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    At several points throughout someone’s life, it is guaranteed that accusations will be made against them. Some may be true, others may be false, but when they are made it is up to the accused to prove themselves innocent. Within the past ten years, former Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich, and Head Coach of the New England Patriots, Bill Belichick faced adversity which came along with accusations made against them. With the use of ethos, pathos, and logos, otherwise known as the three rhetorical

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    case of Dan White. On November 18, 1978, Preliminary reports began broadcasting news of the events in a town called Jonestown, at first all that was known, was that people of a religious cult shot and may have even killed California Congressman Leo Ryan. Then on November 27, 9 days after the news of the death of

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    09 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 sevendys to early eightie.In the beginning people promise utopia “a perfect society” tens to hundreds of single mothers ,blacks, homosexuals and families all alike dropped

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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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    “The Office” is a popular comedy show that originated in the UK and ventured into the U.S. It is popular among mostly millennials but can be cross-generational because of the different cohort groups that are represented in the show. The run down is that it’s a mockumentary about a mediocre paper company called Dunder Mifflin and the workers that cohabitate within. With Michael Scott being a kind, lenient yet socially unaware and naive branch manager also having an extremely wide variety of personalities

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    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 government prosecution Jones would receive after assassinating Ryan and his party. After his convincing speech, about 900 people, including 276 children, took their

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    Once upon a time, in a town called Athens nestled in the northeastern section of the state of Georgia, there was a boy and a girl who, even though they thought they were the most unlikely of lovers, fell madly in love. The story begins in November of 2012, when a junior guy named Clarence at the University of Georgia was getting ready to play a show with his band Tinfish at Bar South, one of the numerous times that he has played in downtown Athens, hoping for the day that an agent standing in the

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    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

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    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 bad they wanted to leave. It was then very obvious that the people were being held there against their will. The next day as Ryan and the other’s that came with him began to board the plane

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    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

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