January 23‚ 1916 Dear mother‚ I am sorry it has been so long since I last wrote you‚ the war is getting intense. I can not wait to come home to Nova Scotia to see you‚ father‚ Thomas‚ and Elizabeth. How are they doing are they safe? War seems like it is getting even more dangerous due to the many warfare inventions‚ many soldiers die fighting at Western Front‚ never to go home and see their families again. It gets very lonely in the trenches‚ despite many soldiers being with me it feels
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The Black Plague One of the most devastating pandemics in human history was The Black Death. It killed over 200 million people during the seven years from 1346 to 1353. People think that The Black Death originated from Central Asia and traveled with fleas and rodents on The Silk Road. The Black Death actually arrived in ships with sailors that were sick‚ had fever‚ unable to keep food down and had really bad pain but the scariest of them all was their body were covered with mysterious black boils
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The Black Death was an unfortunate human tragedy devastating Europe in the fourteenth century wiping out 65% of the population. (Pollard‚ 384) However‚ it transformed European society for the better. The Black Death marked the beginning of an era. It was the Black Plague that spurred an “outpouring of cultural achievement…” (Pollard‚ 402) and revived political and economic stability that would later be known as the Renaissance. (Carlisle) Originating in Asia‚ the Black Plague infected peoples from
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The Black Plague was an epidemic that swept across Europe in the fourteenth century. Symptoms include boils‚ fever‚ chills‚ vomiting‚ diarrhea‚ and‚ in many cases‚ death. Scientists now know that it is spread by a bacterium called Yersina pestisthrough bites from infected fleas or rats. Between 1347 and 1352‚ about twenty five million people died from the Black Death. If an outbreak were to occur in Western Massachusetts in modern times‚ people would react differently than residents of medieval
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The Plague struck Europe in a series of waves beginning from the mid-1400s. During that time‚ people didn’t know the filth they lived in and the unsanitized streets caused the spread of the plague. It is estimated that the first wave killed 25 million people‚ which is about one third of the population of Western Europe. Sporadic but deadly outbreaks continued throughout Europe into the eighteenth century. The plague didn’t regard any status‚ age or even gender. During Plague there were also many
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Social effects by the Black Plague in Europe The black plague was responsible for the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people. Peaking during the 14th century‚ no pandemic in the world had affected Europe so profoundly up until this point. The black plague changed European social structure in that it wiped out a third of Europe’s population‚ brought about a decline of feudalism‚ and crippled the Catholic Church. This plague will become a portent of change in European politics through
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Crackling and sputtering‚ the scarlet fire gorged itself on yellow grass and piles of bodies‚ leaving trails of blackened meat and soil while metallic smelling smoke billowed to the clouds. Among the increasingly hellish terrain knelt a bloodied and charred man‚ practically cooked in his suit of metal armor. Even as steam surged from his melted skin and the soupy remains of his eyes dripped down his face‚ he still drew breath. “You would rather die than save your daughter?” A robed figure asked‚
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January 12th 1957 Journal Entry 1 Hello‚ this is my first journal entry. I suppose I should introduce myself; my name is Thelma Jean Mothershed-Wair‚ I am 17 years old and I was born on November 29‚ 1940‚ in Bloomberg‚ Texas. My parents are called Arlevis Leander Mothershed and Hosanna Claire Moore Mothershed. My father is a psychiatric aid at the Veterans Hospital‚ and my mother is a homemaker. I also have three sisters and two brothers. We all live together in Little Rock‚ Arkansas‚ United
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The Black Plague manifests itself in one of three iterations of an infection by the bacterium Yersinia pestis: bubonic plague‚ pneumonic plague‚ or septicemic plague. When Y. pestis invades the lymphatic system‚ it inflames lymph nodes that swell into large‚ painful bubos‚ hence the derivation of its moniker. Transmission is via a bite of the rat flea and‚ subsequently‚ the infection spreads to the cardiovascular and pulmonary systems. If contracted from a plague victim by aspiration of aerated
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Anna Hillot English The Rabbit-proof fence Capital Mr A.O. Neville‚ chief protector of aborigines -Also has the power to remove any aborigine in the state. During the 1930s‚ Molly‚ a 13 year- old aboriginal‚ is living in harsh‚ impoverished conditions with her family and other aborigines. Molly is outstandingly courageous‚ and is a great risk - taker. She lives in a hut made of twigs‚ logs and bramble also some grass‚with her cousin‚ Gracie‚ younger sister‚ Daisy with her Mother and Grandmother
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