I don’t really know cultural cues are, which makes it pretty difficult to write about. In terms of culture, it is also difficult to write. Living in Midtown and working in Downtown, I have not really been exposed to much of the city of Detroit. At work, we have a strict, corporate culture where meetings […]
Focus: HOPE is made up of a lot of people, but most of the people who work in the office with me are quite a bit older. Other than that, they have a lot of young interns who come for the summer. While everyone is nice, it’s mostly the younger people who have more conversations
Culture is hard to define, especially in Detroit, which seems to me to have many cultures. There’s the young, up-and-coming, bougie culture of Midtown where we live. There’s the strong Mexican culture in Southwest. There’s the business culture in Downtown, where everyone is in a suit and leaving Detroit to go home to their suburban
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I complain about the area my workplace is in, however, the people I work with are all interesting; similar but different. Our ages reign from eighteen to possibly 50 years old. In some cases, my coworkers would make jokes in relation to their adult lives. You know, paying bills, buying a house, being healthy, etc.
As a native Detroiter who is now working with other native Detroiters through Focus:HOPE, it’s not easy to find observe culture cues as they are seen as standard cues in my community. However, unlike working with my previous research mentor and partners during the fall and winter semester, I am now working with much older
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Here at EcoWorks, we’re a melting pot of people coming from all different walks of life. Some are young; some are older; some are American; and we even have a few international workers. We all take this as an opportunity to learn new things and experience different cultures. The office holds a potluck every third
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‘Can One Person Change the World?’ are the words that made up the question on the back of a friends t-shirt. As we rode through the streets of Detroit, her biking in front, this question seemed to take on a voice of its own. The words seemed to dance around us as we weaved in-and-out
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My community organization has recently been trying to deal with a revamped drainage crew the city of Detroit is trying to enforce on property owners. They’d have to pay almost a thousand dollars monthly for impermeable spaces on their property. It’s pushed me to learn about this new fee and also understand that it’s been
At EcoWorks we have been doing a lot of research on energy efficiency. We have a grant from a state funder, for which we have to audit 82 municipal buildings for energy usage. The purpose of these audits is to identify cost savings that local officials can pursue. Yesterday I went to a workshop where
Last week, a few of my colleagues and I were assigned to distribute flyers throughout the neighborhood of Parkside Village. The Flyers consisted of the many exciting activities Friends of Parkside will be hosting throughout the summer. While placing flyers on the doors of residents’ homes, there were a few neighbors outside sitting on their
