James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader and community organizer. Jones was the founder and the leader of the Peoples Temple, best known for the mass murder-suicide in November 1978 of 909 of its members in Jonestown, Guyana,[1] and the murder of five people at a nearby airstrip, including Congressman Leo Ryan. Over two hundred children were murdered at Jonestown, almost all of them by cyanide poisoning.[2] Jones died from a gunshot wound to the head;
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Viviana Albino INGL3312-016 Aug. 21, 2015 Reflection on Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice to me is a romantic novel set in a time where your status or class were all that mattered. Your status depended on who your father was, who you were married to and how much money you made. Education was also an important thing in the upper class but education also had to do with how to behave and entertain people. Marriage was a very important and crucial thing for women, especially for the Bennets
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FAR EASTERN UNIVERSITY - DILIMAN NICANOR REYES EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTS AND BUSINESS FAR EASTERN UNIVERSITY - DILIMAN NICANOR REYES EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTS AND BUSINESS CASES FOR CRITICAL THINKING CASES FOR CRITICAL THINKING Course Code : Total Quality Management Case Title : The Parable of the Green Lawn Case number : Case 1 A new housing development has lots of packed earth and weeds, but no grass. Two neighbors make
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Office Space The story of this movie takes place in a corporation office called Initech. The movie is about a man named Peter Gibbons, a man with a white-collar job as a programmer who is apathetic and frustrated with his daily life. In the first part of the film, it shows what he does in his office and how his superiors boss him around as he loathes them. Although he is not the only one mistreated by the management, everyone else in the office is. Peter’s girlfriend Anne convinced him to attend
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The article “ The Devil in Mr. Jones” by Jonathan Z. Smith focuses on Jim Jones, a man who created a large and thriving community where on the surface he preached equality and between genders and races, but in reality failed to achieve this harmonious vision. Jones’ thesis utters that if you want to understand Jonestown, you have to look at humanity because refusing to understand Jonestown was refusing to fully commit yourself to the study of religion. The author reinforces “Nothing is foreign to
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The first time I heard of Dr. Camara Jones was about two years ago in my intro to Public Health class at the College of Charleston. I remembered watching Dr. Jones give her TedTalks on four allegories on race and racism which she called the Gardener’s Tale. Being a sophomore at the time, a lot of what I learned about Dr. Jones work truly had a profound impact on me. But of course like most sophomores, you learn about someone great in the classroom and then once you leave you forget all about their
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Tuesday July 13th, 1999 was a day I will always remember. Lives would be affected, and several environmental issues were at stake. Trees would be destroyed, animals’ homes would no longer be, and rubble would eventually wash into streams causing problems in the ecosystem. The City of Gainesville wanted to come in and change the community for what they thought would be a better use of space, but did not realize that the elderly and kids who lived in the Butler Community, loved their apartments and
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John Paul Jones changed history. He intercepted the warship Serapis that helped gain America’s independence. If Jones didn’t defeat the Serapis America would have had a much harder time gaining its independence and a lot more casualties. Jones was a very important man when comes to America’s history. Now we can live in independence thanks to John Paul Jones. John Paul Jones was born in Scotland, 1742. Jones’ career at sea started at age 13 and he served on a merchant ship in Whitehaven
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On May 31, 1937, ten people lost their lives. The Memorial day Massacre was one of the most brutal massacres ever in the United States of America. But, it was an important part of the Great Depression. What happened was that Chicago union protesters were protesting about Republic Steel’s Chicago plant turning union. But the steel mill was ready for the protesters. Republic Steel’s Chicago plant hired police. The company-hired police blocked the pickets. Once the pickets arrived, they were surprised
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The film fades into the museum with a different date on the sign, it has been ten years later. There are two young men are packing up to go back home because they could not find anything in Egypt. One of the men is Frank Whemple the son of the Dr. Whemple from the previous scene. As they are packing up a man comes to visit and tells them where to dig in order to find a mummy. It is clear that this mystery man is the mummy, Imhotep, that walked off ten years before. He was right where to dig because
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