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Problem Research Itoi, Kay, Hideko Takayama, and George Wehrfritz. "Crushing the Cult of Doom : Four years after the subway gas attack, Japan prepares police and citizens alike for war on Aum Shinrikyo. Is this overkill?" //Newsweek International// 22 Nov. 1999: 44. //Infotrac Newsstand//. Web. 25 Oct. 2011. Document URL http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA57633624&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w


 * 1) Most cults have a specific leader.
 * 2) People in cult are very committed to there group.
 * 3) Most of the time followers will commit suicide if there leader wants them to.
 * 4) Cults are a group of people that are committed to doing almost anything for there group.
 * 5) Cults do something about the things they strongly believe in.
 * 6) Some civilians will keep cults away by blocking off the building or place that they meet at.
 * 7) People in cults are normaly committed to even...
 * Burning down houses
 * Murdering people
 * Killing large amounts of people
 * 1) People in cults believe that whatever there leader says is true.
 * 2) There can be more then one cult leader.
 * 3) Cults can be located anywhere.
 * 4) Cults start as just a group of people that believe in the same thing.
 * 5) Not all cults are bad and kill people.
 * 6) Cults can be considered terrerists.
 * 7) A Japanese cult attack killed 12 people and injured 5,000, so they can make a big impact.
 * 8) People in cults are normaly agenst something like another race of people.
 * 9) They are normaly agenst something because something that happened with there people and that oposing thing in past history.

O'Connor, Julie. "Cult class examines 'shades of gray'." //National Catholic Reporter// 6 Mar. 2009: 14a. //Student Resources in Context//. Web. 26 Oct. 2011. Document URL http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA197490490&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=wSome
 * 1) Some people create cults to test peoples independant thinking.
 * 2) Brainwashing and thretening makes people not leave a cult.
 * 3) Some cult leaders use brainwashing in a good way to help others instead of hurt others.
 * 4) Leaders normaly motivate there fallowers by telling them that if they do something they will get paradise, or when they die they will have eternal paradise.
 * 5) Cult members are normaly hooked in by something, they don't just join for know reason.
 * 6) But, once there in it they can't get out of it.

Frazier, Kendrick, and Benjamin Radford. "The New Believers: Sects, 'Cults,' and Alternative Religions. David V. Barrett." //Skeptical Inquirer// 25.4 (2001): 63. //Student Resources in Context//. Web. 28 Oct. 2011. Document URL http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA76881178&v=2.1&u=pl7053&it=r&p=GPS&sw=w
 * 1) Some people consider religious groups cults.
 * 2) Some followers of cults think that there leader has some kind of spiritual connection to there god or who they worship.
 * 3) Some bad cults could be considered terrorists.
 * 4) The word "cult" can be used to describe a group of people that are actively doing something that they believe in.
 * 5) You can find cults anywhere.
 * 6) Bad cults can be very destructive and might try to kill people.
 * 7) Good cults work together to help.

"Cult FAQ." //Cults//. Apologetics Index, 15 Feb. 2005. Web. 28 Oct. 2011. . Document URL http://www.cultfaq.org/
 * 1) Some cult leaders are known to have a mental disease or problem.
 * 2) Ex members of cults are normaly...
 * Indecisiveness
 * Uncritical Passivity
 * Fear of the cult itself

"Cult Questions And Answers." //Cult Hotline and Clinic//. Jewish Board of Family Services. Web. 31 Oct. 2011. . Document URL http://www.cultclinic.org/qa2.html Haney, Elissa. "Jonestown Massacre." //Info Please//. Pearson Education. Web. 8 Nov. 2011. .
 * 1) 5 to 7 million Americans have been involved in cults or cult like groups.
 * 2) Anyone can be in a cult.
 * 3) A cult group can be big or small, they can get to be about 3,000 to 5,000 people, or they can even be up to 6.
 * 4) Its hard to find cults because they travel.
 * 5) The cult members are also forced to keep quiet.
 * 6) More people that are mixed in with cults leave rather then stay.
 * 7) The people that leave normaly need help leaving because they can't do it on there own.
 * 8) Members can't normaly leave on there own because they might get harasses by the existing cult members or even in the worst case get killed.
 * 9) A lot of people in cults are dependant on there leader instead of thinking for themselves.
 * 10) Because of this dependants that is made, it is hard for the person to think for themselves when they get out of the cult.
 * 11) Some people think that cults have "died out" sense the past, but they are just as many now as there was before.
 * 12) Cults sometimes take on the name of a past cult that died out.
 * 13) Cults don't always stay together or in one area.
 * 14) Cults can spread apart, even over a whole country.
 * 15) Cults target teenagers that are young and looking for something to do, then they hook them in and don't let them leave.
 * 1) Jonestown Massacre
 * 2) 900 people died
 * 3) November 18, 1978
 * 4) Jim Jones
 * 5) South America Jungle
 * 6) Congressman Ryan was shot
 * 7) suicide from grape poison aid
 * 8) Peoples Church
 * 9) Small amount survived