Essays on Vikings

The North Sea Petroleum Province is made up of Northern and Central North Sea. This is the greatest oil producing region in the world. It has been, for the last 30 years, playing a major role as Britain’s resource base and a contributor to the country’s wealth. This region also touches Norway and the Shetland Islands which are part of the Northern arms of the Late Jurassic system. This report gives an account of much of what is already known about Petroleum geology, Palaeogeography and tectonostratigraphic development of the Upper Jurassic, Middle Jurassic and the Lower Cretaceous ...

With the child abuse case leveled against Adrian Peterson for whipping and injuring his son, his team, The Vikings, has deactivated him pending resolution of the case (Herskovitz and Johnson). A survey was conducted amongst his fans to determine their opinions on the treatment meted on the player by his team and the NFL community. The survey was conducted on monkeysurvey.com website. The respondents, Adrian Peterson’s fans, were queried for their opinion on deactivation of Adrian Peterson by the Vikings Team. The response was graded as follows: 1-Strongly Disagree, 2-Disagree, 3-Neutral, 4-Agree, and 5-Strongly Agree.

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The movie, “How to Train Your Dragon” is a 3D animated movie that was released in the year 2010. Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois directed this movie was one of the biggest successes on the American box office. Dream Work’s produced this action fantasy was admired by children and adult audiences across the world. The movie succeeded in winning support of the audiences, as well as, critics. This paper intends to discuss the movie, “How to Train Your Dragon” along with discussing how concepts of tolerance, intolerance and prejudice are related to this movie. The concept of tolerance ...

The Scandinavian people, who came to be known as the Vikings, were good navigators who could reach far lands without trouble. They realized that wealth was stored in churches and monasteries and hence targeted them in their wars. The Vikings during the Viking age expanded into Europe, North Africa, parts of south Asia, and even North America. The desires for wealth made the Vikings explore extensive partnerships looting across territories and enslaving Christians in the mediaeval Europe. During this time, the cultural distinction was occurring between the Eastern Europe and Western Europe. The Byzantine Empire had great impacts on ...

Cosmic Creation Myths: Scandinavians

According to the Scandinavian mythology, in the beginning there was an infinite, void space – a vast emptiness of Ginnungagap. Long before the creation of the Earth, there was Yggdrasil - a World Tree which connects all the nine worlds. Under one of its roots, to the south, there was an area called Muspelheim. Muspelheim was so hot that no one could live there. It was guarded by the giant named Surtr, who had a flaming sword. Under the northern root there was Niflheim, the land of ice, snow and fog. Beneath, at the base of Ginnungagap, the embers of ...

Viking Gylltur

Advertisements have a major influence on our daily lives. Be it by newspapers, the radio, on the internet, television or by billboards, it is everywhere. Whether they know it or not, advertisers are great masters of rhetoric approach in their work. Advertisements use discourses in persuading individuals to purchase their products. For instance, in Iceland the consumption and advertisement of alcohol is illegal. However, it is legal to advertise light alcohol or non-alcoholic counterpart labeled light beer. As a result, light beer ads have increased steadily over the years in magazines and newspapers (Birgir Gudmundsson, 2005). Sales of beer ...

There is a debate in American sports that spilled over into the general public, is it disrespectful and discriminatory to use Native American terms and references as names of sports teams. Another aspect of this debate is it fair to use a characterization of someone of a minority race as a mascot. This issue has been frequently debated, and not even all Native Americans agree as to whether this is disrespectful. One position is that the stereotypical portrayal of any race is demeaning. The opposing position is that it is done to honor the race not demean them. One ...

While constructing a road in southern England, road builders’ retrieved remains of what was later established by archaeologists to be 51 Vikings who were mass buried dating back 1000 AD. Based on the archaeological evidences, it is believed that the Vikings mostly teens in their ealy 20s were beheaded in front of spectators (Quinn 2010). Further reports stated that, they came from Scandinavia with one man travelling from north of the Arctic Circle. Archaeologists believe that these is the biggest mass grave of foreigners ever found in Britain, it is further believed that these Vikings were executed by local ...

Introduction

Mongols are Central North Asian group of the ethno-linguistic Mongolic origin. The Mongolia is the largest group of the Mongols though they are widely spread as minor group in Soviet states, China, North Asia and Russia. The Mongolic language and culture is the commonly identifying factor of the Mongolic group. The Mongolic origin can be traced to 8th century based on a Chinese Donghu which was a confederation for the nomadic group that occupied Manchuria and Mongolia. However, some historic writings consider a mixed ancestry of the Mongols to the Xiongnu a Turkic tribe and Donghu of Chinese origin ( ...

Both the Early and High Middle Ages ended with severe crises, such as the very destructive invasions of the Northmen (Vikings) in the 800s and 900s and the Black Death and peasant revolts of the 14th Century. Throughout the Middle Ages, kings and emperors struggled to establish order and stability in the face on constant clashes between various factions of robber barons, bandits, raiders and rival feudal overlords, such as the wars fought by King Louis the Fat for decades in the region around Paris. Feudalism was thus characterized by the lack of a centralized state and the political ...

1. This website is a companion Web site to a NOVA episode called "The Vikings," a documentary program that seeks to talk about Vikings as something other than barbarians. The website itself has a few different online resources to choose from, including a video of a model of a Viking village. Furthermore, other activities include writing your name in runes and reading various interviews and articles regarding Viking ships and culture. A map includes the various places that were settled by Vikings during the Diaspora. Various writers contribute to these activities and resources. 2. Given the scientific resources that ...

The United States has approached immigration quite differently than many other countries have, with a far more liberal policy on permitting naturalization of citizenship than the vast majority of the world. In the Constitution, Section 8 authorized Congress to regulate commerce, which was generally regarded as license to regulate immigration as well (LeMay, 1987). The first regulation was passed in 1790, with a simple two-year waiting period placed on immigrants who wanted to become citizens. That is a far cry from not only the current waiting period but also the even more stringent process that conservatives would like to ...

INTRODUCTION

Various contributions have been made towards the development of the English Language. The development has been a process and has taken quite a long time, and still, continues up to date. There are three stages in this development; however, this work is concentrated on the initial stage in the development of the English language. In this research, I have considered the impacts of the Vikings and Anglo Saxons. A brief history of the Vikings and Anglo Saxons as well as their contribution towards the modern English language has been covered at length.

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Chris Altman is an English professor at the University of South Carolina. He has taken two articles about The Battle of Maldon each focusing on different themes, and combined them in order to better understand Byrhtnoð's strategy using the terrain. He introduces his argument suggesting that “Byrhtnoð arguably exploited the terrain to maximize the Viking enemy casualties caused by arrow volleys launched from the western shore” (3). The themes from the two articles are (a) the military strategy and weaponry of the Anglo-Saxons and (b) a geological analysis of the site of the battle.

Altman includes a sketch ...

Introduction

In 1975, two planetary exploration missions named Vikings 1 and 2 were launched to study the surface and atmosphere of Mars. These two missions were launched with only a few weeks apart from each other; the first on August 20, 1975 while the second on September 9 of the same year. Both of the missions had two parts: a lander and an orbiter. The plan of the missions was that as the orbiter orbits around Mars taking pictures and other data, the lander studies the Martian surface from the ground. With the program’s total budget of a staggering ...

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Dear Mark The following business plan is in effect a proposal to begin a lucrative and profitable partnership which will enable both ourselves and the Bank of Florida to contribute to Florida’s economy while increasing our involvement with an industry which has recently recovered from recessionary effects and forms a key component in Florida’s economy. The business that has been proposed below involves the retailing of marine safety equipment as well as various services related to marine industry safety. We believe that Florida’s reputation as one of the largest marine economies ...

In the Acts of the Apostles, St. Paul stands up during a meeting at the Areopagus, in Athens, and begins to speak to them about a statue he had seen while he was walking around the city. While many of the objects of worship had the name of their god or goddess on them, one was labeled “to an unknown god” (Acts 17:23). He uses this object to open the discussion of the God of the Hebrew and Christian faiths with the Athenians – people who worshipped a whole spectrum of deities, many of whom behaved like adolescents given too ...

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Saint Leo University The Problem The last two decades left the United States of America’s detention centers flooded with juvenile offenders. The rate at which juveniles get themselves in detention facilities for rehabilitation is at its peak demanding attention from the justice system of the country. Statistics show that the young people are perpetrators of violent crimes inclusive of murder, rape, armed robbery and several other crimes more than ever before. Further studies accentuate that the greater percentage of inmates in jails currently throughout the US comprises inmates in the age bracket of 17 and 21 years. What ...

Introduction

It has long been posited by scholars and other professionals that the early civilizations in Greece and in other parts of Europe were initiated because of the presence of Africans who had migrated to Europe from Northern Africa. The North Africans were said to have moved to Europe through the Mediterranean and settled in different places in Europe and even in Central Asia. This short paper will examine the literature that provides proof that there was indeed quite a strong African presence in Europe even during ancient times.

Africans as the Source of Ancient Greek Civilization

Even the Greek philosopher and scholar Herodotus wrote in the 5th ...

Culture, when broadly applied, is a term that can be used to describe virtually all avenues and aspects of human life. In his textbook Cultural Anthropology, Richley H. Crapo defines it as “a learned system of beliefs, feelings, and rules for living around which a group of people organize their lives; a way of life of particular society” (Crapo, 2013). Perhaps the most astounding thing about humanity is the vast diversity in culture that emerges in different groups of people. The differences in culture come from a variety of factors, the most important being geography. One important marker of ...

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There is a wide variety of ways one can view towards differences across cultures. On a micro level, one could look at how families interact in distinct ways across cultures. On a macro level, one would look to how governmental action is reflective of cultural differences. One lens to view differences in cultures is to analyze how they resolves conflicts. The environment within which a culture is created affects how conflicts are resolved. This essay analyzes the differences in conflict resolution between Icelandic and Kenyan culture. This provides an interesting case study since many of the fundamental tenets of ...

An ‘English as a Second Language’ Collection for

Brisbane City Council Library Services Collection Development for Library Services and Course Number 3. Initial ESL Collection Development The “Success in Reading English: An ‘English as a Second Language’ Collection for Brisbane City Council Library Services (BCCLS)” is our group proposed library collection project. As part of the detailed overview and discussion of the library and information services, the context in which we anchor our initial ESL collection development is at the city of Brisbane Queensland, primarily; and secondarily, the online community. Brisbane, as Australia’s largest local government, has to serve its more than two million multi-cultural population ( ...

Introduction

Shift work is basically any work outside the normal daylight hours and may differ from one work place to another. Given that up to 25% of the American population encounters shift work at some point in their career the subject of shift work has attracted a plethora of research especially with regard to the health implication of shit work[ CITATION Occ10 \l 1033 ]. There is a growing body of knowledge implicating shift work for on-job injuries and catastrophes, disruption of families and societal fabric, ...

CSL: Supply Chain Case Study

Summary/ Abstract CSL is doing very well in the POS equipment market. However, the main problem with CSL is that the POS equipments are changing fast. This is causing the demand to dry up in some of the areas. To battle with the reduction in demand and fresh investments, it is of utmost importance that CSL runs its supply chain efficiently so that the profitability of the company remains high. CSL currently has Asian and Local European suppliers. Asian suppliers send parts on a monthly or bi-weekly basis to the CSL subsidiaries in Europe. Most of the shipments are ...

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Descriptive statistics 2 Inferential statistics 3 Regression analysis 3 Testing means using the T-test 6 Analysis of variance (ANOVA) 7 Conclusions 8

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Term paper Introduction In this paper we are interested with will look keenly on the areas we have covered throughout weeks. In this case we will be looking at the descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, hypothesis development and testing, selection of appropriate test statistics and finally evaluating statistical results. This paper will reflect on these course elements in analyzing and making decisions about the data. We are interested with the type of travel made by different visitors in ...

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Abstract This paper extensively reviews the purchase decision differences among various countries that differ in culture. The analytic accoutrement accepting from the plan of abounding acclaimed intercultural consultants, as able as Hofstede, Hall, Kluckholn, Strodtbeck, and Carbaugh. (1983). It should be fatigued that there's bare acclimatized accepting to negotiations. There aboveboard admeasurement alone able and beneath able approaches , and these acclimatize in cast with several address factors. As Bargainers apperceive that their counterparts could as well be seeing things clumsily . Otherwise, they'll be beneath accessible to accomplish abrogating judgments and added accessibly to accomplish advanced in bargaining. Time Orientations ...

Raising sons and daughters to be a good person and law abiding citizens is among the greatest challenges of parenthood. One needs to be keen on the harmonious familial relationship at home and the environment outside to assure good influences to our sons and daughters. Juvenile delinquency is one of the issues that confront the families, societies, and nations. Data from the National Institute of Justice revealed that the youth with cases in the juvenile court in the United States reached 1.3 million in 2010 (National Institute of Justice, 2014). The government attributes the high number of juvenile delinquency ...

Summary of “The Drawing of the Dark” by Tim Powers

Tim Powers begins his story in “The drawing of the Dark” presenting the lead character, the Irishman Brian Duffy, who is attacked on the streets of Venice. After his assailants give in and retreat, he meets the old sorcerer Aurelianus, who offers him a job as a bouncer in the Zimmerman Inn – the brewery of the Herzwesten beer in Vienna. Duffy, a former mercenary who used to live in Austria and fought against the Turkish Army in Mohacs, accepts the offer and starts on his journey. Upon his arrival at Trieste he finds an odd tavern, where he orders ...

The aim of this essay is to present you with the etymology and history of three different words, each of one belongs to a different historical period. The periods which are to be presented in this essay are three. The first period is the one of Old English language which ranges from the middle of the 5th century till the mid-12 century A.D. The second period which is to be presented here is the period of the Middle English period which begins approximately in 1150 and ends in 1500. The third and last period is the period of the ...

This is the story which was composed as from the period when the Scandinavian militants invaded Britain. Beowulf has eventually played a big role towards the development of the modern literature. The author of the story is still unrecognized despite of the rumors which stress that the author was an Anglo Saxon. By the time the story was composed, invaders had already stayed in the Britain for so many years. Beowulf proved himself as the true warrior when he killed Greandal himself. He did not need mortal weapons any further since they were not helpful, instead he used the ...

UniversityRecruit, Select and Induct Staff

The Role of the Recruitment Agencies in the Recruitment Process Recruitment agencies are intermediaries that conduct selection processes in the name of a company that contracted their services, based on their know-how on attracting people and conducting professional interviews and other selection methodologies meant to test the applicants’ talents, abilities and competencies through task simulation tests, aptitude tests, psychological tests, psychometric tests, etc., depending on the role that needs to be filled (Sutherland and Canwell, 2008). The role of the recruitment agencies is to find particular skills, to assure a fast and efficient selection process, to propose qualified short – ...

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Question 1: Read the case study ‘Dyson’ and - Critically evaluate the long term sustainability of Dyson’s global competitive advantage in view of the changing situation in the case study. After saturating the local UK market and achieving a new market share in the US, Dyson vacuum cleaners manufacturer still has to outcompete the mature global market of vacuum cleaners. It has to struggle and overcome many challenges as it aims to take its brand to the next level and to expand into new grounds. This is a critical time for the UK company since it has receded ...

According to the 2000 census in the United States of America, one in every three people can be considered as an ethnic minority. The world we live in is diverse and cross-cultural communication is important and unavoidable. Cheesebro, O’Connor and Rios (2010) state, “the better people understand each other, the better they will be at making their own communication more efficient and effective.” (p. 58).

The first principle of cross-cultural communication states that if the cultural/linguistic differences between people are great, than there is a greater likelihood that there will be a communication breakdown. The second principle is ...

The Republic of Ireland, more commonly referred to as Ireland occupies five-sixths of the island of Ireland, the second largest island of the British Isles. Its demography, history, geography and culture are unique (see Appendix 1 for scale map).

Ireland, which is to the far west of Europe, is also west of the island of Great Britain. The Republic covers 70,280 of the island’s total area of 84,431 square kilometres. The climate is temperate maritime, modified by the North Atlantic Current which contributes to its mildwinters and cool summers. Because of the high precipitation, the climate ...

Music is an art widely appreciated for its effect on the human psyche. Researchers are increasingly drawn to study the effect of music in the day-to-day lives of people with a bias toward quantifying its scope of impact and understand it as they do science. Personality theorists, cognitive psychologists and applied psychologists alike are interested in how a musical distraction has varying effects on the cognitive task performance per individual. Uhrbrock (1961) noted that amongst other observations, the quality of work can be adversely affected by the use of music in the work situation and Instrumental, rather than vocal, ...

The New Dark Age: The collapse of America

The New Dark Age: The collapse of America The United States has had the superiority in various aspects including political influence, military might, wealth and technological advancements compared to other countries in the world. As such, there is an increasing and alarming degree of authority in the United States on the global front. Therefore, supposing the United States collapsed completely, it is suggestible that the collapse could put the world through a period of darkness like after the collapse of the Roman Empire. For instance, the United States is the world’s largest manufacturer. In 2012, the United States ...

Note: There are two parts to this exam, with multiple parts to each. Be sure to include all parts of both in one file. Please don’t send me separate files. Please do label the file correctly. Part 1: Headlines. There are no strategy guidelines for this section, although you may find it useful to write yourself a simple strategy and/or select a specific brand as a guide. Based on the reading and class discussions write headlines to meet the following criteria: (15pts) - A branded breakfast cereal using metaphor (Kellogg) Start a day with a bang by having ...

Abstract

The current study examines Romweber Furniture Factory, particularly its history, status, and future problems. It explains that the firm was formed through the merger of Batesville Cabinet, American Furniture, and Batesville Coffin companies. It also notes that the Romweber Company increased its sales volume through various promotions and, hence, improved its competitiveness. The paper then traces the history of the business from the merger of previously independent firms. It then describes the company’s method of trading products across the United States and its effort to overcome the Great Depression through the sale of five-pound fruitcake boxes. After 1959, ...

Review of Collapse: Prologue, (2005) Viking Press, New York Summary: The prologue of the book is the part wherein Diamond summarizes the contents of the entire book in just one whole paragraph. The comparative methods employed by Diamond on his book aims to better understand the reasons for the collapse of previous civilizations, as well as the direct relation over the environmental issues. The prologue enumerates the five fatal reasons that contribute to the collapse of the society. By studying the civilizations of Norse, Vikings and other ancient peoples, Diamond was able to lay out these five reasons such ...

The sixteenth century is a century that Europe experienced great change in on many fronts. It was a century that witnessed growth of royal power, discovery of new lands and the appearance of centralized monarchies (Hillerbrand, pg. 3). It was also the century where humanistic ideas of the Italian Renaissance were spreading all over Europe and this renaissance helped secularize the European society. The most revolutionary event in this century was the Protestant Reformation that forced people to make a choice between being a Catholic and being a Protestant. A number of visible signs of disorder within the church ...

Crohn’s disease overview

Crohn’s disease (also called ileitis or enteritis) is a chronic, relapsing–remitting, non-infectious form of bowel disorder that mainly causes inflammation of the digestive tract, and is the general term for diseases that cause swelling in the intestines. This term has replaced older terms that include regional or terminal ileitis and granulomatous colitis; it doesn’t just imply any cause, site, or pathological response. The terminal ileum and the right colon are two sites that are most vulnerable, a close to this pathological disability can negatively influence multiple parts of the body, but this negative effect is connected ...

A brief review of leadership and achievements

Abstract Frank Lorenzo has no parallels in the airline industry. Rising from a modest beginning he went to command the largest fleet in the world, outside the Soviet Union. Using unique fund raising abilities and cutting costs, he capitalized on the deregulation opportunities of the 1970s to the fore. However it was the attitude of a union buster, which made him considerably unpopular which even triggered the collapse of his airline empire. The unfortunate end of his career may not match what he achieved, but despite all these Lorenzo remains more of a myth today and an inspiration to ...

Curt Flood was a slave who had more personal issues than he could handle. His is a true story of the fact that money cannot necessarily guarantee you the freedom that you need. Despite his fame and the fact that he had a reasonable income, he was haunted by the fact that he was a slave and that he could not have freedom. This is mainly the issue that was even reflected to his career as a baseball player where he thought his rights were being undermined simply because he was a slave. I believe things would have been ...

Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Henry VIII all had certain ideas in common during the Protestant Reformation, since they rejected the authority of the pope in Rome and thought that local rulers should be heads of national churches. Indeed, the Reformation could be described as a great impetus to nationalism as it spread through northern Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Scandinavia, England and Scotland in the 16th Century. They all thought the Latin Mass should be abolished, and had the Bible translated into the local vernacular languages. All Protestants abolished the old religious orders, permitted clergy to marry, ended the veneration ...

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It is a fact that every organization has its eye on increasing its profitability with time. In line with this thought, researchers and scholars have come up with models and theories that have helped business enterprises to become stable in their quest to remain relevant in the market. Many companies have adopted different theories and models that have seen them through time and have helped them to remain profitable. However, it is also clear that the market is a relatively volatile arena that has, in recent years become quite unpredictable. Major organizations that compete for the same resources ...

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While, nowadays, spiritual leaders have less influence on Western society, the influence of religion on the East still remains profound. In this context, of particular interest is how tendencies of society’s modern development, which are undeniably present in the eastern countries, are interacting with the ancient religions characteristic for this region. Thus, it would be interesting to track how specific religion treats certain important issue of human rights and their implications. One of examples of such analysis is the article “Abortion and Buddhism” by Robert Florida. The aims of the present paper is to analyze the article in ...

Levers that set the wheels of social change in motion often seem banal and insignificant from a modern perspective. In the 17th century, sugar was little more than a dietary novelty, a foreign curiosity that improved the taste of brackish teas and sedimentary coffee for the wealthiest members of English society. A century later, the uncanny growth of the cane-based product had made it an irreplaceable commodity that would saturate the British market and lead to a sea change in Western Europe’s economic framework. The means by which sugar was produced and financed helped to revolutionize the very ...

‘Joyas Voladores’ – Brian Doyle

I thought this was a superb piece of writing. Doyle’s description of the hummingbird’s engaging and well-written. In the first paragraph, after the opening sentence, he starts three short sentences with the phrase ‘A hummingbird’s heart is...’ – a technique called anaphora. He then finishes the paragraph with one very long sentence full of vivid verbs – “whirring...zooming...nectaring...hammering.” He uses anaphora at the start of the second paragraph too – “They can...” and the long list of the exotic and mysterious names of different ...

“Everyday Use” By Alice Walker

Introduction

On the book review of “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, different authors have expressed their views on the themes and symbolism expressed in the novel. I will discuss on the viewpoints of the different authors and compare to see whether there are any similarities and differences. The novel is written by an African American. It is set at a time in American history when the black community was trying to understand its identity.

Analysis of the Book Reviews

David White in 2001 published an article titled, “Everyday ...