Posies are brightly colored, extremely pungent flowers. They may be perishable, but they dignify an everlasting idea of self-centeredness. I chose posies to exemplify the quality of selfishness in human beings. The time period of this artifact is the Middle Ages in Europe. In the middle of the fourteenth century, the Bubonic plague, widely known as “The Plague” or “Black Death”, spread like wildfire around Europe and parts of Asia. Beginning with symptoms as small as a headache, the Black Death took over the body and kill in as short as twenty four hours to as long as five days. The body begins to bleed internally through the buboes. After internally bleeding, the body begins to shut down and rot from the inside out. Living in a society with