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    escape. I had to pick the lock, but what could I open the lock with? I suddenly realized that I had hidden a few objects in my afro. “Aha,” I exclaimed while digging through hair. Luckily, I had found a bobby pin. “Picking a lock can’t be that hard, I mean all you have to do is jiggle the bobby pin around until it unlocks, right?” I have endured many obstacles in my life, but this was going to be the hardest one to overcome. I jiggled that lock for twenty minutes until it finally opened. “Pst

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    The flames continued to engulf Vilgoth, as he stood upon the Silver Talon. When they finally extinguished themselves, only Nightburn, Valana and Sophee remained. Falling to his knees from the sudden departure of Vilgoth, Nightburn’s strength drained, made it difficult even to move with a feeling of weights hanging from his arms and legs. Rushing to his side, Valana and Sophee helped him as he struggled to rise. Having missed his unusual arrival, Sara only saw Valana and Sophee helping him

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    Huey P. Newton, a political activist and founder of the Black Panthers once said that, “The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.” In this statement Newton doesn’t just mean revolutions of government but he is arguing that the young are the ones to cause change and create the future. He uses a form of chiasmus in his quote in order to show that his point is true and to get the reader to think more about what he is saying. And he is correct

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    did. The brutality and unfair treatment the black citizens endured back in the twentieth century is absolutely absurd. The Black Panther Party is the largest black revolutionary organization that has ever existed. Formed in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, the party’s first intended goal

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    Clarence Darrow is a person many people would consider a very important figure in our history, but whether he is considered a hero or a villain depends more on a person’s point of view. There are many facts that Darrow can be considered as a villain because of his personal beliefs than from his actions. Darrow was born in Farmdale, Ohio on April 18, 1857. Darrow began teaching at a country school in the Kinsman area for three years, but he also managed to save some time to study law. He studied

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    The training of armed defense within the Black Panther Party contributed to many of the violent actions that involved members of the Black Panther Party. Violent discipline, in and out of the BPP, was heavily enforced by Huey Newton, however the violent atmosphere surrounding the BPP solely became a place for proving and asserting manhood, and not advancing the revolution that the founders of the BPP had originally called for. Although many black women attempted to embody the feminine American

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    slavery, hardships, and injustice. They had to fight to get their voice heard and their lives were taken seriously. The Black Panther Party started October 15, 1966, in Oakland, California, by Bobby Seal and Huey P. Newton. The organization started based on the life’s work of Malcolm X and his values. Bobby Seal and Huey Newton were both drawn to his speeches and agreed with the many ideas he expressed about racism and equality. Some things they were known for was giving back to their community, being

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    Black Panther Party Goals

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    equality. Before the movement, black people were deemed separate but equal from whites, meaning that they would live under the same rights as white people, but would be separated from whites in many situations, such as in schools and at water fountains. Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, immediately after founding the Black Panther Party in 1966, started to set out goals for how they wanted African Americans to be treated in the future. Shortly after founding the party, these two men created the 10-point program

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    Section Three Chapter One The Black Panther Party, Fighting For African American Rights The Black Panther Party used any means necessary to improve the lives of Black People. During October 1966, in Oakland California, Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. Seale and Newton first met at Merritt Community College. While attending, Seale and Newton fought for a Black Studies program and were successful. Seale and Newton armed groups Black Panther patrols

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    America has always been depicted as an amiable place to live in. Generally, foreigners would picture America as the perfect place to raise a family and lead a joyous life. In their mind, the idea of the perfect fifties’ family household still holds true. Nevertheless, this image was quickly shattered, as the adverse and hostile environment that surrounded them proved to be more difficult than imagined. One of the biggest mistakes that they failed to recognize was the atrocious, random, murder of

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