Detroit

Struggles for the Soul of an American City’ by Luke Bergmann is a book about the research that he conducted in the year 2000, in Detroit. “Detroit is known as one of the poorest countries in the US. A third of residents live in poverty. Detroit’s neighborhoods are highly divided along race and class lines, and are the most segregated in the country. The East and West sides of Detroit are almost exclusively African American and low income, for example, while the outer suburbs are often…

When I first met the man that would become my husband, I told him that there was something that he needed to know about me. “I don’t jump”, I said. “I don’t throw, hit, or catch and I definitely, definitely don’t run”. It was important for me to tell him this, as this meant that at cookouts there would be no horseshoes or volleyball, there would be no office picnic baseball and there definitely, definitely would be no charity 5K runs or any other races. All of this was true, until I decided…

Campus Martius: Where are we going? Campus Martius is an important gathering place in the heart of Detroit. More importantly, it is the signature place for Detroit’s major events. Detroit Free Press writer Zlati Meyer states that Campus Martius helps revitalize the city of Detroit by getting people outside and enjoying their city and generating new business, restaurants and cafes (Meyer). With the park undergoing constant renovations such as adding new street side restaurants and creating new…

This idea could even be applied to “flipping” neighborhoods. During the foreclosure crisis, many people lost their jobs in my community. I live in a community outside the city of Detroit which was hit particularly hard. Our community job market was very automotive-based and when the car companies started to struggle, so did our community. Many people lost their jobs. These people were assembly line workers, management, executives-the…

into bankruptcy in 2009. This 2011 Super Bowl advertisement makes a phenomenal impact, reviving their broken brand, drawing buyers back, and reminding the nation that hope and resilience can rise from the ashes. The commercial opens with shots of Detroit seen through a car window as it drives…

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…

dangerous cities are Detroit, Flint, Saginaw, and Jackson. All cities encounter different crimes, but these 4 cities have the top rates in Michigan. Some types of crimes these cities face experience are murder, non-negligent manslaughter, property crime, rape, robbery, motor vehicle theft, and arson. You may want to research your next getaway spot in Michigan before visiting. The population decrease in Detroit has made a big impact on the crime rates. As many know Detroit is one of the most…

From the first report we have learned a bit about the harms of shipping jobs overseas and how it causes harm to the U.S economy now it this second we can get into the juicy details and help explain the problems of off sourcing jobs to other countries. From the last report we have learned that America has lost about total of 8 million jobs in just 30 years not only is this bad for the American economy, but it also makes America look bad since with less jobs usually tend to crime which cause…

Purple Gang, the The Purple Gang was a loosely-bound Jewish criminal gang in prohibition-era Detroit, MI. It began as a group of children of Eastern European immigrants from Detroit’s lower east side who were taken under the wing by mobsters. As the children grew up, they progressed from petty crimes to armed robbery and extortion. After The Damon Act of 1916 prohibited the sale of alcohol in Michigan, the burgeoning Purple Gang focused on hijacking shipments of bootlegged Canadian whisky; when…

John Francis Dodge was born on October 25, 1864, in Niles, Michigan. Four years later, Horace Elgin Dodge was born on May 17, 1968. Their parents were Ezekiel and Anna Dodge. They had a sister named Delphina Dodge. Battle Creek, Port Huron, and Detroit, Michigan are all cities that they lived in.…