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Submitted by BYU student Ammon Bennion for his English 391 course for Dr. Eric Eliason. Contains cover essay, autobiographical sketch, and contributor interviews. About folk traditions of missionaries serving in the Missionary Training Center. Includes stories about folklore customs, pranks, and rules of the MTC.

Scope and Contents note This project contains a collection of traditions practiced by families that attend the General Conferences of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Analysis paper topics include: "Background," "Hypothesis," "Food," "Activities," "Family," and "The Importance." This eighteen item collection includes the following traditions: activity packets, mission reunions, sandwiches, family sports between sessions, French toast breakfast, wearing "Sunday" clothes, waiting in line for...

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Shaw interviewed men and women from Utah and from other states to see if Mormon wedding traditions stayed the same, or if the cultural things she noticed were simply Utah traditions. Project was created for Dr. Eliason's English 368 course taught at Brigham Young University in 2000.

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Barney collected traditions practiced by dancers with their pointe shoes. Included are the traditions of strengthening feet by wrapping them in masking tape, adding elastic to ensure a more secure shoe, and the belief that the famous ballerina Pavlova had a secret process for preparing her shoes that gave her superior balance. The project was written for an English 391 class taught at Brigham Young University in 1997.

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Danny Ogle collected personal narratives of traffic citations. Included are stories of people who avoided tickets due to sympathetic policemen or quick thinking, as well as people who didn't avoid the tickets. Project was written for an English 392 class taught at Brigham Young University during Winter semester 1991.

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A collection of occupational lore from the BYU traffic offices. Includes jokes about jargon, upset clients, and pranks played amongst the officers. Project was created for an English 391 course taught at Brigham Young University during the fall semester of 1995.

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Adams, a BYU traffic officer, interviewed his coworkers, and retold stories from work about the reasons people had been ticketed, and the ways that the ticketed person had tried to get out of the ticket. Project was created for Dr. Rudy's English 392 course taught at Brigham Young University in 1998.

Scope and Contents note Meiners collects responses from various Americans concerning the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. She finds that the interviewees who had a personal or social connection to New York and Washington, D.C. were more disturbed by the attacks than the interviewees who had no personal or social connection. She determines, however, that the attacks were viewed as an attack on the United States in general, and disturbed the interviewees despite their geographies...

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This project is a collection of marching band stories, specifically what happens when tragedy affects a band. The analysis describes the unique world view of band members and its limited accessibility to outsiders. Includes a 19 item collection of band tragedy stories, including "fallen tuba," "broken saxophone," "ransom note," "whacked flautist," and others. Collected by Dallan B Christenson, Dr. Eliason's ENGL 391 class, Fall 2004

Scope and Contents note Paulsen explores the moral, historical and personal links behind the proverbs of wisdom and other sayings of her mother, Phillis L. S. Grayson. Paulsen categorizes the most common of these proverbs into several sections including: Scriptural or Hymn Based Proverbs, Traditional Proverbs, Incorrect Traditional Proverbs, Proverbial Bits or Part Phrases, and Other-Source Quotes. Through these sayings, Paulsen seeks to draw connections between herself, her mother, and the wisdom that has been...