Guyana

The Amazon rainforest stretches 3 million square miles across nine different countries including Paraguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Perú, and Colombia. The main countries that house the Amazon are Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, and Columbia. However, majority of the Amazon is actually in Brazil. This place is teeming with life; vegetation, animals, and indigenous ethnic groups across hundreds of thousands of miles. There are about 80,000 species of plants, 3 million…

Therefore that being discussed it can be concluded that, a reduction in the number of pirate attacks helps all states, but the states that choose to fight piracy bear high costs for doing so. That is to say, an ocean free of pirates is a common good that benefits all states, but obtaining that common good is an expensive process for those states which choose to guarantee it. Under international law, states are free to act as they feel best with regards to piracy. UNCLOS does not contain a…

The destruction of the Earth’s Lungs: During any given moments in the average human’s typical day, a large portion of the Amazon rainforest will have just been destroyed by bulldozing government agencies that work on an industrial scale in efforts to increase marketing globalization. The Amazon in South America is the largest rainforest on Earth despite it’s increasing destruction, the Amazon remains as half the planet’s remaining rainforest, inhabiting a diverse group of species of plants and…

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…

Somewhere along the East Coast seawall in Georgetown, Guyana. Prologue: Out of Control Kite The rain had finally stopped and the crisp blue sky and strong ocean breeze was a perfect combination for Owen and Xavier to take their kite out for a test flight. These two teenagers had spent an enormous amount of time putting their red, yellow, and green patch-work kite together. Big O, as Owen’s friends would call him, placed the kite on his back and X, as Xavier is known as, grabbed the tail and the…

charisma when talking about leaders, but often forget about some less victorious stories. Jim Jones, the leader of the Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ, for example, was able to make people believe that leaving everything they know to flee to Guyana was not only beneficial, but also revolutionary. Many of…

Another famous preschool abuse case is Fort Bragg preschool, also in California. Similar accusations were made in this case as with the McMartin case, but on top of all of the McMartin accusations, teachers and staff members were also accused of having children being buried in coffins, being tortured with water, being forced to perform mock marriages with other students as well as the devil, having medical operations where the teacher would “take out” the children's hearts and place something…

Essay 5: The Amazon and its Impacts In order to understand the importance of the Amazon River, we need to understand that it is so much more than just another flowing body of water. The health of the planet depends on the Amazon making it one of the most valuable places in the world. The river and the basin that it has created and travels, effects a huge body of vegetation, people, and animals. The Amazon benefits a new and evolving culture, allows continuing diversity in people,…

Belief Perseverance Jonestown cult members made a public declaration of their loyalty to Jim Jones by selling everyone of their personal possessions, and then followed him to the Republic of Guyana. Later, they would experience irrational manipulation and abuse, and they even stayed to the point of committing mass suicide when told them to do so. This terrible and unfortunate story is a perfect example of belief perseverance. Belief perseverance essentially states that if we decide that we…

Go to vacation destinations most often include glamorous European cities such as London or Paris. These destinations, however, can become a bit too overwhelming with crawling tourists determined to capture the iconic photo moments in a red phone booth near the Big Ben or hundreds of feet from the Eiffel Tower. The United Nation’s World Tourism Organization reported that of the 1,186 million international tourist arrivals around the world in 2015, 51 percent, or 608 million, had visited Europe.…