McCall Barger and Christopher Mattson, Mechanical Engineering Nearly 3 billion people worldwide still cook using open fires or biomass cookstoves, in which they burn wood, charcoal, and other solid fuels1. Over the past ten years, great effort and consideration has been devoted to progressing improved biomass cookstove technology for the developing world. The traditional cookstoves used […]
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The SMC Matrix Bridging the Gap Between Traditional Strategic Communications and Digital Media
Rebecca Winchel and Dr. Kenneth Plowman, Communications As digital media communications continue to grow and become an integral part of organizations’ business strategy, there is a significant gap between traditional strategic communications and the current strategies employed by social media practitioners. In order to address this gap, we wrote a book based upon Wilson and […]
The Ojibwe Living Culture The Importance of Traditional Culture on the White Earth Reservation, Minnesota
Keara Moyle and Dr. John Hawkins, Anthropology Introduction Within the last two decades, the White Earth reservation of Ojibwe has seen a dramatic resurgence of interest in and performance of what they would call traditional culture. This traditional culture has played a critical role in tribal membership and concepts of identity. The White Earth reservation […]
A TRADITIONAL AND MODERN CHILDREN’S BOOK
MarynRoos, Design First, I would like to thank the University for the generosity in giving this grant to me. As a result of the money I received, I experienced and learned many things that might have taken longer and had been harder to learn. Briefly, I composed my proposal of two parts: (I) Researching the […]
Economics And Education Vs. Griots: Threats to Traditional Performers in The Senegalese Arts
Joseph B. Hill and Dr. Michael D. Phillips, Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature In much of West Africa, the griot is the central figure in the performing arts. Traditionally, only those born into the griot caste perform publicly in any capacity, be it in music, dance, historical recitation, public speaking, or jesting. Although other castes […]
The Effects of Modern Standard Arabic Immersion Programs Versus Traditional Preschool Attendance on the Reading and Composition Scores of Arab Children
Jennifer Eschler and Dr. R. Kirk Belnap, Asian and Near Eastern Languages While Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is used for schooling and for writing in the Arab world, it is not the oral means of communication. Several dialects of Arabic exist. Each of these is related to Modern Standard Arabic, but vocabulary and some basic […]
Analysis of Elements in Modern Taiwanese Society that Preserve Traditional Confucian Values
Benjamin J. Coffin and Drs. Edward Enhua Peng and Gary S. Williams, Asian and Near Eastern Languages The deterioration of society based on a definitive moral standard has become a global phenomenon. Social structures that were once reinforced by strong moral standards are being bombarded by an onslaught of dubious social norms and standards. Taiwan, […]
Fusing Traditional Paraguayan Dance with Classical Ballet
Aileen Idalia Villalba and Dr. Jennie Creer-King, BYU Theater Ballet Co-artistic director and dance faculty In October 2002, the leader of the Latin Section from BYU Living Legends asked me to choreograph a new Paraguayan dance for their upcoming season. After accepting the request I met personally with Living Legends’ former director Janelle Christensen to […]
Ghanaian Healing and Traditional Medicine: An Ethnobotanical Study of the Use of Medicinal Plants Among Traditional Ashanti Healers of West Africa
Patricia Fifita and Dr. William Olsen, Anthropology For the importance of this paper, ethnobotany is defined as the study of interactions between plants and people, particularly the influence of plants on human culture. The study of medicinal plant knowledge is an issue of increasing importance and definite urgency, especially as various indigenous peoples around the […]
Lip Sync for Traditional Animation: Developing Skills and Techniques for a Student Production
J. Chad Erekson and Professor Kelly Loosli, Theater Media Arts At this point in time, most BYU animation projects have avoided lip sync. The Industrial Design Department produced a computer animated film called Rupert which had some crude imprecise mouth movements to suggest lip sync, but for the most part every traditionally animated project has […]
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