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Modern Navajo Trading Posts In The Gallup, Nm, Region And How They Compare With Traditional Trading Posts, Trent Tanner, Dr. Jill Rudy
Modern Navajo Trading Posts In The Gallup, Nm, Region And How They Compare With Traditional Trading Posts, Trent Tanner, Dr. Jill Rudy
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Trading relationships between the Navajo Indians and Anglo-American frontiersmen began in the late 1860s after the Navajo were released from their internment at Ft. Sumner by the US government. These intrepid men carried to the Navajo such goods as coffee, lard, and white flour as well as western farming tools in exchange for goods such as Navajo weavings, sheep wool, and silver jewelry. Among these men was my great-great-great grandfather, Seth Tanner, also called Hastiin Shash, or “Man Bear.” (see picture 1). He was the beginning of what has become a five-generation Tanner Navajo trading legacy which continues today.
Margaret Cavendish’S Introductory Epistles As Essayistic Guidelines, Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas, Dr. Brandi Siegfried
Margaret Cavendish’S Introductory Epistles As Essayistic Guidelines, Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas, Dr. Brandi Siegfried
Journal of Undergraduate Research
When I began my project I intended to conjoin Theodor W. Adorno’s and Györg Lukács’ definitions of the essa—as stated in “The Essay as Form” and “Soul and Form,” respectively—with Susan M. Fitzmaurice’s definition of the epistolary genre to determine if definite essayistic elements found in other forms—specifically Margaret Cavendish’s work—of writing transformed, expanded, redefined, or negated the current conception of the, so called, fourth genre. I assumed that this isolation of “pure essayistic elements” would contribute toward stricter genre boundaries built on a more objective theoretical mesh work through which other pieces of writing could be more easily classified …
All That Is Global Is Not Gold: A Look At The Icc Monitor Of The Coalition For An International Criminal Court, Joseph A. Willard, Dr. Paul J. Baltes
All That Is Global Is Not Gold: A Look At The Icc Monitor Of The Coalition For An International Criminal Court, Joseph A. Willard, Dr. Paul J. Baltes
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is a permanent global tribunal designed to bring to justice the individual perpetrators of heinous war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Although there are a number of opinions in circulation regarding the full history behind the ICC, the general consensus is that the idea first gained popularity after World War II and the criminal trials that were conducted at Nuremberg and Tokyo. During the decades that followed, the ICC plan was resurrected a number of times, but never with enough success to permanently establish it. The development of ad-hoc international criminal tribunals for the …
An Examination Of The Publication Procedure As It Relates To Students, Rebecca Sederberg, Doris R. Dant, Don E. Norton
An Examination Of The Publication Procedure As It Relates To Students, Rebecca Sederberg, Doris R. Dant, Don E. Norton
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Students at Brigham Young University have a wealth of possible publishing options. These include not only on-campus essay collections and student-run magazines but also the commercial and trade markets of the general public. Our goal was to analyze the publication procedure from the viewpoint of a student and to make more accessible to students market resources and knowledge.
Thomas Hardy, Christian Bryner, John Bennion
Thomas Hardy, Christian Bryner, John Bennion
Journal of Undergraduate Research
For Professor Bennion’s Thomas Hardy project, I used my alloted 80 hours to research cultural and geographical information from five different novels: Jude the Obscure, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterville, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, and Under the Greenwood Tree. With each of the novels, I jotted down the page number of any reference to geographical locations, place names, descriptions of local history, references to local customs, songs, buildings, furniture, local plant and animal life, and clothing.
Charles Bukowski (1920-1994): Research And Critique Of An American Working-Class Poet, Dana Anderson, Dr. Lance Larsen
Charles Bukowski (1920-1994): Research And Critique Of An American Working-Class Poet, Dana Anderson, Dr. Lance Larsen
Journal of Undergraduate Research
In 1959, an inconspicuous Los Angeles postal worker named Charles Bukowski published his first book of poetry-Flower, Fist, and Bestial Wail in a press run of only 200 copies. Yet, by the time of his death last March he had sold over one and a half million copies of 46 volumes of poetry and pros works which have been translated into 20 languages and have generated a huge readership here and throughout Europe. Writing from the rigors of the working class, Bukowski was uniquely qualified in his critique of an “American dream” which no longer seemed plausible, of an America …
Creative Research Results And Short Story Collection, Holly A. Abbe, Dr. Susan Howe
Creative Research Results And Short Story Collection, Holly A. Abbe, Dr. Susan Howe
Journal of Undergraduate Research
My father, Henry Reed, grew up in a small town in upper state New York where the sleepy hills turn orange and gold in the fall, where a man wearing white brings milk in bottles every morning to each door step, and where the church bells of the old Baptist Church are heard clearly every hour of the day. Fabius, New York is a wonderful town of only two hundred people. Every time I visited Fabius I felt as if I had traveled back in time when life was more simple and in many ways more enchanting. This is what …
The Book Of Mormon: A Handbook Of Hope For The Apocalypse, Nathan Lindsay, Dr. Steven C. Walker
The Book Of Mormon: A Handbook Of Hope For The Apocalypse, Nathan Lindsay, Dr. Steven C. Walker
Journal of Undergraduate Research
“Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.” With this line Robert Frost summed up the world’s uncertainty concerning the new Millennium. For thousands of years people have contemplated and philosophized about the end of the world. Apocalyptic literature is the unique genre that centers on this final period of mankind.
Noun-Adjective Compounds In Old English Poetry, Ryan Christensen, Dr. Don Chapman
Noun-Adjective Compounds In Old English Poetry, Ryan Christensen, Dr. Don Chapman
Journal of Undergraduate Research
One of the marks of Old English poetic style is the compound word. Malcolm Godden calls compounds “the essence of Anglo-Saxon poetic language.”(1) The lexicon of words exclusive to poetry includes many compounds, and many of these compounds are used only once in the Old English corpus. Thus it seems Anglo-Saxon poem-making consisted not only in using a large number of compound words, but in true compounding, in coining new words by combining two old words.
Linguistic Research In The Fijian Language, Jared Chapman, Dr. Dallin Oak
Linguistic Research In The Fijian Language, Jared Chapman, Dr. Dallin Oak
Journal of Undergraduate Research
For nearly fifty years, Fiji has been the only major South Pacific LDS mission without its own Missionary Training Center (MTC) language program. For this reason, missionaries have gone without language skills and their ability to do missionary work was limited. Today, the MTC has a fledgling program that struggles to teach its missionaries the language. The program=s major challenge was the lack of adequate language lesson materials. As a return missionary from Fiji and founder of its MTC language training program, I have a strong love for the people and an intense interest in improving the instructional methods used …
Developing Multimedia With Internet Technology While Accommodating Disabled Students: A History Of The Civilization Cd-Rom, Jeffrey L. Dunster, Paul Thomas
Developing Multimedia With Internet Technology While Accommodating Disabled Students: A History Of The Civilization Cd-Rom, Jeffrey L. Dunster, Paul Thomas
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The aim of this project was to assemble a CD-ROM of supplemental media for History of Civilization courses at BYU. The research and development of this project served as my honors capstone project and a full report is now archived at BYU under the same title as this ORCA report.
Multigenre Writing For Teaching Literature At Banneker High School In Washington, D.C., Merinda Gurney Cutler, Dr. Sirpa T. Grierson
Multigenre Writing For Teaching Literature At Banneker High School In Washington, D.C., Merinda Gurney Cutler, Dr. Sirpa T. Grierson
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Multigenre writing is a nontraditional style of writing developed by pioneers in education such as Peter Elbow, Tom Romano, and Sirpa T. Grierson. This form of writing is ideal for high school students who view writing, especially research writing, with apathy and boredom. Dr. Grierson’s approach to multigenre writing requires students to do traditional research on a topic, but then write about it in a creative way, using their imaginations to “[fill] out ‘the bones’ of the researched facts” (Grierson 52). This method of teaching literature, reasearch, and writing has been researched and tested extensively in Utah schools, and I …
Wordsworth’S Moving Picture: Guide To The Lakes And The Romantic Image, Shannon M. Stimpson, Dr. Nicholas Mason
Wordsworth’S Moving Picture: Guide To The Lakes And The Romantic Image, Shannon M. Stimpson, Dr. Nicholas Mason
Journal of Undergraduate Research
At the beginning of this project, I planned to research female-authored texts from the Romantic era and to explore patterns of consumerism found within them. After a few weeks of researching various pamphlets and printed visual images for this project, I started to wonder whether the relationship between printed visuals, texts, and consumer culture had a larger cultural impact than I had previously anticipated. I became interested in the ways that print culture influenced not only female authors, but also some of the foundational figures of the Romantic era, particularly William Wordsworth, who was referenced in much of the research …
The Effectiveness Of Reading Strategies In A Secondary English Classroom, Whitney Sorensen, Deborah Dean
The Effectiveness Of Reading Strategies In A Secondary English Classroom, Whitney Sorensen, Deborah Dean
Journal of Undergraduate Research
This study sought to discover and analyze what students do as they read, and whether or not classroom instruction could help them read better. The initial survey, called a “Reading Road Map”, was given to the students to record what they thought and did as they read an article provided by the researcher. This initial survey was then contrasted with a secondary survey, another “Reading Road Map”, in order to discover if the thoughts and actions done by students while they read changed at all as a result of instruction. The instruction in the classroom was given after the initial …
Teaching Writing For Life: A Look At Persuasive Writing Throughout Genre, Cathryn Peers, Deborah Dean
Teaching Writing For Life: A Look At Persuasive Writing Throughout Genre, Cathryn Peers, Deborah Dean
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Writing is a social response; however, many sixteen year olds find that hard to understand. To high school students, writing is the means to an end – get the teacher/parent off your back, get a good grade, finish the project, etc. When I first mentioned the words “Persuasive Essay” to my class of 32 high school juniors, the moans, groans, and rolled eyes actually interested me. Why did these students feel so adverse to this essay type in particular? So, we talked about it. Students saw the essay as busy work; when would they ever use this in the real …
Easier For A Camel: The Quasi-Christian Merchants Of Venice; A Literary Look At Economic History, Wayne Sandholtz, Dr. Brandie Siegfried
Easier For A Camel: The Quasi-Christian Merchants Of Venice; A Literary Look At Economic History, Wayne Sandholtz, Dr. Brandie Siegfried
Journal of Undergraduate Research
In a Shakespeare class during my junior year, I wrote a paper called “Easier for a camel: the quasi-Christian merchants of Venice” which examined the relationships between business virtue and Christian virtue in Shakespeare’s comedy The Merchant of Venice. Even though it was written centuries ago, I felt that the play had significant things to say to our modern capitalist society in which, just as in Shakespeare’s day, traditional sources of authority are being challenged by the combination of new technology with expanding economic opportunities. I decided to apply for and was given a grant from ORCA to further explore …
Analysis Of Ancient Egyptian Textiles: The Burial Ribbons Of Fag Al-Gamous, Sophie Lee, Kristin South
Analysis Of Ancient Egyptian Textiles: The Burial Ribbons Of Fag Al-Gamous, Sophie Lee, Kristin South
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Burials play a particularly important role in understanding ancient cultures because, presumably, they provide insight into the most important objects of a belief system. People bury their dead with objects essential to the afterlife, which means the artifacts from burials may provide crucial information as archaeologists try to reconstruct their world.
Katy A To Z, Katharine Anderson, Dr. John Bennion
Katy A To Z, Katharine Anderson, Dr. John Bennion
Journal of Undergraduate Research
When I set out several months ago to write an honors thesis, I had a pretty clear idea of what I wanted to do. I was going to craft a progression of essays examining myself, beginning with the most basic personal information, and slowly progressing, layer by layer, to the topics and issues which I hold deepest and closest to whatever may be considered my core. I was going to tell stories, express opinions, and in other diverse ways utilize the genre of personal essay as a means of self discovery. I hoped that the final product would in some …
Voodoo Villains, Zombies, And Black Magic: The Role Of Hecate In Orson Welles’ “Voodoo” Macbeth, Rachel Wise, Dr. Nancy Christiansen
Voodoo Villains, Zombies, And Black Magic: The Role Of Hecate In Orson Welles’ “Voodoo” Macbeth, Rachel Wise, Dr. Nancy Christiansen
Journal of Undergraduate Research
On 14 April 1936 at the Lafayette Theatre in Harlem, Orson Welles’ adapted Shakespearean play “Voodoo” Macbeth opened. The play was set in nineteenth-century Haiti and cast with only African Americans. This production was the first professional Shakespearean play with an allblack cast performed in the history of the United States, and it was a stupendous success. “Voodoo” Macbeth was produced by the Negro Unit of the Federal Theatre Project, an organization started during the Great Depression as a way to provide jobs for unemployed actors and stage workers. The goal of my project was to examine the gendered relationship …
George Eliot And Cultural Attitudes Toward Marginal Religious Groups In Mid-Century Victorian England, Calvin Olsen, Dr. Susan Howe
George Eliot And Cultural Attitudes Toward Marginal Religious Groups In Mid-Century Victorian England, Calvin Olsen, Dr. Susan Howe
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Mary Anne Evans, who wrote under the pen name George Eliot, was a novelist in Victorian England. Like other women writers of the time, she used a pseudonym so that her work would be taken seriously. She is most widely recognized for her novels, but she also wrote non-fiction geared toward academic audiences of the time. In 1852 she took over as editor for the Westminster Review, a journal interested in becoming “an instrument for the development and guidance of earnest thought on Politics, Social Philosophy, Religion, and General Literature.” The Westminster Review had recently assimilated the smaller Foreign Quarterly …
A Theory Of Text As Action:Why Delivery Through Publication Improves Student Writers And Their Writing, Lisa Kae Thomas
A Theory Of Text As Action:Why Delivery Through Publication Improves Student Writers And Their Writing, Lisa Kae Thomas
Theses and Dissertations
Students in required writing courses often fail to see the purpose of their writing and invest themselves in their writing. Many composition pedagogues have noticed that one solution to this problem is to help students publish their writing, and have reported the positive outcomes of their publication-focused courses. However, this practice has not been grounded in theory. My project connects the practice of publishing student writing to theory. I draw on Kenneth Burke's and other's ideas of text as action and show how the ancient cannon of delivery is a necessary means of experiencing and understanding text as action with …
George Canning, Liberal Toryism, And Counterrevolutionary Satire In The Anti-Jacobin, Martha Thompson
George Canning, Liberal Toryism, And Counterrevolutionary Satire In The Anti-Jacobin, Martha Thompson
Theses and Dissertations
One of the most defining moments in the histories of British satire and the public sphere took place in the late 1790s in an abandoned house in Piccadilly. Here George Canning and several fellow conservatives began writing and circulating their weekly newspaper the Anti-Jacobin. Although the periodical has been critically neglected, it is a valuable model for exploring how literary (partisan) politicians attempted to form a rational and critical public sphere through their satiric poetry. Founded by George Canning and edited by William Gifford, the Anti-Jacobin seems to reflect a reactionary conservative's ideology and has been summarily dismissed because of …
Reconceiving A Necessary Evil: Teaching A Transferable Fyc Research Paper, Samuel James Dunn
Reconceiving A Necessary Evil: Teaching A Transferable Fyc Research Paper, Samuel James Dunn
Theses and Dissertations
The place of the research paper in first-year composition (FYC) courses is often debated in composition forums. Many argue that the a-disciplinary nature of FYC doesn't allow instructors to teach the research paper in a way that will be transferable to disciplinary writing tasks, while others say that it is possible, as long as we have a thorough understanding of the kinds of writing tasks students will face in the disciplines and specifically teach writing skills that will be transferable. To identify these more generalizable writing skills to be emphasized, I interviewed 14 professors at Brigham Young University from different …
Looking Outside The Canon: Owen Vincent Dodson'sboy At The Window, Sarah Anne Campbell
Looking Outside The Canon: Owen Vincent Dodson'sboy At The Window, Sarah Anne Campbell
Theses and Dissertations
Scholars have viewed African American texts written in the years between 1950 and 1960 as espousing confrontation, protest, and resistance. Although fruitful in identifying large writing trends, much of that scholarship narrowly defines what writing during that time accomplished, leaving out important writers whose writing does not fit the mold. One such writer is Owen Vincent Dodson (1914-1983), who published Boy at the Window in 1951. The novel uses modes of drama including song and call-and-response to invite reader sympathy and identification with characters, and eventually provides reader the opportunity to participate in creating meaning. Dodson's novel subtly combats racism …
From Plato To Ipads: Dialogical Opportunities In Twenty-First Century Secondary English Classrooms, Emily Ensign
From Plato To Ipads: Dialogical Opportunities In Twenty-First Century Secondary English Classrooms, Emily Ensign
Theses and Dissertations
Technology offers students and educators an uncharted digital landscape of possibilities. Some educators feel strongly that technology enhances the classroom; others feel that it doesn't necessarily improve traditional teaching methods, and some even feel that it is detrimental to students' ability to focus or engage in face-to-face conversations. My project focuses on critical dialogue as defined by various theorists, and explores whether or not secondary English classrooms that use iPads continue to use the dialogical methods as outlined by these theorists (most of which could not have foreseen today's technological advancements). By relying on these theorists and scholars to provide …
Nailing Down Truths: Evental Historiography In Fors Clavigera, Sari Lynn Carter
Nailing Down Truths: Evental Historiography In Fors Clavigera, Sari Lynn Carter
Theses and Dissertations
The theoretical framework of this study is intended to explore the potential Alain Badiou's theory of event, truth, and faithful subject may provide for understanding literature. This study applies this framework to John Ruskin's late and lesser-known work Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain (1871-1884). Both Ruskin's fragmented style in Fors Clavigera and his notion of historical truth developed therein have been read as madness and as reactionary romanticism. I examine key metanarrative moments in Fors Clavigera where Ruskin reflects on his historiographical choices and methods. Through my analysis, I show how Badiou's theory provides …
Discovering Quotidian Kiev In Three Social Classes, Danielle Leavitt, Dr. Patrick Madden
Discovering Quotidian Kiev In Three Social Classes, Danielle Leavitt, Dr. Patrick Madden
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Because anti-Soviet sentiments dominated the western stage for roughly the past century, very little literature exists in regards to post-Soviet daily life in former Soviet countries and cities. Specifically interesting are the socio-economic differences that emerged in former Soviet communities following the fall of the Soviet Union.
The Merchant Of Venice And The Tempest: Singapore Presentation, Andrew Wiggins, Dr. Brandie Siegfried
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
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 …
The Video Essay: Introducing An Increasingly Relevant Sub-Genre, Jacob Cutler, Dr. Patrick Madden
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: