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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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    Procopius: The Plague‚ 542 was written by Procopius as an explanation of the plague that struck the Byzantium Empire. Procopius goes into an in-depth explanation of how the plague physically affected the individuals that became ill during the plague as well as how it affected the friends and family of those that became ill that had to take care of them. The writing finishes with the emperor also falling ill during the plague. Throughout the reading‚ Procopius did a good job of backing up his

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    Essay On Bubonic Plague

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    The Bubonic Plague The Bubonic Plague occurred in the fourteenth century and caused an enormous death rate across Europe‚ Africa and China. The Bubonic Plague is a pandemic that that took more lives than any other known disease (“Black Death”). People during the fourteenth century had never experienced a disease that was as serious as the Bubonic Plague and were unable to comprehend the cause of this disease or how to treat it. The plague began killing at an incredible speed that wiped out many countries

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    Albert Camus The Plague

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    In 1947‚ The Plague was published by renown philosopher‚ war journalist‚ and novelist Albert Camus. Taking place in the Algerian town of Oran during the 1940s‚ The Plague is a gripping novel narrated by one of the town’s doctors‚ Bernard Rieux. The town has an outbreak of the bubonic plague‚ followed by an outbreak of pneumonic plague. The citizens of the town die in droves‚ yet the government denies that there is anything wrong. That is until over a thousand citizens die every‚ single‚ day. The

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    The Black Death Plague

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    The Black Death Plague The Black Death plague‚ also known as the Bubonic plague‚ attacked Europe in 1347. The Bubonic plague was one of the many pestilences that would attack almost the entire Eastern Hemisphere. The last plague attacked a European city‚ Marseilles in 1722. On 1347‚ the name “Black Death”‚ or the “Bubonic Plague” was not used. During that time‚ they called the plague the Pestilence‚ or the Great Mortality. As we can see‚ the Black Death Plague has been in existence

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    Black Death (the Plague)

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    swept threw from 1300 to 1450. Many people said it was the end of the world because of the plague’s effects on the European people and Europe in general. The plague was brought to Europe by cargo from China. In this cargo there were rats that had flea’s on them that carried this plague‚ and this little flea’s caused one of the most devastating epidemics in the history of the world. The people of Europe were already in bad times before the plague due to economic depression and

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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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    In the past‚ bubonic destroyed entire civilizations. The plague can be found in the fleas that feed on them. The bacteria that cause plague‚ Yersinia Pestis‚ can cause several types of serious of potentially fatal illnesses: Bubonic plague‚ which has symptoms that include swollen lymph node‚ pneumonic plague‚ which involves the infection spreading to the lungs; and Septicemic Plague‚ which may involve skin and other tissues turning black and dying. The Pentagon’s most secure laboratories may have

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    The Ten Plagues – Exodus THO111 – MWF; 3:00-4:00 PM Submitted By: Eloisa Grace D. Divinoto BSARCH-1 Block C The 10 plagues of Egypt are the supernatural acts that YHWH‚ the God of the Israelites‚ did through Moses (and Aaron) against the Pharaoh of Egypt‚ as recorded in the book of Exodus. The plagues occurred because of Pharaoh’s refusal to free the Israelites and to demonstrate YHWH’s superiority of the gods of Egypt‚ including Pharaoh. The plagues are often seen as increasingly in intensity

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    Albert Camus The Plague

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    June 27‚ 2012 Book Critique of Albert Camus’ THE PLAGUE In reading Camus’ The Plague‚ I found myself easily attaching personal significance to the many symbolic references and themes alluded to in this allegorical work. Some of the most powerful messages woven throughout the novel seem to all speak to conflict or imbalance between two ends of a spectrum. The ideas of apathy vs. concern‚ solidarity vs. isolation‚ freedom vs. imprisonment (intellectually and physically)‚ individual moral

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