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    forward in your idea, because there is something on the market that is great already. Currently, I work for The Kansas City Star also known as The Star. I’ve been working for The Star for under a year and beginning to understand the complications companies face when they are not being innovative. When you think about the company, The Star is the largest media company in Kansas City. They are known for the paper print outs and ads that they run on the Sunday newspaper. For years, people depended

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    “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway, was the purpose of writing the text to help him and other soldiers learn how to cope with life after wartime. Ernest Hemingway graduated from high school in 1917 and moved to Chicago to take a position at the Kansas City Star. Shortly after that, he enlisted in the war and went to Italy as a Red Cross ambulance driver. During his stay at the Italian front, he was seriously wounded while assisting a soldier and spent several weeks in a Milan hospital (Mazzeno). One

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    Human trafficking, the newest form of slavery, had spread across the world, even in Kansas City (UNODC). Human trafficking is a form of forced labor, whether it may be working on farms to working as a prostitute (Kansas City Star). Human trafficking is considered one of the main criminal industries in the world (Polaris Project). Also, there are many forms of trafficking. The most common are sex trafficking or forced labor (Polaris Project). In many situations, traffickers are sex trafficking people

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    The general argument made by author Kansas City Star in their work, Should colleges rethink quest for superkids? Is that kind and considerate kids are not getting accepted to Ivy league colleges in favor of super driven kids. More specifically Kansas City Star, argues that kids with average GPAs but do lots of charity work or care for their family by having multiple jobs or caring for a sick relative. These kids are doing charity work out of their hearts no because it looks good on a college application

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    skies and 49 degree temperatures of April 12, 1904 created a spring afternoon which drew youngsters outdoors. For Roy Martin and other white members of the Kansas City Kansas High School team, the balmy weather meant practice would be held at Kerr Park that afternoon. Eighteen year old Louis Gregory, who was not a student in Kansas City Kansas High School, was heading to a pond near Kerr Park with several other black youths. Around 4:00 P.M. the paths of these two groups crossed. What happened

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    Hallmark Cards afford many an opportunity to celebrate a multitude of occasions with expressions that speak to the heart. Joyce C. Hall, founder of Hallmark Cards Incorporated, started the company in 1910 in Kansas City, Mo. The very early years of establishing his business Hall presented wholesale products created and manufactured by others to gift shops, drugstores and bookstores. Today, Hallmark Cards Inc. produces and manufactures a variety of products. Hoover’s database estimates Hallmark

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    Jacksons many highlights from his years with the Kansas City Royals. Bo Jackson was active in baseball from 1986 to 1994. (Bo Jackson Statistics and History | Baseball-Reference.com). Of those nine years he played five of them at the Kansas City Royals. Based on his personal stats, the titles and awards he has won with the team, and his activities off of the baseball field throughout those years makes Bo Jackson

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    Kaufman Stadium, home of my favorite team the Kansas City Royals. With the Royals now advancing into the final four of teams they will venture to Canada to play the hottest team in baseball the Toronto Blue Jays. I want to discuss the differences between both places as I have been to both stadiums in my lifetime. 2. The first difference between the two stadiums is that Toronto is a dome and also can open up the roof during nice weather. Kansas City is simply an outdoor stadium and does not have

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    they played for, the position they played the most and was the best at, and how they affected the world. In the fourth and final section, Famous baseball teams will be listed, with the founders of the team, the year they were founded, and one of the star players. The writer hopes that the reader will learn many interesting facts while reading this research paper.  Games Baseball Was Based On              Rounders is the main game that baseball was based on. It is a game from Ireland where the offence

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    graduating from high school in 1917, he became a reporter for Kansas City Star, but he left his job within a few months to serve as a volunteer ambulance driver in Italy during World War I(1914-1918). He later transferred to the infantry and was wounded severely. His adventurous life brought him close to death several times: in the spanish civil war when shells burst inside his hotel room; in World War II when

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