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Green explores the culture and customs of long-distance runners. Discusses their motivations and their unusual ability to endure pain. Explains the differences between team runners and road racers and explains the differences between giving individual effort and working in a group. Discusses how men and women runners differ in their motivations and customs. Created by Annie Green while enrolled in Eric Eliason's English 391 class during fall semester of 2002 at Brigham Young University.

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Harris writes about children's imaginations. Includes fears from closet monsters, shadows from outside in the night, and other monsters that inhabited the dark. Project was created for Dr. Thursby's English 356 course taught at Brigham Young University, 1998.

Scope and Contents note Hawkins explores the motivations for creative date invitations at Brigham Young University. She breaks down the creative invitations into three different categories: joke, prank and scavenger hunts. She also presents three kinds of errors that can confuse the invitation process -- forgettings, misunderstandings, and interferences. She relates creative invitations to Bascom's four functions of folklore. Hawkins concludes that people use creative invitations to sidestep the awkwardness that...

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Falkenstien discusses the what, where and why's of embarrassment in the human experience. Through the guise of sharing folkloric embarrassing stories, Falkenstien seeks to connect with the reader on various emotional levels. Created by Margaret Falkenstien while enrolled in Jacqueline Thursby's English 356 class during winter semester 2001.

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A collection of material, oral and personal experiences, Barker summarizes the answers he received from a wide range of people when posed with the question, "What is your scary story?" Barker relates having such experiences to the human experience and discusses connections between different people as a result. Created by Benjamin M. Barker while enrolled in Jacqueline Thursby's English 356 class during winter semester 2001.

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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...