It serves as a pillar which they lean upon in their times of confusion and need, and as a light to guide them through dark times. ... Just as a person may grow away from another when they feel neglected, Antonio begins to slowly pull farther and farther away from the traditional beliefs that he had nurtured in his heart for so long when he feels as if God does not reciprocate the faith and love he gives to him. ...

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During the European Dark Age, life in the Islamic sphere of influence flourished economically, spiritually and scientifically. ... Amidst all of this expansion, continued centralization and an increasingly more open hand and heart to foreigners, trade flourished unlike it had ever before. ...

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Kerry Grogan THE 241-01 Task # 1 Oct. 23, 2014 1. Person: Joseph Smith Facts: Joseph Smith is the founding father of the practice that we know today, Mormonism. He grew up in the early 19th century and as a young teenage boy who claimed to have a series of visitations, revelations from God and visitations from angelic messengers, while he was praying in a grove of trees. Smith claims to have had the blessing of the divine power to guide him to a location of golden plates, which entails scriptures of ancient American prophets, and they became the foundation for his publication, the Book of Mor...

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