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    “ The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history‚ resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people” (Black Death). The Black Death with its certain symptoms‚ causes‚ diagnoses‚ and treatments has a long history and has been used in biological warfare. The best known symptom of bubonic plague infected‚ enlarged‚ and painful lymph nodes‚ known as buboes. After being transmitted via the bite of infected fleas‚ the Y. pestis bacteria localize in an

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    Black Death Alex Park Time: This play will be taken place in the early morning and will end in the afternoon. It starts in the morning because the story simply states “It is early morning” (Paragraph 2). I chose for the play to end in the afternoon because after the kids play and the black shadow comes along‚ this will happen over a long period of time. There will be few events that happen throughout the play that will need time to occur. Period: The month will be July because the story

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    eatLandon Wood Turner AP World History 1 November 2012 AP World History Book Report Summary: The Black Death‚ by Philip Ziegler‚ covers the epidemic that spread throughout Eurasia around 1348. The book mostly focuses on England and how the disease affected this area. The book also covers other portions of Europe such as France‚ Italy‚ and Germany but not as in depth. Ziegler uses the research of many historians to piece together what occurred during this time of grief. Ziegler starts off the

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    The character traits‚ fears‚ and personal experiences of Edgar Allan Poe can be seen in the narrator of “The Black Cat”. Within the first page of the passage‚ the narrator describes his wife‚ whom he married early‚ as “not uncongenial” or friendly. Poe is most likely referring to his wife Sarah Elmira Royster‚ who is both his cousin and bride when she was 13 years old. Like Poe’s wife‚ the narrator’s spouse is described as friendly‚ faithful‚ and loving. Moreover‚ Poe’s apparent problems with alcoholism

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    Pamela Anderson 02-09-13 3th period The black cat & a rose for Emily “The black cat” was written by Edgar Allan Poe‚ and it was a twisted‚ sick story about how a man that since his childhood was picked on by his classmates. Instead of having human friends‚ he owned pets that he took as his only friends. “From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the best of my companions.” At first he had

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    The Black Death 1.A virulent plague strikes Europe in the 14th century in addition to its current over-population and malnutrition problems. Preconditions and Causes of the Plague 1.Nine-tenths of the people worked the land in the 14th century of Europe. 2.The 3 field system efficiently rose the production of crops however it was still not enough to meet the demands of the growing population. 3.Estimation shows the European population doubling within the years 1000 and 3000 outgrowing

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    Hundreds of years ago‚ a plague swept over the known world. The Great Plague‚ Great Pestilence‚ and Black Death were a few of the names that it was given. In the Background Essay‚ it states that‚ "the plague killed between 25 and 45% of the populations it encountered." It was played a huge role in the history of the 14th century. There were three bacterial strains of the plague; all of them were deadly. According to Document 2‚ the mortality rate was 31% in Europe‚ 33% in England‚ 25-33% in Egypt

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    state of mind. People often left those who they cared about to fend for themselves. Since the cities were more populated‚ those who left for the country carried the disease with them and infected those who previously lived on the countryside. The Black Death created a race for survival and all were playing. As they continued to run from the plague‚ the people of Europe felt that they needed to blame someone for causing the outrage. At this time in history‚ Christians persecuted Jews in Europe and

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    Although The Masque of the Red Death and The Fall of the House of Usher are written in different view points‚ the fact that each method works well for each story is true because third-person helps to better oversee all the events taking place‚ first-person gives a heightened sense of intensity‚ and if each stories’ view point was switched then the two stories would not be the timeless classics that they are today. The Masque of the Red Death‚ written by Edgar Allen Poe in the third-person point

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    Red-Black Tree Abstract--In this paper‚ Red-Black Tree is discussed and various operations that can be performed on it are illustrated. The operations include rotation/restructuring (Left-Rotation and Right-Rotation)‚ inserting a node in Red-Black Tree and deleting a node from Red-Black Tree thereby maintaining its Red-Black Properties. I. Introduction A fascinating and important balanced binary search tree is the red-black tree. Rudolf Bayer invented this important tree structure in 1972

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