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Chris Sorensen states that “The world's oceans remain gaping blind spots for air traffic controllers, and systems to accurately track planes offshore are still years away.” This statement could not be more true for the Malaysia Flight 370 that went missing without a trace. Not much information was available as to what happened and where the plane actually went. The flight left Kuala Lumpur Airport and were heading for Beijing. With two-hundred thirty-nine people aboard, twelve of them being crew…

Happy Friday the 13th! Oh, wait maybe not... Friday the 13th has been stereo typically known as one of the most unlucky days. This has been a stigma believed for decades and is actually known to be a day people try to avoid. But where did this idea of Friday the 13th come from? Who decided it to be the most unlucky day of the year? There isn't a clear answer to this question so today we're breaking down all the myths that made Friday the 13th the scariest day of the year for some. The Last…

Twain and London both describe their experiences of earthquakes in San Francisco with two distinct purposes. While Twain writes to criticize the people's lack of common sense when facing a life endangering situation, London describes the scene of the earthquake in order to convey the magnitude of the destruction that occurred in San Francisco. Each author uniquely practiced the use of imagery, thoughtful sentence structures, and varying word choices, further developing their intended tone, and,…

Ever since I was little I loved seeing the Twin Towers and watching what happened on 9/11. I always wanted to know why the 10 terrorist would ever do that. What was going through their mind while it was happening? Why would they risk their lives just to kill a bunch of innocent people? Why did they choose to do it on 9/11? How did the Twin Towers fall? Why did they choose to attack the Twin Towers? I found out all the answers to my questions one night when i was on my computer in my room.…

The Columbia Shuttle was the oldest shuttle in the NASA fleet. On January 16, 2003 Columbia Space Shuttle’s 28th mission took place. Eight seconds into the launch a piece of foam insulation broke off from the propellant tank and hit the left wing of the shuttle. The cameras used to capture the launch could not focus accordingly on the shuttle while taking off; crash engineers could not pinpoint exactly where the damage took place. On February 1, 2003 Columbia Shuttle broke down while when…

Extraterrestrial Disaster "Let's go, hurry up before he the plane leaves!" Daryl said. Daryl Burns was a CSIS agent, a middle aged man, who had a flattop hairstyle, short stubble beard, and was wearing a tuxedo, living in Toronto. He had his badge tucked into his vest, his S&W pistol tucked into his back pocket, and his taser in his front pockets. He, was here with about seventy other CSIS agents, because forty minutes before they entered into the airport, they got intel that the…

1980’s Fashion The Titanic was discovered at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean on July 14, 1986. Music was big in the 80’s and the hairstyles were crazy. Many new things were invented such as artificial hearts and cable television. However, fashion was all the rage and the events of the 1980s greatly influenced the fashion. The world wide web was created in 1989. It allowed people to search up anything from a computer. The first artificial heart, made to last a lifetime, was made in 1988. It…

September 11, 2001: 19 militants associated with Al-Qaeda, an Islamic extremist group, hijacked four commercial airliners headed for Los Angeles and San Francisco. The hijackers took over the planes, crashing two into the World Trade Center in NYC, one into the Pentagon in Virginia, and another one into an empty field in Pennsylvania. None these planes were found with survivors; around 2,996 deaths altogether. Think that’s the worst of it? What about the 4 million muslims who unwillingly died in…

If the building you were in started catching on fire, would you jump out of a window or would you burn to death? Some people would say jump, but what if the building was ten stories tall, would you still jump? You might think that this is the worst case scenario, but this actually happened in real life. In 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory caught on fire killing and injuring many of the workers. Isaac Harris and Max Blanck were the owners of the factory. The Triangle Shirtwaist…

The articles, “Blacky Sunday” and “True Teen Story from History: The Dust Bowl” have many things in common and many differences. Some differences were, the places it took place in. Ike was driving up to Baca County, Colorado and Catherine was in Kansas at her grandma’s house. What was also different was their childhood. “His house was a dugout: a one room home built into a hill, with walls made of sod, or soil. He shared this room with his parents and eight siblings.” this was stated on page 7.…