Flea

“Stand still, and I will read to thee, A lecture, love, in love’s philosophy.” - John Donne, Lecture upon the Shadow For the exceptionally intricate John Donne (1572-1631), love played a crucial role in his life, and ultimately became the basis of his poetry in all different aspects and forms. In essence, life had become love for him: the love for women, his wife and God. Either physical, emotional or religious, Donne’s poetry includes the omnipresence of romance, passion and worship…

The flea is theoretically a marriage bed because it has mixed both of their bloods, much like newlyweds would have intermixed on their marriage bed during their wedding night. Additionally, the flea is also theoretically a temple because the speaker is further describing the flea’s body as a temple where the speaker and his lover’s marriage has been blessed. The speaker claims that by killing the flea, his lover would be killing three, resulting in committing…

recently had fleas, but they seem to be gone. Kyrie stated that she used a flea bomb to get rid of the fleas and shook flea powder all over the house and on their mattresses. The Discovery Specialist explained the danger of having all those toxic chemicals in such a small space. EV Staff explained to Kyrie that she needs to wipe down very well everything in her house. For example, dishes in the strainer and her counters. Also that she will need to keep vacuuming to ensure the fleas are gone and…

recently, the plague was documented when it reached Los Angeles in 1952 (Scogna). The plague originated from the lack of sewer systems in London. The trash and waste from the city was thrown in the River Thames causing London to be extremely filthy. The fleas took in the disease and then found refuge on rodents (Bubonic). The plague has found its way around the world and has taken so many lives as a result of its ability to…

bacterial disease transmitted by fleas and rats (Mayo Clinic). It is uncommon during recent times, there are only about five thousand worldwide diagnoses a year, and about nine in the United States (Mayo Clinic). During the 14th century, this disease was behind the death of one third of Europe’s population (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica). The bubonic plague is primarily a disease of rodents and fleas, and humans only accidentally enter the usual cycle of rodent-flea-rodent (The Editors…

medical procedures still used today. The disease, which spread quickly throughout cities for centuries, is actually a bacterial infection and could kill a person within a matter of days. “This infection is found mainly in rodents and their fleas. But the fleas leapt to humans, infecting them with the disease.” The Black Plague swept through Asia and Europe. It reached Europe in the late 1340s, killing about 25 million people.(www.History.com Staff.) Showing that Europe got one of the worst…

by the rat flea (Xenopsylla Cheopis), which ingests Yersinia pestis cells by sucking blood from an infected animal. Yersinia pestis is a bacterium that infects rodents, humans and the oriental rat flea. It can be life threatening if untreated. The black death is a contagious disease that can spread very fast. Cells multiply in the flea’s intestine and can be transmitted to a healthy animal in the next bite. As the disease spreads, rat mortality becomes so high that the infected fleas seek new…

church to the threat of the Black Death, accelerated and in many ways helped spread the Bubonic Plague. Yersinia Pestis, often referred to as the Black Plague or the Black Death is a bacterial infection found mainly in rodents and their fleas, however, it was the rat fleas that spread the plague to humans, while the rats, simply carried the plague from region to region. Ole Benedictow (2005, para. 33) calculated during the years of 1346 through 1353, over 50 million Europeans died of the Black…

cheopis flea, once infected, can transmit the Yersinia pestis over to the black rat. The rodents, therefore, became perfect carriers for the disease. The rats are not naturally long travelers , which made trade an excellent way to spread disease. Also, rats did not initially become sick with plague, so rats can go for miles and miles without being symptomatic. Infected rats would travel onto merchant ships and when they would dock into a new port city, the rats would exit. Because fleas…

experience with the Chinooks at all since we got here. At first they seemed ok, but once we got to the village it was disgusting. When I first arrived everyone was scratching themselves, I assumed it was just the mosquitoes. I was wrong, they had fleas. We did not want to embarrass them, but we do not know what to do. They had voluntarily allowed us to stay there and for us to call them disgusting to their faces would be terrible of us. We hoped we wouldn’t have to stay there long, and Lewis…