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    communication of information in A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe. This instability of the language in this proto-novel is caused by the author citing two sides to every point or statement he makes causing contradictions. On top of this Defoe repeats the same points throughout the entire text. This uncertainty helps to make the reader believe the writing is an actual journal as opposed to an edited‚ actual non-fiction. A Journal of the Plague Year starts out with the narrator‚ H.F.‚

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    Black Plague The Black Plague was one of the deadliest diseases in human history‚ significantly affecting Europe between late 1347 and 1353. The Black Plague‚ or The Black Death‚ killed millions of people. Greatly affecting Europe‚ The Black Plague changed the course of European History‚ in ways people never imagined. The Black Plague affected the people of Europe culturally. The people turned to the church to save them from the horrible disease. Of course‚ the church couldn’t save them‚ so people

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    When reacting to the Black Plague‚ Christian and Muslim responses were very different but the same in some ways. Some tried to find cures and others found people to blame for it. They had tried to find treatments and preventions for the plague. The responses from the living were shocking but yet expected and during the time that the Black Plague hit‚ religion was the most powerful and the two big and common religions that got hit hardest were Christianity and Islam. The cause for this disease and

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    The plague‚ figuratively speaking‚ is something one goes out of their way to avoid. The phrase is a cliche used lightly in modern eras to describe wanting to be as far away as possible from someone or something‚ but historically‚ your life depended on doing just that. However‚ the plague isn’t just part of a hilarious idiom‚ but a crippling epidemic that swept across Eurasia‚ infecting nearly all the nations it touched‚ not to mention killing up to one third of their respective populations. Now it

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    the Bubonic Plague‚ broke out in China and very quickly swept across the European continent. The Christian and Muslim populations were vastly effected with mortality rates as high as thirty-three percent. Although both religions were affected‚ the Christian and Muslims had very controversial outlooks and responses to the Bubonic Plague. The most argued opinion coming from these two religions was whether or not the plague was a good or bad thing. The Islamic community felt that the plague was a blessing

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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 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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    The plague/Black Death first popped up the the 13th century. A ship had arrived in Europe with many people that had the Black Death. They had symptoms that included fever‚ unable to eat‚ pain that was so bad they became crazy. One of the weirdest symptoms is having black boils on their skin. Boils are infected places of the skin that become full of pus and become swollen. The Black Death is caused by a bacteria called Yersinia pestis. The bacteria is most common in animals. It got passed to humans

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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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    Black Plague Speech

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    Hello everyone be safe out there there is a really horrible disease going on called the plague. The plague is a serious bacterial infection that can be very deadly. Sometimes this is referred as the"black plague‚" the disease is caused by bacterial strain called Yersinia pestis.​T​his bacteria is found on animals throughout the world and is usually transmitted to humans through fleas. This disease can be passed on to another person as fast as a NASCAR driver drives one lap around the track. Yes I

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