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The Gender Roles Of Rural Mexican Women, Caroline Victoria Raynor, Dr. Doug Weatherford
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.
Integration Of The Life And Works Of “O Aleijadinho” Into Brazilian Culture Courses, Ryan T. Miller, Dr. Willis Fails
Integration Of The Life And Works Of “O Aleijadinho” Into Brazilian Culture Courses, Ryan T. Miller, Dr. Willis Fails
Journal of Undergraduate Research
More commonly known as O Aleijadinho, Portuguese for “Little Cripple,” Antônio Francisco Lisboa is remembered as Brazil’s greatest artist of the colonial period. Born in 1730 to the son of a Portuguese craftsman and a black slave, Aleijadinho developed a degenerative condition—probably leprosy—that left him without the use of his hands. Aleijadinho’s suffering found a creative outlet in his work as a sculptor and architect. With a hammer and a chisel tucked under his arms, Aleijadinho designed churches and created highly expressive soapstone sculptures.
The Portuguese Presence In Early Cartographical Toponymics Of The United States, Jason Y. Moyes, Dr. Christopher C. Lund
The Portuguese Presence In Early Cartographical Toponymics Of The United States, Jason Y. Moyes, Dr. Christopher C. Lund
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Although many individuals of varying nationalities are responsible for the eventual exploration and mapping of what is now the United States, it was the Portuguese who played the primary role in the discovery of the New World during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Portugueseborn and sponsored navigators were the first not only to explore the waters off the northeast coast of North America, but also the first to chart a route around the southern tip of South America, and eventually explore the coast of what is now California.
Health Awareness In Mozambique: Prevailing Misconceptions Of Malaria, Aids, And Cholera, Kendall Burr, Dr. Willis Fails
Health Awareness In Mozambique: Prevailing Misconceptions Of Malaria, Aids, And Cholera, Kendall Burr, Dr. Willis Fails
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Mozambicans only partially understand the nature of malaria, AIDS, and cholera, and I attempted to identify the major misconceptions they have regarding these three diseases. Their perceptions of how they are contracted, avoided, and treated are critically important to health awareness educators in the growing effort to combat these diseases. I found as my project progressed that my hypothesis—that there are several major misconceptions prevalent in Mozambique about these sicknesses—was not as significant a factor as a general ignorance and complete lack of understanding. The problem is not that they have incorrect perceptions of how to avoid and identify these …
Perspectives On The Interdisciplinary Cultural Study Of Comics And Comic Books: An Apology For Superheroes, Eric J. Ehlers, Dr. Dale Pratt
Perspectives On The Interdisciplinary Cultural Study Of Comics And Comic Books: An Apology For Superheroes, Eric J. Ehlers, Dr. Dale Pratt
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Comic books are burdened with a poor public image, both within and without academic circles. Altering this perception has seemed a Herculean task, and taking on this chore has demonstrated quite a few errors in my thinking on the subject.
The Early Poetry Of Pablo Neruda: A Study Of Temuco As An Inspirational Source, James Krause, Dr. Ted Lyon
The Early Poetry Of Pablo Neruda: A Study Of Temuco As An Inspirational Source, James Krause, Dr. Ted Lyon
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, whose pseudonym was to be Pablo Neruda, was born in the small Chilean town, Parral. His mother died two months after she gave birth to her son and two years later, Neruda’s father moved his small family to Temuco. After the Chilean military defeated the local Mapuche Indians, Temuco and the entire Araucano region was opened to settlers. With the extension of the railroad, Temuco soon became a bustling pioneer town. Many historians and literary experts have compared early 20th century Temuco to Frontier Oregon. Although Temuco was considered to be the “Far West” of Chile …
An Evaluative Study Of The Returned Missionary Class At Brigham Young University, Arwen Tanis Wyatt
An Evaluative Study Of The Returned Missionary Class At Brigham Young University, Arwen Tanis Wyatt
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis reports on an evaluative study of the first 300-level Spanish class at Brigham Young University. The information gathered describes the history of the class and changes in curriculum and goals over the years. It also describes students who have taken the class: native Spanish speakers, heritage speakers, returned missionaries, students from lower-levels, students with a background in another Romance language, and presents information as to how well the class has met the needs of each group of students, as well as suggestions to better meet student needs. Results indicate that there is a general satisfaction with the first …
Nísia Floresta: Setting A Foundation For Feminist Literature In Brazil, Rachel Davidson Skinner
Nísia Floresta: Setting A Foundation For Feminist Literature In Brazil, Rachel Davidson Skinner
Theses and Dissertations
Many historians and literary critics recognize the nineteenth-century Brazilian author, Nísia Floresta, as the first feminist in Brazil. "Nísia Floresta é considerada a precursora dos ideais feministas no Brasil. Desde o início de sua carreira literária, a defesa dos direitos femininos foi o tema mais recorrente em sua obra"(Castro 250). Her works, published in Brazil and also in France and Italy, influenced women across borders. This thesis will address the discourse on maternity and education found in her works Opúsculo humanitário, Direitos das mulheres e injustiças dos homens, A mulher, and Conselhos à minha filha. Focusing on gender equality and …
Translation And Transcription Of A Passage From The Baduem Manuscript: An Eighteenth-Century Portuguese Embassy To China, Annalyn Beus
Translation And Transcription Of A Passage From The Baduem Manuscript: An Eighteenth-Century Portuguese Embassy To China, Annalyn Beus
Theses and Dissertations
This project is a diplomatic transcription and English translation of a passage from an 18-century manuscript that chronicles a remarkable Portuguese embassy to China (Macau). The embassy embarked from Lisbon in February 1752, sailing in a luxuriously outfitted ship (Nossa Senhora da Conceição e Lusitânia Grande), in convoy with a warship (Nossa Senhora das Brotas). The English translation is important because it makes the account accessible to scholars who lack familiarity with Portuguese.This voyage to China is remarkable in light of the long history of maritime loss by the Portuguese. Although the normal projected loss of life on this route …
Appropriating Juan Rulfo: The Film Score Of Los Confines As Adaptation, Catherine Mary Day
Appropriating Juan Rulfo: The Film Score Of Los Confines As Adaptation, Catherine Mary Day
Theses and Dissertations
Mitl Valdez's film Los confines (1987) is an adaptation of several works of fiction by the Mexican author Juan Rulfo. The director chose to adapt two short stories ("Talpa" and "¡Diles que no me maten!") and an episode from the author's first novel, Pedro Páramo. Valdez's intent was to "capturar el sentido" of the Jaliscan author or, in other words, to remain faithful to certain elements of his writing while adjusting them to the filmic medium. The musical score of Los confines is the method of appropriation that this study endeavors to investigate, since it shares common themes, metaphors, and …
Algumas Teorias Da Tradução E Suas Implicações Na Tradução Do Conto "Mammon And The Archer" De O. Henry, Simone S. G. C. Fails
Algumas Teorias Da Tradução E Suas Implicações Na Tradução Do Conto "Mammon And The Archer" De O. Henry, Simone S. G. C. Fails
Theses and Dissertations
This paper contains an overview of some of the main 20th Century tendencies in translation theory. It focus especially on matters of equivalence, dynamic equivalence, formal equivalence, skopos, abusive fidelity and foreignizing translation or resistant translation and their implications for actual translations. This paper also includes translations prepared according to the principles of abusive fidelity, equivalence and dynamic equivalence, which are compared and commented.
Documenting Tensions In Communities: Three Films By Eduardo Coutinho, Ryan James Norris
Documenting Tensions In Communities: Three Films By Eduardo Coutinho, Ryan James Norris
Theses and Dissertations
This project analyzes three documentaries that explore the inherent tensions and difficulties in building a sense of community in three different settings in Rio de Janeiro. The documentaries Boca de Lixo (1993), Santo forte (1999), and Edifício Master (2002) by Eduardo Coutinho present an in-depth look at the tensions inherent in developing communal identity based on vocation in Boca de Lixo, religion in Santo forte, and location in Edifício Master. Through these documentaries, Eduardo Coutinho presents the difficulties faced by different groups of people in Brazil as they explore the development of a sense of community. Boca de Lixo endeavors …
The Effects Of Frequency On Dual-Route Versus Single-Route Processing Of Morphologically Complex Terms: A Usage-Based Experiment, Guinevere J. Deaver
The Effects Of Frequency On Dual-Route Versus Single-Route Processing Of Morphologically Complex Terms: A Usage-Based Experiment, Guinevere J. Deaver
Theses and Dissertations
With the availability of frequency dictionaries, such as Alameda and Cuetos (1995) or the Corpus del Español (2002), it is now possible to explore the effects of frequency on linguistic items. The following is a study exploring the effects of frequency on Spanish affixed words. While the debate of dual-route versus single-route processing continues, the results of this study suggest that L2 Spanish speakers use a dual-route model and decompose morphologically complex words when the base frequency is higher than the surface frequency. L2 Spanish speakers perceive derived words with a higher base frequency as more complex than derived words …
Anglicisms In Buenos Aires Spanish, C. Cecilia Tocaimaza-Hatch, Dr. Robert Smead
Anglicisms In Buenos Aires Spanish, C. Cecilia Tocaimaza-Hatch, Dr. Robert Smead
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Buenos Aires, the capital city of Argentina, has distinguished itself from the rest of the Argentine cities by being the site of foreign influences throughout its history as an immigrants’ city. In particular, the presence of an English influence in Buenos Aires is well established, but has been historically a strictly British English influence due to immigration from Great Britain and subsequent economic and political involvement taking place in the 19th century. For that reason, anglicisms in Argentine Spanish have in the past been mostly remnants of British influence.
The Sacred Life Of Don Quixote, Jonathan William Wade, Dr. Dale Pratt
The Sacred Life Of Don Quixote, Jonathan William Wade, Dr. Dale Pratt
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Nearly four hundred years after the publication of the first part, I assumed the daunting task of writing about Don Quixote de la Mancha. With literally thousands of publications related to Cervantes’s masterpiece, I knew that writing an honors thesis about Don Quixote would be challenging. However, I felt that I had something valuable to contribute to this eternal literary discussion. When I first read the novel the quixotic spirit fascinated me. There was something about Don Quixote’s commitment to knight errantry that resonated with my own commitments in life. Beyond the obvious madness of our knight, there was an …
Beginners Welsh Language Program, Emily Stout, Dr. Ronald Dennis
Beginners Welsh Language Program, Emily Stout, Dr. Ronald Dennis
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The purpose of my project was to help create a website which could aid people in learning the Welsh language. Language resources for Welsh are difficult to find in most places, and generally restricted to a book and tape set. These sets have some positive effect, but learning the language would be facilitated by the use of videos. My initial role in the project was to videotape fluent Welsh speakers, mostly native speakers, speaking in Welsh. In order to do this, I traveled to Wales and enrolled in an eight-week intensive Welsh course in Lampeter, in South Wales. This was …
Paraguayan Bilingualism: A Case Study Of Phonological Adaptation, Curtis W. Snyder, Dr. Willis Fails
Paraguayan Bilingualism: A Case Study Of Phonological Adaptation, Curtis W. Snyder, Dr. Willis Fails
Journal of Undergraduate Research
With the Paraguayan constitution of 1992, Guaraní gained a particularly interesting status as it became recognized by the government as the “national” language of Paraguay with Spanish being the “official” language. Although not all people in Paraguay speak Guaraní, the overwhelming majority do. Figure one illustrates the percentages of people that belong to the different linguistic communities of Paraguay. If we add the Bilingual Spanish and the Monolingual Guaraní sections we see that 92% of Paraguayans can speak Guaraní, either as a native or second language. The percentage of the total population included in this group is astonishing and definitely …
A Translation Of El Muerto Dissimulado By Angela De Azevedo, Jessie L. Christensen, Dr. Valerie Hegstrom
A Translation Of El Muerto Dissimulado By Angela De Azevedo, Jessie L. Christensen, Dr. Valerie Hegstrom
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spain have come to be known as the “Golden Age”, due to the incredible flowering of art and literature that took place during that time. Among the greatest accomplishments of the era was prolific growth in both the writing and performance of plays. The works of such playwrights as Calderón de la Barca, Tirso de Molina, and Lope de Vega are already well-known and have been translated into English numerous times. However, many other authors have been forgotten during the last three hundred years. One such author is Angela de Azevedo, a woman whose …
The Taíno Influence On Modern Dominican Art, Brittany H. Hyatt, Dr. Douglas J. Weatherford
The Taíno Influence On Modern Dominican Art, Brittany H. Hyatt, Dr. Douglas J. Weatherford
Journal of Undergraduate Research
At the time of the arrival of Columbus in 1492, the indigenous Taíno civilization pervaded the island of Hispaniola (now home to Haiti and the Dominican Republic). However, as a result of disease and persecution, the Taíno population would all but disappear within fifty years. The annihilation was so complete, in fact, that the conquering Spaniards had to import African slaves to compensate for the loss of labor. Despite the limited influence of the Taínos in the modern Dominican’s life and ancestry, aspects of this once flourishing culture continue to appear in Dominican art.
Language Policy And Language Planning In Post-Colonial Mozambique, James Dewey, Dr. Willis C. Fails
Language Policy And Language Planning In Post-Colonial Mozambique, James Dewey, Dr. Willis C. Fails
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Mozambique, located on the southeast African coast, gained its independence from Portugal in 1975. Since that time, the Mozambican government has faced numerous problems such as a sixteen-year civil war, famines, flooding, and extreme poverty. In addition, the government faces unique linguistic challenges including how to unite and educate a nation that speaks at least twenty different African languages (Firmino 336). Through my research I wanted to gain a more complete understanding of Mozambique’s socio-linguistic history since its independence, with a special focus on the country’s official laws regarding language.
Garcia Da Orta’S Colloquies On The Simples And Drugs Of India, Nicholas Hundley, Dr. Christopher Lund
Garcia Da Orta’S Colloquies On The Simples And Drugs Of India, Nicholas Hundley, Dr. Christopher Lund
Journal of Undergraduate Research
In 1562, the Portuguese physician Garcia da Orta published a book called Colloquies on the simples and drugs and medicinal things of India. Having lived in Goa many years and observed the medicinal uses of various plants and healing strategies of the Indians and Arabs, as well as having heard of healing strategies in more distant lands such as China and Java, Orta felt a special need to share his knowledge with the Western world. Written as an interview of the physician conducted by an imaginary character, Orta’s work sets forth the names, occurrences, and uses of many of the …
The Marvelous American Reality: Making A Case For Carpentier’S Magical Realism In Latin American Music, Erika Edwards, Dr. Arden Hopkin, Dr. George Handley
The Marvelous American Reality: Making A Case For Carpentier’S Magical Realism In Latin American Music, Erika Edwards, Dr. Arden Hopkin, Dr. George Handley
Journal of Undergraduate Research
In 1949 the Nobel Prize-winning Cuban novelist and musicologist, Alejo Carpentier, published his essay on lo real maravilloso Americano, an aggressively American discussion of the theory now known as magical realism. Carpentier refers to the German art critic Franz Roh (who initially coined the term in reference to post-expressionist painting in 1925), but diverges and defends magical realism as a uniquely Latin American phenomenon. While the world has latched onto Magical Realism as a critical literary theory, it is undeniably the Latin American authors and artists who have embraced, embodied and defined the practice of it. Carpentier asserts that the …
Seven Days: A Latin American Historical Novel, David Wiseman, Dr. Douglas J. Weatherford
Seven Days: A Latin American Historical Novel, David Wiseman, Dr. Douglas J. Weatherford
Journal of Undergraduate Research
As often is the case in creative writing, the direction of this project deviated slightly from its initial aims. The results, however, surpass in significance the expected outcome of the project’s early development. In order to insure proposed results, this project required extensive research and preparation prior to its production. As stated in its original proposal, under the direction of Dr. Sally Taylor I completed initial draft work on the novel Seven Days while enrolled in English 419R (Creative Writing Project). During the outlining and drafting processes I researched theories regarding creative writing itself, and likewise read several novels paralleling …
The Fate Of Condemned 18th Century Portuguese Loanwords, Aaron Eggleston, Dr. Christopher Lund
The Fate Of Condemned 18th Century Portuguese Loanwords, Aaron Eggleston, Dr. Christopher Lund
Journal of Undergraduate Research
In 1760 a book was published in Lisbon, Portugal entitled Infermidades da lingua, e arte que a ensina a emmudecer para melhorar (Sicknesses of the tongue, and the art that teaches it to be silent for improvement), in which the use of certain words and phrases in the Portuguese language was strongly denounced. In the title of the work in question and throughout the text, the author describes his vast inventory of words and other expressions as “sicknesses” to the Portuguese language that need to be removed. The author’s prescriptive linguistic view is quite interesting and has been in demand …
Nombres Propios De Persona En La República Dominicana, Orlando Alba
Nombres Propios De Persona En La República Dominicana, Orlando Alba
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The Roles Of Tone And Intensity In The Perception Of Spanish Intonation Patterns, Angela Weech, Dr. J. Halvor Clegg
The Roles Of Tone And Intensity In The Perception Of Spanish Intonation Patterns, Angela Weech, Dr. J. Halvor Clegg
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Even among linguists, there exists some disagreement as to the contribution that various acoustic parameters make or don’t make to the perception of Spanish intonation patterns. The three parameters commonly in question are tone, intensity, and duration. While it is common to only include tone in the definition of intonation, this project adopts the idea that “the multitude of functions intonation actually has in communication requires more than just pitch variation for its fulfilment.” I designed this project to focus on the parameters of tone and intensity in order to test the hypothesis that the perception of intonation patterns in …
Understanding Mood Selection For Nominal Clauses Headed By El Hecho De Que In Spanish, George P. Myers, Dr. Jeffrey S. Turley
Understanding Mood Selection For Nominal Clauses Headed By El Hecho De Que In Spanish, George P. Myers, Dr. Jeffrey S. Turley
Journal of Undergraduate Research
In A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, David Crystal semantically defines the mood of a verb as the “attitudes on the part of a speaker towards the factual content of the utterance, e.g. uncertainty, definiteness, vagueness, possibility.”1 While Crystal’s definition may give the mood of a verb an orderly appearance, more than one grammarian has appropriately compared understanding the factors leading up to mood selection to untangling a large ball of knotted string. With considerable credibility, most grammarians claim to have organized much of the tangle; however, few can explain how to separate the subjunctive mood from the indicative …
A Computer Analysis Of Three Novels By Galdós, Erik Lewis, Dr. Dale J. Pratt
A Computer Analysis Of Three Novels By Galdós, Erik Lewis, Dr. Dale J. Pratt
Journal of Undergraduate Research
This report is designed to chronicle my experiences while performing my research and to explain the subsequent conclusions that I have made. In its inception, this project was to cover three novels by Benito Pérez Galdós, Spain’s most prolific author. However, after consulting with Dr. Pratt, we thought it favorable to enlarge the electronic database to seven novels.
An Interlinguistic Theory Of Jazz, Barthes And 20th Century Spanish Literature, Jeff Gabbitas, Dr. Dale Pratt
An Interlinguistic Theory Of Jazz, Barthes And 20th Century Spanish Literature, Jeff Gabbitas, Dr. Dale Pratt
Journal of Undergraduate Research
Through this grant I have been given the opportunity to explore a common thread that ties jazz and 20th century Spanish literature together. I put a large amount of time and thought into this interlinguistic theory by studying different Spanish literary works and comparing the content and processes to some of the jazz pieces I performed while participating in the vocal jazz ensemble at Brigham Young University, and by studying other jazz works.
Spanish Learning And Its Influence On English Vocabulary, Solana Messerly, Dr. Jeffrey Turley
Spanish Learning And Its Influence On English Vocabulary, Solana Messerly, Dr. Jeffrey Turley
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The Spanish and English languages share many cognates because Latin greatly influenced both of them. Spanish is a neo-Latin language; although English is a Germanic language, many of its words have Latin origins. As a result, there are thousands of Latinate words in both languages, but their use is much less frequent in English than in Spanish. English Latinate words are so uncommon that speakers unconsciously use them to sound more intelligent and elegant. English Latinate words tend to have Spanish cognates. It is fascinating that although these cognates share the same meaning, they share neither the same frequency nor …