HUMA1000: Cultures and Values (L3): Love‚ Death and Human Nature Prof. Simon Wong Division of Humanities hmmhwong@ust.hk The debate on love with and without distinction (cont’d) • Reasons to support the idea of love with distinction (continued): 2.(corresponding to Chan’s first reason) The love without distinction comes from the extension of love with distinction. Or‚ the love without distinction is manifested through the love with distinction. Reasons to support the idea of love with distinction
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the Black Death. This was a plague that could not be cured by the medicines of it’s time. During the Middle Ages‚ the Black Death was a violent disease with horrible signs. It spread through carriers who brought it to Europe where it killed many and spread throughout the area. The Black Death consisted of frightening‚ horrible symptoms. One sign of the Black Death was black bumps growing on the skin. The bumps would be easy to spot and signal that that particular person had the Black Death. These
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Europe was struck by an epidemic known as the Black Death. Although the exact origins of the Black Death remain disputed by historians‚ it is believed that the illness was brought to Sicily‚ Italy by a Genoese merchant ship coming from Crimea in 1347. The illness is then believed to have spread through the Mediterranean Basin‚ into France‚ then Spain‚ Germany and the remaining majority of Europe (Gottfried‚ 1983: 55-76). Prior to the arrival of the Black Death in Europe‚ the continent had experienced
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The Black Death was and still is a very deadly disease. There were many effects it had on the trading economy. Also‚ “The Black Death” is still being carried around today‚ but it is very rare. The Black Death spread as quickly as it did because Europe was becoming richer‚ and trade was widespread. The Black Death had many names like “The Black Plague‚” but one of the less common names was Zoonosis. Zoonosis is a word people used for all sorts of life threatening diseases. They used zoonosis so people
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known as the Black Death. This Black Death was an ecological disaster on a global scale. The effects of the plague on human and certain animal populations from East Asia to as far west as Greenland were catastrophic. All facets of society‚ from peasant to king were affected; no one was safe. All of society was affected; nothing would ever be the same. Thus‚ there were many economic‚ social‚ and political effects of the Black Death. Before one can understand the effects of the Black Death‚ one must
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The Black Death and Smallpox were terrible plagues that lead to great loss of human life. As a result‚ Europe’s population decreased by a third and experts estimate that the New World lost more than 90 million. Both the Black death and Smallpox raised wages‚ were used as weapons and lead to loss of religious faith‚ but during the time of the Black death people lost faith in god‚ whereas during Smallpox‚ Indians lost faith in their traditions and the Black Death allegedly conserved the land‚ whereas
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Have you ever heard of the Black Death? A lot people are familiar with the horrible plague that spread across Europe from early 1348 to late 1349. However‚ most do not know just how big of an effect it had on the nation of Europe. Over time‚ the disease caused famine‚ mass death in highly populated areas‚ and even led to rebellion and uprising from poor people‚ or “peasants”. The disease ravaged the continent of Europe for around two years‚ yet it left tens of thousands of casualties in its wake
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The Black Death is known as one of the most disastrous diseases in human history. It began in the 14th century and it lasted five years‚ spreading throughout England and Europe quickly. Although the most common name for this disease was “The Black Death”‚ it also had other names such as “The Bubonic Plague”‚ “The Great Mortality” and more commonly used in the Middle Ages‚ “The Great Pestilence”. It was a very contagious disease‚ killing millions of people in a short amount of time and since there
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The Black Death swept throughout Western Europe like wildfire from 1347 to 1349‚ devastating the European population. In just this short amount of time‚ this horrifying plague killed between 25% to 50% of the entire Western Europe‚ which was more than any pestilence had beforehand or since. This Black Death‚ otherwise known as the Bubonic Plague‚ was caused by a bad bacteria (Yersinia pestis) that inhabited fleas‚ which lived on rats. Then‚ these infected rat fleas started infecting people with the
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The black death had a huge effect on Europe. The black death is also known as the bubonic plague. If people are near the plague for within 3 to 7 days of exposure to plague bacteria they will eventually get sick. Usually when you get the black death plague It starts from getting bit by an infected flea the once you get bit by the infected flea you end up spreading it by someone touching an open cut or any fluids from your body. The plague changed Medieval Europe and infected a lot of people and
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