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31 years of age and a creative entrepreneur, he worked as an intern during 2006 for surfing magazines and he got educated on the workings of editorial publication. The outdoors was what he enjoyed and decided to explore the cold, open spaces of Iceland, Canada and Alaska. Incredible stories were told and captured in these places that helped him to build a career. To build a career was not easy and he decided to look beyond editorial…

These days, countless countries consider America as one of the best and happiest countries because of its high GDP. As a result, Americanization can be seen around the world. However, there are many Americans who travel out of America to find happiness today, and Eric Weiner, the author of The Geography of Bliss, is a case in point. In his book, Weiner introduces a lot of discoveries regarding foreign cultures that contribute to happiness and compare them to major cultures including the American…

and people fled to the countryside because of the many violent attacks on the cities. The Magyars, who came from mainly the Hungarian Plains, the Muslims, who came from the Middle East and North Africa, and the Vikings who came from Greenland and Iceland tore throughout Europe and its cities and looted them. While Europe was divided…

spite of humans being presumed to be Christian, it was said that the elves still worshipped Pagan Gods. Overtime elves faded from Norse paganism. This and the presumption of Christianity in humans reflects the slow process of Christianity coming into Iceland (Strom,…

women and stopping them from having any sort of power. The term ‘gendercide’ is very appropriate when speaking of most countries in early modern Europe as man early modern European countries killed more females than males, however in the case of Iceland, that is not the…

to the metaphorical and literal egodeaths of these two characters. As Bernard is never truly courageous enough to fight or suffer for the individuality he wanted, he loses out on the heroism of challenging the Superego and is shamefully exiled to Iceland. Lastly, John is brought to suicide. A true outsider, he hardly stood a chance in this context, mostly because he was incapable of understanding the powers of the Superego and the appeasement of the ID in this new…

The Neutrality Acts were specifically tailored to keep the nation out of a conflict like World War I. If they had been in effect at that time, America probably would not have been sucked in, at least not in April 1917. Neutrality Acts of 1935 were important, because it kept the U.S. out of war and providing any country in war with supplies. “Quarantine Speech” President Roosevelt delivered his sensational “Quarantine Speech” in the autumn of 1937. Alarmed by the recent aggressions of Italy and…

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…

As the New Year lurks around the corner, I often go to sleep wondering what opportunities might come my way in 2013. Maybe I’ll mend my ways and end up saving a fortune for a trip I’ve (secretly) been dreaming about. Or maybe, I’ll be tempted to spend what I’ve saved every now and then, and land myself in adventures I had never imagined, like I did in 2012. Maybe some unexpected press invites or sponsorships will come my way, or that mysterious uncle will finally appear and leave me a handsome…

The well-known epic poem, Beowulf, continuously strives for the new views of the thematic approach. Seamus Heaney translated Beowolf in an effort to help create different theories and views on this epic poem. This epic poem is based off Danish warriors seeking revenge on a monster, while being saved by a tenacious leader during the Anglo-Saxon time period. This has lead to two very different and yet similar films. “Beowulf and Grendel”, directed by Sturla Gunnarsson in 2005, and Beowulf,…