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    Kansas Experiment

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    strategies were made to reduce the crimes and make the public feel more safe in the street. The Kansas City Experiment started on October 1972 and continued to 1973 ‚ it was administered by the Kansas City Police Department and evaluated by the Police Foundation. The Kansas City Experiment tested the use of preventive patrol on crime rates and citizens fear of crime. The police foundation divided Kansas into fifteen different areas‚ and those fifteen areas were divided into three groups of five. These

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    Short-Story Paper

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    SHORT STORY PAPER “Compare/contrast Faulkner’s ‘Dry September’ with ‘A rose for Emily’ in terms of writing style and character presentation.” What is going to be analyzed in this paper are the two short stories by W. Faulkner ‘A Rose for Emily’ and ‘Dry September’. Basically‚ what is to be performed is a comparison/contrast analysis in terms of the writing style and character presentation. More specifically‚ I will provide

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    Mansfield’s Short Stories

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    Katherine Mansfield’s short stories‚ ”Bliss” and ”Taking the Veil”. Emotions are mapped through linguistic markers such as adjectives and adverbs that imply a character’s emotional response to story events. The study focuses on narratorial discourse and distinguishes between verbalized speech and thought (free indirect discourse) and non-verbalised thought-processes (psycho-narration). The analysis is carried out by studying the deictic centre or the perspective in the short stories. The study shows that

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    the game itself and how effective or non-effective it was. Listed below are those evaluations. The first game my group played was called Long Story Short. It was a game that consisted of five players‚ each with white boards and dry erase markers. The object of the game was to finish the story that the selected judge had read to us. We had to complete the story using either a text message‚ tweet‚ comic strip‚ or a headline. Based upon whatever number the judge rolled on the dice. This game gives off

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    “Blackberries in June‚” that title to me means easy picking‚ that Jamie and Matt managed to pick all the sweet blackberries from the bush(that’s my opinion of the title). In this short story everyone thinks that Jamie and Matt have it easy and everything has been handed to them. The reason for this is because their going on the course of being successful in life early instead of later in life. Honestly‚ though they worked hard for everything they have. Both working at minimum wage jobs. Jamie as

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    Kansas City

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    Justin Sunwoong Choi A01982970 Dr. Cliff Skousen Kansas City Bill Ahern was asked to be an arbitrator in a dispute between the Owner-Player committee and Professional Baseball Players Association. The issue was the profits of the major league baseball teams that the owners maintained‚ however‚ that most of the teams were actually losing money each year. Bill Ahern first visited the owners’ representatives of Kansas City Zephyrs‚ which was one of 14 American League teams and 12 National

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    The Face of Evil Doesn’t Always Look the Part The short story “Where are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ and its adaptation Smooth Talk by Joyce Chopra both portray Arnold Friend as evil. Although he appears very differently in both texts‚ his intentions are the same and eventually gets Connie out of that house. In the movie‚ Joyce Chopra is trying to tell the audience who has read the story that evil comes in all different shapes and sizes through her casting of Treat

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    access to all of the Stones’ possessions‚ the Millers develop an abnormal obsession with the alternate lifestyle. They constantly find themselves eager to feed the cat and satisfy their curiosities as to the contents of the Stones’ apartment. The story closes as the Millers are locked out of the apartment that they adore so much. The Millers find themselves longing to be with the possessions that are so close yet so far from their grasp. The reader feels the emotions of this grief stricken couple

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    The short story “Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurt First of all Doodle may be crippled but he is always mentally dynamic throughout the story. ”Of course‚ I was old enough to know this wouldn’t work out‚ but the picture he painted was so beautiful and serene that all I could do was whisper Yes‚ yes.” He has a huge imagination and the stories he makes up amazes everyone mostly because they don’t expect anything from him as he is physically different. “Although his brother is a realist even he enjoys

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    Montaque 1 English 1102 Ms. Parks 18 February 2014 A Worn Path Eudora Welty’s short story "A Worn Path" takes place on an early December morning which deals with a very elderly and frail black woman‚ Phoenix; and the hardships inherent in her life. Phoenix Jackson is the main character‚ she is characterized as a strong poor elderly woman because of her appearance‚ personality and determination. For example‚ the narrator states‚ that Phoenix wore “a dark striped dress reaching down to her

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