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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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    Indiana Jones is an archeologist, studies, and knows a lot about the subject. Each time there is an issue, he tries to resolve it and always find a solution. For instance, at the end of the movie, he knows that looking straight at the evil spirits that comes out…

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    place around the time of World war II and the Nazis.Indiana Jones is a unique man who became a college at Marshall College, but has a hobby as an archaeologist. Jones spends his free time hunting for hidden treasures and ancient artifacts around the world. One of his expeditions , Jones worked his way through a cave setup with traps. At the end of the cave , he took the golden idol and barely escaped with his own life. However , Jones’ rival archaeologist , Rene Belloq steals the idol…

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    their quest. The film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade demonstrates how guidance from a god-teacher during Indiana’s quest for the Holy Grail motivates proper morals that ultimately leads to a positive outcome. Elsa Schneider chooses to take on the quest for the Holy Grail with no god-teacher, she only has the example of greed and manipulation that is set by the Nazis which causes her to act immoral. Indiana Jones, on the other hand, is influenced by his father, Henry Jones Sr. on the quest…

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    Raiders of the Lost Ark In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones had stated “I’m goin’ after that truck.” Sallah had responded with, “How?” Bravely, Indiana Jones replies by saying, “I don’t know, I’m makin’ this up as I go.” According to filmsite, Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark was directed by Steven Spielberg in 1981. This movie is also an example of a modern epic. There are five traits are characterized in an epic. The five traits of an epic are that the protagonist is a hero with the…

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