Plague of Justinian

traumatizing scenes a man experiences during a plague probably haunt him throughout his life – if he manages to survive. In Jack London’s 1912 novella, “The Scarlet Plague”, London brilliantly narrates the life of an elderly man, Granser who manages to survive the lethal hands of the plague that decimated millions sixty years ago, reverting the once “colossal civilization” (16) to cave-man existence. Granser recounts the emergence of the Scarlet Plague and its catastrophic impact on society as…

The Plague, commonly referred to as the Black Death, swept the French Algerian city of Oran. The novel The Plague centers its focus on a deadly epidemic of disease and the course it took throughout Oran. This disease was spread through bacteria carried by fleas that lived on rats. Due to the fleas, the rats were able to rapidly spread this malady worldwide resulting in millions of deaths globally. In the novel, various rats stumbled into the open and began to die hastily. When a strange fever…

becomes one’s own enemy. Likewise, in The Plague, by Albert Camus, the plague prevents the people of Oran from practicing their daily routines. Therefore, Camus develops the plague as an antagonist as it deprives the townspeople of the simple pleasures and the beauty of life. Camus utilizes personification to show how the plague is an enemy of Oran and its people. Camus compares the condition of Oran before the plague and its deterioration after the plague invaded the town. “It was plain to see…

helps out with Cinders mechanic booth at the market. The royal prince comes and asks her to fix his royal andriod. At home Cinder lives with her step-mother and two sisters, Poeny and Pearl. Cinder is signed up for plague research after her beloved sisters Poeny passes away from the plague outbreak. Cinder learns with the help of the head doctor, Dr. Erland of the cyborg draft, that she is Lunar, or the people from the moon. Cinder fixes Prince Kai’s android. The King (Kai’s…

focused on many aspects of different infectious diseases. The bubonic plague was one that I personally found very interesting because it’s something that I have always learned about in grade school. I always found it interesting, but we were never taught about it in depth. I was really excited to take this course for many reasons. Learning in depth about the bubonic plague was one of those reasons. The lesson on the bubonic plague was what intriguing and really fun to learn about because I…

Many believe the Bubonic plague first began at sea around October 1837 in Europe. They believe it came to land when ships coming through the black sea ported at the Sicilian port of Messina and the sailors that survived thereof successfully passed it on to the unsuspecting victims of Europe. However, the first sightings of the bubonic plague sprouted up around the 6th century. The emperor at the time (Justinian 1) named it the Justinian plague beginning in 541 AD, it then lived up to its name…

history of the plague that affected Europe. The author provides in-depth details of exactly what happened at the start of the black plague which was in 1347. That was carried by merchants through trade routes on the silk road. He also talks about the origins and where it originally came from with the help of sources that was documented at the time. The author talks about the first pandemic known as the “Plague of Justinian” and says that the “Black Death” was the second pandemic of plague. He…

extinction. One such time, arguably the most infamous, was when the Black Death ravaged the western hemisphere. For several hundred years, the cause of this devastating disease remained a mystery, however, recent analysis from the DNA of the victims of the plague indicate that Yersinia pestis a bacillus shaped bacterium, was the likely cause of this tragedy (Perry and Fetherston, 1997). The road leading up to Y. pestis becoming God’s bacterial agent of judgement was a relatively short one, as…

the flea thus inhibiting it from swallowing the blood it sucked out of the rat. Then, when a flea bit a human, it would deposit the blood from the rat infected with the bacteria into the human’s blood stream. The first victim or patient zero of the plague was thus infected. In 1347, the fast-expanding Mongolian empire sought the acquisition of the strategic town of Caffa, which was a…

Alchin, Linda. "The Black Death & Bubonic Plague during the Elizabethan Era." Bubonic Plague. Siteseen Ltd, June 2015. Web. 14 Apr. 2016. This source gave me an insight on the Black Death specifically during the Elizabethan Era. It also explained what people did to prevent it. Watchmen were used to give food to the sick people in “plague houses”, and they also made sure that no one entered or escaped from the house to prevent the illness from spreading. They were also given the job to transport…