Spencer Scoville and Professor Walter Whipple, Germanic and Slavic Languages Last year, I proposed to complete a translation of Ukrainian author Ulas Samchuk’s novella Mariia. The process of translating and researching has been both more challenging and more rewarding than I anticipated. I completed the translation of the first section of Mariia, along with a […]
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Integration of the Life and Works of “O Aleijadinho” into Brazilian Culture Courses
Ryan T. Miller and Dr. Willis Fails, Spanish and Portuguese More commonly known as O Aleijadinho, Portuguese for “Little Cripple,” Antônio Francisco Lisboa is remembered as Brazil’s greatest artist of the colonial period. Born in 1730 to the son of a Portuguese craftsman and a black slave, Aleijadinho developed a degenerative condition—probably leprosy—that left him […]
LDS Homemakers, Leisure, and Life-Satisfaction
Alisa E. Hertzler and Dr. Brian Hill, Recreation Management and Youth Leadership Mother, a word that brings a surge of affection to every human heart and mind. Certainly everyone is grateful for their mother and all she did to raise them. This study was designed to determine if mothers are truly satisfied with what they […]
Family Cohesion and Adaptability in Relation to Family Life Cycle Stage
Alicia P. Dansie and Dr. Brian Hill, Recreation Management and Youth Leadership Cohesion and adaptability varies amongst individual families as a result of many known factors including family leisure patterns, work ethic and commitments, and marital and family satisfaction (Orthner & Mancini, 1990) (Steinburg & Silverberg, 1987). Little is known however about the effect family […]
The Life and Legacy of Karl G. Maeser as an Educator
Sarah Jane Sandberg and Professor Brad Wilcox, Teacher Education A chalk circle of honor, a memorial building, a statue: each of these items stand today on Brigham Young University campus as an echo from the past of a man who educated with love. Nearly a century after his death, the legacy of Karl G. Maeser […]
In Search of Grandeur: The Life and Times of the Rio Grande
Todd Condie and Dr. John Bennion, Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature Eight years ago I moved to west Texas. In fact, I moved about as far west in the state of Texas as one can get. The housing plots adjacent to my own are bisected by the interstate border with New Mexico. Not forty yards […]
Áûòü: A Study of Everyday Life on the Collective Farm After World War II
Christopher Farris Bush and Professor Rodney Bohac, History Collective farms in the Soviet Union have always been enigmatic. Stalin’s initiative to collectivize the peasants in 1930 met with heavy opposition. With heavy-handed brutality, the government put down the rebellions and forced farmers to stay on the Kolkhoz to endure the 1932-1933 famine. While this famine reached […]
The Sacred Life of Don Quixote
Jonathan William Wade and Dr. Dale Pratt, Spanish and Portuguese Nearly four hundred years after the publication of the first part, I assumed the daunting task of writing about Don Quixote de la Mancha. With literally thousands of publications related to Cervantes’s masterpiece, I knew that writing an honors thesis about Don Quixote would be […]
SUMMARY OF CREATIVE RESEARCH GRANT RESULTS AND ARTISTIC STATEMENT OF “DANCE: EXPRESSIONS OF LIFE”
Natalie Rhodes Wilson and Professor Pat Debenham, Dance Over the course of this year my creative project entitled, “Dance: Expressions of Life,” has evolved from portraying a tragic accident in my life to encompassing a lifetime of internal growth that includes more than the accident itself. The concluding stages of the work are still in […]
BYU Student Life: 1985-2000
Brian S. Shull and Natalie Clark Fisher with Professor J. Gordon Daines III, University Archives The journey Brian and I started in February later became something neither one of us had expected. When we first wrote the proposal for this project, we assumed we would have no trouble finding sources to complete our research. The opposite was […]
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