Urban Spiderman Research Paper

Spiderman not only exists in imagination, cartoons, or movies but also appears in reality. Some people work above passengers, out of buildings, and over one thousand feet in the air. Keeping the buildings clean and tidy is part of their job. What is more, their contributions embellish the look of the city and beautify everyone's life. They are called "Spiderman" whose jobs are heavy, risky and difficult. Their life might be not as vivid and adventurous as other typical characters in all the hero's journeys; however, the courage for being Spidermen makes them more needed for commons. Urban spidermen’s works are heavy. In this image, the man is one of the spidermen who usually work with a partner in the John Hancock Center. He and his partner need to spend an hour to set up their basic tools from the top of the building everyday, and then they have to take another hour to take back the scaffold at the end of the day. Moreover, they have to clean everything outside a 100-floor, 1506-foot tall building, John Hancock Center, within 14 days. It means that it is necessary for them to clean up at least 7-floors, 100-foot wide area outside the building every day. …show more content…
Most of their working times are being hanged in the hundreds of feet high air by a stayed tight wire, and that might be the only thing to protect their life. The risk change of being a spiderman is following the change of the weather in different areas. However, Chicago is called "Windy City" so that strong wind gives them more difficulties to keep balance in the air, also brings a huge negative impact on their work scheduling. The worst thing that happened to the man is that a rope tore apart while he is working outside a building. Then, he caught by his security harness after he fell five floors. It is easy to tell what would happen if the security harness couldn't catch them. No matter how hard the rain falls and the wind blows, spidermen still keep to their