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trumpet, and loud varying percussion. It all comes together in the beautiful debut album My Head is an Animal. It was an international hit from Australia to the United States. The song "Little Talks" was in the Top 10 music charts in Europe, Ireland, Iceland, and the United States. The songs are beautiful and yet poppy in the sense. The album can also make you want to sit down and just appreciate the world. The album is a great LP to listen to in the later evenings perhaps in your backyard…

Cicely Tutson An Analysis of Europe in the year 2062 Five decades from now, in the year 2062 Europe will look and feel completely different. Europe 's racial and ethnic demographics will likely have drastically changed, which will have an impact on the political structure, language, and the economy. Other aspects of the European cultural realm such as the growth of the European Union, environmental issues, and technology will all see a dramatic shift in the coming decades. The biggest and…

Whaling has existed throughout many different cultures through many different eras. It has been, in the past, a largely profitable commercial business for many years that many nations would partake in including Norway, Iceland, Greenland and Japan. It became evident that the continuation of whaling on a commercial scale would soon lead to the extinction of the species and that forms of regulation needed to be created to prevent the loss of these mammals. Through regulation was seen to be needed,…

Whilst on holiday in São Paulo, Brazil, I noticed that the soil colour was completely different to the soil colour in the UK and in order to understand why, I visited the ‘Museu Catavento Cultural e Educacional’. I discovered that the soil has a high-iron content because it originates from what was possibly one of the largest volcanic spills in the Earth’s history and as the spill contained magnetite, the soil in southern Brazil is incredibly fertile where it’s called Terra Roxa. This type of…

Each country portrayed in Boomerang, ignored their red flags of the economic catastrophe which later impacted the world financially. All of the five countries ended in the same disastrous states because a fool and his money are soon parted. Iceland Iceland was the number one country in the United Nations’ 2008 Human Development Index until it all went up in flames. In 2003, Iceland’s three biggest banks went from a few billion dollar in assets which accounts to 100 percent…

In 1973 SeaWorld opened its doors, but little did we know 41 years later it would make 1.377 billion dollars off the brutalization of the animals that they use for show. SeaWorld’s continued abuse of not only orcas but all of the other captive animals has resulted in psychological damage to them and from that deaths and injuries to the trainers and personnel which could have been prevented. Tilikum is one of the most famous whales and the most dangerous in the SeaWorld fleet, at 12500 pounds…

The novel Burial Rites by Hannah Kent is a fictional book set in Northern Iceland, describing the last few months that Agnes Magnusdottir has to live after being condemned to death for her partake in the murder of two men. While the novel is fiction it's based on true events, though the story is an interpretation entwined with historical facts of the murders that happened on the 13th and 14th 1828. The film Girl with The Pearl Earring, directed by Peter Webber is a Fictional film about a young…

Countries such as Norway, Iceland, Greenland, the Faroes and Japan are pro-whaling nations. From their perspective whaling is part of their indigenous culture and traditional diet. Whaling in these countries hold thousands of years of tradition with techniques of whaling being passed…

Arctic Wolf The Arctic wolf lives in the Arctic regions of North America and Greenland. mainly inhabit Northern Canada and Alaska, parts of Greenland ,Iceland and Northern Europe. they are found in the most northern parts of the wolf's range, in the Arctic Circle. the arctic wolf is a carnivore. they will hunt down larger animals such as caribou ad muskoxen in packs. they will take smaller prey such as arctic hares, lemmings etc. alone. the arctic wolf eats Musk oxen, Peary caribou, Arctic foxes…

When scientists entered the Galapagos Rift they found a variation in temperature that changed drastically. The data collected by researchers revealed temperatures fluctuating between 320F to 7500F, within a relatively short distance (NOAA). Not only high temperatures were registered, but a complete ecosystem was surrounded by a unique marine life capable of surviving the extreme conditions. Since then, not just the ocean floor has been part of the scientist 's investigation; but the marine…