Sparks Commentary

Part history, part politics, and part random other stuff.

Showing posts with label Latter-Day Saint history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Latter-Day Saint history. Show all posts
Monday, December 25, 2023

Scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

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“ We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly ; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God...
Tuesday, July 4, 2017

A review of Alistair Cooke's “America: A Personal History of the United States”

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" ... these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES ; that they are absolved from all allegiance ...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

A review of PBS's “The Gold Rush”

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The California Gold Rush is one of those events that tends to have been heard of by the public, but is often overlooked by popular histori...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

A review of Ken Burns’ “The West”

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"Nevada Territory is fabulously rich in gold, silver, lead, coal, iron, quicksilver... thieves, murderers, desperadoes ... lawyers, ...
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Sunday, May 10, 2015

A review of PBS's “Transcontinental Railroad” movie

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"[The Congress shall have the power] To establish post-offices and post-roads ..." - The United States Constitution, Article 1, S...
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By training, I am a business major with a concentration in marketing, and a certificate in economics. I originally wanted to do market research for businesses because I enjoyed the social science aspects of marketing, and I have studied psychology a little on my own; but I now wonder if this will ever be my field. I have also taken a fair amount of communications classes, because I thought about grad school in advertising or public relations (or even business & economic journalism), but I'm not sure I will ever do these things. (I'm glad I studied them just the same, though.) By inclination, I learn about a lot of other things in my spare time. For example, I am a history buff, an aspiring polyglot, an amateur linguist, a political philosopher (after a fashion), and a student of the Bible. Most of the things I study on my own these days have something to do with one of these subjects (or sometimes even more than one), and I write about many of them on my blog. So my actual profession is … you guessed it … a math tutor! Not what you'd expect, right? (Not what I would have expected, either … )
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