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The 2003 Detroit International Jazz Festival, 2005.
Positive review of the Ford Detroit International Jazz Festival held in Detroit, Michigan.
915 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 32.95
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This paper describes the author's experience at the Detroit International Jazz Festival. The paper describes the musical program during the festival, the types and range of artists performing, and the venue. Additionally, the author suggests that the festival is an excellent musical experience for anyone, from a newcomer to jazz to a long-time jazz fan.
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"Officially titled the Ford Detroit International Jazz Festival, the Festival first began to bring jazz to the city of Detroit in 1980. It was founded by the Detroit Renaissance, and has seen tremendous success since that day. Since 1994, the Festival has been produced by the Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts. The Festival was originally called the Ford Montreux Detroit Jazz Festival ."
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Detroit and Urban Crisis, 2008.
This paper looks at the urban crisis in Detroit, while studying the works "Detroit Arcadia" by Rebecca Solnit and "The Origins of the Urban Crisis' by Thomas Sugrue.
846 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 30.95
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In this article, the writer notes that as the industrial powerhouse that the United States was in the years of and immediately following World War II began to slow down in the 1960s, many of America's urban areas saw the economic base eroding with the disappearance of industry as well as the huge migration of Caucasians from the cities when the economies of the cities fell into decline. The writer discusses that the by-product of all of these occurrences was the fight to prevent racial integration of the suburban areas into which the Caucasians fled, and a swift decline of American cities. The writer looks at the city of Detroit that has been devastated over the years because of economic and racial issues. Such urban crises are the focus of this research. The research studies and cites the works of two pivotal writers on the topic in an effort to better understand the topic itself.
Outline:
Introduction
Historical Consequences of the Urban Crisis
Political Consequences of the Urban Crisis
Agreements/Disagreements
Conclusion
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"A brief history lesson of the socioeconomic history of Detroit is the best way to begin to understand the historical consequences of the urban crisis as well as what the crisis is in and of itself. During and immediately after World War II, the machine shops and automobile plants of Detroit, and as a result the other supporting businesses, were flush with cash because of the need for implements of war, during the war years of course, and the need for consumer vehicles after the war, as men and women returning from battle settled back into a state of normalcy and went on a buying spree in unprecedented quantities. Because of the proliferation of available jobs, Caucasians and African-Americans alike were able to gain employment; true, the racial inequality was existent, but it was not as acute or damaging at this point as it would eventually become. With the passage of time, however, the gap between the races was intensified by the power of capitalism, and the African-Americans of Detroit, as well as elsewhere, soon saw the economic and social gap between them and their racial opposites increasing to their disadvantage."
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The Detroit Lead Problem, 2002.
This research paper is about the lead poisoning problem specifically concerning Detroit.
1,995 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper examines lead and its many uses. It gives an historical overview of leaded products, such as leaded gasoline and leaded paint and how they were used. It details Detroit specifically and how it has already begun fighting its lead problem. It concludes that the elimination of lead poisoning everywhere, and in Detroit specifically, will result in more educated people, less crime and therefore a better city of Detroit.
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"One of the most pressing problems in American cities is the danger of lead levels in its suburbs. Excess exposure and contact with lead can result in lead poisoning. Throughout the 1900s, Detroit, in particular, used enormous amounts of leaded gasoline in automobiles and lead-based paint in Detroit housing. Unfortunately for Detroit citizens, lead is a poisonous substance that does not break down over time. Lead poisoning results in an array of physical and psychological defects, but poisoning can be prevented if the lead hazard is detected and if appropriate measures are taken to remove or contain the hazard. Detroit must take action to eliminate its lead poisoning problem."
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Rebirth of Detroit, 2004.
This paper concerns the urban renewal of the city of Detroit.
2,034 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 71.95
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In this essay, the writer discusses the urban renewal of the city of Detroit. The paper discusses the efforts to revitalize a city that has been hit hard by white flight. The writer discusses that poverty and the collapse of basic infrastructure are also factors that have damaged the city. The writer examines whether or not Detroit is undergoing a positive rebirth.
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"A Renaissance can be defined as a revival of learning the arts, culture, politics and sciences. A Renaissance involves a rise into the modern world, a cultural rebirth of enlightenment and new discovery. Detroit has experienced something of a Renaissance and the city's rebirth will be discussed in this paper. Amy Lane writing in Crain's Detroit Business tells readers that Detroit Renaissance Incorporated was formed by business leaders concerned ..."
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The Social Geography of Detroit, 2005.
This paper provides a study of the social geography of Detroit, Michigan, making use of Census Data from 2002.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 10 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper analyzes the city of Detroit, using Census Data from 2002. The writer notes that the social geography of Detroit shows a city that has experienced major shifts in employment and a city that was long tied to one major industry, an industry which has either moved elsewhere or that does not offer the same stability it once did. The writer points out that such changes have affected the way the city has developed physically and the balance between urban and suburban regions.
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"The social geography of Detroit shows a city that has experienced major shifts in employment and a city that was long tied to one major industry, an industry which has either moved elsewhere or that does not offer the same stability it once did. Such changes have affected the way the city has developed physically and the balance between urban and suburban regions. Theorists note that what is often called the Heartland shows a "nested hierarchy" of levels from metropolis to village, and the different transportation systems bind these levels together. The presence of the Great Lakes provides a gateway to overseas regions."
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DaimlerChrysler's Detroit Axle Plant, 2004.
Sets forth a new system of control and operating strategy for DaimlerChrysler's axle plant in Detroit.
1,078 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 31 sources, APA, $ 37.95
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This paper outlines a project designed to improve efficiency and to reduce waste at the Detroit axle plant of the DaimlerChrysler company. While the plant is, in many ways, a well-run one, it could be improved in the areas both of savings of scrap and of improving the product. The recommendation to improve the plant along both of these vectors is to shift to a more decentralized system of control in which workers are given greater autonomy for decision making, especially in terms of materials usage.
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"The major problems that this plant faces, as noted above, are too much waste in terms of raw materials as well as finished products that are not sufficiently high quality (or rather, finished products some of which are sufficiently high in quality but many others which are not. Both of these problems, but particularly the wastes that occur in the use of raw materials, are related to the fact that the authority in the plant is so centralized and the technology so routinized: Such a system of overall organization fails to allow line workers sufficient autonomy to allow for the most efficient use of raw materials."
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Detroit, 2005.
This paper discusses the social geographical differences between the city of Detroit and its suburbs (i.e. Anne Arbor).
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 9 sources, $ 80.95
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"This paper uses social and spatial indicators to gather statistical information. The author analyzes this data and makes comparisons between city and suburbia. The paper discusses globalization in terms of how it has affected urban sprawl and suburbanization.
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"The information movement of the 21st century is giving shape and definition to the global village. As a result, global urbanization has proceeded in adapting to the phenomenon of globalization. As corporations and governments manage globalization, the need for researching the impacts of societal separation and polarization between the classes is imperative to determining social geographical studies. In the past 30 years geography, like other disciplines, has experienced the explosion of knowledge perpetuated by the new tools of modern technology including aerial photography, remote sensors, and the computer."
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The Eminem-Interscope Principal-Agent Relationship, 2008.
This essay describes the relationship between rap artist Eminem with his record label, Interscope Record, as well as the basic principal/agent relationship between Detroit Rap and the labels that represent these rappers.
2,980 words (approx. 11.9 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 87.95
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This essay assesses the relationship between Eminem and his "agent", record label Interscope Record. Specifically the author aims to distinguish between a musician and his agent and the greater realm of principal-agent relationships - that between Detroit Rap and the labels that represent these rappers. Furthermore, the essay analyzes the relationship of Shady Records, Eminem's record label, which is controlled by Interscope Records.
Outline:
Introduction
Objectives of the Interscope/Eminem Relationship
Rewards of the Interscope/Eminem Relationship
Incentive Problems in the Interscope/Eminem Relationship
Reward schemes that are used to address the incentive problem
Conclusion
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"In terms of how well these reward schemes alleviate the incentive problem, this reward scheme is perhaps one of the only things that keeps Eminem's controversial behavior in check. Empirical evidence that supports the use of these reward schemes is the fact that every major music artist in the world (even British pop sensation Lilly Allen, who famously started as an independent "My Space" music sensation) must sign with a record label in order to maintain career success. When artists do not reign in their controversial behavior, they are dropped - as Eminem alum and rapper 50 cent was dropped by Trackmasters/Columbia records when he was involved in a shooting accident (Internet Movie Database). At present, this existing incentive scheme seems to be the best and only one."
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Police Codes of Ethics, 2004.
A comparative analysis of the code of conduct for Washington, D.C. and two other cities, Denver and Detroit.
2,548 words (approx. 10.2 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 77.95
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This paper examines how virtually all police departments have some kind of formal ?Code of Ethics?, or guidelines, that tell the members of the police force what is and is not acceptable behavior. It looks at how the police in any community have tremendous power and how it?s important that the officers to whom the public entrust their safety act in honorable and ethical ways. It explores how, because of the Internet, it is possible for concerned citizens and anyone else to view the codes of ethics for many police departments across the country. It compares and contrasts the Code of Conduct for Washington, D.C. and Denver and Detroit, which have nearly identical codes, word for word.
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"Grundstein-Amado (2001) argues that codes of ethics should serve three purposes: to inform the public about the goals of the organization; to encourage an ethical climate within the organization; and provide a structure for resolving ethical questions. However, it could also be reasonably stated that informing the public about the goals of the organization might be better done with a mission statement and that no code of conduct could be detailed enough to provide a plan for resolving ethical questions, which could range from charges of decision-making based on race to taking bribes to unwarranted violence against arrestees."
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"Dangerous Society" by Carl Taylor, 1992.
A critical review of study of youth gangs in Detroit.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"This study will provide a review of Carl S. Taylor's Dangerous Society, an investigation into youth gangs in Detroit. Taylor is eminently qualified to conduct such an investigation, coming from a "disadvantaged background in Detroit" (p. xi) himself, and advancing later to win three degrees from Michigan State University. He achieved success in private business as well.
Taylor paints a dark portrait of gang reality in Detroit specifically, and in the United States in general. Despite the fact that the author offers a number of hopeful breakthroughs in the fight against gangs and their destructive consequences for individuals and society as a whole, the overall picture is not a hopeful one. Perhaps Taylor is aware of this when, in the final chapter, after offering a number of community-oriented methods..."
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Strategic Planning at Wayne State University, 2002.
Examines the strategic planning process at Wayne State University (WSU) Detroit, MI in the early 1990s
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper outlines the bottom-up planning process the WSU attempted to develop and problems with the process that was instituted. It concludes with recommendations that might have facilitated the planning process.
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Community Policing Initiative, 2005.
A look at effective approaches to establishing a community policing program in an American municipality.
5,680 words (approx. 22.7 pages), 21 sources, APA, $ 137.95
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This paper is an extensive literature review that shows that community policing initiatives have become increasingly popular in recent years and are now in place in the vast majority of American cities. It points out that the impact of these programs has been difficult to assess; but the fact remains that, in 1980, the United States clearly led the Western world in overall crime and ranked particularly high in property crime; however, since the implementation of community policing programs across the country, statistics have shown a marked decline in U.S. property crime. It also discusses how the research indicates that, despite their many success, community policing programs have experienced a wide range of internal and external obstacles and constraints to their implementation that continue to plague many such efforts today.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Review of the Literature
Background and Overview
Community Policing Programs - What Are They?
Constraints to Implementation
Current and Future Trends
Recommendations and Supporting Rationale
Chiefs' Support
The Liaison Officer
The Survey
Officer Training
Current Community Policing Programs
Dearborn Security Network, Dearborn Police Department, Dearborn, Michigan
PRIDE, Southfield Police Department, Southfield, Michigan
Downtown Detroit Security Executive Council (DDSEC), Detroit Police Department (DPD)
Annual Update Seminar on Security and Crime Prevention, Detroit Chapter of American Society for Industrial Security, (ASIS) and the DPD
Baltimore County Police Department and Private Security Association
Area Police/Private Security Liaison (APPL), New York City Police Department (NYPD)
Conclusion
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"The goals and methods of community policing are comparable to those of community development planning; for example, both activities are designed to foster stable, healthy neighborhoods, and both attempt to involve community residents in these improvement efforts. As a result, urban planners and community police officers are increasingly being required to work together in order to maximize their impacts and to take advantage of the perspectives and skills that each profession brings to the task of improving living conditions in a community's neighborhoods."
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Constructivism and the Urban Public School, 2006.
A discussion regarding the impact that constructivism has on teaching in urban public schools.
5,422 words (approx. 21.7 pages), 21 sources, MLA, $ 133.95
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This paper attempts to answer the question of what impact
'constructivism' has on teaching in an urban school specifically in relation to the education, training and preparation of leadership in these schools. The paper reviews and examines the available literature in a qualitative research on the impact constructivist leadership has on urban schools.
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Abstract
Chapter One
Statement of Problem
Statement of Need
Purpose of the Study
Goal of the Study
Research Questions
Hypothesis
Introduction
Constructivist Principles as Stated by J. Bruner
Chapter Two
Review of Literature
Detroit Urban Schools and Constructivism - Making Changes
Leadership for Change
Chapter Three
Methodology
Chapter Four
Findings of the Research
Chapter Five
Discussion
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"This innovation, one member of a family of constructivist teaching and learning approaches, is in keeping with recommendations by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the National Research Council (NRC). Currently, we are involved in a reform effort in collaboration with the Detroit Public Schools' Urban Systemic Program in Science and Mathematics and the Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools, both supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The goal is to make inquiry-based science supported by pervasive technology tools the basis for all middle school science in the district." (Krajcik, et al, nd) According to Krajcik, et al "What students learn and how they engage in inquiry supported by technology are important to understand in order to promote science education reform. Some might argue that widespread enactment of a project-based curriculum in urban settings is not possible because students are not likely to have the skills to engage productively in the process." (nd)
Stated by the Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education is that their work "is rooted in an inquiry pedagogy that is consistent with constructivist ideas (Blumenfeld, et. al, 1991). The presumption is that students need opportunities to construct knowledge by solving real problems through asking and refining questions, designing and conducting investigations, gathering, analyzing, and interpreting information and data, drawing conclusions, and reporting findings." (Ibid) "
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"Voices of Protest", 2008.
An examination of the history of the movements of Huey Long and Father Coughlin, as discussed in Alan Brinkley's book, "Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression."
1,244 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper discusses Alan Brinkley's book, "Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression," which examines the social history and popularity of the movements of U.S. Senator from Louisiana Huey P. Long and Charles E. Coughlin, a Catholic priest from a suburb of Detroit. The paper discusses the history of the movements and compares them to today's political climate.
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"Long and Coughlin zeroed in on the vague anxieties with which society had wrestled for many decades over ''the animosity toward concentrated power, the concern about the erosion of community and personal autonomy" (Brinkley, 261). Their efforts turned the focus of the public away from the cultural issues that had dominated the politics of the 1920s and focused it on the economic realities of the 1930s and the Great Depression. Their rhetoric addressed issues of privilege, wealth and centralized power as well as the failure of conventional political institutions to deal with these areas (Brinkley, 261). Brinkley maintains that Long and Coughlin are representative of a long tradition of opposition to "large, inaccessible power centers, a tradition that stretched from the American Revolution to the populist revolt and beyond" (Brinkley, 261). However, he also shows that even by the 1930s, American society had begun a process of economic centralization that was already far too advanced for a genuine reversal to be a possibility (Brinkley, 262)."
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Panathenaic Prize Amphora, 2000.
An analysis of this Greek ceramic artwork from 375-370 B.C. with material, subjects, cultural significance and possible uses.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, $ 39.95
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The Panathenaic Prize Amphora (accession no. 50.193) on display in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts is dated to around 375-70 B.C. and stands 33 inches high. It is attributed to the Asteios group and is an example of the ceramic black-figure ware that was a principal industry of Athens.
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"The Panathenaic Prize Amphora (accession no. 50.193) on display in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts is dated to around 375-70 B.C. and stands 33 inches high. It is attributed to the Asteios group and is an example of the ceramic black-figure ware that was a principal industry of Athens. The amphora represents the goddess Athena on one side and four male runners on the other. The presence of the runners "indicat[es] that the prize was for the winner of a foot race" and the amphora features an inscription that specifically identifies it as a prize "From the games in Athens" ("Panathenaic").
The condition of the amphora appears to be very good. There are cracks on the side featuring the runners and abrasions on all the figures. The left thigh, and the groin and buttocks of one of the runner is orange-red rather than black. It appears that..."
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