Quarantine

Slavery into North America started in the eighteenth century. Steven Mintz writes, “between 9.6 and 10.8 million Africans arrived in the Americas.” The death rate of slaves at that time was about ten to twenty percent. Only a few slaves during that period had the opportunity to learn to read and write. Slavery would later become a large problem in North America and lead to what we call the Civil War. One slave, in particular, Olaudah Equiano, describes his experiences in his narrative. Olaudah…

David Eagleman, a neuroscientist and best-selling author, wrote an article for the famous magazine publication Wired titled, “Six Ways the Internet will Save Civilization”. As the title suggests, Eagleman lists and details examples of how the internet can stop or prevent societies from collapsing. With this piece, he hopes to inform the reader of how possible scenarios could play out with the intervention of the internet that could end in favor of humanity. Though he tries to support his claims…

In Shakespeares famous play Romeo and Juliet, the people who are most to blame in the deaths of Romeo and Juliet are the parents the Montaques and the Capulets . Many events led to the deaths off Romeo and Juliet. First off this feud between the Montaques and the Capulets that really has nothing to do with Romeo and Juliet is the biggest issue. Her parents really wanted her to marry Paris the prince because they felt it would be the proper thing to do. Paris was willing to do what ever her…

zones. The disease, did not affect afflict all major European cities and towns on principal trade routes. There was even talk that Jews were the cause of the disease, they were accused of spreading poisonous substance in food and water. The first ‘quarantine’ was not invented in Venice – rather it was a ‘trentine’ first legislated in Ragusa. In all attempts to end the plague in Europe were not in vain. Different people thought of different ways to get rid of the horrible disease, they tried…

Today smallpox is an eradicated disease. However, fears of the disease still exist. In 2014 vials of smallpox were discovered in a refrigerator at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland. There are also fears that smallpox could return as biological weapon used by terrorists Following eradication only two nations were allowed to keep samples of smallpox. The Centers For Disease control in the United States has samples of the disease. The Soviet Union and later Russia also retained…

Her immediate thought is that Charlie has chickenpox. The question the author asks in this case is “What actions should she take?” (Robertson p.458). The first thing that should be done is to take the child to the nurse’s office in order to quarantine him until his guardian can come pick him up. This will help prevent the possible spread of this infection to addition children or staff. A doctor’s diagnosis is not required for a child to be dismissed from school if chicken pox is suspected.…

Additionally, Britain notoriously turns a blind eye to the 'customs' of its Islamic immigrants. Girls are pulled out of school in their mid-teens and are forced into marriages, which amounts to kidnapped and raped. As for suffrage, in many places Britain still uses mail-only ballots, where the ballots are delivered to a household. Under such conditions, the head-of-household can 'persuade' those of voting age to vote in a certain way, both eliminating woman's suffrage and their ability to make a…

Imagine if there was a third World War? Well, this was close to happening because of an event known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. This event started on October 14,1962 and ended on October 27, 1962. The Kennedy administration had restless nights trying to plead a deal with the Castro regime. It all started when the Soviet Union, that included a man named Nikita Khrushchev decided to place nuclear warheads in Cuba to try to have a war with the United States of America. The United States was…

Mississippi to Kansas. Yellow fever desecrated river towns in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Missouri during this period. Many of the migrants stopping in these cities were sick, unwashed and poverty-stricken causing great alarm imposing unnecessary quarantine measures to discourage future migrants. Reasons for the black exodus were to escape racial violence, discriminatory laws that rendered blacks second-class citizens after just after reconstruction, made thousands migrate to settle in…

Achoo, Tyson and Bird Flu? Terry Lee Hines Jr. Creative Writing 8/3/2017 Most people don’t ever think about how similar animals are to the humans. Sickness for example is just one thing that humans and animals have in common. A most occurring sickness has risen in the bird kingdom that can be passed on to humans. The “Bird Flu” or Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) is a disease that can easily be spread and has resulted in the death of billions of chickens and…