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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…

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…

The Boston Bruins and Boston Celtics compete for the NHL and NBA championships every season, but they also compete for Boston’s attention in the winter. Because popularity of the team is often tied to that team’s success, I found that the Bruins…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

With my paper, I am examining Fenway Park in the greater context of the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood. I originally hoped to hear from someone on the Fenway Community Development Committee, but no one returned my correspondences in time. So, I…

This paper presents a study of the City of Boston through two of its library branches. Insofar as ordinary people comprise the constituency of libraries, the premise of my research is that studying libraries and how they are utilized is a way of…