Detroit

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…

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…

Makayla Callan Helmic Writing February 22, 2015 Flint Water Crisis Flint has been having big problems with water since 2014, causing lead poisoning and making people sick. All of this is because they want to save money or so people thought. Is it true that Flint wanted to save money? That question was answered by an email from Motor City Muckraker which shows that they would have saved 800 million dollars in 30 years than switching to the Karegnondi Water Authority. People say that Governor…

Task Force in Detroit discovered that approximately 18.9% of land in Detroit met the definition of blight (Gilbert, 5). “Eliminating Detroit’s blight will dramatically improve the next chapter of the city’s story and implementation of a bold and better vision for the city’s future”(Gilbert, 1). Detroit is in desperate need of a large-scale project of urban renewal and redevelopment of blighted and vacant land to solve the accumulative setback. The construction of the new Detroit Red Wings…

Milan and Chicago are my two favorites cities. Have you ever wondered what Chicago and Milan have in common? Both of the cities have a strong economy and a big population, but Chicago is a modern city and Milan is old, but a little modernized. The Italian city, Milan, is recognized as the capital of design and culture whereas the American city, Chicago, is known as the Windy City. Contrasting and comparing Milano and Chicago will be based on their culture, architecture, and topography. Both…

Seth Ford Imagine being the youngest of seven children and moving 3 times throughout your life. I have gotten to know Seth Ford briefly over the past two years. Some characteristic that I’ve picked up on include, never quitting and a team first mentality. Throughout my interview with Seth I obtained information relating to his family, school life, and his personal interests and hobbies. At 16 years old, Seth is the youngest of seven children in his family. Seth was born February 26, 2001 in…

Subsequent to watching the video, I was exceptionally stunned and I couldn't get over the feeling for some time. The video demonstrates to us the truth and current states of two states: Oakland and Detroit. I was shocked in light of the fact that I contemplated the issues that they are confronting at this moment; notwithstanding, the truth was much more regrettable than I suspected. Despite the fact that we are living in a similar day and age, I could discover that each place has its own…

Birmingham is one of the wealthiest cities in the state of Michigan, located in one of the wealthiest counties in the nation. People come from all over to the popular shopping area downtown. Maple Road intersects Woodward Avenue at the heart of downtown Birmingham, where many of the businesses are clustered. Maple is one of the main roads used by shoppers to access the downtown. I regularly run through Birmingham and down Maple so I know how important the road is to people trying to enter the…

Gentrifying the city of Detroit is a good thing because the city needs to show improvement, develop into a better place ,and poor population numbers. Although lots of people may say that gentrification is an awful thing for Detroit, they always seem to miss the flaws about Detroit that needs to be handled, but there are bad things that could be horrible for the city of Detroit It is observed that Detroit has had a recent reduction in the population. Resulting to the decrease in population…

the state of the country’s economy that has left so many without hope, unable to sustain the ideals of the people. With each passing year, more and more job positions are sent overseas at the behest of companies wishing to save cost. The city of Detroit is hit hardest by this trend, as recorded in the book “The Fall of an American Rome”, which details the huge loss of manufacturing jobs within the city, a drop from 290,000 positions in the 1960s, to merely 27,000 in recent years (Skrabec). The…