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    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

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    Sadism is defined as the derivation of sexual pleasure from the infliction of pain, suffering and/or humiliation upon another person. The pain and suffering of the victim, which may be both physical and psychological, is pivotal to the sexual arousal and pleasure. According to Bernard (1933) sadism hence represents a pathological intensification of the masculine mental character. Characteristics of sadism according to DSM IV (2000) is as follows: having over a period of at least 6 months, recurrent

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    Criminal profiling is progressively valuable in criminal investigations, as this aids in distinguishing criminal behavior. Criminal profiling additionally helps in confining the investigation, as there is an accentuation on the behavior, character, and identities of criminals. For example, the profiling of Bobby Joe Long and Dennis Lynn Rader provide unique factors of the criminals even as they were captured considerably later than expected. Indeed, criminal profiling is efficient, it is difficult

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    Dennis Lynn Rader was born on March 9, 1945 in Pittsburgh, Kansas. His mother, Dorothea Mae Cook, and father, William Elvin Rader, had three sons in addition to Dennis. In 1975, he married Paula Dietz, and they had one son and one daughter. Throughout his childhood, Dennis displayed signs of what he would become later in life. In reports, as well as his own confession, he tortured animals and had a fetish with women 's underwear. Dennis, also known as the BTK killer, had at least ten victims

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    When you hear the words serial killer, you instantly think about people like Jeffrey Dahmer, Ed Gein, Ted Bundy, or Charles Manson. You don 't think about a family man with a wife and two children, county board member, President of the church congregation council, or a Cub Scout leader. Dennis Rader possessed all of these shining attributes. He also possessed a dark secret. This secret had festered in him from an early age and grew as he got older. Dennis Rader had fantasies about bondage, control

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    In a little over a couple of years that Lil Herb/G Herbo been in the Hip-Hop industry, he has made a contribution and an impact on the Chicago neighborhood he grew up in, and several other parts of the world. He has done several songs with at the time up and coming Chicago rappers and some music with bigger names. Accomplishing the goal of eventually sell his own albums. Herbert Wright III (born October 8, 1995), better known by his stage name G Herbo (formerly known as Lil Herb) is

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    Ms. Teresa Keller addressed the Oklahoma City Service Center move to the Will Rogers Building. We have eleven claims takers and two supervisors that have moved into the space on the northeast corner of the fourth floor, just north of the Adjudication unit. Brenda Orange is now supervising both Adjudication and the Service Center employees. The move went smoothly, and we are thrilled to have them here. This move saved the agency $90,000 a year. Due to budget constraints the decision was made not

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    Wichita is the largest city in the state of Kansas, with a population of 382,368 as of 2014, and it is part of the the Wichita-Winfield metropolitan area that has a population of 680,398. Wichita is located on the Arkansas River, in the south-central area of the state. The city got its start as a trading post along the Chisholm Trail in the 1860s, and it was incorporated in 1870. Wichita’s nickname, Cowtown, came about as it became a key stop for cattle drives heading north from Texas to reach railroads

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    (2007). Domestic violence abusers: A descriptive study of the characteristics of defenders in protection from abuse orders in Sedgwick County, Kansas, Journal of Family Violence, 22, 11-119. doi: 10.1007/s10896-006-9047-x The research on the peer reviewed journal article were conducted by Etter and Birzer. The experts collected their data information from Sedgwick County, Kansas Protection from Abuse court. The main research questions that Etter and Birzer studied in the study were the demographic

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    Kansas is a beautiful state full of landforms including; Ozark Plateau, Great Plains, Cherokee Lowlands, Osage Cuestas, Flint Hills and Glaciated Region. These landforms spread from Elgin, Kansas to Summerfield and Kanorado, Kansas to Opolis. Kansas may not be the biggest state, but it is the Heartland. Some of Kansas’s top attractions include; Sedgwick County Zoo, Deanna Rose Children’s farmstead, Cosmosphere, Strataca, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Boot Hill Museum, Lake Shawnee, and Oz Museum

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