Jonestown

dystopias in cinema include more popular titles such as Brazil, The Matrix, District 9, Children of Men, and A Clockwork Orange (Zafar-Arif). There are many real-life examples of utopias and dystopias in the world as well, such as the Branch Davidians, Jonestown, and the controversial Unification Church, all of which exist in the modern universe today. Most importantly, the dystopian genre has gained a sense of momentum in popular culture today, and a hypothesis on why that would be the case is…

Faith is something that everyone proclaims to have. Faith is something that Kierkegaard wanted for people to think about before claiming they possessed of it. He used Abraham’s story to explain what faith can do. Abraham is seen as the father of faith in the bible, and for Kierkegaard Abraham was the knight of faith. For the bible Abraham was the father of faith for the reason that he passed the trial that God put on him. The trial consisted of Abraham sacrificing his best, which was his son…

If the world alone was nothing more but a society in which there is nothing but peace and the entire world was equal in all directions, how would the citizens of the society and outsiders classify it? This is the question that sparks a discussion about the similarities and differences of two societies that are highly popular in pop culture, yet surprisingly are true in the modern world. One society is a place where everything in the world is perfect and everyone lives in harmony with one another…

CHARISMATIC LEADERSHIP Weber (1947) was first to conceptualize charismatic leadership to describe forms of authority based on ‘exceptional powers and qualities…not accessible to ordinary person but are regarded as of divine origin or as exemplary’ (Compendium p.106) Since then, charismatic leadership is used to describe leaders who have ‘charismatic effect’ on their followers to an unusually high degree (Compendium p.121). PROS OF CHARISMATIC LEADERSHIP 1. Organizational Reformer- As Conger and…

Stricherz, is a political book that delves into the Democratic party. Mark Stricherz has a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's in social science. He is a political reporter who wrote this book and has another book called The Hero of Jonestown. He has also authored many articles that have been seen in many national publications, including the Washington Post, The Weekly Standard, the New Republic, and Christianity Today. This book discusses the Democratic party and their…

IN the mind of the worst of the human race We all fear something, don’t we? Yes, yet it is hard to say things that we are afraid of do not intrigue us, make us wonder. Where it came from what made it what it is well this paper is my dive into the mind of something that intrigues me personally yet I am also afraid of. The mind of the serial killer the monsters among men we all fear people that can take a human life but why do they well in my research I found some similarities such as personal…