Simone's Travels through Music

     I’ve chosen to write this blog on the Sami people. They are the indigenous people of norther Noray, Sweden, Finland and the far north of Russia. I first learned about them from a content creator on TikTok  Ida Helene Benonise n , who is Sami. This  website  also goes over the information.  I will mostly be talking about the Sami of Norway as that is the group, I can find the most information on.                 The article linked above does go into some information about the past between the Norwegian government and the people of Sami. To sum up the rest of the article there was the “School Law” that basically was the same for them as it was for the indigenous of North America. Though I’m not sure if the Sami were taken out of their homes and away from their families.                   Very fe...

Hello. My name is Simone. I'm a bit of an older student. I came to Converse to study Biochemistry. In hopes to go into the research on how diet and genetics have a hand in cancer and diabetes because i have a family history with both. Before I came here, I was a truck driver, I was a class A CDL holder and have driven through most of the lower forty-eight states. Before that I was a licensed auto and property insurance agent that was licensed in forty-nine of fifty states. I had been wanting to come back to school for a while before I actually did but felt like there were things that I needed to do beforehand. A lot of my musical taste is roughly in the same category with a few exceptions. Below are a some examples of the majority of my music taste. Some of the exceptions would be Avril Lavigne, Katie Perry, Adam Lambert, Billie Eilish, Halestorm and Kesha 1. Examples that I like right now:           There are three examples of music tha...