Kirk

History of the Company Kirk’s Catering & Carryout is my dad, Kirk Hamilton’s, restaurant, located in Statesville, North Carolina. He has always worked in the food industry, and has always been passionate about food, so when the restaurant he was working at laid off a lot of people and moved him to a new location, he decided that that was the perfect time to open his own restaurant like he has always wanted. Kirk’s Catering & Carryout officially opened in May of 2012, but the business plan was formed in the summer of 2011. He found a good location, renovated the inside, because it was a racing-themed pizza place before this, and began working on the perfect menu. His goals in creating this company were to provide great food for people to…

Doctor Russell Kirk, is a name that I never had heard of much less even understood his significance in American history and politics before I started at Emporia. While identifying as a Conservative for most of my life (Please forgive me, but my parents were “New Deal” Democrats and I was young at the time); I never understood the philosophy or the background of the Conservative movement. More importantly, I never connected faith and personal values into what it meant to be a Conservative. I…

Kirk Douglas has been quoted as believing the main storyline of the movie is one of love. He stated "Love predominates all through the movie: love between Spartacus and Varinia, love among the men; the whole revolt was based on a love of freedom, a love of humanity“. It is also said that, due to his Zionist background, Douglas also wanted a storyline to parallel the struggles, and efforts of Jewish people, in an expression of his religious background. This is a fair analysis of events; however,…

epic. Her status gave that movie a high reputation, and it helped generate a lot of money and publicity. She was making the highest salary in Hollywood during the production of this film (1 million dollars). Spartacus and the Hollywood Blacklist: By 1945 it had been suspected that Hollywood was being influenced by communists. In 1946 Hollywood published an article that listed several film writers suspected of being communists. Dalton Trumbo was one of those figures. He refused to answer…

In “Attunement to the Damned of the Conques Tympanum,” Kirk Ambrose examines the Last Judgment tympanum of the Abby church of Saint Foy located in Conques, France. The church was raised approximately in the late 9th or 10th century; additions to the church were also made later. This tympanum has been dated to circa 1125. This year combined with its style places it in the Romanesque period. Much curiosity and debate surrounds the imagery and artists’ intentions because the gestures and facial…

Kirk Bloodsworth’s case serves as a stark example of the potential for error within our judicial system. On July 25, 1984, nine-year old Dawn Hamilton’s body was found in the woods of Rosedale, Maryland after she had been brutally raped and murdered (guest lecture). Within one week, law enforcement found and arrested the primary suspect of Dawn Hamilton’s murder, twenty-three-year old Kirk Bloodsworth (guest lecture). Police seemed certain that they had the murderer in custody. The young man’s…

This research paper discussed how the Innocence Project Organization help Kirk Bloodworth to be exoneration from a crime he did not commit in 1984. The significance of the Innocence Project Organization and other cases it has done to prove innocence of suspects. In addition, the research paper demonstrates the process of how Kirk Bloodworth was found guilty and how he was release from prison due to evidences after the judge sentence him death penalty and later on the sentence was evoked to nine…

2017 is an intriguing year for the Redskins for a multitude of reasons. Kirk Cousins now is in the midst of a long-term contract negotiation, his top two wide receivers left via free agency, the Redskins defense is coming off a historically bad season, the new defensive coordinator Greg Manusky along with the team’s new additions is having positive reviews so far this off-season, and the front office is fresh out of a messy divorce with their former general manager Scot McCloughan and made an…

William Kirk Kilpatrick correctly explains that families need the sacred order to thrive. Since families are a fundamental element of society, society cannot function properly unless its families are. Two things families need to operate are love and respect. Kilpatrick states that the “family belongs to the sacred order, and that children require love (155, 153). The sacred instructs parents to love their children. Scripture, the core component of the sacred, admonishes fathers to nurture…

In his article, “Women in the 16th Century,” Jens Christian Kirk argues that women played a vital part in the fight for religious freedom during the Reformation and that it was period in which they could express themselves. He states that “no century contained as much religious disorder in Western Europe as the 16th century,” and later said noble women’s impact was through influencing their families in power. According to Kirk, the women who had more impact in the Reformation did so because of…