Mary Mallon Research Paper

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Mary Mallon was an Irish woman who had an ambition with strong ethnicity, and beliefs who felt the cultural shock as soon as she migrated to America. While Mary was looking for peace, she experienced a very hardship life. She probably was running from Health Department and the state most of her life. Mary Mallon, a lonely woman from a working lower class who was stubborn with no family and a bad temper, worked as a domestic servant.
Mary’s ethnicity plays a significant role in her life because she didn’t want to be a loser. Mary’s ethnicity, gender, and the class had on defining appropriate and inappropriate behavior in early twentieth century urban life in America. She never wanted to believe that she is causing people sick. Mary acted and

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