Jonestown Massacre

In the I Have A Dream speech, Martin Luther King jr’s main idea was to convince his audience that there was hope for their cause. One way this is seen is in the quote, “Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning.” Many opponents of the civil rights movement hoped that it (the movement) would die down. King assured them using this metaphor that it was still alive. He went on to talk about how the Negroes will never be satisfied as long as there was racial injustice. This line helped to illustrate the main idea. Along with this, he says, “Now is the time to rise up from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.” He used the imagery of this line to help inspire the people to keep hoping, working

troops were on the pine ridge reservation in South Dakota to quiet the ghost dance disorder of 1890.After the Indian police killed chief sitting bull while trying to arrest him on December 15th on the standing rock his hunkpapa band of the Lakota tribe grew agitated and troop reinforcements arrived.When 200 of the Indians fled southward to Cheyenne river military officials feared a hunkpapa miniconjou coalition.There was about 38 of the hunkpapa joined a more militant group of 350 or so miniconjou ghost dancers led by chief Bigfoot.

Pennsylvania. Washington’s men murdered the gathering in what came to be recognized as The Battle of Jumonville Glen. France and England initially pursued the French and Indian War mainly for power of the area known as the Ohio River Valley. The Ohio River Valley was a property filled with fur-bearing animals and profuse resources. Both English and French colonists wanted to settle it to make fortunes in the fur trade. The Ohio River formed by the union of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers at the time Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ran through the valley. As French settlers arrived upon the area from Canada, and English settlers came from Virginia, territory clashes were unavoidable. Neither side was willing to negotiation, as each assumed they

When he was arrested and jailed in Birmingham, Alabama he then fell under criticism by white clergy for coming to Birmingham as an “outsider” to cause trouble and increase tension through public sit-ins and marches. I feel that Martin Luther King was able to both set aside that criticism by establishing his credibility to have not only been invited to come to Birmingham to help end the injustice to the Negro people via peaceful means, but he was able to identify moral, legal and ethical cause to promote his quest to put a stop to what he identified as “the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States” (King, 2017, p, 3). I will provide a summary that will show what Martin Luther King believed were the cause of the injustice that he was striving to end to as well as his concern over the white community’s ability to make the Negro “wait for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.”

(Sciway.net). This act of racism would spark the beginning of one of the most disgusting

Native Americans had struggled since colonists arrived in America. Indian tribes were spread all over the country but because the greedy colonists, Natives became minorities and each tribe suffered through many hardships. The Battle of Wounded Knee, or as some consider a massacre, occurred on December 29, 1890. This was the final tragedy that marked the end of the Indian Wars on the crimsoned prairie. The U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment was the U.S. side, and they gunned down more than 200 American Indian people in the battle. This massacre changed the face of Native American history. On the day of the Massacre, Native Americans warriors were forced to give up and surrender their weapons; however, a soldier got in a fight with an Indian and a shot

Meow! Said the kittens at our new local pet store. In the year 2047, we had an overflow of adorable cats at our store, the store dropped the price very low. The cats were precious they were white, fluffy, and had cyan blue eyes. Everyone started to buy them, soon they were all sold out. Almost everyone in our small town of Edgartown, Massachusetts had a cat now. My neighbors Jim and Susan Smith brought one home, then around midnight, my wife and I heard a gunshot very close. We called the cops warning them of what we've heard. In a couple hours we found out they killed each other by shooting each other at the same time and there have been several other shooting reports around town. Our neighbors had no reason to commit suicide, they were

On November 18th, 1978 in the area of the small town of Port Kaituma in Guyana a horrid scene was taking place that would shock the world, and forever change the view of religion. Meant to be a paradise for the poor, the abused, the needy, and those wanting to change the world, Jonestown, founded by Jim Jones, leader of The Peoples Temple, was the location of a mass murder-suicide taking the lives of more than 900 people including countless children. “And, the way the children are, laying dead now, I'd rather see them lay like that than to see them have to die like the Jews did, which was pitiful anyhow. And I'd just like to thank Dad for giving us life and also death, and I appreciate the fact the way our children are going because, like Dad said, when they came in, what they're going to do to our children, they're going to massacre our children. And also the ones they take, captive, they're gonna just let them grow up and be dummies like they want them to be and not grow up to be Socialist like the one and only Jim Jones. So I'd like to thank Dad for the opportunity for letting Jonestown be, not what it could be, but what Jonestown is. Thank you, Dad.”1

Architectural buildings around the world make up one factor of the beauty and culture of each country. The Winter Palace is an incredibly beautiful architectural building in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Winter Palace consists of great importance politically, culturally, and symbolically in the city’s third century. In 1708, the Winter Palace was first built as a wooden house with a Dutch style to be the Imperial residence of Peter the Great and his family. In 1711, the wood was replaced by a stone building. However, in 1731 Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli was assigned to reconstruct the palace into a much larger and newer design. The third reconstruction of the palace was completed in the year of 1735. Nevertheless, it only lasted 17 years before Rastrelli was asked again to expand the building even more. Two years later, he decided to completely rebuild the Winter Palace after the confirmation of the empress. (saint-petersburg.com) Ratrelli’s designs for the exterior were in a Baroque style, which have remained the same till this day. (about-eastern-europe.com)

When it comes to the recommendation of this book, I believe that I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to know about the history of the fall of Yugoslavia. It is a brilliant account of the issues that were going on in the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Therefore, I believe that this is a good book. Overall, I believe that the authors have given a useful summary of the events that were taking place. However, the events that I believed that were not really included in the book were the three points that I have listed. One major point that I believe that the authors did not really wrote about too much is the Srebrenica massacre. For Bosnia’s concern, this was a turning point in the history of the country. In conclusion, the authors only

“At 10:33 p.m. on the night of February 8, 1968, eight to 10 seconds of police gunfire left three young black men dying and 27 wounded on the campus of South Carolina State College in Orangeburg” (Bass). The previous event was reported in “Documenting the Orangeburg Massacre.” The Orangeburg Massacre was a shooting at South Carolina State University (Pulaski). This massacre was a Civil Rights Movement protest that turned into a deadly event. This deadly event killed three people and injured twenty-seven more (Bass). This massacre consisted of the victims - the African Americans involved in the protest, and the guilty party - the Highway Patrolmen who were the shooters of the massacre (Pulaski). This event was an unfair attack on the African Americans involved in this protest because they were unarmed and defenseless from the attack (Pulaski). Because of the conflicts over the Civil Rights Movement specifically in Orangeburg, South Carolina, African Americans involved in the protest were forced to compromise by serving prison time because of their actions.

The Nanjing Massacre occurred during the Sino-Japanese War and was a very important event in Chinese history. At that time, the Chinese army was defeated in the Songhu Battle and the Nanjing Battle. Then, the capital of China, Nanjing, was occupied by the Japanese army on December 13, 1937. The Chinese government retreated and moved the capital to Chongqing. The Japanese soldiers started to massacre in Nanjing and its surrounding areas. They also robbed and burned the villages in the area. The massacre continued for around 40 days and at least 300,000 Chinese citizens were killed. Many records and forms of evidence of the Nanjing Massacre are kept in the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders.

In the 1970’s, when the dark skinned people didn’t fit in yet, when there was still so much discrimination and segregation going on, and when the “American Dream” was barely getting realized as a lie, Jim Jones was there to save those people in trouble. Unfortunately, he did not end up being much of a hero but more of a psychopath. He provided a sense of leadership to those who wanted something or someone to follow. People in the 1970’s were still struggling to fight for justice and equality, and Jim Jones wanted to fight with them. Nobody would have ever imagined that someone who seemed to have all the right intentions, someone who took in the homeless, who cared for the elderly, fought for equality, and many more “good things”, would cause “the largest mass suicide in modern history” (Nelson, Jonestown).

November 11th, 1937, was the date that the Japanese obtained secure control over Shanghai, meaning that this was the date that the Japanese troops began their march to Nanjing. However, the cruel actions that lead up to the massacre in Nanjing started on August 15, where the Japanese Navy send planes that flew over Nanjing and released bombs. From that day, all the way until December 13 (when Nanjing fell), it was estimated that more than 50 missions flew over Nanjing, using more than 800 planes and around 160 tons of bombs. An attack that was reported on August 27 said that within a time period of two hours, 400-500 houses were destroyed and over one hundred people were killed, with several hundred people injured. These actions planted the seed of fear in the Chinese civilians, which grew stronger daily with the bombing attacks. Soon people begin to evacuate, and the population of Nanjing dropped from more than a million to half a million. The Japanese troops entered Nanjing on December 7, and launched a massive attack on Nanjing, which caused the Chinese troops to retreat to the opposite side of the Yangtze River on December 12. On following day of the retreat, the Japanese’s 6th and 16th division entered Nanjing, with an addition of two more Japanese Fleets. With this, the Nanjing Massacre begun.

White Americans have discriminated against African Americans ever since the first white men—bringing with them their slaves—set foot in what would become the continental United States. In the past, African Americans have struggled to annihilate racism and achieve true equality. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. accentuated this injustice in his critically acclaimed I Have a Dream speech when he averred “Five score years ago, a great American… signed the Emancipation Proclamation…It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination…” (King). Undoubtedly, racial divisions have plagued America throughout history. For example, during the 1960s, the city of Detroit teemed with racial strife and police brutality. On Sunday July 23, 1967, what would become the third worst riot in American history commenced. The riot erupted when a police vice squad raided the Scott’s club—an illegal after-hours club—at approximately 3 AM. Each of the 85 patrons, who were celebrating the return of two veterans from the Vietnam war, were ordered outside to be arrested. Upon rumors that police were practicing excessive force—a common occurrence in African Americans communities—thousands of onlookers flooded the streets and began to throw bottles on the streets, putting one through the