states. Michigan leads in the manufacture of automobiles. Detroit, Michigan's largest city, is called the Automobile Capital of the World and the Motor City. The Detroit area produces more cars and trucks than any other part of the nation. Flint and Lansing also are important automaking centers. Michigan is a leader in food processing and steel production. Service industries, such as health care and retail trade, employ many people in the state. Lansing is the state capital. Michigan touches four
An Analysis of Up in Michigan My choosing this story for an analysis is based on what I think is the very American feeling there is to this short story. The title alone has this American ring to it: Up in Michigan. From the start settling the story deep into the soil of the country. The title seems like the beginning of an old tale, once upon a time up in Michigan…it ends there and propels the "unfinished", never settled way of the story along. And at the same time it signifies that this is just
Michigan is the only state in the union composed to two separated peninsulas. At the closest point, the upper and lower peninsulas are a mere five miles apart. In the early twentieth century, the only way to make the trip across the five miles of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron was to take a boat ride from one side to the other. As businesses expanded and industry grew, the demand to cross the lakes for travel and commerce purposes grew. The only way to cross the lake was by means of a ferry service
Michigan has its fair share of environmental issues. Among the state’s biggest issue concerns water quality. Pollution is enormous within the Great Lakes, as can be seen in Lake Michigan and several rivers such as the Kalamazoo and Grand River. The contamination of water includes such things as sewage, dumping of toxic chemicals, garbage, and mercury emissions from power plants and factories. According to Brandon Howell of Mlive Michigan news, who discusses the issues of mercury, “Mercury is a dangerous
Have you heard of the Michigan–Michigan State football rivalry? It’s been going on for so many years. That’s one thing that the University of Michigan Wolverines and Michigan State University Spartans are well known for, but what’s going on with their overall academics? Both colleges hold high rankings compared to many other colleges located in Michigan. The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and Michigan State University have definitely made their mark on the world and their students. They both have
Lake Michigan Memories My childhood trips to Lake Michigan form a major part of my identity as a Michigander. Lake Michigan is a system of five, fresh water lakes named the great lakes. Four out of the five great lakes surround the state of Michigan; as a result most Michiganders travel to a nearby Great Lake in the summer. My Grandmother purchased a trailer by the Lakeshore and allowed her eight children to spend a week every summer on the Lakeshore. Thus like other Michiganders, my family heads
My childhood trips to Lake Michigan form part of my identity as a Michigander. Lake Michigan is a system of five, fresh water lakes dubbed the great lakes. Four out of the five great Lakes surround the state of Michigan; as a result most Michiganders travel a nearby Great Lake in the summer. Like other Michiganders, my family heads to Lake Michigan every summer to spend time on Lake Michigan. My Grandmother purchased a trailer by the Lakeshore and allowed her eight children to spend a week of summer
image from http://tour-the-lakes.org/bike-tour-comfort-and-safety/ Most of the numerous inland lakes in Michigan formed as glacial kettle lakes associated with pitted outwash plains. Some of the more northern lakes in the state (like Burt and Mullet Lakes) were scoured out by glacial erosion. A few lakes along the present-day shoreline formed as hooked spits and bay mouth bars isolated estuaries along the coastline position near the ice, but farther removed from the immediate ice front. The water
The University of Michigan, aka Michigan Wolverines, has been a prominent name in college sports for many decades, in many areas of college athletics. From their gridiron glory to their up and coming prowess in basketball, the University of Michigan is steep in tradition and continues to get some of the best talent to come to their university to compete in college athletics. U of M has also been at the fore front of media and technology. Michigan was one of the first schools to start using radio
presentation regarding a specific city in Michigan. Students were to decide if they wanted to do the presentation alone, getting a mystery advantage, or have a partner. After pondering this, I chose to receive the advantage, and work alone, along with a handful of my peers. The advantage ended up being that we would be able to choose the city from an array of notecards with the names of famous cities in Michigan. In the end, I picked the city Petoskey Michigan. This vast city was new to me, but I
On this day, the FBI begin investigation into the Flint Water Crisis in Flint, Michigan; but what was the Flint Water Crisis? What started it? Does it still affect us today? These questions are still being asked, but some people may have the answer. The Flint Water Crisis goes all the way back in April of 2014. Flint, Michigan; during a financial emergency: decided that in order to save more money, they should temporarily change the city’s water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. It was
The state of Michigan joined the union on January 26, 1837 and was the 26th state to join. Unlike any other state in the US, Michigan consists of two different Peninsulas, the upper and lower. These two peninsulas are separated by what is known as the straits of mackinaw which is what connects Lake Michigan and Lake Huron together. This is how Michigan received its name. Michigan is derived from the word Ojibwa word Mishigamaa which translates to “Large Lake”. Michigan is known for its immense amount
I grew up in a Waterford Michigan in a neighborhood called Waterford Meadows. The neighborhood consisted of middle-working class citizens, almost entirely Caucasian Americans, nuclear family households (domestic unit consisting of parents and their unmarried children), and the men were the breadwinners while the women homemakers. Today Waterford is a growing township; commercial buildings on every corner, new subdivisions, bigger roads, and high class dining restaurants. When I was a child, in the
The University of Michigan Should NOT Use Affirmative Action Imagine, your walking down the street looking for a job. You see a sign in the window that says, “Whites encouraged to apply.” Imagine the period in time when just being white got you into a college, without any other considerations of grades or athletic ability. Those were the days of the Jim Crow laws. Now these instances have happened in the past 20 years, through new laws called Affirmative Action. The big argument is over these
Summer & Winter of Michigan How can you compare water and ice in a natural form? Thirteen inches of snowfall are equal to only one-inch of rainfall. (NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory, 2010) Michigan has a lot of snow days during a winter, while summer in Michigan exhibits a completely different climate. An average temperature difference in Michigan's winter and summer is about 25 degrees Fahrenheit. (US Climate Data, 2016) Tourists visit Michigan more in summer because of the scenic beauty
Scholars over the years have been studying the impact Arab American immigrants have had on Southwest Michigan. In recent years this has become a very important topic, due to the rapid growth and success that Arab Americans are showing. A wide misconception that we must apply when speaking about Arab Americans is calling them Muslims, they are used simultaneously and this is incorrect. Arab’s are a race who originates from the 22 Arab countries while Muslims are followers of the Islamic religion
Management of a 40 Acre Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum) Stand in Southern Michigan for Sustained Production of Sawtimber Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) is a hard maple used primarily for its lumber and sap. In fact, 9% of the hardwood sawtimber volume in the U.S. comes from this species (5). My client would like to begin extracting sawtimber from her 40 acre maple-dominated stand that has been unmanaged to this point. She sees a market for her sawtimber in the regional flooring industry, but would
home to around 30 million people (USEPA, 2015). Lake Michigan is the only one of the Great Lakes that lies entirely within the United States, with a maximum length of 307 miles and maximum width of 118 miles. The Lake Michigan shoreline, composed mainly of sand and pebble beaches, stretches 1,640 miles along the coasts of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, as well as some islands (NOAA, 2015a). The Illinois portion of the Lake Michigan watershed (Figure 1) is only 100 square miles (0.22%
Copper mining has had a huge impact on Michigan throughout history. Copper mining has had such an impact that the Upper Peninsula of Michigan has a region referred to as “The Copper Country” because of its involvement in the copper-mining industry. The copper-mining industry has also led to technological developments necessary for hoisting and drilling as well as the development of towns and cities in the Keweenaw. In addition, it led to the creation of many potential jobs for residents of the towns
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