I grew up in a Waterford Michigan in a neighborhood called Waterford Meadows. The neighborhood consisted of middle-working class citizens, almost entirely Caucasian Americans, nuclear family households (domestic unit consisting of parents and their unmarried children), and the men were the breadwinners while the women homemakers. Today Waterford is a growing township; commercial buildings on every corner, new subdivisions, bigger roads, and high class dining restaurants. When I was a child, in the
open as the post office, the new post office building was constructed and the Castle building was renamed the Castle Sub Station. This building has three floors of exhibits that explore Saginaw County’s rich history. The Historical Society of Saginaw County maintains and preserves a collection of more than 100,000 artifacts which are used for exhibits and research. There are programs that are offered that include lectures, tours and a mobile museum and classroom called History on the move. The mobile
opportunity; e-government calls for interaction and sharing between all levels of government and government agencies. (Denhardt and Denhardt, 2009) If cooperation is lacking, e-government initiatives cannot be successful. In a particular case study of “Sun County”, the real location name was changed for confidentiality purposes; the implementation of a new GIS (Geographic Information System) was followed for several years in order to focus on the process of e-government rather than the outcome or outputs that
boarded doors and windows have become indigenous, not only to Rosedale Park, but to every part of the metro Detroit area. However, one thing has remained constant; Rosedale Park, no rather Detroit as a whole is still my community. Presently, in Michigan alone, foreclosure has claimed roughly 9700 homes and the list grows as we speak (mi.foreclosure.com). Sadly even my home has failed to avoid this list of potential foreclosures. However, I don’t see myself as a victim nor do I see myself as defeated
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The water crisis in Flint Michigan was a travesty of justice and could have been avoided. While examining this unfortunate incidence, the truth of what happened is clear, conscience and deplorable that the choice in cost-cutting measures would lead to contaminated water that was harmful to many. The water crisis could have happened in any town or city in America, or could it. However, Flint, Michigan a place 70 miles north of Detroit, which once thrived as the home of the nation’s largest General
Flint, Michigan is in a state of emergency, but help isn’t coming fast enough. The seepage of toxic lead into drinking water pipes has created a widespread public health crisis which has prompted President Obama to declare a federal state of emergency. The problem can be traced back to 2014 when the city started to use the Flint River as its primary water source. Flint was in need of an alternative water source until its connecting pipe to the Karegnondi Water Authority (KWA) was complete, so the
Cyberbullying in Michigan has become more of an issue over the years, leading to serious crime offenses. Since technology isn’t going anywhere, this offense will only advance. After careful review of Lamphere School District policy’s, student handbooks and Michigan state laws and policies have a great affect with the First Amendment on cyberbullying. State District Policies on Cyberbullying
Company X is a plastic injection molding manufacturer located in Highland, Michigan. The company had started in 2005 and survived the hard economic times. Company X started out by first doing applique and added 6 months ago injection molding. There are two owners, and there are less than 75 employees. Every company small or large should take social responsibility. A1. Environmental considerations and recommendations (Planet). Just doing what is right and following the laws will make your
murder because he even said “I told his old lady I’d take care of him.” So how in the world is that In an article by Proquest Staff they say “Dr. Jack Kevorkian is handcuffed and removed from the courtroom by Oakland County Sheriff deputies after being sentenced in his murder trial in Pontiac, Michigan, on April 13, 1999. Judge Jessica Cooper sentenced Kevorkian to 10 to 25 years for the videotaped assisted-suicide death of Thomas Youk of Waterford Township.” So if some doctor gets sentenced to 10 to 25
The Brother Rice High School Community High School is every Junior High students dream. It is a time in a student’s life where he/she receives a large amount of freedom as well as responsibility. Mom no longer accompanies the teenagers at the movies and one can even drive himself/herself there. Academics are important also because these grades determine if you are college bound material. But, are freedom and academics the only parts of a solid High School career? I myself believe that there
reach within their lifetimes. Normality is a subculture in itself. My family wasn't always an upper middle class family. Starting with my grandparents, my mom's mother named Bonnie Langdon. She lived in what is a now West Bloomfield in Oakland county Michigan. She was a sister to 9 siblings and she attended a One-room schoolhouse. Bonnie's mother Betty Worked in the post office for 30 year and her father Harry drove an oil truck for about the same amount of years. They were mostly lower class but
DETROIT, known as the "Automotive Capital of the World," is the largest city in the state of Michigan. The city sits at the heart of an official three-county metropolitan region comprising Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties. As we look at the current condition of Detroit Michigan, you would ponder what made the city look so ran down and why did everyone abandoned a once known as a beautiful city. If one were to look at older pictures of the city back in its earlier years they wouldn't be able to
Color Purple ” by Alice Walker." Banned Books Awareness. world.edu, 20 Mar 2011. Web. 21 Feb 2014. . Powell, Ben. "Tempers reach their boiling point over ‘The Color Purple'." WECT. WECT, 9 Nov 2013. Web. 19 Feb 2014. . Wagner, Lindsay. "Brunswick County School Board may consider banning The Color Purple." NC Policy Watch. The Progressive Pulse, 13 Oct 2013. Web. 20 Feb 2014. . Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York: Pocket Books/Washington Square Press, 1982. Print.
After talks with her husband, sons, minister, and local doctors; Janet Adkins decided she didn¹t want to undergo the sustained mental deterioration that Alzheimer¹s Disease caused (Uhlman 111). She began to realize she had the disease when she started forgetting songs and failed to recognize notes as she played the piano (Filene 188). ³She read in Newsweek about Dr. Jack Kevorkian and his ŒMercitron¹ machine, then saw him on the ŒDonahue¹ Television show² (Filene 188). With her husband¹s consent
win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film “An Officer and a Gentleman”. In 1983, Robert C. Maynard became the first African American to own the major daily newspaper in a large city when he became the majority stockholder of the Oakland Tribune. Vanessa Williams became the first African American crowned Miss America on September 18 in Atlantic City. Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple” won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In September of 1984, The Cosby Show makes its television debut
Introduction "...We live in a breakable takeable world, an ever available possible worldÖ" These words, by poet and singer-songwriter Ani Difranco, articulate the relationship between the environment and its inhabitants. Society is constantly manipulating the environment. Our capacity for changing the environment is kept in check by the destructible aspect of nature. The changes we make, those advancements in technology, are limited. While the industrial revolution, per say, is over, industry
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assist in any more suicides. Dr. Kevorkian was a champion for the rights of the terminally ill. He may not have gone about it the right way but really what other choice did this people have. He died on June 3, 2011 at William Beaumont Hospital in Michigan. His cause of death was a blood clot. There are many arguments for the right to die. Many of which make a lot of sense and others that are just plain ridiculous. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but that opinion shouldn’t be forced on anyone
You are sitting in your living room watching TV, you then hear gun shots and then screams of terror outside your home. You peek through the curtains to see a person laying on the sidewalk. You pick up the phone and dial 911. You are calling the police seeking help, but you are told that there are no police officers available because your city is suffering from a financial crisis and they laid off more than half of the police force. You think to yourself that this cannot be possible, you must dreaming