Kansas Jayhawks

LAWRENCE, Kan.-- Frank Mason III scored 24 points and No. 3 Kansas used a 21-7 run to force overtime and defeat No. 9 West Virginia University 84-80 in overtime on Monday night at the Phog Allen Fieldhouse. The Mountaineers (20-6, 8-5) were cruising when missed free throws and turnovers fueled a Jayhawks run. Devonte' Graham sunk a 3-pointer with 34 seconds remaining to pull Kansas (23-3, 11-2) within two. The Jayhawks' pressure forced Tarik Phillip to throw the ball away. Mason made both free throws with 21.6 seconds to go. WVU had one final chance but Phillip, alone in the wing, threw up a 3-pointer that hit off the rim as the buzzer sounded. “We just didn’t look up the floor,” Bob Huggins said. “We had guys open up the floor. They had all…

KANSAS City, Mo.--Esa Ahmad snapped out of a slump, notching a double-double and making the go-ahead free throw as No. 2 seeded West Virginia University topped No.8 seeded Kansas State 51-50 on Friday. The Mountaineers (26-7) overcame a 12-point deficit to advance to the Big 12 Championship on Saturday for the second time in as many years. Ahmad had 15 points and 10 rebounds. Tarik Phillip tallied 13 points and Elijah Macon grabbed 10 rebounds. Wesley Iwundu had 13 points and Kamau Stokes add…

Everything’s Coming Up Capote Holcomb, Kansas is a normal small town with a restaurant, post-office, and its very own school system. In In Cold Blood Truman Capotes describes the small town and its simple atmosphere with uses of selection of detail, imagery, and structure, while setting up for a dramatic and twisting change. “Not that there is a lot to see” is the first impression Capote gives of Holcomb to the readers. But he seems to contradict himself considering the majority of…

Capote points out that even in the small, religious town of Holcomb “…class distinctions are … clearly observed…” (Capote 34). The class distinction separates who can have the American Dream and who cannot. Capote reveals the inequality in America and how people will quickly be isolated if their beliefs do not match the norm. Class distinctions differentiate how people live their lives. The lower a person ranks the more their ideals separate from the norm. After Perry’s father discovers Perry in…

Truman Capote’s 1965 novel In Cold Blood, was based upon the true events of the Clutter family murder case, that occurred in the year 1959, in the very modest town of Holcomb, Kansas. The story revolves around the two insensitive murderers, Perry Edward Smith and Richard Eugene Hickock, whom have had the past of growing up in completely opposite home environments from one another, and the detective Alvin Dewey, who goes out of his ways to try his best to capture these criminals. Although Perry…

The one who lied is your friend Floyd Wells. There isn’t any safe, so let’s get the hell out of here” (239). No one knew the motive for the crime, but Perry confessed that is was to find ten thousand dollars Mr. Clutter kept in a safe. Furthermore, Capote works in Dick and Perry backgrounds throughout the novel. When he uses the montages throughout the story, this gives some details on Dick and Perry’s lives. Letters from Perry’s father Tex John Smith and his living sister Barbara Johnson and…

However, despite this, Kansas is still able to present itself as an aristocrat of commonness within American politics. Even if a politician is from Mission Hills, they can still peg themselves as an authentic, rugged American. Kansas votes Republican consistently, which is an interesting juxtaposition to a century ago, when it was considered a radical area. After the Summer of Life in 1991, the dynamic became not between Democrats and Republicans, but traditional, moderate Republicans (“Mods”)…

and put on medication. In February of 2015, I met a girl named Alexus on social media. I was glad I finally had a good friend in my life because honestly, most of my friends were two faced or high all of their lives. Her and I became close ridiculously quickly and after knowing each other for around two months, we gladly got into a relationship. I was happier then even as cliché as it sounds, but my life was finally looking up. I finally thought for once in my life somebody other than my family…

Sam Brownback has made a lasting impression on Kansas, however not necessarily for the right reasons. He thinks he is going at this the right way, and making the right decisions but he is actually ruining our state. We need to get somebody else in office who is going to think about all Kansans, not just the rich. Although, Sam Brownback had to have done something right to get elected as our governor in the first place, we do not want to re-elect him because he is leading the “March to Zero”…

The nonfiction novel, In Cold Blood, entirely reconstructed a horrific crime scene while depicting the lives of the runaway murderers. The author, Truman Capote, uses montage (a form of writing that switches back and forth) to allow the readers to see into the lives of the killers and the petrified people of Holcomb, Kansas. On November 15, 1959, Richard Hickock and Perry Smith brutally murdered Herbert, Bonnie, Kenyon and Nancy Clutter in their farmhouse. Floyd Wells, a previous cell mate of…