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Kansas Symphony
I went to the Kansas City symphony on the 14th day of October, and experienced something that I might not have ever experienced in my life. I went with some of my close school friends, but while I was there listening and watching the orchestra, I felt a seclusion as if the orchestra was playing for me. First the orchestra began to play Kyrie, music that I could understand the meaning of just by
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Sex in the City: Kansas City Edition
Sex in the City: Kansas City Edition For any of us who have ever experienced the harsh reality of dating, we find out soon enough that "happily ever after" does not come as easily as they do in fairy tales. The truth of the matter is we may have to exhaust ourselves with quite a few uneventful, "What was I thinking", "I must have been really desperate", rendering dates before we find our fairy tale
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Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas In 1950 the Reverend Oliver Brown of Topeka, Kansas, wanted to enroll his daughter, Linda Brown, in the school nearest his home (Lusane 26). The choices before him were the all-white school, only four blocks away, or the black school that was two miles away and required travel (26). His effort to enroll his daughter was spurned (26). In 1951, backed by the NAACP Legal Defense and
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Ken Ferguson: Kansas City Ceramics
Ken Ferguson is a famous Kansas City ceramicist. He was born in 1938 in Illinois. Ferguson's pieces often resemble ancient artwork and themes. Most of the pieces are high fire works or salt fired. His current studio is in Shawnee. Under his influence, the Kansas City Art Institute became on of the best in the country. He was named one of the twelve greatest living potters in the world. His connection to Kansas City is
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Realistic Emotions in Kansas
Realistic Emotions in "Kansas" People experience many emotions throughout their everyday lives. No matter where we come from, or who we are, we all experience the same basic feelings of human emotion that carry us along the ups and downs of everyday life. It is safe to say that most of us have probably been in a situation where we have felt scared or worried, and maybe we even regret the way we handled that
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Kansas City Zephryhills Baseball Team
Kansas City(KC) Zephyrs Baseball, Inc. Bill Ahern had a difficult judgment he had to make being an arbitrator in a dispute between the Owner-Player Committee and the Professional Baseball Players Association. The main issue Bill had to arbitrate was to resolve the profitability of the major league baseball teams. The players did scrutinize the owners' statements and felt that the owners were hiding profits through "accounting tricks" and these statements did not precisely reflect the
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How a Nebraska Boy Built an Island Empire with Other People's Money-Jeffrey Prosser
HOW A NEBRASKA BOY BUILT AN ISLAND EMPIRE WITH OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY-JEFFREY PROSSER Article Summary Jeffrey Prosser grew up in Falls City, Nebr. (pop. 5,000). He drove a bulldozer and spliced cable for the telephone company where his father worked. He got an accounting degree at the University of Nebraska. He went to the Caribbean at age 25 on behalf of some Nebraska investors interested in buying an alumina plant in St. Thomas. The purchase
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Fireman Working in South Kansas City - Reflection
1. As a young fireman working in south Kansas City we would respond on a weekly bias too an apartment building for cooking fires. This apartment complex was known for extremely poor mostly Mexican occupants. The most common cause of the fires was old hotplates that things like clothing would fall on and start fires. We decided to focus on the area with fire prevention and education marking. During this time we discovered that the
Rating:Essay Length: 521 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: April 15, 2018