Kansas State University

Intro- As graduating high school, I always had the desire to up my career to be a successful and financial man within the future. A week later, I started to think how am I going to live on my own. Where will I stay at for my existing 4 years or maybe years. So I did my research on the Kansas State University housing. As I am looking through my options, I was interested for the Kramer complex’s. My mom told me is it safe, healthy, and in good living conditions to live there? When I kept scrolling down it showed how it will have safety and good health conditions throughout the complex. According to the Kansas State University .020 Forming a Committee, Every College must have an active safety committee. This must be a goal of each Dean. If the…

Society is constantly changing as well the individual perspectives in a changeable society. One of the more exciting aspects of being a member of a changeable society is the continue discovery of what is going on and what we see. Yet from time to time, I step back and try to figure out how to perceive social changes. I am a victim like everyone else of social changes that contribute to the issue of socioeconomic class so much that these social changes shape our Kansas State University community…

got me intrigued as I was in high school searching for a major that I would to eventually incorporate into my career and lifestyle. Kansas State University was one of the schools I enjoyed visiting as I was visiting colleges and here I am a junior, applying for practicum. First, I will focus on myself and how I ended up here at Kansas State Polytechnic. Next, I will provide my insight on what a social worker is and what I see in my future. Finally, I will provide my experience in…

First, I want to contact and apply to Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America in Pittsburg, Kansas to start volunteering as a big sister within the next six months. I feel like this goal is specific as it names the specific organization as role I desire when I start volunteering. The goal is measurable based on first contacting, then getting an application, and finally how I move through the application process during the time I allowed myself. The attainability of the goal is there because it…

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…

The American Nightmare Seconds after brutally suffocating an elderly man with his own bed at midnight, the narrator “[examines] the corpse” and then calmly states, “Yes, he was stone, stone dead” (Poe 190). Haunted by the old man’s eye, the mentally unstable narrator decides to murder him. The bloodcurdling narrator believes he can get away with murder, until the guilt overwhelms him; consequently, the narrator reveals to the cops that he committed the crime. Similarly, in Truman Capote’s novel,…

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”)…

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…