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Alice L. Smith collected personal narratives about nursing folklore. Included are vocabulary lists of frequently used nursing jargon and abbreviations, embarassing moments with patients, and humorous hospital experiences. Project was written for an English 391 class taught at Brigham Young University during Winter semester 1992.

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Rebecca L. Stanley collected personal narratives from the life of her grandmother, Edith Crane Hadley. Included are stories about her childhood, teenage, and young adult years. Project was written for an English 391 class taught at Brigham Young University during Winter semester 1990.

Scope and Contents Angela Ashurst collected variants of the story of sister missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being protected by divine messengers. Included are variants in which a sister missionary companionship teach a man who is a rapist or murderer, but doesn't harm them because of the strong men (sometimes several, of varying descriptions) who apparently accompanied them. Project was written for an English class taught at Brigham Young University during Fall semester...

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Steven K. Keck collected personal narratives of missionary culture in Japan. Included are stories of spiritual powers, disobedient elders, food lore, and experiences street tracting. Project was written for an English 391 class taught at Brigham Young University during Fall 1992.

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Rhonda Jones collected personal narratives of sister missionaries, as well as their dealings with Elders and priesthood authority on their missions. Included are stories of health and grooming, language misunderstandings, dealings with men, transportation, authority, suits and skirts, and spiritual experiences. Project was written for an English 391 class taught at Brigham Young University during Fall semester 1992.

Scope and Contents Julie Swallow collected personal narratives of an event known as the "French Mission Apostasy" in which several Latter-day Saint missionaries began a religious sect based on a vision their leader claimed to have had. Included are stories of the mission leader, William Tucker, who had the vision that started the apostasy, concerns that other leaders had about the movement, and the excommunication of several missionaries and Elder Tucker. Project was written for an English 590R class taught at...

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Jill Terry collected personal narratives about the Terry family that came up during the course of a family conversation. Included are stories of cooking and food, family arrangements (seating, sleeping, bathing), fears, relationships with family and others, entertainment, sayings, disease, and childhood memories. Project was written for an English 667 class taught at Brigham Young University during Spring term 1988.

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Lori Bradfield collected personal narratives about children's folklore. Included are poems, rhymes, playground songs, scatagorical songs, and songs about prayer. Project was written for an English 391 class taught at Brigham Young University during Winter semester 1992.

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Pat Smith collected personal narratives of home remedies. Included are remedies for bee stings, boils, burns, colds, coughs, cuts, diarrhea, earaches, eye troubles, headaches, itching, rheumatism, sprains, stomach aches, toothaches, and warts. Project was written for an English 391 class taught at Brigham Young University during Winter semester 1990.