Outline - Second Term Paper

The Nature and Effects of Lightning

Paragraph 1 - Introduction
Lightning has always been a mysterious and immensely powerful force in legends, folk tales, and mythical stories, and often very spiritual in its connotations.
- A brief description of how lightning works and occurs.
- An introduction of lightning in fims: X-Men, Percy Jackson, Star Wars, Stardust, Back to the Future...

Paragraph 2
- Lightning seeks the shortest and easiest path to equilibrium
- While Toad may have received severe burns on the end of his unnaturally long tongue (if at all), the electricity would not have traveled along the tongue to Toad's airborne body, but rather would have traveled through the metal railing and the rest of the building into the ground below.

P 3
- Lightning does not cause recoil, is not a projectile, cannot be deflected, must be rerouted or disbursed.
- Percy Jackson and the Lightning thief

P 4
- Lightning cannot be safely routed through the body, and cannot be directed contrary to its natural tendency to balance itself by being grounded, taking the shortest path
- Avatar: The Last Air Bender, "bending" lightning

P 5
Conclusion
Brief restating of how lightning does work and how it does not work, and closing remarks.


Other possible aspects- the speed of lightning, the direction of lightning, temperature difference needed, or just opposite charges?