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    The advertising for CSU is everywhere. I am told to join the movement through Pandora aids, radio ads and pop-ups when I am online. The theme engage learning is the idea of promoting diversity heavily. Everyone at CSU from students to professors to staff is engaging with each other. The current perception of CSU by the general public is basically a University everyone should attend. CSU come off as open warming environment where you can be yourself no matter. Based on their advertisement there is no negative correlation relating to the engage learning experience at CSU. CSU is a great school in the heart of downtown Cleveland. CSU is seen as an affordable University. The basic highlights of CSU is being a place that you will enjoy going to without a lot of student loans. It offers a college experience to local students who commute. The image CSU is trying to craft for itself to the general public is that this school is acceptable and welcoming to different cultures and individuals from different backgrounds. The main image of CSU is diversity. CSU should try to find more ways to get more students from the city and different backgrounds. They should have more scholarships available to students. They should find ways to engage more in a student life who is struggling instead of taking their finical aid way. CSU should have their teacher staff just as diverse as…

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    Introduction From the 8th century to the 11th century, some Scandinavians, as a stronghold of Scandinavia Peninsula, exploited westward to Iceland and Greenland, even Canada, south to mainland Western Europe and southwest to Britain and Ireland. Tyranny and poor living conditions might be the main reasons for their invasion (Owen 1999 10). There are two invader sources, one was from Norway, we called them ‘Norse’, the other was from Denmark, we called them ‘Danelaw’. At the beginning of the…

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    Viking raids, trade and slavery have all contributed to affect Europe in different manners. The Vikings developed Europe through raids, created a great trading economy, and spread different cultures through Europe with slavery. Although Viking raids did have several negative effects, Viking raids also aided in the development of Europe. A monk who saw the Vikings' attack on Paris in 885 described it is a very brutal raid and a letter by an English scholar,…

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    What Is Viking Barbarity?

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    of archaeology at Stockholm university, Ingmar Jansson, states that “The Norsemen were not just warriors, they were farmers, artists, shipbuilders and innovators”, as well as a host of other vocations. Despite a quarter of the modern Orkney genome appearing to come from Norwegian Vikings, the lack of Danish DNA in modern descendants of Anglo-Saxons despite their long campaign, suggests the original belief of Viking barbarity was not as true as previously thought, because if there was as much…

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    The Norse Greenland civilization began in 986 C.E. and lasted until the early 1500s. It was founded by Erik the Red, who first explored it in 982 C.E. after getting kicked out of Norway and Iceland for manslaughter. He was the person that led to first settlers of Greenland there, where they established three settlements; the largest being the eastern settlement, the second greatest was the western settlement, and the smallest was the middle settlement. The eastern settlement was by far the…

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    Nordic Religions in the Viking Age provides context to the time period in which Sturluson writes his prose Edda. The ending of “Gylfaginning” is heavily influenced by Christian views that age in time. In his second chapter, DuBois divulges the extremity of Christian views of pagans. Pagan religion was a “real threat, even if it remained inferior to the might of the Christian God” (DuBois 39). Although Christians were confident that their faith was superior, the non-Christians’ commitment to…

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    generations. It all started with Ephraim Hult, also known as the preacher. Ephraim told others that he had the unique power to heal others. Ephraim would capture women and purposefully injure them. Then, using his “special gift”, he would heal them. All the women who went through this process ended up dying because Ephraim would injure them so severely. This “gift” was supposedly passed down through the Hult’s future generations. Only a few Hult family members knew of this, however. Those…

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    what other people or forces said dictate their actions. Leaders that show high levels of this characteristic fight for what they believe in, even if it results in their own death. A story and character that demonstrates these characteristics pretty well is Beowulf. Beowulf was an altruistic individual who ended up giving up his life in order to saver other people's lives. Beowulf also showed zero fear when dealing with the different circumstances he was forced into as well as the situations…

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    Germanic Mythology: Odin

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    In Germanic mythology, Odin (from Old Norse Óðinn) is a widely attested god. In Norse mythology, whence most surviving information about the god stems, Odin is associated with healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, battle, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet, and is the husband of the goddess Frigg. In wider Germanic mythology and paganism, Odin was known in Old English as Wōden, in Old Saxon as Wōden, and in Old High German as Wuotan or Wodan, all stemming from the…

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    Viking Land Settlement

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    The Viking age of exploration took place in the 9th and 10th century, and; they became known for their unique, designed vessels and daring, seafaring raids. During early exploration, the Vikings comprised of many groups, such as: Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark. The numerous Viking groups sought opportunities of different intent whether that be a new land settlement, opportunities of trade, or barbarically raiding villages. None of these would prove to be more pivotal than the settlement of…

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