Pneumonic plague

In order to understand how the black plague manage to spread as rapidly as it did as well as how it killed as many people as it did one must first understand its origin. Through the Mongol conquest of the Afro-Eurasia, the Mongols established a large network of communication through cultural exchange. The Mongols had a great deal of religious tolerance and do to this they had a variety of different cultures within their region of influence. However, these positive outcomes did not come without…

The first interview I listened to was a Halloween special and it was about this family who had just arrived home from an outing on Halloween and there were two armed men with halloween masks on in their garage. The two men forced the mom, Janette, and the dad, Greig, into the trunk of their car while the baby was still a carseat in the back of the vehicle. While in the trunk Janette was messing around with wires to see if she could find the trunk release handle all while hoping her child was…

At the school, he is showing her adolescence and youth. It is important to note that the children are playing Ring around the Rosie, which is a song that sings about the Bubonic plague and death. The song could also echo how kind Death is because the Bubonic Plague was very gruesome and those infected were in copious amounts of pain, so Death could be seen as being almost merciful for relieving the victims from their suffering. The “Fields of Grazing Grain” is meant to…

a lot of action and a lot of plot. However, with all this action there comes a lot of bloodshed. The Lord hardens Pharaoh’s heart so that he does not let the people of Israel go to claim the land the Lord has promised to them. The Lord sends ten plagues to Egypt to show his power. The last one is the slaying of the firstborns’ of the Egyptians. At first glance, this seems like an absolutely atrocious act and it is. Killing is never good; however, God is justified and has good reasons for his…

Introduction Catherine of Siena, a medieval mystic that greatly impacted Christianity through her writings. This paper might seem meaningless to most because not a lot of people know of Saint Catherine of Siena. It wasn’t until recently that she even became known as Saint Catherine. Only a few scholars know of Catherine. I chose to write about her because her story is not average, but it is unique and unusual. At first I didn’t even know anything about Catherine, but after researching and…

Hungary, Switzerland, Germany, and Low Countries (1349).” (“Black Death”). The Black Death was the cause for millions of people’s death. The Black Death epidemic caused one-third of Europe’s population where around 25 million people died from the plague. (“Black Death”) The “Black Death” was stopped in 1665. There were many theories of how the Black Death was…

Annihilation Destruction is a form of tragedy that may comes in many contrivances. When people hear the word destruction they may think of there own personal experience of destruction. That may range from a house being torn apart in a tornado to a loss of a family member. The effects of destruction are tremendous, and could affect one to thousands of people at once. In the painting Course of Empire Destruction, by Thomas Cole in 1836. There’s a vast tragedy being painted. The pain and…

Pigeon Forge Fires One November day two young juveniles set the beautiful mountains of Pigeon Forge on fire. Burning thousand of acres, homes of animals and human. The fire put a lot of pollution into the air killing many animals and even some human. It was the largest fire they have had in the past one hundred years changed life all over the world. There was schools closing, places evacuated, and roads being closed off. Shelters was being opened for families that homes burned and have nowhere…

The Bubonic Plague was a potent and dangerous disease that changed Europe and it took a turn for the worse as it started killing people in unimaginable numbers. The Bubonic Plague was a powerful disease that was often referred to as the “Black death” or the “Black plague” because of the symptoms of the plague. The Black Plague first appeared when Genoese trading ships docked in a Sicilian port. To everyone's surprise, everyone in the ship was either gravely ill or dead with black spots all over…

People have different understandings and definitions of what an outlier is. According to the dictionary, outlier means a person or thing situated away or detached from the main body or system. If you ask me, an outlier is someone who figures out the solution to a problem that someone else couldn’t. Malcolm Gladwell’s definition of an outlier is a person that works hard to be successful and its intelligence is far above than an average person. In The Outliers, Gladwell shows us his beliefs by…