Oslo

“The Israeli government is building a series of walls and fences, separating Israel from Palestinians in the west bank. Part of this separation Barrier is being built inside the West Bank, on the Palestinian land” (Budrus). In the movie the Budrus showing how the occupation forces trying to take six Palestinian village in one section to join the rest of land in West Bank. This was the most poignant part from the film because many of Palestinian people trying to live in peace with occupation…

After the creation of the State of Israel and the displacement of thousands of people who lost their homes, the Palestinian nationalist movement began to regroup in the West Bank and Gaza, controlled by Jordan and Egypt, respectively, and in the refugee camps set up in other Arab countries. Shortly before the 1967 war, Palestinian organizations such as Fatah, led by Yasser Arafat formed the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and launched operations against Israel, first from Jordan and then…

The history of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process is as tumultuous and complicated as the conflict itself. In his article “From Oslo to Taba: What Went Wrong?” Ron Pundak breaks down the underlying reasons of the failure of the Oslo Accords, Camp David and The Taba Summit. The main premise of his argument was that peace, or a pathway to peace, were squandered by mismanagement and miscalculation of the entire process by Israeli, the United States, and the Palestinian Authority. Although his…

private. In the aftermath of the terrorist attack, there were arranged flower marches several places in the country to remember the dead and to grieve together. In Oslo, a few days after the terrorist attack, 200,000 people gathered in downtown Oslo with roses to express their grief and condolences. I was also present at the flower march in Oslo and the experience was quite unique and different, but at the same time it helped to see so many expressing their grief and support. Still to this day,…

will improve the perception and spread the Pop-Tart among the people of Norway. Often children are here, if they absorb the product, it can become an instant favorite among them. As mentioned earlier, we want to mainly focus the export around the Oslo area. The main reason is because this part of Norway are less considerate when it comes to the old Norwegian traditions, it has become westernized, and the population is a mix of Norwegians and people from all over the world. We believe they will…

Grieg, is a piece of orchestral music, Opus 23, originally for Henrik Ibsen’s famous play, Peer Gynt. Even though it was later separated as the final piece of Peer Gynt, Suite Suite No. 1, Op. 46, the play was first performed on February 24, 1876 in Oslo. The most recognisable element of this two and a half minute composition is that it starts very slowly and softly, then becomes faster and louder until it is very fast and loud; resembling a chase. Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843-1907), was a famous…

Edvard Munch was born in Loten, Norway on December 12, 1863, but he and his family moved to Oslo when he was only a year old. In Oslo, he experienced many personal tragedies. When he was five, his mother died of tuberculosis, and his sister died of the same disease just ten years later. Another one of his sisters was institutionalized for most of her life for mental illness, and his brother died of pneumonia at the age of thirty. Raising his children alone and suffering from mental illness,…

to a world in which two stories collide to create a climax that establishes a feeling of regret and sorrow when read. As Cullen Witter identifies the body of his cousin Oslo in the morgue he doesn’t think about missing Oslo or never saying bye but instead, he thought of the times where he and the rest of his family had loaned Oslo money.He also mentions how he deals with the struggles of his life such as pretending to be a pessimist or pretending the world has been taken over by zombies. As…

Insulating or not insulating? This is the question Being the effect of green roofs on energy use closely related to specific climate conditions. In the following a geographically explicit investigation of the effects of thermal insulation, growing medium and plant selection on the thermal efficacy of the installation of green roofs is proposed. This section summarizes the findings related to a number of case studies about green roofs and their thermal behaviour both monitored and modelled. Green…

His father was a physician with a specialization in gynecology. Hassel began attending the University of Oslo in 1915, and he studied mathematics and physics with chemistry being his main subject of study. After he graduated in 1920, he did an extensive amount of research and laboratory work between the years of 1922 to 1934, when he was appointed the chair and head of physical chemistry in Oslo, which was the first chair there was in Norway. He remained the chair of physical chemistry until…