We did our presentation today!

Today we did our presentation which was called Jonestown, the presentation (Very original ). During the presentation we looked at who Jim Jones was, what he taught, the Peoples Temple's practices, their aims, why they failed, and so on. We tried to show the audience that the members of the Peoples Temple obviously believed in Jones and in his vision for equality, and that they also wanted to help bring it to pass. We didn't do this as well as we could have done as there was still some ambiguity about what our stance was on the matter. However Viran shared the overall opinion of the group really, really well! Our presentation consististed of a powerpoint presentation which had 20 slides, an extenssive bibliography and also lots of pictures of Jim Jones and The Peoples Temple. I think that the powerpoint presentation was very good, and everyone spoke clearly, and made eye contact with the audience.

Evidently there was room for improvement, such as being clearer about our own personal opinion of The Peoples Temple, but I also think that we did well, as we kept within the time limit, our slides were timed well and apart from my own error of calling one of their religious practises a "thingy" or "thing" (I was too busy dying from embarrassment to take an accurate note), there were no errors! It has been a really interesting subject. All the cults we have looked at over the course were interesting, but I still think that Jim Jone's cult was by far the most interesting, after all, he set up his own community in “the 300 acre commune...set up in the middle of inhospitable rainforests, 140 miles from the capital of Guyana, Georgetown”, Moran, Sarah. (1999) The Secret world of Cults. Surrey: Quadrillion Publishers Ltd, p. 80. A pretty successful thing to even get started, and a point that David argued really well. Yet I doubt that they will be remebered for there community that worked for a short time, rather they will probably be remebered for the 900+ deaths.