University of Kansas

Intro- As graduating high school, I always had the desire to up my career to be a successful and financial man within the future. A week later, I started to think how am I going to live on my own. Where will I stay at for my existing 4 years or maybe years. So I did my research on the Kansas State University housing. As I am looking through my options, I was interested for the Kramer complex’s. My mom told me is it safe, healthy, and in good living conditions to live there? When I kept scrolling down it showed how it will have safety and good health conditions throughout the complex. According to the Kansas State University .020 Forming a Committee, Every College must have an active safety committee. This must be a goal of each Dean. If the…

Society is constantly changing as well the individual perspectives in a changeable society. One of the more exciting aspects of being a member of a changeable society is the continue discovery of what is going on and what we see. Yet from time to time, I step back and try to figure out how to perceive social changes. I am a victim like everyone else of social changes that contribute to the issue of socioeconomic class so much that these social changes shape our Kansas State University community…

Sam Brownback has made a lasting impression on Kansas, however not necessarily for the right reasons. He thinks he is going at this the right way, and making the right decisions but he is actually ruining our state. We need to get somebody else in office who is going to think about all Kansans, not just the rich. Although, Sam Brownback had to have done something right to get elected as our governor in the first place, we do not want to re-elect him because he is leading the “March to Zero”…

got me intrigued as I was in high school searching for a major that I would to eventually incorporate into my career and lifestyle. Kansas State University was one of the schools I enjoyed visiting as I was visiting colleges and here I am a junior, applying for practicum. First, I will focus on myself and how I ended up here at Kansas State Polytechnic. Next, I will provide my insight on what a social worker is and what I see in my future. Finally, I will provide my experience in…

accomplish. Because of this she became famous.  Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. In her young life, Amelia climbed trees, collected bugs, and hunted rats with a .22 rifle. She lived with her grandparents up to the age of 12, where she attended a private school. During the summer months Amelia would travel to Kansas City, Missouri where her lawyer father lived. At age 12 Amelia and her sister, Muriel, went to live with their parents in Des Moines. Unfortunately…

border war, or bleeding Kansas. In what many historians believed is a war over slavery and freedom. Parke Pierson stated, “it can be argued that the Civil War actually began in 1854 when blood stained the prairie grass of the Kansas Territory.”2 Questions that arise from bleeding Kansas is how and why it happened, how bloody it was, and in what ways it affected the United States of America. “Bleeding Kansas was a violent clash over slavery in a place that had few slaves,” said Nicole Etcheson…

First, I want to contact and apply to Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America in Pittsburg, Kansas to start volunteering as a big sister within the next six months. I feel like this goal is specific as it names the specific organization as role I desire when I start volunteering. The goal is measurable based on first contacting, then getting an application, and finally how I move through the application process during the time I allowed myself. The attainability of the goal is there because it…

Everything’s Coming Up Capote Holcomb, Kansas is a normal small town with a restaurant, post-office, and its very own school system. In In Cold Blood Truman Capotes describes the small town and its simple atmosphere with uses of selection of detail, imagery, and structure, while setting up for a dramatic and twisting change. “Not that there is a lot to see” is the first impression Capote gives of Holcomb to the readers. But he seems to contradict himself considering the majority of…

Capote points out that even in the small, religious town of Holcomb “…class distinctions are … clearly observed…” (Capote 34). The class distinction separates who can have the American Dream and who cannot. Capote reveals the inequality in America and how people will quickly be isolated if their beliefs do not match the norm. Class distinctions differentiate how people live their lives. The lower a person ranks the more their ideals separate from the norm. After Perry’s father discovers Perry in…

Truman Capote’s 1965 novel In Cold Blood, was based upon the true events of the Clutter family murder case, that occurred in the year 1959, in the very modest town of Holcomb, Kansas. The story revolves around the two insensitive murderers, Perry Edward Smith and Richard Eugene Hickock, whom have had the past of growing up in completely opposite home environments from one another, and the detective Alvin Dewey, who goes out of his ways to try his best to capture these criminals. Although Perry…