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At Home, In Kansas City
The poems that make up the substantive portion of this dissertation have been organized into a sequence made up of two large sets of poems. The poems of the first set, called "Essays," neither describe nor evaluate the objects, individuals, actions, or events of their titles: rather, each poem …
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Northeast Kansas City: a walkable district
… that is very prominent in large cities, such as Kansas City. Its purpose is to combine many aspects of daily life into a singular network that enhances accessibility and quality of life. New Urbanism consists of many components that create a successful community. This study focuses on walkability …
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Politics and Pandemic in 1918 Kansas City
… deadliest pandemic in history and citizens of Kansas City died in larger numbers due to politics. Kansas City government was under the control of two powerful political bosses, Democrats Tom Pendergast and Joe Shannon, who had an uneasy agreement to split the cities' patronage jobs equally …
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The Beginnings of Catholicity in Kansas City, Kansas
… attempts to record the past century of Catholicity in Kansas City, Kansas will find his sources varied and scattered. The period from 1863 to 1903 has been sketched by Monsignor Kuhls in his pamphlet, "Reminiscences of Forty Years", written in 1903. Additional facts are contained, not in Church …
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Intra-urban migration in the Kansas City metropolitan area
Typescript (photocopy).
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Creating an imperial city: Kansas City in the 1920s
This thesis is a community study of Kansas City in the 1920s as a city working to assume a prominent place within the emerging American market empire. It begins by exploring the role that men and women played in altering the worldview of the city, followed by an analysis of the way in which the …
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StoneLion: A Narrative of a Kansas City Puppet Theatre
StoneLion: A Narrative of a Kansas City Puppet Theatre documents a vital Kansas City, Missouri, non-profit arts organization from its inception to the year 2014. The thesis includes the company’s mission, its evolution from a profit to a non-profit theatre, the process of building and booking …
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Forgotten landmark: the Municipal Auditorium of Kansas City, Missouri
… Auditorium is a grand civic building in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, which encompasses venues for theater, music and athletics. Designed by Gentry, Voskamp, and Neville, and associated architects, Hoit, Price, and Barnes, and built between 1933-1936 during the Depression, the structure is a …
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Women Artistic Directors in Kansas City and Their Processes
… directors who have helped form the recent Kansas City theatre landscape. Cynthia Levin, Jeanne Beechwood, Sidonie Garrett, Karen Paisley, and Heidi Van are pivotal artistic directors with unique perspectives. These women have opened doors to allow other women to flourish in arts leadership …
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The Laboring Irish: Developing Community and Industry in Early Kansas City
By 1880, the Kansas City community had experienced phenomenal growth. Since 1820, the new city had evolved from a fur trading post, an outfitting center for western trails, a trading center for Native Americans, a center for railroad construction and distribution, and became the second largest …
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Great Expectations: Women's Help Wanted Ads In Kansas City, 1920-1936
… Wanted ads (employees seeking work) from the Kansas City Star between 1920 and 1936. Kansas City is at once a typical midwestern city and also one with unique industries due to its important position in the national transportation network. The research looks at the ads qualitatively, as …
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An Educational History of Immigrant and Refugee Children in Kansas City
… children who resettled with their families in Kansas City, Missouri, after the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965. The dissertation concludes with a chapter about the opening of a new school in August 2021 called the Global Academy that was specifically designed to address the needs of …
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Movement Before the Movement: Black Hospitals in Kansas City, 1890-1940
… growth. The Black population in the Greater Kansas City Area expanded, creating the need for Black physicians and medical facilities. Segregation prevented Black physicians from treating white patients, and Black patients were barred from receiving medical care at public health facilities. In …
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Psychometrische Prüfung der deutschen Version des Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ)
Die deutsche Übersetzung des Kansas City Cardiomy¬opathy Questionnaire KCCQ wird in dieser Studie an einer Stichprobe von N=234 chronisch herzinsuffizienten Patienten der Herzinsuffizienzambulanz der Universität Würzburg hinsicht¬lich ihrer psychometrischen Eigenschaften untersucht. An einer …
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Health care access of Hispanic immigrants in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area
… affect health care access for Hispanics in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The Hispanic population is the largest and fastest growing immigrant groups in the US and warrants special attention because Hispanics are less likely to complete high school and more likely to live in poverty, be …
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A Spatial Analysis of Homicide and Dangerous Buildings in Kansas City, Missouri
… locations of homicides that occurred in Kansas City, Missouri in 2016 and dangerous buildings as identified by the municipality. Examination indicates independent clustering of homicides and dangerous buildings and this clustering occurs in the same locational space within the city. …
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Determinants of Earnings for Asian Immigrants in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area
… Asian Indian, Vietnamese, and Chinese in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. Drawing from the 2000 Census 5% sample, I first examine the attributes of the three Asian groups and non-Hispanic whites to see how the possible determinants of earnings are presented among them. I then compare average …
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Analysis of tailpipe particulate matter emission from a sampling of Kansas City vehicles
… the requirements of the EPA’s model: MOVES. The Kansas City PM Characterization Study tested more than 500 light-duty gasoline cars and trucks on a dynamometer in summertime and wintertime temperatures with four different modal PM2.5 instruments.</p> <p>Using data reduction techniques used to …
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The effect of social service agencies on crime rates in Kansas City, Missouri
… disorganization and subculture on crime in Kansas City, Missouri. Variables from social disorganization and subculture theory are combined in order to spatially and statistically examine the variation in the crime rates across the Kansas City area, and if these changes correlate with the …
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A study of the repeater in the elementary schools of Kansas City, Missouri
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Sociology, 1919. ; Includes bibliographical references.
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