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Collin Lahr History T335: WWII in the Soviet Union Writing Assignment 1: Primary Source Analysis The topic of this rhetorical analysis paper is a speech written by V.M. Molotov titled “The Meaning of the War in Finland.” Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, or V.M. for the sake of time, was a diplomat and Soviet politician prominent from the 1920’s for 40 years until his retirement in 1961. This speech was given in March of 1940, during which time Molotov was the Minister of Foreign Affairs under…

In 2007 Nokia announced agreements on a joint venture with German engineering group Siemens, with headquarters conveniently located geographically alongside headquarters in Espoo, Finland. The JV itself targeted ensuring Nokia were first to market in providing the global community with the most advanced and progressive telecommunications equipment available. Evaluating the benefits of a JV for Nokia, advantages are gained through shared…

education system by revising curriculums and assessments to nurture true growth and knowledge in their students. Darling-Hammond uses Finland as an example of a successful country since they got rid of their tracking and testing systems and placed highly trained teachers who would foster problem-solving skills, creativity, and independent learning in their students. Finland is now ranked at the top in international rankings. Some other countries she identifies are South Korea and Singapore,…

Introductory Paragraph Gabrielle stout I'm arguing about how Finland is putting nuclear waste 100 stories underground. Finland have been quietly digging in the ground. a. thesis: Finland people want to finish digging up by 2020 so they can put 6,500 tons of spent uranium for the next 100,000 years underground. Paragraph Building deep storage is not hard just for scientists or engineers…

I would be able to have some free time. In Finland the kids there go to school for an average of four hours per day. Finland is a country that usually scores about the same or even higher than schools in America. These kids in Finland do so well because school is about fours hours long and it does not get boring for them. These kids in Finland don’t dislike school because they are not in it forever and after school they are able to have free…

”-Socrates. This may be a good quote to follow in a personal life, but not for a country’s education. Are countries like Finland and South Korea pretending to be as smart as the standardized tests say they are? In the United States, every child is required by law to attend either public or private school and all are included in the standardized testing procedures. For Finland, all children receive some sort of education, required by law, but only students in non-vocational schools take the…

The social-democratic welfare state model in Finland has proven to be very prosperous in both social and economic perspectives (even though the financial crisis has currently led to an economic slump in Finland). I am myself very much in favor of a state which has a strong role in the economy – as in I support the idea of the welfare state. Humans themselves are not able to handle…

This paper will analyze Anna Fekete in “The Hummingbird”, “The Defenceless” and “The Exiled” by Kati Hiekkapelto. These are the books in the Anna Fekete series and are of the Nordic Noir genre. I will first discuss how Anna is a merge of first generation and second generation of female detectives. I will then examine how her change in perspective on family and relationships throughout the series have led to this merge. Lastly, I will analyze how the discriminated refugees from all three books…

Education has always been a mystery to most of the United States. However, after reading The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way by Amanda Ripley, there was a dramatic change in the way that people viewed and heard about education. It opened peoples’ eyes to show, “Which countries were teaching all of their children to think, and which were not” (24). More specifically, which countries took education more seriously. In her book, Ripley incorporates three Americans, by the names…

HEALTH – TASK 3 SAVE THE CHILDREN I chose Save the Children to familiarize myself with because this non-governmental organization is the largest to help children all over the world. Save the Children has an office and is doing wide work also in Finland. I have a colleague who has worked for Save the Children and I also once thought of applying for their humanitarian aid course. The story of Save the Children Save the Children started working already in the late 1919’s. In 1919 the British…