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.

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Theses/Projects from 2014

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How Judges Decide: James Wilson's Theory of Constitutional Interpretation, Geena Bournazian

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Rooms Without Men, Kailey Brennan

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The Folly of Erasmian Scepticism in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, James Cafferty

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Chain of Command: The Barriers of Reporting Sexual Assault in the Military, Danielle Christenson

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Developing a Book Buddies Curriculum for English Language Learners, Melissa M. Cieto

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Relation of Personality Traits to Cognitive Impairments and Disease Severity in Parkinson's Disease, Lindsey Clark

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A Modernity Paused: James Joyce, Catholicism, and the Celtic Revival in the Pre-Revolution Ireland of Dubliners, Sean Clifford

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A Series of Tubes, Timothy Concannon

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Mom, Dad, and Johnny, John Condry

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Generation Peace: Peace Education to Unify a Globalized Society, Jocelyn Coombs

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Perceptions and Misconceptions: The Relationship Between Education and Understandings of Individuals Experiencing Homelessness, Julie Cronin

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Communicating Shakespeare: How High School Educators Should Approach the Great Playwright, Samantha DeFilippe

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Inspiring Action through Graphic Design: An Exploration & Creation of Graphic Design to Bring About Change for Girl's Education Globally, Gabriella Diniz

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Music Therapy and Communication Disabilities: Singing, Speech, and the Brain, Jennifer Drake

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Coleridge, James and the Dangerous Imagination, Taylor Ferguson

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From Goal-Striving to "Right Intention": A Grounded Theory Analysis of Interviews with Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Participants, Julia E. Field

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Prisons and Pups: An Examination of Service Dog Training and Their Weekend Families, Kendra Garcia

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Beating South Africa's Endless Plague: Making Life Easier for HIV/AIDS Orphans, Shannon Garrity

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Why the Arts?, Theresa Girardi

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Dynamics of Climate Change: Explaining Glacier Retreat Mathematically, Robert Guillette

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Transfer of Arabic Grammatical Knowledge to Spanish Subject-Verb Agreement, Jennifer Herzog

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The Past is Present: Exploring Methods of Cooperation Between Archaeologists, Native Americans, and Museums in Southern New England, McKayla Hoffman

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Jane Austen and the 21st-Century Classroom, Maureen Jecrois

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More than Just Food: Analysis of Food and Social Interactions, Kelsey Kazlauskas

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Graphic Designers and Brain Surgeons, Both Highly Trained, Yet Not Interchangeable: The Creation of Promotion Materials for Springfest 2014, Alanna Mehrtens

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Using the Objectification Theory Framework to Assess the Unique Body Image Concerns of Women Experiencing Homelessness, Melanie K. Mitchell

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Influence of Traditional and Nontraditional Entries on Figure Skating Jumps, Bryanna Nevius

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Transcending Borders: Mexican Experiences with Migration, Race and Identity, 1910-1965, Marissa Nichols

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Does Parental Divorce Have an Affect on a Child's Education?, Brittany Odenweller

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Visions of the Amistad: American Public Engagement with the Amistad Story, Samuel Perkins

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Grafton Ave.: A Screenplay, Christopher Porazzo

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Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Kerrie Pratt

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A Statistical Analysis of the Role of Critical-Thinking Games in College Students' Quantitative Reasoning, Melissa Radevicz

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Exploring the American Revolution from Multiple Perspectives through Critical Literacy Discussions in a Fifth-Grade Classroom, Janelle Roberts

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The Construction of Ethnoreligious Identity Groups in Syria: Loyalties and Tensions in the Syrian Civil War, Eliott Rousseau

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Exploring Omissions from Historical Chronicles in Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy, Christopher Roy

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Elementary Students' Strategies for Solving Visual Logic Tasks, Camille Schulman

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Strategic Analysis of Casino Expansion into Massachusetts, Nicole Sherman

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The Power of the Gaze: Self- and Partner-Objectification Within Same-Sex Relationships, Diane Smedberg

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Adam Smith: Providing Morality in a Free Market Economy, Kendra Tully

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Colonization through the Eyes of Dolls: An Iconography of the Doyle Doll Collection, Erika Umali

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No One is Alone: Responsibility, Consequences, and Family in Into the Woods, Jennifer White

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A Revisionist Herstory: Self-Determination in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, Genevey Ziino

Theses/Projects from 2013

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Efficiency and Reliability of the Transit Data Lifecycle: A Study of Multimodal Migration, Storage, and Retrieval Techniques for Public Transit Data, Matthew Ahrens

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Doomed: A Speculative Work of Science Fiction, Caitlin Angelo

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Stepping Into Nationhood: The Threat of Emasculation in Irish Society, Lauren Baker

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Abandoning Standard Assumptions in Pareto Optimization Models: Simulating Market Scenarios with Incorrectly Estimated Preference Structures, Joshua Bernard

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LGBT Homeless Youth in Boston, Massachusetts: Experiences Regarding Resources and Potential Barriers, Brittney Connery

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Songs for the Nightingale, Michael Cotter

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A Bull Market for Moll Flanders: A Female Capitalizing on the Changing Economic Climate of Eighteenth Century London, Sarah Damewood