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    Jonestown Suicide

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    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…

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    Michael Jackson Thriller

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    R&B, funk, and disco. Most of the songs are in the format of simple verse chorus where it’s based on a bass line. In this album, out of the nine songs, Michael himself have composed four of them. He record the album with his producer, Quincy Jones, and they’ve made over thirty songs together and it includes the nine songs that are…

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    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…

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    People's Temple Cult

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    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 to a mainline Christian denomination, having been ordained in the Christian Church/Disciples of Christ.” Jones developed a belief called Translation in which he and his followers would all Perish…

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    Riverdale Movie Essay

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    Archie comics has made a comeback in this decade, and this time, it’s taken a deep twist. Riverdale, a popular teen drama, with a hint of mystery, directed by Lee Toland Krieger, carries the character names, and majority of the previously construed mannerisms that belong to the hit comic book series.. This series explores the mystery that comes with the death of a rich and popular teen, Jason Blossom, while the town is sitting on edge to find his killer, and the drama that is high school, slowly…

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    Jesus and Buddha praised vegetarianism because of a humans connectedness to all life (Jones-Hunt). Before eating meat became popular, many ethnicities had vegetarian traditions for this very reason, which is not widely known(Jones-Hunt). A number of humans have forgotten how we are “scientifically classified as mammals, animals, and primates”, we tend think of ourselves as better than other animals. (Jones-Hunt). A big part of the blame for this could land on the fact that we refer to ourselves…

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    In 2014, I was head over heels for the Catholic Church. A young adult going to mass every Sunday morning and then again Sunday night for “Teen” mass wasn’t abnormal in the city of Corpus Christi. I mean, the name of the city translates into “Body of Christ.” (Spoiler: “Teen” mass wasn’t as ‘Hip’ or ‘poppin’ as you might think it would be. The only difference was instead of a children’s choir it was a ragtag band playing slow Jesus songs.) But this Teen Mass was different, this was my last one…

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    Mother Teresa

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    "By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus" (Pope John Paul II). She was called “mother” by millions though she had no children of her own. This person is Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa was baptized on August 26, 1910, given the name Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu and died on September 5th, 1997 (Gold). Her father, Nikolo, and her mother, Drana, emphasized the importance…

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    Faisalabad Research Paper

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    Faisalabad formerly, Lyallpur, is the third largest metropolis in Pakistan,[5] the second largest in the province of Punjab after Lahore, and a major industrial center in the heart of Pakistan. The city-district of Faisalabad is bound on the north by the districts of Hafizabad and Chiniot, on the east by Nankana Sahib, on the Sout″h-East by Okara, on the South Sahiwal & Toba Tek Singh, and on the west by Jhang. When Jesus began his teaching he opened by saying, “Blessed are the poor in Spirit”…

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