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of the contaminated water still remain. Along with this, Detroit also faces environmental racism due to its majority African-American population. Many factories and roads are built near minority communities instead of near richer neighbourhoods. The environmental injustice that occurs around the state of Michigan is mostly environmental racism due to the primarily African-American population in both Flint and Detroit, Michigan. In Detroit, the population is 82.7% African-American according…

April 25, 2014 a press conference was held to discuss turning off the Detroit water supply to flint. The city of Detroit gets its water supply from Lake Huron. The government decided to cut off the water supply from a major lake to a local river in flint which could cause nothing but trouble. Flint got rid of the pipe that connected the water supply from Detroit. To make sure that flint would not receive water from Detroit ever again, the emergency manager sold the pipe for 1.3 million…

Detroit thru 1701-1760 In the beggning Detroits main idea for it was to make a stronghold in it since the river would help defend a stronghold and also help with trade. The man who was going to carry out this plan was , Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, to do this he convinced his father King Louis' Minister of Marine, of the postives of making a settlement here. Even though this started in 1697 to help stop the British from moving west ward the plan was not achived till July 24, 1701 as there where…

the difficulties of becoming comfortable with the population, the diversity, and the college life in general that Wayne State provides. I made the leap to a big city called Detroit from a small city called my home. I live in a small urban city, downriver, called Wyandotte. It is twenty-four minutes Southeast of Detroit with a population of 35,000. Coming into Wayne State University where the population of the school…

families did move into middle-class African American neighborhoods, and, in response, many of these same middle-class families moved from the city to suburbs as well. Michigan’s tradition of home rule also contributes to the fragmentation of the metro Detroit area. Home rule provides a certain degree of autonomous power delegated to sub-units of government by the state, which limits the amount of interference state governments can have in local government matters. Like many municipalities…

Cyrus McCormick invented another significant agricultural invention that revolutionized farming, the mechanical reaper. He invented the reaper so it would cut the grain. It came in handy because before this, people would have to do it by hand and it took several hours. He spent all of his time in his father's workshop trying to figure out stuff to do A lot of other people tried to invent the reaper and they kept failing and couldn't figure it out. In 1832 Cyrus tried to make the reaper himself.…

On Thursday, July 28, 2013, Detroit, Michigan became the largest city in America ever to file for bankruptcy. Established in 1701, detroit was founded by the french explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and a party of settlers. Not one of these men had any idea that Detroit would evolve into the thriving hub of the car industry in centuries to come. In 1756, the smallpox virus and a famine threaten the many lives of the settlers in Detroit, but did not decimate the population enough to cause…

Recently, Toronto, one of the biggest city in Canada, has traffic congestion problems which faces a lot of big cities around the Toronto. According to Transportation reporter of the star ( Kalinowski. T, 2016), Toronto ranked 64 out of 174 big cities in 38 countries and was the second most congested city among six Canadian centres, Kingston, Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, Winnipeg and Parkland County, ranked on the TomTom index. All six fell slightly on the index from the previous year. In North…

In my opinion, the dodge brothers are two great, American innovators who deserve admiration. The Dodge brother worked through much tragedy in their short, unfortunate lives, and made many breakthroughs in the auto industry, impacts that last to this day. From loosing kids(1), to both dieing below the age of 30(2), they had very tragic lives. However, they defied odds and made a lasting name in the auto industry. First off, the brothers faced growing up in poverty. In their early life, the…

Introduction Detroit is the largest city in the state of Michigan in the United States. Thanks to its excellent location on the Detroit River, a strait that connects the Great Lakes system, manufacturing brought prosperity to the city. Detroit´s wealth came mainly from auto manufacturing which gave the city nicknames like Motown or Motor City. Despite the fact that it was one of the world´s greatest industrial centres in the 1950s, it is now considered to be America´s most dysfunctional city.…