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The Merchant Of Venice And The Tempest: Singapore Presentation, Andrew Wiggins, Dr. Brandie Siegfried

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In preparation for my ORCA grant, I wrote a critical analysis comparing and contrasting questions of morality in two of Shakespeare’s famous works, The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest, for a literature class covering the works of William Shakespeare. That initial introduction to the moral complexities and ambiguities of Shakespeare’s works sparked my interest in Shakespearean studies and prompted me to expand that paper for my Honors Thesis. In the process, and with Dr. Siegfried’s help, I decided to make the most of my research by presenting my paper at the International Conference of Language, Literature, and Linguistics in …

Emerging Voices From The “Paper Cut” Country: Contemporary Salvadorian-American Poetry, Jonathan Garcia, Dr. Susan Howe

Journal of Undergraduate Research

When we studied modern American poets in Dr. Howe’s Poetry 319 class, I wondered if there were also Salvadoran-American poets out there, as both my parents immigrated to the U.S. from El Salvador in the 1980s, fleeing a bloody civil war. At the same time I had also started writing a few family-themed poems. Finding William Archila, Leticia Hernandez-Linares, and Jorge Argueta’s work online, I felt an immediate kinship. Their works inspired much of my final where I submitted a chapbook as well as an essay exploring my place in the contemporary American scene. Dr. Howe saw me beginning to …

Are More Countries On Their Way To Having A Culture Of Comic Book Readers?, Frank Bramlett

English Faculty Publications

his week (starting Monday 10 June 2013), CNN is broadcasting stories every day in a series called Comic Book Heroes. The series will ‘take a look at the writers, artists, films and characters in this global industry.’ The first video in the series is called ‘The Booming World of Comic Books,’ and it is a rather wide-ranging look at the relationship between superhero comic books and the movies that are based on them.

Several men** are interviewed for this piece. Stan Lee describes superhero stories as ‘fairy tales for grown-ups. [Fairy tales] were stories about monsters and witches and …

George C. Wallace: Schoolhouse Door To Gettysburg, John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

In the days after his famed stand in the schoolhouse door, Alabama Governor George C. Wallace attended to the business at hand on his desk in Montgomery. Wallace served as chief executive in an office in the first home of the Confederacy. One of the things awaiting Wallace on his return from Tuscaloosa was a letter from Paul L. Roy of Gettysburg. [excerpt]

Voicing The Violence Of Favelas, Berkeley A. Kershisnik

Theses and Dissertations

This project analyzes three examples of testimonial literature written by favela residents in Brazil to demonstrate the extent to which these accounts contest or confirm the popular news media's violent representation of favelas and their inhabitants. The literary works Quatrocentos contra um: Uma história do Comando Vermelho (1991) by William da Silva Lima and Capão pecado (2000) by Ferréz and the documentary Notícias de uma guerra particular (1999) present an insider's perspective of the violence that takes place in the favela and thus can reveal the factors that contribute to it. Through these explanations, readers and viewers become aware of …

The Video Essay: Introducing An Increasingly Relevant Sub-Genre, Jacob Cutler, Dr. Patrick Madden

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Teaming up with Inscape (BYU’s journal of literature and art) has proven to be fundamental for my ORCA project. In addition to publishing two of my video essays, Inscape has published my short essay explaining and introducing the concept of the video essay. I have included that essay below because I feel it speaks to the relevance of the project and places it within a broader context:

Sophie Discovers Amerika: A Digital Accompaniment, Alexander Smith, Dr. Michelle James

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Before beginning this project I was aware of the vast variety of literature available in both English and German language. Having been fortunate enough to work with Dr. James already on the Sophie Project, an undertaking of the Department of Germanic and Slavic here at BYU, I was also aware of the number of German-language literature pieces that Dr. James has collected over the past years. However, I was not aware of the impact that this literature can have and the insights that it can provide. Being a European myself, I was excited to begin work on this specific area …

Study Abroad And Rounded Vowels, Kelley Manning, Dr. Laura Smith

Journal of Undergraduate Research

“Simply phonetics. The science of speech. Thats my profession: also my hobby. Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby!” –Professor Henry Higgins (pg. 8)¹

Perception And Production Of /L/-/R/ Sounds By Korean Learners Of English And German, Hyuna Kim, Dr. Laura Smith

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Numerous articles have examined the difficulties Korean speakers have learning the English /l/ and /r/ sounds (e.g., Borden et al 1983; Smith, 2001; Han, 2002). Most Korean learners of English hear and produce no distinction between English /l/ and /r/, because no surface contrast exists in Korean between these two liquid sounds (Iverson & Sohn, 1994). The English retroflex /r/ does not exist in Korean; Korean only has a phoneme /l/ with three distinct allophones: an apical flap [ɾ] in the initial position (as in atom in English), a lateral [l] in the coda position, and a geminate [ll] in …

Hedwig Irle: Life Of A Woman Missionary In Colonial Africa, Kimberly Merkley, Dr. Cindy Brewer

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Along with my mentor, Cindy Brewer, my goal for my ORCA project was to research and write an introduction to a 30 page book, titled Die Schwarze Johanna, by a female German missionary in Namibia in the early 20th century. The text, as of now, has no digital copy and has only been printed in the original Gothic text in the German language. In my project proposal, I also outlined plans of submitting both my introduction and the transcribed version of the text itself to the Sophie Project, an online database which seeks to publish little-known works of German women …

The Chinese Name For God: Preserving Unity In The Protestant Term Controversy 1847-1890, Shayla Sturgess, Dr. Kirk Larsen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

My project began as a supervision course for the Cambridge Direct Enrollment program. Although I initially had planned a project focused around Chinese history I was unable to find a supervisor with that area of expertise and therefore my project changed entirely from what I had planned. Instead, under the direction of Dr. Peter Martland, I was directed to archives that he hoped would satisfy my interest in Chinese history. I was then sent to the large University Library with a letter of introduction in order to search for a topic within the British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS) archives. …

Self-Shaping And National Identity In Transylvania, Nick Jones, Dr. Lance Larsen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

My project involved researching and observing Romania’s Székely population and their efforts to maintain cultural autonomy despite their minority status in Romania. The Székely people are a Hungarian-speaking group of disputed origin that has lived in Transylvania for at least 1,000 years, and currently they comprise a dominant majority of the population of Harghita County in the southeastern corner of Transylvania.

A History Of The Church In Irqpuato, Guanajuato, Mexico: Irapuato Stake Church History, Benjamin Jones, Dr. Mark Grover

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In preparation of my trip to Mexico for my project I participated in a field study prep class through the Kennedy Center. This class helped me plan how I would carry out my project, taught me investigation skills, and helped prepare me culturally for Mexico. This planning helped me budget my expenses and resources. The majority of my ORCA funding went towards my plane ticket, with the remainder being used up in rent, food, and travel. While there remained some expenses after applying the ORCA grant, I am extremely grateful for that help that I received and recognize that this …

Leadership In The Humanities A Look At Practical Applications Of Humanities Education, Susanne Mcgann, Dr. Gregory Clark

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The initial aim of my project was 1) to evaluate the transferable skills of a Humanities education in the job market and 2) to help Humanities students recognize, articulate, and apply their knowledge and skills to future careers.

Collecting Folklore, Trent Leinenbach, Dr. Stephen Tuttle

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Our purpose in collecting folklore was to examine what happens to a society when the people can no longer identify themselves by nationality. Transylvania is a particularly good case study, because the borders have been disputed between Hungarians and Romanians essentially for as long as both nations have existed—so you’ve had plenty of time for national borders to sink deep into the social consciousness and subconscious. There have been generations of tradition, folklore, and education to instill a strong sense of nation-and-boundary-based identity. Within the borders of Hungary, there was a real sense of “Being Hungarian,” and a real sense …

Hope Rises In The Leprosy Colonies Of India: Examining The Mission And Success Of Rising Star Outreach, Kelsey Elayne Holloway Murdoch, Dr. Francesca Lawson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I began my quest to graduate with University Honors during my freshman year at Brigham Young University. I was encouraged by friends, family, and professors, and I loved the challenge of the Honors Courses and the cultural exploration stimulated by the Great Works requirements. But like nearly every student involved in BYU’s Honors Program, the thesis looming as the last hurdle before graduation was a daunting and baffling task. I wanted to write a thesis that would do more than check off a final requirement and sit on a special shelf in the Harold B. Lee Library, honor though that …

Using Rhetorical Analysis As A Starting Point For Appellate Level Oral Argument Reform, Jacob Sherman, Dr. Nancy Christiansen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The United States court system faces an ever-growing caseload problem. The issue gets aggravated at the appeals court, where fewer judges face a disproportionate volume of cases. Two approaches have historically been taken to address this burden: selecting more judges and streamlining trial procedures. Critics of the former approach fear that the quality of judges must inevitably fall as more judges are selected (Martineau 1986). While many experts favor appellate level oral argument reform, several at times contradictory theories exist as to where the appellate procedure can best be streamlined without compromising justice (Berman 2001). The prevailing theories focus on …

Giving Birth To Empowerment: Motherhood And Autonomy In Greek Tragedy, Maggie Sharon Hoyt

Theses and Dissertations

The Greek tragedies of Classical Athens frequently portray mothers in central roles, but despite this significance, the relationship between mother and child has long been overshadowed in secondary scholarship by the relationship between husband and wife. This study demonstrates the direct relationship between a female character's active possession of her children and her autonomy, or her ability to act in her own interests, in three plays of Euripides: Electra, Medea, and Ion. In general, women who internalize their ownership of their children, expressed on stage both in word and action, have greater influence over the men around them and the …

Remembering Things We’Ve Never Done: Memory’S Daughters And The Literary Experience, William C. Johnson

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Memory, essential in creative writing, inspires us to weave literary reading into the narrative of personal experience and to seek, through recollection, our psychic wholeness.

A Medical Humanities Course: A Pertinent Pause On The Medical Beat, Kathleen Welch

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

This article summarizes the findings of one ethnographic study and demonstrates that, by emphasizing self- reflection and discussion, an interdisciplinary literature and medicine course provides medical students a brief but important, time for retrospection.

Design: The Continuous Construction Of Competences, Alexandra Cruchinho, Graça Guedes

Learn X Design Conference Series

This article concerns high education curricula and training of designers. The key question considered by Design teachers and explored in this article is: How can we supply designers with useful and essential skills through training that will allow them to effectively respond to the needs of business environment? To answer this question we present the results of a research designed to focus on market and business needs of design competences, and expectations about designer’s performances. We intended to provide further information and discuss the curricula in design higher education. Finally we present a model that allows higher education institutions to …

Effects Of Patient-Directed Music Intervention On Anxiety And Sedative Exposure In Critically Ill Patients Receiving Mechanical Ventilatory Support A Randomized Clinical Trial, Annie Heiderscheit, Linda L. Chlan, Craig R. Weinert, Mary Fran Tracy, Debra J. Skaar, Jill L. Guttormson, Kay Savik

Faculty Authored Articles

Importance:

Alternatives to sedative medications, such as music, may alleviate the anxiety associated with ventilatory support.

Objective:

To test whether listening to self-initiated patient-directed music (PDM) can reduce anxiety and sedative exposure during ventilatory support in critically ill patients.

Design, Setting, and Patients:

Randomized clinical trial that enrolled 373 patients from 12 intensive care units (ICUs) at 5 hospitals in the Minneapolis-St Paul, Minnesota, area receiving acute mechanical ventilatory support for respiratory failure between September 2006 and March 2011. Of the patients included in the study, 86% were white, 52% were female, and the mean (SD) age …

American Psalm, Dean Rader

English

No abstract provided.

Jones, Drucilla Montgomery (Stovall), 1907-2007 (Mss 469), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 463. Chiefly genealogical files compiled by Drucilla M. Jones from the late-1950s until 2004. Most of the older dates on the material reflect photocopies, not originals, of documents. The subject analytics include both family names and names of correspondents.

Smith, Travis Edwin, B. 1898 (Sc 2734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2734. Three documents related to the history of education in Kentucky which were prepared by Travis Edwin Smith for his doctoral dissertation. One document concentrates on teacher education, one on education law in Kentucky, and the last document is an overview titled “Education in Kentucky.” The documents concentrate on sources to be used in the dissertation.

Rural Revolution: Documenting The Lesbian Land Communities Of Southern Oregon, Heather Jo Burmeister

Dissertations and Theses

Out of the politically charged atmosphere of the 1960s and 1970s emerged a migration to "the land" and communes, which popularly became known as the back-to-the-land movement. This migration occurred throughout the United States, as well as many other countries, and included clusters of land based communities in southern Oregon. Within these clusters, lesbian feminist women created lesbian separatist lands and communes. These women were well educated, and politically active in movements such as the New Left, Civil Rights, Women's Liberation, and Gay Liberation. These lands or communes functioned together as a community network that developed and commodified lesbian art, …

Presentism The Magnifier, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer

Faculty Scholarship

Speech given at the International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE) 10th Annual Meeting: “Thinking and Acting Ecologically” at the University of East Anglia, U.K. on June 12-14th, 2013.

Kenneth Burke As Educator: What His Theories Of Aesthetic Form And (Non-Symbolic) Motion/(Symbolic) Action Suggest For Teachers In The Literature Classroom, Tara Brock Boyce

Theses and Dissertations

Burke scholars oftentimes overlook Burke's fundamental role as educator and how his work can and should be applied to the classroom. This paper explores Burke's theoretical works and centers on two concepts important to developing rhetorical skills necessary for functioning and participating in a democratic society: his theory of aesthetic form and his distinction between motion and action. Specifically, this paper (1) clarifies these concepts and explains how they relate to each other and the emotional experience of literature, and (2) demonstrates how these concepts work together to imply a new method of practicing rhetorical criticism in the literature classroom …

Red By Association: New Negro Communism And Wallace Thurman's The Blacker The Berry, Maria Elise Milligan

Theses and Dissertations

The decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union have seen an increased interest in uncovering the relationship between New Negro era authors and intellectuals and the radical leftism that had such a widespread influence in the twentieth century. Scholars are reanalyzing the life and works of figures like Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois and others in light of each author's interaction with and acceptance of communist and socialist ideals. These studies trace these radical connections in an effort to better understand New Negro authors and their work during a time of revolution and social upheaval. There is …

Interview With Shannon Simpson - Oh 273, Shannon Simpson

Winthrop University Oral History Program

In her June 12, 2013 interview with Martha Manning, Shannon Simpson detailed her time as an undergraduate student at Winthrop from 1995-1999. Discussed are details of Simpson’s life as a student – residence halls, classes, meals – rules and regulations on campus, and her desire to go back to Winthrop as a graduate student in 2013. Included are Simpson’s thoughts on professors, traditions, and cultural events on campus. Simpson also shares details of her career as a police officer after attending Winthrop to a transition as an employee in Human Resources. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Louise …