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    fantasies (Geberth, 2004). For American serial killer, Maury Troy Travis, fantasy played a major role in his sexual behavior which lead to the suspected serial killing of 13 to 20 women in Ferguson, Missouri. Travis was first charged with two women named Alycia Greenwade and Betty Smith, both from the Missouri area. The FBI later believed Travis had been connected to 10 different unsolved murders. Travis would use his basement as a torture chamber for these women and mostly were prostitutes.…

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    moved west in 1812. At age thirteen he was a blacksmith’s apprentice. He learned how to handle machinery, horses and guns. The frontier life of Jim started in 1822. He joined the party of trappers being organized by St. Louis. The men traveled up the Missouri to trap along the Rocky Mountains. As well as to trade with Indians. For the past 20 years mountain men…

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    believed to be a contraction of the term “ragged time”. which matches its rhythmically broken up melody. Origin of Ragtime Jazz: Ragtime was first developed in African American communities, throughout souther parts of the midwest, particularly in Missouri. Originally Bands would…

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    Laura had three siblings. Mary, Caroline and Grace. Research Results Laura married A.J. (Almanzo James) Wilder in 1885. They got married in DA. On December 5, 1886, Rose Wilder was born. Almanzo and Laura lived in Mansfield Ward 1 Wright, Missouri. They resided on Commercial Street. On August 1, 1889, Laura gave birth to a son. He was only known as Baby Boy Wilder since he died on August 12th of that same year. Almanzo died on October 23, 1949 in Mansfield. Laura died on…

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    stereotypes, customs, and ideas, learned from birth. This case study peers into gender discrimination by first providing a little historical background information. Next, it delves into an analysis of a case, Wedow, et al. v. City of Kansas City, Missouri, 442 F.3d 441 (U.S. App., 2006), and the Court’s opinion, by examining the pertinent facts of the case, highlighting the legal issues and evaluating the rules to apply, and relating the rules to the facts. As evidenced below, women’s roles,…

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    another compromised call the Missouri compromised. The compromised enforced that every free or slave states to be qual. But, Maine and Missouri which were slave states then wanted to come to the north to be a free state. This became a big concern because it would make the balanced 11 to 11 free and slave state would be unequal. And, even if they wanted it wouldn’t be accepted. So congress made Maine only a free state because the state didn’t have any slaves unlike Missouri who had like ten…

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    Kansas”) was the main cause. The act allowed for states to choose to be Slave or Free that then caused many conflicts that eventually lead up to the Civil War. The Missouri Compromise was one of the first…

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    Not very interested in social and humanity courses, I delivered, even from the beginning, really convincing performances in most of the practical courses, especially in science and mathematics. As a secondary school student, subjects requiring many calculations and experiments seemed very exciting for me, for instance, math, physics, trigonometry, geometry, and so forth. In contrast, most female pupils were seemingly interested in humanity, literature, and social fields, for most of them did not…

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    able to sue the federal court because he was not a citizen. He also said that Congress could not bar slavery in the territories because black people are property and Congress has to protect property not take it away. By doing this he was making the Missouri Compromise void. All of this cause issues in the country because the North was furious with the ruling and the South said that the North needed to calm down or else there would be disunity in the…

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    Since the founding of their church in 1830, Mormons had been badly attacked. They had been chased from New York to Ohio then Missouri and then Illinois and finally to Utah. in Missouri at Haun’s Mill, 18 mormons had been killed and 13 injured. the governor of Missouri had even issued an extermination order against the Mormons forcing them to leave Missouri or be Killed. The Church's founder, Joseph Smith had weathered. He was falsely accused and imprisoned several times and eventually killed…

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