Jim Jones

thought the cult was the best they could do. Utopian ideas was used by Jim Jones to lure his followers and used them for his own Dystopian world. It is a common theme that can be found throughout many Utopian stories. REFERENCES Orwell, George. "1984." Holt Reinhart and Winston", 2000. Print. History.com, Staff. "Jonestown." History.com. A&E Television Networks, 2010. Web. 11 Nov. 2015. . Biography.com, Editors. "Jim Jones Biography." The Biography.com Website. A&E Networks Television.…

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 church founded its roots under one man Jim Jones. Jones preached what the people wanted. He solely wasn’t just a voice, but rather a man who seemed to make…

people in the jungle of Guyana. What happened has been painstakingly studied however the how and the why continue to be the subject of discussion more than thirty years later. The death tapes captured much of what transpired on November 18, 1978. Jones was heard to say,” “Die with a degree of dignity. Lay down your life with dignity; don’t lay down with tears and agony. I tell you, I don’t care how many screams you hear, I don’t care how many anguished cries…death is a million times preferable…

harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision making outcome. Jonestown is a great example of groupthink because everyone believed in Jim Jones. Hundreds of people thought it was a great idea to commit mass suicide in Jonestown, all under the command of their detrimental leader, Jim Jones even though some of them thought it was a preposterous…

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 men leading them to their known death? To understand question, you’ll have to endure this three page essay over the Jonestown suicides, how the project began, and the declining mental state of Jim Jones. First, let me get an obvious question out…

The event took place in the nation of Guyana, South America, forming a settlement named Jonestown. Jones founded Peoples temple in the 1950s then relocated his congregation to California in the 1960s. After experiencing negative media he moved around 1,000 Peoples temple members to the Guyanese jungle, where he promised they would establish utopian community…

In Jonestown, when people devoted their whole life to the People’s Temple and Jim Jones, their blind loyalty and allegiance came back to haunt them. A former member of the People’s Temple recalled in an interview “we were demonstrating loyalty all the time. Coming there, being there in the meetings, sitting, listening — you know, supporting, working.” The member believed that in return for their loyalty to Jim Jones and the People’s Church that they would be granted utopian lives they had always…

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…

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…