1925 serum run to Nome Essays

  • Summary: The Great Serum Race

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    paths of Iditarod. In the book, The Great Serum Race, by Debbie S. Miller, I learned that, in 1925, there was a race to get a serum for diphtheria to Nome, Alaska from Anchorage, Alaska. The doctors needed to get the serum to Nome before the disease spread. They needed a way to get the serum to Nome but they couldn’t use planes because they were only used in the summer so instead, they used sled dogs. When they had got the serum to Nome they lost the serum in the snow. When a musher called Gunnar

  • Elements Of Naturalism In The Call Of The Wild

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    Naturalism, it isn’t really a word that we hear that often in our day to day lives, but what does it mean and how does it correlate to The Call of the Wild? Naturalism, in this regard, refers to the natural properties and causes which everything arises from. And in this context, we will be examining the setting, plot, and narrator’s storytelling within The Call of the Wild, and how these elements impact our understanding of this work and its relation to naturalism. The first item we will be looking