...Mitch Albom once said “Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.” Whether it be through people, the media, or even classrooms, we hear that Detroit is coming back and that it is rebuilding. Many are extremely excited with this news and what it could mean for Detroit, but not many stop to think about how this “rebuilding” is going to occur and what is going to help improve Detroit. Though there are multiple possibilities, the Fox Theater, as well as the surrounding area, is a fantastic place to start. Through the Fox Theater, its contributions, and the region surrounding it, Detroit can become a popular center for entertainment and commerce, increasing the city’s capital for further investments. The Fox Theater is located off of Woodward Avenue, surrounded by other entertainment buildings, such as the Fillmore Theater and Hockey Town. It was, of course, not always like this. Detroit’s Fox Theater was designed by Charles Howard Crane and, after a building period of 18 months, opened in 1928 (Luca). Built as a cheap form of entertainment for people of all classes during this age of novel entertainment, The Fox Theater was a massive success (Herzog 22). As the “Roaring Twenties” came to an abrupt end with the beginning of the Great Depression, the theater managed to stay open; the fall of the economy set off an unfortunate domino effect, however, with its terrible affects visible in the city of Detroit...
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...4/16/15 Detroit Research Paper During the twenty to twenty-five years after World War II the auto industry and other industries in Detroit had changed to supply the demands for an ever changing world. Henry Ford had mass production techniques. Thousands of jobs were created to build the Ford Model T’s. Part by part each vehicle was made, becoming Ford’s first most popular mass produced car. Not only the auto companies grew with demand, but the steel companies also produced supplies for engines, chassis, and other metal fixtures for each vehicle. Tool makers also benefited by making machinery and tools for the auto manufacturers. The interior components of the vehicles such as, the seats and the roof, were manufactured by upholstery makers. All these subsidiaries were created to meet the needs of the auto industry as it grew year after year. When World War II began the auto industry changed production to military vehicles. A highly maneuverable, overland vehicle called “jeep”, built by the Willy’s company was made in large numbers for military use. Chrysler changed their manufacturing to make tanks for the war. Ford, among other things, made bomber planes. After the war ended, demands for new cars gave the auto industry a boost in sales and in profit. In the early nineteen fifties, a national network of the interstate highway was built. The highway was built under the Eisenhower Administration. When the highway was completed, a driver can travel cross country on not one...
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...has occurred for many years under their noses, making them feel vulnerable and angry. Example# 1: Police brutality case of Rodney King in 1991, where several police officers brutally beat a black man for a traffic violation. The event happened to get videotaped by a complete stranger, George Holiday, which became a media black eye to police agencies, but that tape became a crucial piece of evidence that led to a chain of events that included two trials and a major riot in 1992. http://prop1.org/legal/prisons/kinga2.htm Example#2- The political downfall of Detroit’s former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick starting in March 24, 2008, Kilpatrick was charged with eight felony counts, including perjury, misconduct in office, and obstruction of justice. On September 4, 2008, Kilpatrick announced his resignation as mayor and soon after went to jail. http://www.freep.com/article/99999999/NEWS01/80124052/Kwame-Kilpatrick-mayor-crisis 2. Then policing agency such as the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigations) or the CIA, (Central Intelligence Agency) didn’t take several threats about attacks on 9/11 too seriously until it was too late; "One such CIA briefing, in July 2001, was particularly chilling and prophetic. It predicted that Osama bin Laden was about to launch a terrorist strike 'in the coming weeks,' the congressional investigators found. The intelligence...
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...Kwame Nkrumah "Seek ye first the political kingdom, and all else shall be added unto you...." He was born Francis Nwia Kofi Ngonloma in Nkroful, Gold Coast. Nkrumah graduated from the Achimota School in Accra in 1930. Nkrumah went on to train as a teacher and for a few years taught elementary school in towns along the coast. He was popular and charismatic, and earned a decent living. But exposure to politics and to a few influential figures sparked in him a greater interest, to go to America. He applied to universities in the United States, and with money raised from relatives, he set out on a steamer in 1935. He reached New York almost penniless, and took refuge with fellow West Africans in Harlem. He then enrolled himself at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania; a small scholarship and a campus job helped him make ends meet. He studied theology as well as philosophy. In the United States, Nkrumah saw alternatives to the British tradition of government. Nkrumah plunged into America's black communities. Founded before the Civil War, Lincoln University was America's oldest black college, and its special atmosphere inspired and comforted Nkrumah. In the summers, he worked at physically demanding jobs in shipyards and construction at sea. He also forged ties with black American intellectuals, for whom Africa was becoming, in this time of political change, an area of extreme interest. He moved London after World War II, where Nkrumah helped organize Pan-African congresses thereby...
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...Structural Adjustment and SocialDisequilibrium in Ghana: AnAssessment ofPAMSCAD Programme as a PolicyResponse Tool Show full item record Title: Structural Adjustmentand Social Disequilibrium inGhana: An Assessment of PAMSCAD Programme as a Policy ResponseTool Author: Agyekum, Kwame Pius Abstract: Mostgovernments in Africa embarked upon structural adjustment programmes (SAP) in the mid 1980’s with the aim of stabilizingand improving their economies. Ghana’s adjustment started in 1983 with the view to halt and reverse the almost twodecades of stagnation and decay of the economy. SAPin Ghana made significant gainsat the macro economic levelinthe areasof: • export volumes (increased more than 10% from 1983); • inflation(dropped from 123% in1983 to 10.4% in 1983); • real per capita income (increased by 6.8% in1984); and • investment (increased more than two-and-half times). Despite the impressive macro-economic gainsat the national level,most vulnerablegroups were languishing inpoverty onthe ground. On realizing the socialdisequilibriumcreated by SAP and the predicament of the vulnerablegroups, the government instituted a Programme of Actionsof Mitigate the SocialCostsof Adjustment. (PAMSCAD) asa policy responsetoolto providequick reliefto the poor throughout the country PAMSCAD projects have been implemented in the country wellover eight years and the Secretariat which monitoredand coordinated activitiesfolded up inJune 1996. This research therefore was undertaken to assessthe...
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...Kwame Nkrumah led Ghana to independence from Britain in 1957 and served as its first prime minister and president. Nkrumah first gained power as leader of the colonial Gold Coast, and held it until he was deposed in 1966.He was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity and was the winner of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1962. According to intelligence documents released by the American Office of the Historian, "Nkrumah was doing more to undermine the U.S. government interests than any other black African. Kwame Nkrumah was born in about 1909 in Nkroful, Gold Coast. Nkroful was a small village, in the far southwest of the Gold Coast, close to the frontier with the French colony of the Ivory Coast. His father did not live with the family, but worked in Half Assini before his death while Kwame was a boy. Kwame Nkrumah was raised by his mother and his extended family, which lived together in traditional fashion, with more distant relatives often visiting. He lived a carefree childhood, spent in the village, in the bush, and on the nearby sea. His mother, whose name was Nyan bah, later stated his year of birth was 1912. Because of the naming customs of the Akan people he was given the name Kwame, that being the name given to males born on a Saturday. The name of his father is not known; most accounts say he was a goldsmith. Nkrumah's mother sent him to the elementary school run by a Catholic mission at Half Assini, where he proved a proficient student. He progressed through...
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...Name of Company | Contact Person | Contact Address | Capital Express Assurance (Gh) Ltd. | Mr. Olatuyi Omotayo Managing Director | P. O. Box CT 115 Cantonments, Accra Tel.: 0302 240409Fax: 0302 247942email: latuu2001@yahoo.com Hs. No. 865A/3, Tackie Tawia Avenue, Kanda Highway, North Ridge, Accra Opposite Accra High School. | Colina Life Ghana Ltd.... NowSaham Life Insurance Ghana Ltd. | Mr. Tawiah Ben-AhmedCEO | P. O. Box AD 190Tel : 0302 224299,264552,Fax :0302-228047Location : 4th Floor Sethi Plaza near Adabraka Police Station Kwame Nkrumah Avenuee-mail : tbenahmed@groupecolina.com | Donewell Life Insurance Company | Mr. E. Diamond Addo General Manager | P. O. Box GP2136, Accra 763321, 763266, Fax:763147 E-mail:info@donewellinsurance.com www.donewellinsurance.com 2nd floor F33/1 Carl Quist Street, Kuku Hill Osu RE | Enterprise Life Assurance Company Esich Life Assurance Company Limited | Mr. C. C. Bruce Jnr. Chief Executive Officer Mr. Richard Adu-Marfo Chief Executive Officer | Private Mail Bag, General Post Office Accra, Ghana Tel. 677074, 677078 Fax: 677073 Enterprise House, 11 High Street e-mail info@elacghana.com P.O.Box CT 8309, cantonments, Accra Tel.: 0302 201980/1 Location: 2nd Ring Link, North Ridge Residential Area. Opposite IC Securitiesemail: info@esichlife.comwebsite: www.esichlife.com | Express Life Insurance Ltd.... NowPrudential Life Insurance Ghana Ltd. | Mr. Emmanuel N. A. AryeeManaging Director | P. O. Box AN 10476...
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...According to the Association, a consultancy firm has revealed that the African community in places like Maryland and Washington D.C., both in the USA, holds herbal medicines from Ghana in high esteem, hence its [Ghana National Traditional Healers Association] keen interest to penetrate those markets to augment foreign exchange earnings from non-traditional exports. The dream has been rekindled by a 30-day intensive “Training in Quality Herbal Products Manufacturing and Entrepreneurship for Improved Productivity and Competitiveness” for a selected 100 practitioners, Baffour Agyapong, Brong Ahafo Regional Association Chairman, has told the B&FT in an interview. The training workshop was facilitated by the Department of Herbal Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), with sponsorship from the Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET) and Skills Development Fund (SDF). He said the training has bequeathed to practitioners the needed technical know-how to produce herbal medicines that meet international standard conformity: including bottling; label requirements such as ingredients, dosage, batch numbers, undesirable effects, clinical particulars among others. “Hitherto, some practitioners were collecting raw materials from roadsides and around refuse dumps; they used to package medicines in empty alcohol and water bottles. We were doing that out ignorance,” he noted. Mr. Agyapong revealed that the Association has contracted...
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...Shadow of the Sun Essay Political, Social, and Economic The Shadow of the Sun displays many aspects that were political, social, and economic. The book presented a political view when Kapuscinski stated that colonialism reigned in Africa (1844-45) during which several European states divided the whole continent among themselves, and this persisted until Africa won its independence. Ghana was the first country to win its independence south of the Sahara. Kwame Nkrumah Osagyeto the Prime Minister of the country helped them gain it. He was a young activist who received education from Europe and America and when he returned he put together political parties with some World War II combatants as well as the young, and at a rally he issued a war cry: Independence now. Ten years later Ghana was independent and Accra became the center of all movements, ideas and activities for the entire continent. Each social group in Africa has its own distinct culture, beliefs, and languages. Africans believe in the coexistence of three different yet related worlds. They also apprehended time differently, they believed that a mysterious energy circulates through the world, and if it draws near and fills us up, it will give us the strength to set time into motion-something will start to happen. They lived in small groups, clans, and tribes. Living and moving in small groups allowed them to flee danger more easily and survive. The family is always large with several dozen people, the husband,...
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...Shadow of the Sun Essay Political, Social, and Economic The Shadow of the Sun displays many aspects that were political, social, and economic. The book presented a political view when Kapuscinski stated that colonialism reigned in Africa (1844-45) during which several European states divided the whole continent among themselves, and this persisted until Africa won its independence. Ghana was the first country to win its independence south of the Sahara. Kwame Nkrumah Osagyeto the Prime Minister of the country helped them gain it. He was a young activist who received education from Europe and America and when he returned he put together political parties with some World War II combatants as well as the young, and at a rally he issued a war cry: Independence now. Ten years later Ghana was independent and Accra became the center of all movements, ideas and activities for the entire continent. Each social group in Africa has its own distinct culture, beliefs, and languages. Africans believe in the coexistence of three different yet related worlds. They also apprehended time differently, they believed that a mysterious energy circulates through the world, and if it draws near and fills us up, it will give us the strength to set time into motion-something will start to happen. They lived in small groups, clans, and tribes. Living and moving in small groups allowed them to flee danger more easily and survive. The family is always large with several dozen people, the husband,...
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...warenee THE GRAND DETROIT BANKRUPTCY Frank Borman, a US Astronaut and later a CEO of an airline company in mid seventies, once commented that “Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.” This fine observation pointing towards lacunae in the capitalist regime has several underpinning examples in the past and now includes the bankruptcy proceedings of Detroit. Once, a booming hub for automotive manufacturing, a prime location as a transportation route along the Great lakes and a center for technological innovation, the city of Detroit has endured devastating economic changes. The city is under a debt of $18.5 billion. Its population is now half of what it was in the 1950s, as majority of the working population has been forced to leave the city primarily due to lack of employment, among other issues. At the beginning of this year, Detroit’s official unemployment rate was 18 percent, more than twice the national average. Is It The First Time? In India, laws are not clear even for firms to file for bankruptcy; however, in the US even a city can do so. In fact, this is not the first time a city has filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy in a US court. The thing that makes it very different is its magnitude; prior to Detroit’s $18.5 billion, Jefferson County held the record with its $4 billion bankruptcy filing. Closer inspection suggests that there are other differences besides the magnitude of the disaster. While Jefferson County accumulated $3.14 billion in sewer debt...
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...Ethic and Credibility Lynette N Burnette COM/295 11/30/2015 Fran Carter Ethic and Credibility Lets take a moment to imagine that your working within your career field were your life is always at risk, while you are facing danger every moment of the day your salary is not over thirty-thousand. However other people are currently working the same job position in another city and their salary is doubling yours, how would that make you feel? Currently Detroit Police Officers wages are being reevaluate due to the high number of Officers that are tranfering to different districts that pay higher salaries. The Chief of the police department has made a public appearance on fox 2 news to state that he is pushing for higher wages. Chief Diaz feels in order to properly hire and keep their experience Police Officers the city of Detroit will have to pay out for higher salaries to the law enforcement unit, the city of Detroit currently have over two-hundred police jobs open to the public. Since Chief Diaz has spoken on behalf of Detroit Police Department, Lansing has recognize their needs and frustration both parties (Democat and Republic) offered to place a bill on the ballot for they can vote, this bill will only effect Detroit Police officers. However before Lansing received the message, the city of Detroit offered to give selective units of the law enforcement higher wages but that is against the union contact referred as “ME TOO” this part of the contracts...
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...A Life’s Worth by James Adrian S. Amparado Life is beautiful, when you have your loved ones and having an experience of wonderful. The love given, and in return much love received and woven. Living the life of love, that is the life that we should have. Knowing the value of the self, the love and to it, makes the life worth it. This is how I value life, it starts by knowing thy self. This short poem that I made is about a life’s worth of a person. Having knowledge of life running through a person, attaching love and experience to the way of life. One statement made me do it. A statement told by a philosopher named Socrates about life. The most interesting and influential thinker in the fifth century was Socrates, whose dedication to careful reasoning transformed the entire initiative. He pursued genuine knowledge rather than mere victory over an opponent, Socrates employed the same logical tricks developed by the Sophists to a new purpose, the pursuit of truth. Thus, his willingness to call everything into question and his determination to accept nothing less than a suitable account of the nature of things make him the first clear promoter of critical philosophy. Although he was well known during his own time for his conversational skills and public teaching, Socrates wrote nothing. Nevertheless, it is usually assumed that at least the early dialogues of Plato provide an accurate representation of Socrates himself. "The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates...
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...Kwame Anthony Appiah’s essay, “Race, Culture, Identity” revolves around the words mentioned in the title, and how each one of their definitions are misunderstood and mistaken for one another. He works his way towards clarifying what each one means, using various concepts, examples and references to the words of historical figures. Two of the concepts used to identify what a race was were the ideational meaning and referential meaning. Out of the two, ideational meaning is one where one cannot get a clear definition about what a certain word or object is, however, all the facts presented about it still hold true. “The simplest theory would also require that if we collected together all these criterial beliefs about race and took them all together, they could be thought of as defining the meaning of the word, “race.” (This is equivalent to saying that there are things that have to be true of something if it is to be a race – conditions necessary are, when taken together, sufficient for being a race.) We can use a device invented by the English philosopher Frank Ramsey in the 1920s to make this an explicit definition: something is a race just in case all the criterial beliefs are true of it. Lets call this the “strict criterial theory.” (Appiah 104) Appiah had stated earlier, right before this quotation, that criterial beliefs “define the concept” that one is talking about. For example, if a person was talking about a laptop, certain points or descriptions such as “it needs...
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...Brianna Backiel Professor Brian French ENC1102 February 25, 2016 In “Cosmopolitanism,” Kwame Appiah uses this term to explain the responsibility that each member of the universe has to one another; a responsibility that goes beyond just country borders. He believes that in this day in age we separate ourselves from others with whom we do not share the same nations, opinions, customs, etc.. Appiah says, “In the wake of 9/11, there has been a lot of fretful discussion about the divide between us and them” (72). In the world today humans have a tendency to be fearful and hesitant when it comes to things we do not understand or that are different. This may be partially human nature; however, this intolerance was definitely heightened drastically after the events of 9/11. In our post 9/11 world the state of cosmopolitanism, if adopted, would greatly improve communication with other nations and lead to a progression of knowledge. In this reading Appiah really explores the way we humans communicate with each other and the problems that arise. He concludes that in many ways we might hear each other but we do not listen. Our preconceptions of other’s ideas, cultures, and beliefs cloud the conversations that we have with individuals with whom we do not share coinciding beliefs. Appiah also says, “conversations across boundaries can be fraught, all the more so as the world grows smaller and the stakes grow larger” (68). This means that the stricter we humans affiliate only with our...
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