Danelle Marie Jones and Dr. Dana Scott Bourgerie, Asian and Near Eastern Languages The Yangtze River region in China abounds in rich sources of ancient, as well as modern, Chinese history, literature, and culture. The River’s Three Gorges area overflows with some of the world’s most breathtaking scenery and invaluable historic sites. Throughout China’s history, […]
Using Photographic Images to Learn Vocabulary and Culture in a Foreign Language Classroom
Brandy Harman and Professor Chantal Thompson, French and Italian Studies have found that foreign language students have greater success learning vocabulary when there is a visual to accompany the new words and concepts. It is also a good way to incorporate aspects of the target culture into the language lesson. The French department has already collected […]
Prolegomenon to the Intercultural Study of Self: A Lesson in Book-Making
Justin Halverson and Dr. Steven Sondrup, Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature During the week of 4–8 October 1999, the College of Humanities at Brigham Young University in cooperation with the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies hosted a small conference dedicated to comparative concepts of self, especially with regard to the various firstperson narrative […]
Roots of the Spanish Enlightenment: ILUSTRACIÓN and the Fruits of Philip II’s Administrative Policy and Personal Ideology
John Brandon Fowles and Dr. Alvin F. Sherman, Jr., Spanish and Portuguese The Ilustración, or Spanish Enlightenment, followed in the footsteps of the general European Enlightenment but with a decidedly national flare. Enlightened thinkers in Spain, no less interested in neoclassical motifs than their European forerunners, also looked back to periods of Spanish history that […]
Developing Multimedia with Internet Technology While Accommodating Disabled Students: A History of the Civilization CD-ROM
Jeffrey L. Dunster and Professor Paul Thomas, English 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 […]
Multigenre Writing for Teaching Literature at Banneker High School in Washington, D.C.
Merinda Gurney Cutler and Dr. Sirpa T. Grierson, English 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 […]
The Development of a Biblical Hebrew Parser
John D. Crawford and Dr. Deryle Lonsdale, Linguistics The purpose of this project was to produce a phrase-structure grammar for Biblical Hebrew and to determine the best way to apply said grammar in a computerized parser in order to test its durability. Overall I believe this project was a success. Although the parser has only […]
Anthropomorphism at Qumran: An Examination of Qumran’s Pentateuch
Cory Daniel Crawford and Dr. Stephen D. Ricks, Asian and Near Eastern Languages Although the first writings on the banks of the Dead Sea, known as the Dead Sea Scrolls, were first discovered in 1947, not all were made accessible to more than a handful of scholars; indeed, not even the subject matter of the […]
Noun-Adjective Compounds in Old English Poetry
Ryan Christensen and Dr. Don Chapman, English 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 […]
ORCA Scholarship Research Results
Sariah Choucair and Dr. Dilworth Parkinson, Asian and Near Eastern Languages During my time in Beirut I came to know myself. At first this may seem a very bold, unscholarly statement, perhaps better suited to a magazine essay than a scholastic summary. However, I feel that the best research is that which becomes a part […]
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