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    The New Black Satire

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    Orange is the New Black Season 6: All you need to know Fans of the hit Netflix show Orange is the New Black have been eagerly anticipating its sixth season for months. At long last, new details have been revealed by Digital Spy. The upcoming season of the popular and critically-lauded series will have to resolve a lot of loose ends and questions that the show’s fifth season brought up. According to its actors and creators, the new season will likely feel much different from the last yet still feature

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    Orange Is The New Black

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    Orange is the New Black In 2004, Piper Kerman began her fifteen month prison sentence after laundering drug money for her ex-girlfriend. Nine years later, her story is brought into the public’s attention with the television show Orange in the New Black, having been loosely based off of her memoir of the same name. Orange is the New Black premiered on Netflix in July of 2013. Created by Jenji Kohan, who also created Weeds, Orange is the New Black revolves around Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling, best

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    Orange Is The New Black

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    Shaylah Henchon Orange Is The New Black October In the book "Orange is the New Black" by Piper Kerman, Piper plays the main character. At the beginning of the story Piper is at the Brussel airport waiting for her baggage. She was very worried that someone was going to catch her smuggling $10,000 of drug money into the country for her girlfriend, Nora. She started to help Nora deal drugs and wire money. Piper was at the Brussels airport when she realized she was just being used to help wire

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    New Black Reflection

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    Last night, I was sitting cross legged on my bed holding Chinese take out in my hand while watching the new episode of Orange Is The New Black, which premiered on Friday at 12 am, long past my bedtime. I was behind everyone else in the game, only on the second episode on the third day of its release. The second episode dealt with a lot of issues, aside from Piper being convinced she’s Litchfield’s new “gangsta”, that I related to on a personal level. I’ll try not to reveal too much, if you’re like me

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    Orange is the New Black, a show airing Netflix, screens five seasons of what occurs within the Litchfield prison system, an all-female prison, surrounding the character Piper Chapman and the injustices of the criminal justice system. Throughout the five seasons of Orange is the New Black, the show presents many recurring viewpoints on various social commentaries including, but not limited to racial, criminal justice system, and Lesbian Gay Bi Transsexual Queer Two Spirited Intersex Asexual plus

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    Orange is The New Black Being aired on the summer of 2013 for the first time and surpassing other TV shows with its rating. Orange is The New Black is a comedy-drama genre television show based on criminal women. [intro] The twenty-first century relatable themes such as social issues are portrayed in this TV show. Throughout every season a new social issue is encountered that still affects the world today. Orange is The New Black portrays social issues such as, drugs, LGBTQ+, American prison

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    2014 A.P. American Government Book Review “Orange Is the New Black” is a modern memoir that leads you through Piper Kerman’s experiences in Danbury, a women’s correctional facility, and shows you the life within the cold walls. Her words magnify the greatness within everybody, even the ones who have been thought to not even contain a heart, not even a soul within their body. The people who have been encaged, locked up behind bars. “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”

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    Orange is the New Black by Jenji Kohan has been streaming on Netflix since July 2013 by the production company Lionsgate Television. The television show is about the main character Piper Chapman who just got in jail. She is serving time at Litchfield Penitentiary, a federal prison for women in upstate New York, for drug smuggling with her ex-girlfriend (Alex) a couple of years ago. When Chapman goes to prison she is reunited with Alex, even though their relationship goes through ups and downs as

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    Orange is the New Black demonstrates through the prisoners and officers in charge of them abnormal psychology. In Orange is the New Black we are exposed to many mental disorders that are common and uncommon in today's society. Throughout the series we are presented people with substance abuse, personality, and possible autism spectrum disorder. The main character, Piper Chapmen, played by Taylor Schilling, has been locked up in federal prison for being an accessory for her ex-girlfriend’s drug

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    The Netflix television series “Orange is the New Black” has been commended for its diversity and complex representation of various ethnic groups through characters who are either inmates or staff in a women’s federal prison. A unique feature of the series is that it frequently includes entire scenes of dialogue in Spanish, or that switch between Spanish and English. While there are other characters and scenes that show bilingual code switching with other languages such as Russian and German, the

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