specializing in office cleaning and serving the Kansas City, Missouri area. The business will sell office cleaning and related services to businesses with office spaces of any size. To that end, Clean Office Pros seeks funding for equipment and initial operations of the business. The Company Established in 2009, the business offers office cleaning, floor treatment, carpet cleaning, and window cleaning for businesses with office space in the Kansas City area. The business was founded by Paul Vinci
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In Cold Blood: Two Intents, One Novel On November 15, 1959, the whole nation was shocked by a ghastly murder involving four family members in the discrete farm town of Holcomb, Kansas. It was most shocking because a crime of this magnitude with no motive was rare. This was so discomforting a well known author, by the name of Truman Capote, moved to Holcomb to record the townspeople’s reaction to the tragedy. The idea of how they responded to the crime gave Capote the idea to write a book. In Cold
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uses violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims(“terrorist” def. 1) John Brown uses violence multiple times in his pursuit to end slavery. Not only did he use it at Harper’s Ferry, but also at Pottawatomie. In his campaign to keep Kansas an anti- slave state “[Brown] leading four of his sons and three others to a proslavery settlement at nearby Pottawatomie creek, Brown’s men dragged five settlers from their cabins and split open their heads with broadswords,” brutally killings these
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In Cold Blood The book in cold blood took place in Western Kansas in a small town called Holcomb. This non- fiction book was very interesting to read. In this book Truman capote did achieve his goal of being both sympathetic and objective. While reading this book, I felt much sympathy towards the Clutter family and the people who had close relationships with the Clutter family. Herb Clutter was a “die-hard community booster,” he was very respected. Their family was well known and very loved by
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Grantee, whose post office address is 3214 Benton Blvd., Kansas City, KS 66105-2843. WITNESS, for and in consideration of the sum of EIGHTY-SEVEN THOUSAND and 00/100 DOLLARS ($87,000), Grantor does hereby GRANT to Grantee, all of the following real property lying in the County of Wyandotte, State of Kansas, and described as follows, to wit: Lots Fifteen (15) and Sixteen (16), Block Sixty-three (63), Original Townsite of Kansas City, Kansas, SUBJECT TO mineral conveyances, easements, special
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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is a well written novel-report that describes a mass murder during the late 1950s within in a small town known as Holcomb, Kansas. Capote throughout the novel elaborates on the advances the police make towards finding the suspects and the journey the criminals on the run from the law take by granting numerous accounts of evidence to the reader. The author also takes high focus on the two culprits Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. Leading all the way up to the execution
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establishes many significant themes in his novel In Cold Blood. Capote utilizes the characters, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, in order to perceive them as cold blooded killers. In the beginning of the novel, it states “In the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by a blast from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces.” It was apparent that in this novel a frequent and compelling theme revolving around man’s inhumane treatment of other human beings
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Taylor Krug 4/25/15 LAWS – Capstone Course Prof. Parys In Cold Blood In Cold Blood is a nonfiction novel about a quadruple murder of a family in Kansas in 1959. Capote is a master of not only suspense but of unlikely sympathy in the fact that he creates sympathy for the murderers while letting readers in on all the gritty details of the crime. It is a type of book that is dense with material and fact, some of it may even be hard to stomach as you turn each page. Indefinitely, it is a book to make
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In the short story “Kansas,” by Stephen Dobyns, a young man makes a decision during his journey to summer school that destroys his life. On his way back to school, the young man decided to hitchhike on country roads in Kansas. A farmer, who was on a mission to kill his wife, picked him up. The boy debated on attempting to sway the farmer away from his decision of murdering his wife, but instead he promised not to tell anyone; the boy was too afraid of the consequences that would come with stopping
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Moving to Kansas What changed? Moving to Kansas was a big change in my life. At the end of the school year of 2011, four weeks before the last day of school, we went on the eight hour road trip to Newton, Kansas. It was exciting. Getting a new place to live, a new home. Change is good, well mostly good. In Colorado we had an nice old house with a big backyard, and a huge hill to go sledding on in the winter. The snow was like fluffy piles of cotton candy. Our school was
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