Leoš Janáček

Introduction: In Active nonviolence Across the World, there is a quote by Victor Hugo “An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.” In the 19th century, movements from Ghandi and King, we see the growing influence and impact of nonviolence as an idea whose time has come. Even though nonviolence is an old philosophy, as we read Plato’s conversation earlier in the semester, it wasn’t until recent decades that active nonviolence has been used to respond to injustice.

Jim Jones was the leader of the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project also known as Jonestown. This American religious organization is most known internationally for the events that happened on November 18, 1978. In the 1950s, the group was founded, but the Temple moved their following to San Fransisco in the mid 1970s. But even there they received critical claims and had several newspaper articles written about the group. The course of those events plus the defection of eight temple leaders made

Is the Tiger a man or an animal? Tiger acts like a normal man when he is still alive, but all of that changes after he is shot in the head by Kev. Tiger loved life before he was taken into captivity by the zoo and had never been controlled by humans until now. After Tiger was taken into captivity by humans, be began to loathe and want nothing to do with them after they had taken away his freedom. The humans had the power over Tiger, they locked him in a concrete cage and put him on display for all

Representative named Leo Ryan decided to go to Jonestown to see how things were there. He brought a film crew with him and a few other people that wanted to see Jonestown as well. Everything seemed to be going well until a member of Jonestown gave Ryan a note telling him how

Family, friends, and colleagues, thank you all for joining us. We are here today to pay our last respects to Ivan, my dear husband, who we all cared for so dearly. Ivan passed from an unknown illness, one that caused him great pain for many months. Ivan was a good man, one who did not deserve the pain he suffered through or the end he received. I first met Ivan as a young woman, at one of the many social gatherings he went to. I quickly fell in love with him; with his intelligence and pleasant personality

concerned loved ones of the members lobbied for investigation of the settlement, on November 17th their wishes were met. What was meant to be a simple delegation one day turned into mass bloodshed the next; gunmen set by Jones ambushed U.S. representative Leo Ryan and members who wanted to defect. Those who

Bleuler, a Swiss psychiatrist was the first person to use it in 1911. He discussed the fact that researchers began using the term “Autism” in the 1940s to describe children with emotional or social problems. Also mentioned was a physician named Leo Kanner at Johns Hopkins University who described autism in children who had withdrawn behavior. Mentioned in the article is the fact that Schizophrenia and Autism and remained linked in various researchers' minds until the 1960s.From

In the historical documentary of the film “Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples’ temple”. It featured the footage of the group named peoples’ temple. They were lead by a preacher named Jim Jones. He led a group of 900 members and had a mass suicide of the peoples’ temple. When watching the film they will be interviews with former temple members . Being the Jonestown survivors and people who knew Jones. The preacher Jim Jones had a vision of changing their world. He would tell them about the promise

Leo Kanner was a renowned child psychiatrist and helped create the first children’s psychiatric unit at Johns Hopkins. I do not believe he knew what he was creating when he coined the term “refrigerator mother.” As the “Father of Child Psychiatry”, he attempted to right his wrongs by writing In Defense of Mothers. Kanner claimed that autism was a disorder that only affected individuals during infancy, which left adolescents and adults with the same symptoms to be overlooked. Kanner was eventually

In “The Death of Ivan Ilych” by Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Ilych is a highly regarded official in the court of justice who lives carefree most of the time. However, as the story progresses, he starts to more and more self analyze and become emotional as he ponders the reason for his hellish illness and coming death . Although it may seem like he has done something to deserve such a cruel fate, it is honestly just the way life works, and all of us have to accept this fact. That is what Ivan ends up realizing