number of victims and lasting social impacts‚ these vicious diseases have become widely known throughout society. Two of these ruthless diseases are the Black Death and AIDS. Despite these incidents having occurred over six-hundred years apart‚ they swept over the world very similarly‚ leaving millions of people infected‚ or dead. The Black Death was a plague caused by the bacteria known as Yersinia Pestis. Rats and other rodents are the primary source of the bacteria‚ making fleas which bite
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founded in the same year. This project is a training ground for blacks. Black community theatres began to appear in the late 1930s. Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee talents were shown during this time. “By 1940 black theatre was firmly grounded in the American Negro Theater and the Negro Playwrights’ Company.” (Encyclopedia Britannica) Black theatre rapidly grew after World War II‚ the radical and militant progress as well. “..the ideals of black revolution and seeking to establish a mythology and symbolism
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Black Boy Richard Wright wrote Black Boy which is a biography about his life in the south. He was born September 4th 1908 in Mississippi. He was raised in the turbulent times in the south where race relations were very tense. He has written several books besides Black Boy‚ such as Uncle Tom’s Children‚ Native Son‚ and The Outsider. Black Boy was published in 1945 and was received with open arms from the black community but however it saw a great opposition in the south. They believed that it
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Du Bois‚ W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co.; [Cambridge]: University Press John Wilson and Son‚ Cambridge‚ U.S.A.‚ 1903; In The souls of black folk Du Bois examines the years immediately following the Civil War‚ he relates this to his experiences as a schoolteacher in rural Tennessee‚ and then he turns his attention to critique materialism in the city of Atlanta where the attention to gaining wealth threatens to replace all other considerations. Rather‚ Du Bois argues
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Black Humor One of the most underappreciated and unrecognized forms of comedy is black humor. Black humor often deals with events that are not often associated with other forms of comedy‚ such as war‚ murder‚ insanity and death. The main reason that this form of comedy is so underappreciated is that it requires some thinking on the part of the audience and many people are not willing to do that. The types of humor that are popular today do not require much thinking and can be characterized
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The analysis of Traditional‚ Hegemony and Black masculinity the requirement for power is absolute. Power “is not a thing‚ but a relation.” (michel-foucault.com). Power is created by some entity generating a condition that overpowers another individual or group. The power creation generates different types of power. Sovereign power is the obedience to the law central authority (michel-foucault.com). There is a Sovereign powers display in every visual media piece. The sovereign power displayed in
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Black holes do not exist—at least‚ not as we know them‚ says renowned physicist Stephen Hawking‚ potentially provoking a rethink of one of space’s most mysterious objects. A new study from Hawking also says that black holes may not possess "firewalls‚" destructive belts of radiation that some researchers have proposed would incinerate anything that passes through them but others scientists deem an impossibility. (Editor’s note: Watch for our feature "The Truth About Black Holes" in the March
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Black Plague vs. Medicine in the Middle Ages In 1348‚ the Bubonic Plague swept through western Europe’s hemisphere taking out thirty to fifty percent of the total population. The Black Death set the stage for more modern medicine and spurred changes in public health and hospital management. The plague sent physicians scrambling to develop treatments and find causes. The Black Death also helped shift medicine toward greater emphasis on practice than there had been before. Lastly‚ it helped blend
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The article "Like Black Smoke" and the article "A World Turned Upside Down" both mainly discuss about a horrible and deadly diseas called the bubonic plague. Like "A World Turned Upside Down" the author is mainly describing how black death swept through and has effected Europe and changed everything in the old times. In the article "Like Black Smoke" the author is telling how the black death spread‚ where it came from‚ and where it traveled. "Like Black Smoke" was to explain how the
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“The Souls of Black Folk” W. E. B. Du Bois‚ the author of “The Souls of Black Folk‚” had one goal in mind: to describe the conditions and prejudices that blacks encountered in the early twentieth century. Du Bois was convinced that race would be a fundamental problem that would plague the rest of the century. Du Bois was a prominent leader of the black community in the twentieth century along with a contemporary by the name of Booker T. Washington. However‚ their view point on how to tackle the
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