Guyana

Over My experiences so far influenced me positively. Growing up, the most important thing that was stressed by my grandmother was education. She wanted me to take advantage of school because she was not given the opportunity when she was younger. In Guyana, teenage girls were inclined to drop out and pressured into finding husbands by their family. However, my grandmother’s views were opposite of traditional practice because she wanted more for me. Sometimes I used to fake being sick to stay…

The first thing I noticed was all the tropical forests and jungles. They are all spread over Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. After I observed that, I looked the population density of the countries which had mass areas of jungles and forests. The reason that Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana had sparse Population density was because the countries are covered with jungles which don’t provide spaces for people to live. The…

Brazil is the largest nation in South America and covers almost half of the continent. The absolute location of Brazil is 15* 46’ S, 47* 55’ W. Brazil is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast. Both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn run through the country of Brazil making Brazil in the northern, southern, and western hemispheres. Brazil has a humid tropical and subtropical climate. The country is very hot and dry considering it’s on the equator. The Amazon River flows right…

All ages and races welcome, over 900 people occupied an idealistic socialist community in the jungles of Guyana called Jonestown. In November 1978, the entire population had perished. What was the purpose of Jonestown and what influences did Jim Jones have on his followers? As the People's Temple grew during the 1960s, Jones became obsessed with the idea of Marxism and he started to preach about an imminent nuclear apocalypse during the Cold War. He gave a date on which the 'apocalypse' would…

Historical Information (dates, people, laws, key facts) ALL November 18, 1978, 909 people died in a ‘mass-suicide’ in Jonestown, Guyana These 909 people, which included over 200 children, were members of the People’s Temple, a religious group led by Jim Jones Background info on People’s Temple Jim Jones founded the People’s Temple, a Christian cult, in the 1950s in Indianapolis, Indiana and later moved his church to San Francisco, California. He preached socialist, utopian ideals and spoke…

CGW 4U1 Demographic Data Assignment - “Playing in the Sandbox” 2015 Faven Ghilazghi Life Expectancy at Birth (both sexes) and GNI PPP per capita, 2014 ($US) For the graph of Life Expectancy at Birth and GNI PPP there is a clear positive relationship, but there are also a few interesting outliers and patterns. The positive relationship can easily be seen by analyzing the graph, it can also read by seeing that the two countries with the lowest GDPs have the two lowest life expectancy rates…

community operates almost independently like a small town or village. Members trade amongst each other, while all having a specific job that is crucial to the community (Lalich and Langone). Jim Jones forced his group, the People's Temple, to move to Guyana and develop an area called Jonestown. Jim Jones assigned jobs to each member in order to accomplish his utopian dream where everyone…

Change is a reoccurring concept in our lives. Weather we like it or not, we cannot stop it. The Giraffe by Mauro Senesi is a prime example that people do not always react the change the same ways. In the novel, ‘the boys’ were faced with having to be courageous, accepting and determined in order to save the giraffe. Similarly, these are qualities we use in our everyday lives. Firstly, the boys in the story had to find courage with in; in order to save the giraffe as no one else wanted to do it.…

Revolutionary Suicide Suicide is the intentional taking of one's own life; it is not one being forced to die. Prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 the horrendous event at Jonestown marked the single largest loss of U.S. civilian lives in a non-natural disaster. On November 18, 1978 a total of 909 Americans died under the direction of People’s Temple leader Jim Jones. Not every member of the People’s Temple willingly gave up their lives many were shot if they were not willingly…

A well known and quite disturbing case is Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. On November 18, 1978, Reverend Jim Jones and more than 900 members of his People’s Temple committed mass suicide in the jungle of Guyana. Jim Jones lured his followers to a jungle in Guyana and cut off all of their connections to the outside world, and then made them all sign a contract which he would not let them read, but still held them accountable to, if they did not willingly sign the contract, a gun was…