Jennifer M Vigil and Dr. Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Women’s Research Institute As women are given more and more options about the course of their lives, the choices become more complicated. When a woman’s level of religiosity becomes a factor, the decision-making process becomes even more complex. This paper will show how young women who are members […]
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The South African Family: Attitudes Leading to Unmarried Xhosa Mothers
Oertel Sparks and Dr. Carol Ward, Sociology To increase understanding of the family structure of one group in South Africa, I conducted this field study in East London where almost all of the blacks belong to the Xhosa tribe. Family is an important unit of socialization in all societies and is a key element to […]
Family, Peer, School, and Community Capital: The Compensating Effects of the Family on Juvenile Delinquency
Benjamin Gibbs and Dr. Stephen Bahr, Sociology I have sought to examine the effects of social capital (family, peer, school and community) on delinquency and to measure the buffering effects of the family when negative peer influence is high. Further understanding of the factors causing delinquency is essential for policy makers and community members. Although […]
Assessment of Family Satisfaction of Intensive Care Unit Experience
Breann Brady and Dr. Joan Baldwin, College of Nursing When a patient enters the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), the experience is stressful and traumatic, for both the patient and their family members. The fast paced environment may seem scary to those unfamiliar with it. Families are left in a waiting room, only to enter and […]
Memoir on a LDS Family of Sisters
Margaret Holsinger Manchak and Dr. Louise Plummer, English Creative nonfiction has recently become a popular genre of serious literary merit. What exactly is it? True stories using scenes, dialogue, close, detailed descriptions and other techniques usually employed by poets and fiction writers on any subject. This gives the writer great flexibility and power, especially in […]
Altruistic vs. Reciprocal Family Relationships: A Levinasian Alternative
Bradford J. Wiggins and Dr. Edwin E. Gantt, Psychology Some of the greatest challenges we face today are in our own families. Husbands and wives struggle to find meaning in their relationships. Parents often end up battling with their children as they seek to bring their families together in unified goals and purposes. Many are […]
A Cross-Cultural Study of the Effects of Divorce on South African and Romanian Children Through the Use of Family Drawings
Laurie Moulton Worldwide divorce rates are soaring and children are all too often its forgotten casualties. The effect of divorce on children has been a topic addressed often and widely in the United States. But what about the developing world? Too often, fundamental concerns with the basic family unit become neglected as other pressing issues […]
Discovering Russian Research: Digitizing Local and Family Historical Documents
Kathryn Pope Blomberg and Professor Thom Edlund, HBLL-Cataloging As a student of Family History Research with Russian language skills, I have become very interested in learning the process of research for the areas that have been controlled by either the Czars or the USSR. Thus, I decided to go on an internship to a Russian speaking […]
Seeds of the Family
Chelsy Smith Walker and Professor Bryon Draper, Visual Arts Seeds of the Family was an instillation displayed at the BF Larsen Gallery in the Harris Fine Arts Center at Brigham Young University from June 2 to June 15, 2004. The instillation consisted of 32 dandelion-type seeds suspended intermittently from 9 steel cables that I stretched over […]
Youth and Family Theatre: A History for Tomorrow
Elizabeth Moss and Professor George D. Nelson, Theatre and Media Arts The field of Youth and Family Theatre is a relatively new and burgeoning aspect of the overall theatre world. In the next five to ten years, almost all of the original pioneers of the Youth and Family theatre field will have passed away leaving much of […]
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