Sweden

It was there where Wallenberg first came in contact with the Jewish race. The persecution they faced everyday “affected him deeply” (“Raoul Wallenberg 2”). Although rightfully sympathetic, Raoul subsequently moved back to Sweden to rekindle his aspiration for business in his home country. Eventually, Raoul met a Hungarian Jew by the name of Koloman Lauer. Lauer was the director of a Swedish import and export company whose specialty was food and delicacies. Because Wallenberg’s…

Stieg Larsson’s novel, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, is an intense thriller that concentrates on the systematic violence against women in Sweden. The original Swedish title translated to Men Who Hate Women, the story revolves around solving the forty-year-old disappearance of Harriet Vanger. While looking into what seemed as a murder, Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist, and research assistant, Lisbeth Salander, began to uncover a series of violent murders of women from the past and…

Knowing and understanding the history of drugs in Sweden is important to understand the current policy that is in place. Sweden was one of the first Western European countries to experience a major drug epidemic in the 1960’s (Johannson). During that time the drugs were mostly stimulants and, at the time, not seen as addictive so people were able to purchase these drugs at local pharmacies with regulations. After some regulation problems began to occur. There was a trial set up with 110…

The event I attended for the diversity assignment was called, “Social Innovation in a Digital Context” (SIDC). The event was held October 16 at the PASSHE Center City campus, located at 701 Market St in Philadelphia. This event was a PowerPoint presentation with a question and answer format at the end. The SIDC event’s main focus was sharing the importance of the relationship between digital technology and how it has the ability to influence socio-political change. The SIDC’s goal is…

to investigate how does economic circumstances can influence attitude towards immigration in Finland. The research question I plan to investigate is Does economic circumstance affect individual’s attitude on immigration in Finland? Finland boards Sweden to the west, Russia to east and Norway to the north. The capital is Helsinki…

“rights” and “world power” they need to create policies and laws that benefit its citizens, similar to ones found in Europe, specifically Nordic and Scandinavian countries. The Nordic region is comprised of four countries in the Arctic circle, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and…

problem. The main goal is to remove prostitution from society. Sweden has tried to accomplish this with their prostitution policiy, passed in 1999. This policy flips the traditions of prostitution laws. In spite of that the legislation overlooks things as well. Overall the bill has many positive and negative effects…

Archaeological digs revealed the existence of trade in the Baltic region years before the presumed beginning of the Viking Age in the 8th century. The small port town of Helgö, Sweden was uncovered to be an important centre for trading and metalworking almost four centuries before the initial Viking expansion out of Scandinavia. The existence of Helgö only goes to prove that the early Scandinavians had connections to cultures…

white cross in the middle; the Swedish flag is blue with a yellow cross on it. The reason why the Norwegian flag is almost the exact same as the Danish flag is because Norway was ruled by Denmark for 400 years and the reason for the blue cross is Sweden was in a union with Norway from 1844 until 1898. (1,2) 2. In Norway the winters can snow exquisite amounts; in some places it can have snow up to 20 ft. on the ground. In Fjordane County it has an annual precipitation of 3575 mm (140 in.) that…

Von Koch’s Snowflake Curve Investigation Von Koch’s Snowflake is named after the Swedish mathematician, Helge von Koch. He was the one who described the Koch curve in the early 1900s. The Koch curve is a mathematical curve that is continuous, without tangents. In this investigation, we will be looking at the particularities of Von Koch’s snowflake and curve. Including looking at the perimeter and the area of the curve. This investigation is continued by looking at the square curve as well as the…