As the plague starts to take more victims, families begin to conceal the true nature of their relatives’ cause of death, for fear of being shunned by neighbors, or worse, shut up in their houses. But it is soon revealed by searches that the true number of people dying from the plague is more than anyone thought. As the death toll rises, the city’s wealthier citizens began making a mad dash for the countryside, in an attempt to escape the plague; and “Those who had money always fled furthest … ” (Defoe 114). The main character in the book, for some reason is only identified by the initials H.F., decides to stay and weather the “storm”, so to speak, after numerous postponements and indecisiveness. As the city Schmidt 2 of London is abandoned by most of its affluent inhabitants, what is left, are the city’s poorest residents and those few who chose to stay.
The black death killed millions of people, and there was so many dumb and pretty weird ideas for helping and getting rid of the black death that almost nobody lived. Here are the weird ideas to stop the black death to try to get rid of the smell of the dead and they dying the people carried flowers with them, to try and cure it they put mercury on them and put them in the in a oven, it turns out the oil was poisonous and the heat from the oven caused burns, since this was unknown to the doctors of the middle ages the used leeches, yes LEECHES to try and suck out the bad blood, and since leeches did not know bad blood from
Plague It is little surprise that the plague was the most dreaded disease of Shakespeare's time. Carried by fleas living on the fur of rats, the plague swept through London in 1563, 1578-9, 1582, 1592-3, and 1603 (Singman, 52). The outbreaks in 1563 and 1603 were the most ferocious, each wiping out over one quarter of London's population. Lucky Elizabethans would contract the basic bubonic plague with their odds of survival around fifty percent. Symptoms would include red, grossly inflamed and swollen lymph nodes, called buboes (hence the name bubonic), high fever, delirium, and convulsions.
The newspapers were lettering about deaths by parrots when it really was pneumonia. There had been no autopsy done on the bodies to determine if parrot fever was the culprit. The media blew the situation up and got America in this horrific panic. Then the newspapers make a mockery out of this plague. In January of 1930, the “Times” ran a story about Americans suffering from “mass suggestion” (698).
The Plague, also known as the black death, was one of the most fatal pandemics to ever happen. The disease started in Central Asia. It first infected fleas then rats. The rats started moving into cities, marking the start of a tremendous bloodshed. The disease infected sailors when rats immigrated into ships and kept finding its way through ports, spreading around in different continents.
People thought that it was a punishment from God. In the end about ½ of the population died and making it one of the worst bubonic plagues ever in human history. It took the country over 100 years to recover from this disaster. The next event was the peasant’s revolt. This happened in June 1381 and it involved thousands of peasants who gathered and travelled to London to protest about their freedom and the poll tax King Edward III had issued.
Obierika has been taking care of Okonkwo’s finances and when Okonkwo begins to thank him Obierika replies with a statement full of tragic irony. “Go kill yourself” is the response that he gave to Okonkwo. This is tragic irony, because Okonkwo does eventually hang himself at the end of the book. The next example of just plain irony is when the Christians come and are given land in the evil forest. In Ibo culture it stated that no one shall last seven market days in the evil forest, because of the spirits that live there.
The invasion of the bed bugs was a big problem for the United States before World War II, better insecticides and hygiene in the 1940’s and 1950’s basically wiped them out but they are now back with a vengeance. Across much of the country this year (2010), bed bugs commonly have been found in hotels, apartments, shelters, and even the United Nations building. In an article published in the Star Telegram, March 31, 2010, bed bugs prompted the closure of an 11 story downtown apartment building for the elderly and disabled. The Fort Worth Housing Authority closed the Hunter Plaza apartments because of a chronic problem with bed bugs forcing the 219 residents to find new homes. In a news report carrier on CBSDFW.com, October 28, 2010, the bed bug invasion hit The University of North Texas main campus in Denton, Texas.
In 1831, the House of Commons passed a Reform Bill, but the House of Lords, dominated by Tories, defeated it. There followed riots and serious disturbances in London, Birmingham, Derby, Nottingham, Leicester, Yeovil, Sherborne, Exeter and Bristol. | | | The riots in Bristol were some of the worst seen in England in the 19th century. They began when Sir Charles Weatherall, who was opposed to the Reform Bill, came to open the Assize Court. Public buildings and houses were set on fire, there was more than £300,000 of damage and twelve people died.
Over 3,000 ‘DMVs’ (Deserted Medieval Villages) have been discovered in England, with historians such as Chorpa attributing the reason for desertion to the plague. In perhaps the best known example, Wharram Percy in North Yorkshire, the surviving population is thought to have fled to York to avoid starvation as the village became unsustainable due to 85% of the population dying because of the plague. Some villages, including Kilkenny, saw total oblivoration and 100% death rates. However, perhaps the greatest impact was in the major cities, particularly London, England’s biggest city in the middle ages. London was described by contemporise