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    able to transport children in the future. This could be very useful, however, imagine if a 5 year old could just jump in a car and leave whenever they wanted without somebody stopping them before they did something reclous or got lost. According to Jim Taylor, when he asks a group of young people if they have made stupid decisions and if they will continue to make stupid decisions, they all raised their hands. This shows that children will make stupid decisions, and that won’t change when they are

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    He was so ruthless that he sent out men to murder the congressman, Jim Jones stated that “they would come back and torture our people’s children and that they couldn’t allow that to happen”. He made sure that they knew that there was nothing better than living if there was no peace and if they decided to leave their behind

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    racial justice for the reason that there was no freedom of racism. An example of a promised that did not come true was the promised made by a leader of a socialist group, Jim Jones. People joined a socialist group called People’s Temple, who were promised by Jones to move to Jonestown a place that he created for the people that Jim Jones authorized. Jonestown is located on a little

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    Ben Silbermann, the co-founder and CEO of Pinterest, attended the Research Science Institute at MIT in 1998 according to Ben Silbermann himself. In the following year, he graduated from Roosevelt High School. In spring 2003, Ben graduated from Yale College with a degree in political science. He took a consulting job in Washington, D.C after graduating. “He began reading technology blogs and enjoyed learning about what people were building,” according to an interview. With his knowledge, he landed

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    Jonestown Massacre

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    promised, which was made by a leader of a socialist group, Jim Jones. People joined a socialist group called People’s Temple, who were promised by Jones to move to Jonestown a place that he created for the people that Jim Jones authorized. Jonestown is located on a little island in Guyana. Jim Jones decided to move his socialist group over there so they can be isolated from the authorities. For the reason that he was committing fraud with money. Jim Jones was saying that People's Temple was a Christian

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    Non Working Moms

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    This execise our class was assigned involved the reading of an interesting article that explained a report titled “Children Of Working Moms Face More Health Problems”. When the reader, as did I, originally reads the title a flood of ideas rush into your head. You’re curious as to what health problems the author is referring too. Is it diseases that these children are more susceptible too? Or is it accidents such as broken bones or falls causing stitches? The author of this piece, Melinda Morrill

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    On November 18, 1978, one of the most tragic catastrophes took place. Taking place in the vast jungles of Guyana, the act of “revolutionary suicide” was undertaken by the people of Jonestown. Killing 918 people, over which 200 were children, this event held the title for being the largest single loss of American civil life in a non-natural disaster for the next 23 years. (ADST, 2017) Earlier that month, the people’s temple had a visit by congressman Leo Ryan, who was there to investigate reports

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    popular with kids and the elderly and those who were being mistreated in the outside world. The more they were involved with Jones the more they realized they were worth something bigger. Jacob Neighbors published an article called Obey Your Father: Jim Jones’ Rhetoric of Deadly Persuasion in which he says, “Jones would often use his spoken word and charisma to influence the masses and build his ethos” (Neighbors). How Jones got people to obey was through manipulation. He made everyone give him their

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    Education Pension Investment While there are five conflict management approaches, the case focused on two main approaches. First, Dan initially used the forcing approach to get Mike hired. Secondly, Dan used the avoiding approach to escape the ramifications of hiring Mike Roth. Lastly, Dan tried to implement the other three approaches. Which are compromising, accommodating, and collaborating, but these attempts were unsuccessful. Initially, Dan used the force management approach to convince

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    Mr. Jones wasn’t happy with what he had done most likely because it went a little too far and it might have made students feel bad afterwards. This was because The Wave was so much similar to Nazis. He wanted to use The Wave as a lesson because a student had asked, “Why didn’t someone try and stop Hitler, because it was obvious he was murdering the Jews?” Mr. Jones used the same technique to trick the students into thinking they were apart of something big. The students liked The Wave a lot because

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