Informative Speech On Tourism
Imagine yourself flying in a plane to US for a summer job. You are travelling
to experience new country, job, to meet new friends from all over the world. And
you think that you are really happy to be in that position. Everything seems to
be perfect in your life, except some insignificant details. But all of a sudden
an armed psycho puts a gun barrel to your head and proclaims that he wants to
change the plane course, and if this will not be done he will kill you. You
never know how serious his intentions can be. You begin to fell panic realizing
that you can die very soon. What will happen next? Will the pilot change the
course? Will the mad guy kill you to show others that his intentions are serious
and just grab a new victim? Or will he explode a bomb and everyone in the plane
will die? You never know.
Most of you probably have already understood
that today I am going to talk to you about terrorists and their actions. I am
doing a research paper for my written communications class and I have read much
information about the issue.
So, my speech will consist of three
points.
1st I'll explain the definition of terrorism and some background
of it.
2ndly I' talk about 4 major types of terrorists
Finally
We'll look at some actions that governments do to prevent
terrorism.
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In
every kind of society, in all periods of history, there are people who are not
satisfied with the laws, rules, regulations, politics or social situation. Some
of them cannot find legal ways to make themselves noticeable, or to change
something. The legal ways like working, seeking a good career seem to them
ineffective, or they simply do not have appropriate attitudes for them.
Therefore, they choose the way of violence and arrogance directed against the
peaceful people. The people, who practice violence against the others to make an
influence on government in order to reach their financial or political goals,
are called terrorists. Their actions are called terrorism. Nowadays, there are
more and more peaceful people suffering because of the different forms of
terrorism all over the world.
Terrorism is a rather old phenomenon. Even
in the first century AD, in Palestine, there was a sect of the Sicarians, which
used to kill the Jews who had common deals with the Romans ( Boltunov). In the
nineteenth century Philosophy of the bomb prevailed. This philosophy supported
the principle by which small groups of people would be able to cause the very
maximum of chaos (quot. Encyclopaedia Britannica
p.232).
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First
of all, there are terrorists who are fanatics. They act this way because of
their strong believes about certain kinds of politics or religion. They are sure
that their actions will bring a benefit to their country and will help to change
the life people in a good way. They believe that they are fighting for right
moral principles. There were some peaceful victims during the action. Usually,
it is necessary to pay with blood for the better future (quot. Boltunov M.
p.32).
Second, very common type of the terrorists is sadists. The people
who do not accept any rules and regulations at all. They hate to be controlled
by somebody. They do not care about the people's lives. They need power, and
they prefer to reach it by using violence. Usually such people prefer to take
hostages. It is real pleasure for them to feel that they have a right to decide
who will be killed, and who will stay alive.
Third main group includes
the people who have different kinds of mental problems. The mental thinking of
such people may also include the moral features of the terrorists from both of
the previously mentioned types. They also seek power and act fanatically. Their
logical conclusions are mostly unpredictable, therefore, it is quite difficult
to fight with them. They are called maniacs.
Beside these three main
groups, there are also many single terrorists who act because of their personal
motivations. It is impossible to describe all of them. They can vary from person
to person. Usually these people are not as dangerous as the ones who relate to
the groups listed above because the terror is not their lifestyle. They use it
because they cannot find another way to change the conditions of their difficult
and hopeless situations in lives (quot. Brittanica The Book of The Year
p.205).
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People
do not pay enough attention to the terror acts in Palestine, Northern Ireland,
Bosnia, or Checnya. Attention can be attracted only by the most tragically ones.
Like blowing up the barracks of the U.S. base in Saudi Arabia.
Middle
East is well known for its anti Western tendention. The growing anti-Western
feeling is palpable.(Maclean's July8, 1996). The terrorist acts against
Americans are becoming more and more common.
What is really done in the
world about that problem? What do our governments can do? What ways do they
already have? What should be done to make the struggle with the terrorism more
effective?
Political leaders are worrying about the issue. After the
events in Saudi Arabia the topic of terrorism was the main point on the meeting
of G-7. The new 40-point plan to fight and prevent the terrorism was accepted
(Macleans Morris N. p.23).
Modern terrorism, as it was mentioned before,
became an international problem. Therefore, it is impossible to fight it within
the borders of one definite country. There are many agreements among the main
countries of the world. These agreements allow to punish the terrorists even if
they have escaped to other country. The main problems, connected with terrorism,
are discussed on the highest level at United Nations Assemblies.
Almost
every country has its own group of very highly trained soldiers, which are
specially trained for work with terrorists. The maintaining and developing such
group takes years, and costs lots of money. But it is worth it. There are very
many examples of successful operations, which were accomplished without single
hostage victim. The terrorists were whether killed or neutralised very
quickly.
The most famous of such groups are German GSG-9, British SAS,
Austrian Cobra, Russian Alfa, American Delta, and many others. The names and the
faces of the members of these groups are kept in secret.
So, it seems
that the situation is not very helpless. There are agreements, there are special
forces. Nevertheless, the problem stays very
complicated.
CONCLUSION
So we have talked about the definition of
terrorism and some background, major types of terrorism and govt's actions
against terrorists. And I would like to finish my speech with a quotation of
David Sambursky who is a veteran of American Special Anti-terrorist Group Delta.
He has once said The struggle with terrorism is the war, which we cannot win,
but neither are we allowed to
lose.