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The factors causing the under-representation of women in STEM fields. Through the last 50 years’ women have made remarkable progress in the workplace and through education. Even in many fields like law, business and medicine that were historically dominated by men, women are now rising to the top. However, in areas like Science, Technology, Mathematics and Engineering(STEM) women gains through education and through the workplace are still slower (Hill, Corbett, and Rose, 2010 p. IX). The…

Leif Erikson Leif Erikson was born in Iceland late in the 10th century, grew up in Greenland and he’s a famous explorer. He is the first European to land on the Americas. He led a crew of 35 men on a journey to America at around the year 1000. Historically important due to the fact that it was he who got to the Americas first, he discovered it. Bartolomeu Dias Bartolomeu Dias, a portuguese explorer who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488 opening the way for a sea route from…

Spread of the epidemic was greater than it was because of the greater population growth, and with a greater population came greater population density, so with more people within one area, travel of the bubonic plague was no hard task. To that end, Iceland and Finland were able to escape the plague as they were two of the more isolated countries of the age, having minimal contact with outside transportation, and they had smaller populations. (Benedictow,…

Brave New World Like death and taxes, there is no escape to color; or isolation. Isolation is pale, white, and blank because there is an absence of substance, just like with the color- white - there is an absence of pigment. In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, two characters face pallid isolation in different ways, Bernard and John. The author exhibits it within a particular passage in chapters seven and eight when Bernard and John share their feelings of alienation from their respective…

A classic symbol of Scandinavian female identity, the paired oval or ‘tortoise shell ‘brooches, were sometimes preserved as heirlooms in non-Scandinavian contexts and possibly venerated as emblems of ‘homeland’ identity. Jane Kershaw has studied female displays of Scandinavian association in Scandinavian areas through their choice of dress ornaments. Gender distinctions in expression of ethnic identity are widely observable in modern contexts. These brooches are an acceptable means of…

Overview Same-sex marriage is a highly controversial topic of discussion spreading from communities to parliaments and governments, and has become increasingly recognised all around the world over the past few years. Since 2001, many countries have passed bills to legalise same sex unions and provide them with equal rights, and then years later have fully legalised gay marriage, the first being The Netherlands (2001), however Australia is not one of those countries. Gay marriage and obtaining…

Imagine being with your family and friends on any given day and all of a sudden someone takes you away from them. This is what parks are doing to get orcas, which is considered to be kidnapping and if it were children instead of whales it would be illegal. They are kidnapping them in the wild and making the orca their entertainment slave so they can gain a profit. What they are doing is inhumane and also not healthy for these orcas. Seaworld and other parks want to entertain people and make…

abolishment of Slavery, Human Trafficking, Disaster Relief, Economic Support, Health Rights, Human Rights, Hunger relief, Poverty Relief, and Peace . After his death, not only did his hometown name the Liverpool airport after him , and a town in Iceland creating a Imagine tower that would stand for peace , but 120 world leaders and the State of New York came together to create Strawberry Fields. Strawberry Fields is a section of Central Park that is filled with flora and fauna donated from 120…

suffers, the rest of the planet suffers along with it. The consequences include rising sea levels, extreme weather incidents, heat related illnesses and disease. The land is governed by the Arctic Council, which consists of Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the United States. These countries have territory which lay within the Arctic, and accordingly, they have sovereignty…

The Vikings knowledge of the sea was passed on for generations. With that knowledge, they were able to navigate to unfamiliar waters which were at the time thought impossible to navigate by others, which makes us think of the Vikings as experts on the subject, even though they were looked at as foolish individuals by others during that time. On the other hand, the Vikings did not only create mayhem, they also were skilled traders and well-organized in performing illegal activities, such as:…