Street View Page on Oslo, Norway; Stockholm, Sweden; Helsinki, Finland


Outline

  1. Street View Screen Captures
  2. Links to Street View Panoramas
  3. Map Channels Street View Animation
  4. Moore's Where to Invade Next

Street View Screen Captures

Frogner Park, Oslo

Frogner Park houses a sculpture installation by Gustav Vigeland. This piece is called “Monolitten.”

ABBA Museum, Stockholm

The ABBA Museum is home to exhibits and experiences about the famous 70s Swedish pop group.

 

Market Square, Helsinki

This market is full of artisans selling their crafts and food vendors. There is a website- https://www.freewalkingtourshelsinki.com - where you can sign up for a free walking tour where a tour guide will give you information and the history of Market Square. This market is near the docks to catch a canal cruise.

 

Links to Street View Panoramas

Example I –Norwegian Maritime Museum Oslo

Example II – The Royal Palace Stockholm

Example III – Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden Helsinki

           

Map Channels Street View Animation- For each animation, I chose directions from a touristy place to a nice restaurant or bar type of place. That’s how we usually like to travel. You walk around all day, and end your evening with a good local meal and a few drinks.

       My First Animation- OSLO

Frogner Park to STOCK Spiseri & Drikkeri

 

My Second Animation– STOCKHOLM

The Royal Palace to ICE bar

 

My Third Animation- HELSINKI

Royal Line Oy Cruise to Löyly

Moore’s Where to Invade Next

Moore's documentary is politically polarizing. Conservative columnists, such as Armon White, are sharply critical of the movie. First, comment on the validity of White's negative review. Then, putting aside politics, what can the movie show us about the value of travel in understanding our own country.

I found the Armon White article interesting, even if I don’t totally agree with all the points made. The article felt as extreme in some cases, like when liberals and conservatives make fun of each other. I consider myself liberal, and I’m a little older than your typical 18-22 college-aged student. I think that it’s pretty easy to say to yourself “oh, why wouldn’t we have free college, and why wouldn’t we be helping addicts recover rather than letting them rot in jail?” I don’t have children, but it wouldn’t phase me one bit if my nieces and nephews had more than I have now. I have clearly rambled and did not put aside politics very well. Funnily enough, I found this New York Times article that feels like the antithesis of White’s article. What I garnered, in the case for the value of travelling to foreign countries to better understand our own is that history and those who are in power play a large roll in how and why the society forms as it does. For example, while the US was involved in both World Wars and other conflicts, we have not seen the same sort of devastation in the continental United States. I feel that the wars and conflicts of the 20th century, dictatorships, bouts of isolationism, economic rise and fall, and religion all play a large part of what shapes each nation. I hope that we could have grade schools like Finland, help addicts like Portugal, work towards rehabilitations of offenders like in Norway. But, in the grand scheme our government and economy are different enough to make these types of changes difficult.

Submitted by Victoria Follin