3 10 343 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/55f34dea4e3dbeac9ea0fad5311b4a6a.jpg 3c835fc2dcc405d6393a0b5860c6b8ee 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 Women and the Boston Marathon: The Fight for Equality Description An account of the resource The Boston Marathon has been a definitive cultural and social event in Boston since 1897. Each year schools across Boston close for Marathon Monday and thousands of people flock to the Finish Line to cheer on friends, family, and even strangers. But for the first 75 years of its existence, the Boston Marathon only celebrated the physical triumphs of half the world: men. Although other marathons began to accept female entrants earlier, Boston held on to its boys-only reputation for longer, with men even physically pulling women out of the race when they tried to enter. The changing experiences of woman pioneers in the late 1960’s fighting for their right to run, the early 1980’s adjusting to their new status, and finally today fully embracing equality tells the story of how Boston grew to embrace female runners. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kate Buellesbach https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/56cbd7419aee0e28f73f3779841bb5f1.jpg f7f82852aec81965268acaaaf14fb33c 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 Life at District Hall Description An account of the resource This paper offers a critical look at District Hall, a building in the heart of Boston’s burgeoning Innovation District. I provide insights based on observation and practical experience. I identify both positive and negative aspects of the building, in my view. My analysis is accompanied by factual research. I conclude that District Hall is not as new of a concept as it claims to be, but District Hall itself is useful and a success. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kevin Schmid https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/564bfa8bda0c50f5bdbe5a6e73cdacc6.png 0a477ff1b147e931ae86da9da5ecb81d 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 Development without displacement? Green line expansion in union square Description An account of the resource In my final paper I discuss the Green Line extension project, and the potential impact that I will have on Union Square, and Somerville as a whole. The interesting and unusual thing about Union Square, is that while this change in population has been a natural slow shift over the past 25 years, a proposed transit project is set to dramatically tilt the demographics and cost-of-living in the near future. This project is the expanded MBTA Green line, with a new subway stop at Union Square planned to open in 2017. I believe that gentrification is already occurring in the area, and that the green line extension project will serve as accelerant to the gentrification of the area. I address possible public policy that can be put in place to prevent this possible displacement, while allowing the important transit development to continue. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lauren Tracey https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/dbd0fae43d57133d7b7339236eb56ca0.png cade5ae9351a215acf050245612c7912 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 Cycles of Change: Boston, biking, and the last ten years. Description An account of the resource I wrote a magazine article that explored the changes in Boston’s bike culture and bike infrastructure in the last decade. I guided my research with questions like: What caused these changes? Who were the big players in changing things? What does the new face of biking in Boston look like? And what changes are still being pushed for? As the project progressed, I tried to shift to also understanding why things changed. What social and political factors helped bike advocates’ cause? I am including a picture of me biking through Jamaica Plain, which captures the spirit of my process (A friend took this when she joined me on a ride to take pictures of different types of bike lanes in Boston). I tried to get a good understanding of the biking situation by talking with people who have been involved in the politics, going for rides myself, and visiting a bike shop that one of my interviewees (Steve Miller) told me about. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mary Carmack https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/98d064046e71594fc1157602b5b8e30d.png cfe1442f8433d423f1755bff9552cb3c 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 COMMUNICATION ETHICS AS SHOWN BY TWO PEOPLE NAMED HAL -- AN ESSAY Description An account of the resource This paper looks at how Hal, a character in Infinite Jest, communicates with other people. It tries to figure out a good ethics for talking to faceless strangers and getting to know them, also looking at Infinite Jest’s literary precedent, Hamlet, for examples. Finally, the paper follows my own experiences with acting, struggling to interact with other people during and afterward. The paper suggests that communication is a constant struggle to avoid facelessness, and that communication itself can also become the object instead of the person or place underneath it, which is why a constant attempt to rediscover the territory underneath is necessary. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Matt Krane https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/60083633edd921f1d5365f35ed4c1e6a.png 1488d6a8cbebd8082ba82e39e51a627a 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 Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, a New Cultural Youth Organization, and the Transformation of Youth in a Concert Hall Replica Description An account of the resource In 2012, the founding of the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra created a new standard of artistic excellence for musical youth, and offered a new education program in which young musicians could practice their craft in an orchestra centered on orchestral leadership and artistic citizenship. The symbiotic relationship between the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology has allowed an auditorium space, a one-third-sized replica of Symphony Hall that was not often used due to its acoustical faults, to become the experimental space for new types of music events. The beginnings of this new organization has created an opportunity for community building amongst musical youth from all over Boston. This paper and podcast describes the founding of the organization as well as the many changes and influences in the Back Bay neighborhood as the result of the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology becoming the new home of the Boston Philharmonic. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Max Tan https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/ded552f0f6e0a8226885a2ad5ba84cbd.png d70745a51f5b9c503c8236c9ddcf6293 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 Power of the People: City Life/ Vida Urbana Description An account of the resource My project is about the community organization of City Life/ Vida Urbana. They focus on the issue of foreclosures in Boston. Through weekly meetings, blockades, letters to the government and banks, and civil disobedience, they support families that can’t fight against foreclosure on their own. After personally attending a meeting and interviewing multiple members, I learn that the organization is much more than what it would seem like to someone who only judges the success of an organization through its statistics. Although City Life has helped prevent 100 of families from foreclosure, the organization is more than that. They have created a community within a community. I saw the members inspire and teach each other. The success of City Life is rooted in the passion of the members to make change. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Meg Casscells-Hamby https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/0826238b281e87252a8fb417e44300ec.jpg 5e1048ed96e415cdff9613c84461e49d 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 Riverfront by Kayak Description An account of the resource 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 luxury condominium building 180 Beacon Street, Boston University’s 725 Commonwealth Avenue, Genzyzme’s Allston Landing manufacturing plant, and Harvard Business School’s Tata Hall were selected for further discussion. These buildings are all relatively recent (<100 years) additions to the Boston skyline, and each tell an interesting story about what was, and what could have been in their place. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Michael A Lukas https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/7ea84787c61cc98b1b5535237f63321d.png dbcf3e2ae1b1dab24a1cbdb0f5ed9aac 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 Cradle of Liberty, Cradle of Knowledge: the Dual Identity of the Copley Library Description An account of the resource While making observations about the Fields Corner Public Library for the Dorchester assignment, I became interested in the way libraries in Boston marketed themselves as public spaces designed specifically for perceived needs in the local community. I realized I had never felt this so acutely when visiting the central branch of the Boston Public Library system in Copley square, and decided to visit and try to see if and how the Copley branched balanced the duties of being an international tourist destination with serving a local Bostonian community. I found a surprising number of indications that the Copley branch worked hard to help improve specific aspects of local life, such as the effects of homelessness or the difficulty of applying for college. In trying to figure out why I had never noticed this or why it might be surprising, I hypothesized that the other side of the library – which very explicitly acts as a museum and memorial to Boston’s ‘cradle of liberty’ culture – may consider it in its best interest to seclude these less glamorous aspects of the library, which may complicate the tourist narrative of Boston and the Copley branch of the Boston Public Library. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mike Ross https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/usworld24/original/0b33765d11c06010fe67707b782605e1.png a61ada77d6f48f8c97d3fc989721d5f1 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 Role of the 1970s Busing in Bostonian Tribalism Description An account of the resource In my final project, a historical paper, I analyze and discuss the context of the 1965 Racial Imbalance Act of Massachusetts, along with the subsequent busing desegregation plan of the 1970s. These events resulted in the many protests and violent acts in affected neighborhoods such as South Boston and Roxbury, which we today associate with the busing crisis. This neighborhood-driven tribalism did not begin with the busing crisis, however. In fact, neighborhood insularity began earlier, solidified by the segregation of public housing projects in the city. The busing crisis was a misinformed attempt at correcting this problem, guided by the idea that “neighborhood schooling” was obsolete. Unfortunately, the sector that suffered most from this governmental experiment was education, and the consequence is an enduring sense of rigid neighborhood tribalism and segregation in the city of Boston to this day. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Mike Ross