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    Donner Party History

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    After its founder’s assassination ■ (Joseph Smith Jr. in June 1844) and facing harassment by their neighbors, the Church of Latter-Day Saints knew it needed to move its headquarters from Nauvoo [Illinois]. With several factions competing for the Church’s control, the faithful debated possible destinations, including Oregon, Vancouver Island, Texas, and México’s Alta California province. In February 1846, with Apostle Orson Pratt’s backing, Samuel Brannan (1819–1889) led 238 stalwarts and set sail

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    Early Mormon Pioneers sacrificed much along the challenging journey. Many of the Mormon pioneers arrived only because of the helpful sharing with each other along the way that branded those early pioneers. After arriving in Utah, they wanted to further their Utopian movement. Mormons consecrated their talents and meager funds all together, to begin construction of the Salt Lake City temple (Scott). The Utopian society of Mormon’s believed that the legacy, authority, and influence of The Church of

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    The Mormon Church

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    conservative, heterosexual, and Mormon with European ancestry. My father, along with most of the other fathers in the neighborhood, was a professor at Brigham Young University. Our culture was based on the teachings of the Mormon Church with a rich pioneer heritage which we celebrated every 24th of July. As children, we would don pioneer garb, decorate wagons and bikes to look like covered wagons or handcarts and march around the church building pretending to be pioneers. Not only was this event fun

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    Growth of Mormon Church Essay

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    visited by both God, and His Son, Jesus Christ. This vision is a cornerstone of the Church that is known today as, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, nicknamed the “Mormons”, a religion that was built on the ideals of communal living and strict obedience to religious guidelines, a people that would be

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    Latter Day Saints. Those people are commonly known as “Mormons.” Boy, let me tell you, there are Mormons everywhere in Vegas! There was always something about them that made me interested. There was a light as bright as the sun that always shined from them. They always had a smile on their face, from ear to ear and once you start talking to them I found that they are the nicest people. I then got to know and started hanging out with the Mormons. I then became interested with the religion aspect. I

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    correct the record of information provided about my religion; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. With very little effort I was able to determine that the majority of the information provided was not from scholarly works but from anti-Mormon campaigns and literature, which motivations are to misrepresent, confuse, and misdirect. I struggle to find any primary source information in the section on my church. My post will be longer than expected because it is necessary that I provide this

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    The Hawkeye is the newspaper for the University of Louisiana in Monroe (ULM). It is written by a few students at the University of Louisiana in Monroe and is written mostly about Monroe and ULM, but also has information in it about other cities and states. Every week the students write a paper and publish it, the paper has stories from football games to the presidential election. Writing the Hawkeye is for fun, but the students that do it also get paid. They have a few students who work unpaid, so

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    The attribute speculations, pioneers with appeal are probably going to impact representatives fundamentally to take after a wanted strategy. For the situation, the mentor is exceptionally alluring and the group does not appear to experience significant issues in taking after the group wants. Disregarding this, under the possibility speculations of administration, it is all things considered clear that the pioneer needs to couple charming initiative with situational pioneers. “The adherents were going

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    World Religion: Mormons Essay example

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    Since the mid 1800s, Mormons, or also referred to as the Latter-Day Saints, have been a thriving religion in the United States. Founded by Joseph smith in 1830, it has grown from a small group of outcasts to a significant size of nearly seven million followers. Joseph Smith was the first prophet and president of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints. After the murder of Joseph Smith in 1844, a man named Brigham Young migrated with bulk of the Mormons to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1847, where they made

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    Saints: Mormon Lifestyle Amanda Laney Concepts Sept. 8th, 2016 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- Day Saints: Mormon Lifestyle The Mormon faith has been around since the 1800s starting in New York. The Mormon lifestyle is similar to ours but can differ in many ways from history, beliefs, marriage, diets, and branches of the religion and even care plans. Most people believe that the Mormons follow their founder Joseph Smith, but that is untrue. The Mormon faith was

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