Melissa J. Clayton and Professor Jerry L. Jaccard, Music The task at hand, at the beginning of my research, was to discover the process of musical thought development in a child. Piaget’s similar research in mathematical thinking started with first discovering the content of children’s thought in mathematics, through clinical observation. Then he analyzed this content. […]
Politics of Successful Development: Women and Panchayats in India
Anne Clayton and Dr. Donna Lee Bowen, Political Science All over the world women tend to suffer disproportionately in terms of poverty and the lack of access to education in comparison to men.1 Extensive development efforts have been put forth throughout the world to eradicate these problems. Some of them have been successful, while many […]
Report of Creative Research Grant Results
Jared Clark and Professor Robert Marshall, Visual Arts The tangible result of this grant-funded research exists in two stages. The first, as proposed, is a series of paintings that will be shown on the walls of Gallery East of the College of Eastern Utah beginning in two days (September 1st) and ending a month later. 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 […]
An Annotated Edition of the Journals of Joseph W. Booth, Mormon Missionary to the Middle East (1889-1928)
David Charles and Dr. James A. Toronto, Church History and Doctrine With the assistance of a 1999 ORCA scholarship, I was able to make significant progress in understanding LDS Church history in the Middle East during the period 1880-1950. My work was divided between four separate but related projects, each of which will receive brief […]
Linguistic Research in the Fijian Language
Jared Chapman and Dr. Dallin Oaks, English Introduction For nearly fifty years, Fiji has been the only major South Pacific LDS mission without its own Missionary Training Center (MTC) language program. For this reason, missionaries have gone without language skills and their ability to do missionary work was limited. Today, the MTC has a fledgling […]
The Mismatch Negativity in the Categorization of Speech Sounds
Emily Chapman and Dr. David McPherson, Audiology and Speech Language Pathology Discussion of Results Our objective in this research was to study the categorization of speech sounds (phonemes) in normal subjects and subjects with disorders of auditory discrimination. The hypothesis we set forward was that there would be an evident difference in the MMN elicited […]
“Highbrow” and “Lowbrow” Art and Its Effect on the Awareness of Society
Katherine Campbell and Professor Joseph Ostraff, Visual Arts The purpose of the research was to determine whether or not the exposure of “highbrow” art placed in “lowbrow” venues would result in an increase of awareness to all exposed. The society was to be exposed to art in a reputable venue, a “highbrow” art gallery in Scottsdale […]
The Huguenot Immigrants to the American Colonies: A Database of French Protestant Records
Michael Call, Jacob Ekins and Professor Byron Merrill, Ancient Scripture French Protestants (also known as Huguenots) came under increasingly severe persecution by the monarchy during the last half of the seventeenth century, culminating in the revocation of all their religious rights in 1689. Condemned as heretics and traitors by the state and yet also forbidden by […]
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