to be 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Our goal is to ensure every community member in the greater Kansas City Metro area is compliant with the ACA health insurance coverage mandate by January 2014. We try to keep the uninsured and underinsured healthy by providing access to high quality, affordable health insurance for uninsured and underinsured in the greater Kansas City, Missouri area. Kansas City saw an increase in the number of uninsured children. As U.S. poverty rate grew in 2009, 20 percent
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Once we arrived, we checked into our beautiful four-star hotel right in downtown Kansas City. We went out to eat at a sports diner right on the main strip. The restaurant was super cool because it was decorated with jerseys from all different types of sports and had neon lights surrounding the inside giving it a fun and exciting aura
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the war. The Compromise of 1850 defused that tension and avoided secession or civil war and reduced sectional conflict for four years. In 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska which opened new land for settlement. The same problems arose again but this time, they were solved through popular sovereignty. The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the settlers in the territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery in each territory.
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This shot is a particularly fine example of the expressive power of lighting. This clip is taken from the documentary Visions of Light. Herbert Clutter inspects his ranch on the morning of November 14, 1959. That same morning, on the other side of Kansas, Perry Smith meets up with Dick Hickock. While the Clutters go about their daily business, running errands and baking cherry pies, Hickock and Smith are tuning their car. After a long drive, they pull up to the Clutter home with a shotgun and knife
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Ford went on a 26 minute long killing spree at Excel Industries in Hesston, Kansas, which was his place of work. He shot 14 people, and 3 those people died. Ford does have a prior criminal record for burglary and concealed fire arms. He used an assault rifle in the shooting, but he also had a pistol on him which he didn’t use (Johnson, Calabrese, Smith, McCoy and Rudansky, “Cedric Larry Ford Kills 3, Injures 14 in Kansas Shooting Spree”). According to a news article wrote in The Kansan, Sarah Hopkins
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Missouri Compromise of 1820 In 1819, Missouri requested statehood, and the freedom to become a slave state. This set off a heated debate, as the twenty two states then part of the union were evenly divided eleven and eleven between free and slave. While northerners, in accordance with their plan to slowly kill off slavery by not allowing new states to be free, were against the idea of Missouri being a slave state, while Southerners used a state's rights argument. They reasoned that, like the original
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Charlie Parker was a jazz musician who played the alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, and the baritone when he was younger. Charlie Parker was born on August 29, 1920 in Kansas City, Kansas to Adelaide and Charles Parker. He was then raised in Kansas City, Missouri and was an only child. When Parker was ll years old, he began to learn to play the saxophone. At 14 he joined the school band while he played a rented instrument. Most of his influences came from a young trombone player. After high school
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among its citizens” (Constitution). The prosecution had a range of expert witnesses that they called to the stand to develop the disastrous effects that segregation has on young children. Dr. Hugh Speer, the chair of Education at the University of Kansas City, served as an expert witness to the trial after performing studies on the public schools in Topeka. He found that in every case the white schools were physically superior to the black schools (McNeese). Horace B. English, a psychology professor
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Driving while intoxicated (DWI) is a serious crime in Kansas City. There is a zero-tolerance policy for people convicted of DWI. You have to keep this in mind that if you are caught driving while intoxicated and if you are caught, a DWI conviction can negatively affect every facet of your life. First, a DWI conviction can result in jail time. If you contest the charges, you have to be prepared for putting in a lot of time and money into this. And that is just the beginning. Once you are released
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The iconic jazz artist Charlie Parker was born on August 29, 1920, in Kansas City, Kansas. His dad, Charles Parker Sr., was an African-American stage performer, and his mom, Addie Parker, was a housekeeper of Native-American descent. In 1927, Charlie moved with his parents to Kansas City, Missouri at the age of 7. It was here where Charlie was introduced to various genres of music. At the time, the most popular of the genres included jazz, blues, and gospel. Charlie found interest in playing an instrument
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