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    known as the bubonic plague. If people are near the plague for within 3 to 7 days of exposure to plague bacteria they will eventually get sick. Usually when you get the black death plague It starts from getting bit by an infected flea the once you get bit by the infected flea you end up spreading it by someone touching an open cut or any fluids from your body. The plague changed Medieval Europe and infected a lot of people and most of them were peasants. The farmers lost a lot of peasants‚ however

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    The prologue of Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet transcends one family’s tragic loss into the realms of the metaphysical‚ commenting on his views of life and death. Readers can contrast these views to our more modern ideologies. Through the use of poetic language Winton adds a spiritual dimension to the lives of people living in a secular society. Through imagery he also offers a construction of Australian cultural identity. Using techniques like point of view‚ repetition‚ juxtaposition‚ symbolism‚ as well

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    experience a priori‚ they do require them by logical necessity. Physicalists maintain that metaphysical necessity ensure the impossibility of the zombie theory‚ maintaining that states of phenominal consciousness are identical with physical states. This is a typical stance on the subject and is argued by Kripke who states that these identities are necessary. If the physical facts demand consciousness by metaphysical necessity‚ it is possible for physicalists to maintain that despite being impossible

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    Pandemics are disease that spread over a country or the world. Typhus is an example of a pandemic. Typhus is a bacterial disease that is spread by lice and fleas. Brill Zinsser is the discoverer of the disease and typhus is also known as “Brill Zinsser Disease”. Two types of most common typhus are endemic and murine. Endemic typhus is usually seen in places with cold temperature‚ endemic typhus are sometimes called “jail fever” or “camp fever” because typhus killed hundreds of thousands of people

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    opens with the description of the apes. Line –I depicts them in a spiritless condition‚ who are engaged in ‘yawning’ and‚ adoring’ their fleas. By using such words as ‘yawn’ and ‘ adore’ the poet creates two powerful images which suggest that the apes have nothing urgent to do‚ and so feel sleepy. They also‚ instead of being annoyed‚ seem to enjoy the presence of fleas on their bodies while basking in the warmth of the sun. In the next cage the parrots are shrieking as if they were on fire and strutting

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    contaminated and contain a lot of parasitic diseases causing the guinea worm disease. According to Medicine net People become infected with Guinea worm because of drinking water from ponds or rivers that containing tiny "water fleas" which carry the Guinea worm eggs. The water fleas that live in this water sources eat the guinea worm larvae. When drink‚ the larvae are released from copepods in the stomach and penetrate the digestive system‚ passing it into the body. During the next 10-14 months‚ the female

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    Explain the key features of the Black Death social‚ economic and political effects and its impact upon Europe. In the 1300’s‚ The Black Death spread across Europe killing many people and impacted Europe socially‚ economically and politically. The consequences of this plague had both short-term and long-term effects that impacted upon all of Europe. The main features of the Black Death at the time was the origins and spread of the disease‚ the symptoms and treatments‚ the cause of the Black Death

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    A Near-Death Experience Breeds RebirthHow close have you come to dying? What value do you place on your own life? Mary Oliver poses these very deep and thought-provoking questions to the reader in her short poem‚ “Alligator Poem.”In the poem‚ the persona has an experience in which she comes very close to death: an alligator walks by her as she drank some water out of a river while sitting on a riverbank. Oliver describes it in this way: “I didn ’t understand/I drank up to the very moment it came/crashing

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    several ways in which the plague affected Europe. One of the reasons the plague affected Europe was socially. This was the by-product of a single flea bite. Erasmus of Rotterdam states‚ “The plague and sickness in England is due to the filth in the streets and the sputum and dogs’ urine…” which could be close to the correct answer because the fleas infected the rats and then the rats infected other animals which then infected the humans. Giovan Flippo a physician seemed to think people in higher

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    The black death is usually contracted by fleas that have jumped from rats that carried the black death bacteria. If a person gets the disease black welts will bloom all over his or her body as the bacteria spreads to your lymph glands The black death is so deadly because of how fast it can spread‚ and the lack of medical technology to “currently” help stop it It is extremely deadly and aggressive as eight out of ten people who contract the disease die of the it It can be prevented‚ just do simple

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