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    Ron Hubbard, and this religion stemmed from his system of Dianetics that released as a book in May of 1950 . But really this religion was created by a science fiction writer to make money off of people stupid enough to buy into it. The basic belief of this

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    We live in a world where corporations are branching into every part of our life. The entertainment industry is getting owned by fewer and fewer companies. The same could be said about our food and health care. Everything is a brand. We just have the illusion of choice. In a world like this, it would be safe to assume companies want to diversify even further. I think it would be safe to assume that a major corporation might want to make a leap in religion. Sure, it’s ridiculous and that’s the point

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    The Psycotic and Abstract How we live our childhood and grow up can have an impact on adult years and determine how our minds are in regards to right and wrong. Charles Manson lived a terrible child hood, and no child should have to go through what he went through. This does not excuse what we do wrong, morally or unlawfully in our adult years, but can have a terrible impact on the mind. The schools for crime causation will help to try to understand Charles Manson, his childhood, adult live

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    On the morning of August 9, 1969, three LAPD officers arrived at 10050 Cielo Drive (Bugliosi 7). The scene that awaited them was horrendous. In the driveway, in a parked car, the body of Steven Parent was found. He was shot four times and stabbed once. Laying about eighteen or twenty feet past the front door of the house, Voytek Frykowski had been shot twice, beaten over the head with a blunt object thirteen times, and stabbed fifty-one times. Also discovered on the lawn was coffee heiress Abigail

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    I believe the majority of you don’t have knowledge about what illuminati stands for, others might know what it symbolize but they’ve never gone too deep into the subject to really understand its purpose and how it works. I am going to start off by introducing you all to the basic definition of illuminati. Illuminati is a secret society of the world's most powerful and wealthiest citizens. Its ultimate goal is to control the

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    views on racial equality. In 1977, the New West Magazine published an expose of Jim Jones and his cult that resulted in mass suicide with 900 members of the Peoples Temple drinking poison. Scientology was started in 1952 by science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard.

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    Despite great efforts to convince the opposing side, a battle still brews amongst creationists and evolutionists over the beginning of life and the universe, but neither opinions’ palpability can be firmly upheld through scientific manners. Since science can only prove hypotheses that are testable and based on current observations, neither creation nor evolutionary concepts can be proven with irrefutable evidence. However, regardless of the inability to prove either concept, most public school

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    Stephen Mendoza, HIST 2312 Wong, Jan. Red China Blues. Toronto: Doubleday/ Anchor Books, 1996. 395 pages. $11.95 In Jan Wong’s entrancing expose Red China Blues, she details her plight to take part in a system of “harmony and perfection” (12) that was Maoist China. Wong discloses her trials and tribulations over a course of three decades that sees her searching for her roots and her transformation of ideologies that span over two distinctive forms of Communist governments. This tale is so enticing

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    There is no such thing as perfect, whether it is doing something in a perfect way, or even just living in a “perfect” ideal society. A perfect ideal society is what is known as a “utopia”, and is defined as, “An imaginary and indefinitely remote place”(Webster). Many people have accepted the fact that this place does not exist, but there are still those few who think that they are apart of one. Scientology is a prime example of something that brings all of those cons into play and some of your favorite

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    The concept of a government has been around almost as soon as the human race stopped its role of hunting and gathering and began the fruitful endeavor of farming. Ever since this point, the human race has had an almost subconscious necessity for order and a hierarchy of people with power. Since the Enlightenment, there has been an overwhelming question of how a government should be organized and how the power should be distributed. In America, the government holds strong to the basic Enlightenment

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