Nation of Islam

Kenyon Neal Clutter, at the age of fifteen, passed away in his childhood home on November fifteenth nineteen fifty-nine. As many people know Kenyon along with several of his other family members was killed by being shot in the head. Kenyon was born on the twenty-eighth of August in nineteen forty-four. He was delivered in Garden City and lived all of his life in Holcomb, Kansas. Kenyon attended the Holcomb consolidated schools. He was very intelligent and had great grades. Unlike many boys…

I really enjoyed this weeks readings! Both Fredrick Douglass and Malcom X are such amazingly inspirational people. While I’ve read about Douglass’s life before, I hadn’t really ever read anything by Malcolm X. It’s really eye opening to read both of their works. So much can be learned from their writings it’s difficult to narrow it down to even one specific area! What was most greatly impressed upon me in this weeks reading was their dedication to education. It’s remarkable to see how they both…

Malcolm X, a great man who inspired many people, was not always an educated man. He had his struggles and inspirations like many other people, but what he did to overcome his struggles, and his self-driven attitude, made him an inspiration to others. Plato was a great philosopher who used inspirational and elaborate methods to describe perseverance. In addition, Plato explains how to pursue difficult obstacles in life to achieve enlightenment. In order to overcome challenges in life, one must be…

The international political thinking of Thabo Mbeki 1. Biographical particulars Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki was born on the 18th of June 1942 in Idutywa, Transkei, to Govan and Epainette Mbeki, whom were educators and activists. Thabo spent lengthy periods away from home, and was often raised by extended family and friends because Govan, as a prominent figure of the African National Congress, was concerned that they might be arrested by Apartheid police. Thabo also became politically active when he…

Have you ever met anyone who has read the whole dictionary or copied every single word and sentence? In Sherman Alexie’s short story “Superman and Me,” he argues that Native Americans are expected to fail, therefore, he proves through out the story that reading is key. He demonstrated this by telling his own story of how he taught himself how to read at the young age of three. He also became the prime example of how he overcame the stereotype by reading relentlessly and with all the knowledge he…

Legendary Beard Fact: Heroic western figure Wyatt Earp was said to have killed thirty men during his lifetime. Perhaps his opponents were as intimidated by his magnificent mustache and beard combo as his skills with a gun. Wyatt Earp started life on March 19, 1848 in Warren County, Illinois, and began his trek westward before the age of two, when his father joined a group of settlers heading for California. The family only made it about 150 miles before leaving the expedition due to the…

Revolutionary Suicide Suicide is the intentional taking of one's own life; it is not one being forced to die. Prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 the horrendous event at Jonestown marked the single largest loss of U.S. civilian lives in a non-natural disaster. On November 18, 1978 a total of 909 Americans died under the direction of People’s Temple leader Jim Jones. Not every member of the People’s Temple willingly gave up their lives many were shot if they were not willingly…

Then, they can recover very easily after hard events. Anyway, to give up is not an option; tunnelers are like the phoenix. They have the survivors’ attitude so do Malcolm X. Unfortunately for Malcolm X, his difficulties began long before his birth. He had reported in The Autobiography of Malcolm X that while his mother was pregnant of him, a “Ku Klux Klan riders galloped and surrounded the house, they shouted for my father to come out, my mother told them that she was alone with her three small…

his accomplishments to my first grade class. His legacy made me proud to be a Black Muslim. It was difficult for me to understand that he was assassinated by his own people. Malcolm X’s Assassination made me think. He was once the face of the Nation of Islam. The brought him up from the prison gutters and gave him the platform to elevate black people in America. How do you go from that to being responsible for his death? I believe that there were a many factors that lead to his death. But the…

circumstances he blamed on the “white devils” of his nation. He fights an internal battle that perceives this attack and his situation as personal. He then finds peace the same way Sayyid does in the religion of Islam. He converts in a prison under the Nation of Islam just as Sayyid joins the Muslim Brotherhood. Groups both set on spreading Islam in very similar way. Each declaring in a sense a “jihad” but with that of Sayyid’s being motivated as need for Islam to spread. Malcom reflects a need…