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American Sign Language Idioms: Where they come from, and the people who use them.
Amanda Reece
About American Sign Language Idioms. This paper explains the relationship between ASL idioms and the overall ASL culture.
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Quilts in Utah
Juliana Reynoso
The contributor shares the stories behind and meaning of her handmade quilts.
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Folklore Final Project: BYU Engagement and Wedding Rings
Emily Thomas
Engaged or married BYU students talk about their engagement and wedding rings.
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Anti-Catholic Folklore in Latin America
Bryce Tucker
This paper talks about Anti-Catholic Folklore in Latin America and how it circulates among missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Sketchy or Dangerous LDS Missionary Experiences
Monica Allen
This is a look at twelve stories and thoughts about dangerous or sketchy missionary experiences from five different returned missionaries. I use the term 'sketchy' because it is not always obvious whether the missionaries were in danger or not.
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The Other Side of Magic: The Trials, Tricks, and Triumphs of Disney Cast Members
Keely Bailey
This paper focuses on the stories told by Cast Members about their experiences dealing with guests. It examines why the stories they told are the ones chosen and the order to discover what it says about working for Disney and what it means to be a Cast Member.
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Store-Bought Babies: LDS Adoption Stories
Mariah Bunting
I am adopted and a member of and LDS family. In starting this project, I was curious to collect my parents' experiences as a whole story as well as to see what other kinds of experiences people have had with adopting children in the LDS community.
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The Folk Language and Folk Law of Texting
Annette Challis
This project examines the unique system of communication developed in text messaging; particularly, how small changes in punctuation, capitalization, abbreviation and emojis can have significant meaning and create emotion and tone.
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Mormon Missionaries in the Danger Zone
Taylor B. Dolbin
Mormon missionaries are constantly being assisted, protected, and helped by local criminal organizations. However, there has been a lack of concrete collections of these stories and their inherent characteristics. This collection contains 17 separate accounts and an analysis of the different folkloric elements of this collection and its individual stories.
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Mother's Day at the Durrett House
Breanna Durrett
The explanation of how handmade presents got started for Mother's Day at the Durrett house, as well as examples of presents throughout the years.
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Living Legends Folklore
Jazmine Emerson
A collection of folklore from Living Legends of traditions and cultural dances.
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Folklore of Missionary Foot Dusting
Donald Ford
This paper evaluates stories about Mormon missionaries shaking the dust off of their feet. This act is believed to curse those who reject missionaries in severe and violent ways.
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Blankets from Grandma
Danielle Hovley
My grandmother crocheted afghans and baby blankets for family all throughout her life. This is a brief collection of some of the blankets that she gave to family members.
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Folklore of the Mormon Missionary Experience
Travis Hoyt
This field study is focused on the folklore I encountered as a missionary in Central America, but I also collected pertinent items of folklore from returned missionaries who I associate with on a daily basis in my research group.
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An Inside Look at Inside Jokes
Karen Huntington and Nanto, Stephanie
Folk groups share a united culture, identity, language, and often jokes. These jokes are unique to each individual folk group. Because of this, being a part of an inside joke often solidifies a folk group as a unit and creates a special bond between the participants. Through inside jokes, relationships are strengthened and new folk groups can be created based on these shared instances with one another. These inside jokes also serve to separate people who don't belong to the folk group and can keep them separate from the in-group. Inside jokes serve a unique purpose in folklore and play a large role in almost, if not, all folk groups and their formations.
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Disobedience in the Field: Folklore about Disobedient Missionaries
Sarah Keenan
This paper discusses observations about how and why disobedient missionary stories are told by returned missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Something In Their Eyes: The Folklore Associated With Visitors' Centers and Historic Sites for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Anna Lewis
The folklore associated with Visitors' Centers and Historic Sites in the Mormon Church. Informants included sister missionaries that served in Washington DC, Nauvoo, St. George, Mesa, and Winter Quarters (Omaha Nebraska) Visitors' Centers.
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Revenge by the Children, On the Children, For the Children
Mary Martin
A collection of and thoughts on the strange things older siblings do to younger siblings, and how that is one way they can control their personal world.
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My Grandma is Visiting: The Folklore of Menstruation
Katherine Neish
In this project, I explore the folklore surrounding menstruation, particularly within Mormon culture. The project includes collected items such as nicknames, advice, and personal stories as well as an analysis of how these folkloric items function a folk group.
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Family Folklore: The Things My In-Laws Taught Me
Aldina Rosdahl
I studied the family folklore of my in-laws. I was interested in doing this project because I'm still a fairly new member.
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Mission Anthems: Form and Function
Sterling Suggs
Mission anthems are a significant contributor to the experience of missionaries in many missions across the world. I have collected several examples of mission anthems, including many original ones written specifically for the mission they belong to
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