When you have a dictatorship power and people look to you as a God you respect them, if people tried to leave or take that power away or from you the first thought shouldn’t be to kill them by poison them with potassium cyanide. When someone treats you wrong you just leave them, you don’t give them enough arsenic poison to kill them for not doing what you read in love stories. Jim Jones committed a mass murder by potassium cyanide poisoning while Nannie Doss created a series of murders along her years by arsenic poisoning. In this research paper we get to look back on Jim Jones and Nannie Doss’s earlier childhood, what actually made them notorious, and how their crime spree ended.
James Warren Jones also known as Jim Jones was born in Crete,
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Jim started using pharmaceutical drugs so when Marceline and he had a son name Stephen he had no respect for his father because of his drug use. Jim and Marceline went on to adopted several children most from a non Caucasian background which led to call him and his family the “Rainbow Family”. Jim started his ministry in 1952 called the Somerset Methodist Church which was a predominantly white church and later on naming them Wings of Deliverance and then renamed it to the Peoples Temple which consisted of a mixed race church. Jim Jones had bought land in Guyana in 1974 for his family and his disciples which consisted of 1,000 people altogether. He named the land Jonestown which he ran like a prison to all the Guyanese natives and his disciples. He took away everything that can help them leave him which was passports, gave them little to no food, read their letters so there showed no signs of mistreatment in them, and had armed guards everywhere on the perimeter. Jim was always paranoid so if believed that you were plotting against him he will give them a cup of kool-aid which they were told had poison in it
Jesse James was a well known gang leader, bank robber, and train robber. He was a member of the notorious gang named the James-Younger gang. Jesse James was born on September 5, 1847 in Clay County, Missouri. Jesse and his older brother Frank lost their father in 1849. The father, Reverend Robert James, abandoned his family and disappeared and was thought to go to the California gold fields.
Jim Jones was a cruel cult leader with a long, successful career and an idea that ultimately led to the deaths in Jonestown. James Warren Jones was born on May 13, 1931, in Crete, Indiana. Jim Jones was described as a weird kid, and he would usually hold funerals for small animals, Jim even stabbed a cat to death when he was ten-years-old. At around this time, Jim Jones began visiting churches. Jim Jones was also very intolerant of racial discrimination and had African American friends that weren’t allowed to come over.
Jones was never very stable and believed he was the Messiah. After dragging his family and followers all over California, Jones eventually rented four thousand acres and with the help of his flock, built a colony in
Jim Jones was the leader of The Peoples Temple and was responsible for the death of more than 900 people including children on November 18, 1978.(“Jonestown”) Jones was the leader who seemed of good heart but in reality he was an egotistical person who only wanted power and able to control people for his own benefit. Jones had a way to put a new idea into people's minds that society was corrupted and that by making their own organization that they would be able to escape that world by coming and joining him. He would come up with all sorts of ways into making the people think he was a god to them. ”All of the children addressed Jones as “Dad,” undoubtedly a somewhat upsetting experience for their parents to go through.
“Literature is thought provoking; it allows us to raise questions and gives us a deeper understanding of issues and situations. " The novel Jasper Jones allows us to raise questions about today 's contemporary society. It mirrors issues in a certain historical context but also issues which are evident today. The novel not only portrays abuse of power as being one of the most important issues in the 1950’s to the 1960’s but also in the 21st century.
Not From the Mind Punishments for crime and bad behavior have been seen in different ways with some thinking we should be lenient and not give criminals hard times, while others thought that a more severe, brutal punishments to truly emphasis right from wrong. The articles “Time to Assert American Values” by an editor from The New York Times and “Rough Justice A Caning in Singapore Stirs Up a Fierce Debate About Crime and Punishments” by Alejandro Reyes both describe the trial of a teenage boy from the United States who was caught vandalizing in Singapore. Both authors of the articles examine in great detail, the punishments that the young boy should receive for his crime with both articles contradicting each other. After carefully analyzing
He wasn 't raised to treat Jim like that, to treat him like an actual person. When around others he treats Jim like a slave, as he was raised to
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Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple Cult “Jim Jones of the Peoples’s Temple began as a sound, fairly mainstream Christian minister” (Sects, ‘Cults’ & Alternative Religions). Before all the madness Jones seemed like a caring person, that wanted to bring peace to a town he made, Jonestown. Instead it turned into something more horrific. Jim Jones was the manipulative mastermind behind the traumatic events that happened in Jonestown, Guyana, this essay will discuss interviews by people who are survivors of the mass suicide, and dive into the crazy conspiracies that have emerged, and finally conclude with the death of the Peoples Temple.
Furthermore religion seemed to be the only answer to there problems in helping them get through such a hard time and Jim Jones seemed to be helping them , saying all the right things and doing the right thing. Jim Jones, born James Warren Jones on May 13, 1931, in Crete, Indiana, also known as one of the most notorious cult leaders. Although he was odd as a kid, he was a strong student, especially in speaking but had very few friends. Since he personally wanted to help others and wanted others to look up to him, he took the road into becoming a preacher.
We must go and overthrow the court, he says!’” (Miller 119). Miller gives insight into how the accusations around 1950-1954 may have also included the pressure of higher authority forcing someone (of the lower authority) with power, money, and etc. to testify false accusations. The author presents an interesting story that mirrors and represents a different time period, displaying the social injustice of people as they are motivated by fear, jealousy, hatred of one another, and more.
Short Summary: Chapter 2 of The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison was about how the way society sees crime can be distorted by the media, the justice system, and the information we are presented with about what crime really is. It points out that medical neglect, known environmental hazards, dangerous workplace conditions, and poverty cause more injuries yearly than murders, assaults, and robberies. Most people see the latter as “crime,” but not the former. Long Summary: Chapter 2 of The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison discusses people’s skewed perspective when it comes to what they think crime really is. The reader is asked to do an exercise regarding their own reason.
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Jim was described as a father figure towards Huckleberry Finn in the book. As they went on adventures, Jim was always looking out for Huck for any possibly harm. "It 's a dead man... Come in, Huck, but doan ' look at his face-- it 's too gashly," (Twain 60). This quote from the book shows Jim shielding and protecting Huck from looking at a dreadful scene. Jim is willing to risk his freedom in order to save Tom Sawyer from being in more danger from the gun shot than he already was.
While the protagonist, Alex, may choose vicious acts, he chooses them with a clear ethical capacity. On the other hand, when being controlled by the government, he loses the part of him that makes him human. Individuals may not always make the best choice, but humanity comes from a human’s ability to choose between right and wrong. In this case, the destruction of Alex’s humanity proves that it is better to be bad by choice, than to be good by government coercion.