Iceland

There wrere only two hours left of our six hour plane trip from Chicago. David, my brother, and I were on our way to Iceland. It was July 13th,a Friday and there were very few people on the plane. David and I live in the U.S.A. but we were going to Iceland to visit our grandparents. Our parents decided to let us go on our own because they have to work and they wanted us to visit Iceland, where we are originally from. When we got to our grandparent´s house, grandma had fresh baked cookies and…

Slavery? Or live like a queen? These are my choices of whether I want to slave away in a boarding school, in Iceland, or if I want to keep going to private school, where I never have to do anything. Besides sit, listen, and take the one and only rest we ever have to take, at the end of each school year. This test is about fifteen questions and it's really quite simple. The private school I go to, is called Queen Elizabeth High School, hence why I am getting asked if I want to live like a queen.…

The U.S. Geological Survey’s article, “Plate Tectonics in a Nutshell,” describes how convection currents can cause hot magma to reach the surface along divergent plate boundaries. Iceland, in fact, is located on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which is exactly that type of divergent plate boundary. This is the beginning of the rock cycle where brand new rocks on the Earth’s surface form to replace other rocks that are lost because of the subduction…

societies in particular. Throughout this section, you will have a clear image of what the Norse mentality must have been like during the Viking Age. It also gives you a clear indication of what it must have been when they settled in in places like Iceland, Greenland, and Vineland. The life of the Norseman was also one marked with confrontations and the quest to defend one’s honor at any cost. These small biographies complement what has been told about them throughout history. They were fearless,…

Countries like Iceland have some of the lowest rape statistics with only .141 out of every 1000 people reporting rape, compared to Americas 15-20% of women reporting rape, and these statistics makes us wonder; what are countries like Iceland doing to prevent this heinous crime? Iceland begins their sexual education classes, listed as life sciences, at the age of six or around the age of a first grader…

the younger group (14-16). The sample size in this study was 22,226 participants from Iceland. The participants consisted of 10,778 females and 11,211 males. Out of the sample size 10,838 were in their final three years of mandatory school, which I assume means high school and the remaining 11,388 participants were in college. They gathered these participants from 144 mandatory schools and 40 colleges in Iceland. Out of the sample size, 434 reported making a false confession, 264 falsely…

Viking expansion has impacted europe greatly in the the short term as well as the long term. A major short term impact was the barbarian raids that the Vikings would start, which in turn lead to many trading posts to start business. One long term impact is the language of Old Norse has transferred some of the words into modern English. Yet another long term impact was that the vikings discovered many countries that have been inhabited by many different cultures, some of which have continued…

Hannah Kent's novel, Burial Rites follows the events leading up to the central character, Agnes Magnusdottir's inevitable death in northern Iceland in 1829. Kent, has used the characters, setting and circumstances of the novel to explore the inequality grounded in gender and the hypocrisy of religion. She has used a range of techniques to highlight female oppression and to explore how a strict patriarchy affects women. Kent also wants the reader to consider how religion can frame the ethical…

first challenge came in the form of massive flooding that destroyed farmland throughout the country. Lamb writes, “there was a general drift from the farms towards the coast and an increasing activity in the fishing” (Lamb Pg 207). This change in Iceland demonstrates how drastic an effect climate variation can have on daily life. By moving to the coast, Icelanders must have been unable to produce enough food via inland farming, or at least farming alone. The that fact climate can impact…

Rites, it is both the men and the woman who are strong. Hannah Kent’s novel tells the story of Agnes Magnusdottir, the last person executed in the barren country of Iceland in 1830. The story is told from many points of view allowing many different characters to express their own views and values of both Agnes and her conviction. Iceland was very much a male dominated society during the era of the book, exacerbated by the physical and domineering strength in which males possessed. Kent does,…