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 […]
Voodoo Villains, Zombies, and Black Magic: The Role of Hecate in Orson Welles’ “Voodoo” Macbeth
Rachel Wise and Dr. Nancy Christiansen, English Main Text On 14 April 1936 at the Lafayette Theatre in Harlem, Orson Welles’ adapted Shakespearean play “Voodoo” Macbeth opened. The play was set in nineteenth-century Haiti and cast with only African Americans. This production was the first professional Shakespearean play with an allblack cast performed in the […]
Wordsworth’s Moving Picture: Guide to the Lakes and the Romantic Image
Shannon M. Stimpson and Dr. Nicholas Mason, English Main Text At the beginning of this project, I planned to research female-authored texts from the Romantic era and to explore patterns of consumerism found within them. After a few weeks of researching various pamphlets and printed visual images for this project, I started to wonder whether […]
The Effectiveness of Reading Strategies in a Secondary English Classroom
Whitney Sorensen and Professor Deborah Dean Main Text This study sought to discover and analyze what students do as they read, and whether or not classroom instruction could help them read better. The initial survey, called a “Reading Road Map”, was given to the students to record what they thought and did as they read an […]
Easier for a Camel: The Quasi-Christian Merchants of Venice; A Literary Look at Economic History
Wayne Sandholtz and Dr. Brandie Siegfried, Department of English Introduction In a Shakespeare class during my junior year, I wrote a paper called “Easier for a camel: the quasi-Christian merchants of Venice” which examined the relationships between business virtue and Christian virtue in Shakespeare’s comedy The Merchant of Venice. Even though it was written centuries […]
Teaching Writing For Life: A Look at Persuasive Writing throughout Genre
Cathryn Peers and Professor Deborah Dean, English Writing is a social response; however, many sixteen year olds find that hard to understand. To high school students, writing is the means to an end – get the teacher/parent off your back, get a good grade, finish the project, etc. When I first mentioned the words “Persuasive Essay” […]
George Eliot and Cultural Attitudes Toward Marginal Religious Groups in Mid-Century Victorian England
Calvin Olsen and Dr. Susan Howe, English Main Text Mary Anne Evans, who wrote under the pen name George Eliot, was a novelist in Victorian England. Like other women writers of the time, she used a pseudonym so that her work would be taken seriously. She is most widely recognized for her novels, but she […]
Analysis of Ancient Egyptian Textiles: The Burial Ribbons of Fag al-Gamous
Sophie Lee and Professor Kristin South, Honor’s Department Burials play a particularly important role in understanding ancient cultures because, presumably, they provide insight into the most important objects of a belief system. People bury their dead with objects essential to the afterlife, which means the artifacts from burials may provide crucial information as archaeologists try […]
Ruth: The Power of Personality and the Comedic Promise of Deliverance
Elisabeth German and Dr. Steve Walker, English Main Text For my project, I wrote a chapter for Dr. Walker’s book on humor and the Bible entitled, Man Thinks, God Laughs. The purpose of the book is to teach readers to see the text of the Bible through a helpful (albeit atypical) lens: that of humor. […]
Katy A to Z
Katharine Anderson and Dr. John Bennion Main Text When I set out several months ago to write an honors thesis, I had a pretty clear idea of what I wanted to do. I was going to craft a progression of essays examining myself, beginning with the most basic personal information, and slowly progressing, layer by […]