Black Death Essay

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Felicia Henrikson
Khosrozadeh
English 3; Per.3
21 April 2014
The Black Death
Pain, boils, blisters, infection, and death. Think about the pain all those people went through. During the late 1340’s and early 1350’s the Black Death changed the lives of the people living in Europe in ways they never thought possible (Dunn 8). Due to this life changing disease people died an agonizing, painful, sickening disease, daily. The Black Death struck hundreds upon thousands of innocent lives destroying any families in the way. To think this all started with just a virus and a tiny flea. The Black Death, upon killing multiple lives, created a lot of social issues. Along with the social issues arising people began to take notice of this disease and began to mention it in literature (8).
The Black Death includes a variety of viruses that affected the lives of the innocent people, whose bodies soon became a newly found home for this viscous disease. Along with the pain, blistering, infections, boils and even death the Black Death came with many side effects. The disease is believed to be a branch off of many other viruses. Depending on the type of virus that you got diagnosed with, depended on the symptoms that you would be seeing. Sometimes you would develop painful blisters, while others you would find nothing wrong with you other than a fever (8).
This strange disease had doctors of those times completely stumped on what was wrong with those poor patients. People died daily as a result of the disease, but not everyone knew exactly why. The awful disease remained relatively unknown until, unfortunately, it took over completely killing its victims. The Black Death struck Europe for the first time in the years 1347-1351 (Dunn 8). This awfully...

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...le start and end their lives. Some people consider life to be a ticking clock, in which when the hour reaches midnight, their lives are over. That might be where the statement “Ticking time bomb” comes from. That can mean that our lives can easily end quicker than anyone would think (Howard).
The Black Death affected numerous lives in multiple ways. People died daily as a result of this breathtaking disease. Believe it or not this disease still strikes in countries around the world today. As a matter of fact, the disease is striking in Madagascar today! Luckily the United States hasn’t been affected as of yet, but that does not mean that it won’t hit the United States sometime. If the Black Death hit America the whole nation would most likely collapse. This disease could easily destroy all of mankind as we know it. Luckily it did not strike and end life as of yet.

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