Mina P. Shaughnessy

Throughout history, African Americans have dealt the most with discrimination. For decades and to this day, they are fighting for equal rights. Blacks have had less opportunities to succeed in life and voice their opinions. Because of these on going issues, the Black Panther Party (BPP) was formed in 1966. The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (later dropped ‘ for Self-Defense’) were considered the voice of those oppressed during this period of time (Trueman). Initially, the Black Panther…

The black panther is one of the most ferocious and intelligent creatures inhabiting the Earth. They are classified as members of the kingdom Animalia, phylum Chordata, class Mammalia, order Carnivora, family Felidae, genus Panthera, and various species. Their scientific names include Panthera pardus and Panthera onca. The black panther has been so widely popularized that its name is shared by a National Football League team, a Marvel superhero, and countless other entities. Despite its…

violence” (Stein, M. A.), espousing his last words before slaughtered: “You can kill my body, and you can take my life but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever!” (Pearson, H) Though the majority of us may not recognize the name of Huey P. Newton with the passage of time, we feel the consequences of his actions to this day, responsible for the founding of the Black Panther Party and its community-oriented actions. And though his death may have been a heated confrontation over…

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The societies that Cook recognizes as civilizations are some of the greatest of their time, and in some cases they are among the greatest civilizations ever on earth. However, the strict guidelines he has in place for the societies he discusses to be considered civilizations end up ‘disqualifying’ many accomplished would-be civilizations as less than. Cook’s initial argument was that to be a civilization people needed to be “sufficiently large and specialized that… different kinds of people did…

graduated from Merritt college. While attending college, he joined the Afro-American Association (AAA). Dedicated to the (AAA) group he had bigger inspirations in which he learned he was not the only one but also his former brother, Huey P. Newton had the same intentions. Huey P. Newton and him became close once they learned that…

In 1996, Bobby Seale alongside Huey Newton became one of two co-founders of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) in Oakland, California. The FBI presented the group as a terrorist or hate group, and made part of the mission of the organization to destroy the BPP, even though the BPP was nowhere near being as violent a threat. In his book Seize the Time, Seale wrote of the group’s victories and downfalls, including how the FBI exaggerated the nefariousness of the group and deceived the…

I’m glad to hear you’re doing well at your university. We’ve covered a lot of new material in my Dimensions of Culture class since I last wrote you. One topic emphasized recently has been the concept of counter-hegemony, which, intuitively, is defined as opposing the existing hegemony. In layman 's terms, a hegemony simply refers to the status quo engrained into the constructs of a society. Many of the standards which we label to be “common-sense” or “normal” are truly just hegemony in…

In the 60s the black panthers were one of the historic groups in the 60s. The black panthers were founded in October 1966 the black panthers were founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The group was basically form for self- defense and spread the word of what they believed that was right at the time. The black panthers effect our live through what they did by spreading or sending a message that effect the community, what clothing style that the black panthers wore and finally what the black…

“With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos...” (From Beyond). Howard Phillips Lovecraft first authored these words in November of 1920 in the short story From Beyond, words that would come to resound throughout the rest of his writing career centered around his “weird fiction”. Lovecraft’s influence on the genre of horror would end up being comparable only to Edgar Allan Poe. The Cthulhu Mythos, the most famous of his creations, would contain stories that…