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We hope your year has been filled with special opportunities to share joy and celebrate life, because in the blink of an eye everything can change. Don’t wait to live! From the tragedies on national news to the heart aches of friends that hit closer to home, we are reminded about how precious our days and moments are. Those moments that fill our memory bank with joy. So take the trip, spend time with your loved ones, laugh a little more and make the rest of your life the best of your life! The

Although Truman Capote writes this narrative to tell about a murder, he must first describe and enhance the victims to elaborate on their history; therefore, Capote enhances just how senseless crimes can be. Capotes tactic is driven by his empathy towards the event of the wronging that took place at the Clutters house, he utilizes amplification to magnify how senseless the true-crime was and to describe the significance. Capote was much more focused on the development of the characters. He draws

Perry Smith and Dick Hickock’s murder of the Clutter family from Holcomb, Kansas in 1959 shook the nation, and the graphic reports of the murder scene resulted in overwhelmingly tremendous anxiety and the devastating loss of trust in communities. In the nonfiction novel In Cold Blood, Truman Capote demonstrates how a lack of clues from the crime scene impeded the the nationwide hunt for the cold-blooded murderers and encouraged a growth of uninformed, panicked claims about what the criminals were

“In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote is an interesting and gut-wrenching book. It is written about a murder that took place in Holcomb, Kansas in 1959. It features two murderers, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. The two men planned to rob and then kill the Clutter family: Herbert Clutter, Bonnie Clutter, Nancy Clutter and Kenyon Clutter. Dick Hickock got the idea to rob and murder the family when a fellow cellmate, Floyd Wells, told Dick about how he used to work for the wealthy family. Floyd also shared

When we hear about a killing on the news, our natural instincts are to immediately antagonize the killers. More likely than not, we hate the killers, and hope they get a vengeful prison sentence. In Truman Capote’s true crime non-fiction book, In Cold Blood, we learn about the murders that took place in Holcomb. The story is about much more than the slaying of a respectful family, its focus is on the killers, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. One of Capote’s main purposes in the book is to convey the

pushed by consumers and the government. Consumers have become more environmentally aware and conscious about their carbon footprint. Additionally, economic conditions and rising gas prices have put pressure on manufacturers to increase gas mileage. In Kansas, gas prices were consistently above three dollars a gallon from 2010 to the end of 2014 (kcgasprices.com). One solution for the issues facing the automotive industry is electric vehicles (EVs). In 2012 President Obama announced the “Electric Vehicles

The best novels are the ones that connects with the reader and just toys with their emotions, as if they too were also in the story by using pathos, the most powerful appeal. This holds true with Truman Capote’s, In Cold Blood and his writing appealing to the reader’s emotions in the portrayal of Perry Edward Smith and Richard “Dick” Eugene Hickock, the two murders with an addition of Capote showing a great deal of favoritism to Perry over Dick. Throughout the novel, Capote uses tone and diction

Wichita Kansas Presidential Breakdown & Election Analysis Who did Wichita vote for? Wichita, Kansas is situated in Sedgwick County. The result was a 56.1% vote for Donald Trump, while Hillary Clinton received 36.9% of the vote. Gary Johnson received 4.9% and Jill Stein received 2.1%. Similarly, the overall Kansas state vote was as follows: 57.2% (Trump), 36.1% (Clinton), 4.7% (Johnson), and 2% (Stein). This is from both Politico and Wichita newspapers. The significance of an overwhelming vote for

experienced hands on some of the main differences. There was a different in culture, as well as a few legal differences. Lots of laws vary drastically from state to state, and this is something very unique to the United States. Once my family moved to Kansas there were a few obvious differences, one of which was the ability to purchase liquor at your grocery store. On the Missouri side one is able to purchase a variety of liquors with no limits on alcohol percentages by volume from grocery stores, and

Mom and Me My mom and I had an unbreakable bond from the day I was born. For starters, her and I were alone. Me, a new born, and a 19 year-old graduate, beginning a new life. Although she was a single mother, we had an amazing amount of support from family. I grew up surrounded by three loving uncles and two magnificent grandparents. So, technically, we weren 't “alone.” But in many ways, it was just her and I, which made us have a relationship many people can 't say they have with their mom, and