Leo Ornstein

Don’t Drink the Kool Aid On November 18, 1978 what has been called the largest mass suicide in modern history occurred in Jonestown, Guyana where 909 members of The Peoples Temple died. Jim Jones was the leader of the Peoples Temple Church and religious movement. The church was looked highly upon by many back in the 1950-1970’s. All races and backgrounds were brought together as one in his congregation. Religion serves as a sanctuary from the harshness of everyday life and oppression by the powerful

Paradoxes are ideas that seem to be in opposition to one another but are mutually needed to function. In Plato 's Republic he discusses several paradoxes. While reading The Republic we can see which side of these paradoxes Plato favors. We find which side he feels should be stressed so that we may live in a reasonable and safe society and be better human beings. There are three categories in which these paradoxes have been divided into: ethical, metaphysical and political. Plato was a legendary Athenian

Dr. Seuss once wrote “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” The world has an opinion quite the opposite of this. If a person acts different than the rest of the word they are categorized as strange or “unfit” to be with the rest of the society. This was also the categorization of children with autism until recently in the United States. Views regarding these kids have changed over time; influence from the environment has had a great impact on these changes. The views of these children

Plato and Aristotle shared many differences despite also sharing a teacher student relationship. This essay will strive to establish their understandings of reason and the role reason plays in their comprehensions of politics, differentiating between the kinds of reason and politics produced as a result. Plato is regarded as the first writer of political philosophy while Aristotle is recognised as the first political scientist. Plato’s interpretation of Utopia is founded upon the existence of three

In order for justice to prevail there must be a realization that there are unjust occurrences that need to be dealt with, there must be action taken to show how immense the situation is and how rapidly it should be dealt with, and there must be nonviolent demonstrations for superb end conclusions. There are 3 steps in order for justice to prevail which were ideas derived from Martin Luther King Jr., Lenard Pitts, Henry David Thoreau, and Harper Lee. Those three steps will be explained and discussed

“Eyes Wide Open” by Richard Powers discusses ways of education in the past one thousand years and strives to find the necessary things needed to improve it in the next thousand years. Three assertions he closed the piece with are “asking not how things ought to be but how things are,” “finding out not what we should do with the world, but what we can make the world do,” and “the next thousand years must make up the difference, returning subtlety and richness and morals and lightness of spirit to

possessions are valued over things like love and joy. Chris shows a tone of disgust after his parents offer to buy him a new car for a graduation gift, “I can’t believe they’d try and buy me a car” (Krakauer 21). After spending years reading the works of Leo Tolstoy, Chris McCandless believes that life is best experienced when alone and in nature. Chris supports this transcendentalist ideology so much that he decides to try it for himself. Chris McCandless spends two years traversing the American southwest

While reading “The Raid” by Leo Tolstoy, one is instantly struck by the strong contrast between the peaceful nature scenes and the violent battle scenes. One minute the sounds of crickets and frogs are charmingly echoing through the night, and the next you can hear the “clang of a heavy gun” and the “sound of bayonets touching one another” (Tolstoy 20). In one scene, the generals and majors stand watching the gory battle below, yet they continue to discuss the beautiful nature around them as if nothing

The first, as well as most basic, difference between the cases against Beilis and Frank, lies in the evidence against them. It is no exaggeration to say that there was no case against Beilis. Although it is true that the victim’s body was found close to the brick factory, there was abundant corroboration that Beilis was preoccupied on the day of Andrei’s disappearance. Numerous factory workers came forward to testify that not only did they not see Andrei near the factory, but that they had even given

In 1906, a young Mohandas Karmachand Gandhi, carried out his earliest deed of Satyagraha—a doctrine to practice passive or nonviolent resistance. He was successful in standing up against the Transvaal province’s government in the Republic of South Africa. It was only two years later when Gandhi gained access to a letter written by the renowned Russian author, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy to the editor of the Free Hindustan newspaper in South Africa. In this letter, referred to as Letter to a Hindu