An analysis of recurring narratives in over 500 local news articles. The length of the paper reflects the expansive volume of source material.

Successfully defended on December 13th, 2019 (a Friday, for luck)

Because I am frequently asked in response to my thesis topic: no, I am not Mormon, but after somewhat arbitrarily adding the Book of Mormon to my reading list my first year of college (with the idea of including books that everyone has heard about but few have read), I ended up reading all that church's scriptures, and subsequently did several projects on the subject to take advantage of my prior knowledge