Two godly brothers who personify the DC and Marvel Universes become aware of the other's existence, and challenge one another to a series of duels involving each universe's respective superheroes. The losing universe would cease to exist. The story had an "out of universe" component in that, although there were eleven primary battles, five outcomes were determined by fan…
In the excerpt from Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively, a brother and sister are searching for fossils while their mother waitsaid nearby. Claudia always wants to outdo her brother, Gordon, at everything he does at their trip to the beach. Lively's Monday Tiger illustrates that sibling rivalry gets the best out of each person involved. Lively's use of word choice, tone, and dialogue shoes readers how the siblings act towards each other and how their mother deals with her children fighting.…
Father Brown and Brother Cadfael were both men of the church who were put into situations where they needed to solve some sort of crime. Unmistakably the two had similarities in how they solve the crime. Who would have been better to solve a crime than a man of God? They had their differences in how they did their job as well. Most of all, they had the biggest difference, which is the dissimilarity in what they believed. They didn’t solve the same crime, but how they did it was similar in certain ways.…
My initial thought was her autobiography would be about the Black Panther’s ideology and movement. How wrong was I? Angela Davis wrote this book as a tool to show her resistance against the state, and continue the work to end systematic oppression through political awareness. This book is enlightenment to those who are not familiar with black woman’s firsthand experience in the criminal justice as an offender; well let me rephrase that into a better term as a political prisoner. What I love about this autobiography that each event in Ms. Davis’ incarcerated life she turned into an act of political activism to continue the fight to end the struggle, whether she was on a hunger strike or when she shared a cell with a mentally ill white woman. She channeled these events into something beyond the surface.…
"Black Power", the word alone raises an abundance of controversial issues. Black power was a civil rights movement led by the black panthers which addressed several issues including segregation and racism. Black power had a different meaning to every member of the Mc Bride family, Ruth and James both looked at black power from a different angle. In "The Color of Water", The author James Mc Bride admired the black panthers at first, but slowly he grew afraid of them after fearing the consequences his mother might face for being a white woman in a black community influenced by black power. James' worries were baseless, black power's motive was to educate and improve African American communities not to create havoc or to harm members of the white community.…
Boyz N the Hood and Black Freedom Fighters in Steel have many common themes between them. At first they don’t seem to have anything in common, but as you look at the two they relate very much and in many ways. In both the movie and the book black Americans came together to fight a common struggle and lived in area filled with poverty, racial comments, and stereo typing along with hate, violence and racism. They both have characters that have dreams and hopes of a brighter future and accomplishing goals that seem unreasonable. Though both stories take place during different eras they both have commonalities. They both tell the story of struggle of black people trying to survive in a world filled with hate and displacement. The two main themes I believe that the movie and book both have is the theme of hope and hopelessness. In this paper I will address these two common themes and how they play their role in each the book and the movie. In the movie hope and hopelessness is symbolized in many ways as to the affect of growing up black in an urban city during a violent time. In the book hope and hopelessness is shown through the coming together of black people to strive for a better future not just for themselves but for future generations, even though there are many obstacles and hurdles that are trying to hold them back from accomplishing their dreams and goals.…
The sixties was a time in American society where the youth from the post-war baby boom era became teenagers and the young adults. The movement from the conservative fifties continued and eventually resulted in the revolutionary ways of thinking and change in the cultural of the American way of life. With an extreme admiration of no longer being an image of their predeceasing generation, young Americans wanted and demanded change. These changes affected education, values, laws, entertainment, and the way of life for several citizens around the country. As society, it is extremely important to understand that although the valiant efforts and impact that African American’s had, particularly in the 1950’s and 1960’s, in helping restructure American culture, many of the racist views of the past still play apart in American society. The 1950’s is often described as the calm before the storm of the 1960’s. During this time period, society was very much conformed to the views of conservative living. The desire for security during this era, reinforced by McCarthyism at home and the Korean War, created was known as the cold war culture. During the post WWII period in America, the face of the nation changed greatly under President Truman and Eisenhower. Because of extreme paranoia caused by Communism following WWII, conformity in the United States became an ideal way to distinguish American culture from the rest of the world.…
The Black Panther Party (BPP) was a group created in 1966. The group’s purpose was to teach African Americans to protect themselves from police brutality while interacting with police officers and they sought to bring about social change. The group tried to get change by “employing violent tactics” like marching on streets while toting guns. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had a program called the Counter Intelligence Program(also known as its portmanteau COINTELPRO).…
Organized in the 1960s at the height of the American Civil Rights Movement, the Black Panther Party emerged as a revolutionist group pioneering a strategy of militancy. The Party's aims were to eliminate the discrimination challenging African-Americans in America since the time of slavery, and to protect their communities from police brutality. Inspired by contemporary radical leaders such as Malcolm X, the party recognized that in order to restructure American society so that civil equality was obtainable by all people, a much stronger opposition was necessary. Party members felt the passive resistance adopted by their predecessors fighting for equality proved futile, and therefore the Party endorsed new tactics of self-defense and violent resistance to secure their political and social rights as American citizens. However, the promotion and employment of open violence fueled the government with legitimate reason to battle for the Party's eradication. Regardless of its success in instituting innovative community reforms in African-American neighborhoods, during its short existence the Black Panther Party was never able to achieve its fundamental goal of eliminating racial discrimination and ensuring civil equality for all when battling against an America averse to change.…
In our society races are given a general identity some are good some are bad, many traits of the identity cause stereotypes and prejudice against the races of America. African American men and women have been negatively identified and this has caused discrimination and hate towards them as a race. From slavery to present day African American males have been looked upon as savage, violent, threatening and a menace to society sexually overlooking the efforts of people such as Malcom X and martin Luther King also groups Alpha Phi Alpha who have created programs to help the youth and put them on a path to success, The Black Panther Party that was identified as a menace to society but was only created to aid the black community in a time when they…
In the nineteen fifties black communities across the United States were suffering under the heavy burden of poverty. Unemployment, incarceration, drug use and numerous other conditions of poverty were all significantly more prevalent amongst blacks then whites. At the same time blacks across the country were struggling against the oppression of general racial discrimination and Jim Crow segregation in the south. From this turmoil a multitude of black rights movements were created to struggle for equality and better living conditions for blacks. On the forefront of this undertaking was the non-violent Civil Rights Movement led by Baptist Minister Martin Luther King Jr. and the “by…
After doing research to compare/contrast the two groups, the Black Panthers and the Ku Klux Klan, it opened my eyes. I realized that the new generation is oblivious to the existence of both groups and the similarities and differences in them. I researched the two different groups to see when the groups came into existence who were the members, why they fought for rights they thought they deserved and the group's involvement in violent acts and their remnants today.…
The significance of the Black Panthers was in many ways different from other events or people that have contributed to the movement. The Black Panthers was and is a group that worked towards the Civil Rights Movement. But there was more to the Panthers than just the Civil Rights Movement. The Black Panthers, (not to be a confused with the comic book character), was founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale (Black Panther Party). Both were African American men that felt the need to make the group to fight the social injustice and inequality that the whites were pushing upon the Blacks.…
* Late 1960s counter culture and how the Black Panther Party reflected the change from nonviolence to violence of the culture…
What benefits does looking at a family provide for storytelling through films? When looking at a family there tends to be a lot of characters: the nuclear family, the extended family, and the close family friends who are not even blood related. Why would a filmmaker ever choose to work with such a large number of characters and people? The stories that can be told from a family tend to be universal such as, love, marriage, heartbreak, hardship and so on. These stories can only exist within a family do to one thing—generations. Family can have upwards of three generations or maybe even more. These generations have all experience different events in life which shapes their beliefs and morals. Filmmaker Mira Nair uses the family as the locus within…