Detroit

no insurance coverage is never something we wish to see in our dreams but this is the nightmare depicted in Detropia. As the city’s “population increased at a fast rate” (10, 3), due to the auto industry, Detroit was the city to be in since much was growing, but things eventually changed. Detroit went bankrupt and downsizing was heavily implemented as a means for recovery. Street lights were cut, leaving people in the dark and room for crime and fear to grow. Bus lines were no longer in use and…

Flint, Michigan was a town once filled with a working Middle class and a booming economy but now has a high poverty level and an economy that is close to nonexistent, leaving the town to switch water sources to the local river because it reduced cost. When we were asked to research, and hold a class discussion on the situation going on I was excited to hear fellow classmate’s opinions because I was aware of was going on. Although, I knew about the situation in Flint and could infer that this…

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.…

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…

Detroit is a growing city full of art and culture. Unfortunately, a majority of the surrounding suburban areas of Detroit are not as open-minded to the world of art and design. This is a problem because Art can bring hope to communities. The College for Creative Studies we know today was once a studio space for artists to work and develop their ideas. It was called the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts. Recreating an artist maker space/community center like the Detroit Society of Arts and…

politics on racism in postwar Detroit. According to Sugrue, “...most important in shaping the concept of race in the postwar period, I argue, were local and national politics.”(9) While both local and national politics played key roles in the shaping of postwar Detroit, local politics had the greatest impact, good or bad. Under pressure from national groups, such as the NAACP and UAW, congress passed several laws that helped lift the racial boundaries and bias of Detroit. By doing so, local…

“… in Detroit, one of the bloodiest race riots of the century” (587). On June 20th, 1943 fights between black and white teenagers broke out at Belle Isle Park, an integrated amusement park on an island in the Detroit River. The conflict quickly spread off the island with the help of rumors and began to plague the rest of the city. After two days of violence, 6,000 federal troops were sent into Detroit to deescalate the situation. Overall, the riots resulted in amplified racial tensions in…

Money: The Summum Bonum When Francisco d’Anconia says that the “words to make money hold the essence of human morality.” He is directly attacking the often-repeated idea that money is the root of all evil. This idea is espoused not just by James Taggart and his socialist colleagues in Atlas Shrugged, but also by modern socialists and economic moralists of the present. Rather than realize the importance of money in the history of civilization, they instead imagine an almost idealistic state of…

The Spirit of Detroit is a sculpture made in the heart of Detroit. It is a large bronze statue, standing twenty-six feet high and is located at the Coleman A. Young Municipal center on Woodward Avenue. Behind the statue, is a Courts Tower's marble wall element that has various passages, symbols, and writings that symbolize Detroit. The extensively creative detail amidst the statue and the messages behind the sculpture provide a visual argument of hope for the people that walk by it every day and…