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    If I was the Police Chief in Kansas City during the experiment‚ I would make long lasting changes in preventative patrol verses random patrol for many reasons. One very important reason is if I had my secretary send out surveys to a random selection of people within the community‚ this effort could determine how satisfied the citizens are with the service of the Kansas City Police Department (KPD) (Cordner‚ 2016). Due to the fact that most people do not like to bother with surveys‚ I would insert

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    Kansas City Hyatt Walkway Collapse Introduction The Hyatt Regency Hotel was built in Kansas City‚ Missouri in 1978. This hotel consisted of a 40-story hotel tower and conference facilities‚ which were connected by an open concept atrium. Inside the atrium‚ there were three walkways that connected the hotel to the conference facilities on the second‚ third‚ and fourth floors. The atrium was 145 feet long‚ 117 feet wide and 50 feet high. On July 17‚ 1981‚ approximately 2‚000 people had gathered

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    Stephen King Theme

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    Every great story has at least one theme that is identifiable.There are so many amazing themes out there that it’s hard for the author to just pick one. Well‚ in Stephen King’s IT‚ he expresses a few different themes‚ including; ’Grownups are the enemy’‚ expressing that theme by showing characters interacting with one another and the adults‚ ’There’s always a way to fix the problem’ by showing the characters‚ yet again‚ working together to kill the evil entity‚ and ’Leave the past behind‚ but never

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    This is one of the few experiments that has ever been completed that relates to policing. This particular experiment has never been attempted before. The Kansas City Preventative Patrol Experiment occurred during 1972 to 1973. The Kansas City Police Department in Missouri was evaluated by the Police Foundation. This experiment tested to see if the presence of police offers in marked cars would reduce crimes. This experiment produced many questions. Would people notice the police patrol and crime

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    A Brief History of Time” is a book that was published by famous physicist Stephen Hawking‚ whom in this novel talks about the ideas or theories of physicists in a way that we can understand. It also explains how the universe exists and how we perceive it going into lively detail. There are as I said multiple topics he discusses such as how the universe works. In chapter 1 he talks about Aristotle’s theory on how he thought the earth was a sphere and not just a flat surface. “If the earth had been

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    Lawerence‚ Kansas. Sam stood in front of an older ordinary building with an old wooden door. There wasn’t an address‚ just a symbol that signified he was in the right place. Most hunters would be honored to be summoned by the Men of Letters. Sam felt annoyed. He didn’t trust the men of letters and preferred not to have any direct dealings with them. Not able to prove anything‚ Sam suspected that certain scholars deliberately withheld facts from hunters. He had a feeling that they were trying

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    Stephen Gill ’s Immigrant : A Study In Diasporic  Consciousness   Nilofar Akhtar     The phenomena of Diaspora and expatriation are by all means an old one.  However‚ its impact in the present times is larger and deeper.  It has become a contemporary social trait and also‚ a literary genre.  The growing incidence of the Diaspora has given place to dislocation‚ disintegration‚ dispossession and disbelongingness.  The experience of expatriation not only gradually disconnects the individual from his

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    How did the Kansas City Patrol Study affect routine patrol all across the nation? It affected routine patrol in the fact that It made officers realize that traditional routine patrol in marked police cars did not appear to affect the level of crime. Nor did it affect the public’s feeling of security. The experiment demonstrated that urban police departments can successfully test patrol deployment strategies‚ and that they can manipulate patrol resources without jeopardizing public safety. With

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    Stephen King: The King of Terror Stephen Edwin King is one of today ’s most popular and best selling writers. King combines the elements of psychological thrillers‚ science fiction‚ the paranormal‚ and detective themes into his stories. In addition to these themes‚ King sticks to using great and vivid detail that is set in a realistic everyday place. Stephen King who is mainly known for his novels‚ has broadened his horizons to different types of writings such as movie scripts‚ nonfiction

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    “Breaking: student fatally shoots herself in Kansas City high school.” I stare at my phone screen‚ horrified. I know kids who attend that school. How could this happen? The headline glares back at me as I tentatively tap the link to the news website. My thumb trembles as I slowly scroll through the article. “The student committed suicide during school hours‚ as students and faculty heard a single gunshot around 7:50 a.m. The student was later found dead with the gun in a school restroom.” Shudders

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