Copenhagen

autumn, which is the rainiest season of all, and spring, which is the driest. Denmark takes matters related to environment very seriously. It was the first country in the world to have formulated and implemented an environment law, back in 1973. Copenhagen spearheads the bright green environmental movement in…

We have all heard about global warming. Still we hear debates on whether its effects are real or not. Most people today believe that it is a real thing, but cannot accept that it is something that will affect their lives. People are always looking in the short run for what will make their lives more convenient and get them through their day easier. Jared Diamond, a Professor of Geography at UCLA and Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote an essay in Time magazine addressing how our actions affect us. He…

Where the Wild Things Shouldn’t be A family decides to go to the local zoo and have a nice day together. They pay for tickets, contributing to the zoo’s yearly 17.2 billion dollars. They buy lunch, laugh at the penguins swimming in their enclosure. Then the family continues on, fighting through the crowds so that the kids can see the pacing polar bear. They spend an hour in line to get an up close look at the pair of leopards, only to see them rip out their own fur. However, the family brushes…

Number The Stars is a great book based upon a true story. It is placed in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1941. Years after the war started, the Nazis started to patrol the streets. There are two main characters, Annemarie Johansen and Ellen Rosen, which are best friends. Annemarie and Ellen come face to face with a wild adventure that reveals the danger of knowing the untold, knowing the untold secrets, and knowing the told lies, and the. One of their lives is in serious danger. Annemarie and Ellen…

in captivity is inhumane. Animals in zoos are often thought of as objects instead of living beings with feelings and emotions. An example of a situation that was inhumane and proves that zoos care more about income than animals took place at the Copenhagen…

after an EVAR. Why can´t patients not be discharged? Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate clinical and organizational factors responsible for being hospitalized in a well-defined prospective setup in the unit of vascular surgery at Copenhagen University…

“And it meant two rifles, gripped in the hands of the soldiers.” (Pg. 2). The German town in Copenhagen created by Lois Lowry, is not a safe place for the protagonists Annemarie and Ellen. The German soldiers persecuted Jews and threw them into camps, including Ellen. None of the residents had good food or drinks other than water. In “Number the Stars” Lois Lowry uses italics to change the emotions of words. To begin, the author makes the dialogue said by a German soldier, sound stern almost…

royalty. Even though these stories came from his lucrative imagination, his view of the world mainly came from his own life and the many challenges he triumphed over. Andersen left his hometown, Odense, when he was 14, to try to become famous in Copenhagen. He was a singer, a dancer, and an actor; these careers all failed and he became a writer (Wolkstein, 2005). In addition, although he fell in love many times, his affections, notably the opera singer Jenny Lind,were never returned, and he was…

Global warming, as one of the many facets of climate change is unequivocally the most pivotal climate, health, security and economic issue of the 21st century. The anthropogenic factors towards global warming are inextricable to the exponential increase in global mean temperature and its reciprocal effect on global climate systems (IPCC 2014; Keller et al. 2005; Rogelj et al. 2015a). Explicitly, international initiatives to maintain below a increase of 1.5˚C and far less than 2˚C above…

Is there a certain approach that is considered the right way to approach architectural design? There are many architectural theories that an architect can draw upon that helped them to achieve different types of results in their design, such as constructivism, de-constructivism, critical regionalism and many more. There are a number of architectural projects that are based on the concept of pragmatism. The key element in a pragmatic approach to architecture is function; the pragmatist…