Bridge

56% of the 20,997 bridges and culverts in Virginia are close to the end of their designed service life. It has been 30 years for most of them since they were constructed, and 30% of them are over 50 years old. About 1 of 4 bridges in Virginia are structurally deficient, which requires maintenance, rehabilitation or replacement. Some of them even don’t meet the current design…

Born on September 8, 1954, Ruby Nell Bridges grew up in an all white town, located in the suburbs of Tylertown, Mississippi. As Ruby grew older, her parents - Abon and Lucille - moved with her to New Orleans, hoping for a better life in a bigger city. After living there for quite some time, Ruby had gotten two younger brothers, and one younger sister. Their names are Michael, Malcolm, and Joana. In New Orleans, Ruby’s father worked in a job at a gas station, while her mother took daily night…

design? This design is a bridge stretching from the Sturt library across Sturt road and the A13. This bridge will allow for pedestrians to more than halve the time it takes to walk in the current circumstances. Both of the bridge locations shown in figure 1 and 2 have a travel time of less than 9 minutes assuming the students started walking from the Sturt Library. The bridge has 2 possible resting places. These can be both seen in figure 1 and 2. Figure 1. Bridge location from Sturt…

Bridge to Terabithia, written by Katherine Paterson, is a novel meant for elementary schoolers, but this book has been banned in schools across the country. Now for a book to be banned it needs to be controversial, and most of Katherine Paterson’s books, Bridge to Terabithia specifically, fit that criteria. Banned in the U.S.A., by Herbert N. Foerstel, contains a section about Paterson and her works. It reads that most of her works are banned not for their content, but because they are too…

The Bridge War of 1845 The first bridge the east side built spanned over into the west side of Chestnut Street; Kilbourntown would not take any part to help finance the construction of the bridge. The disgruntled east-siders felt that the best way to retaliate against Kilbourntown’s lack of funding was to produce the cheapest bridge possible. Yet, over the next few years, the bridge turned out to be exactly what they paid for. This led to a village meeting on May 7, 1845, where the two towns…

Narrows Bridge was finished building and was open to the public on June 1st, 1940 in Tacoma, Washington. The bridge was very useful because it had cut the travel time from about 2 and ½ hour drive from Tacoma to the Kitsap Peninsula to about 10 to 15 minutes. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge was the third longest bridge at the time with the length of 1.4 miles. Not even a year after the opening of the bridge on November 7th, 1940, it had collapsed taking no human lives. The exact cause of the bridge…

as everyone knew it. The Battle of Great Bridge did not last long, but it was the first Patriot win and many British soldiers were lost. The Great Bridge Battle was fought in December 1775, at a small bridge which crossed the southern Branch of the Elizabeth River (History). The first major Revolutionary War armed conflict in Virginia led into the most critical battle for American independence (Great Bridge Battlefield & Waterways-Project). The Great Bridge which was fought on had a narrow…

assignment of this Truss Bridge project, our primary objective was to design a sturdy bridge, with the durability to withstand the heaviest load over an allotted time span using limited materials, yet cost efficient. To participate and qualify in this project, we must comprehend the guidelines and statutes to avoid disqualification. The criteria and constraints will contain specific and precise measurements of a length, width, and height pertaining to either the roadbed or bridge. Although with…

Ruby Bridges was born September 8, 1954 in Tylertown Mississippi. When Ruby was four years old her family moved to New Orleans, Louisiana hoping for a better life. During this time it was extremely difficult for African Americans to find decent jobs to support their families because they were segregated. Segregation means to separate people based on the color of their skin, gender or religion. After the move her father got a job as a gas station attendant and her mother worked odd jobs at night.…

with him, where’s the good there. He knew that Peyton couldn’t resist the urge to fight for the cause. This is the south, our ways cannot afford to change. I should have seen it coming, the soldier was too willing to tell Peyton how to sabotage the bridge. The Soldier was trying to get me away so I couldn’t protest to what they were talking about. As…