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    Jim Jones was born in rural Randolph county Indiana to James Thurman Jones and Lynetta Putnam. Lynetta was said to believe that she had given birth to the messiah. During the great depression, in 1934 the Jones family moved to Lynn Indiana. Jones was said to have studied on Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, Mao Zedong, Mahatma Gandhi and Adolf Hitler. He concentrated on the strengths and weaknesses of each. Jones also developed a great interest in the idea of religion. Early on in his adulthood he…

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    complete the Transcontinental Railroad, the workers were put to work in dangerous areas, especially the Chinese. (Wolmar, The Great Railroad Revolution). As their work on the Railroad continued, the Chinese workers were put in unsafe conditions, using dynamite to create tunnels causing accidental explosions, resulting in death. The Chinese were forced to work in deserts for a long amount time and later work in difficult mountains. These workers also labored through unpredictable weather and…

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    Enter MAYOR'S WIFE and POLONIUS. POLONIUS: Listen, his boots come stompin' this way. Now I tell you, don't speak gibberish with that boy; stick it to him. Tell him that his fun has gone over far and that the mayor fights a heap of fire for that boy. Here he comes, I'll be sittin' round that curtain o'er there quiet as a cactus, listen'n. I ask you, don’t hold back on him; let 'im have it. I'll be batting eyes closely. WIFE: Don’t worry about me. Pony up, he's coming! [POLONIUS hides…

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    Ku Klux Klan Racism

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    Ku Klux Klan: The Most Racist Organization Throughout the United States’ long history there have been many terrible times. One major cause of these terrible times was because of racism. The Ku Klux Klan was one of the reasons it led to this racism. The Ku Klux Klan had a negative influence in the United States from the start of their organization, to the leaders, and all of the events they held. Every organization, good or bad, had to start somewhere. The Ku Klux Klan started in Pulaski,…

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    The Ku Klux Klan has injured, assaulted, bombed, and killed thousands of people since its creation over 150 years ago with the hopes of keeping the idea of white supremacy alive. They became Americas first terrorist group and one of the most brutal hate groups that this country has seen. They took the lives of many whites and blacks in attempts to stop blacks from being equal to whites, as they believed whites should be the ultimate race. The Klan had several revivals that had high amounts of…

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    People are often amazed at their own psychological conditions. Sometimes we pretend that they are not there and others might not even know that a problem has occurred. Patients recovering from a suicidal attempt are often stunned when they remember they’ve thought of killing themselves. Patients with severe psychiatric disturbances often watch home videos and can’t even believe the things they did. They often ask is that really me? Did someone edit the video? They are in complete disbelief. In…

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    Martin Luther King once said, “ There is no noise as powerful as the sound of the marching feet of determined people”.People have fought for their individuality since the Romans, and continue to do so. Throughout history, there has always been a minority who is treated poorly and is socially oppressed by cultures around them. Abraham Lincoln said, “ ...our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”…

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    what humans think is impossible. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Ooh, black and yellow! Let's shake it up a little. Barry! Breakfast is ready! Ooming! with power washers and M-80s! One-eighth a stick of dynamite! She saved my life! And she understands me. This is over! Eat this. This is not over! What was that? - They call it a crumb. - It was so stingin' stripey! And that's not what they eat. That's what falls off what they…

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    Assembled on either side of Waterloo Bridge is London's most vital expressions complex, the Southbank Center. Worked in 1951, this huge solid structure incorporates the Royal Festival Hall (home to instrumental and choral exhibitions), the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Purcell Room. These settings offer a gigantic collection of music, and in addition an expansive determination of performing expressions including move and emulate, supper club and parody. The complex additionally incorporates the…

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    “Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.” ~ Virginia Woolf. For a spider, the web is the key part of her existence, spun through individual silk, piece by piece it eventually connects together to form a web that provides life for the spider, a new start. Though weaved with care it does have its limitations in strength, weak and miniature bugs will get caught, but the powerful and big will destroy the web. Incidentally,…

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