Neighborhoods of Milwaukee

In the year 2015, it was estimated that 2.7 million faced eviction in the United States. In addition, More than 20 million renters, over half of all renters in the U.S., spent at least 30 percent of their income on rent making them cost burdened (Marr, 2017). These are merely estimates since there is no national database on evictions currently (Marr, 2017). Matthew Desmond’s Evicted took on the challenge of conveying this epidemic to the American public. Evicted gets to the heart of the housing…

third world countries or simply the neighborhood a few blocks away, do not even have the opportunity to go to school or even have the choice of dinner because of their poor finances. My parents came to the United States in the late 1990’s as study-abroad students. They came so that they could…

Emiliano Mejia Mr. Crawford English II 6 March 2018 Final Draft The Great Chicago Fire was fire that burned from Sunday, October 8, to early Tuesday, October 10, 1871. This fire killed up to 300 people, it also destroyed about 3.3 miles square miles of Chicago Illinois and left more than 100,000 residents homeless. The Great Chicago Fire was a devastating event, but there were some benefits that came after the deadliest fire in the history of the United States of America. Many people are only…

Social History John grew up in a predominantly African-American, working-class neighborhood in a metropolitan city. Some extended family members from his maternal side also lived in the city. His paternal grandparents were from Mississippi and maternal grandparents from Missouri and eventually migrated to Milwaukee, WI. Despite their close proximity, John did not have a significant relationship with either of his maternal grandparents. His paternal grandparents died when John was at a young age.…

Jason DeParle's “American Dream”, is a book that depicts the hardships of the recipients of welfare during a time of welfare-reform. Focusing on 3 women, their children, and the father figures who were perhaps less existent in their lives, DeParle tells a story of how these individuals function socially, culturally, politically and economically. in a city that was the heart of welfare-reform in the 90s. Readers will quickly become immersed from the start in welfare-reform stories and how they…

years of her life, while her teenage mother was looking for work up north. Whilst living with her grandma, it was very primitive and poverty was a normality. She would often wear clothes made of potato sacks and garbage bags, having kids in the neighborhood laugh at her constantly. Her only friends at the time were the animals on the farm, but that didn’t stop her, as she would dress them up and have tea parties with them. Albeit she didn’t have an ideal upbringing, she was able to get by with…

overwhelmed. As a first generation college student, this all was something very foreign to me and my family— but I was intrigued by it. My first ever college campus visit was the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From the tight-knit neighborhood of my Milwaukee life, the campus was a totally new and enticing environment that excited me. I saw busy streets, students on bikes, and of course red and white everywhere! People seemed…

high proportions of blacks and Hispanics are dominated by poor children”. In most places in America, schooling is dictated by the neighborhood they live in. Concentration of minorities into ethnic enclaves confines typically poor communities to attend the same school. Because local schools are funded by property taxes, the lower property values of minority neighborhoods typically corresponds with lower performing schools. Even in healthcare, unequal distributions of medical resources produces…

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was a happy little boy whose parents, Joyce and Lionel loved him very much. Dahmer was born on May 21,1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at Evangelical Deaconess Hospital. His parents would video him playing in playgrounds, his mother would make a scrapbook’s and photo albums of baby Jeffrey. Joyce and Lionel had been married for almost a year when Jeffrey was born. When Jeffrey was still very young his father Lionel started to work long hours in his laboratory, while his mother…

popular, successful, and innovative urban farmers the farming community has experienced. His book, published in 2012, details his hardships, setbacks, successes, and the inequalities he faced as an African American farmer in the impoverished city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and in the farming community as a whole. There are numerous themes that are possibilities to point out, as Allen discusses a variety of topics, including the important influences in his life, and farming techniques he has…