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    What Happened In 1977 Jonestown was founded for members of the people’s temple by Jim Jones in the jungles of Guyana‚ and had 50 people living there. This all changed when an exposé was being printed about him. The article included article with ex-members. That night Jim jones and hundreds of others flew to Guyana and moved into the Jonestown compound. Jonestown was meant to be a utopia but didn’t have enough housing or beds. The cabins were filled from wall to wall with bunk beds and were majorly

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    Ziyin Chen History 146-04 In 1978‚ November 18th‚ there was a tragedy happened in a town located in Guyana. The town’s name was “Jones Town‚” and it was named by Jim Jones. The purpose of the town was to bring Jim Jones’ believers together and live happily ever after‚ but turns out to be a huge tragedy for those who were living in Jones Town. Around 909 people committed suicide by drinking poison under the command of Jim Jones. There were few survivors‚ but they have lost their family members (Nelson)

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    worker and a black teacher. Braithwaite continued to write novels and short stories throughout his long international career as an educational consultant and lecturer for UNESCO. He is an academic‚ a permanent representative to the United Nations for Guyana and a Guyana’s ambassador to Venezuela. This text is about the schoolteacher’s experience. The author described himself. It is a 1st-person narration with descriptive passages. The main character came in the class as a new teacher. He tried to make

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    On December 13‚ 1973‚ Jones was arrested and charged with soliciting a man for sex in a movie theater bathroom known for homosexual activity‚ in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles.[98] The man was an undercover Los Angeles Police Department vice officer. Jones is on record as later telling his followers that he was "the only true heterosexual"‚ but at least one account exists of his sexual abuse of a male member of his congregation in front of the followers‚ ostensibly to prove the man’s own homosexual

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    In 1978‚ about 913 psychologically normal citizens drank cyanide-adulterated punch and suicided in Guyana‚ South America. From those 913 members‚ 276 were innocent children. As informed in the Britannica Encyclopedia article “Jim Jones‚” these members belonged to a cult known as the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones‚ who was responsible for ordering the members to suicide. According to an article “Why Do People Join Cults?” by Adrian Furnham‚ Ph.D.‚ a cult is a group with “powerful and exclusive dedication

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    the poets’ understanding of the importance of their poetry‚ giving them a duty to the people. Two such poets who were instrumental in this mission were Eric Roach and Martin Carter; whose poetic work and struggle allowed the people of Trinidad and Guyana‚ respectively‚ as well as the entire Caribbean become aware of the situations in the region. Eric Roach‚ a poet whose mission focused around bringing awareness to the Caribbean people about the Caribbean‚ was one of the first poets to accept this

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    Jim Jones was a founder who founded The People’s Temple. The People’s Temple is best known for the November 18‚ 1978 death of over 900 Temple members in Jonestown‚ Guyana‚ along with nine others at a nearby airstrip and in Georgetown. Jim Jones was born in a rural community in Indiana close to the border of Ohio. His parents were James Thurman Jones who was a World War I veteran and Lynetta Putnam. In 1934‚ during the Great Depression Jones’ parents‚ due to economic struggle‚ were forced to move

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    dispose of nine hundred Americans to protect themselves. ( Michael 195 ). The CIA was covering something up about the Jonestown Massacre‚ but at the same time almost everyone had heard of Jim Jones and his socialist church. So why did they move to Guyana? Only one possible answer is correct‚ which was to get rid of all evidence that led back to

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    Jonestown Mass Suicide: A Look at Jim Jones diagnosis and the People ’s Temples 918. This is the number of people that died in Jonestown‚ from apparent cyanide poisoning because of Jim Jones. This mass murder/suicide was one of the largest in modern history that resulted in the largest single loss of American civilian life‚ without being caused by a natural disaster until the events of September 11‚2001. Jim Jones was the leader of the Peoples Temple‚ a religious organization also seen as

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    COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL (JCPC)? The JCPC is the final Court of Appeal or Court of Last Resort for the Commonwealth Caribbean States‚ in both the original and appellate jurisdictions of a court system with the exception of the Republic of Guyana and Barbados. It is “the apex of the court system in most of the jurisdictions in the Commonwealth Caribbean.”1 The Privy

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