The Golden Gazette

In such a diverse community as Troy, I feel like I (very luckily) haven’t been exposed to much, or any, racial segregation. However, I was extremely shocked to hear that Michigan was one of the highest segregated states in the nation. This sparked some curiosity within me, and as most curiosities lead me to do, I began researching.   After some research, I found that 10 out of 11 of Michigan’s largest metropolitan areas suffer high amounts of segregation! What?! I feel like a blindfold is being removed from my eyes. Whether it’s a combination of my privileges, and living in an extremely diverse and accepting community, I’ll never personally figure out. As the new U.S. Census approaches in 2020, many metropolitan areas’ populations are being recorded. Recently, the U.S. Census Bureau found that Detroit ranks as the fourth most segregated metro area in the country. It’s only “outdone” by Milwaukee, Chicago, and New York. In regards to housing (as spoken about in class and for...

Procrastination . A plague we all fall susceptible to. My inspiration to learn about this stemmed from two things: procrastinating from writing this post, and using the research about procrastination to procrastinate from studying for my other classes. Whew, by the end of this post I might need to have a “procrastination” counter. This topic hits very hard to home for me, and I know it does to many of my peers as well. The definition of my familiar friend procrastination is, “ the avoidance of work or necessary tasks by focusing on more satisfying activities” . Just by reading that definition I feel personally attacked and victimized. Although, I have to realize my terrible procrastination is self inflicted….  Now for what this whole blog post is about, why people procrastinate. It’s really easy to blame procrastinating on laziness, bad habits, and simply a lack of motivation. However upon my research, there is a chemical reason for procrastinating. Procrastination is simply...

One quote at the beginning of The Great Gatsby sparked something within me. Upon reading the quote, “I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” (Fitzgerald 17), I began to put it in the perspective of the time period Scott Fitzgerald wrote it in. The novel was published in 1925, about 5 years after womens’ suffrage. In this time period, women were looked down upon, and thought of as inferior to men. Today this is still prevalent, almost 100 years later. Crazy! The section of the quote that sparked the most interest within me was when it states, “that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world”. The belief that women should just be oblivious to the suppression they faced on a day to day basis, and that a woman should simply accept they will never be as intelligent as males was widespread. Even with the right to vote, women still lacked many abilities we take for granted today. Out of pure curiosity and thirst for h...

Above is a "journal entry" I created from Guitar Bains' point of view. For some reason blogger won't let me keep my original font, so I guess a picture of the document will have to do! The entire document is 304 words for reference. For some reason blogger is making the screen capture appear really blurry upon publishing, I apologize!