Army Private David Jones was found dead in his barracks in Iraq with a fatal gunshot to his head. While the army insists that his death was a suicide, his family firmly believes that Jones would not have killed himself (Bailey).
An Army liaison told Jones' family that his roommate entered the barracks mid-afternoon to find music blaring and a rifle beside Jones' body. An autopsy is yet to be performed (Grondahl). .
With just 13 days left before he was scheduled to return home, his family said he had too much to live for (FOX23news.com). According to his family, he had recently purchased an engagement ring that he planned on giving his girlfriend in three weeks at the New York Giants football game (Bailey). "He sent Brittany an engagement ring, and gave it to her mother to hold on to. And he sent us tickets to the Dallas Cowboys and Giants game on November 8th and he was going to propose to her at half time," his mother, Theresa Bennett, explained. His brother Bernie Bennett also refuses to believe that Jones would have killed himself, considering he was making many plans for the future. "I talked to him the other day and he was going to be back for my birthday and we were going to celebrate together," Bernie said (FOX23news.com). .
George Bennett, Jones' uncle, was first to be notified. After answering a knock at his door on Saturday, George was told that his nephew was found dead in his bunk by two US Army officials. Jones' family has said that the Army is being very brief and is hesitant to give them any details (Bailey). "They said that they found him in his room at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and there was one gunshot wound to his head. That was it. They didn't say anything about anything else," his mother recalls (FOX23news.com). She also reported, "We were told he was shot by one of those very long rifles and there's no way he could have done it himself. There's no way this was suicide" (Grondahl).
Sociology 11/09/01 When the tragedy happened at Waco with David Koresh, to many it resembled the tragedy with Jim Jones in Guyana. Jim Jones and David were alike in many ways as leaders of their occults. The death toll in Guyana was over 900, in Waco it was about 90. ... Jim Jones was very abusing to all of his members. ... After his death, the group split into other divisions. ...
He was an illegitimate child to Emma Berdis Jones. ... He then returned to Paris where he remained until his death in 1987 (Parni 7). ... Baldwin's most controversial novel is Giovanni's Room published in 1956. ... While in Paris David meets and falls in love with another man. The character Giovanni helps David realize the "human lo...
Even more disconcerting, however, is the extreme number of German participants who simply "evaded acknowledging the fact that the Jews were being deported to their death while the Final Solution was being carried out" (Jones, 79). In the fourth chapter of his Moral Responsibility in the Holocaust, David Jones discusses the nature of self-deception as well as the moral blameworthiness inherent in the actions (or lack thereof) of a significant part of the German populace motivated by feelings of "guilt, shame and responsibility" to engage in "evasive self-deception" during the Holocaust (81). ...
David, born on June 1, 1953. ... (O"conner 3) The lonely and confused David joined the Army that same year in 1971 where he became an excellent marksman. (Berkowitz 2) David's only sexual encounter occurred during his stay in the Army- an unfortunate flay with a Korean prostitute that resulted in David contracting a venereal disease. (Altered 9) After serving his term in the Army David returned to the Bronx, still with no real direction. ... The death of David's mother obviously the hardest part in his life that David had to face. ...
David, born on June 1, 1953. ... (O"conner 3) The lonely and confused David joined the Army that same year in 1971 where he became an excellent marksman. (Berkowitz 2) David's only sexual encounter occurred during his stay in the Army- an unfortunate flay with a Korean prostitute that resulted in David contracting a venereal disease. (Altered 9) After serving his term in the Army David returned to the Bronx, still with no real direction. ... The death of David's mother obviously the hardest part in his life that David had to face. ...
The Jones act is named after Senator Wesley Jones, who sponsored the act of 1920. ... The obvious benefit of the Jones act is that it created jobs for the American maritime industry. ... Another the way the Jones act benefits us is the way it ties into our economy "The Jones Act covers more than 44,000 deep-sea, Great Lakes and inland waters vessels representing nearly $30 billion in private capital investment. ... More importantly, the Jones Act fleet includes 29 percent of U.S.... All of the economic and defense benefits derived from the Jones Act accrue at no cost to U.S. taxpayers." 6 ...
(Gerarod Jones) Oscar Wilde supports Jones when he explains "children cannot be sheltered from the world simply by being kept from reading it. ... Sometimes it was bloody, sometimes tender, always blending the images of pop culture with her own most private fantasies. ... (Jones) Jonathan Lilienkamp also agrees with Jones when he quotes: "A child has to feel that fear in order to understand exactly what it is. ... Both controversial sides (weather they were for violence in literature or against it) established that violence in books could result in a negative as well as a positive affect on ...
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The Story of Astronaut Jones (Based off of a S.N.L. character) Story Written By: The Story of Astronaut Jones Woodrow Jones was a imaginative young African American boy who often dreamed of flying into space and becoming an astronaut. ... Woodrow could see himself in the future as astronaut Jones venturing off in the galaxy and landing down on the moon. ... As Woodrow takes his seat his mind again starts to wonder and imagine some more about astronaut Jones. Now astronaut Jones is walking the surface looking to come in contact with living beings on the surface of the moon. .....