You will prepare and submit a term paper on Case Perspective. Your paper should be a minimum of 1250 words in length. As he approaches the SAT exam, the teachers’ concern towards his ability to make a successful transition to secondary school is warranted. While most of his peers are able to write and read well, he struggles with such basic skills, which demonstrate his inability to catch up with his colleagues (Jones, Bailey & Jacob, 2014). The situation at home affects Darren more than the younger sister whose performance and school attendance are impressive.

This report only provides the tough environment that Darren lives in but does not indicate that he suffers from any learning and cognitive conditions. He is healthy, active and plays football with his friends within the school playground during break time, a demonstration that his condition is not in any way medical. Since he was enrolled into the school, Darren has struggled academically, scoring low marks and making little progress towards improving his reading and writing skills (Wininger & Norman, 2010). With his energy and deceptively happy life covered with a smiling face, Darren faces some psychological issues that must be addressed in order to help him improve his performance. He also demonstrates strong athletic abilities by engaging in sporting activities within the school during break time with his close group of friends.

Cognitive abilities are characteristics that arise from predisposition and a learning environment which are manifested in the level of creativity, intelligence and motivation. Students who have poor cognitive abilities can develop various conditions associated with learning disabilities, which include attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia and even speech disorders (Rodriguez-Campos, et al., 2014). Darren performs poorly in his exams and cannot communicate effectively in class as compared with his peers, a situation that is attributed to his environment. With his father incarcerated for an unknown period of time and the mother absent from home most of the time, Darren lacks the motivation and abilities to develop like a normal child (Jones, Bailey & Jacob, 2014).

Write 5 pages thesis on the topic soil mechanics. n-drained and drained were undertaken on the undisturbed soil samples to determine the shear strength parameters under drained and drained condition for the given soil sample from where the building will be constructed. Basing on the results, it is evident that the bearing capacity of the silt soil was much less as compared to the cohesion less soil ultimate bearing capacity. In this regard, the building codes permit higher bearing pressure for less cohesion soils like sand as compared to that of plastic soil (silt).

Tri-axial tests are laboratory testing techniques mostly applied to obtain shear strength parameters for different types of soil under un-drained and drained condition (Alshibli and Sture 2000). Conventional test entails a cylindrical soil sample which is subjected to radial stresses as well as axial displacement or controlled increases in axial stresses. Usually, the cylindrical soil specimen is of 200m height and 100 mm diameter. Preparation of specimen is based on the type of soil. For shear failure, the soil grains usually slide over each other along the failure surface hence there is no crushing of grains. At failure, along the failure surface, the shear stress reaches the shear strength. Basically, soils are known to be frictional materials. The strength is based on the stress applied whereby this stress is controlled by effective stresses and here water pressure is needed (Alshibli and Sture 2000). Also soil strength is based on drainage whereby different strengths can be measured for a certain soil that can deform at a given constant volume (un-drained) as well as deform without having pore pressure that is excess (drained). Angle of friction (ø) and Cohesion (c) are generally not soil constant parameters. They are based on the soil initial state and the loading type (drained or un-drained) (Widulinski et al., 2009).