migration prompted a huge movement of new residents into New York and specifically, Bensonhurst. In fact, before World War II, the Jewish and Italian population were about equal. When World War II ended, a huge influx of immigrants from Naples and Sicily moved into the neighborhood (“Bensonhurst, Brooklyn,” n.d.). During the 1950s, the Jewish population started to decrease as a result of the huge movement of southern Italian immigrants into Bensonhurst and new available housing in the suburbs.…
country affected by the “Black Death”, the epidemic was a huge concern in many other countries like Asia. “ Having originated in China and Inner Asia… Genoese ships carried the epidemic westward to Mediterranean ports, where it spread inland, affecting Sicily (1347); North Africa, mainland Italy, Spain, and France (1348); and Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Germany, and Low Countries (1349).” (“Black Death”). The Black Death was the cause for millions of people’s death. The Black Death…
What does four country have in common but also differ in? Economy! Ancient Greece; during the Classical Period and the Hellenistic Period, Ancient Israel, Rome, and the Persian Empire all had an economy that they had many similar aspects. Most of them traded with their neighboring countries. Agriculture was another common feature in the economy of these countries. But obviously, the four countries had their own ideas in helping better their economy. Too which they were much successful. There…
The Greek empire was unorganized and underdeveloped having trouble unifying their group of people as one political group. The Greeks, developing on stony lands, formed on an area with no fertile plains nor irrigating rivers with the mountains separating the entire the land mass into areas with little escape and travel routes. Greece was different than the other european lands around it because of the rocky structure and the people needed to be stronger to survive in the hardships that came with…
By January 1348, the plague was in Marseilles. It reached Paris in the spring, 1348 and England in September, 1348. Moving along the Rhine trade routes, the plague reached Germany in 1348, and the Low Countries the same year. Historians agree that 1348 was the worst of the plague years. In May, 1349, an English wool ship brought the plague to Norway. The Great Mortality then made its way to Greenland and after killing a large proportion of the population there encountered the towering ice…
In the history of the world, many diseases surface among of the many such as the plague knows as Black Death. The tragic and exceptional experience of the Fourteenth Century showed a sharp population decline, bitter internal conflicts in economic area, and the exasperation of social struggles. This paper is to explore the Black Death phenomena, how this disease came about, the consequences, and the impacts that affected the society in the Fourteenth Century. The Black Death was endemic in…
Day 6: Koblenz, Germany I will spare you the tedious travel details and go directly into the one sight we saw today, Marksburg Castle, high in the hills. It looked like something out of a children’s book, with a yellow facade and tall towers trimmed with red. It wasn’t originally built for residence, but for defence. It turned residencial unexpectedly, so consequently it hadn’t the tradition comforts. The rooms were tiny and lacked significant decor. Most of the rooms were dedicated to arms, or…
“Poor men! We sold away our freedom of speech and our comfort and lead the life of slaves with our wives. We are not free. We can’t say we don’t pay a price for their dowries: bitterness and women’s anger. compared [sic] to that, a man’s is honey, for men forgive when someone does them wrong, but women do you wrong and keep on recriminating” (64). This quote accurately shows the opinions and negative feelings men had towards their wives and other women. To most men, women were simply known as…
Origin and Routes of Dissemination Towards the end of the 1330s, a coccobacillus called Yersinia Pestis, which slumbered for centuries in the blood of rats underwent a deadly exodus. The rats were immune to the bacteria in their bloodstream, but not the fleas that fed on their blood. A toxin produced by Yersinia Pestis blocked the abdomen of 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…
Every culture is different in their ways, not only do people with different cultural backgrounds speak different languages, but their styles of using languages are also different as they possess diverse values and beliefs. Modern society’s transnational flows of people will force us to confront these differences in the context ranging from language, arts, education,etc. The novel “Looking for Alibrandi” by Australian author Melina Marchetta published in 1992 has identified and addressed a set of…