The force inplied on this project is down force. The direct pull of waight down on the papper and or the straw. There is still force in other directions if the weight is swinging or is moving in any way other then just straight down.

There is not only force on the papper and or the straw but in meny other areas as whell. One of witch beeing the string. This takes force strate down from the weight. obveisly the weight plays a big part in this. Not only dose the weight pull down in a gerall view but it has a large inpact on the papper, the straw and the string, witch is one of the meny resons why the papper and straw evenchuly brake.

There is also a force in a diffren direction, Compreshen. There is compreshen on the papper and the straw from the clamps making them weeker and also with that there is the force of gravity.

In this example the tensile like in ower projecket would be the cables on the golden gate brige.The brige has the idear of tensile stranth as the project dose with the pull on both ends. On the brige there is holeding one end of the cable up whall the deck of the brige where the cars go is pulling down onon the cables just the same as the project.

The Zakim brige is another example of tensil on a brige. This brige dose have less cables then golden gate brige showing that the Zakim's cables have a higher tensile stranth to them

Other things that use tensile stranth would be the cables on a crane. Cranes use thair cables to lift large objects. granted that even though there are other forses like sheer tensil is still the other forces that plays a biggest role