Characters with Disabilities in Newbery Books: Analysis and Trends

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Kellie Egan and Tina Dyches, Teacher Education Children’s literature is an important tool that can be used to learn and grow in socially diverse environments. Realistic portrayals of characters with disabilities have the potential to promote acceptance and understanding of students with disabilities. 1Other studies have shown that the number of children’s books portraying characters […]

THE GREATDIVORCE: AN EXPERIENCE TOGETHER — HOW RELATIONSHIPS IN A COMPANY AFFECT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ACTORS AND AUDIENCE IN PERFORMANCE

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Isaac Walter and Professor Rodger Sorensen, Theatre & Film Both Peter Brook1 and Jerzy Grotowski,2 two of the most important theatre directors and theoreticians of this century, have stated that the basis for all theatre is the actor/audience relationship. It is what makes theatre a unique art form. Without this relationship you may have another […]

POLICE AND COMMUNITY TEAMWORK SURVEY: CRIME VICTIMIZATION QUESTIONS

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Scott Zogg and Dr. Kay Smith, Psychology With the help of the BYU ORCA scholarship provided, professors in the Psychology, Statistics, and Sociology departments, and the use of a 13 console CATI-system tele-lab on campus, behavioral science and statistics students completed a representative survey of Provo adults for the Provo Police Department. The survey, which […]

GENERATION AND FORMAL ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMIC FRACTALS IN HYPERSPACES

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Minglei Xu and Dr. Robert P. Burton, Computer Science n-D fractals, where n> 4, have long been under scrutiny for their mathematical properties and artistic values. Multi-dimensional space filling curves, for instance, are a focus for contemporary topologists. Notable works in this area include the uses of quaternions, commutative hyper-complex calculus, and, most recently, doubling […]

UPDATING THOMPSON ON REAL PROPERTY, THOMAS EDITION

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Justin Wright and Dr. David Thomas, Accounting & Information Systems Thompson on Real Property, Thomas Edition is a comprehensive commentary on real property law. Each year, Dr. Thomas, Editor-In-Chief, produces a supplement to each volume of the treatise; the supplement updates both text and footnotes to the original volume and to the prior year supplement. […]

SUMMARY OF CREATIVE RESEARCH GRANT RESULTS AND ARTISTIC STATEMENT OF “DANCE: EXPRESSIONS OF LIFE”

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Natalie Rhodes Wilson and Professor Pat Debenham, Dance Over the course of this year my creative project entitled, “Dance: Expressions of Life,” has evolved from portraying a tragic accident in my life to encompassing a lifetime of internal growth that includes more than the accident itself. The concluding stages of the work are still in […]

A TAXONOMY OF DETERMINISM

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Brant Williams and Dr. Brent D. Slife, Psychology In psychology, there has been a great deal of debate about the issue of determinism. Many psychologists argue that we are determined by our genetics and our environment. However, there are many psychologists who strongly disagree with this idea. This debate has continued for many years without […]

SUMMARY OF SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF JAPAN’S RELIGIOUS REBIRTH

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Gregory Wilkinson and Dr. Don Sull Choi, Religion The research conducted for this research grant was motivated by one incident. Mainly, the Tokyo subway bombing of March, 1995 conducted by the religious sect Aum Shinrikyo.1 This religious event was such an anomaly in Japan’s usually tranquil situation. The research hypothesis delved into what social causes […]