Joseph A. Willard and Dr. Paul J. Baltes, English 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 […]
Expanding Visual Resources: British Monuments for Humanities Courses
Natalie Thompson and Dr. Jane Gardner Hinckley, Humanities Humanities professors face the difficulty of finding the visual resources necessary for specialized courses. Professors may not be able to find slides of specific monuments in university slide libraries or even reproductions of the monuments in texts. Yet in order to teach about these monuments effectively, the […]
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT AND DOCTRINAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF JOSEPH SMITH’S REVISION OF THE BIBLE WITH GERMAN TRANSLATION OF KEY REVISED PASSAGES [in German]
David Charles and Dr. David Seely, Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature The aim of this project was to produce, in German, a substantial piece of writing on the Joseph Smith Translation for the benefit of LDS and non-LDS interested in the JST. To date, there is virtually no literature available on the JST in German, […]
Teaching French Literacy in West Africa as Part of a BYU Study Abroad Program
Charles Thomas Sones and Dr. Chantel P. Thompson, French and Italian Before arriving in Africa, our contact had arranged for us to work in a village outside of Saint-Louis, Senegal, within walking distance of where we would be studying. We were told that a group of twenty adults and twenty children were already selected who […]
THOMAS HARDY
Christian Bryner and Professor John Bennion 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 […]
Dialogue as Character Revelation in Wuthering Heights
Jennifer E. Shakespear and Dr. Cynthia L. Hallen, Linguistics In her novel Wuthering Heights, Emily Brönte uses the dialogue of her characters to disclose their inner-most workings. Like real humans, characters in novels share a part of themselves every time they speak. Their personalities, moods, demeanor, affections, dispositions, and affinities are revealed through language. By […]
Mormon Buddhists or Buddhist Mormons?
J. Sawat Selway and Dr. James A. Toronto, Asian and Near Eastern Languages Culture affects every religion. Mexican Catholics are different from Italian Catholics in their liturgy; Iranian Muslims are much stricter than Albanian Muslims in their attitude toward women; and Japanese Buddhists emphasize meditation more than Indian Buddhists. The Church of Jesus Christ of […]
An Examination of the Publication Procedure as it Relates to Students
Rebecca Sederberg and Professors Doris R. Dant and Don E. Norton, English 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 […]
Semantic Class Disambiguation in Natural Language Soar
Anton Rytting and Dr. Deryle Lonsdale, Linguistics Soar1 is a unified theory of human cognition implemented as a computer program. It posits that the interaction of a few fundamental mechanisms can account for any aspect of cognition. The theory’s computer implementation allows the creation of testable computer simulations of various cognitive tasks. Natural-Language Soar (NL-Soar) […]
RENAISSANCE HUMANISM AND THE MOTETS OF JOSQUIN DES PREZ
Jennifer Smith Black and Drs. Joseph Parry, Harrison Powley, Humanities, Classics and Comp. Lit. Renaissance humanism was the central philosophy and ordering principle of the era. It had a profound influence on all the art and philosophy of the time. It is easy to see humanism translated into painting and architecture, but much more difficult […]
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