Epidemics Essays and Term Papers

The Spread Of AIDS

Is the message getting through? We already know enough about AIDS to prevent its spread, but ignorance, complacency, fear and bigotry continue to stop many from taking adequate precautions. We know enough about how the infection is transmitted to protect ourselves from it without resorting to such ...

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Homesteading By Percy Wollaston

The harsh life of a six year-old growing up in the early 1900’s is shown in this memoir . In the early years of the century, a young boy recalls his life as his family followed the rail line in hopes of finding fertile land. Percy Wollaston wrote this book, for the sake of benefiting his ...

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Hippocrates, The Father Of Medicine

Hippocrates, greatest physician of antiquity, is regarded as the father of medicine. Born on the island of Kos, Greece in the year 460 b.c., says the earliest biography written by Soranus of Ephesus in the a third century a.d. Although a native of Kos he was forced to leave the island as the ...

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Ebola

March 1, 1996 Imagine going on vacation to a foreign country and when you come home you are horribly sick. Your head hurts, you have a highfever, and you start vomiting. Chances are that you may havecontracted the Ebola virus. Ebola was first discovered in the village of Yambuku(1) nearthe ...

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Egyptian Mummies

In ancient Egyptian society preserving a body after death was an important process necessary for entrance into an immortal existence. According to Egyptian belief the soul did not die. The soul would take the form of a bird usually a falcon and fly around in the world of the living returning later ...

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The Black Death

One of the earliest rhymes that many children are taught is “Ring Around the Rosies”. By most it is considered a happy cheerful song. But in reality the song is an enactment of the bubonic plague or as it is more commonly known the “Black Death”. The first line, “Ring around the Rosies”, refers ...

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How Social Darwinism Influence

Social Darwinism fueled imperialism by making imperialistic nations believe that their imperialistic ventures were a natural turn of events and not a cruel, opressionistic system of government. These imperialistic nations exploited other nations and cultures and their troops’ motivation was the ...

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Nelson Mandela

We dedicate this day to all the heroes and heroines in this country and the rest of the world who sacrificed in many ways and surrendered their lives so that we could be free. Their dreams have become reality. Freedom is their reward. We are both humbled and elevated by the honor and privilege ...

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Kawasaki Disease

During the late twentieth century many new diseases have been discovered. Tomisaku Kawasaki discovered one of these diseases, , or technically mucocutaneous lymph node disease, in 1961. This particular disease remained undetected for so long because its cause is still unknown. Dr. Kawasaki, a ...

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The Worlds Fight Against Microbes

Many infectious diseases that were nearly eradicated from the industrialized world, and newly emerging diseases are now breaking out all over the world due to the misuse of medicines, such as antibiotics and antivirals, the destruction of our environment, and shortsighted political action ...

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Native Culture Prior To Contact With Europeans

The Aboriginal people of Canada are believed to have came here by means of walking. There are two main theories of the way they arrived here; the theory believed by anthropologists and archeologists is that the Aboriginals migrated from Asia and into Alaska and then down to the Americas; ...

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Aspirin A Brief History

One hundred years ago, a young chemist in Germany made a discovery which, today, continues to ease our aches and pains, reduce our fevers, fight inflammation and save lives. On August 10, 1897, this chemist, Felix Hoffmann, discovered a stable form of acetylsalicylic acid, the active ingredient ...

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Jews

"The enemy trapped the in the city by building a wall around it. Foodstuffs could not be brought in: starvation and crowded conditions gave rise to disease, and epidemics spread among the populace. But surprisingly the held on. Then the enemy massed troops outside the wall and brought out the ...

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Belzec Concentration Camp

E-mail: persianchica207@aol.com During the Holocaust, many labor and mass murder camps were built. Auschwitz and Birkenau were infamous for their heavy labor camps. Other camps also built were solely built for mass murders. At these mass murder camps, some used gas to poison the people. The is ...

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Angel Island

Capitalist's Exploitation of Immigrants "The two societies can be rather simply characterized: on the American side, as one that stresses individual enterprise, which is expansive; and on the Chinese side, as a society that stresses the collective social order, which is resistant."1 America is ...

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New World

The miles of ocean that separated the once isolated “New World” from the “Old World” kept animals, plants, goods, and biological differences confined to one area. The establishment and exploration tendencies of Europeans would soon introduce both good and bad to once virgin territories. The ...

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The Black Plague

The Black Plague is a type of bubonic plague that traveled throughout Europe and the Mediterranean Sea, killing millions. The Black Plague (or Black Death) is a bacterial infection that causes swelling on numerous parts of the body. It causes odd black sores in which the human flesh is eaten ...

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Christopher Columbus

Brandon LeBlanc Professor Lawrence Smith World History II 1112 (41020) February 21, 2013 Christopher Columbus: Letter to King Ferdinand of Spain Describing the First Voyage (1493) While exploration of the New World was still in it's infancy, Christopher Columbus was discovering new and ...

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The Silk Road

The Silk Road Importance: During its long history of humanity has made many breakthroughs. One fruit of the collective efforts of the representatives of different countries and peoples can be called the Silk Road. Silk Road - it is not something rigid, such as the Pyramids of Egypt, he was a ...

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Obesity

One of the largest epidemics that is impacting on Australian's physical, financial, and emotional well-being is obesity. Adolescent obesity in particular has been a growing concern as the rates of overweight teenagers is on the rise. Current health behaviours and attitudes of adolescents will ...

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