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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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…