...Introduction The Bubonic plague of the Middle Ages has proven itself to be one of the worst pandemics in history. Ebola, in the meantime, has also proven to be deadly and threatening since the outbreak in 2014. It upgraded itself from an outbreak to an epidemic. What if Ebola becomes a pandemic? Would it be deadlier than the Bubonic plague? This is the question that this thesis paper will attempt to find the answer to. This paper will provide detailed backgrounds of both of these diseases; including their history and historical relevance, their causes and effects, even their levels of damage and possible cures. This paper will expand your knowledge of both diseases to such an extent that you can accurately compare and contrast them in order...
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...couple months ago and I have to go to court. My sister tells me to not plague guilty and for the reason that this is my first DUI the lawyer may make me a deal with the judge and take off dome of the charges. My father tells me to plague guilty if they are giving me the charges I got the DUI for and to not plague guilty if they are giving me charges that I didn’t do. So I’m in this dilemma and I don’t know what to do because I have never been in a court house. I have had some speeding tickets but I don’t go to court, I just pay the fine and that’s all. As I mentioned this is my first time going to a court house and I’m nervous about it. I still don’t know what to do if do what my sister says. She explains that if I don’t plague guilty the lawyer may get me a deal and reduce the charges and may get the opportunity that I can keep my drives license. She is been explaining me all that and that some of her friends also recommend me to not plague guilty. For my own side I have asked to several friends that what happened to them and if they plague guilty or not? Some of them did not plague guilty and they say that affectively the lawyer got them a deal and the fine was reduced. Other of my friends got lawyer and it didn’t helped him in nothing, he had to pay the fine and the lawyer. My father tells me to plague guilty. He says that if the city is not giving me any charge that I didn’t do that I should plague guilty. He tells me “you know that you were under the influence of the...
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... | |California History Standard 7.6.7 | |The Bubonic Plague | |Web Quest | |Madera Unified School District EETT Grant Project | |California History Standard 7.6 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the civilizations of Medieval Europe. 7.6.7 Map the spread| |of the bubonic plague from Central Asia to China, the Middle East, and Europe and describe its impact on global population. | |Introduction | | ...
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...most gruesome and deadliest plagues noted in history. The Black started October 1348 and killed 25 million people until 1350. This plague cleared out roughly 30 to 60 percent of the people in Europe. Like many researchers, historians, and scholars, Herlihy had his own person opinion on this questionable plague. Herlihy is the author of a very controversial book, The Black Death and Transformation of the West. This particular book was based on three essays Herlihy wrote about the Black Death, but they were never published. Herlihy discussed his viewpoint of the cause primary causes, medical issues, and his personal feelings of the Black Death. The first essay mainly focused on the epidemiology and medical issues during that time period that could’ve caused the Black plague. Herlihy started off by questioning if the Black Death should really be known as a plague. Many researches stated that the Black Death expanded due to rodents which caused these people to become ill and die. Due to the rodents causing...
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...the two faiths, christianity and islamic, approach the black death in similar ways religiously, medically, and in dealing with the jews. Religiously the faiths saw this plague as………….. Once again see medical similarities as causes for the plague like bad air and heavenly occurrences. Muhammad had received the word of God (allah) and called on the people to submit to him, (Islam: submission to god). Muslims do not know what to do, and believed that the plague was a punishment for the sins they had committed, this is what he said:”plague is a blessing from god, a muslim should devoutly accept the divine act”. Christianity was the predominant faith in Europe, the people acted in depraved ways and were more inclined than before...
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...of people were dying during that time. The famous plague is know as the Bubonic Plague (The Black Death). Nobody in those days knew much about the plague, but they definitely encountered it. The fatal Bubonic Plague caused by a bacteria known as Yersinia, resulted in devastation, deaths throughout Europe and in some cases loss of faith. The Plague first began in small animals like rodents, and mice. According to (Seekers, DNEWS) “The bubonic plague first emerged in China more than 2,600 years ago.”...
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...instructions, which being taught, return to plague the inventor, the thought of what he is about to do has a clear psychological effect on him as he begins to think about what will happen to him on judgement day. In conclusion, the result of the hope generated from this dream a new psychological atmosphere appears on the ranch. This is slightly similar to Macbeth, as the effects are also very psychological. The process of committing the murder was chosen by Shakespeare, as it arouses deep feelings and psychological problems for Macbeth. Macbeth says before he commits the deed. We still have judgement here, that we but teach Bloody instructions, which being taught, return to plague the inventor, the thought of what he is about to do has a clear psychological effect on him as he begins to think about what will happen to him on judgement day. In conclusion, the result of the hope generated from this dream a new psychological atmosphere appears on the ranch. This is slightly similar to Macbeth, as the effects are also very psychological. The process of committing the murder was chosen by Shakespeare, as it arouses deep feelings and psychological problems for Macbeth. Macbeth says before he commits the deed. We still have judgement here, that we but teach Bloody instructions, which being taught, return to plague the inventor, the thought of what he is about to do has a clear psychological effect on him as he begins to think about what will happen to...
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...The Plague If there is one part of life that humans have trouble overcoming it is natural disasters. They are unexpected, incurable, and often unconquerable. One specific type of natural disaster is that of sickness. Plagues are disastrous evil afflictions of an epidemic disease causing a high rate of mortality. A historically famous plague in the fourteenth and fifteenth century is the Black or Bubonic Plague. The social and economic effects of the plague in Europe were harmful to the population and economy. The Black Plague is an Oriental Plague marked by inflammatory boils and tumors of the glands. Such break outs were found in no other feverish disease. Inflammatory boils often appeared and black spots which indicated decomposition of the body ultimately appeared on the skin. Another symptom of the plague was openings with a discharge of offensive matter. Due to the significant pain and rapid spread of the plague medicine was ultimately never found, although attempted. People consumed in the plague died within three days of getting it. The plague began in 1333, fifteen years before it broke out in Europe. Many natural disasters were engulfing the Asian countries; floods, starvation, droughts, and the plague. A drought and food shortage had crucified the country which was started by floods of the Kiang and Hoai Rivers. After all of these disastrous events still an earthquake, continued floods, and food shortage ended in late 1300’s. Around 1339 in northwestern Europe...
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...several names such as Black Death, the Bubonic Plague and the Black plague. Regardless of what you call it, it was one of the world’s worst pandemic in history. This plague tore through Europe destroying villages and communities. The immediate impact was fear, chaos, and complete devastation, the long term effect proved to improve economics and societies. Black Death spread through Europe beginning in 1346 and ending in 1353. Seven years of “unexplained” deaths, the plague chose no race, color, age or gender it attacked and killed 50 million people or 60% of the population (Benedictou 2005). Symptoms of the plague began with swollen glands in the neck, armpits, and groin areas. Internal bleeding gave the skin a blackened coloring earning the name “Black Death”. Other symptoms range from red blotching of the skin “rosies” Once bitten these would appear within a couple days and the victim would die within a week. Even a more powerful strain of this plague was the pneumonic plague; this version went directly to the lungs and respiratory systems. Now not only was this spread by the fleas but also through human to human contact. Once infected a simple cough would send droplets and blood to the next victim, highly contagious and it killed in two days. It was recorded that up to five hundred people could be buried in one pit in less than a month’s time. (2011) There were a number of beliefs of how the people thought the plague began and spread: the religious...
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...the status of the writer. Famous works of Albert Kamyu- novel-parable "The Plague". The novel is told in the literal sense of the terrible plague in one of the cities of French North Africa, and in the Anti-allegorical European resistance movement against fascism. The main purpose of "Plague" is a struggle against all evil in general. For residents of Europe participated in the Resistance was more a matter of honor and conscience. Therefore, one of the main problems of the novel is the problem of choosing between indifference and conformism, on the one hand, and a desperate desire for freedom, osvobozhdeniyu- other. The novel "The Plague" is made in the form of a chronicle. The author...
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...Zoe walks in the interview room. Plague doctor and 035 are sitting on a chair next to a table and look up. They both greet her. “Hello Zoe.” Zoe: This is our weekly interview session. Zoe asks Plague doctor and 035, what they want to chat about? 035 shrugs, “I don’t know? You are the one who interviewing us!” Plague doctor stares at 035. “Do you prefer to be in your containment cell or here?” He tells 035. 035 stick his tongue at the plague doctor. “I got an idea. I got something humorous that happen to old plague doctor here. Plague doctor glares at 035. “What are you talking about?” He asks. 035 smiles evil. “You’ll see! Then laughs. Plague doctor rolls his eyes. “Zoe doesn’t have time to listen to those stories.” He told him. Zoe: 035...
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...in Europe. In October of 1347 traders from Genoese came to the port of Messina. These traders brought the plague along with them. 7 infective waves occurred in Europe between 1347 and 1400, killing between 25 – 50 million people. During this dark era, people were scared and running amuck, no faith, religious or medical professionals did not understand the plague going into other people after infecting others. They believed that the world was nearing its end. People reacted to the plague with mass fear. For instance, the French Author Nicolas Versoris explains Paris’s situation; “… the rich fled” (Doc 3) while the poor were “porters and wage-earners, who had lived there in large numbers” (Doc 3) were left to die. Nicolas may have been an early noble that would have tried to escape the plague, somewhat pathetic. Those who were poor and infected were confined to their homes or villages; “Whatever house the pestilence visited was immediately nailed up… many died of hunger in their own houses… all roads and highways were guarded so that a person could not pass from one place to another”(Doc 5) as stated by Heinrich von Staden, a rich traveler, may have seen such events. The beliefs of people quickly fell and people lost faith; “what if the sickness should come into this house? Who would I be willing to give up to the disease?”(Doc 8). Many who were still free of the plague were extremely concerned about receiving it and took many precautions. Those that were lucky enough to not...
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...and most certainly not educated enough to write. Who knows what literary works would have been written had it not been for the plague and the rate at which it devastated. The Black Death caused, prevented, and interrupted many works of literature. The Black Death, a plague on humanity capable of wiping out one fourth of Europe’s one hundred million people in the course of five years, made its mark between the years 1347 and 1351 (Marks). During that time, three types of plague were to have know to exist: Bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic (Marks). Although bubonic variant of the plague took the most time to kill it was still the most deadly simply due to it being the most widespread of the three (Marks). The bubonic plague got its name from the numerous buboes or cancer like growths that would develop on the victim’s armpit and groin (Marks). Another symptom that accompanied the growths was the presence of a constant fever. The buboes were swelled lymph glands as a result of the body’s lymphatic system trying to fight the disease. Basically, they were pockets of the dead white blood cells that piled up from fighting the plague bacteria. A total lymphatic shutdown was imminent when the buboes appeared. Death came in three to five days of infection (Marks). The other two types of plague, septicemic and pneumonic, were much less widespread than bubonic but in most cases more deadly. Septicemic plague is an infection of the blood stream with the Pasteurella...
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...martians, were once the people that lived there many years ago. The newcomers thought that the martians were friendly but what they didn't know is that the martians were secretly trying to infect the newcomers with a plague that would turn them into a new form of martian. A destructive type of martian. So, the martians invited the newcomers to dinner at the dining hall in the leader of the martians house. This leader was Harry Bittering. At dinner Harry noticed Jake Locke, an army sergeant who volunteered to lead the newcomers to rescue the survivors. As everyone was drinking their fine grape juice, (school appropriate :) Harry slipped a liquid version of the plague into Jakes drink. Jake then got tired and suddenly passed out as quick as a sloth. (Simile)...
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...To begin with, The Black Death was a type of plague which infected the population of Europe in the fourteenth century. This plague swept 50 percent of the population in less than a century. The cause of the plague was the flea-bearing black rats which spread the disease. The plague not only affected the citizens, but it also affected the economy as a whole. Some of the short-term effects of the plague were that people didn’t know what was going on at all. Even though they were trying to figure out what was taking place around them they still couldn’t find the underlying cause of it. Also, people started believing in superstitions to avoid the plague and also avoiding other people or coming in contact with them. On the other hand, the plague...
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