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Suher Alsurakhi Professor Russo Urban Administration 9 May 2016 Detroit v. Atlanta Detroit, Michigan, the fourth largest city located in the United States is also one of the most populated cities found in the United States. A city had constant population growth each year until it halted in the year 2000. During 2000, there was a drastic change; the population declined approximately 25%. Historically, Detroit is known for being an area that is ethically populated, all of which are included in…

narrowing, but it is only narrowing at a very slow pace. In 1942, around the time of World War II, industries needed to be run by women, because most men had gone to fight in the war. Since there was a rise in the amount of women workers, the National Labor Board urged employers to voluntarily make adjustments to equalize the wage and salary rates paid to females with the rates paid to males, especially if the work was comparable in quality and quantity of work on the same tasks. Most employers…

Plains created areas in the United States having more and more migrants traveling mostly to California and Florida searching for work (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). Nine Hundred Forty Two: Mexico and United States signed "The Bracero Treaty", which is a Treaty that allows migrants to be recruited to ease labor shortages in the agricultural fields.…

Walmart is the world’s largest retailer and corporation netting $482.13 billion in 2016 alone (amigobulls.com). One of the most highly debated topics nowadays is whether Walmart is good or bad for the American economy and the nation as a whole. This has been a highly debated topic ever since Walmart revolutionized the retail game by becoming the largest retailer in the world, thanks to their strategic marketing and low prices. Overall, Walmart definitely does more bad than good for our economy…

everything from the western expansion of the railroads to education in agriculture. The civil war marked a great turning point in America’s history, in the last decades of the country factories and steel mills appeared on the scene fueled by immigrant labor. The great transcontinental railroads linked the country like never before. Before the industrial revolution most of the people in the world farmed to keep them selves from starving but because the industrial revolution people had time to do…

producing industry, and somehow, our entire nation, our entire world, has seemed to turn their heads away from it. (U.S. Department of Homeland Security) The United States constitution passed a law that abolished slavery in 1865, but it’s quite odd considering that there is more slavery in the world now than there was in the 1800’s. Human trafficking is defined by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as “A modern-day form of slavery involving the illegal trade of people for exploitation or…

estimated that there are about 2.4 million people in the world who are lured into forced labour. This industry has been estimated that the total market value of illicit human trafficking is at 32 billion US dollars (ILO 2005) in accordance to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC, Scope of The Problem Globally). The countries that are highly involved in human trafficking are mostly in underdeveloped or developing countries such as Malaysia, India, China, Pakistan, Indonesia,…

On April 10, 1962, as the United States emerged from recession, the nation's biggest steel companies raised their prices by an unjustifiable amount. President John F. Kennedy was not so pleased with the outrageous decision of the steel company. John F. Kennedy addresses a speech to the press on April 11, 1962. The speech was a classical argumentation, rhetoric, and cause and effect. The president uses strategies such as diction uniting the American people and persuasive appeal, putting pressure…

problem in the United States. It 's single handily cause most of our police problems. Evening though we are living in a post-civil rights era race it plays a large issue in our society. Majority of problems dealing with race stem from racial profiling. Racial profiling is very illegal in the US, it violates our right to unreasonable search and seizure, which is found in the fourth amendment of the constitution. It also a very pointless procedure that is use of our police department. It alienates…

In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century the Industrialization in the United States occurred and is where innovative changes happened. This period of time was portrayed mostly by the substitute of hand made production by machine production. Many social and economic alterations resulted, therefore changing the way of people's lives, such as the farmers, working class, and middle class. The society desired for new ideas of manufacturing that a variety of change given, leaving…