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    technological advancement are two reasons why humanity has come so far from its origins. However‚ could one of mankind’s breakthroughs lead to its downfall? Sickness has its place in history as one of the most prolific killers of people. The Black Plague in the Middle Ages wiped out significant human populations. In the present‚ research in medicine has brought forth antibiotics – a way of stopping harmful bacteria from infecting a person. Growing concern is centered on the fear that the overuse of

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    When they were inside the plane should have the Stephen and Dad done what they have done or should they have done something else? (pg. 28-29) Personally I believe that they should have done something else. In the story they let free the slaves. Not only that‚ they also took the car keys from the slavers and gave it to them and used 3 rifle shots to make the slavers not shot them. Stephen and Dad could have killed the slavers and taken all their stuff. Considering the slavers have a car‚ slaves

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    Camus’s use of hyper-realistic imagery seems to be the surface of The Plague’s allegorical and metaphysical narrative. Like most human observations‚ we notice the the obvious first‚ before we pull and prod at the exterior to reveal something more ambiguous and at the same time‚ something rather apparent. In the novel‚ Camus‚ “[juxtaposes] […] the symbolical and the realistic‚” creating a polygonal register where the connotative qualities can be discovered when taking into consideration Camus’s style

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    temporary. Having that extremely high fever‚ with the worst headache imaginable‚ and struggling to fall asleep was terrible‚ but it eventually went away. Everything would go back to normal like going back to school and playing with friends. The book Plague by Michael Grant is the exact opposite. The kids that got a really bad sickness never got better. It has been eight months since all the adults and teenagers at least the age of fifteen have disappeared like flying in the Bermuda Triangle (☺ Simile)

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    “ Ugh!” Wes exclaimed. “ What?” Matthew asked. “ This poster will take forever! Too bad there was no school yesterday.” Wes said. Matthew and Wes were partnered to do a poster on the “ Black Plague” . For the poster colors they decided to use all black and when they do their speech they would were all black. “ Class! Please Listen. Thank you. I see most of you are done with your posters. But‚ since not everyone is done with them. I am giving you the weekend and expect to see them on Monday otherwise

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    The Pumpkin Plague By: Siddhant Yambem. It all started on Thursday‚ October 12th‚ the day before Friday the 13th. I bought 100 pillows since my last Friday the 13th experience. Last time‚ I had fifteen broken toys‚ a broken window‚ and I was late for school because the bus broke down! Now that it was October‚ we also needed to go pumpkin shopping. Halloween is coming soon! I’m only 11‚ so I couldn’t go alone. I brought my parents with me‚ which meant I was bringing my

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    The Plague of Sexual Harassment in Egypt Sexual harassment is a common occurrence here in Egypt whether it’s verbal or physical harassment. As sad as it may seem I was never affected by this problem until it happened to me a couple of months ago. I was walking one afternoon with my mother and young sister on Baghdad Street we were window shopping and having fun‚ but suddenly out of the blue a guy passing by with a bicycle touched me in an inappropriate way. At first I was too shocked to do anything

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    is a type of plague called the Bubonic plague. Encyclopedia Britannica defines the Bubonic plague as‚ “an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Bubonic plague is the most commonly occurring type of plague and is characterized by the appearance of buboes—swollen‚ tender lymph nodes‚ typically found in the armpits and groin.” The Bubonic plague has surfaced nine times in human history: the Plague of Justinian (541-542)‚ the Black Death (1346-1353)‚ the Great Plague of Milan (1629-1631)

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    The plague from 1347 to 1350 in Europe was one of the miserable events in European history. Merchants brought the plague from Constantinople to Europe in 1347 and the plague began to spread quickly throughout Europe. During these 3 years were the peak of the plague in Europe and huge percentages of people died. Siena was also one of the central commercial city-states in Italy that suffered from the plague. When the plague arrived to Siena in 1348‚ fifty percentage or probably more of the population

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    The Bombay Plague Epidemic There were several important events that occurred during the Colonial era which are highly noticeable. One such was the abrupt attack of the Plague in the city of Bombay which was one of the major cities under the control of the Colonial government. The Plague which came to Bombay was a Bubonic Plague which was highly dangerous in nature. The city has no memory of ever having harbored it in the winter of 1896.It was considered likely to have arrived from its sinister

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