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Castles In The Air, Emily Deibler Jul 2020

Castles In The Air, Emily Deibler

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Castles in the Air is a retelling of Dracula that uses elements of the original Stoker text while also diverging from the story and exploring victim narratives and queer subtext. The project explores the limitations and possibilities of transformative texts, such as, essentially, fanfiction.


Forgiveness, Freedom And The Inmate Issue, Taylor Smith May 2020

Forgiveness, Freedom And The Inmate Issue, Taylor Smith

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Forgiveness Freedom and the Inmate Issue:

It is no secret that the United States has a mass incarceration problem. The war on drugs, traffic violations, and the Three Strikes Law, are just pieces of the systems being used to repeatedly place people behind bars. What we are facing now as a society is the repercussions of reintegrating under educated, digitally literate, mentally abandoned individuals back into society. In addition to post jail operatives like parole fees, fines and probation scheduling are re-sentencing these individuals into a society they no longer relate to, that socially struggle to adapt to and that …