Wallenda plans to run a cable, two inches thick and feet long, between two cranes raised 13 feet from the ground. To train, he will take wire walks over water near his Florida home while a caravan of airboats swarm around him, blasting winds up to 78 miles per hour to approximate the winds and spray of the falls. For the real thing, a rescue helicopter will hover nearby. I look goofy, but nobody gets hurt. He always worked without a net, believing that preparing for disaster only made one more likely to occur. A rope 1, feet long, two inches in diameter and made entirely of hemp would be the sole thing separating him from the roiling waters below.
Allusion Material I. An unseen and abysmal revolution is taking place in the fiber and structure of society. Individual can only dimly feel these things, but they are in the aerate, now, today. Terrible forces seemed absent of control and the nation seemed imperiled. Farmers and workers had been waging political war against capitalists after that political conservatives for decades, but after that, slowly, toward the end of the nineteenth century a new generation of middle-class Americans interjected themselves into broadcast life and advocated new reforms en route for tame the runaway world of the Gilded Age. Widespread dissatisfaction with additional trends in American society spurred the Progressive Era, named for the a choice of progressive movements that attracted various constituencies around various reforms.
