Benjamin Jones and Dr. Mark Grover, Harold B. Lee Library 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. […]
Legal Perspectives on Magic in Ancient Roman, Greek, and Jewish Laws
Brock Mason and John Welch, JD, Law School For my research project, I continued working with John W. Welch of the BYU Law School, investigating how Roman, Greek, and Jewish law accounted for magic. As part of my research, I traveled through Turkey and Greece searching for sources during the summer of 2012. During my […]
The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest: Singapore Presentation
Andrew Wiggins and Dr. Brandie Siegfried, Department of English 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 […]
Russian Demographics
Mack Whitehead and Dr. Tony Brown, Department of Humanities The goal of the project was to establish correlation between a Russian person’s demographics, their emotional views and reactions regarding nuclear threats in 1999 and 2012. Research will include the interrupting of the data that is already present, and research will include looking into the political […]
Sophie Discovers Amerika: A Digital Accompaniment
Alexander Smith and Dr. Michelle James, Department of Germanic and Slavic 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 […]
Russian Attitudes Toward US Foreign Policy: From the Cold War to Today
Kelsey Simons and Dr. Tony Brown, Department of German and Slavic Languages In matters of international politics today, Russia is the wildcard. Its history of power on the international stage, along with an impressive military and large sphere of influence give it a commanding presence, even as it still struggles to find its identity after […]
Using Rhetorical Analysis as a Starting Point for Appellate Level Oral Argument Reform
Jacob Sherman and Dr. Nancy Christiansen, Department of English Introduction 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 […]
Russian Pronunciation Difficulties for Native Speakers of English: Errors and Meaning Alterations
Vitalijs Sadovskis and Dr. Grant Lundberg, Department of German Studies and Slavic Languages The major goal of this research was to determine through both theoretical analysis and practical application which Russian pronunciation difficulties for native English speakers result in a misunderstanding of meaning rather than foreign accent. Therefore, it focused on Russian pronunciation errors which […]
Creating Community While Learning Italian: An Experiment in Communitarian Language Learning
David Sabey and Professor Jennifer Brown, Department of German and Slavic Languages Explanation As a student instructor of an Italian 102 class, I adopted an action-research methodology in hopes to understand more fully how to develop sense of community in a language-learning classroom environment. Thus, my research goal was twofold: 1. I wanted to work […]
Native Speaker Judgments on the Accentedness and Personal Traits of American and Korean L2 Learners of German
Charles Richards and Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Kelling, Department of German and Slavic Languages Everyday listeners make personal judgments about the people with whom they are speaking based on the accent or voice quality of the speaker. Studies have shown that a person’s speech– independent of accent–can influence a listener to make judgments about the speaker’s intelligence, […]
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