Ryan Howard

“Don't drink the kool-aid” is a phrase that was coined after the mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana on November 18, 1978. James (Jim) Jones was a religious leader of the People’s Temple cult and is responsible for more the deaths of 909 men, women, and children through a mass suicide using cyanide-laced grape punch. Aided by his high IQ and his manipulative ways, Jones was able to carry out his communist goals. Jones managed to wipe out 909 people overnight which lands him a well earned spot in history

This show was the final date of Arcane Roots’ UK tour and my first experience seeing the band live. The three-piece from Kingston Upon Thames in London have built a reputation for being an excellent live act in recent years; an accolade that I can now personally attest. Musically, Arcane Roots sound similar to the early works of two other esteemed UK live acts: Biffy Clyro and Muse, but with more technical instrumentation and complex song structures. For a three-piece, they command the stage very

Tinker: an innate disposition bestowed upon me every Sunday from ten in the morning to two in the afternoon since the inception of my high school career. Instead of pixie dust, a wand which grants wishes at the silence of desires engendered by the threat of danger, a short green dress embellished with sparkles, and Lost Boys, I am equipped with duct tape, a glue gun, pants and hoodie which I do not care for knowing that four hours later, they will be covered in shrapnels of paper, paint, glitter

As Jim Jones portrayed in North Guyana that it was the ideal place he used to attract people to whom don’t have a lot to offer. Not much money, need a home, food, shelter. A place to start over and call home again. Doing so Jim jones used these technics to help attract people who needed these things and all they had to do was arrive. Foot in the door; Jones talked about all the great opportunities, having a home growing our own crops starting over with a new life where people respect you and want

Jim Jones was the leader of the religious and social group known as The People’s Temple. The case studied is the incident of the Jonestown mass suicide and the thesis is a study on manipulation and what can be said about manipulation. The People’s Temple group dynamic was Groupthink since Jim Jones was the leader and he had the stronger voice everyone would come to him for anything. Also the way the followers thinking the process was everyone is the same as the all wanted equity rights so if one

I remember Dad shaking me, telling me it's getting time to head back in. Stretching and opening my eyes, I realized I must have been asleep for at least 2 hours. “Nothing at all?” I question in my obviously-just-woken voice. “Nothing at all.” He states. I couldn’t help but laugh at how he looked. You would if you saw him too. His hair was disheveled and he had the black camouflage paint smeared all over his face. He made a goofy face and scratched the call again. Instead of a turkey it sounded like

Jonestown Massacre Peoples Temple was a church founded by Jim Jones in 1956. It was originally established in Indiana, moved to California in 1966, and then moved outside the United States in the South American country of Guyana in 1973. Peoples Temple was an integrated spiritual congregation that believed in christianity. It was also a church that was focused on helping people and congregating in a temple to hear about God, have dinner and dances in a pavilion together to show communion and respect

I feel like what really pushed him over the edge is when some of the members decided to leave with congressman Ryan back to the states. The members were scared, they were convinced people were coming for them and the war and racism were going on back in the states. Did they have a choice to drink the Kool Aid? Me personally I feel like they drank the Kool Aid on

In the book The Executioner’s Song, we follow the life of Gary Gilmore as written by Norman Mailer. Mailer describes Gary’s childhood throughout the book as a very rough living, followed by Gary finding himself practically living his adult life in a series of institutions for bad behavior ( mostly burglary). During the course of his young adult life, Gary’s cousin, Brenda, and he had been writing letters back and forth, and eventually Gary is taken for parole in by his cousin’s parents. Quickly

The Jonestown Massacre On November 18, 1978, in the South American country, Guyana, 918 people died from drinking cyanide poisoning. The Jonestown Massacre, led by Jim Jones, convinced men, women, and children of all ages to commit suicide or be killed in days to come by the U.S. government. This event would become known as the most deadly, non-natural disaster in U.S. history, before September 11, 2001. James Warren Jones, better known as Jim Jones, was born on May 13, 1978 in Lynn, Indiana. His