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Disease

p [YOUR NAME] [YOUR PROFESSOR 'S NAME] [CLASS NUMBER] [DATE OF ASSIGNMENT] [YOUR NAME] [YOUR PROFESSOR 'S NAME] [CLASS NUMBER] [DATE OF ASSIGNMENT] Etymology Study of Epidemics Depictions of Death and Disease The use of the word plague ' is reserved for only the most momentous and devastating diseases in history . This word has been specifically set aside for diseases that strike a certain type of fear into the masses as with the Bubonic Plague , also called the Black Death , and the AIDS epidemic . The word has

an effect of biblical proportions and epidemics like AIDS and the Bubonic Plague both display the social reaction to these maladies in the religious connections or rejections made toward both . There is , also , evidence of the unraveling of complete societies due to these illnesses in the abandonment of the sufferers to their fates and the perpetuation of causation of these plagues ' to stories that confuse and confound communities into states of despair and disillusionment . The swiftness by which the Black Death ' struck victims to death is opposed to the lengthy period between the contraction of AIDS and a death that is not always certain or imminent . The words and s of these diseases , however , did spread quite quickly and served as a lens by which society at the respected times viewed the chaos in the world

The Bubonic Plague quickly sickened and killed its sufferers and this swiftness of the disease left little time for people to react , there was no predicting it`s path , no...

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