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The collapse of Detroit’s auto industry, specifically Chrysler LCC, General Motors Corporation and Ford Motor Company, caused a tremendous ripple effect throughout the region and it stretched all the way to Washington D.C.  The auto industry is one that is too large to fail in many ways. The history of the industry reflects how important … Continue reading →

Be More like Kid President

I would suggest watching this whole video. I seriously think being more like Kid President will  change the world. I want a corn dog. I want to share corn dogs with the world. If only people would do these nice things for each other. I always think back to the suicide story of the person … Continue reading →

From Big Three to Detroit Three- Was the Government Bailout the Answer for the Auto Industry?

 From Big Three to Detroit Three                                                                                                   … Continue reading →

Is it Fiction, Non-fiction, or Twitter Fiction?

After surveying quite a few Ted talks, trying to find something that related to my paper 2, settling on a Ted and annotating it only to discover that it had already been blogged about, I went for a different approach. The Ted Talk I selected was a talk given by Andrew Fitzgerald called “Adventures in … Continue reading →

Risk of Default? But what’s in “Black Budget” Vault?

Even more relevant today than it was back in the 90’s is the story of the Pentagon’s “Black Budget.”  This topic is one of the stories that hit Project Censored’s list of best kept secrets and also a news story this past summer when Snowden leaked the intelligence spending budget. Imagine what a project like this … Continue reading →

Collapse of Detroit, Collapse of the American Dream

Should Detroit shut down  Did the big three let us down Who should lift them up And here is a song to set the mood…  The topic I have taken on for my paper to, if the Haiku didn’t clue you in, is the collapse of the auto industry in Detroit in 2008. In order … Continue reading →

What would Popeye say about this Spinach?

Fruits and vegetables continue to be a large part of the foods that are subject to genetic modification. Genetically modified (GM) foods, are those, in layman’s terms, that are altered by molecular biology to change the foods genetic makeup. That definition wasn’t really in layman’s terms for me either… so I did a little research … Continue reading →