gather in one area. In Detroit‚ Michigan‚ there are more African Americans than white‚ Asian‚ or Hispanic people. The percentage of African Americans is 82.7 percent; whereas the white population makes up about 11 percent. In total Asians‚ Hispanics‚ and others total about 7 percent of the population each. Before World War I‚ Detroit’s population was only about 1 percent African American. This was because most still lived in the South. The increase of the black population in Detroit began around 1910
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Assignment 2 Rhodes v. Detroit Medical Center. Beryl Rhodes was visiting a patient at the Detroit Medical Center. Rhodes tripped and fell on a cord adjacent to the bed of the patient and sustained injury. The cord ran alongside the patient’s bed and went up to the head of the bed. It was not obstructed by any object. The floor was gray and the cord was black‚ so the cord had sufficient contrast to be visible. The room was well lit‚ and evidence shows there was adequate lighting for the cord to
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editorial cartoons. His cartoons can be found in the Detroit News either by paper copy or online. He started drawing cartoons in 1960 while he was in the army. After serving in the army he took a full time position with Star as an editorial page cartoonist. Then five years later he left and moved to Detroit for a job on the news desk of the Detroit Free Press. In 1976‚ he was offered a full time job as the editorial cartoonist for the Detroit news until 1994. Two of his greatest achievements were
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the ice it was easy to tell from his early playing days in the USHL that Gordie was special. Gordie Howe possessed skills never seen by any hockey player before and rarely seen since. Howe would very quickly evolve‚ later being signed by the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings in 1946. Over the next 33 years Gordie Howe was in the game of pro hockey (NHL or WHA). He set numerous records over the years such as most goals ever scored in NHL history at 801 (since surpassed by Wayne Gretzky) and most NHL games ever
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The Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago‚ Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). They have won four Stanley Cup Championships and fourteen division titles since their founding in 1926. Since 1994‚ the Blackhawks have played their home games at the United Center afterhaving spent 65 years playing at Chicago Stadium.Currently‚ they are the defending Stanley Cup champions‚having
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One of the largest facilities here in Michigan which also has a few locations within Detroit is called the YWCA. I visited the YWCA interim House of Detroit to get some incite about when the facility was discovered and developed within Detroit and the comprehensive services they provide‚ how is the organization funded‚ and what their morally objective. The YWCA Interim House of Detroit is located on 6 mile and Wyoming. This facility is a temporary emergency housing for battered
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The name of the city Detroit will now forever be ingrained in my memory. Not only have I been introduced to every song ever made that even relates to the city‚ or every Detroit related joke ever conceived‚ but was given the opportunity to meet an amazing group of individuals and put Mercy into Action. Although not new to the service trip experience‚ each one holds something new and special to discover. On this particular trip‚ it started out rolling down an alley in Detroit late in the evening the
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like In These Times. Facebook social plugin Detroit’s Comerica Park cost $300 million—65 percent of which was paid for by tax revenue. (Kevin Ward / Flickr / Creative Commons) As eulogists across the country speculate on how much money bankrupt Detroit can make by selling off everything from Diego Rivera’s famous mural of a socialist utopian auto industry to the original Howdy Doody doll‚ it appears that at least one part of the Motor City won’t end up on the auction block: its hockey arena. In
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relationship the NHL has with its fans‚ and it’s up to sport managers to make it right‚ and in a hurry. The recent history of the lockout proves that they benefit nobody in the long run‚ and nearly kills the sport in the short term. The city of Detroit lost roughly 1.9 million dollars for each cancelled game this season‚ or roughly 35 million dollars overall. Local sports bars lost millions of dollars without any fans to serve over the last couple months. The relationship between sport and society
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WritePoint capability in this area is limited. Thank you for using WritePoint. Last year the Green Bay Packers won the super bowl championship‚ while the Detroit Lions didn’t even make it to the playoffs. This would send out the message to any football fans that
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