Plagues of Egypt

Five times in the past, the Earth has been struck by cataclysmic events, ones so severe and swift they obliterated most living things before they ever had a chance to adapt. With the developing technologies and industries, humans now possess the ability to impact the Earth immensely. In the articles, “Numerous Signs Point to Parasite Mass Extinctions” by Tracy V. Wilson and “Mass Extinction and Biodiversity Loss” by David Hosansky, are concerned on this topic and explain how the Earth is on the…

Scarlet Fever is an impactful disease that has been around for many centuries. While not all of those who have had it died as a result of scarlet fever, many greatly suffered. When Mary Shelley wrote her popular novel, Frankenstein, several of the characters in this book became affected from scarlet fever. Most of these characters were close to Victor, the creator of the monster. Because of these characters dying, it develops more about the character of Victor, and his creation of the…

Answer: The siege of Sarajevo was the longest siege in modern history, and an estimated 12,000 people lost their lives. Goran Simic wrote this poem to convey and express his experiences of helplessness, horror, death and fear in Sarajevo during this dreadful useless siege. The title itself implies the sadness and misery the capital of Bosnia was suffering from. “Sorrow of Sarajevo”, this is to show how Sarajevo as a whole, felt grief and anguish after their loved ones were killed for no…

Juliette Dougherty ELA 12/Sec. 08 Ms. Diamond 31 March, 2018 Hester Prynne's transformation throughout The Scarlet Letter Justine Sacco sent out one tweet, and that was all it took to ruin her life. From the time she sent the tweet, to the time she stepped off the plane in Africa her entire life had changed. The entire world's eyes were on her, and they were intent on ruining her life. She lost her job, her face was plastered all over the media as a racist, and she was receiving death threats.…

Jamela Mavrakis Anderson, Fever 1793 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 249pgs. The Epidemic of Yellow Fever, 1793 Fever 1793 portrays a young fourteen year old girl, Matilda Cook, who lives in Philadelphia as an epidemic sweeps through know as, Yellow Fever. Yellow fever is a disease that starts with fever and muscle ache. Then, targets often become jaundiced; this is where “Yellow” fever comes from. Although Fever 1793 is historical fiction, Anderson achieved massive amounts of research to…

Have you ever wonder why blackheads are described as stubborn blackhead? You can pinch, pop and squeeze, but they never seem to go away. In fact, you are inviting more of that problem to appear. Blackheads are open comedones, enlarged hair follicles that are clogged with dead skin cells and sebum. They are black because the melanin in sebum comes into contact with oxygen and it oxidizes, and turns black. On the other hand, Whiteheads are closed comedone, where the pores are covered and…

The Barbie Anomaly The success of Barbie as a meme in owed to her creator Ruth Handler. She was married to the co-owner of renowned toy company Mattel, and avid in the business and brought many ideas of success to her husband’s desk. Her greatest idea began when she saw her daughter Barbara playing with a paper doll. She decided that a three-dimensional plastic doll with an adult body would much more enjoyable for kids. Her idea was put on hold, though, because her husband and his partner…

The Sweating Sickness In the Medieval Times most people have heard of The Black Death, meanwhile medieval English went through an epidemic called the sweating sickness. The sweating sickness took thousands of lives. Even though the sweating sickness took more lives than the Black Death, it grew infamous because its victims who got it died within 24 hours by sweating to death. Scientists say there is antibiotics to cure the illness but don’t know how a person becomes about with it, modern…

common thing. However, in the present day scientific advances in medicine and science have aided those significantly in the combat against these diseases. To begin with, diseases like those of the Bubonic Plague and SARS originated from virus/bacteria, and only surfaced when exposed. The Bubonic Plague is caused by a bacterium identified as Yersinia pestis, or Y pestis. It was first discovered in the province of Yunnan in China during 1334. “…the bacterium Yersinia pestis began its long march…

In 1914 Australian men went out to sign up for war many not knowing what they were signing up for. The Australian troops had a tough life on the Western Front as they had to face horrid conditions not only fighting and risking lives for their country but living in places where you get bad trench conditions including trench foot and fever, have pests which bring diseases and steal your food, have health problems and not able to treat them as there isn’t much aid for everyone to be treated. The…