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The bubonic plague was an important historical event that changed the history was viewed in killing. From enforcing laws on workers and unsanitary conditions to Hollywood producing series of films to reenactment, both were pointed to one thing; the bubonic plague was a series killer. The movie “Black Death” shows dramatic scenery that vividly displays an image into the viewer’s eye on what the life was like during the mid-thirteen hundreds. The movie, researches, and accounts on this event shows…

The bubonic plague is a deadly bacterial disease transmitted by fleas and rats (Mayo Clinic). It is uncommon during recent times, there are only about five thousand worldwide diagnoses a year, and about nine in the United States (Mayo Clinic). During the 14th century, this disease was behind the death of one third of Europe’s population (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica). The bubonic plague is primarily a disease of rodents and fleas, and humans only accidentally enter the usual cycle of…

Imagine a foreigner taking her first step into the greatest country on Earth, the United States of America. Beforing entering the nation, she had the idea that America was the land of the beautiful and brave. Sadly, when she gets a taste of the true American Culture, instead of seeing the magnificent Lady Liberty, the statue is covered in trash from head to toe. Every step she takes is encrusted with litter to the point where she can’t even move. With so much debris, the possibilities of death…

In addition the plague created an increase in the need for higher education and placing a higher importance on how medicine and physical science work together (Edmonds, 2008). The start of medicine can be contributed to epidemic of the plague because during the Middle Ages the focus was more on practical actions, but following the outbreak the creation of “medicine as a science” (Damen, 2015) came into effect in the West. One can only say that Western medicine came about due to the disturbing…

Scarlet Fever is an impactful disease that has been around for many centuries. While not all of those who have had it died as a result of scarlet fever, many greatly suffered. When Mary Shelley wrote her popular novel, Frankenstein, several of the characters in this book became affected from scarlet fever. Most of these characters were close to Victor, the creator of the monster. Because of these characters dying, it develops more about the character of Victor, and his creation of the…

Answer: The siege of Sarajevo was the longest siege in modern history, and an estimated 12,000 people lost their lives. Goran Simic wrote this poem to convey and express his experiences of helplessness, horror, death and fear in Sarajevo during this dreadful useless siege. The title itself implies the sadness and misery the capital of Bosnia was suffering from. “Sorrow of Sarajevo”, this is to show how Sarajevo as a whole, felt grief and anguish after their loved ones were killed for no…

Juliette Dougherty ELA 12/Sec. 08 Ms. Diamond 31 March, 2018 Hester Prynne's transformation throughout The Scarlet Letter Justine Sacco sent out one tweet, and that was all it took to ruin her life. From the time she sent the tweet, to the time she stepped off the plane in Africa her entire life had changed. The entire world's eyes were on her, and they were intent on ruining her life. She lost her job, her face was plastered all over the media as a racist, and she was receiving death threats.…

A-2 The black plague spread quickly throughout Europe. In Tuscany the death rate ran high from 60 percent. They had no explanation for the plague and some blamed the Jews. Boccaccio’s Decameron is a collection of stories that represented life during and after the plague. The stories are about a boy and a woman who escaped Florence and moved to the countryside. Boccaccio who had lived through the plague wrote 100 stories about it describing in details what the setting in Florence was like when…

Jamela Mavrakis Anderson, Fever 1793 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 249pgs. The Epidemic of Yellow Fever, 1793 Fever 1793 portrays a young fourteen year old girl, Matilda Cook, who lives in Philadelphia as an epidemic sweeps through know as, Yellow Fever. Yellow fever is a disease that starts with fever and muscle ache. Then, targets often become jaundiced; this is where “Yellow” fever comes from. Although Fever 1793 is historical fiction, Anderson achieved massive amounts of research to…

The Bubonic Plague The Bubonic Plague had one of the highest death rates in the world because it killed over 25 million people. In the Holocaust, 11 million people died; that is half the amount of people that died in the Bubonic Plague. The Bubonic Plague was a disease that was caused by fleas on rats.The Bubonic Plague originated from the far East (China). It started in 1348 and ended in 1351, during this time both humans and animals got the disease. The Bubonic Plague was so devastating to…