Have you ever heard about mass hysteria? Well, it is a huge group of people being affected by an illness that no one is forsake about. In the last decade we have seen multiple incidents of mass hysteria. Mass hysterias happen mostly at schools because kids at schools would overreact, and with attacks they were seen as easy targets.
It was April 13, 1989 in Santa Monica, California when a mass hysteria hit a high school. As kids were getting ready for their band concert everything seemed fine. After the concert had started the students felt very dizzy, nausea, and had a lot of weakness. "Officials quickly evacuated the auditorium and ambulances rushed 19 students to hospitals" (Mass Hysteria mars the music 1991). This quote supports the idea that mass hysteria has occurred throughout history on many different occasions. A couple of weeks after the attack students in the band concert were surveyed, and almost half of them were effected some way by the mass hysteria.
It was past midnight on a Tuesday night at a college in Virginia. Students were …show more content…
They are both like the Salem Witch trials in away because they both have younger people in them, and it was a mass hysteria. The first example, relates to the Salem Witch trials because they were mainly girls and it happened at around the same age. The second one relates to it because everyone in the college community was very worried just like they were in Salem. I think what caused these were people just acting out trying to get attention. With the clown situation I think they wanted people to be scared of them and for people to think they were going to cause a threat.
Mass hysterias happen mostly at schools because kids at schools would overreact, and with attacks they were seen as easy targets. With these two events that occurred both left people scared and confused. Do you have an idea of what mass hysteria is
It was April 13, 1989 in Santa Monica, California when a mass hysteria hit a high school. As kids were getting ready for their band concert everything seemed fine. After the concert had started the students felt very dizzy, nausea, and had a lot of weakness. "Officials quickly evacuated the auditorium and ambulances rushed 19 students to hospitals" (Mass Hysteria mars the music 1991). This quote supports the idea that mass hysteria has occurred throughout history on many different occasions. A couple of weeks after the attack students in the band concert were surveyed, and almost half of them were effected some way by the mass hysteria.
It was past midnight on a Tuesday night at a college in Virginia. Students were …show more content…
They are both like the Salem Witch trials in away because they both have younger people in them, and it was a mass hysteria. The first example, relates to the Salem Witch trials because they were mainly girls and it happened at around the same age. The second one relates to it because everyone in the college community was very worried just like they were in Salem. I think what caused these were people just acting out trying to get attention. With the clown situation I think they wanted people to be scared of them and for people to think they were going to cause a threat.
Mass hysterias happen mostly at schools because kids at schools would overreact, and with attacks they were seen as easy targets. With these two events that occurred both left people scared and confused. Do you have an idea of what mass hysteria is