...The black death was a devastating plague that swept through Europe in 1347 to 1351. This plague was called the black death because of the dark lumps victims got near their armpits and groin. The plague was easily spread because of rats and fleas. Back then they didn't understand what germs were and how they help spread diseases. The short term effects of the Black death were horrible effects on towns, Impact on the church, and depopulation. The towns in Europe were already dirty enough before the plague struck. The more people that got sick in each town ment the more filth that started to build up on the streets, making more and more people getting sick. Buildings and towns were left unattended due to the lack of people.The church and religion was impacted because most of the priests fled the towns they were supposed to be looking after. Priests, nuns and monks didn't want to get sick and die. Therefore...
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...The Black Death was spread through trade routes particularly through the Silk Road, and it first began in Central Asia spreading from the bloodstream of black rats carried on by the fleas who fed on them, which was spread by a bacteria called Yersina pestis. It spread into Italy when the ships docked and even though the residents of Italy realised that the people on board were infected, it did not stop the black rats from entering the country. It infected Europeans in 1347 due to the siege of the Port of Caffa where the war strategy was for bodies infected with the plague to be catapulted over into Caffa. The disease affected the water supply and the air and gradually residents began to suffer and die. Caffa was defended by residents from...
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...Heroin is an addictive drug that destroys the human body, and can kill chronic users. The topics to be discussed in this essay are: What is Heroin, the bad effects Heroin has on the body, and what Heroin can lead to. What is Heroin? According to The Partnership (2011), “Heroin is a depressant that affects the brains pleasure systems and interferes with the brains ability to perceive pain” (Pg. 1). Research has shown that Heroin is an addictive drug imitated from the drug called Morphine. The Partnership (2011) indicates that Heroin is created from the Opium Poppy plant. The way Heroin is created is by the seeds from the Opium Poppy, which are crushed until it forms the powder substance. This powder substance is known to be called Morphine. According to Stop Heroin (2008-2012) the Opium Poppy plant are grown in numerous places. Here are just a few examples of where the Opium is grown, Southern America, Afghanistan, China, and Eastern Europe. Heroin is a powdery substance that will look white, brown, or black depending on what it is mixed with and where it came from. Pure Heroin makes the powder substance white, meaning no mixture of other chemicals have been added. Brown Heroin gets its color from other toxins, chemicals, poisons, and drugs that are combined into a mixture with Heroin. Heroin that is black is called black tar, which is a substance that is sticky. No matter what the color is of Heroin, the drug still is and always...
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...Kornya Christopher August 4, 2013 COM/156 Rough Draft Introduction: Overall Methamphetamine is the most destructive drug in the United States and cause millions of deaths and injuries, Over 26 Million Teenagers has been exposed to Methamphetamine and are now addicts. The problem starts from the lack of knowledge about the drug. If the society knew more about the overall affects and the drug itself, half would reconsider using. Methamphetamine affects all age groups and it also affects social groups. The drug sweeps through the streets like a bat in the night. People become so addicted to Methamphetamine they end up decease or mentally ill without a home, being addicted to methamphetamine could cause a person to lose everything they have. The worst part about methamphetamine is the cause of flesh deterioration over a period of use. Black blotches appear all over the body. The Methamphetamine recovery is worse than the overall addiction. Some may make it through rehab, and some may not make it through rehab. Children who has ad a bitter childhood usually be the victims. Teenagers who are exposed to drugs at an early age also become victims. Drug addiction results are fatal. Here is more about methamphetamine. Methamphetamine is a stimulant that effects the human brain drastically. Methamphetamine consist of over-the-counter drugs and is produced in clandestine laboratories. Methamphetamine goes as “ice”,”crank”, or speed. It is very easy to produce, although...
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...characterised by very strong winds and (or) heavy rainfall over a short period of time. They can occur more often In the British Isles due to the climate it has. It is located between the Polar and Ferrell cell which means it is influenced by the jet stream, these regulate the nation’s climate. Its temperate climate comes about due to its oceanic and air born currents, but the main regulator of the BI is the North Atlantic drift. This comes from the Caribbean, and carries warm tropical air towards the BI and results in the South-Westerly prevailing winds. Although beneficial is some ways, this unstable air around the Caribbean area, due to warm temperatures causing air to rise rapidly and air replacing this at the earth’s surface, can also be transported up to the BI. These hurricanes and strong tropical storms will never fully impact the BI as it does further south due the air masses cool as it travels over the Atlantic, but depressions are likely to occur. Depressions form when a mix of hot light air and cold dense air come together. Instability over the Polar Front allows hot air to force its way into the colder air and a boundary forms called the warm front. Because the cold air is more dense it under cuts it and the cold front forms. This is faster and will eventually catch up with the warm front and lift away. The great storm of 1987 was a major storm event in the British Isles which caused international chaos and death. The depression formed over the Bay of Biscay on October...
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...appears as a white or brown powder or as a black sticky substance, known as “black tar heroin.” How Is Heroin Abused? Heroin can be injected, snorted/sniffed, or smoked—routes of administration that rapidly deliver the drug to the brain. Injecting is the use of a needle to administer the drug directly into the bloodstream. Snorting is the process of inhaling heroin powder through the nose, where it is absorbed into the bloodstream through the nasal tissues. Smoking involves inhaling heroin smoke into the lungs. All three methods of administering heroin can lead to addiction and other severe health problems. Side Effects of Heroin Use Heroin is metabolized to morphine and other metabolites which bind to opioid receptors in the brain. The short-term effects of heroin abuse appear soon after a single dose and disappear in a few hours. After an injection of heroin, the user reports feeling a surge of euphoria (the "rush") accompanied by a warm flushing of the skin, a dry mouth, and heavy extremities. Following this initial euphoria, the user experiences an alternately wakeful and drowsy state. Mental functioning becomes clouded due to the depression of the central nervous system. Other effects that heroin may have on users include respiratory depression, constricted ("pinpoint") pupils and nausea. Effects of heroin overdose may also include slow and shallow breathing, hypotension, muscle spasms, convulsions, coma, and possible death. Intravenous heroin use is complicated...
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...the Steady State could explain how they were formed, but not why they should have the observed abundances. However, the observational evidence began to support the idea that the universe evolved from a hot dense state. In addition, the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation in 1965 was considered the death knell of the Steady State, although this prediction was only qualitative, and failed to predict the exact temperature of the CMB. (The key big bang prediction is the black-body spectrum of the CMB, which was not measured with high accuracy until COBE in 1990). After some reformulation, the Big Bang has been regarded as the best theory of the origin and evolution of the cosmos. 1970-1980 most cosmologists accepted the Big Bang, but several puzzles remained, including the non-discovery of anisotropies in the CMB, and occasional observations hinting at deviations from a black-body spectrum; thus the theory was not very strongly confirmed. 1990-present time This showed that earlier claims of spectral deviations were incorrect, and essentially proved that the universe was hot and dense in the past, since no other known mechanism can produce a black-body to such high accuracy. Further observations from COBE in 1992 discovered the very small anisotropies of the CMB on large scales, approximately as predicted from Big Bang models with dark matter. From then on, models of non-standard cosmology without some form of Big Bang...
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...Thousands dropping per day, millions of dead already. The black death, also known as the bubonic plague spread so fast that no one could do anything about it. The columbian exchange was a large part of the black death especially since the things who infected people lived on ships and boats. The reason the Black Death was named the Black Death was because the things that infected people were lack rats and fleas. You could get infected by either getting butten by a rat, or being bitten by a flea. The fleas were not actually infected with the disease though, the fleas carried the disease with themafter biting a rat. The flas could not digest all of the rats blood when sucking it, so it would carry it to the next person,it bites. The next person...
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...CAFFEINE By: Muhammad8B2 Before I start this report, I would like to ask you guys a simple question. Does Caffeine benefit you in anyway? You might be thinking, “How can it simply harm you if your parents drink it every day.” Well after this report, you shall go home and tell your parents to not drink a lot of coffee. Description-Type Caffeine is a common drug used in an adult’s daily life. According to the University Health Service “Caffeine is a plant product that is most commonly found in coffee” Caffeine is a stimulant to the central nervous system. vineveraskincare.wordpress.com...
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...Nichole Poore Hist 4440 Mid-Term Essay October 7th, 2006 “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” Charles Dickens’ introduction to his novel, A Tale of Two Cities, describes the lives of the peasantry in Europe between 1300 to 1650. For many peasants, their lives could be depicted as overwhelming, depressing, discouraging, and hopeless; yet, many events during these 350 years opened up opportunities for the peasantry to improve their lives. Events ranging from the Hundred Years War to the Black Death, and up until the beginning years of the Renaissance, changed the lives of the peasantry dramatically, all for the better. Before the Black Death reached Europe, peasants’ lives were very difficult. They usually never left the manor on which they served without the master’s permission. It was illegal for them to even move to another city or manor, if they so desired. They were forced to pay rent to their landlords for the land they cultivated themselves. In addition to the rent that was required of them, “they were also required to provide free labor on the lands used by the lord, known as a demesne.”[1] Although there were rewards to living on a manor, the peasantry had more advantages when the manorial system began to break down at the beginning of the fourteenth century. Even though the nobility still dominated rural Europe, peasants were beginning to move out of their status as servants. The Black Death, striking Italy in 1347, was one of the events that...
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...Davis, a black man convicted of shooting an off-duty white policeman, was executed in the American state of Georgia. Protests that the evidence against him was flawed proved fruitless. Despite these cases the death penalty, on the statute books since the days of Hammurabi, is disappearing in much of the world. More than two-thirds of countries have done away with it either in law or in practice. The latest is Benin. In August the west African country committed itself to abolishing capital punishment permanently. The number of countries that carry out judicial killings fell from 41 in 1995 to 23 in 2010, according to Amnesty International, a pressure group. China (chiefly), Iran, North Korea, and Yemen accounted for most of the executions. Votes against the death penalty at the UN General Assembly have passed with big and growing majorities since 2007. Capital punishment has virtually gone in Europe (only Belarus still uses it, most recently in 2010). This year China whittled down its list of crimes punishable by death. Yet for all the apparent momentum, capital punishment remains entrenched in the Middle East and north Africa, and in parts of Asia, notably China. Jacqueline Macalesher of Penal Reform International, a lobby group, thinks the Arab spring could be a new spur to abolition, though she worries that executing political enemies may prove attractive in the short run. The other big exception is America, where two-thirds of states still have the death penalty. A...
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...beneficial than detrimental to a patients health over long or short term usage. Legalization of this drug could boost the U.S. economy into an upward direction. Although Marijuana can be helpful for a patients health, it can also be a "gate way" drug. Even though the legalization of Medical Marijuana has many pros and cons, I do believe we can decrease the number of health issues by prescribing Medical Marijuana in different supplement forms....
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...The Cold, Hard Truth In a quiet little town, that could be anywhere, no one would guess that this town holds a dark tradition. One that has the townsfolk gather every June 27 to carry out. The people of this town gather and watch while the male heads of the family draw a piece of paper from the black box, once this is completed the family that has the black spot draws again to see which one of the family members it will be this year. After all of this the town’s people pick up rock previously gather and stone the winner to death. Groupthink and the bystander effect explain the behavior of the character's in Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery." In 1972, Irving L. Janis published a study, where he defined groupthink as an “excessive form of concurrence-seeking among members of high prestige, tightly knit policy-making groups (and their being part of it) higher than anything else” (Hart 247). In “The Lottery”, we see this part of Irving’s theory demonstrated in the fact that Mr. Summer, who organizes all the main events of the town, is in full support of the lottery. The theory is further demonstrated by the support of old man Warner. “This causes them to strive for a quick and...
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...Georgia O’Keeffe: Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses- Analysis, Comparison and Contrast Short Biography of Georgia O’Keeffe Georgia O'Keeffe was born on the 15th of November, 1887, in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. She got married to Alfred Stieglitz, a photographer who gave Georgia her first gallery show, in 1916. She moved to New Mexico after his death, thus most of her works were based on inspiration from the environment and natural landscape there. “O'Keeffe was one of the greatest American artists of the twentieth century. She took to making art at a young age and went to study at the Art Institute of Chicago in the early 1900s. Later, while living in New York, she studied with such artists as William Merritt Chase as a member of the Art Students League.” (Bio. (Biography.com)). O’Keeffe’s most famous works include Black Iris (1926), Oriental Poppies (1928), Black Cross, New Mexico (1929), and Cow's Skull with Calico Roses (1931), the work which this report shall focus on. She passed away on the 6th of March, 1986, at 98 years of age. Cow's Skull with Calico Roses: the Focus of this Report Figure 1: Georgia O'Keeffe. Cow's Skull with Calico Roses. 1931. Figure 1: Georgia O'Keeffe. Cow's Skull with Calico Roses. 1931. Introduction to the Artwork This painting is called Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses, and was painted by the artist Georgia O’Keeffe. It was completed in 1931 in New Mexico, where Georgia was inspired to paint it. This painting...
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...Heroin: The Harmful Effects Briana Wilson COM 172 November 21, 2014 Barbara Lach Heroin: The Harmful Effects Introduction Addiction is a chronic, relapsing disease, characterized by compulsive drug use that eventually changes the functions in the brain. An addiction to any drug can be dangerous but heroin is a totally different story. Heroin is one of the strongest and most abused drugs on the market as of now and is affecting billions of people day by day. The long and short-term effects of heroin can ultimately damage the brain and the human body, and eventually cause death. Content “Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction.” (Scott, 1998). Morphine was widely used for pain relief in the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. When people were wounded and hurt, morphine was the go-to drug. The morphine was highly addictive and became a major problem in the United States. In order to cut down on morphine addictions, another drug had to be provided that also worked as well as morphine. “In 1832, heroin was presented as a cough, chest and lung medicine that cured painful respiratory diseases such as pneumonia and tuberculosis; hence they were the leading causes of death at that period. Heroin was prescribed in place of morphine or codeine. It is known to be a more potent and faster-acting painkiller than morphine because it...
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