Searching for Julia Jacquette

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Natalie Thompson Nielson and Dr. Michael Phillips, Humanities I applied for the ORCA grant hoping to learn more about the contemporary artist Julia Jacquette. I had first discovered her work on the website for New York’s Museum of Modern Art, which was showing a few representative works from artists currently on display. Her work caught […]

Employment and Education Surveys with the African members of the LDS Church in Paris

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Rachel Newton and Dr. Michael Bush, French and Italian Department As the world becomes more and more international, residents of third-world countries are immigrating en masse to more developed countries, where they see a promise of a better life — a higher standard of living and acceptance into the world community, from which they feel […]

Finding Poland in Stanis³aw Wyspianski’s Wesele

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Nicholas G. Newton and Professor Walter Whipple, Germanic and Slavic Languages Towards the end of Stanis³aw Wyspianski’s Wesele (The Wedding), “the Poet”, speaking to the newly married bride describes Poland as something that you can only find in your heart. “A to Polska w³asnie”. The turn of the 19th century in Poland, when this wedding […]

Integration of the Life and Works of “O Aleijadinho” into Brazilian Culture Courses

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Ryan T. Miller and Dr. Willis Fails, Spanish and Portuguese 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 […]

Messianic History: Reading the Lectures on Faith

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Adam Scott Miller and Dr. Ed Cutler, English Writing history is about producing meaningful constellations of past and present events. The task of the historian is to survey the past in search of neglected texts and images that align with and illuminate the needs of the present era. For Mormonism, the Lectures on Faith are […]

Implementing Videos and DVDs in Teaching Foreign Language Classes: A Need for a Strategy

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Loredana Comparone Martin and Dr. Michael D. Bush, French and Italian Teaching authentic language in context has a vital role in foreign language instruction. Especially at an intermediate level, students need to be exposed to something other than simulated authentic discourse, defined by Geddes and White (1978) as “language produced with a pedagogical purpose.” (cited […]

Implementing Videos and DVDs in Teaching Foreign Language Classes: A Need for a Strategy

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Loredana Comparone Martin and Dr. Michael D. Bush, French and Italian Teaching authentic language in context has a vital role in foreign language instruction. Especially at an intermediate level, students need to be exposed to something other than simulated authentic discourse, defined by Geddes and White (1978) as “language produced with a pedagogical purpose.” (cited […]