Final Project, A. Student
Exhibit 1: Prep Note by Kaylee, April 19,2024, class blog https://blog.richmond.edu/storytelling2023/2024/04/19/prep-note-4-19civil-w/)
“Are Prisons Obsolete?” by Angela Davis is a book that I’ve heard a lot about online but I never took the time to read it (or at least the first three chapters) until now. It’s a great book that offers an insight into the current US prison system and how it does much more harm than it does good. The current prison system is for profit, which has allowed countless injustices to happen all in the hopes of making more money. The current prison system has no benefits, other than making said money for a selective group of people. The prison system works at the expense of humans, and often whole communities. The fact that the number of prisons in California doubled within a decade is extremely disheartening, and worse when you learn that men to fill these prisons are exponentially rising. Prisons obviously have not become a deterrent for crime because so many people are still being sent to prisons. A quote from the book that I found important was that “Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings”. This quote highlights the way that prisons simply take people in but do little (often nothing) to help fix the systemic problems that caused people to resort to crime in the first place. I was also shocked to read how prisons truly started after the civil war and due to Jim Crow laws, but this makes sense due to the number of POC imprisoned vs. their white counterparts. All in all, this book was a great read and I hope that I will have time to continue it.
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Exhibit 2:
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Compost Heap Exhibit
“Before the rubble had been cleared from the devastated business district of the capital city, Richmond’s press began to campaign against voting rights for its freed black citizens.” (Campbell, 131)
‘But what if it was one of ours?’ Furlong said. ‘This is the very thing I’m saying,’ she said, rising again. ‘Tis not one of ours.’ (Keegan, 49)
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Title of Essay
Essay (5-6 pages)
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Works Cited
Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. University of California Press, 1966.