Detroit

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…

Most of my life, I thought Detroit was the worst city in Michigan and it couldn’t possibly get much worse, until I watched the documentary ‘Flint town’. Flint town is a documentary that follows the Flint police department and explains their undiscovered struggles and difficulties with decreasing resources, crumbling infrastructure, and of course violence caused by criminals along with the water crisis caused by lead in the piping that supplies Flint their water. This left thousands without fresh…

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…

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…

Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital and the community needs of the Downriver Area. Henry Ford Hospital serves the needs of the Downriver Area, located in the Southeast part of Wayne County. The Downriver community was impacted in a negative way by the economy and has shown a loss in population for seven years in a row. “Wayne County is still large and the last Census shows the population at 1.76 million residents (Kasuba, 2015).” “The U.S. Census Bureau shows the median household income to be…

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…