In the book, Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 by Elizabeth Fenn (2001), depicts the casualty of one of the deadliest virus in mankind -- the smallpox during the American War of Independence and how it shaped the course of the war and the lives of everyone in the North America. Smallpox is a highly contagious disease caused by an Orthopoxvirus known as variola major virus. Spread by direct transmission, the disease produces high fever, headache, excruciating back pain, anxiety, general malaise, blindness at times, and the most distinctive of all, blistering rashes that can leave deep-pitted scars. Its spread could be attributed through human civilizations, voyaging, expansion of trade routes. The European colonizers brought
The book Bias written by Bernard Goldberg explains how the liberal media distorts actual news and as a result impacts society negatively. Goldberg joined CBS News in 1972 and retired 28 years later, in 2000. Goldberg describes the distortion in present day due to no diversity of opinion in the newsroom, so no matter how many news executives go on about diversity, about ethnic, and racial diversity and how much they say we need that to go out the full story about things, they don’t seem to care much about intellectual diversity or diversity of opinions. This is why journalist can bash on a certain side or cheer the other side and wont fear about what will happen. Goldberg views Conservative news as evil and liberal media as right.
5. Q- The trend in total population from 1670 to 1700 depicted on the graph
Due to the vast amount of bacteria and virus causing diseases that plagued the soldiers, a centralized focus is placed on smallpox and gang
To answer Bertrand Russell's implied question, no person can write an interesting story about history without bias. When readers or people get excited about a story, there has to be a slight bias, positive or negative, when writing about true events to keep people questioning and responsive enough to continue reading. Some authors will have an obvious inclination toward characters to catch people's attention and see if the readers can recognize instances where a personal opinion is being used, which may inspire people to want to` pursue a story. An author's goal is to get the reader's attention and keep it; using bias is one way to do that. As seen in Jon Krakauer's story Into the Wild, there’s a positive bias toward protagonist Chris McCandless.
The exact number of deaths that resulted from the spread of disease is hard to calculate, but it has been “estimated that upwards of 80–95 percent of the Native American population was decimated within the first 100–150 years following 1492” and in just 50 years, the people of the island Hispañola were practically extinct. The island had once had a population estimated between 60,000 and 8 million (The Columbian Exchange: A History…). By wiping out the populations of some places, and seriously harming other populations, the Columbian Exchange has had the negative effect of mass death. Had those diseases not spread from the Old World to the New, lots of the places that were depopulized would likely be thriving even more
Becoming familiar with the history of smallpox establishes how deadly this disease was and confirms the destructive path it left. It can be compared to many of the diseases that are still affecting people today. The origin of smallpox is thought to begin around 10,000 BC, but the specific beginning is lost in prehistory. Other diseases, such as tuberculosis, have almost the same depth of history, but are still active today.
Detrimental epidemics, such as the excruciating Yellow Fever, Malaria, and Smallpox outbreaks, resulted in the devastation of numerous populations. Aside from the elderly
Smallpox, or Variola major, is a deadly viral disease . The virus is shaped like brick covered in small spikes, and has been infecting humans for thousands of years. Smallpox even affected the course of the Revolutionary War. The disease had been killing many of George Washington’s men, and only when he had them protected from smallpox, could the Americans keep fighting for freedom. Smallpox has a very riveting history.
Wright 5 Jayla WrightJared DiamondEnglish 428 February 2018 The Epidemic of SmallPox One of the most scariest diseases, if not the scariest disease, was smallpox. Smallpox was a game change in the 1500’s.
It killed more people in a year than the people in World War I. It was estimated that 675,000 Americans died from 1918 to 1919 (“The Great Pandemic: The United States in 1918-1919,” n.d). The disease spread so fast that some states could not keep track of the pandemic and did not report to Public Health Services. The Public Health Service did not have enough doctors or nurses to help.
Smallpox is a highly contagious and fatal disease that had a huge impact on the human population. It is thought to have been originated from India or Egypt at least 3,000 years ago. Smallpox is caused by two variations of the variola virus, variola major and variola minor. Variola major is the most common form of smallpox. It enters the body through the lungs and is carried to the internal organs.
There was a vast growth in our quality of life with the help of vaccines resulting in a decrease in the number of disease being reported. With vaccines
The Mumps disease has decreased by ninety eight point seven percent and the Pertussis disease has decreased by ninety one percent since the twentieth century. The Haemophilus influenzae type b, invasive disease has decreased by ninety nine point eight percent and the Tetanus disease has decreased by ninety eight point six percent since the twentieth century. The diseases Smallpox and Diphtheria have decreased by one hundred percent since the twentieth century. These diseases decreasing
When people think about today’s issues, prejudice, stereotypes, and discrimination most likely come to mind. These three things come together to create bias, or the way people view a certain thing. But how exactly is bias created? Bias can be affected by the country you live in, the ideas of others you interact with, and the popular belief of society. Bias can be created when a misconception about others is spread throughout society and then is made into a collective belief.
