Wichita, Kansas Essays

  • Wichita, Kansas and Tornados

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    Wichita, Kansas is a moderately sized city, population just over 372,000 (www.city-data.com, 2011) in the heart of America and was established in 1870 at the junction of the Arkansas Rivers. The railroad arrived in 1872 and the flow of beef and grain from the region to the east began. Today the city is known for another modern transportation enterprise: aviation. The first Cessna Comet airplane was manufactured there in 1917 (www.wichita.gov, 2011). Currently there are many airports and landing fields

  • Personal Narrative Report

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    On 04/23/2018, I, Dillon Dickerson, badge #155, was working as a Patrol Officer for the Wichita State University Police Department, in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas. At approximately 2313 hours dispatch received a call from a concerned friend of a student names Olivia Bradely later identified by Shocker ID A776S542. Dispatch gathered information from the reporting party and then called the squad room. Dispatch advised they were getting a call of a possible suicidal student at Shocker Hall. Dispatch

  • Pitbull Observation

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    On 05/24/17, at 3:24pm, I Deputy Warden N. Christian was dispatched to 153 N. 20th St on a dog at large will point out. I arrived at the location and spoke to complainant. Complainant stated a black pit bull that resided across the street from her was running loose approximately 1 hour prior to my arrival. The pit bull chased two unknown people down the alley, appearing to bite one of them. The complainant didn’t have an exact address of dog owner but pointed out the house the dog lived at.

  • Example Of Narrative Report Sample

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    I, Deputy John Arnold, am a commissioned deputy for the Creek County Sheriff's Office. On June 9, 2016, I was dispatched to Leaps and Bounds Daycare in Sapulpa to make contact with a wanted subject named Kody Whitehead. Whitehead has two outstanding Creek County warrants. While en-route, I was advised that Whitehead left the location driving West towards Hickory Street in a Gold Hyundai Santa Fe with Oklahoma Tag #481BXA. I caught up to the Hyundai at Main Street and Taft Street in Sapulpa

  • Pine Hill Road Accident: A Case Study

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    On December 27, 2015, I, Deputy John Arnold, was dispatched to the area of Pine Hill Road and Highway 48 in Creek County in reference to an auto collision. Creek County Dispatch advised that a male person was walking around near the car bloodied. I spoke to Trooper Bobby Rains and he requested that I go to the scene till he arrived. While en-route to the collision Creek County Dispatch advised that prior to the collision the two occupants of the vehicle were involved in a physical altercation

  • Swartz Creek Incident Report

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    VENUE: S. Seymour Rd. and Kingsley Pvt. / Clayton Township/ Genesee County /State of Michigan DATE & TIME: Thursday, November 11, 2016 time of incident was approximately at 1:00 a.m. INFORMATION: On the above date and time, I Officer Stone, was assisting the City of Swartz Creek on a hit and run PDA at S. Seymour and Kingsley PVT. Genesee County 911 stated that the driver of the pickup that caused the crash fled the scene. The driver of the vehicle that was hit informed Genesee County 911 that

  • The Ideal College

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    In addition, people always argue about which school is best. Wichita State University is a great campus with a lot of substantial academics. However, people always have an ideal college atmosphere that would enjoy. To put it another way, there is always improvements people see to enhance the college experience. Such as Wichita State University compared to an ideal campus environment. As an illustration, let us take a look at Wichita State University academics. They have thee top rankings in all

  • Personal Narrative Essay - Thumbs out

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    destination in mind. Except that I was heading to Kansas City, where I figured jobs were easier to come by, instead of Wichita, 200 miles to the south, where she was living and asking me to go. The following is the story about how I went from Kansas City to Wichita. The why is obvious. She was like sunshine. And so I went to her. It was my first but not last time hitchhiking. I've since hitchhiked from Boston to Georgia. From Philadelphia to Miami, Kansas City to Chicago, Mexico to Vegas, LA to Mexico

  • When The Texas Cattle Boom

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    the railroads in Abilene, Kansas. Joseph McCoy, a stock dealer from Springfield, Illinois, decided a new trail was necessary west of the farms. In 1867, he chose a route that would reach Abilene and the railroads with the least amount of problems. This route was to become well-known as the Chisholm Trail. Jesse Chisholm was a half-breed, a Scotch Cherokee Indian trader, who in 1866 drove a wagon through the Indian territory, known now as Oklahoma, to the Wichita, Kansas, where he had a trading post

  • A Time Of Change:The 1880’s and 1890’s Kansas

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    and 1890’s Kansas As history cascades through an hourglass, the changing, developmental hands of time are shrouded throughout American history. This ever-changing hourglass of time is reflected in the process of maturation undertaken by western America in the late nineteenth century. Change, as defined by Oxford’s Dictionary, is “To make or become different through alteration or modification.” The notion of change is essential when attempting to unwind the economic make-up of Kansas in the 1880’s

  • Personal Statement

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    largest and most active Future Business Leaders of America chapter in the state of Kansas happens to be in my high school. This prestigious title has come from the hard work and determination of students, like myself, to give back to my community. Since my sophomore year, I have held numerous leadership positions in this organization, such as local treasurer for one year, as well as the Wellsville FBLA President, Kansas State Treasurer, and Mountain Plains Regional Vice-President’s Assistant for two

  • What Is Duane Earl Pope's Role In Criminal Justice

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    Duane Earl Pope was born on February 8, 1943 in Roxbury, Kansas. He grew up on a 160-acre farm in Roxbury, the northeast part of McPherson County, Kansas. He was one of eight children. He was athletic and shy as a child, fascinated with tractors and guns. He had no deviant past or childhood; excluding parking tickets and one minor traffic violation, there is no evidence that he had any run-ins with law enforcement. The family was large but did not always have the best relationships due to having

  • Louise Brooks And The Flapper Era

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    Cherryvale, Kansas, Mary Louise Brooks was born. She had two brothers, one sister, and parents, Leonard and Myra Brooks, who was a costume maker and pianist. In 1910, Brooks performed in her first stage role as Tom Thumb’s bride in a Cherryvale church benefit. Over the next few years she danced at men’s and women’s clubs, fairs, and various other gatherings in southeastern Kansas.At ten years old she was already a serious dancer and very much interested in it. In 1920, Brook’s family moved to Wichita, Kansas

  • Exploration Feasibility Study of Kansas’s Central Uplift for Intended use in Stochastic Decision Tree Analysis in New Drilling Programs

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    Kansas’s Central Uplift. The purpose of the study was to see if drilling is justifiable in this region after analyzing Kansas’s Geological Survey lease production database. The Central Uplift has three main reservoir targets (Pennsylvanian age –Lansing/Kansas City, and Ordovician-Arbuckle). Some fields in the area have been producing since pre-1960s. From a project analysis stand point, decision tree methods aide in assigning value to different outcomes from drilling (i.e. dry hole, excellent or poor

  • Jeannie Morris's Brian Piccolo: A Short Season

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    such honors as the national rushing title, Offensive Player of the Year, and a spot on the All American Team. Unknowingly, he was competing with one of his future teammates on the Chicago Bears, Gale Sayers. The "Kansas Comet," (Gale Sayers) attended Kansas State University, in Kansas City KA. They were neck and neck throughout the season, until Piccolo edged Sayers out by less than 100 yards to take the title.

  • Biography of Dwight David Eisenhower

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    business in Abilene, Kansas, they were forced to move to Texas, where Mr. David Eisenhower landed a forty-dollar a month job at a small railroad there. Back in Abilene, a new creamery plant was built and an old friend of Mr. Eisenhower asked him to move back and work for him. It did not pay much more than his job in Texas, but the chance of advancement was better. In the spring of 1891, the Eisenhower family boarded a train and left for Kansas. They lived in a small house in Kansas on South East Second

  • Cold Weather And Snowstorms In The Winter Of 1880-1881

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    settlers prepared to protect their livestock. Cattle turned their tails to the wind and "drifted" for miles across the open range until they dropped from hunger or exhaustion. Losses were high, up to 75% in some areas, and consequently some large western Kansas cattle companies were bankrupted. Business and rail traffic were paralyzed for weeks. The force of eleven Union Pacific locomotives was unable to "buck" through and cut in the snow near ...

  • Analysis Of The Chapter Of In Cold Blood

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    ' The Investigation In Cold Blood Alvin Dewey, of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, is in charge of the investigation. Dewey is described as 'professionally qualified to cope with even as intricate an affair as the apparently motiveless, all but clueless Clutter murders. ' The crime is personal to Dewey

  • Book Review Of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood?

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    Once upon a time, there was a normal family who lived in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas. They were the image of the perfect family. The father, Mr. Clutter was “the community 's most widely known citizen, prominent both there and in Garden City” and “He was currently chairman of the Kansas Conference of Farm Organizations, and his name was everywhere respectfully recognized among Midwestern agriculturists, as it was in certain Washington offices.” (In cold blood, p. 6). His two younger children

  • Hickock And The Clutter Death

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    man be punished for a crime he had involvement in, but did not technically commit? This question has been asked for decades over the Clutter Murders of 1959. Richard “Dick” Hickock was the man to convince Perry Smith to travel with him to Holcomb, Kansas to pay a visit to Herb Clutter and family. Although Hickock was the one to plan the entire visit, which included robbing and murdering the family, he never physically laid a finger on the trigger of the shotgun or knife that killed Herb Clutter and