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    Civil War Bleeding Kansas

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    Bleeding Kansas Before the Civil War‚ the territory of Kansas was unsettled as a slave state or a free state. This caused a conflict over who should settle this territory‚ right before the Civil War. This conflict was also called “Bleeding Kansas”. Later on‚ popular sovereignty‚ played a key role before the Civil War. The Kansas Territory became the center of attention in the battle between North and South over expanding slavery into the territories. Those southerners who voted for the Kansas-Nebraska

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    views this town just the way it is described; small‚ quiet‚ innocent. He conveys this in all of the details and descriptions he gives in this essay. He describes the town in a way the reader can relate to and get a clear mental picture of Holcomb‚ Kansas. The speaker from this essay is Truman Capote. He tells about the scene of these murders through the language of formal Standard English. He uses a formal language and an educated diction. The essay is told in a third person point of view in a

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    Alex Upton “1954” by Sharon Olds is a poem displaying the horrors of an instance of rape and murder of a young girl by a man named Burton Abbott in 1954. Olds uses a frantic and horrified tone highlighted by a careful choice of diction to express her messages that any ordinary-looking person can disguise evil and the current justice system has a hypocritical eye-for-an-eye mindset that only ends up destroying human life. The structure of “1954” is built on enjambment and broken sentences. This

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    Shakers In Education

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    Shakers in Education There have been many influential people and events in education. These people and events have shaped our education system. In this paper I will tell you how Horace Mann‚ John Dewey‚ Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka‚ and The American Reinvestment Act have had an impact on the evolution of American education. Horace Mann is known as the “Father of American Education”. His contribution to education is the establishment of the first state board of education. Mann created

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    Communities Creating OPPORTUNITY NOW Agenda—October 18th‚ 2011‚ 6:30pm to 8:15pm Yellow highlight=needs revision or update Magenta highlight=program team help cue the audience to participate through applause‚ sign waving‚ cheers‚ standing Red means this is a pin question—commitment question we are asking to those present in the audience or our elected officials or civic leaders. Green highlight means we will reinforce this point with a power point slide or graph. 6:00 pm  God’s Power Band

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    Kansas by Stephen Dobyns

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    Stephen Dobyns (1941) Kansas THE BOY HITCHHIKING on the back-country Kansas road was nineteen years old. He had been dropped there by a farmer in a Model T Ford who had turned off to the north. Then he waited for three hours. It was July and there were no clouds. The wheat fields were flat and went straight to the horizon. The boy had two plums and he ate them. A blue Plymouth coupe went by with a man and a woman. They were laughing. The woman had blonde hair and it was all loose and blew

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    Kansas City Zephyrs

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    Refer to the Kansas City Zephyrs reading from earlier in the week. For each of the 5 areas in dispute‚ answer the following: Who is right? Why? Submit your answers in your own Word document by the end of Week 1. Bill Ahem was asked to be an arbitrator in a major dispute regarding profitability between the Owner-Player Committee (OPC‚ the representatives of the owners of the 26 major League baseball teams in collective bargaining negotiations) and the Professional Baseball Players Association

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    May 2012 CRJ 211 The Kansas City Preventative Patrol Experiment The Kansas City Preventative Patrol Experiment was created to see if preventative patrols were effective in deterring crime from happening. The experiment used the Kansas City Police Department and they were evaluated and funded by the Police Foundation. The year-long experiment was going to test the effectiveness of the traditional police strategy of routine preventive patrol whether the resources in the Kansas City Police Department

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    “Bleeding Kansas” was a term used by Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune to describe the violence between pro and antislavery forces in the Kansas territory during the mid and late 1850s. The blame of who is responsible for this violence is placed on both sides yet it seems that the South should take more responsibility for the violence there. First off‚ the south starts the violence with no incitement from the North at the Raid on Lawrence. Then there was the Sumner-Brooks issue after Sumner

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    Observation is the most prevalent theme displayed in the film Rear Window (1954). As such‚ the aesthetics chosen by the director emphasize the altered gender roles of Jefferies and Lisa. The film’s editing techniques contribute to these roles; a series of point-of-view and shot/reverse shots exhibit Jefferies feelings of confinement in the scenes “Lisa” and “Something’s Wrong.” The sound techniques used‚ such as off-screen diegetic sound‚ echo Jefferies’ preoccupation with what’s going on in his

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