The bubonic plague‚ caused by the Yersinia pest is bacteria‚ is a highly contagious communicable disease. The bacteria is transferred from animals‚ to fleas‚ to humans. This bacteria can be found in multiple location world-wide. The earliest reporting of the Bubonic plague‚ also known as the “Black Death”‚ dates back to 1347‚ via land and sea trade routes of the ancient Silk Road. When rat filled ships arrived at the harbors of Europe‚ people came to welcome the sailors home. They soon realized
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Overview of: When Plague Strikes’ by James Giblin This book is separated into three main parts the Black Death‚ smallpox‚ and aids. This book gives facts of occurring diseases and the diseases from the past. This books content mainly took place in Europe and Asia when it gave facts dates and examples. It explains the nature and symptoms of diseases from long ago. The bubonic Plague mainly affects rodents‚ but fleas can transmit the disease to people. Once people are infected‚ they infect others
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Plagiarism‚ a Deadly Plague The feeling of putting in an enormous amount of time into something can be viewed as your masterpiece can be cheerful and satisfying. What if‚ however‚ someone comes along and willingly tries to steal your work of art‚ ignorantly using it for another purpose‚ with the intention of not giving any credit to you? Would you call them a thief in spite of what they have done? In what way would you approach this situation? However‚ this “practice of claiming‚ or implying
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The Bubonic Plague In Europe during the late 1340s‚ almost 25 million people died. During the Great Plague of London in the 1660s‚ one in every five people died. This was all caused by one deadly disease‚ the Bubonic Plague (National Geographic). The Bubonic Plague attacks a body system called the immune system. This disease’s structure and function cause this body system to malfunction and will also cause many awful problems and symptoms in the body. Imagine what it would be like if an outbreak
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that changed the world forever and ever. For last there are many types of diseases‚ plagues‚ and other nasty things that make us sick to the stomach. The Bubonic Plague made many people sick and killed millions of people. The sickness is also known as the Black Death. Thankfully the sickness is not created by people that is a good sign that we will know if you are that person who knows everything about the plague. The one and only way to get infected is get bitten by an infected flea on a dead rodent
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Kieran Intemann 9/24/12 Plague in the Middle Ages The main cause of death in the Middle Ages was the Plague‚ or the Black Death. Beginning in the year 1348‚ the Plague killed about a third of the population of Europe. Part of the reason was that many of the streets and houses in Europe were disgusting and filthy. Another part of the reason was that the cures were not available to most people. Lastly‚ a reason that the Plague spread so quickly throughout Europe is that people had no idea that they
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The plague‚ which is caused by Yersinia pestis‚ a gram-negative rod-shaped‚ non-motile‚ non-sporulating bacterium has a great historical significance. Plague is a zoonotic disease transmitted to humans by rodents (e.g.‚ rats‚ mice‚ ground squirrels). Fleas that live on the rodents can transmit the bacteria to humans‚ who then suffer from the bubonic form of plague. The bubonic form may progress to the septicemic and pneumonic forms. Pneumonic plague would be the predominant form having potential
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In 1860‚ the North was not the place to be if you were an African American. In 1860‚ there was a lot of “free blacks” in the Northern states‚ but were they actually free?‚ they couldn’t eat at restaurants‚ shop in markets or stores‚ or even have basic jobs. Free blacks were not free at all in the North. They had no rights‚ no political freedom‚ and they couldn’t work a job. Free blacks could not eat at restaurants‚ shop in stores‚ work jobs‚ or even buy land. They had no political freedom either
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would go to places where I could help people in need. I’d especially like to travel to China in the early 1330s to prevent the bubonic plague that originated here. This plague causes fever‚ painful buboes and spots on the skin that are red at first and then turn black. Bubonic plague mainly affects rats‚ but fleas can transmit the disease to people‚ so the plague often breaks out in run-down‚ dirty areas‚ which provide ideal environments for fleas to grow. Once people are infected‚ they infect others
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different classes. People live their lives according to the inequality that is established by society. The only time people are truly equal is once they are done living. People are only equal in the eyes of death. No one can escape mortality. Both The Plague‚ by Albert Camus as translated by Stuart Gilbert‚ and Rashomon‚ by Akutagawa as translated by Jay Rubin‚ use setting and characterization to make clear the theme death has as the great equalizer. The setting that is created in a piece of literature
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