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I have always wanted the opportunity to have a day where I had a choice of whatever I wanted to do, regardless of cost. To me personally, family time is essential, and all these activities that I would do in my perfect day wouldn’t be the same if I didn’t have family with me. As the day goes on, it becomes obvious that this is a very unrealistic day, cost and time wise. The places I would visit, the old friends I get to see again, and even the great food I would get to eat, make my perfect day truly

Currently there are 40,000 practicing polygamists in the United States most reside in Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. As of 2011 there are two highly investigated polygamist cults living in the states of Utah and Texas. In Utah, Warren Jeffs is prophet and facing charges of bigamy, accomplice to rape, enforcing marriages of young women, and incest. After separating from the LDS church the polygamist’s

David Turley History 4120 Dr. Dant Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis In 1893, at the 400th anniversary of the appearance of Columbus in the Americas celebrated in Chicago , Frederick Jackson Turner presented an academic paper entitled, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” In this essay, Turner proposes that, “The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward explain American development.” The group dynamic

Mormonism was founded in the 1820s’ by Joseph Smith. Smith, wanting to expand his religious following migrated to Illinois where he established a settlement that included a temple of worship and a village (Green 57). In Illinois the Mormon peoples’ were met with threats, violence, and occasionally they were even killed. This was the case for their leader Joseph Smith; Smith was met with disgust from non-mormons when he attempted to run for presidency and his church riddled with scandal when the word

Hole-In-The-Rock-Trek Jade Vea Paper Length: 1513 At a time when the mormons arrived in the valley of Great Salt Lake and expanded settlements, the Hole-In-The-Rock expedition took place. The Explorers explored several places along the way and encountered different environments such as The Four Corners. These encounters and exploration lead to the creation of the Hole-In-The-Rock in 1880. This is significant because it is an example to all Latter-Day Saints of the power available to us

Creek Raid in 1953. Police arrested the prophet, two men and three of their wives in a little place known as Short Creek, right above the Grand Canyon. The two men were arrested for cohabitation, which lead to government forces joining alliances with Utah, Arizona, and Idaho to raid Short Creek again. The raid resulted in forty-six arrests of men and women in the community (Duncan 321). Following the raid, numerous families had to go into hiding and live their lives as inconspicuously as possible. There

Water is something no one can live without. In fact, human bodies are about sixty-five percent water. Therefore, water conservation is a project everyone should be willing to participate in. Specifically, in the Logan, Utah area, water conservation is an important topic, as the citizens use water every day. “In an interview with The Herald Journal, USU sociology professor Douglas Jackson-Smith said the city’s water concerns have the potential to increase, based on Logan’s anticipated population growth

On October 21, 2016 I went to the Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah with my soccer team. The temple is located in the center of Salt Lake City’s center, known as temple square. The temple consists of 6 buildings, but I only saw four. Each building serves different purposes for the church. The first building I saw was the visitors center. Here I learned about the basics and fundamentals of the church and their religion. The second building

the area. The combination of these three events that did not seem to directly affect the settlement of the territory directly all combined to become the beginnings of the State of Nevada. 2. Although attempting to become a separate territory from Utah since 1851 Nevada did not become its own territory until after the election of Abraham Lincoln and the resulting secession of Southern States in 1861 two days before Lincoln was to take office. Nevada was only its own territory for a year before there

pioneer towns in Cache Valley, while each crucial to the growth and development of the valley, grew not only for similar purposes but each had a different contribution to Cache Valley’s growth and development. The town of Franklin, however, next to the Utah-Idaho border in Cache Valley, aided in the settlement of both Cache Valley and the territory of Idaho. Throughout the early settlement and founding of Franklin, Idaho this