In 1779, Daniel came home as a civilian after retiring with the army. Many times, Congress tried to convince him to return, but only after his good friend, Captain Gate, suffered such a gruesome defeat in Camden, Daniel returned to the army for the good of our country. In October of 1780, Daniel was promoted to Brigadier General. The most memorable moment I have of Daniel is the way he defeated the British army at Cow Pens. Even though he was out numbered, and an attack on the British army fell short, he tricked the British to think that they had won and they walked right into the hands of the Continental army and General George
War, Politics And The Influenza of 1918-19 In The U.S. Nwosu Lotana J. (A00012936) Mr. Steve Devitt Writing 102 Thursday, 16 March 2010. The Influenza of 1918-1919 which is also known as the ‘Spanish Influenza’ was a deadly disease that wreaked havoc among the human population. The influenza which was said to have killed more than 50 million people occurred while World War I (WWI) was going on.WWI killed about 5 million people, these two events combined made it a time of death for the world. America, which wasn’t the most affected country, was by then a superpower.
About 20,000 people in the United States die from flu complications each year and thousands more need to be hospitalized prior to recovery. Healthy people under the age of 65 usually suffer no long term consequences associated with influenza. Most people will fully recover but they need to follow treatment recommendations. References: Transmission of the flu is usually through direct contact from person to person, such as by shaking hands. Also when an infected person coughs or sneezes, small droplets are formed
Essay of “The American Plague” The term “American Plague” was once commonly used to describe an epidemic illness that included a large part of North America and Cuba that was settled by the Europeans. The epidemic was actually a series of outbreaks occurring for over a century. This series of events is well described by Molly Caldwell Crosby in her book “The American Plague. ”The first chapters cover the epidemic nature of this disease in the Americas, and focus on the huge epidemic in 1878, especially its effect on Memphis, the city most stricken by the disease. The cause of the disease and its way of spreading were not known at the time.
What would you do if you have 10 minutes to say goodbye to your family and were to head off to war? Would you obey, or would you rebel and fight for your rights? Many immigrants came to New York in search of a new and better way of life. However these people came to find the opposite as conflicts arose and obstacles impeded their progress. One such conflict was the draft the caused mayhem in New York City.
The reason for this is because “The essential details of Poe’s final days leave us with more questions then answers. (1.1)” The major rumor here is that Poe has died because of Alcohol. But “Dr. J.E. Snodgrass who examined Poe’s body feels certain that alcoholism was the reason why Poe had perished and then started to spread rumors at his temperance lectures in the early 1850’s that this is why he died.
Malathion Risk Assessment In 2006, 177 fatalities were reported in the United States due to the West Nile Virus (Center of Disease Control and Prevention, 2007). While in recent years this virus has plagued our beautiful city of Genericville, it is projected that this year it will be worse with a possibility of 50 cases of sickness and two deaths. During the last city council meeting, it was proposed to begin using the insecticide spray Malathion. Before I could vote on the use of this product in our city, I needed more information. After reviewing the information provided and finding more on my own, I have made the decision to vote against using Malathion in Genericville.
“Between 1830 and 1850, the foreign-born population of New York grew from [nine percent to forty-six percent]” moreover, increasing the working class (Andrew). Many people wanted to limit the amount of immigrants to enter the city and created boards to establish quarantines to try and prevent
Soon the government invested money just for the research of the influenza epidemic, it wasn’t much and the studies for it didn’t begin until the pandemic was over and a lot of Americans began to loose interest in what caused it. (http://www.pandemicflu.gov/general/greatpandemic2.html) The short term effect of this pandemic was that it killed millions of our people not just in the U S but all around the world, which is never a good thing. The long term effect was that it gave scientists and physicians cause to research and learn more about what caused this pandemic and rectify it or at least ensure that this won’t happen to the extent that it did. It also opened up the doors for research into other fields of medicine. Another problem that I reflected on was the way African Americans were still being treated in the 1900’s.
Though the reasons for this were not understood, the very beginning of the studies of medical geography. Another major turning point in this field was the major outbreak of cholera in the mid 1800s in London, when Doctor John Snow plotted the distribution of deaths from cholera throughout London on a map. A major point in medical geography is the spreading of diseases, which was the main storyline in the movie Contagion. The highly contagious unfamiliar, unnamed disease, which killed people at unbelievably high rates, started from one person, Beth Emhoff who made contact with many people in Chicago, and later spread to her son, who went to his school and spread it to people there, before he died from it. This is known as an epidemic, meaning a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time, with the exception that this outbreak was taking place almost worldwide.