Guyana

Jesus Cobos History 146-01 The Christian Church of the People’s Temple was very much a big thing for it’s time. The church’s fundamental ideas of equality, loyalty, and working for the collective-good made its success thrive in the environment of nineteen-sixties america. For those of color the church would accept regardless of the outer world’s racism. For those of old age the church provided homes, food, care, and healing. For the people without a place to go and no defined will, the…

For a long time, I had trouble figuring out who I am as an individual. Under the conditions that I grew up in, it wasn’t always as simple as identifying myself by my race. It would be easy to say I am a Guyanese-American and proud. In the white privileged society we live in, proclaiming your ethnicity alongside the term “American” does not work out. I grew up in a predominantly Hispanic and White neighborhood. I tried my best to fit in with this population. Being a victim of bullying, it was…

“The Snake Warriors – Sons of the Tiger Teeth: a descriptive analysis of Carib warfare, ca. 1500-1820” by Neil Lancelot Whitehead Neil Whitehead, in his article The Snake Warriors analysed Carib warfare, uses historical texts’ to interpret Carib war culture and society anthropologically. He does this by first, describing Carib military tactics prior to European contact, discussing social and ideological context they were deployed, and also to analyze the effect European contact had on the…

My child that participated in my case study is Brandon Sharma. He is in 4th grade and is 9 years old. He is developing well for his age and shows no signs for any learning disabilities. I only see him on the weekends so that may obstruct what I observe. Overall, Brandon was a good choice for my case study because he is a perfect example of how technology is good and bad for you. I will further explain other aspects of Brandon physically, cognitively, socio-emotionally, and culturally. For a 9…

In 1977 Jones Jimes fled the United States, and nearly a thousand of his people’s temples cult. Deep in the South American jungle him and his cult built a new community to find a new way of life and called it “JonesTown”. Having a great image of a “home sweet home” and a get away “paradise” is soon died on November 18, 1978. More than 900 people were killed or others committed suicide by drinking laced Kool-Aid. Jones did have a dark side to this all as you can tell he killed nearly a thousand…

Beliefs/Conformity Once the cult moved to Jonestown the members of the peoples temple believed that Jim was their god or an human representation of god. This made it easier for Jones to manipulate the members of the temple, he would abduct people who were struggling and give them “a better life” “Jones: I've tried my best to give you a good life. In spite of allI've tried, a handful of people, with their lies, have made our life impossible. If we cant live in peace then lets die in…

John White Dr. Mills English 121-117 5 October 2015 Drinking Poison? I remember when I first heard about it. I was living in Provo Utah at the time and I had seen several picket signs that had been thrust into the lawn outside of Utah Valley University. Each sign painted an eerie picture as it contained an image of a skull and crossbones within a water droplet leaking out of a water faucet. Beneath the haunting image was a caption that read, “We are drinking poison!” There was a small group…

Guyana Guyana is a small, wonderful and beautiful country, There is a lot of great places to visit. “Guyana has valuable mineral resources, dense forests, and wild mountain country” ("World Book Student | Guyana."). Guyana has a wonderful climate, geography, economy, government, and culture. Guyana is a small country with many land and water features. Guyana is divided into three main regions; the coastal plain, inland forest and highland. The coastal plain is a strip of land along the…

Guyanas crime rate has begun to rise in the past decade from reading multiple articles on the topic, that is why they are begging to implement SWAT teams and other special forces in their department. A YouTube channel by HGPTV (Channel16 Cable67) with the video being named, Guyana Crime Rate has increased talks about, how the murders aren’t just simple murders happening. These are execution type murders taking place in the streets of Guyana. The killings are happening during robberies, domestic,…

1.8 Connections Report - Theme: Diversity and Tolerance Connection: Multi-cultured are not able to connect with both the traditions and the values so they tend to disconnect with their own culture to feel more modernised amongst the society. Title of Text and Name of Author/ Singer/ Director Text Type Notes - How the text relates to my connection Evidence from Text - Quotations or close references to the text ‘Half-Caste’ by John Agard Poem Agard is half African and half Guyanese - as people…