Orange is the New Black is a Netflix original series, which premiered in July of 2013. At the time, and continuing 3 years later, the show has been considered ‘groundbreaking’ for its portrayal of the LGBT community as well as racial and class minorities. The center focus of Orange, however, happens to be an upper-middle class white woman named Piper Chapman who has just been sentenced to time in a women’s prison. As the story is based off a novel of the same name, written by the title character, Piper’s identity couldn’t be compromised without losing the integrity of the story; however, the show’s creator, Jenji Kohan, has spoken out on the topic stating how she believes Piper is the perfect character for the show to center on as she provides an opportunity for contrast. Each character on the show is witnessed in relation to Piper, which allows for the diversity surrounding her to be made more prominent.
First, Piper is a woman, and second, she is bisexual. Orange is the New Black has been both praised and critiqued for its portrayal of bisexuality on the show. What’s significant about Piper’s character is that she knows exactly who she is and doesn’t ever feel the need to apologize for it. What this means in terms of her sexuality is that she knows she is attracted to both men and women but doesn’t appear to have a desire to state it explicitly. This notion is both progressive in the way of looking at a person for who they truly are beyond their sexual preferences, but also regressive in its connotations relating to
In “The Ease of Living”, Jason’s mother decided to use the money she had saved up to send him to Florida to spend the summer with his grandfather. The mother made the decision to keep him away from the boys back home. It was the beginning of the summer and two young boys had already been killed. Jason’s friend would also sit around and smoke blunts on their spare time. Similarly, in “Dance for me” a young African American is part of a private school and due to her color the girls ask her for weed. On the contrary the protagonist didn’t even know where to buy weed from nor any of the terms related to the use of weed. In “Some Other Kind of Happiness” Teddy, the protagonist’s uncle is a drug addict attempting to pick himself up after he was left by his girlfriend. The continuous presentation of African Americans being involved with drugs and delinquencies can be offensive coming from someone of a different race. A white person making those stories would promptly be interpreted as categorizing the African American community whether those were their intentions or
She gave an example of how Tyra yelled at a model named Tiffany, nicknamed "The Violent Ghetto Girl", for having defeatist attitude and anger management. She stated that "Tiffany was turned into ANTM's symbol of irresponsible ghetto chick who isn't willing to work hard to care for herself or her child?" (401). According to Pozner, Tyra being racist to Tiffany and "Seems Tyra needed Tiffany's anger management course more than then model did." (401). I would said that Tyra wasn't. I saw a video of how Tyra yelled at Tiffany and I can tell that she wasn't taking the show serious and treated it like a joke. She in a national TV show that everyone is watching her and she had no respect to the judges at all. Why did Tyra yelled at Tifany? It because Tiffany treated the show like a joke and have a defeatist attitude. Why does Pozner considers this is racialism? It because Tyra yelled at African American or Latinas doesn't mean she racist. Pozner knew that Tiffany is violent and got kicked out of high school for acting like "the Devil" and yet still defend for her. But of course everyone have their opinion and for Pozner, Tyra is a racist judge with anger
Although the main character in the book was white, the author, Sue Kidd, does a great job of depicting the African American culture during the time. Whether it was Rosaleen getting beat up in jail, or Zach dreaming of being a lawyer, this book showed you what it was like being a minority during a time when rights where still being fought for. One of the smaller conflicts in the story was a man verses man conflict, when Lily and Zach started to like each other. Though they knew that a colored man, and a white girl could never be together, they both were attracted to each other. Were they not from different cultures, people would have been fine with them dating, but because Zach was black, it couldn?t work out.
In Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the reader has the experience to understand what it was like to live in an insane asylum during the 1960’s. Kesey shows the reader the world within the asylum of Portland Oregon and all the relationships and social standings that happen within it. The three major characters’ groups, Nurse Ratched, the Black Boys, and McMurphy show how their level of power effects how they are treated in the asylum. Nurse Ratched is the head of the ward and controls everything that goes on in it, as she has the highest authority in the ward and sabotages the patients with her daily rules and rituals. These rituals include her servants, the Black Boys, doing anything she tells them to do with the patients.
The Odyssey and O Brother Where Art Thou are considered a representation of each other in some ways and prove more similar than it is commonly thought. Although the overall persona of each portrayal is quite different, it still illustrates the same message. A good lesson to be learned from this comparison is to contemplate your actions to prevent bleak situations from occurring. The characters in these tales had to understand the consequences by experiencing it themselves. Acknowledging the time period that these voyages took place in, they didn't have anybody to teach them proper ways to go about situations.
Did you know that people all around the world are forced to battle with an ongoing illness every day of their lives? It is important for every patient to be looked after and offered the best options so they could get back to living a happy and normal life. Any individual should receive undivided attention and support through their long exhausting battle, which will lead them to a clean bill of health. In the book The Fault In Our Stars, by John Green, he develops the idea that young cancer patients must endure many uphill battles during their path to recovery. Initially, Hazel and Augustus prove that relationships are hard to keep up with, but they know they are devoted to be together. However, a true friendship can last forever if it is based on pure honesty. Hazel and Augustus's distinct personalities lead them to forget about their flaws and put their love for each other first which makes them contribute to their own hardships.
For this very reason Jacobs uses the pseudonym Linda Brent to narrate her first-person experience, which I intend to use interchangeably throughout the essay, since I am referencing the same person. All throughout the narrative, Jacobs explores the struggles and sexual abuse that female slaves faced on plantations as well as their efforts to practice motherhood and protect their children from the horrors of the slave trade. Jacobs’ literary efforts are addressed to white women in the North who do not fully comprehend the evils of slavery. She makes direct appeals to their humanity to expand their knowledge and influence their thoughts about slavery as an institution, holding strong to the credo that the pen is mightier than the sword and is colorful enough to make a difference and change the the stereotypes of the black and white
In the movie The Breakfast Club, five seemingly different adolescents are assigned Saturday detention where they learn that although they each fit a particular stereotype, they all have the same characteristics, but they are expressed differently because they have different experiences, strengths and weaknesses that makes them who they are. In the movie, Bender is the “criminal”, Brian is the “brain” and Allison is the “psychopath.” Each of their situations, strengths and weakness are similar to students that are in our classrooms currently or we may have in our classrooms in the future. For each student it is important to understand their learning differences and as a teacher, how I can use their strengths to help them become successful students.
In a time where the general population is overweight and obsessed with technology, there isn’t much time for the outside world. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson is about two corpulent men on a journey to walk the Appalachian Trail. At first their tale seems unlikely because of their weight and the fact that they have never hiked a day in their lives. However, it quickly turns into an inspiring story that we, as people, should use to spark our own adventure in the great unknown. Bryson writes A Walk in the Woods to encourage people to live a little and experience the great outdoors, to meet interesting people in it, and to encounter the enthralling wildlife that resides on the Appalachian Trail.
In the saying of “Character is what you are in the dark” by Dwight Lyman Moody, can meaning many different things. One being, “you are most yourself when no one is watching”, another one also being, “dark and troubled times bring out a person's true nature”, and “your true nature is on the inside”. This quote can or cannot apply to the play of “Romeo and Juliet” by Shakespeare.
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The Crucible was the turning point in literature and in history. It showed how people were convicted with only a minute amount of evidence. The only thing that would have caused a person to be convicted was if people went into hysterics. However, for someone to be accused of using witchcraft, someone else has to say he or she had seen them practicing it or they were the only person who could see it. The trials caused some of the characters to learn new attributes about themselves. Elizabeth Proctor is more reserved. John Proctor, on the other hand, is more prideful; whereas, Reverend Hale is more confident. These three characters go through their own personal journeys and uncover the person within them beneath the surface, which in turn broadcasts their true identity to the audience.
Growing up as a youngster in the 1990s, it was impossible to escape the popularity of R.L. Stine’s book series, Goosebumps. Come to think of it, that could be one of the many reasons for my undying devotion to the horror genre. Regardless, Stine’s novels were one of the cornerstones of a generation – incomparable to any other youngster novel series that was one the market, at least from a male perspective, I suppose.
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The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald representing the life upon which Jay Gatsby lives; Fitzgerald portrays Gatsby as a young man who rises from poverty to riches in order to gain attention from his long lost lover. Having only one dream and trying to recreate the past ultimately leads to the dreamers downfall. Gatsby tries to create the illusion of a “rich Gatsby” to attempt and reinvigorate the love that Daisy and him had in the past, losing in sight everything he built for himself. For every dream there truly is a cost and in the novel Gatsby does everything possible to attain this dream disregarding the cost in the long run.