Drywall

The Last Day Sweat was gleaming off my face as I finished lifting our couch into my mother’s van. It was a familiar action, we has always been moving around. We had held many houses for rent, each for one year at a time. We never stayed anywhere for long, presumably because nobody liked renting to single mothers with five kids. We were always drifters, seeking houses for rent and never having a permanent situation. Then we finally purchased a house, one that my mother was proud to call her own.…

Civil engineers design landfills to serve as a safe and sanitary site to store and manage waste. [1] The sites protect modern communities from the toxic gases and chemicals that occur when waste degrades. For each landfill location, civil engineers create a site plans that meet these criteria or will eventually bring sites into compliance. The Meaning and Purpose of Sanitary Landfills Legislators regulate solid waste with the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Subtitle D, while…

tongue crumbling to ashes. Breathing in quickening pants, sweat rolled down my back, my every instinct screaming at me to sprint away. Hide in a bubble of isolation forever. Simply nodding, my dad glanced over at my mom, who was keenly inspecting the drywall with her eyes. "So are you..." He began. "I'm gay." I blurted. Short. Simple. Saying the words should've been easy. There were only five letters contained in two words, my name even has more than that. Immediately when I said it my eyes…

INTRODUCTION Builders started in Kearney, Nebraska in 1977 by Myron Andersen. His vision was to have a lumber yard in rural Nebraska that would carry a variety of selection in building materials readily available for contractors in the area. Its first location was only a 2,000 square feet of retail/office space, 8,000 square feet made up the delivery yard and only four hires. The office was opened on 30th avenue originally named “Payless Building Center. In 1985, the business relocated to 2nd…

As I can remember, I had always hated English Arts when I was younger. I had despised the classes, despite my natural talent for spelling and interpreting rules of the language. I had never enjoyed them perhaps of the the meticulous grammar rules or the unsurmountable amount of exceptions to every rule. This all changed however, during my sophomore year of high school. I had low expectations of myself for another literature class, given that I had failed semester one of the previous class during…

fifteen-year-old body. At the same time, as I made my way across the sidelines absorbing the cheering, I heard my mother shout my name. * My sister’s softball coach, and a friend of ours named, Ron, was working in the basement. My mother helping him place drywall to my newly recuperated…

in his shop, he made me feel inadequate and not capable. I understand that physically, I may not be able to do certain things. Even though I love roofing houses, I can barely lug up a single package of shingles on my own. Lifting a 4X8 sheet of drywall? Not easy for a 5’1 girl…

(FEMA) to help protect the people around the Nissequogue River. He addressed that “900 homes have been identified as having experienced damaged related to the flood hazard in this area (Schumer).” The housing damage from floods ranged from molded drywall, water damage, and other fungal damage. These damages are caused when the house has a blackout that stops the sub pump (a machine that pumps water out of the house) and the water seeps into the base of the house and collects (Dybdahl). When the…

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Oh Snap, That was my Wrist, Here's how it Happened… A few years back, I decided I wanted to be cool and have my Birthday party at Rollercade. When I told my mom, she was excited that I wanted to learn how to skate. But then again, nervous because there would be kids who are 10ft taller than me and don’t pay attention. But I guess I’d have to deal with that problem when it occurred. I invited ALL of my friends to come, but on the night of the party, only 4 people actually came, but I guess it was…