Bethany A. Dolman and Dr. Trenton L. Hickman, English Transnationalism is sociology’s relatively new model of national identity that explains and validates a phenomenon that most immigrants from the Dominican Republic to the United States experience: a simultaneous sense of connection to multiple countries, cultures and national identities. I examined Dominican American transnationalism from an […]
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Structure and Dimensions of Maternal Perceptions of Japanese and American Child Temperament
Kenichi Shimokawa and Dr. David Shwalb, Psychology The study of temperament has an important part in furthering our understanding about human development. Although the word “temperament” is defined in various ways by researchers, two leading theorists defined it as “constitutionally based individual differences in emotional, motor, and attentional reactivity and self-regulation” (Rothbart & Bates, 1997, […]
THE CONSUMPTION AND ADOPTION OF A GLAMORIZED VERSION OF AMERICAN “POP CULTURE” VIA THE TELEVISION BY ADOLESCENTS IN UKRAINE
Tyler D. Thompson and Dr. David Hart, Germanic & Slavic Languages The jumping off point for my research was in Kiev, Ukraine, where I had served a two year LDS mission two years previous. As I deplaned in Borispol (15 minutes outside of Kiev) I found myself almost giddy in anticipation of savoring a bowl […]
Memorializing the “Worst Side of Our History” The Creation of the National Japanese American Memorial
Lindsay Larson and Dr. Mary Stovall Richards, History On November 9, 2000, the National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism during World War II was dedicated in Washington, D.C. The dedication followed years of struggle and controversy, culminating in the creation of a nationwide grassroots campaign advocating “a fair and accurate” memorial. Much of the debate […]
Pro-America or Pro-Mexico: The Role of the Spanish-American Press in the Southwest
Kelly K. Wight and Dr. Alf Pratte, Communications During the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), violent movements against the United States of America sprang up throughout all of southern Mexico. A huge surge of Mexican patriotism united most of the Mexican citizens against the United States and its influence on their culture. This sense of Mexican patriotism […]
Images of Newspapers in American Genre Painting from 1830 to 1865
Jonathan Wardle and Dr. P. Alf Pratte, Communications At the suggestion of a professor, I wrote a 20-page term paper on images of newspapers in American genre painting for a history of communications class. At first I was going to conduct a general survey of images of newspapers and journalists in American art, but some […]
The Marvelous American Reality: Making a Case for Carpentier’s Magical Realism in Latin American Music
Erika Edwards and Drs. Arden Hopkin, Music and George Handley, Latin American Studies In 1949 the Nobel Prize-winning Cuban novelist and musicologist, Alejo Carpentier, published his essay on lo real maravilloso Americano, an aggressively American discussion of the theory now known as magical realism. Carpentier refers to the German art critic Franz Roh (who initially […]
Seven Days: A Latin American Historical Novel
David Wiseman and Dr. Douglas J. Weatherford, Spanish and Portuguese Introduction As often is the case in creative writing, the direction of this project deviated slightly from its initial aims. The results, however, surpass in significance the expected outcome of the project’s early development. In order to insure proposed results, this project required extensive research […]
Nursing Practice in Tucumán, Argentina as seen by an American Nursing Student
Heather Merie Buzbee and Professor Catherine Coverston, Nursing Nurses form the backbone of healthcare systems around the globe. Unfortunately, throughout the world there is a nursing shortage (WHO, 2004). Argentina, like many other nations throughout the world, is a country struggling with the current shortage. The most recent statistics show that in Argentina there is one […]
“Through a Glass Darkly”: Portrayal of the Mormons in Nineteenth-century American Periodical Literature
Stanley J. Thayne and Dr. Cynthia Hallen, English Language and Linguistics During the nineteenth century the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, then known primarily as the Mormon Church, was a subject of great controversy in American periodical literature. Major magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly, Scribner’s, Harper’s, The North American Review, and The […]
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