May 14th‚ 2098 After the dreaded plague‚ we are what remains of civilisation. What remain of earth is made of ash‚ a graveyard for a lost cause. Empires sunk without a trace‚ gone down with all their men and all their machines into the unexplorable depths of the centuries; with their laws‚ acedemies and histories. And as I ponder in the abyss of history‚ captured by the gallows of death‚ I can make out the phantoms of great ships laden with wealth and intellect. The disaster that had sent them down
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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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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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English April 3‚ 2009 Death: The Great Equalizer Throughout all of human history‚ man has never been equal. The human socioeconomic landscape has always been segregated into different classes. People live their lives according to the inequality that is established by society. The only time people are truly equal is once they are done living. People are only equal in the eyes of death. No one can escape mortality. Both The Plague‚ by Albert Camus as translated by Stuart Gilbert‚ and Rashomon‚
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The Black Death‚ one of the deadliest plagues in world history‚ engraved a wide swath of cataclysmic damage and inflicted a large loss of life. Discriminating against no one‚ it claimed the lives of the lower class and the gentry‚ the young and the old. Albert Camus’s novel‚ The Plague‚ illustrates the effects of and the responses to a plague that strikes the Algerian city of Oran. The allegorical representations and actions of five central characters in the novel‚ Dr. Bernard Rieux‚ Jean Tarrou
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The Bubonic Plague is a disease that started around 1346 in China. This disease was very deadly. “In five short years the plague killed around 25 to 45 percent of the population where it struck”. Back then knowledge of bacteria and germs were largely unknown to doctors. There were three types of plague‚ bubonic‚ septicemic‚ and pneumonic. The Christian and Muslim people had very different views on this disease‚ but they had also had very few similarities. Here are a some reasons explaining this theory::
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What is a hero? What comes to your mind when someone speaks of heroes and or heroines or Super Heroes and Heroines for that matter? Well lets see‚ Webster defines a super hero as a benevolent fictional character with superhuman powers and a hero as a person‚ typically a man‚ who is admired or idealized for their courage and outstanding achievements‚ and is typically identified as a person of noble qualities. A person who people will sympathize with. A man of the people. Or‚ the people’s champion
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AIDS: Is it a Modern Plague? In some parts of the world there are still wars being fought and dictators in power. There are societies which consider themselves at the peak of evolution and progress. They are able to create state of the art automobiles‚ luxurious homes‚ efficient and organized industries‚ complex computerized machinery and atomic weapons. Many societies are governed by a democratic system which herald a belief in freedom. All societies‚ regardless of their political
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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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Heroes are noteworthy parts of history‚ they stick out and most people if anything can remember the main hero of a story. Especially in today’s society‚ where heroes and heroism can be displayed vividly. In television shows like breaking bad‚ movies like star wars‚ or even television news‚ heroes are often central characters. Some would argue the very idea of a hero is self-interpretive and have debunked official heroes (such as fireman) as just doing their jobs. Yet these heroes‚ in the face of
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