... cities through factories, labor, and mass production all contribute to the economic success America has had since World War II. America's once great city, Detroit, used to produce the largest amount of automobiles than any other city on the globe, with almost 300,000 manufacturing jobs circa 1950, and now ... there are barely 30,000. The city of Detroit was a teeming metropolis of 1.8 million people and it had the highest per capita income in the United States. Now it is a rotting, decaying ... efficiently, then more cities are at risk of being next on this slow, economic death march. S...

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In the city of Detroit, 8 Mile Road is the unofficial divider of black and white communities. The main character in 8 Mile, the movie based on the infamous road, is named Jimmy Smith, Jr. Jimmy is ... on a stage in front of a crowd and they make fun of each other while freestyling to background music playing) that he is participating in at the Shelter, a local late night Detroit hangout. He is denied entrance by the bouncer backstage although that bouncer saw him leave and saw the V.I.P. stamp on his hand. He was denied because he was white and ... regular insult directed towards Jimmy is ...

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... who lives in Port Chester, N.Y., said she was stripped, searched and forced to drink laxatives by agents who suspected her of carrying drugs when she arrived at San Francisco International Airport in 1994 on a flight from Hong Kong. "She made me take off all my clothes," Buritica said, referring to the Customs agent who detained her. "Then she told me to ... , telling me, "More, more."" The laxative left Buritica dehydrated. She was hospitalized in intensive care overnight, with Customs agents monitoring her every move. When she was finally returned to the airport more than 24 hours late...

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... the country and into the north and the big cities. This was called the black migration. Some of the main cities that the blacks moved to were Chicago, New York, Detroit, and Cleveland. In 1910, three out of every four blacks lived on a farm, and nine out of every ten blacks in the United States lived in the south. During the ... twenties, though, Chicago's African American population grew by 148 percent, Cleveland's by 307 percent, and Detroit's by 611 percent. When the African Americans got to these cities, however, they did not find much of a change because they were still not wanted ...

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... African Americans. Yet, this did not sit well with the whites that occupied the areas around them. In June of 1943 just before the summer time riots broke out in Detroit. This caused the government to send roughly 6,000 soldiers to come between the two groups, but not before the riots took the lives of 24 black and 9 white residents. Mexican ... Americans too suffered similar incidents as did the blacks in Detroit. Now in California of 1943 many young Mexicans had adopted the stylish "zoot suits" as worn by those in Harlem. Police officials found this style to be a crime and took ... ...

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... whites. In this autobiography we see Malcolm X recount his transformation from a bitter, self-destructive petty criminal into an articulate political activist. We see him go from "mascot" and "homeboy" to "Detroit Red" and finally Malcolm X. When reading this book it could be said that Malcolm X and Martin Luther King contradicted each other. However, while Malcolm X may have displayed his emotions towards ... when he was intoxicated. Malcolm lives in a house filled of women prostitute. Along with learning a lot psychologically about both sexes, Malcolm is selling a lot of marijuana. Ma...

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... while driving on the Florida Turnpike. The stop ended with him being wrestled to the ground, hit with pepper spray and arrested. It turned out Campbell was a major in the Metro-Dade Police Department, and had identified himself as such when he was pulled over for an illegal lane change and an obscure license plate. Stated Campbell, "The majority of people ... ...

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... case in her poetry. The African-American traditions that Angelou uses so well can be traced from Africa to America through cultural traditions, music, and religion. Dr. Beverly Hill at Metro State University in St. Paul, discusses how " writers from different cultures often have distinct rhetorical traditions on which they base their writing (Bloom 154). Tradition gives an added emphasis to ... ...

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... families, we were part of the great exodus from the south. Some families settled near-south in areas like Southern Illinois while other families continued to places like Chicago and Detroit. Life in Carbondale was quaint, but poverty and the lack of a post-secondary education haunted many of us in ways we could not have imagined. Despite its size and relatively ... ...

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... . The fight for civil rights exploded in violent outbursts in the early states of its development. Three of the bloodiest riots of this time period--Chicago, 1919; Harlem, 1935; and Detroit, 1943--were the result of bubbling anxiety between blacks and whites as tensions rose dramatically; whites "stiffened their resistance to raising blacks from their inferior economic and social positions" (Boyer ... ...

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... of coaching. Most recently, this topic has been debated in the National Football League. "In the last week of July, the National Football League fined Matt Millen, president of the Detroit Lions, $200,000. Why? Because he had hired the head coach he wanted-Steve Mariucci, who had been let go by the San Francisco 49ers-without interviewing any black candidates ... ...

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... must be able and willing to learn different skills in order to better his situation and to survive. Although Tarzan's conflicts may be much different than say a factory worker in Detroit's in the early 20th century, one can find it very easy to relate to as such as the struggle to put food on the table is a constant and without adapting ... ...

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... him. Eventually he moved to Harlem away from his sister in Boston. At first Malcom worked a steady job in a restaurant, everyone liked him and he was soon given the nickname "Detroit Red." A few months later, he ruined his honest job when he tried to proposition an undercover police officer with a prostitute. After this, he went to work hustling drugs, which eventually ... ...

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... ten years in prison. While in prison he read a lot and developed an interest in the Nation of Islam. When Malcolm was released from prison in 1952 he went to Detroit. He dropped his last name and considered a slave name and became Malcolm X. Malcolm said, "While king was having a dream, the rest of us Negroes are having a nightmare." He also thought ... ...

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... the issue of race on a daily basis, and one of his many trials and tribulations was with dealing with an interracial marriage. A few years after Banks opened a law firm in Detroit, the country went into depression. He became the head of the International Labor Defense, and he was assigned a secretary. She was a young white girl named Rose. At this time and ... ...

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... ten years in prison. While in prison he read a lot and developed an interest in the Nation of Islam. When Malcolm was released from prison in 1952 he went to Detroit. He dropped his last name and considered a slave name and became Malcolm X. Malcolm said, "While king was having a dream, the rest of us Negroes are having a nightmare." He also thought ... ...

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... 14 years old got lynched. This shows the severity of segregation in the south. By 1960 changes began to arise, a new case, Boynton vs. Virginia outlawed segregated bus, train stations, airport terminals, and other facilities. But unfortunately this was ignored so a group of freedom riders took themselves on a greyhound bus and went to try to fix this problem, but they ran ... ...

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... profiling of anyone. Being from Saudi Arabia, I think a lot of his problems were caused by the September 11th attacks. Most of the problems Ahmed has encountered have been at the airport. He noticed that when security is looking through the lines for people to search, he is one of the very first picked. He also thinks that the searches he had ... ...

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... as the national statistics previously mentioned. Its not fair to look at only Eight men rather than the 160,000 jail birds. Racial profiling doesn't only apply to blacks. Nowadays airport security uses racial profiling along with other technics to determine whom they search. Some may think that this method of security is unfair, but compared to what the Japanese Americans ... ...

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... it by any means necessary. When Malcolm left for Mecca, the first thing that enthralls him, is the unity he sees in all the Muslims that are gathered at the airport. Everyone, from a king to a peasant, is dressed in the same clothes. There is none superior to the other because in the eyes of Allah, everyone is equal. When he boards ... ...

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... watch her lovely ass when she walked- (p. 105) Meanwhile some differences remain between the two texts because in the end of Flight Patterns, by leaving his bags unattended outside the airport with the intention of perpetuating Americans fears, William metaphorically rejected the inferior "American" culture that has been forced upon him. William's reoccurring fear throughout the story was that his family ... ...

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... openly in Canada but rather subtly. He noticed it in the way people talk to him and treat him. This was when he first arrived in Canada at the Montreal airport, he was taken for questioning while all the other passengers, which were white, were processed quickly. He was told to expect treatment of this kind by people who had come ... ...

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