Fort Mackinac

As we cross the monstrous Mackinac Bridge that disappears into the fog behind us, my grandma Kathy glances into the back seat of my grandparents 2008 Pontiac and tells my cousin Zach and I, “Pack up your devices; we are almost to the boat.” We arrive at the dock and board a two level white Star Line ferry that will take us to Mackinac Island, out of sight. I slide into a window seat in order to see Lake Michigan, and avoid boredom from having to place my iPhone 5 in my pocket. The island comes into

The Mackinac Bridge’s suspension cables contain 12,580 individual cables and are 24.5 inches wide. They contain over 45,000 miles of cable, which is enough to circle the whole earth at the equator almost 2 times (Gringhuis, 25). The amount of cable isn’t the only factor that makes the construction and completion of the bridge a dream come true for the people living near the Straits of Mackinac. It meant that from then on, there would be an easy and fairly quick way to get back and forth from both

When we could get everyone rounded up and on the same schedule, my parents, brothers and I would pack up and go on our one “big” vacation of the summer. When I was8 one, we went to Mount Rushmore and witnessed the fireworks display. At the age of two, we were at the “grandaddy” of them all, Cheyenne Frontier Days. In 2003, I was three, we went spelunking in caves to explore Ruby Fall, Tennesse. I remember nothing about these vacations, except what I was told years later about them. However, when

Sharp Objects “I am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special case. I have a purpose. My skin, you see, screams. It's covered with words - cook, cupcake, kitty, curls - as if a knife-wielding first-grader learned to write on my flesh. I sometimes, but only sometimes, laugh. Getting out of the bath and seeing, out of the corner of my eye, down the side of a leg: babydoll. Pull on a sweater and, in a flash of my wrist: harmful. Why these words? Thousands of

Executive Summary The report debates the Tacoma narrows bridge failure and the different theories of how it came about, using information about what type of bridge it is and the forces acting on it before and during the collapse. It also discusses ways in which the failure could have been avoided, from changes in the design to modifications to the bridge after its construction. (Blaschke 2015) Introduction Tacoma Narrows Bridge was opened to the public on July 1st 1940 after being in construction

Peninsula: A long piece of land connected to a mainland and surrounded by water on three sides A peninsula is surrounded by a body of water such as an ocean, lake, or sea. It is almost an island except it is connected to a larger landmass. A peninsula can be found on every continent. They can also be many sizes. They can be really small, only big enough for a lighthouse. They can be really large, such as the southern part of India. Some examples of more familiar peninsula are the states of Florida

Erie, Michigan is located in southeast Michigan which is part of Monroe County, and has slowly grown to a community of just under 5,000 people and has remained a largely rural community. Erie was started in 1790, where there was a log church named St. Joseph and then in 1827 there was a post office established, which was named Bay Settlement. The township covers 30 square miles, 25 of those square miles are land and 5.6 square miles is water. Erie township boarders Lake Erie, which is the fourth

financially impossible by the PWA (Shaul 24). The Mackinac Bridge Authority was dissolved entirely in in 1947 in light of World War II, but was re-opened to discussion in 1951 with very different plans on financing the bridge (Brown 8-9). After multiple appeals to the state and federal governments for funding to construct the bridge, the Mackinac Bridge Authority (MBA) worked for the next two years to determine the economic costs of building the Mackinac Bridge. In 1952, they produced a figure of 76

water, we would not have the unique land structures that exist today. I was born and raised right here in the beautiful state of Michigan. Michigan is a unique place because it is two separate peninsulas connected by a bridge and separated by the Mackinac Straits. In short, us Michigan natives have grown up surrounded by water. Michigan has about 58,000 sq. miles of land and 38,000 miles of water. The majority of the water that makes up Michigan is formed from the Great Lakes: No point in Michigan

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