On November 18, 1978, "events in an isolated village in South America gave the world a sudden shock" (Galanter 119). On this date, 913 followers of Jim Jones and the Peoples' Temple committed a mass suicide in Northern Guyana, at a site called Jonestown. The casualties included almost th...

Fall: Research Paper Jonestown: The Terror Within. Cults have existed throughout history since the beginning of time. A cult is defined in Webster's dictionary as a "system of religious worship with a devoted attachment to a person, principle, etc." Over the past thirty years numerou...