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Arthur interviews friends and family about any experiences they had with angels or out of body experiences. Includes urban legends as well as personal experiences of asking and receiving help from unseen helpers. Project was create d for Dr. Eliason's English 368 course taught at Brigham Young University in 2000.

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Blackham collected stories from friends about dating experiences that they had while dating at Brigham Young University that did not go well. Included are dates where the man was not courteous, where he over step boundaries, or where the woman was rude to her date. Project was created for Dr. Eliason's English 391 course taught at Brigham Young University in 2000.

Scope and Contents note This project is a collection of personal narratives about the extraction of wisdom teeth. The analysis claims that getting one's wisdom teeth is a rite of passage for many Americans, commenting on its function as initiation in passing through youth and adolescence into adulthood. Also comments on the history of wisdom teeth removal, the unpleasantness and sometimes horror of the surgery, and the methods of sedation and anesthesia of the process. Includes eleven items that discuss the...

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Submitted by BYU student Clara Welge her ENG 391 fall course for Dr. Eric Eliason. Contains cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and contributor interviews. About the careers that people envisioned they would pursue as children and the careers that are currently pursuing as adults. This paper examines how folk groups influence individual career paths.

Scope and Contents note Endsley collected narratives from returned missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints about their experiences as junior companions. Included are stories of a missionary getting offered a beer and then being led out of a house at gunpoint, a sister missionary accidentally saying in another language that she held the priesthood, and a sister missionary unknowingly eating goat tongue and then vomiting it up later. The project was collected for an English 392 class taught...

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Schulzke explores college freshmen pranking as a means of establishing identity and defining relationships. When faced with the loss of identity due to the moving from home and everything familiar, Schulzke contends, college freshmen find or reinvent themselves and new relationships through pranks. Created by Natasia Schulzke while enrolled in Kristi Young's English 391 course during winter semester 2007 at Brigham Young University.

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Barnes collected personal narratives regarding English 115 classes taught at Brigham Young University, told by the graduate students who taught them. Included are stories of stupid things students do, silly things instructors do, and disconserting things students do, as well as several stories that are not catagorized. Project was collected for an English 667 class taught at Brigham Young University in 1996.

Scope and Contents note Describes a specific tradition in the author's family: twice every year, while the men in her family attend the priesthood session of general conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the women in the family have a shopping outing at the malls in downtown Salt Lake City. Discusses gender behavioral differences when it comes to same gender outings. Compares the author's traditions to those of other families. Asserts that one social difference between men and women is that...

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Barbara Lentz collected personal narratives of pranks from the early 1900's. Included are stories of pranks on outhouses, foiled pranks, and Halloween pranks. Project was written for an English 392 class taught by Professor Wilson at Brigham Young University during Winter semester 1990.

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McKinnon collected stories of quick engagements. Included are stories of a man proposing before the couple's first date, a couple getting engaged after two weeks, and a couple meeting and getting engaged at a college dance. The project was collected for Dr. Eliason's English 391 class taught at Brigham Young University in 1998.