The new black Essays

  • Orange Is The New Black Essay

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    show Orange is the New Black. Kohan created a world full of murderers, rapists and drug dealers inside an all womens’ prison called Litchfield. The show is mostly based around the life of Piper Chapman (Taylor Schelling.) In the first couple episodes of Orange is the New Black Piper realizes that prison isn’t that great. She gets starved from an older lady who runs the kitchen, and she ends up reuniting with the girl that got her in prison in the first place. Orange is the New Black isn’t just about

  • Gender Roles In Orange Is The New Black

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    OITNB Orange Is the New Black is a Netflix series that focuses on the fictional stories of inmate women. The show depicts many women of different backgrounds, social classes, races, and sexualities. Sexuality was a recurrent theme in the show, and of the women explored their sexuality freely in the prison. The guards were mostly men and the main authority figure was a man as well. This to me showed a sign of dominance and expanded on social beliefs of men being more dominant in society. Describe

  • Gender Stereotypes In Orange Is The New Black

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    Orange Is the New Black (2013-) is a web-series created by Jenji Kohan for Netflix. Based on the real-life experiences of Piper Kerman from her autobiography Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison (2010), the American comedy-drama (Wilson, 2014) follows Piper Chapman, played by Taylor Schilling, and her interaction with the women in Litchfield Penitentiary, a prison in upstate New York; a fictional version of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Orange Is the New Black “portrays characters

  • Orange Is The New Black Psychological Disorder

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    “Orange is the New Black” is a series on Netflix that portraits the stories and life of female prison inmates in Litchfield Penitentiary, which have different cultural background, criminal history and problems within the prison. Many of the inmates clearly demonstrate a psychological disorder, or multiple, which make their time assigned incarcerated peculiarly different, or might be the reason why they had been taken to prison due to crimes they had little control of. One of the most interesting

  • Orange Is The New Black Character Analysis

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    Orange Is The New Black is a comedy-drama netflix series that takes place in a women's federal prison. Based on a memoir by Piper Kerman who was sentenced to federal prison for involvement in a drug organization and transporting drug money. Throughout the series topics and issues such as of race, ethnicity, neofamily structures. Social class, and gender inequality. The show allows viewers to feel compassion and see the human side of inmates. These women all have a story, all have a name, they're

  • Green is the New Black

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    Green is the New Black What if you knew that you were destroying the earth every day, minute, hour, second of your life time? People, humans, are harming the earth. Without recycling everything we use, reducing pollution from cars and machines, or cutting back on water use, we hurt our only home, the earth. Lost every second, another 1.5 acres of rainforest to land development and deforestation, with tremendous losses to habitats. Another 36 U.S. states anticipating local, statewide water shortages

  • Analysis Of Orange Is The New Black

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    is known to be the worst place to end up. Orange Is the New Black showed prison all in a new light. Many critics found Orange Is the New Black to be very racist. In

  • Essay On Orange Is The New Black

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    Orange is the new black staring Taylor Schilling, is a Netflix original series based off Piper Kerman's memoir, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison. This show is a fictionalized version of Kerman’s experience in jail after being a wealthy law-abiding white woman who lived in New York’s upper middle class. Orange is the new black is a controversial series some say it is almost too risky for daytime television the series slowly unfolds different lifestyles from an upper middle class

  • Orange Is The New Black Essay

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    Orange is the new Black What is the show about? The Show revolves around Piper Chapman, a woman in her 30’s from New York city, who is sentenced to 15 months in Litchfield Penitentiary, a minimum security women's federal prison in upstate New York. Piper was been convicted of a decade old crime of transporting a suitcase full of drug money for her then girlfriend Alex Vause who was an international drug smuggler. Piper’s sudden and unexpected indictment seriously disrupts her relationships with

  • Analysis Of Orange Is The New Black

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    Orange Is the New Black; three years ago that statement would have been met with laughing. How could someone possibly think that a colour like orange could even remotely come close to the classic, chic, colour that is black? But now if one were to say that phrase, most people go crazy. Orange Is the New Black is a television show sweeping the world. It has everything we love and are fascinated by: sex, drugs, rule breakers, and personal narratives that keep you on edge. The most interesting part

  • Orange Is The New Black Analysis

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    This essay explores the ideas of power that cultivates from the Latina women within Litchfield Penitentiary from the Netflix Original Series, Orange is the New Black. The Latina community maintains certain ideologies of how to act, look, and speak; creating a struggle with some Latinas who take pride in their nationality, whether it be Dominican or Puerto Rican, there are ones who assimilate to the hegemony, and ones who stand somewhere in between. These women perform a sense of an expected tough

  • The New Face of Black Feminine Beauty

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    The New Face of Black Feminine Beauty Since the early 1900s, Black women have had a fascination with their hair. More explicitly, they have had a fascination with straightening their hair. The need to be accepted by the majority class has caused them to do so. Though the image of straight hair as being better than coarse hair still hasn’t left the Black community, there has been a surge of non straight hairstyles since the nineteen sixties. Wearing more natural hairstyles, which ironically enough

  • Black Mirror Sociological Concepts

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    Black Mirror is an original Netflix television show that depicts a futuristic society heavily reliant on technology. There is a plot altering twist in every episode, which keeps people’s attention. The most interesting part of this series is the fact that every episode is completely different. There is a different storyline in every episode, yet they all connect on the big topic of technology in society. In various episodes, the sociological concepts of conformity, gender, socialization, and deviance

  • OINTB

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    “Orange is the New Black,” also known as OINTB, is a Netflix-original series released in June of 2013 based on the non-fictional novel of the same title written by Piper Kerman. The show follows Piper Chapman, a rich, privileged, thirty-something year old white woman who is serving a fifteen-month sentence in a women’s federal minimum-security prison in upstate New York because of her role in a drug trafficking operation many years previously. The cast has significant white, black and Latino populations

  • Orange Is The New Black: Character Analysis

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    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 Chapman

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    The TV series “Orange is the New Black” is a captivating series Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) who is the ‘star’ of the show. Piper is a public relations executive with a career and a fiance when her past suddenly catches up to 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 10 years earlier. This Netflix Original series is based on the book of the same title. Forced to trade power suits for Prison Orange

  • Unraveling Self-Reflection: Piper Kerman's Prison Memoir

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    “And then I was running, as fast as I could. No one could stop me.” The last words of Piper Kerman’s memoir, Orange Is the New Black, are that of a tear jerker for anyone that has read all two hundred and ninety-five pages. The well organized and well thought out memoir describes her thirteen-month sentence in the federal prison system for a ten-year-old drug charge. Kerman’s memoir is filled with lessons for not only the reader but lessons for herself, as she finds out more about herself than she

  • I Wasn T Ready: Television Analysis

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    Orange is the New Black, “I Wasn’t Ready” it is clear that Netflix has succeeded in creating a show that appeals to the consumer while retaining hegemonic undertones. Orange is the New Black has been crafted to satisfy Netflix’s profit motives through the streaming platform upon which it is presented, the use of marginalized characters as the main cast and the humanization of women of various race, sex and body types targeted at the accepting millennial generation. Orange is the New

  • Rhetorical Analysis Of Orange Is The New Black

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    lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be”, this quotation engenders the philosophy of prison, which consists of one being held responsible for his or her wrongdoings. The book Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman explores how a once drug money launderer goes to jail for a crime which she committed almost a decade earlier. At the time she committed the crime, she considered herself lost and naive in regards to her life. Throughout the book

  • Orange Is The New Black Gender Analysis

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    is, it still lacks the understanding that gender and race should not be something by which people are judged. Society should try it’s best to improve and develop its ideas with no judgement of what someone truly is. In the series, Orange is the New Black, we