Black Elk

The color black is known to be one associated with negativity and wrongdoing, while the color white is considered pure and superior. Unfortunately, the same can be said when comparing ethnicities. It is not appropriate to judge somebody solely on the color of his or her skin, as they did not make the decision to be black or white. In Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise”, she demonstrates how one woman can break stereotypes and rise above all hardships. Maya’s use of rhetorical questions keeps one…

Dan Brown once stated: “History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe…” (“Quotable Quote”, 2015). The white settlers traveled over to the “new world” to begin anew and to write their own history. However, the land had been settled for thousands of years before the white settlers invaded. Native Americans wanted to handle the situations at hand…

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…

Jojo Baker Professor Tullo Enc 1102 9 September 2014 The Truth Behind Bars A new show has become the latest craze because of the shocking subject matter; the tumultuous lives of female prison inmates. Orange Is the New Black is the name of this gripping new television drama series, only available on Netflix, and it is about a young woman named Piper Chapman. She was put into jail for fifteen months because she was an accomplice with her former girlfriend, Alex Vause who was an international…

The popular Netflix show, Orange is the New Black, exemplifies many of the topics that are covered in social psychology. The show takes place at a women’s minimal security prison and follows the stories and experiences of multiple prison inmates, as well as the prison’s security officers and staff. Often times, the show portrays topics that have been covered in class which depict the characters experiencing situations involving stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination, aggression, and even…

To demonstrate, “Malcolm X delivered "The Ballot or the Bullet" to a predominantly African-American meeting in… the Congress of Racial Equality …which was shifting from nonviolent protest to Malcolm X-like black nationalism. Helping provoke this shift were speeches like this one, which was received enthusiastically” (Miller). Many African Americans came to Malcolm’s speech because they really wanted to know what he meant by the “ballot” and “bullet”. By the end of his speech, Malcolm wanted that…

I have shown that due to the fact of skin color, one is more likely to be pulled over and serve a longer sentence than that of a non-Hispanic White man. I have shown there is inequality structured within the structure. I have broken it down into three separate races describing what they are most convicted for, how long they are sentenced, and how long they serve their sentence. Racial inequality does exist. This inequality stems from the time of slavery when diversity was not accepted. With…

Malcolm X believes “that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community”. He wants his fellow black citizens to better themselves and improve their communities using political knowledge, not aggression. This is the message he is trying to convey with his title. The Ballot or the Bullet can be understood to mean, if you do not take pride in your communities political life, you may as well destroy it. He fears political ignorance by black communities. He will…

Ozzy was known for theatrics and stunts during his concerts which furthered the public’s perception that he was a devil worshipper. At one point in his career, Ozzy bit the head off of a bat at one of his concerts. It was thrown onto the stage and he maintains that he was not aware the bat was real until after he bit off the head. He also bit a doves head off, while intoxicated, during a meeting with some record company executives, furthering the belief that he is a Satanist. Metallica…