Race And Inequality In Postwar Detroit

The Detroit Race Riot of June-July 1943 always had the question mark as to what the cause was for the riots. It has also been known as the “biggest and bloodiest race riots in the history of the United States” of America. A review that was completed by Welfred Holmes reveals some information from the book with the title: The Detroit Race Riot: A Study in Violence by Robert Shogan, and Tom Craig. The information that came to the fore was that the book explained the build-up to the riots as it occurred at least one year before the event. It was revealed that the morale of the Black people (Negroes as the book calls them) was very low. It was so low that it came to the point of not being concerned for their lives when it came to rioting. It

Past research indicates that there has been racial and income inequality in Los Angeles for decades. More specifically, there has been racial and income disparities in quality of life and access to resources. Blacks and Latinos have a lower quality of life and access to fewer resources than Whites. The income level of Blacks and Latinos is also lower than that of Whites. The purpose of this research was to investigate how race and income impact such factors as quality of life, access to resources, education, and personal beliefs. Specifically, we wanted to determine if great disparities exist in the overall quality of life in Los Angeles of residents based on their income and race. Results from The Public Outlook survey, administered by

It was once said by Henry Ford that, “there is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible”. This quote is quite fitting for the man that invented the first moving assembly line; which allowed products to be created more efficiently and cheaper. The assembly line was a significantly important invention because it enhanced previous technology to create a positive impact in factory operation, improved the everyday lives of Americans, and inspired modern day inventions based on the assembly line.

Most people assume that automation does not alter or change the work of a job or the worker, but Carr implies that this is a substitution myth in which he disagrees to this myth. Carr states “Automation remakes both work and worker”, meaning that automation does alter humans regarding their work and themselves – their behaviors, roles, attitudes, and skills (67). Furthering his debate, Carr suggest with the substitution myth of automation consciously affects humans to do their job. He introduces that automation victimize a person creating a sense of automation complacency and bias. Automation complacency is defined by Carr as a “false sense of security” provided by automation – allowing automation to drift human attention away (67). Automation bias goes hand with automation compliancy – the bias that humans ignore the “undo weight to automation” when it fails by ignoring its errors (69). Carr argues that as automation improves the compliancy and bias of automation becomes severe for humans by hindering their skills and conscious

Automobiles were affordable and were designed carefully. The majority of these cars were produced by the Ford Motor Company, led by Henry Ford, who designed a different model each year to satisfy the insatiable crowd. Many of the automotive innovations that we think of as being modern—like electric powered cars, four wheel drive, front wheel drive, hybrid fuel and electric cars—were introduced during the 1920s. The automobiles had various different colors in order to get the attention of people, especially woman, and through time, they evolved to become more comfortable to drive for men (Scott ,1). The automobiles were beneficial to the U.S because they expanded the area of habitat. Since transportation was easier and faster, people could live in the suburbs on the edge of towns. For example, queens outside New York doubled in size in the 1920s. By the end of the 1920s, more than 26 million cars were sold, and lots of new towns were created. Another advancement that is important is the development of trucks. In the beginning, trucks were old fashioned and had lots of flaws. However, Volvo developed its own truck, named “Series 1”, which was fairly expensive. Series 1 was increased in weight, payload, and had a decent performance, which created an unexpected success in a short amount of time ("Back in the Roaring ‘20s”,1). At 1929, there were 3.5 million trucks in the newly builded roads of the United States. The trucks were beneficial to the United States because they gave rise to a new industry. New transportation companies were build, usually transporting solid goods, like various kinds of metals. Unemployment levels decreased, and trade gained speed with the help of the truck industry("Back in the Roaring ‘20s,2). The last important advancement in transportation that benefitted the United States was the development

The assembly line was “the engine of American prosperity” of the 20th century, and even of today. It represented the values of the common American; acceleration, innovation, and efficiency. It ushered in a new age of mass production and consumerism, more goods were readily available to purchase, and people had more disposable income to purchase these goods. While the assembly line improved the American society as a whole, it also greatly affected the lives of those who worked on it, both for the positive and negative. While the assembly line did bring about higher wages, less hours, and unionized benefits for workers, its consequences greatly outweighed the benefits. David E. Nye put it as, “The assembly line seems as a dehumanizing force on

Urbanization may be driven by local or global economic and social changes, and most of the time is the product of industrialization. As urban areas grow the population shifts from rural to urban areas, which is an example of how society adapts to change. The industrial revolution is the best example of this transformation to urban life, people wanted to upgrade their standard of living. This had both good and bad outcomes, the good was that it increased jobs and a bad outcome was that the life for the low class wasn’t that great. Most people were working for long hours for very little money to survive. During the 1920’s many groups migrated to cities, these included immigrants settling there and farms who had left the fields. When people migrated

American Urbanization started like a wildfire and it spread so rapidly that facilities and institutions in society could not keep up. From 1850 to 1900 America completely changed from its agricultural state into a new industry based society. The four paramount changes that occured during America’s urbanization period were new immigration, the build up of cities (skyscrapers and mass transit), living conditions, and boss rule and the rise of mass consumption. Even though the changes during urbanization did not come easily due to immense diversity, they still paved the way to modern day America.

Robots and machines were created to make our lives easier by taking repetitive jobs off our hands and saving time. For instance electric washing machines transformed clothes cleaning from an hours-long task into something accomplished with the push of a button. Recently machines have started to take a bigger role in our lives putting some out of work. Factory and manual labor provide uneducated and unskilled workers with entry level jobs to make a living. In the past, America was promoted as the land of opportunity which brought in new people from around the world, but studies are showing a steady decrease in Immigrants today. Technology has also affected wages disrupting the consistency of available jobs. Through the stimulus sources that were studied I was able to come up with a research question which is, How has the perception of the United States being the land of opportunity changed and is it negatively affecting unemployment rates and immigration due to new technology?

During the industrial revolution factories flourished and for many people improved their financial status. Factories and machines that could process food faster and in larger quantities caused some jobs to be obsolete. The umemployed migrated from their rural homes along with others immigrateing from other countries in droves flooding urban areas. Most were seeking employment and the ability to provide a better life for their families,. This rapid urbanization caused cities to become overcrowded and dangerous. The normal standard of living changed drastically. It was impossible to build homes as fast as people were coming in. . Some families were forced to live in warehouses or other buildings not meant for housing. People also lived

James Dickey, former U.S. Poet Laureate, once said, “Theodore Roethke is the greatest poet this country has yet to produce” (“Theodore” 1). Theodore Huebner Roethke is a prominent poet in the mid-1900s. He was born in 1908 in Sagina, Michigan to Otto Roethke and Helen Huebner. He went to high school at Arthur Hill High School. Soon after, he went to college at the University of Michigan and later, Harvard. He studied to become an English teacher as well as a poet. Battling an abysmal depression, he taught at many universities around the country and penned many poems. One of his eminent poems, “Highway: Michigan” compares the hazards driving in traffic with the harshness of labor in the car industry. It exposes how the terrible environment

With decades of research, it came to a conclusion that not all students learn the same way. Jeremy Roschelle is co-director of the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI International. In his research, he examines the classroom use of innovations that enhance learning difficult ideas in mathematics and science. Chad Lane has a Ph.D. and M.S. in computer science and wants to create educational technology that will compelling and engaging.

The Industrial Revolution completely reinvented society in the 1800s. This change would not have arisen though without the outcome of the Agricultural Revolution in which new farming methods created greater farm output that decreased death rates. One of these methods was the enclosure, the fencing off of land by rich landowners for more efficient cultivation of the fields. The enclosure movement pushed farmers off of their land, thus forcing them to move to the cities in search of work. Urbanization supplied the work force for the new factories that generated industrialization. While some might argue that Industrialization had primarily negative consequences for society because of a neglected quality of life, it was actually a positive shift

The racial inequality that we have in modern day blossomed from the historic oppression and comprehensive prejudice of minority groups. From the very beginning of “American” history, other groups of people who were not of European decent were discriminated against and treated inhumanely and without the smallest regard for their lives. Native American populations were decimated by diseases brought oversea by Europeans and forced from their ancestral lands by settlers to make room for their expanding populations. African people were enslaved by the millions and were used as tools of labor, and weren’t even regarded as humans,

Many jobs have become easier by being replaced by robots. Robot are not just the idea of talking mechanical parts as we see in futuristic movies. There are a variety of different types of robotic machines, great majority of them appear in factories and in science technology work fields. Robots in factories help replace a dangerous parts of a job. However, there have been different perspective with robots replacing jobs. As technology and robotics progress, people continue to debate how jobs and careers could be affected. Robotic replacement might not have a negative effect , especially since it has helped our development to be able to survive.