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The year is 1861. My parents have both died from influenza and I now have the choice to go and live at a workhouse or beg on the streets and maybe even pick pocket. Well whatever I do it won't be fun but it's all I have left.
So my first day of begging didn't go well I only made 1 penny not even enough for a sip of water . So I decided to go to a nearby workhouse and try it out. I got a small dinner containing a piece of chicken and water. Soon I got bored and decide to go to bed which I fell asleep on someone's dog but it was the best I was going to get . The next morning I went out in search of a job and I soon found one as a rich person's dog walker paying 1 dollar a day enough for 1 glass of water but I still had the workhouses meals. So when I first walked Mr. and Mrs. M’s dog Rover there was a lot of things that Rover
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needed but after a week or so it got a lot better. Now it's 3 months later and I have an ok life but then disaster strikes. Every workhouse on the upper west side of england has been shut down and I have nowhere to live. I have looked for weeks now for a place to live and begging but I am starving each and every night and I can't go on like this hopefully I don't catch a disease. Over a short period of time Mrs.M started to wonder what had happened to me and requested a search group to find me and they did.
When I arrived at her house she was very glad to see me and I asked her if she wanted me to work for her but then out of nowhere she asked me if she could adopted me because she couldn't stand the thought of me living a horrible life.I didn't know what was going on but I said yes and thanked her a million times but she replied every time with no thank you for helping to change how I see lower class people and how I from now on always will.And I replied that life is a journey but it's great.
I woke up the next day with the biggest amazement that I was living where I was living now . I was so jittery that I fell off my bed when I was climbing down from it with a “bang” but I was ok.But Mrs.M came running up with a baseball bat ready to beat any burglars. But then she saw I was ok and told me I had to be as quiet as a mouse because Mr.M was talking with his business company in their top secret meeting.I said “sorry” and she said “It's ok” and then asked if I wanted to go out for pancakes while Mr.M meeting went
on. So when we got back from our pancake breakfast Mr.M had just finished his meeting and was eating cereal but when he saw us he welcomed us and said that “we are going to charles dickens readings tonight dress appropriately and be ready.” But I didn't have anything nice to wear so I asked Mrs.M or Linda if I could go and get some and she said she would love to. So we went to the store and got 4 shirts, 5 socks,2 shoes, and 4 pairs of trousers,” ah hum pardon me sorry,” 4 southern necessities. Soon we were on our way to the reading and we sat down in a grand spot and listened to the reading. At the end of the reading I was astonished in amazement I didn't realize how great of a writer Charles Dickens is. We even got to meet him he is really weird though he asked us” if we had seen any ghosts lately” “awkward”. We are now back at home and I now realize how great of a life I actually have and how you can go from absolutely nothing to everything you've ever wanted right there in your hands. Wait did you actually think I was done no way I have more. So I did grow up with the M family and I even have my own family now a husband, 3 kids and a dog. But I will never forget the day when the M’s took me into their home and adopted me. But even though my biological parent are now past I did go out in search of the rest of my family and actually found my brother and he has a wonderful family and he even helped me open homeless shelters for children and adults who need homes and there are now no more workhouses because of us. “wow we just changed the world forever.”
I had got some sleep when Boom!!!. “What's wrong” I cry out hoping for an answer. It never comes. I run out to the hall with my belongings. “Hey lady” I hear from behind me.
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As the novel How to Steal a Dog continues, Georgina, Toby and their mother are now living in a moldy, broken-down house with no water or electricity. This is a slight improvement to their living conditions and was overlooked by the misfortunate events regarding their mother's employment. This motivates Georgina to initiate a plan of stealing a dog to save their financial problems. Moreover, the section of this novel where Georgina's mother got fired really shows how relatable and real the protagonist's situation is. It reminds me of when my father got laid off of his job after working for a company for over 15 years. Not everyone has money and not everyone lives a happy, perfect life. Additionally, Georgina and Toby's relationship is like every
“I made money rapidly,” Charles Sligh explained, “The demands for flowers frequently were so great that all the florists in this community exhausted their supply daily, and the prices of everything were very high then.”1 Along with florists, funeral directors, and orderlies were also making a killing during World War One. “The undertaker which was half a block away from me had pine boxes on the sidewalk, pilled high. Me and two of my friends would go down there and play on those boxes; it was like playing on the pyramids.”2 Although business was booming for these professions, it was not because of the war. It was the result of an unexpected killer that swept across the world claiming victims at an unprecedented rate.
Fig. 1. Fine epitope mapping of anti-H5 2A-scFvFc antibody. A. Flow cytometry profiles for immunoreactivity of single-clone HA1-M mutants displayed on the surface of yeast. Single point mutations that abolish yeast surface binding of anti-H5 2AscFvFc were analyzed and mapped to distinct regions of HA1. B. Schematic representation of the epitopes recognized by anti-H5 2AFc to HA1 on the yeast surface. Amino acid positions are designated in H5 numbering. A linear epitopes (aa 206-211) recognized by 2AFc is colored in red. The regions encompassing the receptor-binding domain are colored in cyan.
The influenza pandemic of 1918 had not only altered the lives of thousands, but the habitual lives of family and work as well. The Spanish Influenza collected more lives than all of the casualties of war in the twentieth century combined. After the disease had swept through the nation, towns that once began their days in lazy, comfortable manners had begun to struggle to get through a single day. What started as a mild neglect of a typical fever or case of chills had escalated and grown at an alarmingly rapid rate to be fearsome and tragic.
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The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between twenty and forty million people. (1) Influenza is a virus that appeared in 1918 and caused a pandemic. It made an enormous impact that is still significant to the world today. It has pushed scientists to make advancements in the medicine and vaccination industry that continue to grow each and every day. Influenza may be a horrible thing, but without it we wouldn’t be where we are today.
Cold and Flu season has begun, the line in the snow has been drawn and it's here folks. The Cold and Flu has rounded up its troops and declared an all out war on the family! We've all been at battle with a cold or flu and most times, it's not until you're ugly crying on the bathroom floor, you've hit rock bottom, and your nose is so red you'd give Rudolph a run for his money, that you admit defeat!
Vaccines save us from being infected with viruses. They save approximately 2.5 million people from death every year. However, while they help save lives, vaccines still have both minor and severe side effects. This can result in nausea, severe sickness, and in rare cases, death. Every year, 3,000 to 4,500 people in the United States are hospitalized due to vaccine side effects. It is extremely important for all communities to be informed about the side effects of vaccines and what causes them. Also, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that the influenza vaccine is only 48% effective, due to constant mutation of the virus (Scutti, 2017). This means, the influenza vaccine does not work on all
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When I came inside I was so cold that I felt like a ice cube so my mom made me some hot chocolate. The hot chocolate was steaming hot! I had to wait for 8 mins, but it was worth it because it was so tasty and warm. My mom then told me that dinner was done. When I had smelt the delicious dinner mom made, my stomach had roared with hunger and I swear everyone heard it. We had a giant turkey, some mashed potatoes, and mac cheese it was the perfect family dinner, so delicious. When dinner was done, my mom said I had to lay down for school tomorrow so I leaped in my warm, cozy bed and put the covers over me and my mom said “Goodnight.” Man, today just seemed to fly by so quickly with all the excitement I had. As i drifted off to sleep all i could think about was how much fun my day was and I wish every week we had a snow
The swine influenza or swine flu is a respiratory disease in pigs that is caused by the type A influenza viruses. These viruses are referred to as swine flu viruses but scientifically the main virus is called the swine triple reassortant (tr) H1N1 influenza virus. When the viruses infect humans they are called variant viruses. This infection has been caused in humans mainly by the H1N1v virus in the United States. The H1N1 virus originates in animals due to improper conditions and the food they ingest. The virus stays in latency form, thus harmless to the respective animal. The longer the animals survive the more likely the virus is to develop and strengthen making it immune to vaccines. The virus reproduced through the lytic cycle. The virus injects its own nucleic acids into a host cell and then they form a circle in the center of the cell. Rather than copying its own nucleic acids, the cell will copy the viral acids. The copies of viral acids then organize themselves as viruses inside of the cell. The membrane will eventually split leaving the viruses free to infect other cells.
I jumped out of the car with my two sisters and ran to the bathroom. When we left the bathroom, we walked back to the car. We saw that our dad was still putting gas in the car, so we went into the store to buy some sweets. I bought “warheads” that said extremely sour, and a bag of chips called “baked with fire” that looked like they would taste really hot. When we purchased our food, we walked back to the car. As soon as we started driving, I opened my bag of chips. I was so scared that they would be extremely hot. For that reason, I also bought a bottle of water. I opened it before I took a bite out of the chip. Luckily, they were not hot at all! I grabbed my sour candy and tasted it. My face changed so quickly; that I started to squint my eyes and point my lips. I could not take another bite of it because it was really sour! Eventually, I was not hungry anymore. Probably because I ate my whole bag of chips and a sandwich. When I finished eating, I was feeling exhausted, so I took a long nap. I woke up, and dad told me that we only needed to drive for one more hour. While we were driving through town, we saw a row of trees on fire! It was so smoky that we could barely see the street we were driving on. I felt scared for life and terrified that we might crash. After a few more minutes of driving, the smoke cleared up and we could see again. Finally, the hour passed and we arrived in California. Mrs.