Lindsay Larson and Dr. Susan Rugh, History Yale historian Robin Winks writes, “We all know history is, simultaneously, three things: what actually happened, what historians choose to record, and what the people—and people, some people, these people, those people—believe to be true about the past.”1 The study of “what people believe to be true […]
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A Choreographic Medley of Latin American Dances
Divina Teruel Wakefield and Professor Cathy Black, Dance Dance productions often involve several different numbers or dances. A single number in a production is usually created with one selection of music. Everything else such as the style, mood, and theme relate to the music. When a medley or suite of dances are arranged in a […]
Transformation of the Storyteller’s Identity and Role Through the American Storytelling Movement
Rachel Parkinson and Dr. Marsha Broadway, Harold B. Lee Library Juvenile Literature Librarian Twenty-four storytellers and prominent people involved in the American storytelling movement were interviewed to gather information on the following research question: How has the American storytelling movement changed the identity and role of the storyteller? Storytelling seems as definable as the taste […]
The Impact of Latino Folklore on the Future of American Culture
Sally M Giles and Dr. Trenton Hickman, English A wide variety of nationalities have come together in this country to create what we now call American culture. As any culture develops, the folklore that is passed down from one generation to the next, in the form of stories and anecdotes, plays a vital role. Recently, […]
Fa’asamoa And Western Institutions: a Comparative Study Between American Samoa And (Western) Samoa
Henrietta P. Emerson and Dr. Ray C. Christensen, Political Science In most literature on the political systems of American Samoa and (Western) Samoa, the two countries are rarely grouped in the same study despite their shared cultural identity. An unincorporated territory of the United States, American Samoa tends to be classified with other U.S. territories […]
Re-scripting Mexican-Americans in Chicana/o Juvenile Literature
Xóchitl Michaela Anson and Dr. Trenton Hickman, English Previous to this project I gathered information (photographs, newspaper articles and reviews, advertisements, and dime novels) interrogating misconceptions and stereotypes of Mexican- Americans that have dominated the American literary canon for at least the last two centuries. For this project I focused primarily on 20th century Chicana/o texts in […]
The Validation of the Outcome Questionnaire as a Tool of Measurement for Change on the Native American Population in a College Counseling Center
Kärstin L Slade, Elizabeth Richardson and Dr. Michael J Lambert, Psychology In recent years there has been an increasing demand for psychotherapy outcome measures, which can be attributed mainly to the changing health care industry. This, in turn, affects the subsequent demands by corporate purchasers, those in the insurance industry, and government agencies, for evidence […]
The Evolution of Attitudes towards Doctors as shown in American Art
Karrie K Warnick and Dr. Martha Peacock, Art History The halls of the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, are decorated with portraits of physicians. In fact, many of the portraits were done by now-famous American Artists like Benjamin West, Thomas Sully, and Thomas Eakins. A tour of the hospital would also […]
Fighting Cross-Cultural Battles: The Chinese-American Assimilation Experience
Karin Mei Li Inouye and Dr. David B. Honey, Asian and Near Eastern Studies The immigrant experience for overseas Chinese during the early 1900’s involved extreme adjustments to a new land, new communities, new occupations, new cultural standards, new language, and new livelihoods. The political background and social conditions left behind in China, as met […]
The Influence of Dorothea Lange on American Culture
Heather Heyman and Dr. Allen J. Christenson, Humanities When America experienced the Great Depression during the 1930’s, a large number of people struggled to survive each day. Countless men and women were unemployed, and therefore, had no means of providing for their families. The migrant workers of the west were hit the hardest, and their […]
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