During the Tuesday seminars and Thursday meetings I gathered a tremendous amount of information that would benefit me in many ways. Many issues that I wasn’t really well versed in was clarified and now I feel confident enough to hold a conversation with someone about my opinion. It actually helped that I met some of […]
Are things really how they appear? Sometime we get caught up with the immediate message that we forget to look at the finer details within. Other times, we simply just accept the first thing that comes our way without really giving it much thought. Although once you decided to look at something with a clear
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The right to water is the right to life. Yet, according to the Detroit Water Brigade, 40% of Detroit’s population is having their water shut off. Not only do these people not have water to drink, but they are unable to wash their clothes, their dishes, themselves. Children in these homes are forced to go to school
Working in the Mayor’s office, I commonly hear only one side of the story when it comes to the policy decisions supported by the Mayor. To compliment the information I receive from employees around the Mayor’s office, I often find myself reading articles regarding Mayor Duggan’s latest decisions or initiatives so that I can see
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Although my interest in the different topics and presentations have varied, I have always left the seminar feeling as though I learned more than I anticipated and I was glad to have learned the information. All of the information has also been really relevant to our work here in Detroit and it has been interesting
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Over the course of the program, I have very much enjoyed the seminars. They have really caught my interest because of the relevancy to not only my placement, but my career interest as well. I have learned so much over the course of the program. Being from Detroit, I always knew the issues, but not
During my time in this program, there have been two Tuesday seminars that have stuck out to me (the Thursday seminars all stick out because they’ve all been so creative and fun, even activities I was dreading at first *coughimprovcough*). The first was Amy Kring’s presentation on the second bridge to Canada, set to go
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The seminar that I found most interesting was the one about DSWD’s water shut-offs. I say this because it was so contradictory from what the media has portrayed. The general consensus of the articles I have read is that Detroit residents refuse to pay their water bills. These articles implied that residents were reckless and
I have really enjoyed our Tuesday seminars, and I think they have been a critical part of the program. They bring up current issues in Detroit, and it is great to hear about them from people who are so closely working to come up with solutions. We all get a lot of exposure to issues
I have, overall, been very fond of my experiences in the Tuesday seminars. There was always a constant revaluation of my personal perceptions, experiences, and approaches. None of the ways that I thought about Detroit were left unaltered. I especially liked how the seminars gave a platform to community voices that you don’t hear often.
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