Great Plague of London

The truth of human nature The state of nature is a concept that depicts what human nature may be without the existence of government and societies. Great philosophers and thinkers throughout human history have pondered and debated on what might be the interaction human nature and the state of nature. Political theorists such as Locke, Hobbes and Rousseau all comment upon this interaction in their works. My stance on human nature is that people, predominantly, are selfish and need a…

Harmon, a young fellow as of late come back to London to get his legacy. Were he alive, his dad's will would oblige him to wed Bella Wilfer, a wonderful, hired soldier young lady whom he had never met. Rather, the cash goes to the average workers Boffins, and the impacts spread into different corners of London…

Background Florence Nightingale was born at the Villa La Colombaia in Florence, Italy on the 12th of May 1820. She was born two years after her one and only sister, Frances Parthenope. Both Florence Nightingale and Frances Parthenope was named after a place they were born in, one being Florence, Italy and the latter “Parthe” after Parthenopolis which once was a Greek settlement, now part of Naples, Italy. Florence Nightingale was born into a British family that belonged to the upper-middle-class…

After the Mongols conquest in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries a vast empire emerged that bought stability to the Eurasian trade. Europe experienced great harvest during the thirteenth century but was later met by disastrous events. The great plague also known as The Black Death is said to have originated in Asia and spread throughout Europe with the facilitated long-distance trade that the Mongols brought under a single rule. This disease was carried by flea-infested rats which would…

He became interested in university politics and was elected a representative of the university in Parliament. Later he asked friends in London to help him obtain a government appointment. The result was that in 1696, at the age of fifty-four, he left Cambridge to become warden and then master of the Mint (place where money is printed or manufactured). Newton took the job just as seriously…

William Shakespeare’s estimated birth is around April 23, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom ("Poet William Shakespeare”). He one of eight children of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden, and had two older sisters and five younger brothers ("Poet William Shakespeare”). Although sources say that no birth records exist, the estimated date of birth was presumed from church records that indicate that Shakespeare was baptized on April 26, 1564 ("William Shakespeare”). It is also presumed that…

Humanity has had several instances falling upon hard times, whether it is war, plague, or natural disasters, and undoubtedly, WWII was one of these instances. It was an ugly 6-year war, where there were an estimated 40 million casualties at minimum. WWII left victims of the Holocaust, veterans, and countries physically and mentally shattered. For a while, Great Britain was one of them. Although they had been part of the Allied force, fighting against Italy, Germany, and Japan, the war left them…

away with the plague but her soul is pure. After that things only went downhill,we had to evacuate from that apartment building due to the plague being contagious and the only thing on the market was a one bedroom apartment. The people on the street of our apartment started dropping like bowling pins. Headlines screamed “Mrs.Jenkins died a slow tragic death!” The bakers 2 month son heart stops beating”. We ate lots of vegetables and keep hydrated to keep the bad bacteria of the plague away.…

Also, his statement at of this belief at the International Medical Congress on Tuberculosis in London in 1901 caused quite a bit of controversy and some contraposition. It is now known that Koch was correct. His idea showed that this disease was transmitted more often from contact with other people than from drinking water. This led to some new control…

He goes to a free grammar school and goes on to marry a local farmer’s daughter and has children. Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon. His parents, John and Mary, had eight kids in all, but lost three girls to the Black Plague. Shakespeare was raised by his mother and Father who ran a successful business of glove making. Despite their…