Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas and Dr. Brandie Siegfried, English When I began my project I intended to conjoin Theodor W. Adorno’s and Györg Lukács’ definitions of the essa—as stated in “The Essay as Form” and “Soul and Form,” respectively—with Susan M. Fitzmaurice’s definition of the epistolary genre to determine if definite essayistic elements found in […]
All That is Global is Not Gold: A Look at The ICC Monitor of the Coalition for an International Criminal Court
Joseph A. Willard and Dr. Paul J. Baltes, English The International Criminal Court (ICC) is a permanent global tribunal designed to bring to justice the individual perpetrators of heinous war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Although there are a number of opinions in circulation regarding the full history behind the ICC, the general consensus […]
THOMAS HARDY
Christian Bryner and Professor John Bennion For Professor Bennion’s Thomas Hardy project, I used my alloted 80 hours to research cultural and geographical information from five different novels: Jude the Obscure, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterville, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, and Under the Greenwood Tree. With each of the novels, I […]
An Examination of the Publication Procedure as it Relates to Students
Rebecca Sederberg and Professors Doris R. Dant and Don E. Norton, English Students at Brigham Young University have a wealth of possible publishing options. These include not only on-campus essay collections and student-run magazines but also the commercial and trade markets of the general public. Our goal was to analyze the publication procedure from the […]
CHARLES BUKOWSKI (1920-1994): RESEARCH AND CRITIQUE OF AN AMERICAN WORKING-CLASS POET
Dana Anderson and Dr. Lance Larsen, English In 1959, an inconspicuous Los Angeles postal worker named Charles Bukowski published his first book of poetry-Flower, Fist, and Bestial Wail in a press run of only 200 copies. Yet, by the time of his death last March he had sold over one and a half million copies […]
CREATIVE RESEARCH RESULTS AND SHORT STORY COLLECTION
Holly A. Abbe and Dr. Susan Howe, Department of English My father, Henry Reed, grew up in a small town in upper state New York where the sleepy hills turn orange and gold in the fall, where a man wearing white brings milk in bottles every morning to each door step, and where the church […]
The Book of Mormon: A Handbook of Hope for the Apocalypse
Nathan Lindsay and Dr. Steven C. Walker, English “Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.” With this line Robert Frost summed up the world’s uncertainty concerning the new Millennium. For thousands of years people have contemplated and philosophized about the end of the world. Apocalyptic literature is the unique genre […]
Developing Multimedia with Internet Technology While Accommodating Disabled Students: A History of the Civilization CD-ROM
Jeffrey L. Dunster and Professor Paul Thomas, English The aim of this project was to assemble a CD-ROM of supplemental media for History of Civilization courses at BYU. The research and development of this project served as my honors capstone project and a full report is now archived at BYU under the same title as this […]
Multigenre Writing for Teaching Literature at Banneker High School in Washington, D.C.
Merinda Gurney Cutler and Dr. Sirpa T. Grierson, English Multigenre writing is a nontraditional style of writing developed by pioneers in education such as Peter Elbow, Tom Romano, and Sirpa T. Grierson. This form of writing is ideal for high school students who view writing, especially research writing, with apathy and boredom. Dr. Grierson’s approach […]
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 […]