Leona Watson's The New Plague

The Eleventh Plague is a story about a boy name Stephen Quinn who was born after a big war with China. During the war, China released a plague called P11 which spread across the U.S. and wiped out two-thirds of the population. This time was called “The Collapse”. Another main character was Jenny, who helped Stephen. Jenny was introduced in the middle of the story as a troubled girl who always got into trouble. When Stephen met her at first they hated each other, but overtime they learned how to get along. Jenny and Stephen have to face many problems in the story together. There were many things leading up to the climax in the story. It started when Stephen and his dad take refuge in a plane. While there, slavers go in to take refuge from

My book club book, The Roar by Emma Clayton is about a semi-apocalyptic, semi-dystopian, society where there hasn't been any children born for the past 30 years and this is ‘reasonable move’ as Mal Gorman says, because the Animal Plague has been spread rapidly. Not much is known about the animal plague until the very end of the story.

Certain classes of people seem to be at increased risk of contracting the disease. Those who were most at risk were in situations that demanded close contact with the infected: prisoners, doctors, clergymen and nurses. It was reported that women were more susceptible, (689) also the young and all persons who were weakened by poverty and a hard life. The malady was said to have “attacked especially the meaner sort and common people—seldom the magnates.” (688) However, it cannot be said that the ruling class escaped the plague unscathed. Among the causalities of this terrible disease was Alfonzo XI of Castile.

There are many ways to explore any period in history. The period that we will look further into will be Medieval Europe. I found an academic article that explores deeper into that period, especially the Black plague. Assembling three primary sources of the black plague, each has a different perspective of what was portrayed in the academic article.

The book When Plague Strikes, is about 3 deadly diseases. It 's about the Black Death, Smallpox, and AIDS. Each of these diseases can cause a serious outrage of death. The book also tells about how doctors try to come up with treatments, medicines, and antibiotics to try and cure these diseases. All these diseases got the best out of everyone. Some people reacted differently than others with these diseases. All the diseases came in play in A. D. 1347, when the Black Death broke out for the first time in what’s today is know. As southern Ukraine.

In this paper, I will dispute that in Mary Fisher 's "A Whisper of AIDS" speech, the use of pathos and ethos assists in her demand to end the ignorance, prejudice and silence surrounding HIV/AIDS. I will discuss how she replaces the "face" of AIDS with her own, allowing the conservative crowd to connect with HIV/AIDS. Fisher approaches the speech as an epidemic speech; heavily relying on ethos and pathos she created compassion and connection to an audience that usually shows disinterest and silence on the topic of HIV/AIDS. This paper will also discuss the logos within Fisher 's speech, and how she cleverly surrounds the logos of her argument with pathos and ethos. Although, Fisher has approached the speech as an epidemic, she holds a strong pervasive argument within the speech.

The Eleventh Plague or better known as P11 is similar to the Black Death but 5 times worse. The US is devoured and only few remain. The P11, an unknown disease is ripping through each and every little village and big city. No way to stop it, only way to survive is MOVE! Stephen, age 15, is the main character of this story, brave and stubborn. He salvages to live, feeding of others leftover food and occasionally runs into a can of beans or something. Stephen and his dad long to travel the whole US. They instead run into a problem, the leader of their group, Stephen’s grandpa dies of P11. Unable to know what smart moves to make next they just keep on salvaging and moving along the long and harsh remains of the US. They then run into a group

She stood in front of stores and admired the things in them, spending about ten minutes viewing sofas through a glass and playing back what she has been wishing for. The opportunity she has been waiting for, the reason she woke up at dawn in Tepoztlan to go up North with Candido, the comfort she wished for and everything Candido promised her was right in Canoga Park. She feels right at

My selection, “In the Wake of the Plague” by Norman F. Cantor, was a non-fiction text on the societal, health, and religious effects on the Black Death epidemic. I felt that the theme that Dr. Cantor intended to portray to the audience is that a social hierarchy inherently perpetuates discrimination against lower classes. Within the social environment of medieval Europe around the era of the Black Death, there were many measures that the dominant class used to oppress the lowers. As quite obvious even in our society today, wealth is one of the leading differences between the upper and lower classes. Within the social construct of Europe at the time, the author notes that “60 percent of Western Europe’s wealth and nearly all its political power

Plague exists worldwide and is responsible for at least 3 pandemics. It is a zoonotic infection primarily maintained in rodents and fleas. Humans are incidental hosts. Plague is caused by Yersinia pestis, a pleomorphic, gram-negative, non–spore-forming, coccobacillus that exhibits bipolar staining.

In The Plague by Albert Camus a town called Oran became suddenly taken over by an epidemic “the plague”, killing off thousands of people. One character greatly affected by the plague goes by the name Rambert (A journalist from Paris just doing some research). The plague dramatically changed the way Rambert thought because three types of environmental characteristics that surrounded him: Death, despair and isolation. Therefore, these three characteristics showed the dramatic effects an epidemic can have on not only people, especially Rambert.

There is a certin unsureness in the circulation and communication of information in A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe. This instability of the language in this proto-novel is caused by the author citing two sides to every point or statement he makes causing contradictions. On top of this Defoe repeats the same points throughout the entire text. This uncertainty helps to make the reader believe the writing is an actual journal as opposed to an edited, actual non-fiction.

The meaning of plague in literature is now different from what it used to be. When the plague was still very common, people saw the word and thought of the illness. Throughout the history of literature the meaning has changed from just being about the illness to now being used to refer to anything long term that cause pain or harm (Dictionary.com). Early books that were written actually during some of the first outbreaks of the plague have a dark humor to them. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccacci is a great example of the dark humor that was incorporated within a book. It is about of a group of people who are escaping from the black death in Florence Italy. It is written in the way of about one hundred different stories all put together to make

Time is only running out, and it is one of the most vital and overlooked qualities of life. Albert Camus highlights the theme of time in his 1947 novel, The Plague. Through the use of allegory and point of view, Camus substantiates that when people are not aware of time and its advancing, they are wasting the precious and limited time of their lives. He constantly establishes that the amount of consciousness obtained by a person is the difference between spending time wisely and foolishly.

‘’Hold on a minute, why can’t you take the flowers? No offence, but she was your mother after all!’’ Raphael was feeling even more upset and hid this by showing aggression as he shouted at his mother. His mother just looked down at the floor without saying a word with a single tear sliding slowly down her face and splashing against the floor.