Cholera

Bacteria Basics The Cambridge Online Dictionary characterizes bacteria as “very small organisms that are found everywhere and are the cause of many diseases” (Cambridge University). Bacteria is all around no matter where someone were to go. Bacteria can be very dangerous. People are exposed to bacteria from the time they are born to the day they die. Much of society think of public restrooms as bacterial feeding grounds, but what about high schools? Do high schools have dangerous sorts of…

He indeed suffered mental illness and developed numerous phobias over his lifetime. Some of his fears can be logically attributed to traumatic events in his life like his fear of germs. His near death experience with cholera as a teen traces to the fact that he “practiced very strict hygiene,” (“The Extraordinary Life”). Others, such as his phobia of pearls, have no known explanation. That specific fear crippled him to the point that “he refused to speak to women wearing…

A monument is a place or thing that denotes the persistency of a cloud of symbolic significance over an event that occurred in the past. The Prison Ship Martyrs Monument was erected on the 14th of November 1908 by the sculptor Adolph Alexander Weinman and the architect Stanford White. It is an affable monument located in Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn, New York that commemorates the lives of 11,500 Americans who were imprisoned by the British during the American Revolution and died egregiously…

The monograph, Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America discusses the life and book work of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, slavery around the time of the Civil War, and religious viewpoints towards the Civil War. The author of this monograph, David S. Reynolds, is a notable professor of English and American Studies at the Graduate Center of the University of New York. Mightier than the Sword discusses how Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, “was widely seen as a…

These creators were responsible for many diseases such as trench fever, trench foot and head lice, (Michael Duffy 2009). Lack of sanitation at Gallipoli was a huge problem. Men suffered from dysentery, gastroenteritis, typhoid fever, pneumonia and cholera, (Victorian government 2011). Due to the conditions in both Gallipoli and western front the ANZACS life was harsh as they faced disease, challenging terrain and trying weather…

Abstract This paper explores access to health care in Argentina and Haiti as well as societal impacts. Health care can be analyzed by looking at past improvements implemented by government and foreign assistance agencies. This paper also examines the differences of Argentina and Haiti’s focus in regards to health care. While Argentina’s government focuses on the citizens’ feedback to improve their health care system, Haiti’s government does not prioritize health care as evidenced by their…

The Presidential Election of 1828 is known as the “Dirtiest Presidential Campaign Ever,” mainly because of all the rumors spread around the US about both candidates. The 1828 election campaigns focused greatly on both the individual's image and character instead of policy and issues. In the 1824 election these same two candidates, Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams, ran against each other, but Adams won that election. It was known as “The Corrupt Bargain” because it had to be decided in the…

transgression, foreshadowing the country’s Civil War to come. Okri uses ironic distance in this novel as well. Like other magical realist authors such as Isabel Allende, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Allejo Carpentier, Syl Cheney-Coker, Kojo Laing, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Toni Morrison, Ben Okri has his own idea that overwhelms the possibility of rejuvenation in magical realism. Magical realism as a journey of soul searching plays its vital role. Ben Okri along with other…

In The Secret Garden, readers learn the devastating effects on a child when he or she is shown no love. Mary Lennox, the protagonist of the story, was given all the goods and things that she wants, but with no real feeling from her parents, she feels neglected and soon adapts a very nasty character. When you first read it, it may seem like she might never change, but when she encounters a secret garden tucked away in a hidden room in a giant mansion, she changes completely. Frances Hodgson…

early days of transportation, the conditions on ships were appalling. Many died on the journey that took four to six months. Many of the convicts on the ships were already disease ridden, they didn't manage to live through the bouts of typhoid and cholera. Those that managed it were severely weakened, by scurvy, dysentery, fever and occasionally measles. The convicts were taken aboard shackled and chained. Thought they were released once onboard. Convicts spent most of the voyage locked below…