American Black Bear

Angela Birckbichler Brianne Howard Writing 111 Essay #4 Orange is the New Black shows the lives of inmates at Litchfield Penitentiary through Piper Chapman’s eyes. Piper Chapman is a white woman in her early thirties who is imprisoned in Litchfield Penitentiary for a crime committed ten years prior with her ex-girlfriend, Alex Vause. Vause and Chapman were traveling the world together when Vause was working under a man named Kubra Balik who ran an international drug cartel. Within the show,…

An additional TV show that has hit the top feminist shows according to views today is Orange is the New Black. Piper Chapman is a public relations executive with a career and a fiancé when her past suddenly catches up with her. In her mid-30s she is sentenced to spend time in a minimum-security women's prison in Connecticut for her association with a drug runner ten years earlier. Forced to use an orange prison suit, Chapman makes her way through the corrections system and adjusts to life behind…

Race ,Gender, Multi-Ethnicity and Cultural Poetics/Politics of Audre Lorde Abstract: African American women poets, throughout the centuries have always defined themselves and their community in their works. It has been more apparent in literature, especially in poetry. Audre Lorde is an African American writer, radical feminist, womanist, and civil rights activist. Writing poetry was a responsibility for her as it was necessary for her survival and the survival of others. This study considers…

only able to paint a picture of humanity, but appeal to one’s emotional humanity through their work. Maya Angelou gives a literary and political voice to African Americans which enables people to work against anti-black racism. Her poetry evokes the fundamental socio-political message of the Black Lives Matter movement, the affirmation of black people’s contribution to society, humanity, and resilience to oppression. The juxtaposition of freedom and restriction in the Caged Bird, the freedom…

revealed through repetition, through their point of view, and similes. Could it be that a song so distinctive in its ambitions for its perspective be yet so similar to a poem of deep cultural meaning? Through all of “Famous” is a journey of a African-American man from rags to riches but yet remembering and coming back to where he came up from. Meanwhile, “Still I Rise” is about a race still rising through the hatred that society has given them and the belittling they have gone through. A form…

The Permanence of Racism “Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of the well”, Derrick Bell. For as long as humans have existed, the permanence of racism, prejudicialness and separation between mankind has always been prevalent. The idea presented in “Faces at the Bottom of the Well” that, “we shall overcome”, is an excuse for people of color to sit around and wait for an adversary to come and bring them out of the compromising situation Whites has placed us in. Bell elaborates on his…

The American dream of equal rights an opportunity for all races is not yet a reality. Historically local attempts at segregation have been met with resistance, they also recently have been too. Study show that black students don't have the same opportunities as white students also black people have been targeted by the police but the Black Lives Matter movement has been taking steps to fix this. The South African apartheid lasted for over 50 years, this gave black people no political rights, a…

events that take place in Absalom than what happens on the stage of a theatre. Faulkner compares the collapse of the American South to a theatre of violence, injustice, bloodshed “and all the satanic lusts of human greed and cruelty” (207). Sutpen’s legend can be performed on stage and the main actor is the white race which tries to dominate, seal, and subtle the voice of the black race. Joseph W. Reed argues that Thomas Sutpen’s dramatic downfall reaches “melodramatic theatrical trappings, an…

Background: The Washington Post is an American daily newspaper. It is the most widely circulated newspaper published in Washington, D.C., and was founded on December 6, 1877. The newspaper won forty-seven Pulitzer Prizes and has a particular emphasis on national politics. Daily editions are printed for the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. Wesley Lowery joined the Washington Post in February 2014. He is a national reporter who covers law enforcement, justice, race and politics.…

W.E.B Du Bois, an African-American writer and activist said, “The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife…He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American...” Du Bois is describing a part of the African-American’s battle for freedom which takes place throughout most of the twentieth century. Throughout the poem, “Let America Be America Again,” Langston Hughes colorfully depicts the lack of freedom for black Americans in the land of the free.…