Christina of Sweden

Clara’s Parents Clara’s father, Anton August Peterson, born on September 12, 1864 in the historical province of Blekinge, Sweden, immigrated to America in May, 1885.1 He met his future wife, Mathilda Christina Johnson, a co-worker, while employed at James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm in northern Ramsey County, Minnesota. Details regarding the nature of Anton’s duties on the farm remain unknown. However, his later reputation as a skilled hand with horses suggests a possible scenario that he…

Thirty Years War 1618-1648 The Thirty Years War brought devastation to Europe during the early seventeenth century. It was a conflict between religious views and political rule in Europe that began in 1618 and ended in 1648, and r was fought primarily within the Christian community over which denomination should rule the Holy Roman Christian Empire within Europe, Catholics,or Protestants., or. The war is categorized into periods, the Bohemian Phase, Danish Phase, the Swedish Intervention…

isotropic media, such as water, glass, or air, by the year of 1626. In late 1628 he would move to the Netherlands which provided him with a sense of solitude and peace that allowed him to focus on his work. He would then move to Sweden after receiving an invitation from Queen Christina. In the Netherlands, he would begin to work on “A little treatise” also known as The World. This would attempt to explain the excessive number of phenomena in the world without scholarly principles of substantial…

react to how they are treated. Few European countries like Sweden and Denmark have accepted the most asylum applicants in Europe and many people out of pity choose to help them out by providing them with food and other supplies…

Pele On October 23, 1940 in Três Corações, Brazil, soccer legend Pelé was born as Edson Arantes Do Nascimento. His parents were João Ramos do Nascimento who was Pelé's father and was also a professional soccer player and Celeste Arantes who was his mother. Maria Lúcia Nascimento and Zeca Nascimento are Pelé's sisters. Pele and his family lived in the city of Bauru. Pele grew up in poverty so it wasn’t such a pleasant childhood. Also Pele’s friends were the ones that first called him Pele. Pele…

When the term modern philosophy is brought up, one would think of findings in the field from the 1900’s and onward. But upon looking into the subject one would find that modern philosophy starts a few hundred years back. In the 1600’s modern and western philosophy started taking root with the ideas of a great philosopher of the time, Rene Descartes. Often known as the father of modern philosophy, Descartes’, ideas and findings are greatly influential to many different fields of study today. On…

Gender Roles The post World War II era was the golden age for traditional gender roles. The majority of the population wanted the same family dynamic of a breadwinning father, nurturing stay at home mother, mild mannered daughter, athletic son, and dog all held within a white picket fence. In this dynamic, everyone fit their gender roles like a glove. The glove fit comfortably until the late 1960 's when the feminist movement began to sweep the country. It was at this time that people began to…

Charley conceivably visited Fort William in the Thunder Bay area, but its glory as a flourishing North West Company rendezvous site of the fur trade lingered only in its history. When Charley passed through the area in 1881, only two years prior to the historic fort’s permanent closure, it primarily functioned as a Hudson Bay Company fishing station.9 However, optimism for a prosperous future abounded in the Thunder Bay communities, with the reported news of the incorporation of the Canadian…

Milton’s thoughts and views on Eve are a reflection of his thoughts on the nature of women. During the age of Milton, the belief that women were the reason for the fall of mankind was a main theological view, as suggested by The Bible. The view transcends past the Christian culture and stretches to the Greeks as even they have their own Eve. Unlike majority of biblical writers, Milton shows little restraint as he sublimely refers to Eve as the inferior. Due to the ingenuity of Milton’s mind…

Lillie N. Roll Mrs.Walker English 10-6 February 26, 2018 Is There Equal Representation of Genders in Politics? “We’re half the people; we should be half the congress”- Jeannette Rankin. The gender representation in the US is far from equal. Not only do the statistics show this, but just by looking at Congress and even local governments you can automatically tell how unequal politics are regarding gender. Our country's rank in women's political representation is 104th out of the 195…