Buckling

Do you have a leaky basement? Leaky basements are a sign that you have water problems. Water-related issues, such as standing water or pooling water around your home, can eventually damage your foundation and promote mold growth. When the water pressure rises, so does the risk of basement leaks. The soil around your basement becomes saturated after heavy rainfalls, causing stress to your basement walls. This increased pressure causes the basement walls to bow, lean or crack. Without proper…

et al., 2008). The human skin consist of five different layers: the three dermis layers, the hypodermis and the stratum corneum (Kuwazuru et al., 2008). Damage to the skin is described as a multistage buckling theory; where the upper layer gets damaged and the lower layers will experience buckling against the larger compression (Kuwazuru et al.,…

The national Safe Kids Campaign works with the schools to help keep children safe. Buckling up while riding in a car, wearing a helmet when riding a bike, and fire safety are some of the educational classes the school nurse can provide to the students. School nurses even evaluate how safe the equipment is on the school playground. Some…

Did you know in some high schools in Ohio, the minimum GPA to participate in sports is only a 1.0? GPAs should be the factor to decide if a high schooler is eligible to play in sports, due to the facts that having a standard encourages students in the classroom, it also helps them outside of high school and into their college years, and sets a good example throughout the district for other students to follow. Firstly, having GPAs as the decision to pass kids into sports or not encourages…

A cliff-side introspective awakening My self selected memory for this final narrative is one that stuck with me until this writing of it because of its startling unexpectedness and the disturbing happenings that I accredit the birth of my larger thoughts about mortality and our experiences and times on this earth and my hope that you, the reader will find it interesting. My father, brother and I had gone out to a small nearby lake sunken in the earth with earth walls surrounding the body of…

Every teenager fantasies about the day they leap into their parents’ car and drive off freely, to wherever the outstretched road takes them. That orange setting sun, those blinding headlights, the laughing friends in the back, and that ever-so-sweet aroma of freedom; all perfect elements of a teenage driving fantasy. However, driving is a heavy responsibility that weighs a terrifying number of gravity and maturity. In 2015, over 2,000 teenagers in the United States, aged 16-19, were killed by…

What is honesty? Merriam-Webster defines it as “a fairness and straightforwardness of conduct,” or more simply “the quality of being fair and truthful.” The online dictionary defines it as not only “truthfulness, sincerity, or frankness,” but also “freedom from deceit or fraud.” Dishonesty, on the other hand, is defined as “a lack of honesty or integrity: a disposition to defraud or deceive – to lie, cheat, or steal” according to Merriam-Webster and the online dictionary. While honesty involves…

We are all firsthand witnesses to the desperation that can led many parents giving their phones or tablets to their children as a form of last resort. I can say I’m guilty of this act as well of buckling down under pressure and handing the tablet to my younger cousins when babysitting. This act has become almost instinctive in nature as our dependency on technology has grown. Whether this qualifies as bad parenting skills is up for discussion but…

the pillars. The beam bridge works on the principles of compression and tension, where on top of the bridge bends, it undergoes compression and at the bottom it is subjected to a horizontal tension. Therefore, the bridge must be designed to resist buckling and bending of the weight of itself and the loads it carries. Most beam bridges are made from concrete and steel beam because of their properties to withstand the forces of compression and tension. The size of the beam, initially the height is…

unexpectedly friendly. Especially Harry Houlihan, who appeared the life of the party, and whose arm the blonde from the kitchen still clutched onto when Preston was maneuvered by Doug Rawlins to face them. The unexpected movement elicited a slight buckling of his already unsteady legs, and he sensed Sofia slipping away from his…