Assignment 3- Sam Ederington

Norway is a country with vast oil reserves, and much of the countries wealth comes from the oil business. Despite this, when vacationing in Norway over the summer, to prevent freezing, I noticed that the country was attempting to be very environmentally active. Norway wanted you to use trains, as opposed to airplanes. This has helped me reflect on cultural differences between places like Norway, which attempt to protect the environment, and the U.S. In addition, after seeing the World War 2 Museum in Norway, I better understood not just the dogmatic U.S. view of the war, but how nations subjugated under the Nazi Regime viewed it. Both of these helped me realize how culturally different places can be. Academically, visiting Norway's resistance museum and reading all of the newspaper articles and accounts by the Norwegians made me realize how hard that time must have been for them, and helped me appreciate what World War 2 really was like. In addition, the stories about how all of the teachers in the union collectively refused to teach Nazi propaganda and so were sent off to labor camps is really moving, and made me appreciate all teachers more.