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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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Water From The Rock, Calvin Institute Of Christian Worship, Sue Rozenboom, Travis West Jan 2014

Water From The Rock, Calvin Institute Of Christian Worship, Sue Rozenboom, Travis West

Symposium on Worship Archive

No abstract provided.

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Leading Diverse Congregational Song From The Organ, John Ferguson Jan 2014

Leading Diverse Congregational Song From The Organ, John Ferguson

Symposium on Worship Archive

The organ can lead and accompany an amazing variety of musical styles. John Ferguson will share techniques for leading traditional hymns as well as many non-traditional styles of congregational song from the organ. A portion of the seminar will feature his new resource Many and Great: Introductions and Accompaniments for Global Hymns (Morning Star). If you own this resource, bring it with you! This seminar will be held at Calvin Christian Reformed Church (transportation provided).

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A New Song. A Skillful Song, Bruce Benedict, Ruth Duck, Greg Scheer Jan 2014

A New Song. A Skillful Song, Bruce Benedict, Ruth Duck, Greg Scheer

Symposium on Worship Archive

Those of us who feel Psalm 33's call to write new songs must remember that the Psalm also tells us to play skillfully. In this seminar we will focus on the skills of songwriting for congregations, digging into what it means to balance inspiration and perspiration. Join Ruth Duck, Bruce Benedict and Greg Scheer, three songwriters who also spend much of their time editing the works of others as they discuss their approaches to creating new texts, new tunes, and combining texts and tunes. Participants will be invited (not required) in early January to send two of their own congregational …

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Growing Congregational Health For Teens To Thrive, Syd Hielema, Laura Keeley Jan 2014

Growing Congregational Health For Teens To Thrive, Syd Hielema, Laura Keeley

Symposium on Worship Archive

A congregation is a lot like a garden: there are areas of health, fruit-bearing, and beauty—along with weeds and other things that constantly threaten that health. As congregational leaders we are called to tend the garden, strengthening its health and working to contain the "weeds" so it can flourish. This seminar will focus on our role as garden-tenders as it concerns teens. What can we do to encourage growth? How might we deal with those particular toxins that teens are vulnerable to and/or those that congregations are vulnerable to concerning teens? How does our congregational approach to worship, community, and …

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Everlasting To Everlasting: A Cantata For Congregation, Calvin Institute Of Christian Worship, Cornelius Plantinga Jr., Greg Scheer Jan 2014

Everlasting To Everlasting: A Cantata For Congregation, Calvin Institute Of Christian Worship, Cornelius Plantinga Jr., Greg Scheer

Symposium on Worship Archive

A Vesper/Prayer Service based on the Hallel Psalms, composed by Greg Scheer. Performed by Greg Scheer and friends, with Neal Plantinga, liturgist.

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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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Summary On Fishy Swoi, Sam R. Kennedy, Brent Adams, Richard Hull Jan 2014

Summary On Fishy Swoi, Sam R. Kennedy, Brent Adams, Richard Hull

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Fishy Swoi is a story about a gold fish that is trying out for the part in Jaws. It began as an idea that three students had in one of my animation classes. We created a two and a half minute script and began to animate it in the computer labs of the Brimhall. Although we had were in classes that required much work outside of class and that we were primarily illustrators and not animators, I and my two friends courageously put in extra hours. That was winter semester of 1997. Below is my best analysis of what has …

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Examination Of Possible Symbolism Of The Carved Apes Represented In Jan Van Eyck’S Ghent Altarpiece (1425-32), David Jeppesen, Dr. Martha Peacock Jan 2014

Examination Of Possible Symbolism Of The Carved Apes Represented In Jan Van Eyck’S Ghent Altarpiece (1425-32), David Jeppesen, Dr. Martha Peacock

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Traditionally, apes represent sin and the fallen state of mankind in medieval and renaissance art. Applying this interpretation to all apes represented in art can prove troubling, however, as in Jan van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece (1425-32). This altarpiece painted by the Flemish master for St. Bavo’s Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium, is a celebration of Christ as the mystic lamb of God. It’s exterior features the scene of the Annunciation of Christ’s birth as well as the sibyls and prophets who foretold it. The interior portrays not only Christ crowned and enthroned above the world, flanked by Mary, John the Beloved …

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Transformational Preaching: Engaging With Exodus And The Old Testament, Scott Hoezee, Jeff Manion Jan 2014

Transformational Preaching: Engaging With Exodus And The Old Testament, Scott Hoezee, Jeff Manion

Symposium on Worship Archive

In this seminar Jeff Manion will help preachers explore the art of building a bridge back to the world of the Bible and then bringing the drama back to our generation. Compelling teaching rests on an emotional connection with the characters in the Biblical drama and so the seminar will ponder first “The Power of Connection” and then next how to explore ways to utilize tension in the telling of the biblical narrative in ways that help listeners wonder “What’s at Stake?” in both the biblical story and its implications for our lives today. The seminar will include conversations with …

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Anthony Williams, Trombone, January 30, 2014 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music. Jan 2014

Anthony Williams, Trombone, January 30, 2014 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

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Singing Our Prayers With The Global Community, Calvin Institute Of Christian Worship, Debbie Lou Ludolph Jan 2014

Singing Our Prayers With The Global Community, Calvin Institute Of Christian Worship, Debbie Lou Ludolph

Symposium on Worship Archive

A Vesper/Prayer Service with Debbie Lou Ludolph and Inshallah, the global song ensemble from Waterloo Lutheran Seminary

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Rhythms Of Desire, Jeremy Begbie, James K.A. Smith Jan 2014

Rhythms Of Desire, Jeremy Begbie, James K.A. Smith

Symposium on Worship Archive

A seminar with presentations by philosopher Jamie Smith and theologian Jeremy Begbie, exploring the theme of desire in worship, drawing especially on music. It will include a dialogue between Jamie and Jeremy, live performance at the piano, and extended time for discussion with the audience.

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God Of Grace And God Of Glory: An Exodus Triptych, Calvin Institute Of Christian Worship, Sandra Bowden, Bruce Benedict, Ruth Duck, John Ferguson, Andy Park, Latifah Phillips, Eric Sarwar, André Thomas, David Reimer, John Varineau Jan 2014

God Of Grace And God Of Glory: An Exodus Triptych, Calvin Institute Of Christian Worship, Sandra Bowden, Bruce Benedict, Ruth Duck, John Ferguson, Andy Park, Latifah Phillips, Eric Sarwar, André Thomas, David Reimer, John Varineau

Symposium on Worship Archive

No abstract provided.

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Elements Of Visual Arts In Action, Ellen Phillips Jan 2014

Elements Of Visual Arts In Action, Ellen Phillips

Symposium on Worship Archive

During this seminar, participants will be invited to create paperlace cut banners such as those which would be used in the worship space. In the process, we will discuss the elements of design (line, shape, direction, size, color) as well as the wealth of Christian symbols that are available for artists to incorporate. This seminar is suitable for all who are interested. Those who are familiar with art and design will have an opportunity to work on their own with minimal instruction, and those who are new to the process will be given plenty of guidance.

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Learning To Lead Worship—Forming Worship Leaders In Congregations And Schools, Constance Cherry, Paul Ryan, John Witvliet Jan 2014

Learning To Lead Worship—Forming Worship Leaders In Congregations And Schools, Constance Cherry, Paul Ryan, John Witvliet

Symposium on Worship Archive

Every worship leader—every preacher, musician, artist, media specialist, hospitality provider and more—grows into this role over time. There is so much to learn about worship on so many levels—theologically and pastorally as well as technically. This learning happens in many different settings, through trial and error as well as reading and study, through formal courses as well as informal, off-hand comments in the middle of a service or rehearsal. This seminar will explore the process of teaching and learning worship, and is intentionally designed to both address first-time Symposium attendees as well as veteran teachers of worship. Plan on coming …

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