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Swedish 202 Curriculum Packet, Adam Balinski Aug 2013

Swedish 202 Curriculum Packet, Adam Balinski

Journal of Undergraduate Research

For my ORCA project, I said I would assemble 42-48 activities Swedish language learning activities to enhance the curriculum for BYU’s Swedish 202 course. I created 46 and adapted seven others for a total of 53. I planned on 12-15 quizzes, but 10 turned out to be more appropriate for the semester. I planned on 3 tests, and I created 3 written and oral tests, as well as a final. Additionally, I organized readings and made dozens of blackboard homework assignments. I assembled all of the above materials into a well-organized compact disk, which Professor Oscarson reviewed. Professor Oscarson was …

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Summary Of Creative Research Grant Results And Artistic Statement, Erika Feinauer, Dr. Michael Bus Aug 2013

Summary Of Creative Research Grant Results And Artistic Statement, Erika Feinauer, Dr. Michael Bus

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The purpose of this project was to obtain materials for a photo database to be used in French language instruction. This was accomplished by traveling to France and taking a myriad of pictures. I was in France from April 12 to May 8, 1996. My sister traveled with me and was my aide. We bought Eurorail Passes for the trains, and made it a backpacking excursion. I feel that we made significant contributions to the project in terms of volume of photographs, however, I was surprised at some of the difficulties that I encountered. I hadn’t foreseen some of the …

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Paul Wolfe Interview, Professor Emeritus Department Of Physics And Department Of Geological Science, Wright State University, Lewis Shupe, Paul J. Wolfe Aug 2013

Paul Wolfe Interview, Professor Emeritus Department Of Physics And Department Of Geological Science, Wright State University, Lewis Shupe, Paul J. Wolfe

Wright State University Retirees Association Oral History Project

Lewis Shupe interviewed Dr. Paul Wolfe, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Physics and the Department of Geological Science at Wright State University, on August 22, 2013. In the interview Dr. Wolfe discusses his career, how he came to Wright State, and his memories of the University.

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Philosophy And Catholic Theology, Jack E. Mulder Jr. Aug 2013

Philosophy And Catholic Theology, Jack E. Mulder Jr.

Faculty Presentations

My current projects are all knit together by the overlap between philosophy and Catholic theology. I have recently published work on Mary’s Immaculate Conception, the abortion debate, and sexual ethics. I currently have a manuscript under review titled Conversational Catholicism: An Invitation to Dialogue.

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Health And Healing In Compariative Perspective: U.S. And Mexico, Mary Scheerhorn, Jonathan D. Hagood Aug 2013

Health And Healing In Compariative Perspective: U.S. And Mexico, Mary Scheerhorn, Jonathan D. Hagood

Faculty Presentations

A global experience comparing the development of the healing professions, the economics of the modern health sector, and practices of health and healing in the U. S. and México. An intense three week cultural experience in Querétaro, México in health clinics and hospitals under the supervision of faculty from the Universidad Autónoma de Queretaro and the Hope College Nursing Department. Cultural enrichment for nursing, pre-physical therapy, pre-med and other pre-health major students.

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Pine Ridge May Term, Steven D. Hoogerwerf Aug 2013

Pine Ridge May Term, Steven D. Hoogerwerf

Faculty Presentations

The Pine Ridge May term "Learning and Serving Among the Oglala Lakota: Conversations about Faith, Culture, and Worldview is a service-learning course combining work projects, site visits, speakers, and other activities to create a powerful cross-cultural opportunity to learn about oneself and others, with an emphasis on listening to stories unlike our own.

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How Richard And Wanda Help Me Teach A Gl-D-Flagged First Year Seminar, Priscilla D. Atkins Aug 2013

How Richard And Wanda Help Me Teach A Gl-D-Flagged First Year Seminar, Priscilla D. Atkins

Faculty Presentations

My goal was to design an FYS that challenges students to ponder deeply about issues of race, ethnicity, gender and other diversities via a means infused with a léger de main. "Comedy Cubed" (which this year morphs to "Of Humanity and Humor"), most of the time, succeeded in doing this. I will be sharing assignments, including stand-up video clips, student comments, and, hopefully, Hope College junior Brother Chris Jones, who served as a TA.

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Hope College Mellon Scholars, Julia P. Randel, William A. Pannapacker Aug 2013

Hope College Mellon Scholars, Julia P. Randel, William A. Pannapacker

Faculty Presentations

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholars Program in the Arts and Humanities at Hope College engages students in original research that combines traditional scholarly methods, creative production, and new technologies. Through collaborative research, experiential education, and the digital liberal arts, students produce innovative projects that cross disciplinary boundaries, share their work with scholars in their fields and with wider audiences, and prepare for a variety of career paths.

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The Scholar As Startup: How Academic Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation, Jonathan D. Hagood Aug 2013

The Scholar As Startup: How Academic Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation, Jonathan D. Hagood

Faculty Presentations

Using Eric Ries's Lean Startup Method, you, too, can be an academic entrepreneur, someone who innovates by managing ideas; validating them through frequent experimentation; building products (e.g., lessons, assignments, programs, texts, and creative performances); measuring their effectiveness; learning to persevere or pivot; and gauging progress, setting up milestones, and prioritizing tasks.

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River Of Victory Life In A Cambodian Garbage Dump, Trevor Wright, Ben Unguren Aug 2013

River Of Victory Life In A Cambodian Garbage Dump, Trevor Wright, Ben Unguren

Journal of Undergraduate Research

As I set out to create a documentary about the lives of the residents of the Stueng Mean Chey landfill outside of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, I thought I knew what to expect. I had lived and worked with the people of the dump during my time as a volunteer at the Cambodian Children’s Fund the previous summer, and I was familiar with the culture, language, and area. After two years of preparation and planning, my crew and I arrived in Phnom Penh and set off to work. Only three days passed before all of our ideas and plans for the …

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Dynamic Symmetry And The Visual Arts, Peter H. Everett, Bruce H. Smith Aug 2013

Dynamic Symmetry And The Visual Arts, Peter H. Everett, Bruce H. Smith

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Dynamic Symmetry is the name given by some to the underlying principles of design found in the human body and in the growth patterns of many plants and shells. From the research of Professor A.H, Church of Oxford, Rev. H. Moseley, D’arcy W. Thompson, and others it becomes apparent that these principles of design are derived from a summation series of numbers, specifically 1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89, etc. (also called the Fibonacci or Braun ratio-series).

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Turning To The East: A Study Of Traditional Japanese Ceramic Art, Katie Louise Ellis Aug 2013

Turning To The East: A Study Of Traditional Japanese Ceramic Art, Katie Louise Ellis

Journal of Undergraduate Research

My orca grant project was focused mainly on two areas: first, learning traditional Japanese pottery making techniques through primary experience on a trip to Japan studying with Kosei Tamaya, and second, observing the work of Japanese master potters at a number of national museums and galleries. As I did more research and preparation for my trip to Japan I realized that in addition to learning about traditional techniques, I had an even greater desire to experience the country that has inspired so many incredible ceramics artists and understand what cultural and region specific influences have impacted their work.

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Melos-V Database: Melodic Organization, Structure And Variant Database, Ryan Seamons, Dr. Jerry L. Laccard Aug 2013

Melos-V Database: Melodic Organization, Structure And Variant Database, Ryan Seamons, Dr. Jerry L. Laccard

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In the last century, a new discipline developed around the scientific analysis of musical microstructures found in authentic or “deep-layer” folksong. Ilmari Krohn of Finland was the first to publish in this field (Suomen kansan sävelmiä—Volumes I–IV, 1904–1928). This publication came into the hands of two young Hungarian university students who later became world-class composers, Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály, who had already been collecting peasant tunes in remote rural villages. Krohn’s analysis and classification paradigm was just what Bartók and Kodály needed to make sense of the rich musical structures they were finding in the ancient layers of the …

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A History Of The Lara Family: Their Life In Mexico And Their Exodus To The United States, Jennifer M. Derby, Dr. Douglas Weatherford Aug 2013

A History Of The Lara Family: Their Life In Mexico And Their Exodus To The United States, Jennifer M. Derby, Dr. Douglas Weatherford

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The Office of Research and Creative Activities funded research into the history of my family and their experiences as Mexican-Americans. I was able to investigate what life in Mexico was like for my great-grandparents and their children. Through investigating the manner in which they lived, I was able to understand the reasons for their exodus to the United States. They fled from Mexico to the United States in 1927 while the Cristero Revolt raged in their small city. I was able to discover how this revolt affected their lives in Mexico, how their journey to the United States was accomplished, …

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Sou Da Bahia, Megan Trueblood, Robert Barrett Aug 2013

Sou Da Bahia, Megan Trueblood, Robert Barrett

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Bahia is one of the most well-known and admired areas of Brazil. It’s people, culture, and heritage, have a unique and fascinating history. The title of the project, Sou da Bahia (translated, I’m from Bahia), carries a profound meaning. It is a statement that communicates immense cultural pride. It’s a badge of honor and homage to the strong creative spirit that thrives there.

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The Speakers (Voice Box), Chris Purdie, Brian Christensen Aug 2013

The Speakers (Voice Box), Chris Purdie, Brian Christensen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The Speakers (Voice Box) is a six-foot cube made of two hundred-twelve black speakers. The point of departure for this sculpture is found in an art historical dialog between Minimalist art and the criticism of Michael Fried. In this piece I examined the phenomenology of perception as it applied to Minimalist artist Tony Smith’s sculptures—specifically Die, a six foot steel cube. The dimensions of Smith’s Die and mine correspond to those of the human body as depicted in Leonardo da Vinci’s drawing, Vitruvian Man. Both Smith and myself are interested in the ways physical objects, as well as our spatial …

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Physics In Art A Video Exploration Of Elements Of The String Theory, Paige Crosland, Joseph Ostraff Aug 2013

Physics In Art A Video Exploration Of Elements Of The String Theory, Paige Crosland, Joseph Ostraff

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The string theory, also known as the “great unifying theory,” finds middle ground between the long at-odds theories of quantum physics and general relativity. The “strings” in this theory are tiny pieces of matter, smaller than protons and neutrons, which make up the world, as we know it. These strings are said to be undulating at incredible rates and forming loops and waves. According to the theory, these loops and waves form other dimensions of space and time. My project took some of the aspects of physics presented in the great unifying theory and found visual examples of them in …

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Roak-Aradun And Other Stories, Michael Mercer, Kelly Loosli Aug 2013

Roak-Aradun And Other Stories, Michael Mercer, Kelly Loosli

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Brigham Young University’s Animation program is well on its way to becoming legendary. With the combined heroism of the faculty, the students, the administration, and others, there has risen a collegiate experience that rivals that of private art institutions. Yet no university program has room enough for all the knowledge and skills needed for specialty occupations, and so perhaps the greatest success of any education is the transmission of the skills and desire to learn and discover. This has most assuredly been the case with the Animation program. My goal with this research and production project was to obtain for …

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Fantasy And Reality In The Films Of Terry Gilliam, Andrew J. Myers, Dr. Darl Larsen Aug 2013

Fantasy And Reality In The Films Of Terry Gilliam, Andrew J. Myers, Dr. Darl Larsen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

My ORCA project was a study of the films of director Terry Gilliam. I found that the most accessible angle to begin to understand his body of work was by looking through a lens of Peter Wollen’s structuralist auteur criticism. This approach entails looking at the binaries common to many of Gilliam’s films—such as fantasy vs. reality, birth vs. death, individual vs. society, organic vs. machine—and carefully examining how these binaries shift alignment from film to film. The complex interweave of these binaries throughout the structure of a director’s films is, according to Wollen, what establishes a filmmaker as something …

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Western Short Film, Vanessa Barney, Dr. Darl Larsen Aug 2013

Western Short Film, Vanessa Barney, Dr. Darl Larsen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The goal of this project was to produce a short film on 35mm while providing practical field research opportunities for many students in the Media Arts program, including myself. I was initially responsible for writing and directing the film, but also ended up producing the film as well. There were many expectations that were fulfilled and there were also many expectations that changed during pre-production along with unexpected challenges that occurred during production.

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Plath Edits Book Of Essays On Raymond Carver, Kim Hill Aug 2013

Plath Edits Book Of Essays On Raymond Carver, Kim Hill

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

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Shirley Lovett Lewis Aug 2013

Shirley Lovett Lewis

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

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Book Review: Appropriately Indian: Gender And Culture In A New Transnational Class, Harasankar Adhikari Aug 2013

Book Review: Appropriately Indian: Gender And Culture In A New Transnational Class, Harasankar Adhikari

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Appropriately Indian: Gender and Culture in a New Transnational Class by Smitha Radhakrishnan (New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2012)

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Book Review: Ecofeminism And Rhetoric: Critical Perspectives On Sex, Technology, And Discourse, R. K. Shalyefu Aug 2013

Book Review: Ecofeminism And Rhetoric: Critical Perspectives On Sex, Technology, And Discourse, R. K. Shalyefu

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Ecofeminism and Rhetoric: Critical Perspectives on Sex, Technology, and Discourse by Douglas A. Vakoch (New York: Berghahn Books, 2011)

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Book Review: Women And Subsidised Housing In Kwazulu-Natal: The Extent Of Empowerment, Mvuseleo T. M. Mgeyane Aug 2013

Book Review: Women And Subsidised Housing In Kwazulu-Natal: The Extent Of Empowerment, Mvuseleo T. M. Mgeyane

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Women and Subsidised Housing in KwaZulu-Natal: The Extent of Empowerment by Catherine Ndinda (Saarbrücken: Lambert Publishing, 2011)

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Book Review: Why Have Kids? A New Mom Explores The Truth About Parenting And Happiness, Rebecca Stevens Aug 2013

Book Review: Why Have Kids? A New Mom Explores The Truth About Parenting And Happiness, Rebecca Stevens

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Why Have Kids? A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness by Jessica Valenti (Boston: New Harvest, 2012)

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Book Review: Muslim Women In Britain: De-Mystifying The Muslimah, Katherine Bullock Aug 2013

Book Review: Muslim Women In Britain: De-Mystifying The Muslimah, Katherine Bullock

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Muslim Women in Britain: De-Mystifying the Muslimah by Sariya Contractor (London: Routledge, 2012)

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Book Review: Understanding And Applying Research Design, Mercy Nduku Ngungu Aug 2013

Book Review: Understanding And Applying Research Design, Mercy Nduku Ngungu

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Understanding and Applying Research Design by Martin Lee Abbott and Jennifer McKinney (New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2013)

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Book Review: Researching Society And Culture, Maureen Nduku Aug 2013

Book Review: Researching Society And Culture, Maureen Nduku

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Researching Society and Culture, edited by Clive Seale (London: Sage Publications, 2011)

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Book Review: Cities, Cultural Policy And Governance, Gina Weir-Smith Aug 2013

Book Review: Cities, Cultural Policy And Governance, Gina Weir-Smith

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Cities, Cultural Policy and Governance, edited by Helmut Anheier and Yudhishtihir Raj Isar. (London: Sage Publications, 2012)

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