Once known as “The White Plague”‚ tuberculosis existed as a massively feared infection with mysterious patient-frightening treatments that established itself as one of the most important issues during the Victorian era. Typically confined in sanatoriums during the early 1800’s‚ patients usually received little help or treatment and therefore died quickly yet painfully. For years‚ few options existed as the only possibilities involved either years in bed or the surgical removal of lung tissues. While
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The Doctor’s Plague is a fascinating biography of a failed hero‚ Ignac Semmelweis. With a hint of mystery‚ it’s a story that set place in the mid-nineteenth century Vienna. Where the field of obstetric was newly introduced‚ and medical science had yet to discover germ theory and the concept of antisepsis. Mothers and children all over Europe were falling victim to this mysterious disease known as puerperal fever. It’s until this failed hero who discovers the truth of puerperal fever‚ and his trials
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May 14th‚ 2098 After the dreaded plague‚ we are what remains of civilisation. What remain of earth is made of ash‚ a graveyard for a lost cause. Empires sunk without a trace‚ gone down with all their men and all their machines into the unexplorable depths of the centuries; with their laws‚ acedemies and histories. And as I ponder in the abyss of history‚ captured by the gallows of death‚ I can make out the phantoms of great ships laden with wealth and intellect. The disaster that had sent them down
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Downshifting: a plague or a blessing? We live in a frenzied rhythm and face tons of new information every day. Everything around us is constantly changing and it is quite natural that such phenomenon as Downshifting appeared in a modern world. But is it a real cure for mercantile 21st-century generation or just a new lifestyle trend? There is a popular belief that Downshifting is a choice we all have. It’s the choice to make slow gradual changes to result in more leisure time‚ less work and less
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David Sedaris “A Plague of Tics” Summary: In this autobiography of David Sedaris‚ he describes‚ in a vivid and humorous detail‚ the obsessive compulsive behavior that plagued his life from grade school into college. The autobiography starts off with his teacher scolding him because he is licking her light switch. He also includes some of his “tics” of having to count and touch everything he does. David tells that a person had to do these things because nothing was worse than the anguish of not doing
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Lamm Gottes” in mind when he recommended “German Agnus Dei” to be sung. (Lutheran Cyclopedia a Concise In-Home Reference for the Christian Family Erwin L. Lueker‚Author ‚ c1954; Concordia Publishing House St Louis) Luther’s litanies are very similar to the roman Litany of All Saints.
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In the article‚ The Plagiarism Plague‚ by Raymond A. Schroth‚ he brings up a much needed to be discussed topic about plagiarism. Even though plagiarism is wrong‚ today’s society helps spread plagiarism‚ because high-ranking or famous people participate in it‚ making it appear acceptable to young people. Today’s young people need to know that is not acceptable and if they choose to participate in it there will be consequences to suffer. Early in the article Schroth describes‚ “academic dishonesty
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Scared. Humiliated. Desperate. Impulsive. Dangerous. All of these describe the situation that plagues North Korea today as it continues to suffer from a decades old Communist regime. Their leader‚ Kim Jong-un‚ stands alone against a host of condemning accusations from Western nations and the United Nations. His government consists entirely of backwards people-pleasers who keep North Korea in the dark from ever developing into any sort of modern nation. The people are starving to death‚ arrested for
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Griffin1 Kaylee D. Griffin Ms. Bramlett AP English III 2nd 4 February 2015 The Plague of the 21st Century Rape. As I say that‚ I guarantee that if I were to take a head count based on the amount of students in a class‚ I would find at least 5 people that shuffled their eyes around the room in search for someone that shared the same sense of discomfort as they were feeling; I’d notice some anxious fidgeting amongst the seats; and I’d realise that majority of the eye contact that w
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The Plague is a disease caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis. It is responsible for killing millions of people in the Middle Ages. However‚ today we have a cure for it. The author Giovanni Boccacio wrote The Decameron to report‚ warn‚ and record the disease. He wanted people to be aware of what happened. The disease spread from place to place‚ animal to human‚ human to human. The people around it were aware that it was spreading and understood that is was “contagious”. As a result‚ they got rid
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