Greek temple

Kool-aid kills Exclusive, secretive, and authoritarian. These are three words that can be used to describe a cult. And in the 1970s, you could link all three words to Peoples Temple. Originally created as religious denomination, it soon started growing darker and darker, parallel to it’s creator, Jim Jones. Together, both creator and followers spiralled into madness until their mass suicide in 1978. And the one question their story makes you ask is: what causes people to willingly follow a mad…

Temple was diagnosed with autism as a young child, But she overcame the expectations of others and became one of the most well-known animal scientist in America. She was born on August, 29 1947 in Boston, MA. She has won over 20 awards since she became an animal scientist. As a young child Grandin dreaded the sound of the school bell unlike most kids who loved hearing it. She found loud, sharp, or ringing sounds very irritating. Temple found that most ordinary sensations were almost torture for…

After reading part one of Gone from the Promise Land, I was not at all surprised to find out how troublesome Jim Jones’s childhood was. In class, I learned that Jim Jones had thought of himself as ‘God’ and he had lead a religion where he was able to convince the followers of this religion to commit suicide. Since Jim Jones was able to convince a large number of people to commit suicide, I thought that his reasoning for doing this must have stemmed from his childhood. I thought it stemmed from…

The peoples Temple was a Christian cult which was founded and led by James Warren (Jim) Jones.The People’s Temple was introduced as an mission for the sick, homeless and jobless. He began to create a large following of over 900 members in Indianapolis during the 1950s.(Robinson) Jim Jones also earned degrees from Indiana University and Butler University. He was not considered a “Fundamentalist pastor” as many reports in the media and the anti-cult movement claim. Robinson states,” He belonged…

In the Hellenistic Era of Greek Art, many sculptures featured dramatic, emotional, and theatrical sculptures. Specifically, the Winged Nike or The Nike Of Samothrace is a sculpture that represents victory and the deity Nike. The sculpture is presented on a base that is a prow of a ship with the goddess atop. The original placement was “…a hillside niche high above the theater in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods of Samothrace…” (Cothren, Stockstad). Her stance is powerful; her right leg pushed…

Hellenistic era was a period of great cultural change in literature, art, science, and philosophy. Each aspect of this cultural change occurred through Greek expansion and played a role in shaping the culture of Hellenistic Greeks. The beginning of the expansion of the Greek cultural was caused by the changing of the Greek environment. To begin with, the Greeks developed new technologies that would further their knowledge and even influence the modern world. These technologies include…

Historically the Romans actually followed the Greeks until they defeated them in 146 B.C.. Their idealistic differences are well known when comparing artworks. While the Greeks are more focused on God's and power, Romans use their art for decoration depicting reality and beauty. Romans were more likely to sculpt a well-known fit emperor while Greek sculpted an unrealistic beauty of what they imagined. Romans luxurious objects consisted of metal…

1) Greeks were the people who thought human body is one of the best art. They were the first who made image of man. They were so into human body that they studies human body so well and curved into marble. They curved truly realistic human body that we can image. Making a man body was completely new no one ever had done this before in history. After few time they stopped making this sculptures because they thought this was not very interested. They wanted to come up with something very…

Greek traditions and beliefs still have a huge impact on our civilization in many ways, whether it be from architecture or from the stories written about their gods in that time period, it is obvious that they still impact us. Many of the gods and goddesses in that time period helped structure some beliefs that we still hold dear to us to this very day. One very important goddess from their beliefs is Athena. She is known as for representing many different qualities that the people in her cult…

culture was the version of Greek culture that would ultimately influence his vast empire outside of mainland Greece at the time. Alexander and his men helped spread Greek culture, language, and Grecian school of thought through logic and reasoning. These contributions from his army to the nations from the Mediterranean coast to Asia lead them to assimilate to Greek customs and adopt some features of Hellenistic lifestyle. A very common staple of greek culture are the Greek gods and…