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Case Analysis: Lochtegate Ryan Lochte’s gas station scandal in Brazil during Olympics Alycia Ikegami                   The Olympics is a worldwide event when countries all over the world come together and celebrate culture, sportsmanship and athleticism. It is an opportunity for people to come together, whether at the venue or at home, it is a celebration full of excitement. During this time, swimmer Ryan Lochte, along with three other swimmers, were involved in an incident at a local gas station

The Jonestown Massacre was one of America’s greatest tragedies in history. Due to extreme Racism and persecution innocent people were driven to create a socialistic society only to realize there is no such thing. There are many causes and effects to the event of Jonestown massacre. Some examples of those causes and effects are the background, events, responses, and efforts. Jim Jones and the people of Peoples temple did not set out to be one of america's worst massacres, they just want equality and

The Finger That Will Never Heal Cristina Welsh “Close the door. Close the door! CLOSE THE DOOR! I said CLOSE THE DOOR!” I heard this and assumed a bee was circling around her head. I was laughing until I heard the pain and agony in her voice. I shut the door afraid of what was happening. Then I saw… My little brother Gavin had just scored three goals in his soccer game. This is the most he had scored all season, keep in mind he’s only six years old. The entire family, Mom, Joe, Gavin, Mackenzie,

Every human in this world is promised to something from love to a better country. Promises are to be true to happen, but sometimes those promises are broken and never to happen. An example of a promise that did come true was to make racial justice. This promised was made by Martin Luther King Jr.’s in his speech, I Have a Dream. In his speech, he promised to make racial justice for the reason that there was no freedom of racism. An example of a promised that did not come true was the promised made

Every human in this world is promised to something from love to a better country. Promises are to be true to happen, but sometimes those promises are broken and never to happen. An example of a broken 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

"See? T-there is nothing to b-be afraid of," Neil assured. We were currently inside the elevator as the doors were shutting; my eyes were covered by my hands, and I was leaning against the wall for support. It had taken another ten minutes after agreeing to do it before I got myself to actually get on the thing. The elevator began moving, and my nerves kicked into high gear the more I thought about it. The ten seconds it took to it to get to the fourteenth floor, where Neil wished to go to, felt

Being an 8-year-old at a garage sale has a certain smell to it. Sure, there are other senses, the ugly flowery vase teetering on the edge of a plastic folding table. Cigarette smoke everywhere, (it was 1994, smoking was way cooler back then). The early-morning swampy, humid feeling only Southeast Georgia can give you. For me, the only stuff eye-level and remotely interesting were the boxes beneath the tables (and sawhorses with plywood used as tables). Sometimes you could find a handheld game, other

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 of the members. Temple gunmen shot Leo Ryan and four others at the airstrip. Soon after the shootings, more than 900 American lives were lost in a South-American jungle due

The reason I picked the character Sean Astin who played as quotation mark Rudy. Quotation mark in the movie Rudy the character he like to play football just like me. Rudy goal was to play for the University of Notre Dame but he did not have the grades. Rudy was 5 foot something and was 100 something pounds just like me. Rudy's brother told him that he is too small to play football and would not make it into the college because he did not have the brains. Rudy was aware that he did not have the grace

Stanley Nelson’s documentary Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple reviews the actions of this religious group and analyzes its rise to popularity, then eventually its downfall. The Peoples temple was a religious, and later political, movement started by Jim Jones in 1955. It was an interracial congregation. Jones preached socialist and communist beliefs and took Christianity teachings to a radical level. The Peoples Temple had utopian ideals which led them to establish a community separate