A school-related blog. Nothing more than that, actually.

1. Do you think the colonies had a good reason to declare independence?

- What I think is that if I were a colonist I would not like to pay taxes that just ended in England's fortune and did not do something for the society. That is one of the reasons I think the colonies has a good reason to declare independence.  

2. Should one country be able to colonize another? When should a colony be granted Independence?

- I think that one country could not be able to colonize an other nowadays. It was obviously more right to do the same thing back in the days where people where fighting each other to get property and land.     

3. The Bill of Rights guarantees Americans "the right to bear arms". Many Americans still feel this is important for personal safety and in case they need to revolt against their own government, they argue that the Minutemen and the local militias only won the fight for Independence because they had firearms. What do you think? Should everyone have the right to bear arms? All kinds of arms?

At first, when the question says something about “the bill of rights” and “the right to bear arms”         -it means that in America everyone can carry weapons for personal safety. As I am a Norwegian, I would be extremely scared if we had the same right, but I think that America is off course something else. Back in the times where it was I kind of war of land and properly people used to carry guns and other weapons to protect them self. Therefore, if a group of immigrants came to a place where some other had settle down before, they would use guns to scare the immigrants away. But that was before the

4. If you were to present your nation's history in the same way as above, which events would you choose? Why? - List the events and write a couple of sentences about them.

1814 – The Norwegian constitution

1969 – Norway discovered oil and that was a big moneymaker for the country.