improve the tools available in the field of French Language acquisition, a video disc textbook. This project contains three main objectives: 1) set up a bilingual database of the images necessary to compile a “little c” culture textbook [i.e. the small, day to day activities that set apart daily life in France from other cultures], 2) obtain the actual images, 3) work with a publishing company and submit it for publication.

Balzac And A Christian Narrative Model: A Message For Modern France, Morgan Dennis, Dr. Scott Sprenger

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Honoré de Balzac was one of the most prolific French authors in the 19th century, and scholars around the world publish numerous articles and books about his enormous collection of novels (known as La Comédie Humaine) every year. Despite the fact that religious symbols, references, and images abound through Balzac’s fiction and non-fiction writings, the religious dimension of his novels has largely been ignored because of the secular state of much of modern academics today. When I learned this in Dr. Scott Sprenger’s class during the winter semester of 2008 as we read several of Balzac’s novels, I decided to …

Writing & Linguistics News, Georgia Southern University

Writing & Linguistics News (2012-2022)

• Writer-activist Janisse Ray campus visit & reading
• Taylor Tyson to receive 2013 Harbuck Scholarship

The Spirit Of Tongan Dance, Moeaki H. F. Kivalu, Haltern Hagen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

This final report is a brief explanation of my project, “The Spirit of Tongan Dance.” The scholarship was a great financial source to accomplish my project, twelve oil paintings on panel, size 32″x 37.” These paintings are now on display in the Harris Fine Art Center, west side of the 4th floor, from July 25th to August 13th, 1996.

The Rest Of The Dream, Julian Maxwell Hayter

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

I was born roughly 12 years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his momentous "I Have a Dream" speech. My generation, raised on the first wave of hip-hop music and odes to Malcolm X, was angry with King. We thought his overtures to interracial cooperation were a mid-20th-century brand of "Uncle Tom-ing," what my mother's generation called "shuffling." We found it difficult to reconcile King's dream with the rise of crack cocaine, urban blight and black incarceration.

Many of my childhood friends parlayed that anger into prison, gang life, absentee fatherhood, and what Iceberg Slim called the "poison of street …

Designing Funwritr: Unpacking An Affinity-Based, Professionalizing, Graduate-Level Educational Technology Design Experience, Justin Olmanson, Chung-Kai Huang, Rob Scordino, Jaejin Lee

Learn X Design Conference Series

In this paper and presentation we describe, unpack, and reflect upon the dynamic, evolving processes of collaborative, democratized educational technology design that led to the creation of an open-ended literacy development and language acquisition environment named FunWritr. When the project began, each member of our group was either in a graduate program for educational technology design or interested in matriculating into such a program. Over the course of five years we have worked together, growing as designers, developers, and researchers of educational technologies. Reflecting on our authentic, self-guided, evolving curriculum ofexperiences, we recognize processes and unpack factors that contributed to …

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (August 26, 2013), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Compton, Dorothy Hinman, 1923-1982 (Sc 1107), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1107. Various drafts of a travel journal kept by Dorothy Hinman Compton, Bowling Green, of a July 1939 trip to Washington, D.C., and New York City that she made with her mother and other family members. Includes related material.

Lind, Jenny, 1820-1887 (Sc 1109), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1109. Letter written 7 April 1851 by “Will,” Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Lydia Amanda Boadley (he calls her “Sis”, but he was in fact a beau). He refers to a rival for her affections and consoles her on the death of a schoolmate. He also mentions seeing the singer Jenny Lind, who “took tea” as she passed through Bowling Green after a performance in Franklin, Kentucky, and pronounces her “not pretty.”

Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Sc 1112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1112. Transcript of an interview with Mary Julia Neal, Bowling Green, Kentucky, conducted by Gina Claywell. Claywell was interested chiefly in Neal’s experiences as a student at Bethel College, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and as a teacher at Western Kentucky University in the 1930s and 1940s.

Morgan, Billy Brandon, B. 1929 (Sc 1111), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1111. Diary kept by Billy Brandon Morgan, Benton, Marshall County, Kentucky, of a mission trip that he and Charles Cavitt took to French West Africa. They represented the Benton Church of Christ eldership as they visited and evaluated the evangelistic work being done there, especially in organizing and operating a Bible Training Center in Benin. Includes report of 2006 trip to the training center.

Wandering Women: Fontane’S, Romantic And Enlightenment Influences On Walking Women Writers, Bess Hayes, Rob Mcfarland

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Before applying for this ORCA grant, I worked with Professor McFarland on a project about Johanna M. Lankau, a German author who wrote a hundred years ago about her walks throughout Dresden and the surrounding countryside. As an aspect of this research, I searched through newspaper microfiches in Berlin, July 2008, looking for stories and articles by author Johanna Lankau. I came across literature reviews of the popular German writer Theodor Fontane. His most beloved work is his encyclopedic Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg (“Hikes through the Region of Brandenburg”). This caught my attention because Lankau also wrote about walking …

Travel Journals Of Elisa Von Der Recke, Margaret Ebeling

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Travel journalism was one of the most popular forms of literature in the early nineteenth century. Because it was so widely read, it affected many people and therefore had significant historical impact. In addition, it was one of the few literary genres that women were allowed to participate in. Elisa von der Recke (born 1754) was one of the first females to take advantage of this publically acceptable genre. Although her work includes poetry, an exposé and other writings, her travel journals play a central role in her literary and journalistic production. As a part of the Sophie Project, an …

Critically Annotated Collected Works Of Elisa Von Der Recke Introduction To Recke’S Autobiography, Mallorie Guerra, Dr. Michelle S. James

Journal of Undergraduate Research

For a number of years, students within the German Department have been working with professors on The Sophie Digital Library and Resource Center project. This project, known affectionately within the German Department as “the Sophie project”, involves the transcription, translation, and web posting of works by German-speaking women. The Sophie project, simply put, is massive. There are hundreds of texts which have already been posted online, but there remains still quite a bit of work to be done.

Men, Women, And Russian Requests: The Influence Of Gender On The Pragmatic Competence Of Second Language Learners, Elizabeth Hassell, Jennifer Brown

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Dr. Jennifer Bown and I wished to assess how gender affects the pragmatic competence of students learning Russian. By analyzing the differences between men and women’s ability to form appropriate requests in their second language, we hoped to assist other researchers in developing better language-teaching techniques.

Restoring Forgotten Talent: A Scholarly Edition Of Luise Greger’S Ganseliesel, J. Briton Anderson, Dr. Michelle James

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Luise Greger, a talented and accomplished composer in Germany during the 20th Century, has largely been overlooked as an important voice in music history. Her impressive opus of art songs, in addition to an operetta, was quite popular during her day, as is evidenced by several contemporary newspaper reviews. The Sophie Project sponsored a well-received performance of Greger’s collected art songs in 2003, which established the value of performing her music. Because of the significance and quality of Greger’s music, my ORCA proposal was to help fill the lack of serious research on Greger’s life and music by preparing a …

Joseph Smith, The Prophet-Editor, Joshua Wheatley, Dr. Grant Underwood

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I focused my research on an effort to better understand Joseph Smith’s process of revelation, in light of the many revisions that he later made to his own revelations. I decided that my primary source material would be the revelations that Joseph recorded between 1828 and 1831. The goal of my research was to compare variant texts of each revelation, tracking the revisions that were made to each text. My hypothesis was that, by using historical context and by critically analyzing patterns of revision that reoccurred in many revelations, it would be possible to classify the revisions into categories. I …

Sexual Psychology: Eighteenth-Century Gender Theory And The Philosophy Of Friedrich Schiller, Jeffrey Tucker, Paul E. Kerry

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Perhaps the most difficult thing about doing scholastic research is coming up with a good question. The philosopher Imre Lakatos has suggested that the modern research programme works by establishing positive and negative heuristics which dictate the questions that are and are not profitable to ask. As Thomas Kuhn has claimed, there are moments when scientists (and, I would argue, scholars) choose to break from tradition, but for the more part scholarship tends to follow the pattern of that which comes before it. When I submitted my ORCA proposal in the Fall of 2008 I thought I had found something …

“Is This Racial Freedom?”: Student Perceptions Of The Civil Rights Movement At Brigham Young University, Ardis Smith, Dr. Rebecca De Schweinitz

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Over the week of 11-15 February 1959, the front page of Brigham Young University’s the Daily Universe featured four articles on a campus anti-littering campaign. Organized by several freshmen, the campaign was for the winter and spring quarters, and it emphasized the significance of keeping the campus clean, because “Clealiness [sic] is next to Godliness at BYU, as well as anywhere else.” The catchphrase for the campaign was “Lynch the Litterbug,” and the chairman for the campaign stated that students who littered would be placed “on the ‘most wanted for lynching’ list.”

Goolsby, Robert L., 1854-1936 (Sc 1108), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1108. Letter written by Robert L. Goolsby, Greenfield, Tennessee, to James J. Shannon, Lebanon, Tennessee. Goolsby, tongue-in-cheek, outlines a lawsuit that he wants filed against the town of Lebanon, where Shannon is attending school. He also relates some family news. Includes Goolsby biographical material.

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky - Slaughtering Of Animals (Sc 1113), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1113. Document comprising the timeline of hog and cattle slaughtering by members of the Shaker Society at South Union, Logan County, Kentucky from 1 December 1814 to 16 December 1891, compiled from Shaker journals and other original sources. Entries often indicate the number of animals butchered, their weight, and the purpose of the butchering.

Christianity, Civilization, And Commerce: A Look At The Roles Of German Missionaries In 19th And 20th Century Tonga, Kasia Cook, Dr. Cindy Brewer

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In Tonga, a group of islands deep in the South Pacific Ocean, religion is an important element of life for all of the islanders. In addition to protestant missionaries from England who helped Tonga establish their constitution, Tongan culture was also deeply influenced by Catholicism. Due to the large population of German businessmen living in Tonga and the close proximity of Tonga to the German colony in Western Samoa, it was supposed that German missionaries must have also traveled to the Tongan islands and contributed to the establishment of some of the schools and other relics of religious influence there. …