This paper will count as 25% of your final grade but this part is the Research Paper and is graded separately. Using sources such as books, articles, specialized encylopedias, films, or whatever else you may find, you are to write a research paper on the history of The People’s Temple. You are absolutely not to use Wikipedia for this paper and all research should be drawn from materials you find via the Library databases I showed you. I would also prefer you not use the internet unless you find something valid and useful that ends with .gov, .edu, .org. Let me also emphasize that the films I asked you to watch have good information in them, but do NOT rely on those for your information. I want to see a variety of sources used in this paper and you will be penalized if you overuse the films.
I am providing you with a question sheet. It includes all the questions you need to address in part one of the paper. This does not mean, in any way, that this paper is in the form of answers. It simply means this is the information I want to see in the paper and it is up to you to organize it into a cohesive paper.
The basic information about The People’s Temple should be presented. We all know how this ended, but not many people know the history of the temple. Who was the leader? How did the Temple get started? Where did it get started? What was its beliefs? What kind of people joined? What did the church do for the community? What was its progression over the years? In essence, you are presenting information to someone who knows nothing about The People’s Temple. You do not need to spend a lot of time on the mass suicide – primarily on the history of the movement.
This paper must be MLA formatted and documented, with in-text parenthetical citations and a formal Works Cited sheet. This time, MLA is part of the grade and anyone who does NOT document their work will receive an F, so take the technicalities seriously.
(In no particular order, these are the questions your papers should address, meaning this is the information you need to include. Use them as a guideline for your research.)
Paper # 3: The History of the People’s Temple
1. What was the People’s Temple?
2. How and where did it start?
3. Who was the leader of the People’s Temple?
4. Why did Jones start the People’s Temple?
5. What were some of the beliefs that guided Jones? That is, why did he want to create this church?
6. When and why did he move to California?
7. What good things did People’s Temple do for the
Community in California?
8. What did you have to do to be a member?
9. What were his masses like?
10. How did he recruit members?
11. What did members of the church believe in?
12. Why and how did he get the support of higher ups in
society?
13. Why did Jones move his church to Guyana?
14. What was life like in Jonestown?
15. Why did Congressman Ryan go there?
16. What was the end of Jonestown?
The point is that you are presenting an account of the history of this church/cult and also showing me that you can use the sources and weave material together.
No one source should predominate your paper. I should see a mix of sources used, including material you find in books, articles, films, etc. that you find through our library databases. You should NOT be using websites for this paper.
In a paper of this length I would expect to see a minimum of four sources, if you use the film, that does not count towards your original source tally. I want YOU to find material to use in addition to what you choose to use from what I provided. There are many books on this topic which you have access to via the library database and book chapters are good sources of information.
this is the first article because it wouldn’t let me forward the link igave you 3 sources choose another sorce from that ends with .gov, .edu, .org. i also gave you a video to watch that does not count as one of the sources please dont use big words
Jim Jones, byname of James Warren Jones, (born May 13, 1931, Crete, near Lynn, Indiana, U.S.—died November 18, 1978, Jonestown, Guyana) was an American cult leader who promised his followers a utopia in the jungles of South America after proclaiming himself messiah of the Peoples Temple, a San Francisco-based evangelist group. He ultimately led his followers into a mass suicide, which left more than 900 dead and came to be known as the Jonestown Massacre (November 18, 1978).
As a young child, Jones became a regular churchgoer, and, after graduating from Butler University, he decided to enter the ministry. In the 1950s and ’60s in Indianapolis, Indiana, Jones gained a reputation as a charismatic churchman who claimed to have psychic powers such as the ability to foretell the future and miraculously heal those who were sick. He was a vocal proponent of racial integration, a position that ran afoul of some church elders. In 1955 he established the Wings of Deliverance, a Pentecostal church that eventually became known as the Peoples Temple. During this time he was noted for his work with the homeless, and in the early 1960s he served as director of Indianapolis’s Human Rights Commission. Fearing a nuclear war, Jones relocated his church to northern California in 1965, first settling near Ukiah and then in San Francisco in 1971.
Following the move, Jones, who adopted the name “the Prophet,” apparently became obsessed with the exercise of power. Before long, he began to face various allegations, most notably that he was illegally diverting the income of cult members to his own use. Amid the mounting accusations, Jones and hundreds of his followers emigrated to Guyana and set up an agricultural commune called Jonestown (1977). As ruler of the sect, Jones confiscated passports and millions of dollars and manipulated his followers with threats of blackmail, beatings, and probable death. He also staged bizarre rehearsals for a ritual mass suicide.
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On November 14, 1978, U.S. Rep. Leo Ryan of California arrived in Guyana with a group of reporters and relatives of cultists to conduct an unofficial investigation of alleged abuses. Four days later, as Ryan’s party and 14 defectors from the cult prepared to leave from an airstrip near Jonestown, Jones ordered the group assassinated. However, only Ryan and four others (including three reporters) were killed. Fearing that those who had escaped might bring in authorities, Jones activated his suicide plan. On November 18 he commanded his followers to drink cyanide-adulterated punch, an order that the vast majority of them passively and inexplicably obeyed. Jones himself died of a gunshot wound in the head, possibly self-inflicted. Guyanese troops reached Jonestown the next day, and the death toll of cultists was eventually placed at 913, including 304 who were under the age of 18. (Some death tolls include the five people killed at the airstrip, bringing the total number of deaths to 918).
EB Editors. this is the link for this page https://academic-eb-com.csi.ezproxy.cuny.edu/levels/collegiate/article/Jim-Jones/43937
this is the video link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuxdb1pSVe8
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