Hey!Well today was the day of our presentation. We meet up nice and early to make sure all fine-tuning was done and then went in head first. Personally I think it went rather well. I feel we all spoke clearly and had our notes together. I was in charge of clicking the slides, introducing the group and giving a history of Jim Jones and the history of Jonestown. Shona spoke about the aims of Jonestown, Kerene spoke about the principles and beliefs, Andy did about the question of whether it was suicide or murder and Dave did about the aftermath of Jonestown and ex-members and family. On some of the slides there seemed to be some kind of timer because it changed when I hadn’t pressed anything (I noticed other groups having trouble with this aswell) but we over came that minor obstacle and presented our information. Some of us had our speeches written out and others had bullet points. We all had our own slides to refer to while we talked and made sure we made eye contact with the audience. I decided to put a small joke in my speech, just for a little light relief, when talking about Jim Jones selling Monkeys to raise funds for his Church I said “I don’t know who brought them, maybe some lonely Organ Grinder” Luckily it paid off as it got a little laugh.
A question was also asked at the end and I chose to answer it. I referred to the presentation and my own personal beliefs of Jonestown and seemed to have answered it adequately (it reassured me when we sat down again and my group said I had answered it well – thanks group!)
At the end we did have a clip from the popular TV show ‘Family Guy’ which had parodied a suicide cult. It was about one of the main characters joining one and then leaving just before the suicide took place (luckily). It’s a comedy show so would have brought a little light relief to the serious subject of Jonestown. Unfortunately we didn’t get to show it as we felt we had used up all our time but looking back I really think we did have enough time, as it was a minute clip. Oh well – there’s always something you wish you’d done differently.
Other than that it went well. We used all the academic sources and quotes we were supposed too and put our views also but in a unbiased way - mainly in forms of rhetorical questions.
Now I’m wondering what all that nervousness was about.
Overall I enjoyed the presentation as I have found this class immensity interesting and fun.
I guess that’s the end of my blog posts. Thanks for reading and thank you to my group for being organised and good speakers.
Farewell
By Viranjit Kaur
A question was also asked at the end and I chose to answer it. I referred to the presentation and my own personal beliefs of Jonestown and seemed to have answered it adequately (it reassured me when we sat down again and my group said I had answered it well – thanks group!)
At the end we did have a clip from the popular TV show ‘Family Guy’ which had parodied a suicide cult. It was about one of the main characters joining one and then leaving just before the suicide took place (luckily). It’s a comedy show so would have brought a little light relief to the serious subject of Jonestown. Unfortunately we didn’t get to show it as we felt we had used up all our time but looking back I really think we did have enough time, as it was a minute clip. Oh well – there’s always something you wish you’d done differently.
Other than that it went well. We used all the academic sources and quotes we were supposed too and put our views also but in a unbiased way - mainly in forms of rhetorical questions.
Now I’m wondering what all that nervousness was about.
Overall I enjoyed the presentation as I have found this class immensity interesting and fun.
I guess that’s the end of my blog posts. Thanks for reading and thank you to my group for being organised and good speakers.
Farewell
By Viranjit Kaur
For more info on Jonestown go to - http://www.rickross.com/groups/jonestown.html
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