Carry Nation or Carrie Nation was a strong believer in doing what was best for the people of America and would try to help thought otherwise. Nation's past was very influential what she did and why she did it. Nation got married in 1867 to Charles Gloyd, a physician. Gloyd had a drinking problem and was a very heavy drinker. When the couple had a child named Charlien who was born with a condition and Nation blamed the condition on Gloyd's drinking problem. Soon after Carry Nation left Gloyd and became
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the main factors that keeps me rooted in Kansas City is my mother. My mother is at an age to where she is comfortable with the city she’s in so instead of her leaving the place she knows and calls home she would rather stay here in Kansas City and just move every so often. As an only boy I feel like it is my duty to always be near my mother and as close to her as possible she is the driving force for the reason I am so rooted or as I like to say stuck in Kansas City. As a nomadic man of my era
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David remembers a trip his family took to Kansas City. The long, 4 hour drive was mind numbingly drab for the most part and was just a waiting game to see how long before his parents snapped at his three younger siblings. However one thing that stood out to him were the numerous military silos they drove past. His father explained that those funny looking building contained enormous nukes, set to launch, in the event of a war breaking out. But that was just the way things were in the 1970s and 80s
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have great organizational skills and I thrive under pressure. Stressful situations seem to bring out the best in me. I am a problem solver with exceptional analytical skills who focuses on long-term solutions to problems. Education University of Kansas – Lawrence, KS Major in Supply Chain Management, graduation date: May of 2013 Experience Taylor Farms Worked on a farm bailing, warehousing, and distributing hay. On the farm we had a vertically integrated supply chain. We planted the alfalfa
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authorize the search of Mr. Yup I. Didit’s Dell Precision T3500 desktop computer, black in color, serial number 5V678QR, containing Electronic Media Storage (e.g., hard drive(s)) and four (4) Memorex recordable compact discs currently located at the Kansas State Highway Patrol Evidence Room, 122 SW 7th, Topeka, KS 66603. 2. What was good about this affidavit? What, if anything, could have been done to strengthen this affidavit? The affidavit itself is very specific about what is to be searched –
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incorporates this idea by recounting several deaths in which some call cold blooded murder, as well as an execution committed in hatred. The author, Truman Capote, does this by following the history of Perry Smith, a man wrongly executed by the state of Kansas. This decision is inadequate due to his suffering mental health, the manipulation from Dick, and the cruelty of the death penalty. Mental illness affects nearly fifty four million americans in a single year. Perry Smith is a part of that statistic
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Stiles: the Living Legend In Kansas City, Missouri, on December 21, 1978, a legend was born to Pat and Pam Stiles and her name was, Jacqueline Marie Stiles. Jackie was the oldest of 4 children and was to be much more than everyone was expecting. Just a few years after Jackie was born, they moved to the small town of Claflin, Kansas. There were twin boys that lived several doors down from Jackie and her family. Once Jackie grew to be a little more mobile, she would watch them play basketball in their
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Capote. The story is an in-depth account not just of the murder of the Clutter family, but the murderer’s escape, the police’s chase, and the witnesses and townspeople’s trauma. The Clutter family was a happy, church-going, basic family in Holcomb, Kansas, and they were brutally killed one evening by Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, who fled to Mexico immediately after the deed was done. Alvin Dewey lead four special agents in the hunt for the killers until they found Floyd Wells, a former inmate of Dick
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On November 15, 1959, the entire Clutter family was viciously murdered in their home in Holcomb, Kansas by two men, Dick and Perry. From the crime scene, detectives could not immediately find a motive or any clues that answered the question of why. Truman Capote, interested by the ordeal, wrote the novel In Cold Blood following the before and after the night of murder; Capote pieced together the story from all sides to give insight on what happened and why. One of the detectives on the case called
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towards the building of a new ballpark in your area. Within ten minutes of my house in Kansas City, Kansas we have had two stadiums built within the last 12 years, Sporting KC Park (MLS) and Community America Ballpark (minor league baseball). Sporting KC park was built using STAR bonds (only available in Kansas and Nevada) and according to the Kansas Department of Commerce, sales tax revenue (STAR) bonds provide Kansas municipalities the opportunity to issue bonds to finance the development of major commercial
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