lack of empathy. The Reverend Jim Jones was a psychopath who ultimately lead hundreds of people to their deaths in Guyana. He developed narcissist behavior due from his upbringing‚ when he was older he wanted the love he wasn’t showed in his childhood‚ but he never learned how to treat others with the same compassion he desired. Although never being diagnosed officially there are signs of behavior to point to Jim Jones being a psychopath and narcissist. Why were people so reluctant to follow him and
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Jim Jones – Individuals Report The widely known leader I have chosen to present in my report is the American religious cult leader‚ responsible for the Jonestown massacre in 1978; Jim Jones. Born as James Warren Jones on May 13‚ 1931‚ he was an extremely influential leader of his cult church‚ The People’s Temple. His influence over this group led to a series of quite horrific events and eventually a mass suicide which Jones called “revolutionary suicide"‚ killing more than 900 people‚ including
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Jones raised money to fund his own church that would spread his Marxist idea. He saw the way African Americans were treated as outcasts in society as he was an outcast himself. He decided the best way to spread his beliefs would be through the church. That would the Peoples Temple. It was originally created for interracial gatherings for the homeless and sick.The Peoples Temple was formed in Indianapolis‚ Indiana in mid-1950s. Jones managed to secure an affiliation with the Disciples of Christ. With
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James Warren Jones commonly known as Jim Jones was an American cult leader. He was the founder of Peoples Temple which is infamous for mass murder suicide in 1978 November where 918 members of his cult lost their live. It is estimated that nearly 300 innocent children were murdered at Jonestown‚ almost all of them by cyanide poisoning. He was seen as a very charismatic man by his followers and he attracted people who were feeling isolated for whatever reason. Majority of his followers were African
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with love and attention for the first ten years of her life.When the author grew up she started looking for attention else where‚ at any cost. The author eventually met Jim Jones the leader of the peoples temple. She decided to join the peoples temple‚ the author was willing to give up her family and friends join the temple. When she arrived in Jonestown it was not what she had expected. She soon came to realize that Jonestown was more like a prison camp than the promised land she was expecting
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Analysis of Jim Jones and the People’s Church Teamwork and Leadership Michelle Steele January 31‚ 2012 Professor Margaret Beaumaster Analysis of Jim Jones and the People’s Church 1) Jim Jones digressed through various leadership styles as his time with People’s Church went forward. He elicited qualities of charismatic leadership and idealized influence in the beginning‚ followed by transactional leadership‚ and then autocratic leadership. Charismatic – Jones was an incredible speaker. This was
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to make a difference in the world. But it’s not always been like this. Fifty years ago people had to actually fight to prove something. And if no one believed them‚ if everyone around them was deaf to their wishes‚ they may even have had to die to prove something. While some interpret the mass death of the People’s Temple community as insanity‚ there are good reasons
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Over all‚ Jim Jones‚ as a great leader before he become corrupted and evil‚ he equipped with all the ability that a lender must have confidence‚ charisma and communication and he’s really good at it. At the beginning he had really good idea and plan‚ he knows what people want and felt‚ so he take an active part in all socially activity to help the other people‚ and to collect a lot of experience to help himself found his own church. Also Jim Jones was really good at speech he know how to use his
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innocent children. As informed in the Britannica Encyclopedia article “Jim Jones‚” these members belonged to a cult known as the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones‚ who was responsible for ordering the members to suicide. According to an article “Why Do People Join Cults?” by Adrian Furnham‚ Ph.D.‚ a cult is a group with “powerful and exclusive dedication and devotion to an explicit person or creed‚” with a goal to “reprogramming the way people see the world” (Furnham). In summary‚ a cult‚ as explained in “Cult
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place under the influence of Reverend Jim Jones‚ can be explained from a sociological perspective. By looking at how the group dynamics played into the outcome one gets a better idea of the whys? of the massacre. The sociological explanation is but one way to explain this horrific event. It is ‚ however‚ the only one explored in this essay for reasons of concision. At one level‚ the deaths at Jonestown can be viewed as the product of obedience‚ of people complying with the orders of a leader
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