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2.Ebola spreads due to direct contact with body fluids such as blood and saliva, and it most commonly enters the body when people take care of patients with the disease poorly. The outbreak in 2014 was much larger that the one in the 1970s because in the 1970s outbreaks, people who contracted the virus would have most likely died before they could come in contact with any

The Univeristy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s digital publishing initiative, Documenting the American South, provides a first-hand perspective on Southern history through interviews. On June 4, 2006, Pamela Mahogany was interviewed for her personal experience involving the events following Hurricane Katrina. Mahogany describes her actions before deciding to evacuate her home, her trip to the New Orleans Saints’ Superdome, her horrific time at the Superdome, and finally her decision to leave New Orleans. Mahogany’s portrayal of these events allows those who were not directly affected by the hurricane to better understand the physical and emotional distress forced on the victims. For Pamela Mahogany, and probably most other New Orleans residents, Hurricane Katrina at the beginning seemed just like any other storm.

Since African Americans are limited to such opportunities, New Orleans is considered what is presumed to be a “racially segregated landscape of differentiated risk” -- spatial benefits of the post natural disastrous situation flowed to those who weren't from the lower socioeconomic tier. The racial projects that emphasize this formulation are found in how mainstream press coverage viewed those who were stranded and how structural programs not only failed to prepare relief but also intensified city

First, Diamond talks about a few ways that disease can spread. One way is by waiting to be transferred between victims. For example, microbes that travel on food are contracted this way. Another passive way of transmission is by surviving in insect saliva and then passing to a host when the insect bites. Disease can also spread in aggressive ways, for example, some microbes change their host’s body so transmission is accelerated. Smallpox uses this technique by forming skin lesions. Microbes can also travel amongst people by forcing infected individuals to cough or sneeze, which in effect shoots the microbes toward other host bodies. Next, the author lists the efforts of the human body to expel the disease. For instance, a fever is one way a body can rid itself of microbes, specifically heat-sensitive ones. Other times, blood cells will hunt down and exterminate disease-causing organisms, and build up resistance to that organism in case it ever reenters the body. The final and slowest defense Diamond lists is natural selection. Humans with genes for resistance live longer and pass on the traits, creating more individuals who can survive against a certain

After reading a portion of Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith by Vincanne Adams, it is difficult to wrap my head around the horrible effects of Hurricane Katrina. At the time of Katrina, I was about 8 years old. I remember seeing the news and hearing people talk about it, and I thought it was frightening. However, I do not think that it registered properly in my mind. Even as I got older, and there was still mention of it, I never fully understood what really happened until I read this book. It is very easy to throw something off to the side and think “Oh, it’s not that bad” because the media only shows people getting help and they tell us that conditions are improving. No one spoke of the tragedies and lasting effects written by Adams. In this essay, I would like to discuss the issues presented throughout chapters four and five surrounding the environment, the people, and the government in New Orleans.

The topic of Dr. Spitzer’s presentation was adversity in South Louisiana. The thesis of the presentation revolved around how the culture in South Louisiana allows it to be extremely resilient in the face of adversity. One key point of the lecture focused on the fact that people don’t come to New Orleans to marvel at the cities infrastructure, instead they come to experience the culture. As Dr. Spitzer pointed out, the culture found in Southern Louisiana is one of a kind and it is only found deep down in the South (of Louisiana). Another key point mentioned by Dr. Spitzer, involved the idea that New Orleans is a city that, after being greatly damaged by Katrina, was rebuilt by the strength of its peoples culture.

| Someone with glandular fever is contagious for at least two months after initially being infected. There is no cure for glandular fever. Treatment focuses on helping to relieve the symptoms, such as using painkillers, to reduce the symptoms of pain and fever. The

Though some stereotypes may be generally true, many are false and that is what causes discrepancy among races, not

These characteristics are not based solely on the biology of a person, but instead, these racial groups are more inclined to be defined based upon the treatment of these groups historically as well as socially throughout the years. The majority of the time, society will almost always assign

There is no special blood typing for a specific group that the others won’t have. Black, White mongoloid people all had blood types A, B, AB and O without any measure of prevalence amongst the three major ‘races’. When a person needs blood for whatever reason he gets either type A, B, AB or O without any regard as to which race the donated blood came from. The idea of Caucasian being more intelligent came with Darwin and was carried through to form some of the most warped ideologies mankind has ever had, it gave us communism, Semitism and apartheid. Darwin presented the view that some races were more superior than others especially the Negroid race which he claimed were close descendants of apes because the “looked more like primates”

In December of 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, tearing through the levee systems, and resulting in massive flooding that eventually covered 80% of New Orleans (1), leading to the most significant number of deaths by the storm. As images of Hurricane Katrina were displayed on front pages and television sets across the counry, Katrina became a strategic research site for sociological theory and research of how identity shapes a natural disaster (1). In this essay, I want to explore the fate of New Orleans. How will climate change affect human populations and which human populations will it affect? To do this, I will need to review both scientific and socially scientific papers to understand what the future of New Orleans and southern Louisiana will look like. Though this concept is technically broad for the limitations of this paper, I will review several pieces of literature to begin to gain an understanding of the social and ecological situations at play.

In order for this disease to spread among individuals, a non-immune person must come in close contact with an infected individual that was infected less than two weeks prior. Throughout history, persistent migrations also aided the spread of smallpox. Many

The “AAA Statement on Race” explains “...that human populations are not unambiguous, clearly demarcated, biologically distinct groups.” Our population is a melting pot of skin colors, hair textures, and facial features, yet these distinctions seem to separate us in the wrong way. These groups can give us vital medical information, such as races that are prone to heart disease, but we instead manipulate these groups to create deficient stereotypes. (Boyd and Silk: 388) Moreover, a certain number of races does not exist because every human is unique, therefore these stereotypes are just fabricated from our culture. There is more difference within groups than between groups. (Boyd and Silk: 389) Accordingly, this diversity should be respected instead of putting people against each other. “The differences between races are due to biological heritage.” (Boyd and Silk: 388) Just because we are similar in race does not mean we are the same type of people and fall into the same stereotypes. If there is more diversity within groups, dividing race into three or four groups is not accurate

Although race can be defined differently among members of the scientific community, there is a consensus that the traditional societal definition of race, wherein populations can be placed into definite categories like African or Asian, is not correct. The societal definition of race often takes into consideration sociocultural characteristics, such as language, culture, religion, and so on in addition to biological characteristics like morphology and skin color (Tishkoff & Kidd, 2004). This perspective of race as strict, unchanging classes has long since been discredited by most researchers for a large number of reasons. For instance, skin color and morphology are not typically considered adequate support for the existence of race because they often result from environmental pressures and are subject to convergent evolution (Tishkoff & Kidd, 2004). Sociocultural characteristics are not considered appropriate indicators either, as they can often encompass a wide variety of individuals with little genetic similarity.

Ninety percent of all Yellow fever cases were reported in Africa. The period of time from contracting the infection to development of symptoms is generally three to six years. The virus is not contracted by direct contact with human to human. Not only do the mosquitoes spread the virus to humans they can spread it to monkeys. This means if a mosquito bites a monkey that has the fever they can pass it to humans, this can lead to major outbreaks. Through all the Yellow fever cases around thirty thousand of them led to death. Yellow fever was thought to have originated in Africa and was brought to America on the slave ships. The virus is a single-stranded RNA virus that belongs to the flavivirus senes. After the transmission of the virus occurs, it replicates in religion lymph nodes and silently spreads through the bloodstream. The widespread dissemination can affect the kidneys, lymph nodes, spleen, liver, and bone marrow. In addition to these, it can affect the other organs in the human body. Yellow fever is not just a virus it is a hemorrhagic condition that can lead to death. The United States has worked hard to eliminate this insect, having officially eradicated it from the united states and Canada.