The city of Detroit is the largest city in th Michigan state. The city is located on an international waterway‚ which is connected with seaports around the world through St. Lawrence seaway. During consequent 60 years‚ the city has experienced impressive achievements followed by unprecedented collapse. In 1950‚ populated by 1‚8 million people‚ city was a sample of highly industrialized world and the center of automobile industry. In mater of decades‚ Detroit went from being the shining star of
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“The Pride of Detroit” Detroit is one of the most important cities in Michigan and the United States. Detroit is the center of American motor industry and is the birthplace of Motown. Detroit is also home to four major league sport teams. However‚ one team is infamous for being the worst in their respective sport. This infamy belongs to Detroit’s football team‚ the Detroit Lions. Founded in 1930‚ Lions are owned by Martha Firestone Ford and play at Ford Field in downtown Detroit. The Lion’s colors
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Haymarket Square Riot May 1 or May Day‚ is an international holiday which commemorates an event that happened in the United States. Demonstrations and celebrations are held all over the world. The United States does not recognize this as a holiday‚ yet this day changed the course of history and working conditions around the world. The three main labor organizations present in the United States at the time sought an eight-hour work day and called for several strikes to achieve this goal. Of
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On July 18th‚ 2013‚ Detroit became the largest city ever to declare Chapter 9 bankruptcy. The city sat in $18 million in debt. Over the next couple of months‚ the city’s crime rate rose and many people lost their jobs and left the city of Detroit‚ which hurt the real estate market. Detroit relied on the auto industry‚ which slowly terminated jobs. Forbes reported one out of every 764 homes foreclosed. More than 100‚000 homes and 78‚000 buildings were vacant during this period of time. The price of
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Riot Grrl is an underground feminist Punk rock movement that blew up in the 90s. It was started by feminist activist groups located in Washington D.C.; Olympia‚ Washington; Portland‚ Oregon; and the greater Pacific Northwest.These groups existed to create a safe haven for women to come together and have conversations about sexism that they experienced in the punk scene. These groups eventually inspired bands such as Bikini Kill‚ Bratmobile‚ Heavens to Betsy and many others‚ to bring the issue of
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impact.” That is exactly Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said‚ according to Freep. Dennis Mannion‚ who helps manage the Detroit Pistons‚ believes in experience being a great way to get young people into the workforce. Which is why the president of Palace Sports and Entertainment was all smiles this morning at the S.A.Y Detroit Play Center on Van Dyke‚ as the Detroit Pistons announced a $100‚000 grant and partnership with Grow Detroit’s Youth Talent. This is good news for the Detroit kids because the project
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I’se a Man Political Awakening and the 1942 Riot in the Bahamas Abstract When Americans began building their World War II bases in Nassau‚ the Bahamians they hired expected the high wage rates that usually accompanied foreign contracts. Unfortunately‚ the Bahamian government had negotiated much lower rates than were expected. Green‚ with his cry ‚I’se a man‚‛ captured the indignation that many of his co-workers felt. After attempts to address the wage issue by collective bargaining
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Kerrie Neal James Grubb History 111 May 3rd 2013 The BlackBerry Riots In the summer of 2011‚ the city of London‚ England was disheveled. With what started as a simple police brutality protest soon turned the city upside down with riots clustering in almost every borough. Parliament abruptly returned from their summer holidays to quickly address the chaos dismantling their city’s wellbeing. Just under 2‚000 riot related arrests were made by the Metropolitan police and just under 4‚000 throughout
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Detroit had been in decline since it was rocked by race riots in 1967. Since then‚ there has been a real drop-off in investment and economic development in the city. Like a lot of other cities in the American northeast and Midwest‚ it was badly affected when factories moved south or out of the country‚ but was harder hit because it was a one-industry city. Most big cities have more than one industry‚ but Detroit’s economy was completely centered on the automobile. When the Recession hit‚ Detroit
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What was the influence of social network services in the development and the organization of the London riots? From the 6th to the 10th of August‚ the UK suffered from clashes with the police‚ rioting‚ arsons and lootings which spread from London across the country resulting in five deaths and 1500 arrests and a lot of accusations towards social media. The initial riot began as a response to the death of Mark Duggan‚ who had been fatally shot by special police forces two days earlier in Tottenham
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