...step to another. Utah tends to be among the areas that has lived according to his will and it is sighted by its culture that dwells in his presence (God). However, religion is diverse within the area since it is divided among different religion like Catholics, evangelicals, Protestants, Buddhism, Jehovah, Islam and the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Therefore, the largest group of people in the area are believers of Christ thus making them to be Christians. This paper focuses on explaining the reasons why most of the people are Christians, the history of the religion and why a large percentage of the people are believers in Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints church. History has it that Christianity takes about 60% of the population in state of Utah thus making one of the main religion in the great depression. As far as religion is concerned religion has made the state to grow both socially and economically since most of the people are business men...
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...am not the only one receiving bad service there. In talking with my neighbors, they too have had problems with bad service at this same McDonald’s. We have two options: either we stop going to this McDonald’s altogether, or as a group, we can come up with a way to improve the quality of service. We can say something to the store manager directly, and hope that if enough of us speak up that change will happen, or if that doesn’t work, we can take it to the next level of authority. Sooner or later, the noise we make will cause a change. The previous example might seem small compared to other examples that I could have used, but the point still stands. According to our textbook, C. Wright Mills coined the term “sociological imagination.” His definition of sociological imagination is: the ability to create change by transforming personal problems into public issues (Macionis, page 7). Understanding the concept behind this term is very important for several reasons. First if we don’t understand that our problems are shared by many other people, we will start to feel lost and alone. This could lead to any number of outcomes: mental illness, and or even suicide. Secondly, once we do understand that our problems are shared by others, we can establish an important support group, or join one that is already in existence. A good example of this would be AA meetings. Third, as a group, we can start to find solutions for our problems. Once we move from the level of personal problem to...
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...Lex Cornia LI 532 Final Paper March 15, 2008 East of Eden: The Discovery of Innocence on the Western Frontier The western clouds divided and subdivided themselves into pink flakes modulated with tints of such unspeakable softness that it was a pain to come within the doors of civilization… How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements! Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature The West captivates people. The West both as a direction of navigation and as an idea occupies a magical realm where boundaries become blurred and what is light becomes twilight and dark. Just as the East represents the arrival of sun with its light and rationality—of darkness dispelled— so too does the West embody the loss of that sun’s light and logic and the commencement of night. However, there are more boundaries between East and West than merely the presence or absence of light. After the time of Columbus, the people who looked toward the West, and particularly the North American continent, saw more than just land. The West was a sacred place where magic, hallowed, and even treacherous experiences were possible. This idea that possibilities existed in the West that did not exist elsewhere motivated millions to leave the Old World for the new and redefine themselves in a Western landscape of unlimited possibilities. What is the West? These early settlers, religionists, and explorers to the West came to the shores of the Atlantic seaboard unsure of what to expect from the new...
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...re-marry to Newell K. Whitney. They then ventured west to Utah with the Mormon pioneers. Within a month of traveling Newell died, he left behind Emmeline and their two daughters. Emmeline had a very hard time supporting her daughters and being a widow traveling to Utah. She then wrote a letter to Newell’s best friend. She asked him to marry her and he accepted, becoming his seventh wife. Em became the editor of The Women’s Exponent. This was the first women’s magazine west of the Mississippi River. Em was Utah’s representative for the National Women’s Suffrage Association. She was also the president of the LDS women organization called Relief Society. Em was called to do a project by the president of the LDS church. The project was that she would store grain (the grain was brought in by many farmers) in case it was needed in difficult times. This project was for long term purposes. It was a big success all over Utah. She even provided grain for the starving Europeans at the end of World War 1. Later on, close to the end of Em’s life she met the the President of the America, Ronald Reagan in Washington. Emmeline B. Wells died on April 25, 1921. Emmeline was important for many reasons such as pushing for economic, educational, and political opportunities for all women and she stored grain for starving families all over Utah. This especially helped through the harsh winters. Some of her main connections to Utah are coming here as a Mormon pioneer, being Utah’s representative...
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...the journey west, and they made it back in only 48 days (The Trek). They were trying to make sure that everyone who wanted a chance to come west had that opportunity. Brigham Young played a huge role in helping all the pioneers come west. He is one of the most important western colonizers (History). He helped begin about 350 settlements (History). He was also helpful in developing states, such as Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona, California, and Nevada (History). The members wanted to have communication between all of the settlements. Brigham...
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...Timothy Graham African American History African American relations with the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day saints. In 1842, Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, was asked by the editor of the Chicago Democrat, Joseph Wentworth, to summarize the basic principles of the newly founded religion. Included in the response, Smith presented thirteen declarations which have collectively become to be knows as the “Articles of Faith”. The thirteenth of these articles states the following: “We believe in being hones, true, chaste, benevolent, and in doing good to all men. Indeed we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.[i] It regard to the treatment of Americans of African descent, it is no secret that the nation, at large, treated individuals with great contempt. The question is whether or not this new faith group was any different. How did treatment of African Americans among the Saints differ from that of the general population of the United States during the period from 1830, the church’s founding, to the end of the century? What was the LDS church’s position on slavery and did practice follow policy among members of a church founded on the principles of “faith, hope, and charity”?[ii] And...
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...memories at affordable prices. Although there is currently no competition in the immediate area in which we plan to establish our FECs, we believe that because the FEC industry is expanding exponentially, sooner or later competition will encroach. To that end, the company plans to become profitable and retain a solid leadership position in the marketplace by providing: * Indoor facilities - Cold weather will close the outdoor competition. * Year round play with a wide variety of activities - Our season never stops. * Seasoned, successful management team. * Contracting top FEC consultants - To counsel on key attraction layout and design. * Working with USU Extension Program - Determining tourism impact. * Working with Utah Department of Tourism - National and international exposure. * Family-oriented - Partnership-operated center gives the company local insight. * Aggressive marketing. * Customer Incentive Program - Reward frequent visitors/customers. * Easy access and exposure. 3.1 Service Description The ability of I&B Investments to accomplish its goals and lead the local family entertainment industry, depends upon the expertise and social conscience of the management team. Our management team understands these facts and several members of our management team have been recognized in the past for their outstanding community service and involvement. Several local surveys have been reviewed and provide valuable information about a vast...
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...Mormon The Mormons are a religious group the follow Mormonism. Mormonism is the main sect of The Latter Day Saint movement. This Movement is part of the Restorationist Christianity. Restorationist Christianity had its start in the 1820’s with the then leader Joseph Smith. This movement took place in upstate New York. Brigham Young took over after Smiths death and had the movement follow him to Utah. Utah may be the Headquarters for The Mormon Religion but there are more Mormons living outside the United States then in the USA. Most Mormons will call them selves as Christian even though many of their beliefs differ from what is normally considered Christianity. Mormons do believe in the Bible, but the one book that most people associate with Mormons is The Book of Mormon. Mormons believe that returning to God after death requires following the good deeds that Jesus Christ had done. You must also accept his atonement through baptism. Within the Mormon faith there is different several different groups. Latter-day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, formally known as Latter-day Saints, accounts for over 99% of Mormons. Former Latter-day Saints who seek to disassociate themselves from the religion are often referred to as Ex-Mormons. Fundamentalist Mormons these are the Mormons that broke off of the LDS over the issue of polygamy. Liberal Mormons; Liberal Mormons often times call progressive Mormons will take an revealing approach to LDS teachings...
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...school and play your favorite sport for it. Your coach walks in with an upset look on his face. You think to yourself that it’s just going to be a difficult practice. Your coach actually tells you that you do not have practice today. You wont have practice ever again. Your entire life work gone, just like that. With your heart crushed, you cannot understand why the sport is just, canceled. You walk up to your coach and ask what the problem is. Your coach, as disappointed as you, tells you that the University board of athletics has decided to drop your “life” from the program to abide by the Title IX requirements and for not being a profitable program. This actually happened here at the University of Utah 50 years ago and it’s because there is a problem going on at Universities like The U and it is that men’s non-revenue sports, like wrestling, are being impacted negatively. Wresting is beginning to fade from colleges that are not in the Big Ten or the Ivy League, and Colleges like the University of Utah are participating in letting the sport diminish. In an article written by Coyte G. Cooper, “Involving the core product” “While there were 363 NCAA wrestling programs in 1981, the number of men’s wrestling programs offered by the NCAA had diminished to 234 in 2005.” Schools should stop making excuses for dropping the sport and making reasons on why to add. This is exactly what the University of Utah should be doing. The University should be trying to find reasons to reintroduce the...
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...Chief Walkara and the Walker War Chief Walkara was one of the greatest Indian chiefs in Utah history. He was feared and reveared by many. Although he was not born of the great chiefs he became a great chief of the Ute Indians because he was a wise and powerful leader. He was a friend and foe to the Mormon pioneers and led his people to war against them. Unfortunately the Indians of Utah did not keep the same records as the pioneers did, which makes it more difficult to get both sides of the story. The purpose of this paper is to present the facts of the war and the famous chief and let the reader form their own opinion of the famous Indian chief. Chief Walkara There is no exact date of birth for Chief Walkara, but some sources say he was born between the years of 1808 and 1815 in the a Timpoanogos village on the Spanish Fork River.[1] Walkara was born of Ute heritage to a man who was the head of a divided Ute clan, and to a woman who was one of many of the Ute leaders’ wives. One explorer wrote that Walkara had thirty brothers of which four were from the same mother; his brothers were Arapeen, San Pitch, Ammon and Tabinaw (Tabby).[2] There is no information on the number of sisters he had, however knowing there were thirty brothers there must have been some sisters mixed in there somewhere. After meeting Walker, Thomas L. Kane wrote about his appearance and personality, ‘… a fine figure of a man, in the prime of life. He excels in various manly...
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...Utahʼs 3rd District for Salt Lake County Judicial, West Valley City Justice Judge. Judge Stoney also works as Saratoga Springs Justice Judge. To break this down let me try to explain in brief how Utahʼs court system is organized. At the top you have Utahʼs two appellate courts, the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals. Next are the trial courts which include District, Justice and Juvenile Courts. There are also two administrative bodies, the Judicial of Council and the Administrative Office of the Court. Basically the policy making body of the courts. The state of Utah is divided into 8 judicial districts and in each of those districts there are Juvenile and Justice Courts. Judge Stoney is in the 3rd district and head Judge over the West Valley City Justice Court. BIOGRAPHY ! Before I go any further let me give a brief biography of Judge Stoney. Judge Stoney attended Brigham Young University where he received his Bachelors degree in Interpersonal Communication. He...
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...Colonizing the West 1496 Words Comparing Colonization After the establishment of the United States, explorers continued the expansion of the nation by organizing new settlements to the West. Settling a new town is an incredibly hard task. I have examined three articles by historians who discuss the experiences of two very different settlements and the task they undertook to settle new colonies in different locations for very different reasons. The Mormon settlement in Utah had a different reason for colonization than the settlement at Jamestown as shown through their financial pursuits, leadership examples, basic resources and differences in geography. One of the historians, Karen Kupperman, writes about the settlement of Jamestown. She writes that “even the most privileged [suffered] from food shortage, disease, absence of family and friends, opposition from inhabitants of the land, and sheer exhaustion” (pg. 19). Not every place is similar with the same resources. Each comes with unique characteristics and conditions. She starts off by explaining how organizing settlements in the Northern hemisphere was very different than in the Southern hemisphere. The only model the British had to follow for colonizing was South America. In the North there was no gold or silver to mine for profit nor a large number of natives to enslave. Because of these lacking traits it was difficult to find people who would finance the trip to colonize Jamestown. This brings up the most...
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...new leader of the Mormons once Joseph Smith died. In this essay I am going to investigate who contributed more to the Mormon movement. Was it Joseph Smith or Brigham Young? Joseph Smith was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism. He was faithful, driven, and a strong speaker, but was easily tempered. When Joseph Smith was 14 he prayed behind his father’s house for guidance. According to Smith, a pillar of light appeared before him. In 1827 he was visited by an angel who told him where the book was to be found and Smith claimed he dug it up on a hillside near Manchester, New York. The book gave a different story from the Bible. According to the book, lost Israeli tribes migrated to America before the birth of Christ. There they fought each other until Christ was born and established his Church. Later, the fighting started again. One of the few survivours was a man called Mormon who spent the rest of his life recording the story of his people on the plates. Smith claimed that no one else was allowed to see the plates. When he was twenty-four, Smith published the Book of Mormon; by the time of his death fourteen years later, he had attracted tens of thousands of followers and founded a religion and religious culture that continues to the present. People claimed he was a fraud just out to pocket the money for himself. However Brigham Young is just as important as Joseph Smith. Brigham Young was the new leader after Joseph Smith died. He was convinced that...
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...others, due to their beliefs. Such persecution followed the church as they were forced to vacate one state after the next leading to the members settling in and founding Nauvoo, Illinois. Having a population rivaling Chicago at the time, the financial success of the church and its members, polygamy, and a well-armed militia, fueled the intolerance of Mormons in the region. Church leadership was forced to announce they would leave Nauvoo and go west, after the burning of two hundred Mormon homes and farm buildings in 1845, and mob violence in 1846. Due to unforeseen difficulties the trek west was split off into two sections: they would travel in wagon trains from Nauvoo, Illinois to Omaha, Nebraska in 1846; and, Omaha to the Salt Lake Valley of Utah in 1847. By 1856, the number of converts traveling to the valley reached a point that wagon trains were too expensive and the church leader at the time, Brigham Young, decided that handcarts would be cheaper, and faster for such a large number of converts to reach the valley. The first trek starting in February of 1846 from Nauvoo, Illinois to Omaha, Nebraska was much harsher due to death and tragedy resulting from black scurvy, Cholera, Typhoid Fever, Tuberculosis, and maternal deaths, and the weakening of the body and mind by stress, while February marked harsh weather and winter cold. Due to being practically forced to leave their homes in a hurry most had left important provisions behind and went out with no experience and with no organized...
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