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In my paper, I analyze the sociological use of the walk in a chapter of Small’s Villa Victoria by comparing it to other walks, including those of sociologists Robert Sampson and Elijah Anderson, Virginia Woolf’s walk in “Street Haunting: A London…

In order to learn more about the different neighborhoods of Boston, I decided to study the people taking various bus routes from Harvard and record their demographics as well as their interactions with each other. I ended up taking the 86 to…

In my essay, I examine the MBTA and why it is broken both politically and infrastructure wise. I examine and analyze why the record snowfall of 2015 led to such a collapse in service for an extended period of time while discussing some of the…

The idea for this project stemmed from that fact that I was very interested in the oral histories of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. I had a very personal connection to the bombings as I have been a life-long resident of Boston, and I came up with…

Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) is ranked as one of the “most comprehensive art museums in the world,” boasting a collection of nearly 450,000 works—ranging from Ancient Egyptian artifacts to pieces of Contemporary Art. Access to such an…

Though homeless shelters are a vital part of the livelihood, and survival, of many of Boston’s homeless, bouncing in and out of shelters is nowhere near a long-term solution to the problem of homelessness, or a stable lifestyle for homeless…

Although college students make up 9.98% of the average United States metro area population, college students comprise over 40% of the Boston metro area population. With over 50 colleges and universities located in the greater Boston area, and since…

This paper discusses the recent addition of the topic of Boston’s court-ordered desegregation and the resulting busing riots into the Boston Public Schools history and social studies curriculum. It examines the reasons why the topic was not…

This project explores the character of the Boston riverfront through a look into the history of select rivefront buildings and their architecture. A photographic survey was conducted via kayak from Beacon Hill through Allston, from these images the…

Massachusetts is well-known for leading the nation in revolutions, from its role in Independence from the British to its being the first state to legalize gay marriage in 2004. The gay rights revolution is a relatively new social revolution, and…