I stepped onto the bus and was instantly aware of the chaos that accompanies the everyday bus ride home. I was never in the mood to deal with the commotion so I found a seat by myself in the back. I was thinking about what I was going to do when I got home as the bus pulled up to the first stop at the daycare. I noticed one of the day care providers standing outside awaiting the children to exit the bus. As people got off the bus everything started to shake violently as if a giant had grabbed the top of the bus and shook it around. In a panic, I looked outside and saw parked cars swaying back and forth in their parking spots. Then just as quickly as it came it just stopped, but nothing was quiet because kids were crying and panicking. I was ,however, not to scared because I had actually enjoyed the shaking. I remember the shaking to be like an epic roller-coaster.
Much to my surprise, the bus had
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Without answering my question she immediately replied “Are you ok?”
“Yes, but a lot of other kids were scared” I remembered, “I thought the shaking bus was like a rollercoaster!”
“Well I am glad your ok; what had happened was there was a huge earthquake in the ocean near Japan” my mom explained to me.
After my sister and I were picked up we drove back to our house. When we arrived there was no power and the house was eerily quiet and lifeless. It was also about time for dinner when we got home so we ordered pizza from a place that had backup generators. As we were munching on our warm pizza in the living room we started to feel a little bit of shaking. We all ran to the doorway thinking another earthquake was happening. Even though I wasn’t scared of the large earthquake that happened earlier that day I was scared of what could have happened and that put me on edge. In fact, we all were on edge. A couple seconds after we reached the closest doorway the shaking died away. “It was just an aftershock” my mom announced in a relieved
4. Roller coaster engineers work with a design team in a variety of tasks concerning the construction of roller coasters. The main duties involve deciding what type of roller coaster to use, determining how to place the track, developing the control systems and verifying that the ride is safe for the public. Generally, engineers try to make rides, exciting by including special arrangements that enhance some element of the ride. Loops in the track, embankments and the use of natural scenery are some examples that may add to the thrill of a roller coaster. The engineers usually make around 87,000 per year. Safety is a major concern for a roller coaster engineering design team. Engineers are often required to test the rides many times to make sure they meet the right speeds, weights and forces set forth in the design. No specific major exists in roller coaster engineering, though a design team is typically made up of structural, electrical and mechanical engineers. Many universities offer bachelor's degree engineering programs in these disciplines Roller coaster engineers need to obtain state licensure. Graduation from a state-approved bachelor's degree program typically qualifies engineers to begin the path to becoming licensed. New engineers take an entry-level licensure test that allows them to work under the supervision of a fully licensed engineer.
People can be very wild when it comes to amusement park and their widespread excitement. Although if you think about it
Rollercoasters, the star of an amusement park and an achievement in physics, date back decades. In history there is no doubt that people created countless of amazing coasters. They could be record holders, they could do the impossible or they could inspire the design of many other rollercoasters. Nevertheless they are all made because of our knowledge of the laws of physics. Rollercoasters symbolize how we, throughout the years, can use this knowledge to our advantage. Rollercoasters is a way to express physical science while providing safe (if designed correctly) amusement to all.
Have you ever felt the rushing wind on your face while spiraling through the air? Well if so, then you have probably been on a roller coaster. This October was the first time that I have been on a roller coaster. Traveling with a group of friends, went to the Haunt Night at Worlds of Fun. It was quite an thrilling experience. There were zombies and goblins prowling around, waiting to give you a scare. When we were on our way I was nervous, but excited. As we all trudged up, Keeshawn, Paige, Makenna, Cooper, Katie, and I went to the first ride, The Patriot.
I am the definition of an adrenaline junky. The first to join the queue for every theme park’s scariest ride, theme parks are the ideal holiday destination for me!
When the ferry ride was over we exited the boat, hand in hand. Enjoying the moment, I was in, I felt as if this day couldn’t get any better. We had our fair share of on lookers as we walked around the park, but I didn’t care. This man has breathed new life in me, caressing my dark soul and bringing light back into it again. I was becoming head over heels, and I just met him. I had no idea for the rollercoaster ride I just entered, but then again, not all great love stories start with a prince charming. We arrived at the building that house all the elevators that take you behind the caves and shows you what the falls look like from the other side. Everything but the door was all glass.
People sometimes say that life is like a roller coaster, well that is kind of true because just like a rolling coaster life has its ups and downs and the thrill of being high above and the fear of fall down from the top. Roller coasters can give you a feeling like no other feeling in this world. While roller coasters gives the so much to the people there are bunch of physics that is involved in the making of roller coasters. Without physics and newton’s laws it will be very hard to make roller coaster since every loop or and drop replies forces and how much energy is distributed.
“I was always a trouble maker in school and some of my teachers had my mother’s phone number on speed dial.” It is unbelievable that this statement was made by this quiet guy in front of me. His name is Alex Paquette. Alex was born in Los Angeles and he lived in Glendora for a few years. When he was five years old, his whole family moved out to Walnut Creek because his mother got a job in San Francisco. Moving from a big city to a relatively smaller town might seem like a big thing to a five-year-old child, but he felt glad instead as he no longer had to worry about the earthquakes. It was a regular morning, his house started shaking without any warning while everyone was still on bed. In the next second, he could hear that everything was falling off the shelves and his bunk bed was swaying. Luckily, they managed to rush out the house in time and no one was injured. However, most of their belongings had broken. This is the most serious earthquake Alex had experienced and probably the closest moment between life and death in his life so far.
When a person feels something as terrifying as an earthquake, those feeling will be strongest during and immediately afterwards. As time passes though, the person’s terror feeling will fade into a memory, and the fear will start to diminish. However, this isn’t the way mother
With music blasting, voices singing and talking, it was another typical ride to school with my sister. Because of our belated departure, I went fast, too fast. We started down the first road to our destination. This road is about three miles long and filled with little hills. As we broke the top of one of the small, blind hills in the middle of the right lane was a dead deer. Without any thought, purely by instinct I pulled the wheel of the car to the left and back over to the right. No big deal but I was going fast. The car swerved back to the left, to the right, to the left. Each time I could feel the car scratching the earth with its side. My body jolted with the sporadic movements of the car. The car swerved to the right for the last time. With my eyes sealed tight, I could feel my body float off the seat of the car.
A roller coaster is a small gravity railroad, especially in an amusement park, having a train with open cars that moves along a high, sharply winding trestle built with steep inclines that produce sudden, speedy plunges for thrillseeking passengers. The first roller coaster was revealed to the United States on January 20, 1885 , which were made of wood. The oldest roller coasters originated from the Russian Mountains. Some believe the first roller coaster was created under the orders of Russian Catherine The Great in Saint
“Come on, do it!” my aunt exclaimed at me the day before our trip to the amusement park. My family would always take a trip to an amusement park every other summer. I was always scared about going on the roller coasters. So one day before the trip, my aunt wanted to push me and my sister to do something new through a bet. The bet was that I had to chose one ride or the other ride but I had to choose one. My sister chose the one I didn’t choose so we both had to go on separate rides. Then the one day came and my sister, me, my cousin and my aunt drove to the amusement park building up the anticipation each minute in the car.
I awoke to a stopped bus that wreaked of smoke. After a minute I realized that we were in the white lines between the highway and an exit in west virginia. Then I heard someone say “I think the bus is on fire”. My first thought was “why are we still on here” and my second thought was “where are my pretzels”. We evacuated the bus, (I was smart enough to grab a blanket but I couldn’t find my pretzels) then proceeded to stand on the side of the road for quite some time while we waited for them to figure out what was up and why it was smoking. Next we sat on the bus for an hour waiting for the boys to get off of their bus at a rest stop so that the bus could come get us. Then we drove to the rest stop and on the way, the light on that bus went out. So we all waited at this rest stop for a new bus to come. This place was cold! People were using maps as blankets so when I got there I had to fight for mine. I ended up having half of it taken up by a cranky and cold dean who wanted to walk around with the blanket and brag to
Thousands of people have experienced an earthquake at one point in their life. An earthquake can be a type of stressor. This type of stressor is called a cataclysmic event. These events are “strong stressors that occur suddenly and typically affect many people simultaneously” (Feldman, 2010). Though some might think all kinds of stress lingers, but in these cases they usually don’t. In most cases it causes relief because people would believe that the worst has already happened and so they go on with their day with possibly even less stress. For example if I so happened to be shopping at the mall while my mom was at work and suddenly I felt a strong earthquake, I would begin to stress about the fact that my mom works in a large building nearby. Then I would do anything I can to get in contact with her to find out if she is well and unharmed. Then I would feel relieved to know that she is fine.
My mom and I arrived at my great aunt’s house in Ely, Nevada at around dinnertime. We both decided it was time to get some sleep due to our long drive. My mom had asked me to wake her up if my dad did not call or arrive by midnight. She was obviously very tired from driving and I had slept most of the way anyways. I could tell my mom was very worried about my dad because he was traveling on his Harley Davidson, and the roads were dangerous. My innocent ten-year-old mind did not think anything bad could happen,