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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

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

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

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

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

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

lives lost caused by a non-natural occurrence before the 9/11 tragedy in 2001. Thousands of members were a part of this San-Francisco Temple, or as some call it, a cult. Harvey Milk and other local politicians were members of the group led by Reverend Jim Jones. The cult moved to the South-American jungle due to the feeling of paranoia over the medias’ suspicions of questionable activities. Before the massacre, Leo Ryan, a U.S. Congressman visited the South-American site with concerns for the well-being

Odell Rhodes breaks down what he actually thought about Jim Jones after the massacre in his hotel room in Curacao. His evaluation of Jim Jones is interesting due to the fact that he had all these reasons to not follow him but since no one else said anything, Odell wasn't able to stand up for what he believed in much like many of the other survivors. The group mindset had worn off and Odell started to list all of the things he was against that Jim Jones did, such as Denigrated sex, but he slept with

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Tori #34 7A LAI Kamran Smith is a 17 year old varsity football player for his high school in Phoenix, Arizona. His brother, Darius a 25 year old Army Ranger who is serving in Afghanistan. Everything in Kamran’s life is normal and going great for him, until his brother is suddenly accused of being a terrorist. Kamran at first is confused by this news, he doesn’t know what to think, but what he does know is that is brother is not a terrorist. Soon after these accusations, he is kicked off his varsity