Sedgwick County

everyday to keep them healthy. For example, At the Los Angeles Zoo, the keepers take their Asian elephant on a 1.5-to 2-mile walk around the park every day. A zoo in Oregon says that they have eliminated elephant deaths or euthanizations (putting an animal down) caused by foot infections from not getting the proper amount of exercise (Bioscience 710). Some zoos, nevertheless, are expanding their elephant programs instead of demolishing them. Since elephants are a main attraction, these select zoos are using it to their advantage. Mentioned in BioScience Vol. 56 No. 9, Sedgwick County in Wichita, Kansas is planning on building a new four-acre exhibit. The zoo’s executive director disclosed that they are making an $8 million exhibit into a $10 million exhibit. The new space will include a 3.5-acre outdoor enclosure that will hopefully “immerse” their visitors in elephants. In future plans, the Sedgwick County Zoo hopes to add another 16 acres primarily for pregnant cows and adult males (716). It is evident that zoos have sufficiently improved since they were first created. Animals use to have even less space than they do now. Their environments use to be basic, and easy to build being that they were made of cement with metal bars. The poor captive animals were not able to interact with their surroundings, which were detrimental to their health and caused stress. In most cases, animals stress goes unnoticed. An example of this would occur in the aquarium at the Chicago…

Dennis Lynn Rader was a serial killer born on March 9th, 1945 in Pittsburg, Arkansas (see figure one.) He was the oldest of three other brothers born to William and Dorothea Rader. At a young age Rader’s parents moved the family to Wichita, Arkansas. Growing up Dennis Rader was a normal child. He was surprisingly involved with organizations such as the boys scout club and church activities. According to interviews Rader admitted he had thoughts of strangulation as a young child, it is known…

On May 28, 2017, I, Christopher Tener, was working as a police officer with the Wichita State University Police Department (WSUPD), Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas. At approximately 0401 hours, Wichita Police Department (WPD) 143C Officer Barry #2445 requested assistance and was approved by WPD Sergeant Padron #1722 with a disturbance with a weapon at 6140 East 21st North, Suite 200, Wichita KS 67208, Metro USA. WSUPD Sergeant Turenne #135 radioed two WSUPD units were allowed to responds…

The BTK was a very good but sloppy serial killer and it’s only because the lack of modern forensic technology that he was able to kill so many people. He knew not to leave finger prints but left DNA at almost every crime scene. DNA testing in the 1980s was relatively new and took a large sample to create a DNA profile and unlike today where the tests can be done within a day, there weren’t as many crime labs that could process the DNA. The Crime Scene investigators had a lot of evidence to…

K-Rad is the stage name of a friend of mine who writes, records and performs original hip-hop music. While they are one of my friends, the rapper K-Rad has always interested me. K-Rad, in my opinion, is a piece of who my friend is. K-Rad obviously comes from something deeper down, something completely honest and straight forward. They are just a fraction of who my friend is, but that does not make them any less than my real friend. I decided I should interview my friend about K-Rad to learn more…

The BTK Killer media hype began in 1974 when the Otero family of four was brutally murdered in their own home on January 15th. This marked the beginning of living in fear and confusion for the next thirty years. Joseph Sr., his wife and two children were all home during the day. Three more children were at school, and one of them would come home to find his family. In the early morning hours, Rader invaded the home and held everyone at gunpoint and ordered everyone into a bedroom to be tied up.…

because it gave him excitement he had never felt before and an insane adrenaline rush. Rader joined the Air Force in 1966 when he was 21 years old. He became a Sergeant and was stationed at the Tachikawa Air Base in Japan for a majority of the time that he served. Around this time, he began to have sexual relations with prostitutes that were found near the base. He went back home to Wichita, Kansas in 1970 and married Paula Dietz shortly after his return. Dietz and Rader moved to Park City where…

“Lyddie” is a novel written by Katherine Paterson in 1991. The novel is a fictional story with situations that are based on the real life events that happened in American factory jobs in the 1800s. In the story, ten year old Lyddie and her younger brother Charlie are children who lived on a farm with their mother and father, however, Lyddie and Charlie are sent out to be hired as servants to pay for the family farm’s debts. Lyddie, being the strong willed and determined girl she is, desires to…

City-states of the ancient world were one of the first political entities with democratic governance. Part of the democratic process is authorizing individuals to make decisions, holding these individuals accountable, and for these individual to be responsive to the needs of the community (Pitkin, 1957). Today, cities have low levels of democratic participation that hold elected officials accountable and authorize them to have the power to make a decision. At the same time, a majority of the…

the User-Friendly Budget may not create further citizen engagement based upon the research. Research has shown that by studying the budget process in all 50 states, we ended up with a wide variety of requirements. The only similarity that appears through this study was that state governments are primarily only concerned with the first step of informing the public. There is no requirement or mandate beyond this to narrow the gap between government's creation of the budget document and citizen…