Joaquim Campos 12/28/12 English 10B The Black Plague In just three short years between 1347 and 1350 one in every four people in Europe died in one of the worst natural disasters in history‚ the Black Plague. By 1352 it would wipe out a third of Europe’s population. Also known as the Black Death‚ the Black Plague started in China where infected rats passed the disease to fleas that quickly spread it to humans. It quickly killed the majority of victims it touched‚ usually within mere hours. What
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Existentialism and The Plague Jean-Paul Sartre once said‚ “Man is condemned to be free; because once he is thrown into the world‚ he is responsible for everything he does.” Sartre speaks in accordance with the values of Existentialism‚ which is defined as a philosophical theory that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will. Existentialists like Sartre rejected the existence of a higher power and
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Important Facts about the Black Death * Interesting information and important facts and history of the disease: * Key Dates relating to the event: This terrible plague started in Europe in 1328 and lasted until 1351 although there were outbreaks for the next sixty years * Why was the disease called the Black Death? The disease was called the Black Death because one of the symptoms produced a blackening of the skin around the swellings. or buboes. The buboes were red at first‚ but later
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Pick‚ 1982) team up to write a gripping (if styleless) suspenser about a mad scientist bringing down upon mankind the ten Biblical plagues of Exodus‚ plus one more for good measure. The dramatized plagues include bread-moldderived ergot from the rye fungus‚ which causes massive itching‚ cramps‚ spasms‚ and gangrene--as well as later centuries’ smallpox‚ leprosy‚ Black Plague‚ syphilis‚ dysentery‚ TB‚ typhus‚ cholera‚ and AIDS‚ not to mention Ebola‚ Lyme‚ and more. World-class but crazy toxicologist Theodore
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What do you think caused the death go millions of Native Americans? The answer is plague. The Smallpox plague was caused by the exploration and encounter of the Europeans in the the Americas. Whenever the Europeans A a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a c a aA a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a c a aA a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a c a aA a a a a a a a
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Plague Notes Lifespan of yersinia pestis bacilli outside of living host: • In frozen cadavers (years) • In putrefying cadavers (a few days) • In ground (dies rapidly) • In micro-climate of rodent warrens (several months→ years) Urban cycle is important for mass destruction of urban ways? A flea bites rodent‚ and then the wild rodent will have some type of contact with a human. Or the infected flea will direct the person. INFLUENZA • Acute respiratory infection due to influenza virus
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For thousands of years‚ humans have been valiantly attempting to stop the most detrimental and limiting factor on our civilization. This plague has been unrelenting since before humans first stood on two legs. Violence has been studied by hundreds‚ if not thousands of psychologists‚ economists and other social workers and after all this work experts homicides have decreased by up to 100 times from Oxford in the 1300s. However violence is still deeply rooted in our society and people are increasingly
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14Th Century Europe was a period of chaos and turmoil. The Great Famine of 1315-1317 produced the worst famine in the Middle Ages that killed millions of people all over Europe. The onset of the Bubonic Plague (“Black Death”) only made things worse. The Black Death swept throughout Europe and killed as much as two fifths of the already diminished European population. The Black Death effected Europe politically‚ socially‚ and economically. Europeans responded to the Black Death differently. We got
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Black Plague From the late medieval era to the enlightenment a series of plagues devastated European society‚ economy‚ and social/political structure. Reaction toward the calamity ranged from rational and proactive to irrational‚ egoistic‚ and even criminal. Over all‚ the human devastation revealed a growth over time in government role and the role of the educated class in serving society‚ while uncovering a persistent criticism of the upper classes and the common people. The plague illiated
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Sarah Burns Evolution of Plague Bacteria The Bubonic Plague otherwise known as the Black Death‚ has gotten most of its attention from medieval paintings‚ poetry‚ and journals of revulsion. The real horror‚ was the disturbing biological evidence of the bacteria that caused all the pandemics‚ known as Yersinia pestis. The pathogen got its name from the two investigators Yersin and Kitasato. In 1894‚ Yersin was known as the main investigator (ergo. Named after him)‚ he claimed that the mice/rats were
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