Birth of the Black Panther Party

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Huey Newton

Bobby Seale

Other names to know:

Lil’ Bobby Hutton

Ebert “Big Man” Howard

“The Lil Red Book”

Denzil Dowell

Sacramento

Emory Douglas

Tarika Lewis

Richard Aioki

These are the names of people we will be discussing.

Watching Panther (1995) worksheet:
Take a look at the Panther 9ilm, made in 1995 and directed by Mario Van Peebles.
Some of the important events in the Panther narrative are carefully reconstructed,
usually denoted by the date given at the start of the scene. However a lot of the
dialogue and most of the characters are 9ictionalized. Think about the “hollywood”
conventions used in the 9ilm.
Still, close family ties depicted, the opportunistic ‘street hustlers,’ the “ma9ia” type
mobsters in suits, and the FBI and police portrayals, were realistically imagined
from real characters of the time. However, only Huey, Bobby, Eldridge and Little
Bobby are developed from actual Panthers. (I may have missed one or two).
Think about the 9ilm and respond to the following questions. It’s ok if you refer to
the 9irst hour of the 9ilm only.
1) How do the portrayals of Huey and Bobby conform or detract from what you
know of Huey and Bobby? What scene or scenes to they bring the Panther “power”
out? (the excitement, the reason the Party grew so rapidly?)
2) What did you think of the portrayal of Huey Newton? Was his charisma and
complicated personality approached in a believable way?
3) What did you think of the portrayal of Bobby Seale? (I thought he looked a bit old
for the role). Was he convincing as a Party leader?
4) How was “the movement” characterized? Any mention of Martin Luther King? Of
Malcolm X? Can you identify any mentions of the 60s movements taking place?
There were moments folded in, slipped into the dialogue, what did you think of
them?
5) What scene(s) from Panther history would you have liked to see re-enacted or recreated? (think of a missing character they could have included)

6) Overall, how do you compare what you “learned” from Panther 1995, with the
documentary on the Panthers we saw the first week? Was it appropriate to
fabricate so many other people and stories? (the attached file is the same as this
page)

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Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell. 

In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.


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God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.

Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.

To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.

 

References

Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.

Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.

Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.

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