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On November 18, 1978, in what became known as the “Jonestown Massacre,” was the most deadly, non-natural disaster in all of U.S. history. James Warren “Jim” Jones who was the leader and founder of a cult known as Peoples temple in Indiana in 1970’s led this infamous event. Jim Jones started a racially integrated church with the pure intention to help others in need. The occurrences at Jonestown have been described in two different terms: as the “Jonestown suicides” and as the “Jonestown massacre…

Hurricane Harvey took place on the 25th of August and ended on the 2nd of September 2017. Harvey reached up to category 4 and was the first major hurricane to occur in Texas and the rest of the United States since hurricane Wilma hit Texas in 2005, therefore hurricane Harvey ended a record 12-year drought in Texas. Hurricane Harvey didn’t just destroy the land in Texas, but the people within, their homes and businesses. According to Wikipedia (2017): Harvey has caused over $70 billion worth of…

About the New Religion Movements (NRM), it t can be said that there is no definition considered correct. The definition best accepted by Bryan Wilson is that a NRM is new from the moment it became visible in its present form since World War II and is religious from the time that, in addition to offering theological statements about nature and existence of supernatural beings, also proposes answers to some "existential" questions to which religions try to respond, such as: Who am I? God exists?…

Six weeks after I was born, I moved from my parents apartment in Brooklyn to a house in the Bronx with my grandparents and my mom’s four older siblings. I moved to the Bronx so my parents could work and save up money for a house they later bought. I remember having blankets on the floor when I started crawling, and my uncles baby-proofing anything that could’ve hurt me. I remember having all of my dolls and stuffed animals lying next to me. I remember my grandparents and my aunts always making…

On the 8th of July 1976, the decision was made by Israel that the only solution to the hostage situation of their citizens at Entebbe, was to raid the airport as a rescue mission. The Entebbe raid was justified as the hostage’s lives were in extreme danger and with the terrorist’s ultimatum drawing nearer, there seemed to be little other option. There were those, however, that tend to disagree and believe that there could have been another solution. The United Nations saw the raid as the…

of cultural or ethnic groups within a society.” In the Americanized textbooks cultural diversity is usually when you have a melting-pot such as where in New York City you have ethnic neighborhoods such as Little Italy, Chinatown, Koreatown, Little Guyana in one large city that is very diverse with a multitude of cultural backgrounds. When breaking down the meaning of multiethnicity you find it is stated as being “made up of people of various ethnicities.” With that being said, you would have to…

Here in Antigua and Barbuda its often referred to as the “melting Pot” of the Caribbean the different cultures that exist here includes people from China, Syria, Guyana, Jamaica, Dominica, America, St. Kitts, St, Vincent, Nigeria among others. These tend to outshine the natives that are here. The born Antiguans tend to have a lot of preconceived thoughts about the other cultures and so once you are from a particular…

Creole Pidgins and creoles are used in third world nation. Both of them are occurred in response in order to change in the political and social environment of the community where they are spoken in. Nowadays, over one hundred pidgins and creoles are spoken around the world, but different languages. Actually, most pidgins and creoles are based on European languages, mostly on English, Spanish and French. Also, in Egypt and Arab countries there are some groups of people whom spoke mixed of…

Whenever a person hears the word cult, they will either be frightened or not think much about it. The word cult, is nowadays often used to describe a group of people that believes or does something out of the ordinary. Its original definition however, is a “ritual observance involved in worship of the supernatural or its symbolic representations” (Cult). While most cults have died out, many are still active today or have influenced modern cults. People may know these cults by name but they may…

Over 35 years ago, post- the Vietnam war, the Army issued field manual FM 3-24 to handle counterinsurgency operations. The subject matter of this manual assists soldiers in conducting operations by providing direction to better inform leaders on cultural complexities and techniques to better handle every divergent cultural belief without promoting bigotry. Nevertheless, it is not inclusive and does require a soldier to do research, depending on the region of the world they are infiltrating.…