Task 2 English‚ the undisputed champion of the world Today English is used in every corner of the globe‚ and it is definitely the most spoken language on Earth. A lot of countries use English as their mother tongue and the inhabitants speak fluent English. Other countries give children English courses from a very young age. Most people have easy access to English via television and the Internet‚ and it is quite easy to learn because of its large amount of speakers. English is becoming a bigger
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Station design on high speed railway in Scandinavia A study of how track and platform technical design aspects are affected by high speed railway concepts planned for the Oslo – Göteborg line Master of Science Thesis in the Master’s Programme Infrastructure and Environmental Engineering TOVE ANDERSSON DAVID LINDVERT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Division of GeoEngineering Road and Traffic CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Göteborg‚ Sweden 2013 Master’s Thesis 2013:50
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Elective Project Raluca Leustean Supervisor: Katrine Grud Jakob 15.03.2012 24‚615 characters Table of Contents Introductory chapter 3 Problem statement 3 Subquestions: 3 Motivation 3 Interpretation 3 Research question 4 Methodology 4 Introduction 5 The experience realms 5 Entertainment 7 Educational 8 Escapist
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fruits and vegatables per day in a busy work enviroment. Demographic: Innocent’s products are sold only in certain supermarkets principally in the UK and Ireland‚ but also in many other european markets such as: Germany‚ France‚ Netherlands‚ Scandinavia and others. Costumers are busy‚ well-doing people‚ with variable ages. They can be young workers or middle-aged families with or without children‚ and both men and women. 1b) Innocent’s products are oriented in the european markets to people who
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adventurous seafarers and raiders from Scandinavia who spread through Europe and the North Atlantic. From Norway‚ Sweden‚ and Denmark‚ they appeared as traders‚ and even conquerors. For many centuries before the year 800‚ many tribes began wandering out of Scandinavia. The Vikings were different to any other warrior because they were sea warriors and they carried with them a civilization that was in some ways more developed than those of the lands they visited. Scandinavia was rich in iron‚ which seems to
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improve the church reading and psalmody.”(Einhard- The Life of Charlemagne). He began preaching with the philosophy of either converting pagans or non-believers. The Holy Roman Emperor began spreading his forces of conversion over Europe and soon Scandinavia became a part of the conversion process. “Christian clerics (the only literate group in the barbarian north) are enlisted as his civil servants at Aachen‚ where the emperor also establishes a programme of education and cultural revival.” (The Life
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that Christianity will overpower or transition the early medieval Scandinavia which is pagan into Christianity due to the fact that Beowulf being the people’s hero and main hope references God more than once which shows the introduction of Christianity context. The author specifically references the Christian story of Cain and Abel which shows the slow but growing introduction of Christianity to the pagan early medieval Scandinavia. The author purposely ties/connects the main hero‚ Beowulf‚ with early
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Vikings- Civilised or Not? Vikings; expert traders‚ craftsmen‚ raiders and warriors‚ came from the area known as Scandinavia. Scandinavia is a region in Europe which the Vikings lives and dominated. It consists of Norway‚ Sweden and part of northern Finland. They were masters of the sea with their great navigation and marine technology. Tools of which they used to raid plunder and slaughter the civilisation of far lands‚ separated by great and vast seas. Vikings are often portrayed as ruthless
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first known encounters of the Vikings was in the late 18th century. On the Island of Lindisfarne‚ on the coast of England. (Gascoigne) I also found information stating that between the 8th and 11th centuries the Vikings were known to have come from Scandinavia. (Fitzhugh) Now‚ obviously the first sittings and where the Vikings were from are two separate questions. However‚ little was known about the Vikings until they started to make a name for themselves‚ such as one the first citing on the Island of
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voyaging and raiding. As the Vikings began traveling the: “Viking merchants were soon chasing these exotic products in trading emporia across northwestern Europe such as forested in Frisia and hamwic”(Hubbard). As trade routes began crossing through Scandinavia and Europe‚ goods from all over were being traded. The Vikings wanted these exotic riches and began raiding in order to obtain them. The need for exotic riches was one of the factors that led to the voyages as they would travel to these exotic places
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