2 10 343 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/49bdb6818743900dfdbeda461f278d32.png 2b3a387111bd2094c398eb988a9c8d22 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Final Projects Spring 2015 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Olympics: Boston’s Great Debate Description An account of the resource On January 8th 2015, the United States Olympic Committee somewhat stunned the American public with the news of the American city selected to bid for the 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. Boston, the City upon a Hill, the Athens of America, and the Hub of the Commonwealth, had been elected as the American bid city. The news of Boston’s selection shocked its residents perhaps even more than those of the other candidate cities, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. Due to USOC rules, Boston 2024, the organization responsible for Boston’s bid, could not conduct any public outreach before the bid was selected. Consequently, since the USOC’s announcement, a heated debate has sprung up between Boston’s Olympic organizers, Boston 2024, and their opponents represented by the organization No Boston Olympics. In this essay, using the websites of the two groups, newspaper articles, and in-person interviews with and lectures by men leading each of the groups, I attempt to encapsulate this debate, boiling it down to four major points. Boston 2024 and No Boston Olympics, I show, are arguing specifically over the financial costs, economic benefits, infrastructural outcomes, and opportunity costs of hosting the Games in Boston. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dylan McDonough https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/d2f7d5185a6b75928a1ccaf9ba47f552.png df4bac1c92d135839074999c402804c8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Final Projects Spring 2015 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Boston: A “Gay Haven”? Description An account of the resource 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 Massachusetts’ early start in showing support towards the gay community has earned Boston the reputation of being a “gay haven,” attracting young gay and lesbian adults to the area, helping Boston economically and intellectually. However, is Boston really a “gay haven”? Which sites have helped it earn such a reputation? Furthermore, Boston has a diverse populous of Blacks, Latinos, Hispanics, Asians, Irish, and other ethnicities that are often marginalized in society. Are marginalized people equally represented in LGBTQ sites, which pride themselves on being an accepting place for all types of people? Or has the movement become white-washed and catered to the strong presence of white, middle-aged, middle-to-upper class homosexual men? For this project, I visited four different bars throughout Boston, in Dorchester, Fenway, and the Downtown Boston area. I examine the presence of racial or gender-based segregation in these sites, as well as whether they and their surroundings seem welcoming to LGBTQ-identifying youth. Attached area few pictures. The first is a map of the gay bars in Boston. There are a handful of bars in Boston Proper, but Dorchester is the only of its suburbs to have even a single gay bar. The second is a picture of the side of dbar which is facing towards the street. The blinds are drawn, the door is permanently shut, and its surroundings are desolate, on a Saturday night at midnight. And the third is a picture of the hallway leading to the bathrooms at Club Café, which I found to be the most diverse and welcoming of the bars I visited. This hallway looks almost as if it belongs to another building. The first door is to the men’s room while the second is to the women’s room. In most establishments women’s rooms are located closer for convenience, but this establishment reverses that, revealing its focus on attracting male patrons. Women would have to walk down this sketchy hallway in order to use the restrooms. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Elliot Silva https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/41256b1a436de6e6750642b188537f20.jpg 8c9592208df387575a6cf107b5128335 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Final Projects Spring 2015 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Retention of young Professionals in Boston Description An account of the resource Research question – is Boston actually unappealing to young adults, specifically recent college graduates? The interviews and personal point-of-views from the four individuals offer some insight into the young professionals’ minds but they are by no means representative of all young professionals. The inclusion of these four individuals was simply to shed light on the thought of some Ivy League educated individuals and their retention. The decision of the Harvard University students to remain in the Boston area both serves as contradictory to the idea that Boston is unappealing to young professionals because they chose Boston as their post-graduate destination, but their long term plans demonstrate that Boston has not been and will not be appealing enough to remain here long term, which draws validity to the ideas that many professionals hoping to improve Boston have suggested and the initiatives to improve Boston. These individuals demonstrated short-term appeal for Boston because of opportunity or circumstance, but eventually plan to move away. The interesting addition was the Columbia University student who finds Boston appealing and would consider relocating to the Boston area at some point in the future. Nonetheless, among the reports demonstrating a higher than expected retention of young professionals and the idea that the “brain drain” exists, there is an inconsistency and room for improvement. A single conclusion cannot be drawn from the retention of young professionals in Boston. Many professionals believe more can be done to make Boston nightlife more appealing, affordable, and accessible in addition to providing more transportation for the suburb dwellers who cannot afford the city’s rent. The “brain drain” has not been disproven even though BRA / UMass report demonstrates that retention is higher than previously perceived, but as Hopper’s blog mentions, the report could be stronger if it included more comparison and more sources. There are initiatives in place but they require civic engagement, meaning they require more motivation from the busy young adults, and although the individuals I interviewed are staying or have stayed in Boston, their intentions are short term and Boston is weeded out by other options because their initial reasons for staying in Boston came out of circumstance or opportunity. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Erika Garcia https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/f7ccf77c0ddd31aed4e1c0ce4b620863.jpg a25594dad314a7c4048c232ec83bfbb0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Final Projects Spring 2015 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource God Save the Red Sox Description An account of the resource I use Emelie Durkheim’s book, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, as a mechanism with which to analyze how sports, specifically the Red Sox, function in the city of Boston. Rooting my discussion in the theme of the book, that religion operates as a set of beliefs and practices through which society forms and maintains a unique identity, I cast being “Bostonian,” as a religion. Further, I make the claim that the Red Sox serve as a unifying factor within the “religion,” to which Bostonians attribute their feelings of community. To explore this claim, I interviewed Bostonians wearing Red Sox paraphernalia; hats or t-shirts, or Bostonians with tattoos of either the city, or the Red Sox. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gabrielle Bausano https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/445bb2bb3cae3d1b7eace62db8ca715e.png 22b7bb2b938590c9f51bacd229b94757 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Final Projects Spring 2015 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Exploring Public Transit as a Case Study for Language Policy in Boston Description An account of the resource I report on research to investigate the availability of information and services in languages other than English at six M.B.T.A. subway stations, and frame these results with data regarding language usage in Boston. I then analyze the problem (almost complete lack of available services in foreign languages) and finish with policy recommendations for the M.B.T.A. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jake Freyer https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/c96d8b91bf97d1d33ed17b5c356bc890.png 9a93c58070439a3b30137407d2630c58 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Final Projects Spring 2015 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Red Sox in 2013 Description An account of the resource Summary: My paper uses firsthand accounts of personal experiences during the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, combined with speeches and newspaper articles, to describe the effect of the Boston Red Sox on the city of Boston throughout the 2013 MLB season, as Boston tries to recover from the tragic events that marred the Boston Marathon. The paper will go into detail on how the Red Sox became a symbol of strength and unity, a pillar on which the people of Boston and fans of Red Sox Nation all around the world rallied upon to recuperate as the Red Sox chased the World Series title, and how that social cohesion allowed Boston to come back even stronger than before the Marathon bombing. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jeremy Dietrich https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/5145fecabb9ad20c9ba22f33a24617eb.jpg 57314fb8a55508033a8cbb547215cab4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Final Projects Spring 2015 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Homelessness in Boston Description An account of the resource Within my paper, I explore the issue of homelessness that is so prevalent in and around Boston. In particular, past, present, and future measures taken and being taken by the local and state governments, as well as various organizations, are a large focus of the paper, and are used to better understand the nature of Boston's particular problem with homelessness. Risk factors for homelessness and the more common causes in Boston are explored and analyzed, to help further understand why some approaches might work and others might not, as well as what neighborhoods within Boston might be at greatest risk. Ways to mitigate and eventually end homelessness in Boston are also explored and discussed within the paper, questioning what homelessness may reveal about Boston and society at large. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jon Cruz https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/04b472ed779152774f104c0c753ba5ce.png 258f003c06e925bd26304d1ead744528 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Final Projects Spring 2015 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Unraveling Jewish Dorchester Description An account of the resource For my final project, I explore how and why Jews left Dorchester. I interviewed two grandparents (opposite sides) who epitomized the Jewish migration out of Dorchester. Their narratives, found out through two separate interviews, offer a new dimension to the current literature. I find that Jews left Dorchester mainly for economic rather than social or demographic reasons. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jon J. Rosenthal https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/670f95a7d5bd15094ffd3aeb38ae3980.jpg 2420d7fab88e5c4ca6b6ef206ab48699 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Final Projects Spring 2015 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Through Other Eyes Description An account of the resource This project was done in an effort to reconnect with a lot of my friends that I have made within the Latin American community here in Boston, and elsewhere. The idea behind the project was to develop an overarching idea, if that was possible, of how this particular community viewed Boston. Are there opinions to be skewed one way or the other? Will their opinions of the city depend heavily on their personal experiences within their community or will it depend on this ‘imaginary’ Boston that they carry around with them? All-in-all, I was a little surprised at how little was said about the food (sea-food), museums, symphonies, and historical significance of the area which is to say that 0 of the 18 people that I interviewed mentioned any of those things. A lot of the focus was on the weather, which is understandable, and the sports teams, mostly the Red Sox. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jordan Ellett https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/a70354a87624f15575cf7575fa5c28fb.png 25173f4f94ee3dc79802ac3e5d84658b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Final Projects Spring 2015 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Surviving In Boston: Accounts and Perceptions of Homelessness Description An account of the resource Through the lens of two interviews with homeless Harvard Square citizens Tom and Susan, this paper explores the difference between “living” and “surviving” in Boston. Issues discussed include: shelter, hygiene, relationship with Harvard Square and other citizens, and employment. The method for this paper was a combination of interviewing, personal investigation, and statistical research through government reports. From this paper I hope the reader gains a new perspective on the struggles, emotions, and harsh realities faced by homeless people, as well as a sense of skeptical optimism for each homeless citizen’s future. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Julie Monrad