Temple University

In ANE literature, tablets are both a medium for writing, and a symbol of writing itself, but writing gains authority through message or author. Adoption and sale tablets, Suzerainty treaties, and written prayers laid beside idols exemplify authority by a message. In them, the authority emanated from the confines of the writing dictating relationships between parties. Orpheus tablets typify the second condition by the issue of pseudepigraphical authorship (as discussed under the subheading,…

Pearl Jam is an alternative rock/grunge band. The band members are Eddie Vedder/lead vocalist, Mike McCready/lead guitar, Stone Gossard/guitar, Jeff Ament/bass, Matt Cameron/drums, Boom Gaspar/piano. Pearl Jam is one of the most famous bands in rock history. Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament were part of the band Green River, who toured in the mid-80’s. They disbanded in 1987 due to friction between fellow bandmates. In 1987 Gossard and Ament later joined the band Malfunkshun with the…

Medina, which was home to many Jews. The day he arrived, the Quran established practices that were opened to Jews (4). One of the main practices that were created was a Judaic practice that of which during prayer they would face in the direction of the Temple Mount. However, this did not last long because the Jewish did not like their change. Another connection with Jerusalem and Muslims was when Damascus ruled and a Mecca leader began a revolt against the Umayyads in 680. The Umayyads decided…

members, faked healings and miracles, ordered ex-members who had left to be killed, and he had an increasing addiction to tranquilizers (Moore). Around the mid-1970s there was backlash against Jones recent behavior. Former members of the People's temple who called themselves "Concerned Relatives" organized a media campaign to expose Jones' brainwashing, financial corruption, torture, and child abuse inside of Jonestown (Chidester). Members of the government and others were sent to investigate…

covenant relationship (Hos. 10:12). Righteousness therefore becomes the authority by which God’s covenant relationship continues. Second Temple Authors used this topos in two distinct methods that…

Two different lives’ stories have been produced as movies. Temple Grandin was a true story about an autistic person’s life and how she became a successful person. Autism did not bring her life down, but it was an opportunity that allowed her to become a successful scientist. The movie had been produced to show how an autistic person acted and thought or exhibited how her life was different from other autistic people and was difficult being an autistic person. Still, she motivated herself and…

Charles Barkley’s hands wrapped around my shoulders. My head barely went to his armpit. The 6’6”, 250 pounder, NBA legend towered over me. We were located in the hotel lobby in Birmingham, Alabama, I was there to compete in the National Speech and Debate Tournament, he was there for fun. “That’s a good skill to have,” he said. “ To be able to communicate effectively and debate.” Is it? I have come to the conclusion, as I have contemplated this one simple question the past year , that the single…

Christian Church of the People’s Temple was very much a big thing for it’s time. The church’s fundamental ideas of equality, loyalty, and working for the collective-good made its success thrive in the environment of nineteen-sixties america. For those of color the church would accept regardless of the outer world’s racism. For those of old age the church provided homes, food, care, and healing. For the people without a place to go and no defined will, the People’s Temple would gladly accept and…

what became known as the “Jonestown Massacre,” more than 900 members of Peoples Temple Church died in a mass suicide-murder under the direction of their leader Jim Jones.Jim Jones used blind faith, promise of reward, and violence to shape the identities of his followers. His followers were following by blind faith and used that to get followers.He let any race be apart of the church. Let any race in his Peoples Temple Church and that brought more people in.Did great things and use blind faith…

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…