Holes Essay

parachute to help soften the landing of our egg. I specifically researched how to prevent the egg from crashing, a slower landing, the softer the landing. I found that if you cut a hole in the top of your parachute, it will greatly reduce the amount of swing making a more stable landing. Of course, the bigger the hole, the less effective the parachute is so you don’t want to make it too big. Our rocket is made out of a 2-liter bottle with the bottom half of another…

and fecundity of C. maculatus. The data obtained was interpreted with a Student's t-test (P=<0.5). No statistically significant difference in beetle fecundity and mortality across treatment type was found, as represented by the number of emergence holes and number of dead beetles over a seven-week period. Introduction Pest damage costs the United States billions per year; the majority of this damage is inflicted by less than 1-3% of known insect species (Shelton). Of these, the order…

My mom and I traveled down Dam Road in Benzie and reached the Homestead Dam. We hiked down river around the first bend and ended up at the fourth hole below the dam. As the dusk swallowed up daylight the action at the river began. I felt small standing in the river, not only because I was the youngest person their but becuase I was standing in a river that stretched for 54 miles and carried immense…

The Big Bad Pig Once upon a time in a land far far away, laid the three little wolves, they ate together, played together, they did everything together, even harass the Big Bad Pig together. Until one day when they gray little wolf… went missing. The brown wolf and the yellow wolf went searching every where. They were looking for gray wolf for 3 days until they found him. Gray said he had been kidnapped by the Big Bad Pig. Yellow, Gray, and Brown wolf stormed into the woods where the Big Bad Pig…

Getting A Root Canal? Two Common Questions Answered If you’ve been told that you need a root canal to repair one of your teeth that have been infected, you may have anxiety about the procedure. Getting a root canal can cause you stress in a couple of ways, due to the unknowns of how much it will cost you, and not knowing how the procedure works. Here are the answers for two common questions regarding root canals. How Much Does The Procedure Cost? The location of your infected tooth will play a…

Where in this universe is it extremely cold and windy? Well not only does Antarctica have such horrendous conditions, but the planet Neptune does as well! The name Neptune originates from the Roman god Neptune. Which means “The God of the Sea” in in Roman mythology, which is the equivalent of the Greek god Poseidon. Some people actually venerate these gods in a ceremony called Lectisternium, and offered food to gods and goddesses. Neptune is also the fourth biggest planet in our solar…

he killed. At Shawshank, Andy meets a man who can get things named Red, as the inmates call him. Red helps Andy get use to the prison walls and keeps him alive his first year. During his time at Shawshank, Andy was beaten, bruised, spent time in a hole, made friends with the warden and officers, and learned the truth about what happened the night of the murders. A bus load…

of about four feet. Atop this wooden cabinet was a peep hole for the viewer to look into, designed with a number of magnifying lenses at the crown of the machine. The film, which reached a length of about 50 feet, was wound around a series of spools inside of the box. In order to increase the smoothness and steadiness of the film’s movement, Edison depended on sprocket holes that punctured the edges of one side of the film. These sprocket holes corresponded with a metal sprocket wheel located in…

Have you heard the story of Pearl Harbor? The Harbor that was bombed by the Japanese over 70 years ago?The 8 ships at the harbor were either sunk or damaged. Now people are exploring new ways to find information and explore the wrecks of the ships, like the SS Arizona. People are using ROVs, also known as Remotely Operated Vehicles, to explore the SS Arizona and other ships at Pearl Harbor. I definitely think that ROVs are critical for underwater research. In a different theory, people think…

half body got through the hole to watch the situation inside, the others at the ladder bottom were watching him. Suddenly the crew shot a missile forward inside the pipe with his launcher and fell off from the sixteen feet ladder. They all caught him to avoid him slamming on the floor. The ladder rocked like a wind blowing tree and two men held it to stop it from falling. Debris of the pipe and smoke even the heater at the mouth of the pipe all fell out through the hole they just welded. The…