Emily Allyn and Dr. Chris Porter, Marriage, Family and Human Development Attachment disorder is a common condition in institutionalized children in Romania. Infants and young children in the institutional setting are often unable to develop strong emotional bonds with a caregiver because of caregiver negligence and their failure to consistently respond to the children’s needs. […]
Brazil Field Studies
Janelle Celia Wride and Professor Peter Everett, Visual Arts Often artists are asked to explain their art: How do you make it? Why do you make it? Who is it for? What are you saying? How do you justify it? In other words, artists are asked to take responsibility for their work. My original proposal […]
Building Purpose: Architectural Validation of Sir Lawrence Alma- Tadema’s Spring
Jessica R Weiss and Dr. Heather Belnap-Jensen, Visual Arts Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s 1894 work Spring depicts a typical Mayday festival, in which young girls go out into the country to gather flowers. However, instead of rendering the splendors of Victorian London, he portrays the scene as a traditional Roman festival. Alma Tadema has placed great importance […]
The Evolution of Attitudes towards Doctors as shown in American Art
Karrie K Warnick and Dr. Martha Peacock, Art History The halls of the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, are decorated with portraits of physicians. In fact, many of the portraits were done by now-famous American Artists like Benjamin West, Thomas Sully, and Thomas Eakins. A tour of the hospital would also […]
Unfolding
Christian Vuissa and Professor Stanley Ferguson, Theatre and Media Arts For my last film project at BYU, I wanted to do something special that would help me get started in the film industry. Unfolding is a film that explores the struggle of a young woman. She learns to reconnect with her father who suffers from […]
Measuring a Highly Religious Population: Development of an Empirical Test for Brigham Young University Students
Marin Turley and Dr. Steven R Thomsen, Department of Communications This research charts the development of a reliable scale that can discriminate differences in religiosity in a highly religious population. Approximately 99% of the more than 30,000 students at Brigham Young University are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, presenting a […]
The Turning Tide of Animation
Jamie Titera, Professors Brent Adams (Industrial Design/Animation, School of Technology) and Kelli Loosli (Animation, Visual arts) After researching the topic and after listening to the many voices of experience a few things became readily apparent. Perhaps most important was the perspective of my project. I approached the project with the intent of trying to isolate […]
Unwilling Soldaten: The Story of Slovene Conscripts in Hitler’s Army
Stacey Snider and Professor Thomas Russell, Media Arts “[They said] we were called by the Furer and by God to help defend our home.” So they were told, but of the 90,000 Slovene men, young and old, forced from their provincial homes and into German uniforms at the beginning of WWII, few were convinced. Swayed […]
La Abundancia: The Nivacle People
Seth O Smoot and Professor John Telford, Visual Arts The Nivacle are an indigenous people who live in the sparsely populated, densely vegetated Chaco area in Northern Paraguay. Formerly known as the Chulupi, the Nivacle have lived for thousands of years in the region that lies between Bolivia and Brazil. They primarily lived a hunter/gatherer existence until […]
Compositional Techniques of Toru Takemitsu
Benjamin Sabey and Michael Hicks, Music Theory and Composition My object in researching the music of Japanese composer, Toru Takemitsu with support from the ORCA grant was to distill from it those concrete organizing principles upon which rest a phantasmagoric, spontaneous music that seems to float freely from silence to silence. This was a larger […]
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