Orange Is The New Black

Introduction There is wide variety of what our society needs to be educated on but the ones this paper will address is how society discriminates on gender and appearance. To embrace greater diversity means we need greater understanding of our differences. You can't find a person with a vagina or penis whether a single, mother, father, or a teenager who haven't been in the place where they doubted their attractiveness based on their weight. Both people with penises and vaginas…...

Mass incarceration of African Americans is one of the biggest problems that we as a society face today. Many of our African American men are either in jail, or on parole for crimes that are committed by whites everyday. Police often overlook those crimes when it comes down to whites but they do not for blacks. Hence why a lot of black men are missing from our society and locked away in prisons for years for such minuscule crimes. Yes…...

Piper Kerman is a Smith College graduate who is serving thirteen months in prison, from 2004 to 2005, for a drug trafficking and money laundering crime she committed nearly ten years before. For most of her entire stay Piper is placed in a minimum-security prison in Danbury, Connecticut. I am from Avon, Connecticut so because her story was so close to home it immediately struck me as interesting. Her experience is eye opening, and as the book progresses you can…...