Bermuda Triangle Speech - first reactions/response

Bermuda Triangle Speech - first reactions/response?
Warning: long read, yet easy to respond. HI!, i have a speech in a few weeks and i have an outline prepared as well as a beginning but not a real sturdy idea of where i want it to go. so i want to put up an outline and tell you a bit of my beginning so if you guys can offer any opinions on my work (and not the triangle itself) or any other ideas that might better my work please please contribute :) thanks so very much, anything is appreciated! side note: keep in mind this speech should be 5mins, and that it has to be exciting and captivating.. rough outline: 1. The Bermuda Triangle, Intro. -First documented by Christopher Columbus -Other sources (location, some facts like mile coverage etc.) 2. Why is it so controversial? -(includes: Coast Guards point of view, that the Us Navy doesnt officially recognize it, and that everything dissappears generally without a trace!) 3. Famous Stories -unsolved ones ( Flight 19,USS cyclops, Connemar IV, S.S Cotopari) -ones that were never really related to the bermuda but believed to be (Marie Celeste..[any others?] 4. Myth/Superstitious explanations -Atlantis -Aliens [others?] 5. Scientific explanations -compass readings (true and magnetic north) -Methane hydrates -Gulf Stream -Freak Storms/Waves/Hurricanes 5. Quick conclusion that circles around something like "no matter what...the triangle will always be a mystery..etc etc." thats the outline, please provide any input if you can in areas with [brackets] now for the beginning which is super not ready =) : October 11, 1492; the famous Christopher Columbus and his crew, who are sailing through the Atlantic [valid info? was it the Atlantic? i'm 99.9% sure?] report seeing strange lights that hover, and later move up and down. He also reported that his compass readings were askew and that though in shallow waters, no land was in sight. And so ends the first ever documented report of the Bermuda Triangle. Now to provide a background......(jump into outline) yes thats my beginning, i want to capture the audience and i didnt know how else to do so. please offer any other ideas if you have! THANKSS :) 10pts, and immense gratitude to best anwser ofcourse ^-^
Homework Help - 1 Answers
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http://www.123helpme.com/search.asp?text=Where+are+you+Going,+Where+have+you+Been

Drive from Ohio to Texas. . or fly

Drive from Ohio to Texas. . or fly?
Okay. So me and my boyfriend want to go to Houston, TX in April. . . Well we have to fly b/c we live in Ohio and thats just to far to drive, right? Thats like 2000 miles away. Okay we don't have a problem at all getting hotels and flights. . . but he's 19 and I'm 18. How are we supposed to get around if we dont drive, I mean is there any rental cars that will rent ta 19 yo's? I don't really know any alternitives I mean we have enough money to cover flight and hotel and food and alll that good stuff but I dont think we can afford cab fares every where we go for a week. . lol yah know. Would driving be cheaper then flying it would suck bad but we would have a car and http://www.fuelcostcalculator.com/ says that gas from Columbus to houston would be around 300. It was right on my last trip to Florida but I dont know. Round trip tickets for both of us would be 800. I perfer flying but do not know what to do about the car!!! Gr. Can any one give me any advice on this? Thanks Well we drove to Florida and it was fun but loooong.And I say it was about 20 hours in its self. Texas looks kinda far away lol. and no I dont drive yet =\ I am hoping that I will be before April. I know that Alamo will rent to 21 and his brother and his g/f might be going and they are 21 BUT they have a 1 year old son and Im not counting on them going for sure.. yah know. And we are going to Houston b/c thats where Wrestlemania is going to be this year. .
Other - United States - 3 Answers
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The drive isn't that bad. About 18-20 hours total. If you go by way of Memphis you could stop there half way thru and check out the town which is pretty nice. I assume you both drive so it wouldn't be too bad if you did it that way.
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Well to rent a car, you must be 25 and have a credit card to put it on. Flying would be really fast, but driving would be a lot of fun also. It would be fun to stay over in a hotel, and look at everything as you are driving. Me and my friend drove to VA beach from cleveland and it was lots of fun. So driving is the best option i think!
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well with Gas going up and down it could be more than 300 dollars, you have to 25 to rent a car, but why would you want to go to Houston i mean i live an hour from Houston, its fun an all but its not that great and the closest beach here is Galveston and its not that great either. But I perfer flying but its up to you

Does the fact that there were no attempted terrorist attacks while Bush was President make Obama like bad

Does the fact that there were no attempted terrorist attacks while Bush was President make Obama like bad?
With the exception of 9/11 because that was an actual terrorist attack and I guess you can't count these: Richard Reid, December 2001. A British citizen and self-professed follower of Osama bin Laden, Reid hid explosives inside his shoes before boarding a flight from Paris to Miami and attempted to light the fuse with a match. If detonated, the explosives would have damaged the plane. Reid was caught in the act and apprehended on board the plane by the flight attendants and passengers. FBI officials took Reid into custody after the plane made an emergency landing at Boston's Logan International Airport. In 2003, Reid was found guilty on charges of terrorism, and a U.S. federal court sentenced him to life imprisonment. Jose Padilla, May 2002. U.S. officials arrested Padilla in May 2002 at O'Hare Airport in Chicago as he returned to the United States from Pakistan. He was initially charging as an enemy combatant and for planning to use a "dirty bomb" (an explosive laced with radioactive material) in an attack against America.[5] Prior to his conviction, Padilla brought a case against the federal government claiming that he had been denied the right of habeas corpus (the right of an individual to petition against unlawful imprisonment). In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court found that the case against him had been filed improperly.In 2005, the government indicted Padilla for conspiring with Islamic terrorist groups. In August 2007, Padilla was found guilty by a civilian jury after a three-month trial. He was later sentenced by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to 17 years and four months in prison. Lackawanna Six, September 2002. When the FBI arrested Sahim Alwan, Yahya Goba, Yasein Taher, Faysal Galab, Shafal Mosed, and Mukhtar al-Bakri, the press dubbed them the "Lackawanna Six," the "Buffalo Six," or the "Buffalo Cell." Five of the six had been born and raised in Lackawanna, New York. These six American citizens of Yemeni descent were arrested for conspiring with terrorist groups. They had stated that they were going to Pakistan to attend a religious training camp, but instead attended an al-Qaeda jihadist camp. All six pleaded guilty in 2003 to providing support to al-Qaeda. Goba and al-Bakri were sentenced to 10 years in prison, Taher and Mosed to eight years, Alwan to seven and a half years, and Galab to seven years. Iyman Faris, May 2003. Faris is a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Kashmir and lived in Columbus, Ohio. He was arrested for conspiring to use blowtorches to collapse the Brooklyn Bridge. The New York City Police Department learned of the plot and increased police surveillance around the bridge. Faced with the additional security, Faris and his superiors decided to cancel the attack. Faris pleaded guilty to conspiracy and providing material support to al-Qaeda and was later sentenced in federal district court to 20 years, the maximum allowed under his plea agreement. Virginia Jihad Network, June 2003. In Alexandria, Virginia, 11 men were arrested for weapons counts and for violating the Neutrality Acts, which prohibit U.S. citizens and residents from attacking countries with which the United States is at peace. Four of the 11 men pleaded guilty. Upon further investigation, the remaining seven were indicated on additional charges of conspiring to support terrorist organizations. They were found to have connections with al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and Lashkar-i-Taiba, a terrorist organization that targets the Indian government. The authorities stated that the Virginia men had used paintball games to train and prepare for battle. The group had also acquired surveillance and night vision equipment and wireless video cameras. Ali al-Timimi, the spiritual leader of the group, was found guilty of soliciting individuals to assault the United States and sentenced to life in prison. Ali Asad Chandia received 15 years for supporting Lashkar-i-Taiba, but maintains his innocence. Randoll Todd Royer, Ibrahim al-Hamdi, Yong Ki Kwon, Khwaja Mahmood Hasan, Muhammed Aatique, and Donald T. Surratt pleaded guilty and were sentenced to prison terms. Masoud Khan, Seifullah Chapman, and Hammad Adur-Raheem were found guilty at trial and later sentenced. Dhiren Barot, August 2004. Members of a terrorist cell led by Dhiren Barot were arrested for plotting to attack the New York Stock Exchange and other financial institutions in New York, Washington, and Newark, New Jersey. They were later accused of planning attacks in England. The plots included a "memorable black day of terror" that would have included detonating a dirty bomb. A July 2004 police raid on Barot's house in Pakistan discovered a number of incriminating files on a laptop computer, including instructions for building car bombs. Dhiren Barot pleaded guilty and was convicted in the United Kingdom for conspiracy to to commit mass murder and sentenced to 40 years. However, in May 2007, his se James Elshafay and Shahawar Matin Siraj, August 2004. James Elshafay and Shahawar Matin Siraj were arrested for plotting to bomb a subway station near Madison Square Garden in New York City before the Republican National Convention.[20] An undercover detective from New York City Police Department's Intelligence Division infiltrated the group, providing information to authorities, and later testified against Elshafay and Siraj.[21] Siraj was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Elshafay, a U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty and received a lighter, five-year sentence for testifying against his co-conspirator.[22] Levar Haley Washington, Gregory Vernon Patterson, Hammad Riaz Samana, and Kevin James, August 2005. The members of the group were arrested in Los Angeles and charged with conspiring to attack National Guard facilities, synagogues, and other targets in the Los Angeles area. Michael C. Reynolds, December 2005. Michael C. Reynolds was arrested by the FBI and charged with involvement in a plot to blow up a Wyoming natural gas refinery; the Transcontinental Pipeline, a natural-gas pipeline from the Gulf Coast to New York and New Jersey; and a Standard Oil refinery in New Jersey.[29] He was arrested while trying to pick up a $40,000 payment for planning the attack.[30] Shannen Rossmiller, his purported contact, was a Montana judge who was working with the FBI. The FBI later found explosives in a storage locker in Reynolds's hometown of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Narseal Batiste, Patrick Abraham, Stanley Grant Phanor, Naudimar Herrera, Burson Augustin, Lyglenson Lemorin, and Rotschild Augustine, June 2006. Seven men were arrested in Miami and Atlanta for plotting to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago, followed by FBI offices and other government buildings around the country. The arrests resulted from an investigation involving an FBI informant. Assem Hammoud, July 2006.Conducting online surveillance of chat rooms, the FBI discovered a plot to attack underground transit links between New York City and New Jersey. Eight suspects including Assem Hammoud, an al-Qaeda loyalist living in Lebanon, were arrested for plotting to bomb New York City train tunnels. Fort Dix Plot, May 2007. Six men were arrested in a plot to attack Fort Dix, a U.S. Army base in New Jersey. The plan involved using assault rifles and grenades to attack and kill soldiers. Five of the alleged conspirators had conducted training missions in the nearby Pocono Mountains. The sixth helped to obtain weapons. The arrests were made after a 16-month FBI operation that included infiltrating the group. JFK Airport Plot, June 2007. Four men plotted to blow up "aviation fuel tanks and pipelines at the John F. Kennedy International Airport" in New York City. Synagogue Terror Plot, May 2009. On May 20, 2009, the New York Police Department announced the arrest of James Cromite, David Williams, Onta Williams, and Laguerre Payen for plotting to blow up area Jewish centers and shoot down planes at a nearby Air National Guard Base.
Politics - 4 Answers
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Well, that drivel was a waste of time. Nobody said that there wasn't an attempt.. But Bush didn't have incompetent political hacks in security positions, and none of his appointees would have said the system worked when it clearly did not.
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Terrorists do seem to try to attack the US on a regular basis. I think the D.C. sniper shootings would count as an act of terrorism as well.
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Closing an American Embassy show Obama is Like a coward
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Great list. Have a link? Even more stats: http://www.lawandsecurity.org/publications/TTRCHighlightsSept25th.pdf

edit my paper? please

edit my paper? please?
PLEASE CHECK DIALOUGE...IT MIGHT GET MESSED UP B/C OF YAHOO ANSWERS FORMATTING BUT PLEASE CHECK CAPITALIZATION ETC. BTW IM IN 7TH GRADE...THIS PAPER IS not PERFECT! The trees and houses rolled past, but this wasn’t the Chicago I remembered. The pilot’s voice came over the crackly intercom. “Ladies and gentlemen,” he began, “I’m sorry to inform you that there’ been storms spotted in the Chicago area. We’ve chosen to land in Columbus, Ohio instead.” He went on with the weather report and time, but I didn’t pay much attention. I was too anxious to get off the plane, which smelled like Grandma’s house. The seats were scratchy and the kid behind me must’ve broken his leg kicking my chair, so I didn’t care that we weren’t going to Chicago. However, my mind changed when I learned that not reaching our original destination meant not getting our luggage until we arrived there. That meant it could be up to a week until I got to wear fresh clothes, brush my hair, or even sleep with my teddy bear again. My parents didn’t know what to do, so we trudged over to a Burger King and thought things over. My parents had a total seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents after our meal at Burger King. Seventeen dollars wouldn’t last three people for 3 days, let alone a week. We called my grandparents, who we were going to Chicago to see. They that that they couldn’t even get out of their house because the storms, sleet, and snow was so bad. I watched as the skinny blonde ladies hurried past with their miniature dogs, while the businessmen sauntered on, talking on their earpieces. There were few passengers from the flight we had just walked off of because many were all traveling on to a further destination. We looked around hopelessly at the passengers arriving, departing, and eating. I was watching an old man slurp his chili with the when a young lady approached us. “Were you on the flight?” she questioned. “The one that didn’t make it to Chicago?” My parents nodded with a worried expression. “Oh I’m sorry. It must be awful without money. No food, no clothes…” her voice wandered off. She continued, “Who knows when you’ll get all your luggage back? Tell you what. I’ve been in this situation before, and it’s not fun. These twenty dollars,” she held up a crisp bill “were going towards new shoes. But you’re obviously in a lot more trouble than my sore feet. Take it.” And with that, she walked away. My parents and I stared after her in disbelief. “Well,” spoke my mother, cautiously, “Now we have just over thirty-seven dollars. We’ll get three sufficient meals a day and split them.” Little did we know that we wouldn’t be stuck there for long. My grandfather called us the next morning around eight thirty. We had slept on the seats at gate G 12, where we had departed from the plane. He had told us that he would be able to drive over, but it would take at least another day because of icy roads and traffic. While we waited, my father and I raced around on the moving walkways, tracked the arrivals and departures, and looked at all the passengers anxiously waiting. There weren’t any other passengers from our flight because they had all been picked up by friends or relatives.
Family - 3 Answers
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We’ve chosen to land in Columbus, Ohio instead.” Delete the comma The seats were scratchy and the kid behind me must’ve broken his leg kicking my chair, so I didn’t care that we weren’t going to Chicago. Use must have and not a contraction. "They that that they couldn’t even get out of their house because the storms, sleet, and snow was so bad." Double word They that that... because they had all been picked up by friends or relatives. Change to: because friends or relatives had picked them all up. That's all I could spot, and that is an excellent writing for 7th grade!
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I dont' know how
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... i may have missed some more but this is what i've come up with, please take note of the question mark.... "The trees and houses rolled past, but this wasn’t the Chicago I remembered. The pilot’s voice came over the crackly intercom. “Ladies and gentlemen,” he began, “I’m sorry to inform you that there’d been storms spotted in the Chicago area. We’ve chosen to land in Columbus, Ohio instead.” He went on with the weather report and time, but I didn’t pay much attention. I was too anxious to get off the plane, which smelled like Grandma’s house. The seats were scratchy and the kid behind me must’ve broken his leg kicking my chair, so I didn’t care that we weren’t going to Chicago. However, my mind changed when I learned that not reaching our original destination meant not getting our luggage until we arrived there. That meant it could be up to a week until I got to wear fresh clothes, brush my hair, or even sleep with my teddy bear again. My parents didn’t know what to do, so we trudged over to a Burger King and thought things over. My parents had a total seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents after our meal at Burger King, which wouldn’t last three people for 3 days, let alone a week. We called my grandparents, whom we were going to go visit at Chicago. They couldn’t even get out of their house because the storms, sleet, and snow was so bad. I watched as the skinny blonde ladies hurried past with their miniature dogs, while the businessmen sauntered on, talking on their earpieces. There were few passengers from the flight we had just walked off because many were all traveling on to a further destination. We looked around hopelessly at the passengers arriving, departing, and eating. I was watching an old man slurp his chili with the __(?)___ when a young lady approached us. “Were you on the flight?” she questioned. “The one that didn’t make it to Chicago?” My parents nodded with a worried expression. “Oh I’m sorry. It must be awful without money. No food, no clothes…” her voice wandered off. She continued, “Who knows when you’ll get your entire luggage back? Tell you what. I’ve been in this situation before, and it’s not fun. Here’s twenty dollars,” she held up a crisp bill “were going towards new shoes, but you’re obviously in a lot more trouble than my sore feet. Take it.” And with that, she walked away. My parents and I stared after her in disbelief. “Well,” spoke my mother, cautiously, “Now we have just over thirty-seven dollars. We’ll get three sufficient meals a day and split them.” Little did we know that we wouldn’t be stuck there for long. My grandfather called us the next morning around eight thirty. We had slept on the seats at gate G 12, where we had departed from the plane. He had told us that he would be able to drive over, but it would take at least be another day because of icy roads and traffic. While we waited, my father and I raced around the moving walkways, tracked the arrivals and departures, and looked at all the passengers anxiously waiting. There weren’t any other passengers from our flight because they had all been picked up by friends or relatives."