Black Plague killed more than 20 million people that was about one-third of the population in Europe at that time. During the late 1340’s in Europe‚ 12 trading ships arrived at a port after a long journey through the Black Sea. The people who gathered on the docks to welcome the ships were met with a horrifying surprise: most of the sailors aboard the ships were dead‚ and those who were still alive were very ill. Strangest of all‚ they were covered in mysterious black blisters that oozed blood and pus
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Capacity The capacity for the STM is limited. One of the traditional ways of investigating the capacity of the STM is the serial digit span in which participants are asked to memorise a list of numbers/letters in order. There are many studies that investigate into this; most known‚ being Miller’s (1956) magic number 7+/-2. However‚ Jacobs’ (1887) study is a less difficult procedure in which a list of letters/numbers is viewed to them which they are expected to remember directly after the presentation
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As the price of oil (Iran’s major export) rose‚ the Shah attempted to modernize Iran. This "pushed aside" the merchant class and forced poorer peasants to become migrant workers in towns. The coming of the revolution The Shah spent $100‚000 million on a celebration for the Iranian monarchy and many Iranians found this disrespectful. The incomes of civil servants were fixed‚ and inflation lowered their standard of living. An article says‚ “The 1988 decision to accept a cease-fire [to end the Iran-Iraq
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B-29 bomber‚ Enola Gay‚ drops the world’s first atom bomb‚ over the city of Hiroshima. Upon the explosion of the bomb‚ Approximately 80‚000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast‚ and another 35‚000 are injured. At least another 60‚000 would be killed by the effects radiation poisoning and starvation from the fallout. Despite of the great effort of the Air-force through the use of the atomic bomb‚ Japan refuses to surrender. But the United States was determined to end the war swiftly without
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rejoiced when the murderers of Isaac Doctor‚ William Brown and James Talbot were identified‚ but when the killers’ verdict was given‚ the black community became frustrated with the weak sentence‚ one year in prison for only two of the five perpetrators. This case was just the first of 32 incidents which happened between May and October in 1919. In nearly all cases of violence‚ white on black violence started conflict which ascended into escalation. As the number of participants in the conflicts rose
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Overview Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) was a hedge fund founded by John Meriwether in 19941. Meriwether was the former vice-chairman and head of bond trading at investment bank Salomon Brothers. Meriwether put together a high profile team of traders and academics in an attempt to create a fund that would profit from the combination of the academics’ quantitative models and the traders’ market judgment. Some of the high profile employees brought on were Nobel-prize winning economists Myron
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Wellington Professor: D Pratt Introduction The purpose of this paper is to explain my life’s goal. I have three long-term goals. My long-term goals are Personal goal‚ An Academic goal‚ and Career goal. My long-term goal is to purchase my first home by August 2013.This is something that I have always wanted to own. My Academic goal is to Graduate from Broward College with a Associates degree in Science
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providing resources to allow them to survive. Yet people didn’t care for the land and instead would take advantage of it. The relationship between the American settlers and the land is that they exploit it for money. Since people don’t have a positive relationship with the land and get into conflicts over it‚ the topic has led to many conflicts that have continued to affect people for generations. One way westward expansion was useful was that the land provided resources that helped the
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concussion in the past may find that it takes longer to recover from their current injury. A blow to the head more than one time has a higher risk for brain damage. No pharmacological treatment exists‚ but people may use pain medications that are prescribed for headaches. While rare‚ long term effects can be devastating‚ they are also extremely rare. These problems include memory problems‚ lack of inhibition‚ intense anger or aggression‚ personality changes‚ lack of
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Alcohol essay The Long-Term Effects of Alcohol Use Alcohol is primarily absorbed through the stomach and the small intestines. It is considered a food because it has calories‚ but does not need to be digested and proceeds directly into the body through the digestive system. After ingestion it is carried through the blood stream and crosses the bloodbrain barrier‚ at which time impairment begins. A greater amount of ingestion causes greater impairment to the brain‚ which‚ in turn‚ causes a person
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