Paige Layman Literature 2nd hour November 4‚ 2014 The Dancing Plague The outbreak began in July 1518‚ when a woman‚ Frau Troffea‚ began to dance fervently in a street in Strasbourg. This lasted somewhere between four to six days. Within a week‚ 34 others had joined‚ and within a month‚ there were around 400 dancers. Some of these people eventually died from heart attacks‚ strokes‚ or exhaustion. The Plague started when a woman by the name of Frau Troffea started to dance in the streets of Strasbourge
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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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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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The Black Death‚ also known as the Black Plague‚ was a rapid plague that swept over Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s resulting in the death of millions of people. This disease is believed to have started in the Eastern parts of Asia‚ and it eventually made its way over to Europe by way of trade routes. Fever and “dark despair” characterized this plague. The highly contagious sickness displayed many flu like symptoms‚ but the victim’s lymph nodes would quickly become infected resulting in a vast and
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trading power‚ Athens became incredibly powerful‚ wealthy‚ and was the main power in the Ancient world. Not only was the Athenian empire strong in its culture and money making‚ its Navy was its strongest than any other power at the time. It was truly‚ incomparable at its golden age. Sadly‚ all golden ages end and the Athenian Empire fell. And boy did it fall hard. Athens rose to power with the help of trading‚ cultivation‚ raising animals‚ and mining. The geographical placement of Athens was
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was a deadly‚ devastating outbreak disease also known as the Bubonic Plague‚ it was between 1347 and 1352‚ that caused an estimated 25 million deaths in Europe. Many suggest it started in Asia. The disease was carried by fleas that lived on rats. Historians think that black rats living on European merchant ships caught the disease‚ eventually bringing it to Europe. First why don’t we figure out what exactly the Bubonic Plague means. Bubonic is named after the buboes (swollen lymph nodes) which
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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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Introduction: • Talk about 2 city states: Athens and Sparta ddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddn) - 1 micrometre - Yoctometre Units and symbols - Mineralogical Society of America www.minsocam.org/msa/ammin/units.html Remember to spell out the units in the text if not accompanied by a unit. Example: several ... mm = 10-3 m). μm = micrometer(s) (1 μm =10-6 m) NOT micron or μ. The Metric System and Measurement faculty.clintoncc.suny.edu/faculty/michael.../files/.../Metric_System.htm
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Despite the great intelligence of its inhabitants‚ Equestria had always been considered a backwards nation in terms of technological advancements. With the readily available resource that was unicorn magic‚ it was perfectly understandable‚ of course; there had never been the need to develop new‚ power-efficient technologies or weapons of increasingly great mass destruction. Or so it had seemed‚ until roughly one hundred years prior when the changelings and Sombra had attacked the otherwise peaceful
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Every day of the human life is faced with one goal: surviving. After the Plague by T.C. Boyle is a story of just that. In the beginning of the story‚ the reader is presented with a man self-named “Jed”. Jed is a writer who escaped to the mountains of California for seclusion and free flowing creativity. He soon gets waves of radio and news broadcasts speaking of an outbreak of a wide spread disease‚ eventually wiping out the entire population‚ leaving behind Jed and the few human beings who fortunately
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