David Blood, Economics Introduction The Civil War has often been described as a “rich man’s war-poor man’s fight,” suggesting that the war was waged with disproportionate human losses to the lower class. The losses suffered by the nation were huge, but the charge that such losses were disproportionately born by the poor or the immigrants […]
THE NEW LANGUAGE POLICY IN SOUTH AFRICA: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS AND IMPLICATION FOR THE BANTU LANGUAGES
Richard Cameron Blake, English In April, 1994, the first all-race presidential and parliamentary elections were held In South Africa after several years of multi-party constitutional negotiations. J’ielson Mandela, a political-prisoner-turned-president, was given the charge to uphold the new constitution, one In which all South Africans are regarded equally, regardless of race. Part of that constitution […]
ANCIENT “GENE-OLOGY” LEADS TO IMPROVEMENTS IN ANCIENT DNA EX· TRACTION METHODS AND PCR AMPLICATION TECHNIQUES
Blake C. Ballif, Microbiology Introduction During the past decade, the development of ancient DNA research has left modern science seemingly on the verge of breaching the barrier between the world we live in and the ancient past. Archaeologists, anthropologists, and molecular biologists alike have become increasingly more aware of the understanding that can be gleaned […]
THE ENGINEERING PROCESS: EVOLUTION IN DESIGN
Michael Andrus, Department of Mechanical Engineering Introduction My intent in applying for the grant from the BYU Office of Research and Creative Activities was to obtain financial help to design and build a jogging stroller that could easily convert to a bicycle trailer. Currently, there are a variety of bicycle trailers and jogging strollers on […]
RELIGIOSITY AS A MODERATING FACTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE BIAS
Cory Anderson and Erin G. Longaker, Psychology Introduction Correspondence bias, also known as the fundamental attribution error, is the tendency for an observer to overestimate an actor’s personal responsibility for behavior and underestimate situational influences. In other words, a perceiver is generally biased to infer that behavior corresponds to an underlying personal disposition of an […]
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