Essay The State of Michigan

My Michigan hero is my mom, she is one of my biggest inspirations. She somehow raises five kids, is a school director at her work, working on getting her master's degree, is one of two color guard directors, runs back and forth for all of our sports and extracurriculars, and finally somehow still manages to cook dinner and help with homework. She is and has always been my biggest role model and she is always willing to help out and is an all around good person. She even somehow manages to keep the house clean with five kids and two dogs running around all the time going back a forth through it all. She has always encouraged me to do the things I like and try my best even if I don’t like it. She also has supported me and all my siblings in everything we try. She will come to every

1.Michigan entered the railroad business in 1830. The state's first working rail line (billed as the "First Train West of the Alleghenies") ran from Lake Erie to what Michigan city?

Yooperland, Da U.P., and Yoopsconsin, are just some of the names that the residents of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula refer to as home. There have been many conversations throughout the years about the secession between the Yoopers in the U.P. and the Trolls down in Da Mitten. Dating back as far as 1836, a time when Michigan had won the U.P. by losing the Toledo Strip in the Toledo War, the talk of secession is nothing new. To change an economic lifestyle would be difficult, but the rewards and benefits could be astonishing. A vote for secession would help the Upper Peninsula become a free and independent state in our country.

1.The term "Three Fires" refers to the dominant tribes in Michigan during the early 1600s. The three tribes were:

Michigan State Senate is the upper house of the Michigan Legislature. It Consists of 38 members who are elected from districts that had an average of 260,096 residents. The Senate meets at its capitol in Lansing. Senators are elected at the same time as the governor, the senators serve four-year terms with the governor’s term of office. Moreover, terms for senators begin on January 1, then November is the general election.

The I-35W Mississippi river bridge also known as Bridge 9340 officially was an eight-lane, steel truss arch bridge which carried the Interstate 35W across the Mississippi river connected the downtown east and Marcy-Holmes. Its construction began in the year 1964, was finally opened in 1967. It connected the northeast of Metrodome on its south end and the University of Minnesota on the North end. The bridge was the boundary of “Mississippi Mile” downtown riverfront parkland. The north foundation of the bridge was near the hydroelectric plant built in 1988. The south abutment was in an area polluted by the coal gas processing plant. There weren’t any mentions of this in the failure investigations. The bridge was a continuous truss bridge that had a total span of 1,907 ft. It was an 8-lane bridge having a width of 113.3ft. and was 115 ft. high. It was designed by Sverdrup & Parcel to 1961 AASHO (American Association Of State Highway Officials) standard specifications. The construction contract worth more than US $5.2 million at the time, went to Hurcon Inc. and Industrial Construction Company, which built the steel trusses and deck. The piers were not built in the navigation channel instead the center span of the bridge consisted of a single 456- foot steel truss over a 390-foot channel being the longest span of the bridge.

No. No exclusive rights over water and they did not intend to invade company profit, new travel and trade have priority in the decision of the court. The court saw no real claim to the water the bridge is over.

However, the city determined that one bridge would not sufficiently handle the volume of traffic during the 18 months it would take to complete a new bridge. Thus, City councillors, working with the Ontario Ministry of Transportation and engineers from Declan Corporation of Toronto, conceived the plan of building a new bridge adjacent to the swing bridge, and later sliding it into place (Anderson & Trenkler, 1991). But, before the construction of the new bridge could commence, engineers had to reverse the direction of the swing rotation of the existing bridge, as it swung directly towards the site the new bridge would be built and would impede on the construction process (Anderson & Trenkler, 1991). Once the planning was finalized and the site prepped, construction could begin.

As it aged into the twenty-first century, Washington State Route 520’s Evergreen Point Floating Bridge began experiencing significant problems that indicated it was approaching the end of its useful lifespan. Government agencies big and small came together to bring forth a replacement bridge project to improve the safety and quality of transportation infrastructure to and from the City of Seattle for many years to come. Over a five-year span, construction was performed to create a floating pontoon bridge, similar in style to the original, but wider and better equipped to withstand the natural conditions of Lake Washington and the Puget Sound region.

The Portsmouth/ Kittery Memorial bridge preplacement project benefit-cost analysis was a very large project. The bridge goes along United States Route 1 over the Piscataqua River links two different cities which are in two different states, New Hampshire and Maine. The Memorial Bridge opened in the early 1920’s making it a historical bridge, which needed a lot of improvements. One of the interesting things about this bridge was that it was jointly owned by New Hampshire Department of Transportation (NHDOT) and Maine Department of Transportation (MDOT). After conducting years of study it was determined by both states that the bridge did not need rehabilitating, but needed to be replaced. The cost-benefit analysis covered several

The bridge replacement is part of a two-bridge project that will cost $16.7 million including a $663,000 budget contingency. The project is on budget and on schedule and will reach final completion in June 2017. The McCormick Quarry Bridge was built in 1959 and has been structurally deficient for more than 20 years. It carries 17,000 vehicles per day making the trip from Route 114 North to I-195 West.

If I had a ticket to go anywhere, I would go to Michigan state for the reasons that it has been a dream of mine for a undoubtedly long amount of time. It has been a dream of mine because a bunch of my friends talk about how great it is, how cold winter is, along with how lovely the lakes are. I love cold weather as much as I love water. Michigan being known for its great lakes has the largest freshwater coast in country 3,288 miles of shoreline. Oh the refreshing water against your skin during the summer days. It is said that Lake Superior is the largest of the Great Lakes of North America and is shared by the Canadian province of Ontario to the north, the US state of Minnesota to the west, also Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

To build this such a giant Bridge, in the then time there needs to spend 27 million of us dollar.

Right now the cost is four dollars for vehicle and an added two if you are pulling a trailer. Each year the bridge goes through a full inspection to make sure nothing has changed. It has gotten this “check-up” every year since it’s completion. Professional divers dive down to a hundred and twenty feet and check every area of all the piers and foundations for the main towers. Lights are replaced repeatedly, and certain sections are once in awhile repainted or repaired(Peters, 80). Now, both the towns of St. Ignace and Mackinaw City are thriving and bustling. Hundreds of people come to see the bridge, go to Mackinac Island, visit the historical British Fort of Michilimackinac right at the foot of the Mackinaw City bridge approach, or just to use the bridge to cross into the beautiful lands of the Upper Peninsula (Peters,

The Chairman asked whether funding is still required to ensure that the company remains sustainable. Mr. Van der Horst explained that funding is still required. In order for Bridge to be a sustainable business without funding, loan volumes must met in the region of R 12 to R15 Million per month. However, to grow the business funding will be required.