Scope and Contents note This project contains participant's answers to a survey about literature they had read and the themes of courtship and marriage found in literature. Analysis paper topics include: "The Importance of Family in the LDS Culture," "Why Study Family Life?" "The Effect of Literature on the Average LDS Reader," and "Weddings and Literature: Field Research." Survey questions include: "What sort of materials (if any) have you read related to marriage/relationships/weddings? What? When? Why?" "Were...

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Student generated paper by Candace Munoa on Latter-day Saint wedding and receptions customs.

Scope and Contents note Snow collects stories of wedding disasters and hypothesizes that these disasters, while traumatic when they occur, are nevertheless unimportant to the healthiness of the subsequent marriage between bride and groom. Snow believes that the material and traditional aspects of a wedding ceremony are important but irrelevant to the actual strength of the marriage, and thus, that a disastrous wedding day is inconvenient but ultimately irrelevant to the actual marriage. She concludes by suggesting...

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Walker writes about problems with roommates at Brigham Young University. Included are rude moments, awkward stories, and strange food habits. Project was created for Dr. Eliason's English 392 class at Brigham Young University in 2000.

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Craw analyzes the possible motivations for the intense amount of local pride in the town of Minersville, Utah (nicknamed Punkin'town). She finds that most members of Minersville believe that they are chosen people who must demonstrate their supremacy through acts of generosity and through building the community. Created by Jennifer C. Craw when she was enrolled in Eric Eliason's English 391 course in Fall 2003.

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Lisa Ann Jackson collected personal narratives about initiation pranks played on new sister missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Included are stories about having strong members play at being less active members, giving them fake referrals, and dressing up an elder as a sister missionary to pick up the new missionary. Project was written for an English class taught at Brigham Young University in 1995.

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Smith writes about the first dates of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Project was created for Thursby's English 356 class at Brigham Young University.

Scope and Contents Submitted by BYU student Peggy Wiseman for her Fall 1976 English 391 class. About the various flood stories of Rexburg and Sugar City in Idaho. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, informant list, and informant items. Items include stories like This is a dedicated farmer here, She said I was crazy, We're on Fire, He Figured it was no big deal, That guy looked kind of blank, He was praying, Pres. Kimball had a meeting, A house on stilts, a joke, Dry Cleaners burns, What shall we...

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DeVocht collected examples of creative answering machine messages of unmarried students at Brigham Young University. Included are messages using quotes from famous people, funny observations, and jokes about dating culture. The project was written for Dr. Eliason's English 392 class taught at Brigham Young University in 1998.

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Barbara Lee Bosen collected personal narratives of Western folklore. Included are stories of cowboys, a sharp-shooting sheriff, and watercolor sketches of events and landscapes. Project was written for Dr. Cheney's folk poetry class taught in January of 1963.