Yersinia pestis

Saint Catherine of Siena was a very unknown woman of her time until certain events happened. Catherine was so persuasive and influential that she ended a conflict in France, in the fourteenth century, which was a relief for everyone. She was known as a visionary and a mystic, and she was declared Doctor of the Church because she loved to soothe and heal people in any religious and non harmful way. Even though Catherine always showed love and devotion to everyone, not everyone was happy about…

The Second World War (1939-1945)was very influential on all aspects of life in the whole world. Its influence was even greater on Europe. The effects of that war was not only economical, but it was also social and political. The war led to the emerge of many writers and movements like the feminist movement. We will start by mentioning the effects of the economical, social and political collapse in Europe. Before the war, Europe had a period of nineteen years of peace. The peace was not…

It is difficult to conceptualize how fast the 1920's changed society, technology, culture, and artistic values. The economy boomed grew to dizzying heights, people became rich, and buisnesses boomed! Unfortunately, not everyone was able to jump on the bandwagon of success and prosperity. Despite these positive changes of the Twenties, there were much more pressing matters and problems. These problems overall made the 1920's an awful time, so what made the Twenties such a rough time? The Spanish…

Assignment 1 1. An environmental problem that Ohio is currently facing and has dealt with for an extended period of time is the invasion of Emerald Ash Borer. The ash tree-killing insect was brought to the United States from Asia and has been recorded in the state since 2003. Ohio has over 3.8 billion ash trees and the pest is a severe threat to their livelihood. Emerald Ash Borer originally was observed near Toledo, but has expanded to nearly all four corners of the state. A quarantine was…

The Black Death was an epidemic of the Bubonic Plague is one of the deadliest events occurred in history started in the 14th century. The disease was caused by the bacteria Yersinia Pettis that spread among the wild black rodents where they inhabit in a huge colony. Rome was one of many major cities that was greatly affected by the Black Death, if not the worse. We’ll be discussing how did the Black Death affect the city of Rome politically, socially and economically. So, it is necessary to…

Did The Mongols Have A Negative Or Positive Impact? The Mongolians of the Asian Steppe had a negative impact on the world during their rule of the Asian continent from 1206 to 1368 by influencing cruel deaths, spread of disease, and the destruction of land. Genghis Khan was a very successful man but his journey to success in my opinion as not the best way to go. One reason that this was a negative impact was because of the death toll. The death toll added to millions of lives being lost.…

Reflection Paper on Ghost Map John Snow is recognized as one of the founding fathers of modern epidemiology. In Ghost Map, it gives the details of John Snow’s efforts to discover that cholera was a water-borne illness. What John Snow did differently was he mapped the cases, and the map essentially represented each death as a bar. On the Broad Street pump, which was free, public source of drinking water for a long time, it located a well beneath Golden Square, to some of London’s poorest and…

In the fourteenth century, the Black Death stood out as the most emotional and way of life changing occasion during this century. This death caused one third of all the people in Europe to be killed. This shocking population change coming into the Late Middle Ages brought on extraordinary changes in European society and way of life. This plague had three different ways that would affect your body and maybe just your entire life if you were lucky. There was the bubonic variant, which were…

The Black Death – as it is commonly called – especially ravaged Europe, which was halfway through a century already marked by war, famine and scandal in the church, which had moved its headquarters from Rome to Avignon, France, to escape infighting among the cardinals. In the end, some 75 million people succumbed, it is estimated. It took several centuries for the world's population to recover from the devastation of the plague, but some social changes, borne by watching corpses pile up in the…

Plum Island Trip First of all, I decided to do this project because it included a trip to an island. My first thought was warm weather, the sun, the beach, and the ocean, but unfortunately we did this trip in a cold, dark and windy day. We spent most of our day at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, which is located along the northeast coast of Massachusetts. This refuge has it's history, it was established in 1941 for several reasons, which they are: to provide feeding, resting, and…