Norway i/ˈnɔrweɪ/ (Norwegian: Norge (Bokmål) or Noreg (Nynorsk))‚ officially the Kingdom of Norway‚ is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula‚ Jan Mayen‚ the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and the subantarctic Bouvet Island.[note 1] Norway has a total area of 385‚252 square kilometres (148‚747 sq mi) and a population of about 5 million.[9] It is the second least densely populated country in Europe. The majority of the
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July 15th ‚ 2010 1920s Good Times or Bad Times? For many decades‚ there were numerous arguments stating whether the “Roaring 20s” were good times or bad times in Canadian history. Although there were many clear reasons that supported both sides of the argument‚ I believe that the 1920s were good times. The “Roaring 20s” were times of economic and social boom. New inventions which are still effective part of our lives in 21st century‚ growing power of multimedia and entertainment‚ and modern form
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Why Smoking is Good for You Smoking is good for in many ways including making you live longer. Although most text books and "experts" say that smoking is bad for you‚ there are also many other people who disagree and say it has many curing properties. For example‚ a person with bronchitis from childhood accompanied by marked wheezing was told by doctors not to smoke. He was then told by an old country doctor that he used to be like him until he took up the pipe. Then he tried smoking and it reduced
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Good Girl Gone Bad: Rihanna Since the beginning of time women have been uniquely viewed as a source of human life. Historically‚ however‚ they have been considered not only intellectually inferior to men but also a major source of temptation and evil. As one reflects back upon history he or she can easily conclude that women have made significant progress. Traditionally women roles were understood to be wifehood and motherhood. However‚ time has greatly changed and women have acquired several
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In many ways‚ Ulysses is a bad leader. Many of his action involved the death of his men. He told Polytheismus that he was there and he was the one that stabbed his eye; Polytheismus told Poseidon about Ulysses and was very angry with Ulysses; he was on Ulysses’ tail ever since the incident. Basically he is a BAD leader. His men died because of him. Many of Ulysses’ men died because of his orders or what he’s done. When he told them climb a vine like beard‚ all his men died by being eaten. He
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The good more than the bad. Causes people to Conflict and change the good more than the bad in everyone’s life. Which also causes people to cause change and use more of the good than the bad choices in their life and use more of the good than the bad to choose better choices in people’s life and how they want to act upon others. Conflict causes people to change their world history for the future. Which could also cause people to change and experience new things to there world‚ and they could
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School Uniforms: Good or Bad? Kelly Wiles Picture this: walking into a school and seeing that America’s youth is not being judged by what they are wearing: whether their style is "cool" or not. "Uniforms are to the suburbs wildly" (Ferrandino‚ Newsweek). Whether students approve or not‚ uniforms are spreading across the nation. There are many advantages to this school clothing restraint. They help students as well as parents resist peer pressure. They also prevent gang members from wearing gang accessories
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Open Source: Good and Bad Introduction: In the following paper I will be discussing the use of open source software as part of a larger project. Example uses of this include incorporating existing publicly available source code within another piece of software. Because the term open source has such broad implications‚ I will attempt to explain it within the context of this paper. Open source code comes with many different licenses such as GPL‚ BSD‚ and MIT. I will describe the most popular licensing
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Social Media: Is it Good or Bad? It is incredible that only fifteen years ago‚ people were still using the postal services as their primary source for communication. Although the United Postal Service has not gone out of business‚ people are switching over from the old fashion stamp and letter to e-mails‚ social media sites‚ and instant messaging as a more convenient way of exchanging information. In just a few years‚ the usage of social media sites‚ like Facebook and Twitter‚ has been increasing
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Topic 1: It is hard imagine people can live without friends. Many people have said that we can’t live without friends. I totally agree with this point of view. There are many reasons why I support this idea. First of all‚ we do not live alone. As human being‚ we have a need in sharing our feeling both happingess and sadness. There is a saying that “ sorrow shared is sorrow halved‚ andjoy shared is joy double “. This world and life will be nothing if we do not have any friends nearby.Secondly‚
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