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 2016
Epistemic Problems in Contemporary History, Michael Hollien
Determining Diesel Education in Urban Middle Schools in Eastern Massachusetts, Julianne Hooper
Picture This! Objectification Versus Empowerment in Women's Photos on Social Media, Amber L. Horan
The State of Bridgewater: Developments in the Bridgewater State College Campus through Undergraduate Students Activism, Kayla Jane Hoyt
Scapegoat Hysteria: A Comparison of the Salem Witch Trials and the Red Scare, Andreanna Hughes
Aligning CityLab Biotechnology Curriculum with NGSS Standards and Practices, Arianna Jefferson
How Microfinance Can Close Asymmetrical Information on Peer-to-Peer Platforms, Justin Jones
The Enclosure of Eden: John Clare and the Politics of Place and Past, Amanda Labriola
Femininity and Feminism in Courtship in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Nicole Langevin
Becoming a Certified Public Accountant: It is the Only Way to Go, Benjamin Lombard
America's First Subway - History of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Kelsey Lynch
Characterizations of Four Interval Wavelet Sets and Algorithms, Christopher McDonald
(Knight)3: A Graphical Perspective of the Knight's Tour on a Multi-Layered Chess Board, Frederick Scott Neilan
American Kettlebell Swing and the Risk of Lumbar Spine Injury, Steve Oikarinen
Modeling Consequences of Reduced Vaccination Levels on the Spread of Measles, Guillermo Ortiz
Screening and Stigma: Lack of Male Representation in Childhood Sexual Abuse Research and Literature, Dylan Preston
Crossing the Line? Victim and Defendant Attractiveness Impacts Juror Perceptions in a Stalking Case, Kristin M. Purnell
Conversations: Research and Choreographic Analysis, Aaron Roberts
Development of a Kinetic Model for the Transesterification of Glycerol Fatty Acid Triesters Using 1H (1D and 2D) NMR, Leonard W. Sprague
"Diverse but not too diverse": Social Identity, Oppression, and Resistance in Fan Culture, Julia Stern
Reaper in the Rain: An Animated E-Book, Kurt Stilwell
The American Electorate in Black & White: A Measure of Candidate Selection and Policy Preferences, Femi Stoltz
Not Just Dead, But Gay! Queerness and the Vampire, William A. Tringali
Transition to Independence: Supportive Relationships with Care Takers and Its Role on Success and Independence with Former Foster Care Youth, Jasmin Vasconcelos
Beyond the Process God: A Defense of the Classical Divine Attributes, Steven J. Young
Clara Schumann's Piano Sonata in G Minor: A Preview of Things to Come, Jiaying Zhu
Theses/Projects from 2015
Post-Racial or Racial Plateau?: Pym’s Revisions of Arthur Gordon Pym’s Racism, Alyssa Amaral
A Walk through Time at the Boats Archaeological Site in Dighton, Massachusetts, Grace Bello
Leading Women: Henry James and Feminism in The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians and The Golden Bowl, Emily Boockoff
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