Zero Year Curse Research Paper

The Zero Year Lie Claude Levi-Strauss once said, “I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men 's minds without their being aware of the fact” (BrainyQuote). This is exactly what I intend to prove concerning the mythic idea regarding the Zero-year Curse. This legend also, known as the Curse of Tippecanoe or the Tecumseh Curse, is said to have originated with either Chief Tecumseh or his brother Tenskwatawa, known as "The Prophet". Lack of substantial evidence corresponding to these Shawnee warriors only helps to prove that this is a falsified theory that can be proven as a myth and not truth. The Zero-year Curse is said to describe “the regular death in office of Presidents of the United
A curse is believed to harm or hurt someone through supernatural powers after a spell or hex has been placed on them. However, there is no feasible way to test a hypothesis of these actions. Curses began as elements of religion used to compromise each other. One ample example of this is a derivative of one of the world’s oldest known religions called Voodoo, which has been around in Africa since the beginning of human civilization. Both science and religion are based on a never-ending search for a greater knowledge and understanding of how and why things occur in the universe. Science is based on fact, whereas religion is solely based on faith. With science all claims are tested and testable. When it comes to religious myths and curses, this becomes very unintelligible. When people fail to figure out and explain coincidental events such as the Zero-year Curse, they begin to believe it derives from a higher power and must be the only logical answer. Just because multiple people are born and die on the same dates, we do not attribute it to the supernatural. That is because on a scientific level we understand that it is merely coincidence. Through the use of logical reasoning and breaking down events, one can intellectually discover the truth hidden behind myths and
Garfield was elected in 1880 as the 20th president. By this time, medical and scientific technology had greatly advanced since the death of President Harrison. Unfortunately, these advancements would not be far enough along to save the life of Garfield and only caused him a long and drawn out death. On July 2, 1881, President Garfield was shot from behind twice by a “delusional Federal office seeker“(“James A. Garfield”). Charles J. Guiteau had a nature of aggressive behavior and mental illness, which caused him to be banned from the White House. Guiteau also believed that God had told him he could save the nation by killing the President. After weeks of stalking Garfield, he finally found his opportunity and fired upon the President. Garfield managed to live for two months and seventeen days and would have possibly survived had he not succumbed to a fatal heart attack. Heart surgeries would not take place for another fourteen years: Harris B. Shumaker writes in The Evolution of Cardiac Surgery, “Axel Cappelen was a Norwegian surgeon who is credited with performing the first surgery on the human heart on September 4 of 1895” (24). Furthermore, according to Georgia Bragg in her book How They Croaked, three other medical advances would not be made until it was too late: rubber gloves in 1890, x-rays in 1895, and blood transfusions in 1905 (133). As doctors poked and prodded the gunshot wound with