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    My heart beats like a drum as I board the plane to Kansas City. The airport intercom comes on‚ and I hear‚ “Attention all passengers‚ the flight to Kansas City is now boarding.” I give my mom and dad one last hug and walk slowly to the door. I find my seat and sit down. Woosh! The jet engines start up‚ and we’re off. My ears pop‚ and I can only hear the beating of my heart. As we head over the Red River‚ the clouds began to thicken. The flight attendant asks me if I want a drink. I politely say

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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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    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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    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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    apply the law of East Kansas. This case involves a conflict of law issue because West Kansas’s law provides that worker’s compensation is the exclusive remedy for employees‚ who are victims of intentional torts‚ while East Kansas says that worker’s compensation is not the exclusive remedy. Under the governmental interest approach to conflicts of law‚ this Court should resolve this conflict in favor of East Kansas because it has an interest in applying its law‚ while West Kansas does not. II. ARGUMENT

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    Crime in Kansas City

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    Crime in Kansas City Murders‚ rapes‚ robberies‚ assaults‚ burglaries‚ and theft are all put into the same category‚ crime. Any of these crimes can relate to deaths. Which is something no one wants. Kansas City’s violent crime and murder rates are among the nations highest‚ and has been for many years. its embarrassing that Kansas City is lumped together with other cities that are notorious for their high crime rates‚ such as Detroit‚ St.Louis‚ Oakland‚ Memphis‚ Atlanta‚ and Cleveland. Kansas City’s

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    time in history change was occurring throughout the country. We were seeing this movement called the progressive movement sweep the nation. Kansas was reflecting on this too‚ as seen everywhere‚ Kansas felt the effects of monopolies as well‚ and Kansans along with all the other Americans believed that something had to be done. The progressive movement in Kansas started with a few G.O.P politicians expressing concerns with the conservation of the party. As a result they promoted many reforms‚ these

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    The Kansas-Nebraska Act

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    The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was a controversial legislation that opened Kansas and Nebraska to white settlement‚ repealed the Compromise of 1850‚ and led opponents to form the Republican party. This piece of legislation was introduced in Congress that revived the issues of the expansion of slavery. The Compromise of 1850 was a series of measures passed by Congress to resolve sectional tensions. Congress admitted California to the Union as a free state. And organize the territories of New Mexico

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    Bleeding Kansas Analysis

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    Bleeding Kansas is also described as a period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. In 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act reversed the Missouri Compromise’s use of latitude as the line between slave and free territory and instead‚ using the principle of popular sovereignty‚ announced that the residents would determine whether the area became a free state or slave state. Proslavery and free-state settlers flowed into Kansas to try to pressure the opinion. Violence soon appeared as both

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    Kansas City Jazz

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    Orleans‚ Chicago‚ New York‚ and Kansas City. Each "hot spot" has its own history containing significant events and people that helped shape the musical style of that culture center. Kansas City is no exception. There are innumerable persons that helped make Kansas City jazz what it has become. Jazz emerged in a time that one might think that something new‚ such as the jazz movement‚ would not succeed. Jazz began to gain notoriety in the midst of The Great Depression. Kansas City ’s ability to sustain

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