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2020 Vision
Entitled “2020 Vision”, this cabaret-style show was approximately one hour in length. It was translated into American Sign Language and signers will be incorporated into the performance. Musical numbers were performed with ASL, whether the vocalists sang and signed or an ASL student signed the piece. The goal was to allow members of the Deaf community to experience theatre unlike ever before. “2020 Vision” incorporated two communities that do not typically interact, allowing an educational opportunity for individuals in both fields. For many signers, this was their first opportunity to sign onstage; the expressiveness and emotion of ASL is easily incorporated into an actor’s training. This project brought together students from all different majors as the individual performers are not limited to performance majors. The production, performed February 10-11, was a major success. Not only did every member of the cast thoroughly enjoy their time working on the project, but both performances had almost a full audience including members of the Deaf community and ASL students from around the area and near Cleveland. This project greatly benefited both communities, and through the ASL department I was able to connect with hundreds of Deaf individuals from Kent, Akron, and Cleveland.
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Disabilities in Writing Centers: A Review
Multiple studies performed and researched through writing centers throughout the United States have concluded a general consensus that not enough is being done to help students with disabilities achieve. The challenge is knowing what approaches we can take as tutors to be able to properly help them reach their successes like any other learner or student. In this review, I discuss the methods discovered within multiple different writing centers. I focus on their tactics, their conclusions, and how we can adapt their findings to specifically the Kent State University Writing Commons.
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Dante’s Construction of Justice and the Diasporic Interpretation
The need for justice and selfhood has never been a stranger to African Diasporic communities. From the colonialization of Africa to the new era of Jim Crow the constructions of selfhood and justice have always been prevalent. The construction of these two themes can be traced back to a medieval Italian author Dante Alighieri. It is of importance to note the disparaged access to European Classicism during the early 1800’s to the early 1900’s and onward to the 21st century today. This understanding of disparaged access lends to why these Diasporic communities repurpose Dante’s construction of justice and selfhood; both within the realms of theological tradition and social understanding. The poetic imagination of a disadvantaged community was researched for this work to draw literary comparisons from the Commedia to contemporary African works such as The System of Dante’s Hell by Amiri Baraka and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Looking at this small sample of literary works within this essay there is both an explicit and implicit reference to the Commedia. With this research I hope to reveal and create a dialogue of understanding about how black classicism and the appropriation of Dante’s Justice has fostered a construction of what Diasporic freedom can be within justice, society and various forms of art.
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