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    An important event of Shakespeare’s time was the Bubonic Plague. The Bubonic Plague is one of the world’s most well-known epidemics. During the middle ages this deadly disease managed to kill 30 to 50% of Europe’s population. Throughout the years the plague’s effect has died down‚ but it is very much still alive today. The play is a very deadly disease caused by bacteria called Yersinia Pestis. The main way that the plague gets transported is by rats and fleas. The bacteria can also be transported

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    Albert Camus The Plague

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    The Black Death‚ one of the deadliest plagues in world history‚ engraved a wide swath of cataclysmic damage and inflicted a large loss of life. Discriminating against no one‚ it claimed the lives of the lower class and the gentry‚ the young and the old. Albert Camus’s novel‚ The Plague‚ illustrates the effects of and the responses to a plague that strikes the Algerian city of Oran. The allegorical representations and actions of five central characters in the novel‚ Dr. Bernard Rieux‚ Jean Tarrou

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    The Plague Research Paper

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    plague Have you ever wondered about the plague “According to the cdc the plague was the most horrific disease in history’’(history of the plague).The plague was found in 1855 then spread to india months later.The cause for the plague is rodents such as rats‚fleas‚mice‚raccoons‚etc.the way they transmitt the disease if the rodent bites you‚scratches you and also by bodily fluids.in the outbreaks back then were horriable the plague has killed almost 25 millon people in 1352 thats almost half of europs

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    Bubonic Plague History

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    Continent. As a result of this medical ignorance diseases and plagues prospered in this region. Such prosperous diseases include the most well known killer in history‚ the black death; otherwise known as the bubonic plague. It was believed widely that the bubonic plague originated in Europe in the 14th century‚ due to the fact that it is taught mainly in this time frame. Although it was most known in the late 1300s‚ the Bubonic Plague in fact originated in 430-427 B.C. Athens was the first country

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    DBQ Throughout the course of the plague‚ beginning in Italy in 1348‚ many people had different responses to how the plague was spread and who caused it. These different responses show how the people during the Middle Ages were ignorant to how disease spread and how it was instigated. Many people blamed God and Jews‚ others prayed‚ and finally others secluded themselves during the spread of the plague. Most responses proved to be ineffective for stopping the plague‚ while others were well thought out

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    Black Plague When the Black Plague is mentioned most people think of the first occurrence from 1348-1400‚ yet many people don’t know that it reoccurred when Shakespeare was alive. Shakespeare was affected by the Black Plague in several ways: many of his family members died‚ his family incurred the high expenses of medical care‚ and he lived in an environment where people were dying everywhere and bodies even littered the streets. Many people in Shakespeare’s family died from the Plague‚ during

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    Malaria Vs. The Plague

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    World History II 12/10/13 Malaria VS. The Black Plague In the fourteenth century‚ death and devastation swept from Asia to Europe in the form of the Black Plague‚ killing nearly one third of the world’s population. The Black Plague was one of the most horrid pandemics in history. Arguably‚ other modern day diseases such as Malaria‚ have‚ and continue to impact the world in many ways. While the medical responses‚ based off knowledge and economic results differ from the Black Death to Malaria

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    The Ten Plagues of Egypt

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    song in class your challenge is to memorize and/or remix it!!!! First God sent‚ Plague number one‚ Turned the Nile into blood. All the people in Egypt were feeling pretty low‚ They told Pharaoh "Let them Go!" Then God sent‚ Plague number two‚ Jumping frogs all over you. All the people in Egypt were feeling pretty low‚ They told Pharaoh "Let them Go!" Then God sent‚ Plague number three‚ Swarms of gnats from head to knee. All the people in Egypt were feeling

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    Plague of the Middle Ages

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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 Black Plague Analysis

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    It’s common knowledge that the Black Plague terrorized and then transformed Western Europe. By the time it was over in 1351‚ the epidemic had killed between 25% and 50% of the population (Napp). People neither understood where this atrocity came from‚ nor how to protect themselves. Many people often only associate negative effects with the Black Death; however‚ although awful effects did spawn from this epidemic‚ it also opened the way for many important positive effects to happen too. The Black

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