ROAR Book: To Engineer Is Human

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5.Comments:

• To me, an engineer needs to be good at math; I think that it is one of the major keys that is needed to be an engineer.
• I did not know that the Kansas City Hyatt Rengency Hotel skywalks collapsed in 1981.
• I feel like the skywalks accident is a lesson for other engineers can learn from.
• In the second chapter of this book there are a lot of similies.
• One thing that I like about this chapter so far is that there is a mini section that describes the author's background.

4.Questions:

• Are there any differences between engineering and constructing?
• Why did the Kansas City Hyatt Rengency Hotel skywalks collapse in 1981?
• What were the newspapers that wrote about the skywalks incident?
• How did the Kansas City Hyatt Rengency skywalks cost to build?

3.Vocabulary:

• Rudiments: a mere beginning, first slight appearance, or undeveloped or imperfect form of something
• Capricious: subject to, led by, or indicative of caprice or whim; erratic
• Recumbent: lying down; reclining; leaning

2.Literary Terms:

• Simile: "Mother Goose is as full of structural failures as human histroy." (page 17)
• Metaphor: "Breakdowns of man and machine can occur if they are called upon to carry more than they can bear." (page 16)
  

1.Overview Sentence

• Describes the Kansas City Hyatt Rengency Hotel skywalks incident and the basics of engineering.