Pittsburg, Kansas

From small town massacres to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, to the hanging of abolitionists and to protecting the president, Kansas played a key role in the Civil War. I. In the Civil war there were people who didn’t want slavery in the states. A. John Brown was an abolitionist from Kansas. 1. On the thirteenth of May 1856, John led free-staters to parts of eastern Kansas. 2. In his time, John Brown killed five men. B. White men were not the only men to fight for Kansas’ freedom. 1. On January 13,…

The Road to Oz Have you ever been trapped or stuck in a place, where you face different challenges and task? Here is the movie “Wizard of Oz” telling us a story of young girl Dorothy living in Kansas with her aunt Em and uncle harry and adorable pet dog Toto. In this film ,we see, adventure,challenges besides Fear and Failure .Movie keep us very attentive from very beginning,the director-Victor Fleming does not lose hisplot and knows how to keep his audience awake .Dorothy when swallowed by…

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…

How is England treating you? How are the kids? Well I hope they are well, and hope you are too. I really want to go and visit you all soon, maybe you can plan a trip to come down here, or even better I can go to England, I’ve always wanted to see what it’s like to live there, but anyways I am doing just fine, I just got married to a wonderful man named James Williams. But enough about me, I want to tell you everything that is happening in Texas. Well Texas has just left the union, and about 76…

Truman Capote brings Dick and Perry front and center during “The Corner” chapter of In Cold Blood. Capote allows the reader to empathize with Dick and Perry in completely different ways. Each character shows how the arrest, interrogation, and sentencing affects them and the way they process life. These emotional attachments that Capote creates allows the reader to discover that not only are Dick and Perry not ruthless murders, they are actually humans with fears and regrets. The arrest that…

2. Classroom Diversity The class I will be student teaching will be the 4th grade class from 10:20 to 11:05 A.M. Students range in age from 9 to 10 year olds consisting of 14 males and 8 females. There are 2 individual students with IEP 's (Individual Education Plans), 0 ELL 's (English Language Learners), and 9 ALP 's (Advanced Learning 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…

Truman Capote wrote the nonfiction novel In Cold Blood with the accounts from the murderers and investigators of the Clutter family. While reading this novel, readers learn about the virtues of the Clutter family. Whenever the Clutter family’s life is examined, the family’s kind and charitable nature manifests. As long as the Clutter family lives, the members remain involved in the community and never turn down a chance to help others. As Capote grew up, he found himself neglected by his mother…

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 second possible approach is to provide for the indemnification of board members. Indemnification means to compensate someone for loss or damages sustained. In this context, it would mean covering the damages that individual board members would sustain in antitrust lawsuits. In Dental Examiners, the Supreme Court choose not to address whether board members could be personally liable for monetary damages as individuals, but they did suggest it was possible. Scholars have found that…