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    909 Found dead in Jonestown,Guyana South America from Kool aid flavored cyanide, screams headline news November, 18 1979.What seems to be a peaceful New religion movement started in California for People in search for Hope and relief in Desperate Times from the Social inequalities, Unjust Killing, poverty ,and despair during the late seventies to early eighties.In the beginning people promise utopia “a perfect society” tens to hundreds of single mothers ,blacks, homosexuals and families all alike

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    Spring; hurricane. Much as these are both related to water, they differ greatly in their impact on societies - while one brings hope and life to weary travelers, the other brings struggle accompanied by death. Throughout most of literary history, writers have explored this idea of poly-indicative-identity, whether that be with the vast depthness of water or some other symbol, and William Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Dying is no exception to this idea. From rivers to the fish that inhabit them, As

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    We see brutality everywhere, we approach a problem with the easy way out, violence. That's the solution we all resort to when we see no change or when we feel that the injustices that have been done are too much to go unanswered for. Civil rights activist Cesar Chavez published an article claiming that nonviolent resistance has always been more beneficial than violent protest. Chavez’s purpose in this article is to advertise the negative effects of violence and provide a solution for it. In his article

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    Virginia Woolf’s “To the lighthouse” has many themes that can be discussed, especially those related to art, life, reality and time. Some critics argue that there is a life-art relationship in the novel, “perceived relations of equivalence between emotional experience and aesthetic (con)figuration, between ‘life’ on the one hand, and shape, trope, structure on the other” (Koppen, 375). However, one must analyze the novel in order to find if it can be true what these critics say. If it is true that

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    autism known as Asperger’s syndrome, his disorder is reflected through his fascination with mathematics, detail, astronomy and colours; his thoughts on routine and violent hatred to interaction, even though it is not specified in the book. In 1943 Leo Kanner a psychiatrist published a paper surrounded around the research of 11 young patients that fit into a fine variety of diagnostic principles that he measured out to be autistic. During Kanner’s career he has seen fewer than 150 cases that go with

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    The first step being the mental preparation and physical reenactment, also known as the “white nights”. The second and third step can be considered the investigation by the US government through congressman Leo Ryan and the Jonestown defects that tried to escape with Ryan. The last and final step would be the final speech given by Jones in the center pavilion where he encouraged his people to drink the poison, which seemed to be a way out of the inevitable

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    Non-Violent Resistance

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    The characteristic of non-violent resistance are quite gentle, they do not require having a strong or negative actions to express the discontent of people that are oppressed. Actually, the characteristics imply purpose to change a society or a politics in a nation. They usually involved with ethical because their goal is to modify the society without using violence, which means that the characteristics allow us to achieve the goal through symbolic protest, civil disobedience, or other methods that

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    THE RISE OF "HOMETEAM" Located in New York, Hometeam is a startup involved in taking care of the elderly in the society at home. The startup was founded in 2013 by Josh Bruno who used to be an investor at Brain Ventures. He got major support from an $11 million funding by Lux Capital, IA Ventures and Recruit Strategic Partners. Today it celebrates being opened to the public after two years of quiet operations. Bruno the founder has been quoted saying that, caring for senior adults is shouldn't

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    A nonconformist is defined as “a person who refuses to conform, as to established customs, attitudes, or ideas”. It has been said that nonconformists cannot be ignored. To be a nonconformist takes a strength and courage that few posses. Some have been key in advancing society as we know it. Several authors of the Civil War period were brave and determined enough to take a stand against something they saw as wrong. Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland

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    Neil Finn Research Paper

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    Neil Finn, born on the 27th of May 1958 is a NZ recording artist. He has a brother named Tim Finn and Neil was the youngest of four children to Dick and Mary Finn in Te Awamutu, New Zealand. He was the co-frontman for Split Enz, a project he had joined after it was founded by Tim Finn and others, and is now frontman for Crowded House. Neil has recorded several successful solo albums and assembled diverse musicians for the 7 Worlds Collide project. He rose to fame in the late 1970s with Split Enz

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