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Showing up for school and work, is an obligation. Giving away money and clothes, is a choice. No one is making anyone give away any of their belongings unless it’s to pay the bills, taxes, or buying food or clothes. No one says you have to show up for work, however, be prepared to lose your job. No one says you have to attend school, except the law stating they have to or else they’ll be fined $500 if they can’t fix their attendance. For there to be even an obligation to anything, there must be a

study habits, but still determined, he retook the test and was accepted. At Oxford he would major in philology, the study of words and language. There he read Classic literature, Old English, Gothic, Welsh, and Finnish. He was also influenced by Icelandic, Norse and Gothic mythology, which he used in his books. (Oliver Grandy, Famous)

Many researchers agree that before humans, particularly in Iceland about 40% of the islands were occupied by birch forests with an admixture of willows, ash and juniper. Since the development of the Icelandic Vikings forests began to decline rapidly, and now their area does not exceed 0.5%. The environmental problems of antiquity were not and could not be an incentive only human progress. The necessity of access to the resources of nature, is complicated

Kenneth C. Davis, the author of Don’t Know Much about History, claimed that the true discoverers of America were the people whose cultures and societies were well established here while Europe was still in the Dark Ages, the so-called Indians. For all the diversity of the First Americans, they inherited certain common traits from their old world ancestors. Reflecting their Asiatic heritage, they were generally short to medium stature, with straight black hair, light brown skin, had epicanthic fold

When the average person thinks about Vikings they probably imagine muscular, wild eyed, bearded men ready for battle. Some aspects of that statement might be true, however there are a lot of misconceptions about the Vikings. One of the most common myths surrounding the Vikings is that they wore horned helmets, while in fact the helmets they adorned were much more conservative, usually comprised of a leather rounded cap with metal reinforcements often including a face guard. The idea that Vikings

Hobbit: From Children's Story to Mythic Creation "Mr. Baggins began as a comic tale among conventional and inconsistent fairy-tale dwarves, and got drawn into the edge of it - so that even Sauron the terrible peeped over the edge." -J.R.R Tolkien, letter to his publisher (quoted in Carpenter 1977, 182). The Hobbit started as little more than a bedtime story for Tolkien's children. Like most of his fellow academics, Tolkien viewed fantasy as limited to childhood. The result was a book

Madison Gordon Mr. Cropp English 122 2 March 2017 Feminism; is it really as bad as we think? Intro: When someone says, they are a feminist majority of Americans seem to think of a woman who is angry at society, wanting justice for all the bad things men and the government have done to them. Someone who just plain hates men and is not in to “girly” things. Maybe some can be that way but when women talk about it they specifically like to mention that they are not that aggressive or angry as a feminist

Canada, often referred to as America’s hat, is located on the northern border of the United States of America. It offers a rich history indicative of its Native American, British, and French roots. Bordered by three oceans and a country, Canada covers approximately nine million square kilometers (United States Central Intelligence Agency). Similar to the United States, one will find many mountains and plains to the western side of Canada (United States Central Intelligence Agency). Unlike the United

Norway currently (2008) allows 1,052 minke whales to be hunted commercially for meat each year. Norway has killed over 8,100 whales since the whaling ban began; Japan currently (2008) kills 1,415 great whales from six species each year, for ‘scientific research. The IWC has condemned this as unnecessary and called on Japan to stop their hunts in over 20 separate Resolutions, Iceland killed 200 minke whales between 2003 and 2007 for 'scientific' purposes (WSPA). This is a very disturbing fact because

U.S.’ Health Care System vs. Iceland’s Behlke, M., & Lestock, J. J. (2017, July 31). McConnell on Health Care: “It’s Time to Move On”. Retrieved from http://www.ncsl.org/ncsl-in-dc/publications-and-resources/capitol-to-capitol-july-31-2017.aspx#McConnell%20on%20Health%20Care a. Congress recently failed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which creates confusion and uncertainty in the market. (a.) These factors will drive healthcare premium sky high, making universal healthcare less