Journal of Undergraduate Research

Benjamin E. Mizukawa and Dr. Leslie Williams, Asian and Near Eastern Languages My original proposal suggested alternative medical institutions appearing in response to Japan’s swelling elderly population provide a desirable option to both the elderly and their families in a society where multi-generation households are common yet strained. Rather than being a repository for useless […]

Jeremy Leland Palmer and Dr. Dil Parkinson, Asian and Near Eastern Languages Introduction In Arabic there is a fundamental schism between the formal standard language and the scores of dialects spoken throughout Middle Eastern countries. Nearly all newspapers, magazines and television programs throughout the Middle East exclusively utilize the formal standard language. In contrast, the […]

Richard Torgerson and Dr. David Honey, Asian and Near Eastern Languages Tian, commonly translated as Heaven, was the core of religious and political ideology during the beginning of the Zhou dynasty.i The Zhou dynasty (1027- 221 BC) was a period started and shaped by a belief in Tian, Tianming (the right to rule bestowed by […]

Laura R Ostler and Dr. James A Toronto, Asian and Near Eastern Languages Even before September 11, 2001 exploded the region onto global consciousness, the Middle East had a special fascination for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Church doctrine ties modern Saints with ancient Israel. The “gathering of Israel” is […]

Sarah McDonald and Dr. James Toronto, Near Eastern Studies The attacks of September 11th were designed to strike fear into the hearts of Americans, but the terrorists did not take into account the fact that the blanket term “Americans” includes many of Middle Eastern descent. The aftermath of the hijackings found Muslims, Sikhs, and others […]

Daniel Hick and Dr. Masakazu Watanabe, Asian and Near Eastern Languages The plight of the non-native missionary in Japan is adverse due to the extreme communication barriers that are encountered in every day life. Japanese is vastly different from Western languages. In the MTC missionaries receive sufficient training in the spoken language but are taught […]

Jennifer Eschler and Dr. R. Kirk Belnap, Asian and Near Eastern Languages While Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is used for schooling and for writing in the Arab world, it is not the oral means of communication. Several dialects of Arabic exist. Each of these is related to Modern Standard Arabic, but vocabulary and some basic […]

Mindy J. Anderson and Dr. Donald W. Parry, Asian and Near Eastern Languages The aim of this research is to show where the Book of Mormon Isaiah texts and the Isaiah Scroll complete parallelisms in the King James translation of Isaiah. The following represents a summary of my findings. Discovered in 1947, the Great Isaiah […]

J Michael Isom and Dr. Gary Williams, Asian and Near Eastern Languages Prior to the European Renaissance, China continually led the world in virtually every conceivable field of thought and technology. Although they have temporarily fallen behind most of the industrialized world due to the lingering effects of several poor political and economic policies from […]

Joshua Gubler, Steven Robertson and Dr. Kirk Belnap, Asian and Near Eastern Languages The “proficiency movement” of recent years has significantly changed the way Arabic is taught in the United States. No longer can teachers focus solely on reading and grammar in the classroom. They must additionally divide already limited class time between teaching listening […]