Leo Ryan

The theme/text that I found enriching and challenging is Iconoclasm. Before this class, I had only heard a little-bit about icons, and I was ignorant and ambivalent about the controversy. I discovered through this class that icons are central to Eastern Christian theology and identity. For Eastern Christians, icons are used in religious contexts and also venerated by touching, kissing, bowing in front of them, and lighting candles—these Christians are iconophiles (icon lovers). Icons were…

Introduction Leonardo Da Vinci was an illegitimate son of a notary named Ser Piero and a peasant girl Caterina Leonardo. He was born on April, 15 1452, in Vinci, Italy which was just outside Florence. After spending his short life with his mother, Leonardo’s custody was given to his father as his mother married someone in the neighboring town. As his parents lived separate life, they gifted him with 17 half sisters and brothers. Leonardo’s love and connection with paintings started in small age…

frightened of the machine. In the scene of Leo Irving touches Mrs. Givings, her movement was well motivated. In this particular scene, Mrs. Givings movement was motivated because Leo Irving touches her face while Dr. Givings enters the living room, therefore, Mrs. Givings took a few steps backward. With this motivated movement, Mrs. Givings trying convincing her husband Dr. Givings, there is nothing going on between Leo Irving and her. In the scene of Leo Irving drawing a painting that stage…

Kool-aid kills Exclusive, secretive, and authoritarian. These are three words that can be used to describe a cult. And in the 1970s, you could link all three words to Peoples Temple. Originally created as religious denomination, it soon started 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…

Ryan is a young teenage boy. He loves astrology, especially the constellations. "I'm home!", Ryan yelled and walks in to the blue, bright house. "I'm going outside!" Outside, he finds a little boy crying. "Are you lost?", questions Ryan. "No, I can't get back to my family!", the mysterious boy says. Ryan looks around and says,"Well where are they? Up there!" The boy says and points up to the sky. "In...the...sky?" "Yeah. I'm Scorpio." "Wait, you're a Zodiac?" "Yes. The only way back to my family…

Payton just got done playing a soccer game on a nice day. After the game she stayed back to practice a little more. When she was done practicing alone she started walking home because she did not live far. As she started to walk home, she stopped to tie her shoe. She was about to take out her phone to call her mom when she heard someone yelling for help, but Payton did not know it was a trap. She walked over to see who it was, but out of nowhere a guy came up behind her and put his hand over her…

impetuous actions, he was not thinking on how the false hope news could negatively affect the Creeds. Additionally, Torey is selfish because he only becomes invested in the issue when he has a personal connection to it. Torey is sitting with Alex and Ryan in the library, trying to hack the computer in order to find a note written by Chris Creed. As they read the note, Torey realizes that his name was on it and is confused and worried. He then says, “I think my life changed as the words in that…

running. When it comes to baby boys, Mohammed has now been the most popular boys name in the UK for two years running, with the list otherwise peppered with a combination of traditional names such as Oliver and William, as well as Irish classics such as Ryan and Aiden. Top Boys Names:…

concerning their family’s well-being, Congressman Leo Ryan decided to step in. He announced that he would be visiting Jonestown to find out the truth about this community. On November 14, 1978 Ryan flew to Guyana. He traveled from Georgetown to Jonestown to meet with Jim Jones and unearth the truth about Jonestown and its citizens. Ryan stayed in Jonestown all day and that evening Ryan attended a reception in the center pavilion. While at the reception Ryan received a note that was begging him…

Jim Jones was born in rural Randolph county Indiana to James Thurman Jones and Lynetta Putnam. Lynetta was said to believe that she had given birth to the messiah. During the great depression, in 1934 the Jones family moved to Lynn Indiana. Jones was said to have studied on Joseph Stalin, Karl Marx, Mao Zedong, Mahatma Gandhi and Adolf Hitler. He concentrated on the strengths and weaknesses of each. Jones also developed a great interest in the idea of religion. Early on in his adulthood he…