...we last spoke but I thought it would be a good time to write you a letter now, in case I never get the chance to ever again. I’m not sure when or if you will even receive this letter so just to let you know it is the year 1347. I am living in the great city of Sienna, Italy with my dear husband and my two young children. My life isn’t going so well right now it’s falling apart, all due to the outbreak of the black plague. I bet you have already come across it because it’s spreading without stop from city to city, but if you haven’t yet let me inform you that it’s the most horrifying thing I have ever experienced in all my life. This disease has killed millions of people including my neighbors, relatives, and my loved ones, no one is safe. The black plague starts off with painful swelling and almost tumor like lumps on your body called buboes usually located in your groin and underarms and can be as large as the size of an egg. Next you will start vomiting and have an extremely high fever and you will start seeing dark blotches all over your body caused by bleeding under your skin. If you haven’t passed away yet the disease will attack your nervous system and create you to have excruciating painful spasms. Lastly the buboes will pop and there will be black liquid discharge from it. All in all most victims suffer a painful death; it is just so depressing to see your whole city perish this way. The black plague had such a major impact on the world, it affected it socially, religiously...
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...Christian and Muslim responses to The Black Death were different in many ways. The Plague or The Black Death was a combination of three plagues, bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic. Bubonic was the most common, the symptoms were chills , high fever, delirium, vomiting, and rapid heartbeat. the infected person would then develop buboes, inflamed swellings filled with pus. Pneumonic plague was less common, but was the deadliest, it infected the respiratory system,it would kill most of its victims in hours. Septicemic plague affected the bloodstream, it killed all of its victims. No matter what plague it was, it would result in terrible death. Christianity started with Jesus Christ in the Common Era. Christ was a Jew from Judea, which today is...
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...Many lives were lost during the outbreak of the Bubonic Plague, or the Black Death, in the fourteenth century. During this time, religion had a large influence in human society. Many people in certain religions reacted differently to the plague. A perfect example of this would be the Christians and the Islams. According to the 2010 DBQ Document of World History, one can conclude that the responses of the Christian and Islam were not similar because each religion had different beliefs, believed that the disease came from different origins, sought different practices of preventing the disease, and because the living of each religion responded differently to the plague. Firstly, even though they both basically worshipped the same god, Christianity...
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...by threatening excommunication to the lowly servants of God. The end of feudalism was a gradual happening caused by the Black Death, the commercial revolution, and humanism in European Society resulting in the enlightened, free thinking peoples of the Renaissance. The Black Death was one of the leading causes for the disintegration of the feudal system. Also known as the Bubonic Plague, the Black Death originated in China in the early 1000’s A.D.[1] The epidemic spread to Europe around 1347 A.D. killing two-thirds of the population. Denser populated areas of Europe, like London, were affected the most however; because of it’s crowded towns, and poorer families housing at least twelve people, the black plague swept through these places easily. [2] Because of the drastic drop off in population, new opportunities began to present themselves to the once hapless citizens who survived the bubonic plague. An increase in available land was one of these many benefits resulting in more crop yield per family. With healthier and more abundant nourishment, the peoples of Europe naturally received the expected benefits from such a gain. Also with this new development the infant mortality rate drastically dropped by thirty-three percent. [3] After the wrath of the black death had completed it’s trek through Europe the end of feudalism could clearly be seen. The Black Death...
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...The disastrous disease known as the Black Death spread across Europe in 1346-1353. The name didn't come up until after its visitation. Letters from doctors said it was a time of terror wrought by the illness. The tragedy was something no one had ever seen before. In the course of a few months, more than 60% of Florence’s population died from the disease. The Black Death was an epidemic of a terrible plague, a disease caused by a bacteria. The bacteria was Yersinia Pestis that goes around in wild rodents where they live in great numbers of groups. An area like that is called a ‘plague focus’ or a ‘plague reservoir’. Humans received the Black Death when they came in contact with rats, preferably black rats that were infected. It would take ten to fourteen days...
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...Sprinkler) and a wooden clock he kept until the day he died in 1806. Benjamin taught himself astronomy and accurately forecasted lunar and solar eclipses. When his father died he took over his family farm making a well-run business selling tobacco via crops. (http://www.biography.com/people/benjamin-banneker-9198038) Benjamin Banneker wrote a letter in a very respectful way to Thomas Jefferson because if he approached this letter the wrong way he wouldn't be received in the right way and Thomas...
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...have to throw their waste in the streets. With people’s waste in the street came many illnesses including The Plague. Even a minor scrap could kill you in the next minute. When people got sick they needed medicine, physicians, and health care. In the late 1500 there was not a great deal medican, there was mostly just spiritual analysis. One of the key figures of the medical world was Andreas Vesalius who became Professor of surgery and anatomy at the University of Padua, when he was only twenty three. In most detail Vesalius showed that...
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...A popular tale we all know is King Author and the Knights of the round table. But is it only a story? Historians have been uncertain whether or not King Arthur really existed or if he is just a character in and old folklore. The story goes that King Arthur was born in hard times for his kingdom. The family magician, Merlin, suggested the baby be raised in a safe place, hidden so no on knew of his identity. Not too long after Arthur was born, his father died and just as Merlin fear, there was great trouble over who would because King. To provide an answer to the confliction, Merlin crafted a sword and drove it deep into a stone. On the sword is golden letter were these words: "Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone is the rightwise born king of all England." All The contenders for the throne took their turn at pulling the sword from the stone but none had succeeded. Arthur one day was searching for a sword for someone to you in a jousting tournament. He saw the sword in the stone and did not know the significance of it. He pulled the sword out with ease and quickly ran of to give it to the man who needed a sword. All the people were amazed and could not believe that a boy like Arthur could pull out the sword. He was now the rightful King. As he grew in his Kingship, he and his Knights stood around the round table to discuss their battle plans for the Saxon...
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...In Aesop’s fable, “The Wolf and the Lamb,” the moral of the story asks the reader to examine the desire for an object—and how we justify our behavior if we cannot obtain that object. This moral is graphically presented through the repeated use of key words to describe the fox’s repeated failure to get what he wants. The fox’s first attempt is foiled as he “just missed” the grapes (35). He attempts “again and again”, running and jumping repeatedly, but has “no greater success” (35). He then becomes disgusted and walks away. These successive descriptions of his failure build to his disdainful comment that the grapes are probably sour (35). The repeated demonstration of fox’s failures and his self-rationalization of why is he walking away—not that he has failed but because he has decided that the grapes are sour and he does not want them anyway—cleverly portrays the moral of the fable: if you can’t get it, blame something else, not yourself. It therefore asks the readers to Aesop’s Fables 3 of 93 The Wolf and the Lamb Once upon a time a Wolf was lapping at a spring on a hillside, when, looking up, what should he see but a Lamb just beginning to drink a little lower down. ‘There’s my supper,’ thought he, ‘if only I can find some excuse to seize it.’ Then he called out to the Lamb, ‘How dare you muddle the water from which I am drinking?’ ‘Nay, master, nay,’ said Lambikin; ‘if the water be muddy up there, I cannot be the cause of it, for it runs down from you to me.’ ‘Well...
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...The Scarlet Letter “He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure” (Hawthorne 134). Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale constantly battles between these two emotions throughout Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. In the story, Dimmesdale struggles to manage the sin of adultery in his life, as the evil Roger Chillingworth, husband of Hester Prynne, impresses upon him. Hester must also deal with this sin, through the exhibition of a scarlet “A” on her bosom, as she struggles to raise Pearl, the child that she conceived through her sin with Dimmesdale. Both Dimmesdale and Hester struggle to be rid of the darkness that plagues their worlds, and their inmost beings. Hawthorne skillfully develops the theme of light versus dark in The Scarlet Letter. In each of the scaffold scenes, Hawthorne uses either light or darkness, not only to expose truth, but also to conceal it. In the first scaffold scene, which takes place in the daytime, “[Hester] took the baby on her arm, and, with a burning blush, and yet a haughty smile, and a glance that would not be abashed, looked around at her townspeople and neighbours. On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the...
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...Manifestations, Views, and Causes IV. Ancient Treatments of Disease Symptoms A. Figs B. Anthrax control 1. Burning in Ancient Athens 2. Burning in 1600s 3. Burning Laws in Late 1600s V. Social Effects on Victims and Socioeconomic Impact on Society A. 2001 U.S. Postal Service anthrax incident B. Projected economic impact of a bioterrorist attack VI. Epidemic Outbreaks A. 1500 B.C. -- Fifth Egyptian plague B. 1600s -- "Black Bane" C. 1770 -- Haiti D. 1978-80 Human anthrax epidemic in Zimbabwe VII. Modern Causes of the Disease VIII. Current Treatments A. Historical Development of Modern Treatment Methods 1. 1877 Robert Koch 2. 1881 Louis Pasteur 3. 1937 Max Sterne 4. 1944 First use of penicillin to treat anthrax 5. 1979 Modern vaccine developed B. Treatment of Today IX. Anthrax as a Biomedical Weapon A. Modern threat B. 1916-1918 Mesopotamia and Russia. C. 1942 Anthrax Island D. 1979 Russian Town of Sverdlovsk E. 2001 Anthrax Letters Introduction Bacillus anthracis a deadly disease that kills man and beast. This paper will explore the disease from its ancient origins, ancient treatments, social effects, modern outbreaks, modern causes of the disease, and current treatments. Definitions and Symptoms...
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...In The White Tiger, written by Aravind Adiga, tells the story of how the protagonist, Balram Halwai, managed to find success, becoming an entrepreneur in India, through the narrations in his letters to Wen Jiabao, the premier of China. Through the use of several literary devices such as characterization, setting, and imagery, the author illustrated how a simple man who grew up in an impoverished city as a lowly peasant was able to find success despite having known many whom were faced with the same struggles in life that remained in the slums of their nation that was ran by corrupt government officials. Balram grew up the town of Laxmangarh, a town home to many who live in poverty and unemployment where the opportunity to find work was highly...
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...the literature of poor and low-income women of color and factors that contribute to their likelihood of facing an eviction. Next, I center women of color’s barriers to the legal system within the work. After, I discuss the role legal aid organizations have in supporting women of color. Leading to the last portion of the review, where I investigate various interpretations of the widely-used phrase “access to justice.” Bay Area Housing Dispossession To situate my work within the intended research environment, I intend on focusing on Bay Area Housing dispossession. The Bay Area’s economic growth, the lack of housing production, and lack of reinvestment in central cities contribute to the “neighborhood transformations and dispossession” that plagues almost half of Bay Area census tracts experiences (Bay Area Regional Health Inequalities Initiative, 2016; Zuk, 2015). The Bay Area displacement placed 69% of 353,850 low-income renter homes at risk of displacement for residing in Priority Development Area (Zuk, 2015). This risk of displacement is connected to the Bay Area’s failure to provide housing security subjecting many inhabitants to high housing prices. The cities of San Francisco, Oakland, and Hayward population display this reality as 46.4% of renter households devote over 30% of their income towards housing costs (Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard, 2015). The qualifying households, who pay this percentage of their income, are defined as cost burdened. This is because...
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...difficult to “build a nation?” In your opinion, which problem was most pressing? Explain. One of the problems that plagues the United States making it difficult to build was the vast amount space and land which made it very difficult to govern as one nation, “ no one had ever established a republican government on the scale of the United States” ( page 11). Some other problems that made it difficult were the judgment of authorities saying that it was very unlikely that this would be done, the regions and states had no common history and no experience behaving as a group, and ( from the first census) nearly 700,000 of american inhabitants were black slaves. I think that was most difficult was finding how to govern the United States as one nation because these regions had nothing in common and was very overwhelming Chapter 1 5: According to Ellis’s explanations, why did Hamilton and Burr duel in the first place According to Ellis’s explanations, the duel between Burr and Hamilton began when Burr attacked Hamilton's qualifications. It was a “ duel of words” and offensive remarks . Hamilton responded with a direct letter to Burr, “ on principle, to consent to be interrogated as to the justness of inferences, which may be drawn by others, from whatever i have said of political opponent in the course of a fifteen year competition.”( page 33). In writing this letter in this tone,he raised the stakes with the way he wrote his counter threat. 6: One of the themes discussed throughout...
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...Scrabble!...Now it’s forbidden, for us. Now it’s dangerous. Now it’s indecent. Not it’s something he can’t do with his Wife. Now it’s desirable…We play two games. Larynx, I spell. Valance. Quince. Zygote. I hold the glossy counters with their smooth edges, finger the letters. The feeling is voluptuous. This is freedom, an eyeblink of it. Limp, I spell. Gorge. What a luxury. The counters are like candies, made of peppermint, cool like that. Humbugs, those were called. I would like to put them into my mouth. They would also taste of lime. The letter C. Crisp, slightly acid on the tongue, delicious.’ (chapter 23, p. 149) (3) Offred uses [scrabble] as a mirror for herself, as a way of hearing her own voice in an otherwise engulfing, enforced silence. Atwood uses it, I would suggest, as an image of the text, as a mise en abîme, in which one can see this autobiographical ‘tale’ as a Scrabble board on which we must also play. If we have trouble with the plotting of the narrative or the structure of the text, we can think of it as a Scrabble board on which we must also play. If we have trouble with the plotting of the narrative or the structure of the text, we can think of it as a Scrabble board which grows (one step, one letter, one word at a time) in a seemingly haphazard manner in several directions at once around the invented, constructed centre: OFFRED. And the combination and...
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