The new black

community. In 2014, Laverne Cox became the first openly transgender person to be nominated for the Primetime Emmy award of “Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series” for her portrayal of Sophia Burset in the Netflix original series, Orange is the New Black. In April 2015, Caitlyn Jenner, the American Olympian formerly known as Bruce Jenner, came out and announced her status as a transgender woman during a 20/20 interview with Diane Sawyer. These recent high-profile stories have resulted in…

The book Orange Is The New Black is a real story about Piper Kerman’s young adult life, including the experiences she encountered, illegal activities she engaged in and her incarceration as a result of the crimes she committed. As a 24 year old woman, post graduation working as a waitress in Northampton, Kerman was on the look out for adventure. She began a lesbian relationship with Nora Jansen, a well-paid drug dealer trained in Europe who was capable of smuggling drugs into the country.…

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,…

Throughout the many years of my life, there have been many inspirational people who have impacted me personally, but the person who stood out the most to me has been Diane Guerrero. Guerrero is an actress that plays a role in the show Orange Is the New Black known as Maritza Ramos and in the show Jane the Virgin as Lina. What amazes me the most about her is how she was able to overcome the difficult circumstances that she had to face alone, due to her parents who were deported when Guerrero was…

market crashed on March 2, 1932. This day was known as Black Thursday. When the stock market crashed it meant that the stock would go down into small fractions for people to buy meaning if people own stocks the percent of money people get will be less for now on . President Franklin Roosevelt said that this was just a temporary problem, but he said this to relieve the problem. Later the next Tuesday this didn’t stop and was later known as Black Tuesday. President Roosevelt didn’t…

Langston Hughes’ poems which is about working class black African American people. In this poem, he compared the beauty of nature to the beauty of his people. My people is a very short poem, built in three stanzas which consist of two lines in each stanza. This poem was written in simple language, therefore, the readers can easily understand what he is trying to convey. I believe, beneath its simple words, this poem depicts the beauty of working class black African American people that go beyond…

The character I chose is Galina "Red" Reznikov from the T.V show "Orange is the New Black". In the show, Red is the head chef of a prison, and takes great pride in her work. She is feared and respected by majority of the prisoners. She has short red hair, due to which she got her nickname everybody knows her for. She is also usually seen wearing red lipstick, gold earrings, and her white chef's outfit. Red is shown as very cold and intense on the outside. She likes taking charge of situations…

As the power in New Amsterdam changed, the development of slavery evolved as well. When the West India Company first controlled New Amsterdam, or the Dutch, the members of the company did not a have clear idea how to use slaves, as well as how to obtain them. It was not until the end of their reign over New Amsterdam, did the West India Company start to use their slaves efficiently. Once the English took over New Amsterdam, they wisely put their slaves to good use, and found effective ways to…

Media shapes our understanding and view of individuals and crime. Media is our main source of information and our news stations and papers have the power to change the minds of readers. From these outlets we get our information of crime and who they deem “criminal”. The way these are presented can either make the story of little relevance or it can become the days’ pressing issue. The news on TV and the papers both have connotations of discrimination within the text. They also use imagery that…

News comes today comes in many forms from a twitter update on your phone to the more traditional newspaper delivered right to your house each morning. Some news we find intriguing, while other articles we just skim over and think nothing of it. So why does some news catch our attention? Is it the shock factor, something interesting or is it just so horrifying you have to read it? Today one of the most controversial topics flooding the news is gun violence and gun control. It seems we cannot go…