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In early 2013, owner of Soapy Gnome Jennifer Frech, age 43, started a legacy by taking her soaps and other products to the Goshen Farmers’ Market. Since then, Soapy Gnome has grown into a full fledged small business. “I was working as a teacher and as everyone knows, working as a teacher is very difficult, especially in these days,” says Frech. “So I quit teaching, and I was working at Notre Dame and I was making soap as a hobby. There’s only so much soap a person can use, so my husband said…

30% of Texas population of 640,000 are slaves. So obviously, planters weren’t going to give up the most important source of making money. So all in all, “Texas abandoned her separate national existence and consented to become one of the confederated states to promote her welfare, insure domestic tranquility and secure more substantially the blessings of peace and liberty to her people.” (primary source: Texas secession declaration of causes) all this to protect the institution of slavery. Which…

the allegation, in order to protect Dick (226). He cared for the trouble got in and believed that Dick would protect him too. Perry finds out that Dick rats on him and is upset by these actions, seeing as he only protected and lied for Dick. Perry states that he did take part in the killing, but Dick is not innocent. Dick was also a killer, slaying two of the Clutter family members. however when trial had come Perry changed his story to preserve Dick’s mother’s heart. Perry said that he “killed…

Plans). Cherokee Trail 's Elementary as a whole has 9% of the students ' who qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. The minority enrollment is 23% of the student body with the majority of the minorities Hispanic, in addition, this is less than the state average of 45% ("Douglas County Government ," 2016). The Douglas County School District is predominately Caucasian, leaving the students underexposed…

As Dick is continuously questioned, he never stops lying. Dick states, “Hickock said, ‘Perry Smith killed the Clutters.’ He lifted his head, and slowly straightened up in the chair, like a fighter staggering to his feet. ‘It was Perry. I couldn’t stop him. He killed them all’” (230). Though Dick creates the whole scheme…

However, how are all members within the Kansas City metropolitan area supposed to benefit from utilitarianism when minorities do not make-up a majority of the population? A modern day example of local utilitarianism is the shopping strip that is currently being built in Liberty, MO. Contractors are building unnecessary clothing and pet stores, despite there being similar businesses within the general vicinity. These types of buildings are commonly not built in Kansas City very often because…

even before he’s on the run with Dick. As an adult he’s gone from the Merchant Marines, to the army, to Bellingham, to Alaska, to Omaha, to Oklahoma, to Texas, to Massachusetts, to Kansas, to Missouri, arrested and sent back to Kansas, then arrested back in Massachusetts, gone to New York, and finally taken back to Kansas where he met Dick in Lansing prison. As a child he also experienced two events that most likely lead to his underlying aggressive personality traits. After his parents…

The Clutter Family Murderers November 15, 1959 appeared to be a typical crisp fall day in Holcomb, Kansas. The sun began to rise and the small farm town awoke, unaware that mere hours earlier, one of the most infamous quadruple murders in our nation’s history had taken place within the city’s limits. This paper will discuss the killing of the Clutter family from Holcomb, Kansas, the identity and lives of the killers, and various communication principles and theories that tie into the two…

Holcomb, and Mr. Clutter was a very respected man, father, and farmer by the Holcomb community. Many outsiders believed Mr. Clutter kept cash money in his house and this myth ultimately lead to him and his family to being robbed and killed. Holcomb, Kansas prior to this incident was an extremely safe and secure area with minimal criminal activity so much so that its residents felt safe enough to leave their doors unlocked at night, as well as this area…

In 1959, the savage murder of the Clutter family attracted thousands of journalists to the remote town of Holcomb, Kansas. One of them was author Truman Capote, who had recorded the details and consequences of the murder in his best-selling novel: In Cold Blood. Debated hotly regarding its credibility and writing style, the novel remains a controversial and unique work. In Cold Blood is important to be read by high school students since it exposes students to a renowned work of a unique genre of…