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    Cholera is killing people Cholera is an infection of small intestine by some strains of bacterium vibrio cholera. The classic symptom is large amount of watery diarrhea that lasts a few days. In this vomiting and muscle cramps may also occur. Diarrhea can be so serve that it leads within hours to severe dehydration and electrolyte imbalance. This may result in sunken eyes ,cold skin, decreased skin elasticity, and wrinkling of hands and feets. Because of dehydration skin may turn bluish. Chlorea…

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    and different circumstances. Love can be presented as incredibly passionate or small and simple. It can be written as taken a long time to develop or simply love at first sight. Love and relationships are a main theme throughout Love in the Time of Cholera. It becomes what the main plot revolves around. The novel displays a couple that instantly become interested in eachother from the first moment that they see one another. They are instantly attracted and find a way to become in each other 's…

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    The Ghost Map

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    In The Ghost Map author Steven Johnson illustrates an episodic saga as Dr. John Snow traces throughout London in order to solve one of the greatest epidemic of his time. As Steven Johnson creates the nauseating tale in the early parts of the novel as sanitation engineering was not at its best during the years of 1854, with John Snow enduring the sickening outbreak of diseases and his incentive to find out the causes and why this is happening to everyone around him. This day and age the role of…

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    At the center of the triangle, where all three components join, is what Sternberg called “consummate love.” Socially, consummate love is the ideal true love. However, many of the other types of love are mistaken as true love. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez deals with, as the title suggests, love. However, not all love in the novel is true love. Marquez fills the novel with marriages and affairs, but takes a clear stance on the idea of love. Love that is not consummate love…

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    devastating effects. The evolution of Cholera, Typhoid, and the Black Plague helps society understand how diseases arise and how to contain them. Body Paragraph 1: From mapping cases of Cholera, it was found that contaminated water caused Cholera, encouraging future scientists to test water sanitation as a potential spread of disease. John Snow created a map of all the water sources in London to track the spread of Cholera. The black bars on the map represented cases of Cholera and the “Broad…

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    uses different elements of magical realism in order to form a story that addresses different aspect that is most difficult and meaningful to the real world. In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel, Love in the Time of Cholera magical realism is quite used in some elements. Love in the Time of Cholera could be argued as a magical realism novel in some way not completely. It has those aspects that are related to magical realism in a way. Through these different aspects Marquez story uses these elements…

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    Cholera's Misconceptions

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    Russian’s were quarantined by brutal and repressive means to maintain choleras spread, as relentless medical professionals exercised their resources and resourcefulness under the most difficult of circumstances as medicine and theories were tested beyond margins. Patterns began to be made by on lookers with idea looking for a cause and cure for the indisposed Russian’s. Dr. Rauch, an Imperial Physician in Ordinary affirmed, “Cholera will not be cured by nature’s powers alone without the help of…

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    John Snow Faulty Theory

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    it weren’t for John Snow, Henry Whitehead, William Farr, and Edwin Chadwick, it is very likely cholera would not have ended when it did, and other public health issues would have taken even longer to be addressed. Even though they did not all work directly, their work benefited one another and led to the end of the cholera epidemic of 1854. John Snow had an enormous contribution to the end of this cholera epidemic. John Snow was a doctor, anesthesiologist, author, and a detective, just to name…

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    were lucky to survive till their fifth birthdays “ says author Liza Picard. Medicine in the 1800s or also known as the “ Victorian Era “ was even considered medieval. Not many specialized physicians or drugs existed while terrible diseases such as Cholera or Typhoid dominated the lives of people. Also, the situation of treatment center such as hospitals and care centers were not advanced and taken care of such simple diseases. Although, great advancements in the profession were made such as a…

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    points The cholera epidemic in the 1800’s impacted populations by means of a common contaminated water source and a lack of knowledge. After Jon Snow debunked the idea that cholera was a miasma and persuaded authorities to remove the Broad Street Pump handle, population health improved (Frerichs, n.d.). This epidemiological undertaking paved the way for a new way of thinking backed by scientific evidence. The bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, is not selective to specific places or people (Cholera,…

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