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Putin And Business: Good Or Bad?, Abby D. Greutman Feb 2014

Putin And Business: Good Or Bad?, Abby D. Greutman

International ResearchScape Journal

Russia has long been considered a superpower, but why, then, is its economy faltering? With all of its natural resources, why is there not more international investment? This paper explores the effects of Russian political policies on the international and domestic business within Russia in order to better understand the reasons behind Russia’s unstable economic environment.

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The Chanticleer, 2014-02-10, Coastal Carolina University Feb 2014

The Chanticleer, 2014-02-10, Coastal Carolina University

The Chanticleer Student Newspaper

The editorially independent student produced weekly newspaper of Coastal Carolina University.

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Cseas Weekly Bulletin (February 10, 2014), Center For Southeast Asian Studies Feb 2014

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (February 10, 2014), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.

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Camera Obscura (Image Of Havanah Looking Southeast In Room With Ladder, Risd Museum, Abelardo Morell Feb 2014

Camera Obscura (Image Of Havanah Looking Southeast In Room With Ladder, Risd Museum, Abelardo Morell

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This photograph holds special significance for Cuban-born artist Abelardo Morell, as it was created during the first trip he had taken to his homeland since he fled Castro’s regime with his family in 1962. To make this image, Morell transformed a room into a camera obscura, an optical device that preceded the modern camera which projects its surroundings onto its interior walls. In this room-sized version, the landscape outdoors is projected, upside down, on the interior. 2002

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Baily Risd Museum Bench, Risd Museum, Scot Bailey, Peter Walker Feb 2014

Baily Risd Museum Bench, Risd Museum, Scot Bailey, Peter Walker

Channel

This bench was made as part of a graduate class to design museum seating for the ancient Greek and Roman galleries in the RISD Museum. It aims to capture the quiet character of the space, while creating a seating surface that just asks for tactile interaction. The top surface allows for a variety of seating heights and configurations, catering to the many museum visitors.The undulating seat was made by a digital process called CNC (computer numerical control). The legs, which recall an attenuated lekythos (an ancient Greek oil flask) in shape, flare out below the seat to a sharp edge …

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Student Recital: Stephanie Burkard, Mezzo-Soprano, Stephanie Burkard, Beth Anne Jacobs Feb 2014

Student Recital: Stephanie Burkard, Mezzo-Soprano, Stephanie Burkard, Beth Anne Jacobs

Student Recitals

No abstract provided.

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Giles, Janice (Holt), 1905-1979 (Sc 1284), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2014

Giles, Janice (Holt), 1905-1979 (Sc 1284), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1284. Letters and greeting cards, 1963-1976, written by author Janice Holt Giles, Knifley, Kentucky, to young Memphis, Texas admirer Mike Hughes. Mike initiated the correspondence, which developed into a friendship. Includes three of Mike’s letters, 2000.

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Vertrees, Peter, 1840-1926 (Sc 1282), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2014

Vertrees, Peter, 1840-1926 (Sc 1282), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1282. Autobiography of Peter Vertrees, an African-American native of Edmonson County, Kentucky, who served as a cook in the Confederate Army, 6th Kentucky Cavalry. Afterward, he was an educator and Baptist minister, chiefly in Sumner County, Tennessee. Includes associated biographical data, and the autobiography of his third wife Diora.

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Darden, Amelia Adaline "Addie," 1856-1931 (Sc 1283), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2014

Darden, Amelia Adaline "Addie," 1856-1931 (Sc 1283), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1283. Graduation speech delivered at Cedar Bluff Female College in Woodburn, Kentucky by salutatorian Addie Darden on 7 June 1877. Includes an essay read in Latin.

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Tales From A Boston Customs House: Recovering From Trauma, S. Marianne Johnson Feb 2014

Tales From A Boston Customs House: Recovering From Trauma, S. Marianne Johnson

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

After losing both arms in a gunnery accident aboard the USS Rhode Island in 1863 and being told he would not live, Medal of Honor recipient Lewis Horton resolved that he would recover and be with his family again soon. The double amputation, completed within an hour of the accident, was successful, but Horton lost a significant amount of blood and could merely wait and hope. Eighty days after amputation, the ligatures — cords left in the limb to hold arteries closed until they had sufficiently healed — were removed, and healing commenced quickly. Shortly after, he was discharged and …

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Ed Riggs '77, Musselman Library, Edward Riggs Feb 2014

Ed Riggs '77, Musselman Library, Edward Riggs

Next Page

In this Next Page contribution, Ed Riggs ’77 talks about his adventures on the Appalachian Trail last summer, what he read to prepare for the trip, how he got his trail name, favorite authors to read when he's off the trail, and more.

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 038, Number 20, February 10, 2014, Grand Valley State University Feb 2014

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 038, Number 20, February 10, 2014, Grand Valley State University

2013-2014, Volume 38

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

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"A Home For Poets": The Emergence Of A Liberal Curriculum For Elementary Teachers In Victorian Britain, Christopher Bischof Feb 2014

"A Home For Poets": The Emergence Of A Liberal Curriculum For Elementary Teachers In Victorian Britain, Christopher Bischof

History Faculty Publications

In this article I explore student culture beyond the classroom to argue that there existed an informal liberal curriculum which embraced a general spirit of intellectualism and the pursuit of a wide range of knowledge dealing with the human condition and the state of society. I also offer a new reading of the formal curriculum at training colleges by examining the formal curriculum alongside student accounts of their experiences of it, student responses to assignments, commonly used textbooks, and educationalists’ discourses about teachers’ training. While acknowledging that the formal curriculum emphasized rote memorization and was narrow, I argue that there …

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A Presentation Of The Mapping Of Lbn434 And Its Ramifications On The Assumption Of Clear Seeing At High Galactic Latitudes, Kristen Adams Feb 2014

A Presentation Of The Mapping Of Lbn434 And Its Ramifications On The Assumption Of Clear Seeing At High Galactic Latitudes, Kristen Adams

Journal of Undergraduate Research

We recorded three to four images of each section of the nebula. Each group of images was identical in the data recorded; thus, after reduction, the individual images of each group could be combined directly to yield a higher intensity signal output. To reduce the data, I performed the following ~tandard CCD procedures:

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The Saints At War, Geoffrey Wright, Dr. Robert Freeman Feb 2014

The Saints At War, Geoffrey Wright, Dr. Robert Freeman

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The scriptures tell us, “If all had been, and were, and ever would be, like unto Moroni, behold, the very powers of hell would have been shaken forever…”1 Moroni was an example of faith- his faith inspired him to fight in defense, of his family, religion and liberty. Moroni “was a strong and a mighty man; he was a man of perfect understanding; yea, a man who did not delight in bloodshed; a man whose soul did joy in the liberty and the freedom of his country, and his brethren from bondage and slavery; yea, a man whose heart did …

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Retelling Obasuteyama: The Value Of Alternative Medical Institutions In Japan, Benjamin E. Mizukawa, Dr. Leslie Williams Feb 2014

Retelling Obasuteyama: The Value Of Alternative Medical Institutions In Japan, Benjamin E. Mizukawa, Dr. Leslie Williams

Journal of Undergraduate Research

My original proposal suggested alternative medical institutions appearing in response to Japan’s swelling elderly population provide a desirable option to both the elderly and their families in a society where multi-generation households are common yet strained. Rather than being a repository for useless old people, like the “Obasute” mountain in the Japanese folk tale, such institutions provide the elderly with meaningful socialization and activity while easing tension between them and the family that tends them at home. Accomplishing this simultaneously with regular supervision of health and chronic pain demonstrates an intact value towards respecting and caring for the elderly. Accordingly, …

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Annotated Listing Of Materials On Denmark In The Harold B. Lee Lmrary, Leland Harrison Feb 2014

Annotated Listing Of Materials On Denmark In The Harold B. Lee Lmrary, Leland Harrison

Journal of Undergraduate Research

This particular project’s goal was to list all materials on Denmark located in the Harold B. Lee Library. The primary focus was the works about Danish history, no matter what language they were published in. The scope of the project changed to all Scandinavian books and periodicals located in the central and northern sections of the fourth floor in the library. This was highly appropriate, since most of the materials refer to Denmark and due to the magnitude of materials to be processed. The library’s collection of Scandinavian materials in the library exceeds that of other local universities, but it …

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Document Collection And Data Entry For A Refined Huguenot Immigrant Database With An Emphasis On New York And Rhode Island, Kirk Skidmore, Jacob Ekins, Byron R. Merrill Feb 2014

Document Collection And Data Entry For A Refined Huguenot Immigrant Database With An Emphasis On New York And Rhode Island, Kirk Skidmore, Jacob Ekins, Byron R. Merrill

Journal of Undergraduate Research

During the 16th and 17th centuries, the Huguenots (French Protestants) suffered bitter religious persecution at the hands of their fellow countrymen. Some recanted their faith but many continued to live, some publicly and others privately, according to the dictates of their consciences. Difficulties for these did not ameliorate. Persecutions, robbings, and bloodshed caused thousands upon thousands to seek refuge in countries near and far. Huguenots, of whom many were artisans and merchants, chose to bring their industry and religious values to the British Colonies and began life anew. They were an active minority and soon held positions of rank and …

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Russian Sign Language Glossary Of Lds Terms, Nathan Boyce, Dr. Christopher Wakeland Feb 2014

Russian Sign Language Glossary Of Lds Terms, Nathan Boyce, Dr. Christopher Wakeland

Journal of Undergraduate Research

There are over ten missions in the Church among Russian speakers. The largest group is in Kiev, where the first deaf branch in the former Soviet Union was formed. There are around sixty deaf members there. Since many words used commonly in the Church are not used commonly outside of it, deaf people have had to make up their own signs for these new words. Many words have no signs and are spelled. Several similarly written, but different-meaning words are given the same sign. This results from members in isolated cities not thinking up the same signs.

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Mistress As Metaphor: The Written Woman In Martial, Elizabeth L. Long Feb 2014

Mistress As Metaphor: The Written Woman In Martial, Elizabeth L. Long

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Martial features women as his subjects in roughly twenty-five percent of his epigrams .I Just as his other epigrams explore a wide range of subjects and themes, these poems differ in the ways that they use women. Some are merely crude jests2; others explore mythological or historical subjects3; still others, such as l 0.35 and 1 0.38, written about Sulpicia the satirist, are encomiastic. In addition, some of the poems about women can be read as programmatic statements about Martial’s and others’ poetry. Martial employs various programmatic devices to explain his epigrams. Although these types of poems occur throughout the …

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Venezuelan Portraits, Trenton Hickman Feb 2014

Venezuelan Portraits, Trenton Hickman

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Several months ago, the Office of Research and Creative Work accepted my proposal to prove poet Richard Hugo’s concept of the poetic “triggering town” by spending two weeks in Venezuela and then letting the sensory data I gathered “trigger” a substantial body of poetry. The research grant would enable me to 1) make the information-gathering trip to Venezuela, 2) write a body of Venezuela poems (I estimated 40), and 3) revise the poems for Fall 1994 submission to literary magazines around the country.

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Great With Child: Pregnancy Narratives By Mormon Women, Angela Ashurst-Mcgee Feb 2014

Great With Child: Pregnancy Narratives By Mormon Women, Angela Ashurst-Mcgee

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I completed an honors thesis entitled “Great with Child: Pregnancy Narratives by Mormon Women.” Richard Duerden of the English Department advised the thesis. Neal Kramer, William Wilson, and Doris Dant also gave feedback and assistance. I interviewed eight women and transcribed and edited seven interviews, which totaled more than 100 pages. As an introduction to the narratives, I wrote a 25-page theoretical study entitled, “Mormonism, Feminism, and Pregnancy.”

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Awa Yio … (We Are Glad), Melanie Morrow Feb 2014

Awa Yio … (We Are Glad), Melanie Morrow

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The final product was everything I had hoped it to be! The piece was 10 minutes in length with two sections and was performed March 31st andAprillst, 1994. It involved approximately 60 past or present members of the BYU’s Men’s Chorus using only live percussion and voices. There were eight dancers, including myself. The lighting and visual effects completed the image of what I envisioned for the piece, with slight deviations from the original proposal. All in all, it seemed to be an edifying experience for those involved.

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Report Of The Carlos Surinach Project, Lara Lambert, Kyshana Lowe, Sariah Mourik, Emily Barrett Feb 2014

Report Of The Carlos Surinach Project, Lara Lambert, Kyshana Lowe, Sariah Mourik, Emily Barrett

Journal of Undergraduate Research

As the Brigham Young University piano and string instrumental quartet, made up of Lara Lambert, Kyshana Lowe, Sariah Mourik, and Emily Barrett, we wish to express sincere gratitude to the BYU Office of Research and Creative Work for the grant received last year.

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Progress Report On My Project Entitled “The Effects Of Editing On Emotion And Theme”, Merrill A. Page, Stan Ferguson Feb 2014

Progress Report On My Project Entitled “The Effects Of Editing On Emotion And Theme”, Merrill A. Page, Stan Ferguson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Editing in film is the act of joining two separate visual clips together to continue a film’s progress. Editing styles and the frequency of cuts can vary greatly from film to film, and in my project, I proposed to study in depth the actual effects that could be achieved solely by editing. The plan was to film a certain scene from a script, and then edit it in several different ways to see the things that could be accomplished through the editing alone.

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The Hitchicker, Vance L. Mellen Feb 2014

The Hitchicker, Vance L. Mellen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I am glad to report on my use of the Research and Creative Works Scholarship. I’ve had a fantastic last year at BYU, and thanks to the grant I received, I feel extremely well prepared to enter graduate schooL Due in part to the work funded by this grant, I have been accepted at the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago where I will continue my studies and experiments in performance art and film. I’m very excited about the future. More than anything, I feel this grant has helped me gain enormous confidence in my ability to conduct self-motivated …

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Center Stage, Bryce Johnson Feb 2014

Center Stage, Bryce Johnson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Thank you very much for the grant received from the Office of Research and Creative Work. I am writing to report on how that grant was used to finance my project, Center Stage, a thirty-minute documentary film on Ruth and Nathan Hale, founders of the oldest continuously-running center stage theater in the country.

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Amanda Mccandless, Clarinet, & Matthew Andreini, Percussion, February 10, 2014 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music. Feb 2014

Amanda Mccandless, Clarinet, & Matthew Andreini, Percussion, February 10, 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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Uni Concert Band & Winter Drumline, February 10, 2014 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music. Feb 2014

Uni Concert Band & Winter Drumline, February 10, 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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Russian Olympics, Richard C. Crepeau Feb 2014

Russian Olympics, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

With the Winter Olympics finally underway is it possible that the American journalists, if we can use that term in these circumstances, will be able to write about something other than the failure of Russia to be the United States? Having traveled to Russia multiple times since the collapse of the Soviet Union, I have witnessed the remarkable transformation of this society. Caught in a time warp created by the failure of the Soviet Union, the standard of living of the average Russian trailed behind that of most of Western Europe and the United States. The Soviet Union was not …

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