A grey world—cities‚ faces‚ grime—but two colours made their rare appearance: bloody red and asphyxiation blue. Spring‚ 1918: both gruesome shades were present in London’s hovels and had struck down the hardworking with fevers and coughs. The greatest of mysteries: How had Mrs Jim Dawson been felled by the Spanish flu? The squalid shack was filled with the drifting sounds of boisterous children‚ laundering women‚ loitering men‚ many unemployed catcalling the loose women whose ankles flashed beneath
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I think I am starting to get tired of the everyday routine that we have to endure so we can spend the rest of the day travelling‚ only to rise the next day to repeat the process again. We wake up earlier than the sun does to eat a meal consisting of bacon‚ bacon‚ and more bacon. It wasn’t all that bad at first‚ but now‚ I can’t even look at it anymore. At this point in the journey‚ I am starting to be introduced to another side of nature‚ one that I didn’t get to experience back in Pittsburgh
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Hot scorching flames rising from the ground of the homes of the innocent. The smell of smoke filling your lungs as you struggle to get a breath of air. But what would have caused three hundred people to die and one hundred thousand Chicago residents to go homeless. How about the famous legend of Mrs O’Leary and her cow? Why not Pegleg Sullivan the one who first noticed the barn spark up in flames. The most responsible and logical answer to all this Biela’s comet. Could have pieces of Biela’s comet
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Settling In Charles Town Settling in Charles Town was really dangerous because of the tigers and the diseases. Before the English settled in Charles Town the Indians lived there before anyone else‚ the Indians could of killed the settlers.There were also cartographers that would copy old maps of Charles Town which were not trustworthy because they changed over timed. The people that did settled in Charles Town probably got a disease called chicken pox. The chicken pox was a highly contagious
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When the Europeans arrived in the Americas‚ in 1492‚ they greatly changed the Native American’s way of life. There were four major things the Europeans brought to the Native Americans: disease‚ war‚ technology‚ and Christianity. These‚ among many other things‚ massively effected the lives of most‚ and ultimately all of the Native Americans. The effects of most of these are still being felt today‚ although to a lesser extent. First‚ and most devastating is disease. For thousands of years the people
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The harrowing accounts of people that suffered through the yellow fever epidemic of 1885 presented the devastation caused by communicable diseases to an uninformed society. It is disheartening to read about the chain of events that lead to the death of thousands of people who were victims of both the disease and their time period. They were fighting a disease with an unknown etiology‚ unknown mode of transmission‚ and no clear treatment. They fought a losing battle with winter as their only saving
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Scarlet Fever is a flesh eating infection that begins in the throat. The most apparent sign of scarlet fever is the rash. It begins on the neck and makes its way down the body. It looks like a sunburn with itchy tiny bumps. An early treatment for this disease are antibiotics. There is no vaccine and it most usually occurs in old and young people (Ages 1-6 and 75-older). Scarlet Fever is actually the name of the condition of how the body reacts to the bacterium. As you can tell this Disease is quite
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This is a novel which is generally speaking about William Bradford journey which is called “Plymouth Plantation”. The aim of the journey was to discover what is called “New England”. William Bradford started his journey with his crew‚ and one day a zymotic disease hit the ship crew‚ and most of them where effected by the disease. One healthy strong man was hooting the sick people‚ and telling them bad words‚ he did not foredoom their stickiness‚ and instead of hooking them helping them. One day when
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through a speech I gave in school. I once was given the task of choosing a history topic and giving a speech to the whole class. In the speech‚ I used information I found from books‚ the internet‚ and news articles to teach the class about The Black Plague in great detail. I even created a Prezi presentation to use as a visual aid to help clarify points in my speech. At the end‚ I was given the chance to talk one-on-one with my teacher for their feedback on how I did and receive my grade. Though I was
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The American Plague The American Plague was written by Molly C. Crosby‚ who is as much as a researcher as she is an author. In 1648‚ a slave ship returning from Africa carried a few mosquitoes infected with a deadly virus know as yellow fever. The ship landed in the New World and thrived in the hot wet climate and on the white settlers. The New World has never come in contact with yellow fever and as a result no immunities have been built up. The virus obtained its name from the way it turns the
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