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individual response such as setting up new laws, revolting, and turning away from the church. ADD MORE The Black Plague was brought on in Europe when merchant ships came from China. Along with their goods, these ships transported black rats and gerbils who were carrying fleas infested with the Plague. The Plague caused a shocking amount of deaths; twenty million Europeans died, which was one third of the European population at the time. The Plague began in Sicily, Italy then traveled to the…

The Ethics of Cloning Cloning is one of the greatest questions of science. Is it possible? Can we clone humans? Can we create a soldier army of perfect clones? These are the questions that people have been asking. What is cloning? This would probably be a good place to start. Cloning is, “the genetic duplication of an existing organism especially by transferring the nucleus of a somatic cell of the organism into an enucleated oocyte” (Medical-Dictionary)It’s like this say you have a…

Adopt a Bunny | Save a Rabbit It is safe to say that you are thinking about adopting a rabbit? Rabbits are delightful. They are delicate, calm and simple to house train. Much like a feline, they will use a litter box. Rabbits, not at all like felines, require supervision in your home. Rabbits make awesome indoor pets. Rabbits were first trained in the Middle Ages and are utilized as wellsprings of food, hide, and fleece, as research subjects, and as pets.. They are lovable and brimming…

In light of the film, We Need To Talk About Kevin, based on the 2003 novel by Lionel Shriver, it is apparent that the film presents a specific case of Antisocial Personality Disorder through the actions and thought processes of Kevin Khatchadourian, the eponymous character. The story is told through the main point of view of the character’s mother, Eva Khatchadourian, through which she undergoes a series of negative events as she attempts to deal with her son, Kevin Khatchadourian, and the…

When stuck in a seemingly endless loop of death, face to face with it at every waking corner, the only way for some to move forward is to block out emotion and numb the pain by looking past it. Think for a second about doctors who experience death on a day-to-day basis; is it wrong for them to block out emotion and put their own mental wellbeing before empathy? In Donald Barthelme’s short story “The School,” first published in 1974 in The New Yorker, an absurd amount of deaths occur in a narrow…

post at a big-box pet store. I started off as a cashier and made my way over into Pet Care in record time, especially for someone who had close to no experience with the animals I would be caring for. I knew a bit about the small mammals; hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs, rats, mice, and chinchillas, and I tried to make that a bigger selling point than it actually is. There isn't nearly as much to know about them as there is, say, eyelash crested geckos. Or running a fucking fish tank. Six…

If you have decided to get yourself a pet ferret there are several places that you can go to obtain one. The following are the most accessible places for getting your hands on a pet ferret: 1. A Pet store 2. A Breeder 3. An animal shelter Ferrets have fairly long life spans compared to other animals of a similar size. Ferrets tend to live an average of about 8-9 years, which means that you should make absolutely sure that you want a ferret and have done all of the necessary research before…

Is Animal Life worth more than Human Life? Did you know that if it wasn’t for animal testing we wouldn’t be able to vaccinate ourselves against rabies, measles, mumps, rubella, polio, tuberculosis, and many more? Animal testing is experiment done on animals for the betterment of products from medications to cosmetics. The pros of animal testing is that there is no other way to test on an living, whole body system, and there are laws protecting animals and their rights. The cons of animal testing…

3.0 Results From historical and epidemiological perspectives search, three different zones harbour plague endemic foci in Zambia. These are:- Eastern zone, which includes Luangwa valley, where outbreaks occurred in Tembwe village in Chama district, Mukomba village in Lundazi district and Chief Nyanje in Sinda district; the Southern zone, which includes Kabulamwanda and surrounding villages in Namwala district and Western zone which includes Chitokoloki in Balovale (Zambezi district) in Zambezi…

The plague is probably best known in the West as the disease that caused the Black Death in Europe in the fourteenth century. Nearly two-thirds of the population of Europe was killed, leaving a marked impact on Western culture (Centers for Disease Control [CDC], 2014). However, plague has not been eradicated and continues to be a disease that humans contend with in the twenty-first century. Natural disasters, human conflict, and abnormally warm and dry weather conditions can all cause increases…