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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Flint, Michigan."”.
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Living With Crisis: Family, Labor, and Environment in Flint, Michigan
… to their health and water infrastructure. The Flint water crisis, as this event became known, transpired in a majority Black municipality in the American midwestern Rust Belt. Flint has a long history of powerful union and civil rights movements but is now notorious for high unemployment rates, …
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Solidarity Forever: The Story of the Flint Sit-Down Strike and the Communist Party from the Perspective of the Rank and File Autoworkers
… subject of this thesis is the Sit-Down Strike in Flint, Michigan in 1936-1937. The main purpose is to examine the story of the strike as told by the strikers themselves, to explore the role that Communists played in the strike along with how the workers responded the Communism and other political …
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Framing Flint : comparing mainstream and black newspaper coverage in the wake of environmental racism.
Flint, Michigan, has been in a water crisis for four years now after the predominately black community was lead-poisoned following the decisions of government officials they should have been able to trust. The city's insistence on using polluted river water along with a history of environmental …
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Holistic revitalization in small post-industrial cities : tools for urban housing development
… * An adaptive reuse of a prominent hotel in Flint, Michigan that has sat vacant for 30 years into new downtown student housing; and * A new apartment community for single-parent, full-time students in Owensboro, Kentucky.
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Secretion and Environmental Biochemistry of Legionella pneumophila in Corrosive Water
… third chapter, I report the secretome of endemic Flint, Michigan L. pneumophila in corrosive water, simulating the environmental impact of the Flint Water Crisis on local L. pneumophila populations. Our results from this study have expanded the secretome of L. pneumophila, provided insight on …
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Bad Water, Dirty Politics: Contrasting Governmental Responses to Two U.S. Water Crises
… occurred in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1993 and Flint, Michigan in 2014. This thesis compares and contrasts the two crises, focusing specifically on the differences in local governmental response to each crisis. Further, this thesis argues that the willful negligence of Flint's city officials …
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Impact of violence exposure on urban middle school students
… from McKinley Middle School, located in Flint, Michigan. Students were fairly evenly divided between genders (n(boys)=98, n(girls)=112, n(unreported)=12). The independent variable was exposure to violence, as assessed by the Children's Report of Exposure to Violence (Cooley et al, 1995). …
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US Compliance with International Environmental Human Rights Standards within Domestic Environmental Conflict Resolution
… “reactive” case of lead-laden drinking water in Flint, Michigan; and Beyond Coal’s “proactive” campaign to close toxic fossil fuel plants across the US. With a lens of citizen enforcement and its impact in promoting the rule of law, symbiotic and critical partnerships arise from the joined forces …
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Occurrence and Control of Microbial Contaminants of Emerging Concern through the Urban Water Cycle: Molecular Profiling of Opportunistic Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistance
… in clinical and water samples collected from Flint, Michigan, where an economically-motivated switch to an alternative water source created conditions favorable for growth of this organism and likely triggered one of the largest Legionnaires' Disease outbreaks in U.S. history.
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Proteomic and genomic characterization of the influence of copper on Legionella pneumophila and the drinking water microbiome
… strain for protection. In 2014 and 2015, Flint, Michigan experienced the largest per capita community-wide Legionnaires' Disease outbreak in US history. The outbreak was associated with a change in the source of the municipal drinking water supply from Detroit water, which was sourced from …
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Impact of Premise Plumbing Conditions, Materials, Corrosion Control, Temperature, and Water Heater System Design on the Growth of Opportunistic Pathogens in Drinking Water
… discovering problems with lead and Legionella in Flint, MI, during an event popularly referred to as the Flint Water Crisis in 2014-2016. Four years were then spent simulating critical factors hypothesized to have triggered the Legionella outbreak in residences and in a large hospital in Flint. In …
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Banking on land: A critical review of land banking in the United States
Regional economic development narratives have shifted from focusing on a perennially growing – or at least stable – urban core to a more complex and uneven patchwork of localized growth and decline. Declining areas have incurred a myriad of symptoms wrought by losses in population and economic …