Volume 4, Issue 1

Are Florida's Children Safe?
Evaluating Safety in District 7 Privatized Child Welfare Services

By Antoinette Bazunu | Mentor: Wendell C. Lawther

Are Florida's Children Safe? In 1998, the Florida state legislature mandated the privatization of child welfare services. The decision to contract child welfare services to non-profit organizations was instituted in an effort to lower costs and to increase the effectiveness and quality in service delivery. The 1998 initiative came to be known as “Community-Based Care” and was based on the idea of giving local communities incentives to be more accountable for children....   Read more >



The “blood-stained gate”: The Intertextuality of Memory in Frederick Douglass’s Autobiographies

By Eric Fershtman | Mentor: Dr. Lynn Casmier-Paz

The “blood-stained gate”: The Intertextuality of Memory in Frederick Douglass’s AutobiographiesFrederick Douglass published three autobiographies in his lifetime—the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in 1845, My Bondage and My Freedom in 1855, and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass in 1892. Each must be viewed as a distinct work, because the accounts of the same incident in Douglass’ life receive different treatments in each autobiography.
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