killed by the Black Death within a five year span. Compared to one of the leading causes of death in the world, the amount of deaths due to car accidents does not even come close to comparing to the deaths from the Black Death. 1.3 million people die from car accidents each year, so it would take over 19 years to reach 25 million deaths caused by the Black Death. In comparison, the Black Death was one of the most devastating infectious diseases to ever contaminate the world. The Black Death, also known
science is an orderly presentation of facts, reasoning, doctrines and beliefs concerning some subject or group of subjects. In general, it may be called systematic knowledge. It results in the knowledge of fact or facts, phenomena, laws, approximate causes, gained and verified by exact observation, organized experiment and ordered thinking. Science probes into numerous subjects: fusion power, embryo research, complex and fatal diseases, habits of animals, congenital defects, space explorations, remote
characteristics that of which used discrimination to target a certain racial group of low social well being Alexander attempts to emotionally persuade readers that there is indeed a new caste system in the united states of America and that of which strives to cause discrimination and corruption among communities, Alexander continues to liken both Jim crow and mass incarcerations to one another “both very similar to one another” as she believes that the system of mass incarcerations is a similar caste system to
killed in a battle against Spanish troops at the battle Dos Rios under Commanders Maximo Gomez and Antonio Macedo and other Cuban exiles; they attempted to overtrow the Spaniards, on May 19, 1895 in an ill-fated two man suicide charge. He was wearing a black jacket on a white horse making himself an easy target. He is the national Cuban hero. The patriotic son “Guantanamera” with his lyrics from his poem Versos Sencillos was made famous by the American singer Pete Seeger. Marti successfully resolved his
Ever since mid-20th century organ transplantation is the only hope for survival of millions of patients worldwide. It is the reason why 30,000 patients from USA in 2015 began their new lives. Even thought advances in medicine have made organ transplantation easier to perform than ever before, the demand for organs is greatly exceeding the supply which is the reason for very long ‘waiting lists’. The evidence of the complexity of situation is the sad fact that 22 people in USA and 8 people in the
English Language and Literature Studies; Vol. 5, No. 1; 2015 ISSN 1925-4768 E-ISSN 1925-4776 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education 13 Historicizing Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: A Critique of King Leopold II’s Colonial Rule Isam Shihada1 1 Associate Professor of English Literature and Gender Studies, Department of English, Gaza Strip, Palestine Correspondence: Isam Shihada, Associate Professor of English Literature and Gender Studies, Department of English, Gaza Strip, Palestine
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin