Virtual Commons offers open access copies of Commonwealth and Departmental Honors Program theses and projects completed by undergraduate students who have submitted them electronically since 2013. The authors of these documents retain copyright to the intellectual property these works represent in their current form.
Theses/Projects from 2015
A Dark Side of American History: Executive Order 9066 & Japanese American Internment during World War II, Kevin Costa
A Mathematical Foundation of the Quantum-Classical Correspondence, Nina Culver
How Does Tutoring to Develop Conceptual Understanding Impact Student Understanding?, Kelsey Cummings
Search & Seizure: Historical Analysis of the Fourth Amendment, Sarah Cummings
College Students and Time Use: Do Working and Nonworking Students Spend Their Time Differently?, Heidi D'Amato
Poverty Measurement: A Social Work Perspective, Katelyn David
Examination of Lower Limb Ambidextrous Execution of the Snap Down Technique in Folk Style Wrestling, Nicholas DeCastro
Wrong Plus Wrong Equals Right: Exploring the Interaction between Bacteriophage T7 Exonuclease and ssDNA-Binding Protein Using Suppressor Mutations, Stephanie Delzell
If the Shoe Fits: An Analysis of Historical and Contemporary Adaptations of Cinderella, Heather Dupont
Perceptions and Perspectives: Testing for Associations between Perceptions of Inequality, Autonomy, Morality and Support for Redistribution among BSU Students, Lucas A. Fagundes
An Analysis of American Propaganda in World War II and the Vietnam War, Connor Foley
Optimizing a Game of Chinese Checkers, Nicholas Fonseca
Biases in Race and Social Desirability within Jury Simulations, Michelle Hallaran
Blood of the Monster: Book 1 in the Covenant Trilogy, Emily Hayes
A New Presidential Genre: Analyzing the United Nations Addresses from Truman to Obama, Kory Hoyt
Exploring the Calkin-Wilf Tree: Subtrees and the Births of Numbers, Kayla Javier
Life on the Floodplain: An Analysis of Falmouth, Massachusetts and Osaka, Japan, Shellie Johnson
"Mad as March Hares:" Kaiser Wilhelm II, Great Britain, and the Road to War, Jeffrey Kelly
Shaping the Future: Igniting Change in Fashion Advertising through Graphic Design, Jessica Laudati
School Shootings and Moral Panics: Differences in Media Framing Based on Race, Class, and Socioeconomic Status, Kelly Ann Lavoie
"Spirits Unequal": Masculinity and the Sexualization and Commodification of Discourse in Bronte's Jane Eyre, Anastacia Lowe
Returning to Red Cloud's Vision: An Analysis of the History of Native American Education on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Nicholas Machado
What Carries On: Drafting, Revising, and Attention to Craft in Young Adult Fiction, Briana McDonald
A Snapshot in Time: English Reactions to the Franco-Prussian War, Andrew McGinnis
Stress Relieving Video Games: Creating a Game for the Purpose of Stress Relief and Analyzing Its Effectiveness, Nicole Mercer
The Effects of Elementary School Teachers’ Instructional Practices on the Self-Confidence of College Students with Dyslexia, Christina Miceli
Bridgewater State University Students’ Perceptions of Undocumented Immigrants, Christina Minich
An Analysis of Numerical Methods on Traffic Flow Models, Terry Mullen
The Zen of Daryl: A New Masculinity within AMC's The Walking Dead, Sarah Jane Mulvey
The Effects of Simulated Jet-lag and Running-Wheel Access on the Symptoms of Type-2 Diabetes in TallyHo/JngJ Mice, Nara F. Nascimento
Plague and Perception: The English Interpretation of Plague in Massachusetts, Sarah Peck
Film Not Found: Current Cinematic Representation of Fat Females and Scripting the Self, Amy Pistone
We Know You Want It: Perspectives on Predictive Shopping, Jessica Polaski
Police Contacts and Attitudes Toward Police: A Study of Race and Policing, Gary Portway
Dude Looks Like a Feminist!: Moral Concerns and Feminism Among Men, Renee F. Precopio
Analysis and Dynamics of Laser Models, Kassaundra Przelomski
The Effect of Stereoscopic (3D) Movies on Psychological and Physiological Experiences, Dawn M. Sarno
Humanity in Posthuman Literature: The Mind-Body Connection and the Human Experience, Teisha Seaman
Literature of the First Encounters: Using Self-Immersion in the Scholarly Study of First Encounter Texts to Develop a Fifth Grade Text Set, Angela Skrabec
On Epistemic Egalitarianism for My P-Zombie Twin: In Defense of the Phenomenal Concept Strategy, Diane Smedberg
Gateway Reads: Finding Texts that Matter to Students, Anne Smith
Re-Writing the Irish Gender Paradigm in Seamus Heaney’s "Oysters" and Eavan Boland's "How it Once Was in Our Country", Kristy Snow
Exploring Residents’ Attitudes toward Solar Photovoltaic System Adoption in China, Yaqin Sun
Investigating the Impact of Digital and Social Media on the Country Music Industry, Casey Thomas
Calculating the Shear and Divergence of Light Rays, Matthew Witherell
The Environmental Impacts of Colonialism, Lawrence Wood
A Critical Analysis of Random Response Techniques, Emanuel Zanzerkia
Theses/Projects from 2014
The Development of Body Image in Dancers: Examining Gesture's Role in Conveying Body Image, Valeria Albano