JONESTOWN- JIM JONES Jonestown- Jim Jones Student: Thi Nguyen Grand Canyon University: General Psychology- 102 Date: 08-19-2012 Professor: Jennifer Jones Jonestown- Jim Jones The tragedy named Jonestown happened in the past over 30 years and it still has been suspense from the bottom of the heart of everyone. Jim Jones is known as a American leader culture, is one of the most popular historian of America and Guyana’s history as well as the world’s history
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The Peoples Temple Jim jones had skills to be a preacher. As a boy Jones would explore every church in his hometown, and involving himself in each ritual before he moving on to the next church. He would stand before anyone and start to preach with doing that he became a shock to others. After high school Jim had an interest in medicine, he took an up a position of working as a hospital orderly. Were he soon met his wife who stood by his side of Jim Jones attending the Methodist Church soon
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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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Lucius Jones was a cruddy and cantankerous bigoted racist. Anyone who didn’t agree with his ideas could “go straight to hell," and anyone who wasn’t from the same race as him, could “burn in hell”. There was a decided difference between the two damnations and Lucius would be more than obliged to explain it to anyone who thought otherwise, if only anyone had the backbone to ask him. He was a crusty, willowy scarecrow looking old man with long gangly limbs, a thin narrow frame and an even thinner
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Mr. David Jones is a forty-two year old, never married, African-America male from Memphis, TN. He was admitted to WMHI on April 29, 2013 pursuant to T.C.A. § 33-7-301(b), having been found not competent to stand trial on April 12, 2013. He had been charged with felony vandalism for breaking out windows of four vehicles with a hammer and then breaking glass panels at Fox 13 News in Memphis. On May 30, 2013 the court ordered Mr. Jones judicially committed following dismissal of criminal charges
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Thesis Jim Jones formed The People’s Temples that had hundreds, even thousands of followers from a large range of religious and social backgrounds. It was a mystery on how he was able to manipulate and brainwash so many people to follow him and portray himself as their saviour, let along make them do a loyalty test by telling them to drink poison. Many people have different opinion regarding the massacre that occurred in Jonestown on November 18th 1978. This is one of the biggest mystery related
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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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BUS381 Solutions Focused Leadership Laura Schade Dr. Marjorie Lott Argosy University – Inland Empire Analyzing Jim Jones as a Leader When analyzing what is determined as a good leader, one must think about what leadership really is. According to our text, “leadership is a complex phenomenon involving the leader, the followers, and the situation.” (Chapter 1) A leader is someone who is able to influence others to attain goals. “Leadership comes in all shapes and sizes whether religious or
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The Film “The Bridget Jones Diary” is about a single women in her early thirties named Bridget Jones who is just trying to get things right in life. She has hit a pivotal moment in her life and wants to quit smoking, lose weight, stop being so accident prone and find a decent guy who will treat her right. She works at a book publishing company in London where she spends most of her time day dreaming about her gorgeous boss Daniel. Bridget already fascinated by her boss comes across a man she once
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Recession on the Dow-Jones Industrial Average On October 9, 2007, the Dow closed at its pre-recession all-time high of more than $14,000 per share. However, fourth quarter GDP growth was -1%, signaling the beginning of the recession. The Dow started falling slowly. After the failure of Bear Stearns in April 2008, and a negative GDP report in Q2 2008, the Dow plummeted to 11,000. Many analysts felt that this 20% decline was the market bottom. 2008 was a historic year for the Dow Jones Industrial Average
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