Thesis (M.S.)-- Brigham Young University. Dept. of History and Philosophy of Religion.

Thesis (M.S.)--B.Y.U. Dept. of History and Philosophy of Religion. / Electronic thesis. Also available in print ed.

Epic dichotomies – threat/desire, Islam/Christianity, Orient/Occident, fear/lust, self/other – have fundamentally shaped the conceptualizations, images, and imaginings of the interaction between East and West. The Holy Land was the locus of both sensations in the twelfth-century West. Islam, arisen from the Arabian Peninsula and spreading steadily, embodied the strongest threat to western Christendom that it had yet faced, both militarily and theologically. The vividly imagined “East,” particularly Jerusalem, was the locus of spiritual and material desire. These intertwined notions underlie the ideological, theological, and historical perceptions of the Crusades, in their own time as today. This project seeks to explore the dual image of the East in the twelfth-century West through the prime dichotomy that has, both historically and presently, shaped Western perceptions of the dar-al-Islam: the East as at once threat and object or source of desire. Both this dichotomy and the examinations of individual sites and objects in which it is expressed nuance and challenge earlier scholarly assertions regarding visual representations of Crusading, and posit new interpretations of iconographic traditions and their semiotic functions in the twelfth-century Aquitaine. This dissertation is arranged as a series of investigative essays into monuments and objects that express the presentation and development of these divergent ideas in the twelfth-century Aquitaine. The first half of is comprised of three interrelated examinations of material objects that illuminate Western concepts of Islam and Muslims. Various iconographic traditions, I argue, were created and modified to express the mechanisms by which Christendom attempted to define, and respond to, these evident threats to self and territory. The second half of this project focuses on the material manifestations of desire, primarily through the deployment of Orientalized architectural forms and the utilization of relics and objects related to the East. Although these trends, as my conclusion discusses, reached their true apex in the decades after the loss of Jerusalem in 1187, these early examples typify the range of cultural notions centered on the desire to possess and control the sanctity of the Holy Land. / text

Thesis (M.S.) -- Brigham Young University. Dept. of Art, 1943.

Thesis (M.S.) -- Brigham Young University. Dept. of Art, 1943. / Electronic thesis. Also available in print ed.

This volume contains available data pertaining to the history of the Latter-day Saint Temple located in St. George, Utah.All readily available sources were used including public, private, church, and university libraries.

Summary Bronchial asthma (BA) is considered to be the disease of civilization. Life conditions of the people improve and liability to alergies becomes more intensive. Air polution determines, that asthma spreads fastly in all the world and has become a world problem of health. Asthma has exacerbated quality of life of many asthmatic people: it causes discomfort, psychological tension. Financial losses are much easier beared by a patient than social barrier, however, poor financial situation influences deeply the quality life of the asthmatic people. The goal of this work: to estimate the quality of life of asthmatic people. The following tasks have been set up in achieving this goal: 1. To evaluate the quality of life of astmatic people using SGPQ. 2. To evaluate the influence of BA to patient’s quality of life; 3. To define training impact of BA to quality of life. Investigations have been carried out using SGPQ. 100 patients - asthmatic people have been interviewed according to unanimous questionnarie for no less than one year. Totally the interview have passed 53 men and 47 women, i.e. 53 percentage of men and 47 percentage of women of totally interviewed. Age census of both gender groups was from 18 till 75 years old. Accordingly, the average age of the investigated group was 49,8. Hence, while evaluating harm character of QL, the patients pointed, that the following symptoms mostly disorganize their quality of life (defined calculated interval –... [to full text]

Thesis (M.S.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of Industrial Education. / Bibliography: leaves 95-96.

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Utah's current educational systems were largely shaped by a transitional era that occurred during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A time when the region itself moved from territorial to state status, the dominant religion in the area, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), likewise changed in its role in Utah society. Previously dominating most aspects of life, the Church was forced to reevaluate its place in society due to greatly increased secular power and context. Educational changes, as harbingers of larger societal shifts, are illustrative of such paradigm changes. During the four decade period stretching from 1888 to 1933, the LDS Church experimented with several private educational endeavors, seeking to maintain its place in the changing Utah society. Originally opposed to public education, these experimental private schools eventually became part of the public system itself as the Church restructured its paradigm. St. George, Utah, like many of the LDS-dominated intermountain communities, experimented with these educational changes during this era. Key to this experimentation was the St. George Stake Academy, founded in 1888 as a religious alternative for the region's youth. Though challenged initially, the privately sponsored Church school grew as did its public counterparts during the early twentieth century. Eventually, this growth included expansion into post-secondary education, as the school became Dixie Normal College, Dixie Junior College, Dixie College, and ultimately Dixie State College. Such growing, however, brought increased financial need. Faced with rising costs and budgetary restraints caused by periods of economic depression, the LDS Church rethought its educational policy. In the 1920s and early 1930s, the Church restructured its educational system, turning over to the state many programs originally intended as religious alternatives to public schools. This study traces the changing nature of education in Utah from 1888 to 1933, illuminating the process of paradigm change within religious organizations. Using St. George as the model, it tracks the roles the state and the LDS Church played in shaping the current educational structure, as both parties sought to understand their place in society.