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Printed Pattern The Study Of Pattern Through Ancient Egyptian Art, Michelle Sorensen, Adrian Pulfer Aug 2013

Printed Pattern The Study Of Pattern Through Ancient Egyptian Art, Michelle Sorensen, Adrian Pulfer

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Pattern design is widely popular and used throughout the world. Patterns have also been used since the beginning of time. They can be seen in blankets, clothing, rugs, and paintings throughout history. For my study of patterns I looked to an unusual resource—ancient Egypt. Egypt has had immense influence in the modern world, from architecture to fashion. But I wanted to look at Egyptian art with the focus of patterns and the purpose behind their use. Was there calculated purpose behind the use of patterns? Or were they used to merely fill up space? Did the Egyptians have a unique …

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“Vanth And Child”: An Investigation Of The Mislabeled Etruscan Urn Mother And Child, Cassandra Scheerer, Dr. Mark Johnson Aug 2013

“Vanth And Child”: An Investigation Of The Mislabeled Etruscan Urn Mother And Child, Cassandra Scheerer, Dr. Mark Johnson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Since its discovery in Chianciano, Etruria, the identification of the figures in the Etruscan cinerary urn Mother and Child (Fig.1) as a mourning mother holding her deceased child has gone uncontested. Reasons for this include the fact that the inscriptions do not identify the figures and the pose seems to logically fit that of a mourning mother with her dead child laid across her lap. The inconsistency of this “Mother” with other portrayals of Etruscan mothers and goddesses with children, led me to dispute the accuracy of the title of the work.

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Sacred Architecture: How Where We Worship Tells About What We Worship, Carly Hyatt, Val Brinkerhoff Aug 2013

Sacred Architecture: How Where We Worship Tells About What We Worship, Carly Hyatt, Val Brinkerhoff

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Through my ORCA project and working closely with a mentoring professor, I have learned much more than how to conduct effective research. I was able to explore a passion of mine, religious architecture, in a very unique setting. Originally, my plan was to go to Italy and evaluate the effects of traditional styles on the modern Italian society. Early in the planning stages, we encountered difficulties with housing and travel logistics, and I had my first lesson in flexibility. My mentor, Professor Brinkerhoff, and I looked for new directions, and settled on looking at the effects of traditional styles on …

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Rudolf Laban’S Space Harmony And Sacred Geometry Principles Applied To Ballet Methodology, Chanel Smith, Shani Robison Aug 2013

Rudolf Laban’S Space Harmony And Sacred Geometry Principles Applied To Ballet Methodology, Chanel Smith, Shani Robison

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Sacred Geometry is the study of the symbolic meanings within harmonic shapes found in nature. These shapes can also be called the Platonic Solids which follow the Fibonacci Sequence known as the Golden Ratio (Fig 1). These aspects of Sacred Geometry have been studied for centuries. Civilizations and individuals who have studied these includes the Egyptians, Greeks, Leonardo da Vinci, Fibonacci and even modern day architects. Rudolf Laban also used these shapes to create a series of movement scales in the 1920’s (Fig 2). He called these shapes crystalline forms which he felt not only expanded human movement potential, but …

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Intergenerational Daci Utah Day Of Dance: “So…We Think You Can Dance!!!”, Heather Gemperline, Marilyn Berrett Aug 2013

Intergenerational Daci Utah Day Of Dance: “So…We Think You Can Dance!!!”, Heather Gemperline, Marilyn Berrett

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Today’s educational climate emphasizes test scores, often resulting in children sitting still in their seats. However, research shows that children are kinesthetic learners and that being involved in dance can improve the academic scores that society values so much. Anne Green Gilbert, an internationally renowned researcher and dance educator, asserts that dance “develop[s] neural pathways through movement patterning that are essential to language acquisition, reading readiness, and mathematical ability”. Her research further shows that “perceptual/motor ability is related to the acquisition of more complex [cognitive and social] skills.”

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He Walked The Americas: John 10:16, America Chumpitaz, Adrian Pulfer Aug 2013

He Walked The Americas: John 10:16, America Chumpitaz, Adrian Pulfer

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The legends of the white God surrounded me as I was growing up. In school I learned in Peruvian History class that more than a legend or a myth is a story that it is passed from generation to generation. The White God or Viracocha, , Kukulkan, Quetzalcoatl and Gucumatz according to the people is a real God that lived among them many years ago. He healed the sick, walked on waters and taught them principles of love and peace.

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Harmony Through Movement How T’Ai Chi Connects With Dance, Shannon Stead, Caroline Prohosky Aug 2013

Harmony Through Movement How T’Ai Chi Connects With Dance, Shannon Stead, Caroline Prohosky

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Harmony and balance are critical for health and well-being. Many contemporary dance practitioners and advocates have long recognized the importance of integrating somatics (mindbody connective practices) into their art in order to help dancers find connections and harmony within their bodies and minds. As dancers explore connections within themselves, they find a connection with the world and a better understanding and appreciation of it. Because of the fastpaced western lifestyle that many people live, there is an abundance of stress and disjunction where the body and mind are concerned. Somatics has been known help dancers. Additionally, studying eastern practices such …

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From Silver To Bamboo, Nicole Okeson, Dr. Kirt Saville Aug 2013

From Silver To Bamboo, Nicole Okeson, Dr. Kirt Saville

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The flute is one of the oldest musical instruments in history. Flutes can be found in civilizations across the globe throughout time. While basic similarities exist between all flutes, including similar fingerings and embouchure, musical style and notation differ widely. China is one of the oldest continuous civilizations on earth. Much of traditional Chinese music dates back to the time of Confucius and much earlier.

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The Art Of Adaptation, Jacob Schwarz, Thomas Russell Aug 2013

The Art Of Adaptation, Jacob Schwarz, Thomas Russell

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I am so glad that I was given an ORCA grant because it gave me an opportunity to create a very original and new piece of film within our film department. The film, which is still finishing in its post-production stage with visual effects, became much more of a learning project then I expected. As we attempted to put together this film, we encountered numerous problems that none of us as students at first knew how to conquer, but through research and a lot of effort we were able to make our deadlines and get it shot.

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Eng 1000-001: Literacy And Language, Lania Knight Aug 2013

Eng 1000-001: Literacy And Language, Lania Knight

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.

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Eng 3406-001: Literature For Pre-Adolescents, John Moore Aug 2013

Eng 3406-001: Literature For Pre-Adolescents, John Moore

Fall 2013

No abstract provided.

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“I’Ll Be Your Mirror” : The Appropriation Of Ovid’S Metamorphoses And The Philosophy Of Self-Construction In Seneca’S Oedipus, Theodore Macdonald Aug 2013

“I’Ll Be Your Mirror” : The Appropriation Of Ovid’S Metamorphoses And The Philosophy Of Self-Construction In Seneca’S Oedipus, Theodore Macdonald

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

No abstract provided.

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Sites Of Disquiet: The Non-Space In Spanish American Short Narratives And Their Cinematic Transformations, Ilka Kressner Aug 2013

Sites Of Disquiet: The Non-Space In Spanish American Short Narratives And Their Cinematic Transformations, Ilka Kressner

Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures

Some of the most important writers of the twentieth century, including Borges, Cortázar, Rulfo, and García Márquez, have explored ambiguous sites of a disquieting nature. Their characters face merging perspectives, deferral, darkness, or emptiness. Such a space is neither a site of projection (as utopia or dystopia) nor a neutral setting (as the topos). For the characters, it is real and active, at once elusive and transforming. Despite the challenges of visualizing such slippery spaces, filmic experimentations in Spanish American cinema since the 1960s have sought to adapt these texts to the screen. Ilka Kressner’s Sites of Disquiet examines these …

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Playing With Fire, Natalie Tripp, Robert Walz Aug 2013

Playing With Fire, Natalie Tripp, Robert Walz

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Playing with Fire is a documentary I started working on in the spring of 2010 after meeting Brigham Young University faculty member Dr. Jani Radebaugh. Dr. Radebaugh is a phenomenal geologist and is known around the world for her work in planetary geology, particularly for her studies of volcanic activity in our solar system. Lately, Radebaugh has focused her research on the volcanoes of Io, a moon of Jupiter and the most volcanically active body in our solar system. As Radebaugh watches the volcanic activity on Io, she believes she is more capable of understanding what early Earth looked like …

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Facebook Users’ Perceptions Of Businesses’ Facebook Pages, Nicole Goring, Dr. Steven Thomsen Aug 2013

Facebook Users’ Perceptions Of Businesses’ Facebook Pages, Nicole Goring, Dr. Steven Thomsen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

College students in the United States and New Zealand were surveyed about their Facebook usage patterns, attitudes toward businesses’ pages on Facebook, and factors that could motivate them to join a business’s Facebook page. Several studies have researched businesses’ perspectives on using social media to reach their audiences, but substantial research has not been conducted to investigate social media users’ perspectives on businesses’ uses of social media. This study attempts to address this gap in the research on businesses’ uses of social media, using Facebook as the social media medium, and also discuss implications for future research. Significant findings of …

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Community Magazine, Kevin C. Pinegar, Adrian Pulfer Aug 2013

Community Magazine, Kevin C. Pinegar, Adrian Pulfer

Journal of Undergraduate Research

When I enrolled in Brigham Young University, I had decided that “for the sake of education” I would give up art and culture for a few years and live in Provo. I was naive back then: I thought that BYU would be a place that discouraged creative outlets and art all together. I was ready to study business at the Mariott School and save art for the weekends of the rest of my life.

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The History Of The History: Re-Discovering Joseph Smith’S First Vision, Samuel Alonzo Dodge, Dr. Steven Harper Aug 2013

The History Of The History: Re-Discovering Joseph Smith’S First Vision, Samuel Alonzo Dodge, Dr. Steven Harper

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The ways in which Mormon historians approach history has changed greatly over time. For years the historical discussion of Mormonism‟s early periods tended to one of two camps, critics who sought to defame Joseph Smith and discredit the religious movement he launched, or Mormon supporters whose efforts to exonerate the Prophet often resulted in excessive glossing of the blemishes found in the Church‟s origins. However, towards the middle of the twentieth century the historical method began to change the way in historians approached the past. Rather than disregard the work done by opposing scholarship, both groups began using the works …

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Robert Mccorkle To Joseph Smith: A Poetic Letter, Hal Robert Boyd, Dr. Susan E. Black Aug 2013

Robert Mccorkle To Joseph Smith: A Poetic Letter, Hal Robert Boyd, Dr. Susan E. Black

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In 1844 Robert Andrew Hope McCorkle (R.A.H McCorkle) journeyed to Nauvoo to familiarize himself with Mormonism and meet the Prophet Joseph Smith. In Nauvoo, McCorkle found many Latter-day Saints.

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Nats 51st National Conference Salt Lake City, Emily Bateman, Lawrence Vincent Aug 2013

Nats 51st National Conference Salt Lake City, Emily Bateman, Lawrence Vincent

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I am a Music Performance major with emphasis in the Vocal area. It is a generally understood rule that most music performers spend time teaching in order to supplement the meager income that can be expected from a career in the performing arts. So, recently I have undertaken to find out more about teaching. I actually do have a private voice studio at my home in Tacoma, Washington during the summer months. I teach young students, ages ranging from seven to fifteen. Teaching has brought me so much joy.

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Sarajevo: A Photographic Collection Of The City 15 Years After The Genocide Has Ended, Christine Armbruster Aug 2013

Sarajevo: A Photographic Collection Of The City 15 Years After The Genocide Has Ended, Christine Armbruster

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Winding through the streets of Sarajevo, I am a voyeur. Sarajevo is a city of layers, and with the discovery of each came a deeper understanding. As I dug deeper into basements where it is heard that your hair turns gray overnight, I began to know the city just a little bit more. I progressively mapped which bars stayed open just a littler later than the last, gradually going from one place to the other until the first shop again opened at 5am, and avoided having to hail a taxi home during the unoperating hours of the tram and not …

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Printed Pattern The Study Of Pattern Through Ancient Egyptian Art, Michelle Sorensen, Adrian Pulfer Aug 2013

Printed Pattern The Study Of Pattern Through Ancient Egyptian Art, Michelle Sorensen, Adrian Pulfer

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Pattern design is widely popular and used throughout the world. Patterns have also been used since the beginning of time. They can be seen in blankets, clothing, rugs, and paintings throughout history. For my study of patterns I looked to an unusual resource—ancient Egypt. Egypt has had immense influence in the modern world, from architecture to fashion. But I wanted to look at Egyptian art with the focus of patterns and the purpose behind their use. Was there calculated purpose behind the use of patterns? Or were they used to merely fill up space? Did the Egyptians have a unique …

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Becoming True Guitar Heroes, Justin Aiken, Lawrence Green Aug 2013

Becoming True Guitar Heroes, Justin Aiken, Lawrence Green

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Guitar Hero and Rock Band are two of the most successful video game franchises of all time – Guitar Hero alone has topped $2 billion in the first quarter of last year. In these games, a player mashes plastic buttons on a guitar shaped controller in time to notes scrolling across the screen. Rock Band added virtual drums to the game, letting would-be Ringos play with a handful of drum pads and a kick drum. Although you couldn’t learn to play the drums from playing the video game alone, people discovered that you could learn enough of the fundamentals to …

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Understanding William Primrose: The Transcription Of Technique Is Memory, Noelle Rader, Dr. Claudine Bigelow Aug 2013

Understanding William Primrose: The Transcription Of Technique Is Memory, Noelle Rader, Dr. Claudine Bigelow

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I received my ORCA grant to transpose and transcribe for viola the out-of-print violin method book Technique is Memory, written by the famous violist William Primrose. BYU is home to the largest viola music archive in the world, the William Primrose International Viola Archive (PIVA). William Primrose was the first modern viola virtuoso. We only have a few sources that reveal the great mind of this distinguished artist and teacher. Technique is Memory, one of these sources, unfortunately, has been out of print for 50 years. Regrettably, when Primrose wrote Technique is Memory he believed it only needed to be …

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The Organs Of Historic Lds Tabernacles, Mark Campbell, Dr. Douglas Bush Aug 2013

The Organs Of Historic Lds Tabernacles, Mark Campbell, Dr. Douglas Bush

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In colonizing the intermountain west, many early Latter-day Saints would construct houses of worship at the center of their communities called “tabernacles.” The last of these structures was built in the 1950s. Many tabernacles still exist and stand as a beautiful architectural legacy of LDS pioneers. As tabernacles would often seat a large number of people, reed or pipe organs were typically purchased to accompany congregational singing. The most famous LDS tabernacle is located on Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah. The world-famous Tabernacle Organ it houses has received ample attention in sound recordings, photography and other documentation and …

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Two New Works In The Development Of A Playwright And Director, Zach Kempf, George Nelson Aug 2013

Two New Works In The Development Of A Playwright And Director, Zach Kempf, George Nelson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

This Project was intended to produce and culminate in two public works of theater, One, written by myself, entitled ‘The Monster of Dr. Frankenstein” and Directed by David Lidell Thorpe; the other, written by Matthew Greene, entitled “for Dear Life” and Directed by myself. The former ran in late December of last year in the Margetts Theater on BYU campus, and the latter ran in mid January in the same.

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Overcoming Limited Dynamic Range In Digital Recording Devices, Jacob Fenn, Thomas Russell Aug 2013

Overcoming Limited Dynamic Range In Digital Recording Devices, Jacob Fenn, Thomas Russell

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The current age brings with it a wealth of adaptations and evolutions in film-making, most stemming from new digital methods which slowly supplant the time-honored celluloid. I chose to focus in my research at the changing world of digital imaging acquisition and one of its primary shortcomings. Dynamic range, or the ability to capture a wide gamut of lights and darks, has long been a telling sign of digital photography. Film is generally cited as having a much larger dynamic range. My purpose in doing this research was to discover what methods, if any, the industry is implementing to widen …

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Bread To Kill And The Future Of Filmmaking At Byu, - - Aug 2013

Bread To Kill And The Future Of Filmmaking At Byu, - -

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Thousands of talented filmmakers have learned their craft while studying at BYU. After years of studying, talented seniors competed for limited resources to produce a 419 project – a senior film; an epic, industry-quality film that represents the pinnacle of this journey and launches the filmmakers into the professional world. This year a shift occurred in the way these films are made and why: the 419 program was redesigned to become the capstone program. With Bread to Kill paving the way, the new and improved capstone model offers students the perfect balance of resources and limitations to create world-class short …

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20130815: Et Cetera, 1937-2005, Student Publications Aug 2013

20130815: Et Cetera, 1937-2005, Student Publications

Guides to University Archives

These items include materials from the student publication, Et Cetera, Marshall's Literary Magazine. Items within this collection span from 1937-2005 and what we have digitized and available online is located HERE. Items from this specific collection were received in 2013. Please download the finding aid for a full list of contents.

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Design Knowledge From Practice(S), Helen Mcallister Aug 2013

Design Knowledge From Practice(S), Helen Mcallister

Learn X Design Conference Series

The main premise of this paper is to centralize the experiential mode as a fundamental to Design Research whether by practice–based or by practice-led knowledge. This paper will map the process of different ‘knowings’ of practice, how they manifest themselves into critical knowledge for Design. Through this researcher’s engagement with the experiential, came an understanding that could not otherwise have surfaced without the practice–based inquiry and methodologies. ‘Practice’ is a central imperative of Design, yet the nature of these activities we call ‘practices’ is never the less complex in its critical edification and defining how it contributes and shapes ‘culture …

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Meaningful Collaboration: Revitalizing Small Colleges With Mooc Hybrids, Jessica Mahoney, Kevin R. Burke Aug 2013

Meaningful Collaboration: Revitalizing Small Colleges With Mooc Hybrids, Jessica Mahoney, Kevin R. Burke

Arts and Communication Faculty Publications

When MOOCs went viral in 2012, traditional small colleges reached an identity crossroads, a midlife crisis where idealism and wisdom collide. Although the main concerns of future viability have been present for years — the fate of the humanities, the rise in student debt, and the sluggish economy, among others — MOOCs have summoned a sense of urgency. “Get online, or get an identity,” as Patrick J. Deneen recently expressed, illustrates the high stakes for institutions deciding whether to assimilate or differentiate. Along with the rapid adoption at large, elite institutions and flagship state schools is the growing myth that …

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