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Jonestown

Essay Instructions:
Read about jones town and write one page reflective essay.
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Literature and Language Name of student Name of institution Name of instructor Course Date due Reflective Essay Jim Jones founded the People’s Temple Christian Church in the early 1950s in Indianapolis, Indiana and later opened other branches. In the mid 1970s the Temple headquarters moved to Sanfrancisco. His vision for the church was of a community where people lived and worked together for the common good and he wanted this outside the US. In 1975, due to defection of temple members and an impending newspaper article criticizing Jones, he found the opportunity to escape to Guyana where he established an agricultural settlement that would be known as Jonestown. The living conditions in Guyana were not what the temple members expected to find. They were also overworked and were not allowed to leave and grew discontented. ...
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