Yellow fever killed over 5‚000 people in Philadelphia in 1793. Yellow fever is a highly contagious fever that is transmitted by mosquitoes. Some symptoms of yellow fever include an onset of fever‚ chills‚ severe headache‚ nausea‚ fatigue‚ weakness‚ and vomiting. Treatment of yellow fever in the 1700’s included bloodletting‚ herbs‚ other material treatments‚ and also simply doing nothing. In Fever 1793‚ Laurie Halse Anderson alters history‚ but maintains some historical accuracy. The setting of the
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Mr. Pitts Email: smpitts@canfieldschools.net Website: www/smpitts.weebly.com AP World History Course 2013-2014 AP World History is for the high school student who wishes to earn college credit in high school through a rigorous academic program. This class approaches history in a way that looks at the common threads of humanity over time— society‚ politics‚ religion‚ ideology‚ technology and trade —and it investigates how these things have changed and continued over time in different
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Capital in crisis 1793 In the summer of 1793‚ Philadelphia was in midst of a political crisis. Great Britain had declared war against revolutionary France‚ instantly polarizing American public opinion. Many favored France‚ whose political ideals seemed akin to our own. Other disagreed‚ pointing out the bloody massacres and other outrages that had recently convulsed Paris. President George Washington’s own cabinet split along party lines. Secretary of State Tomas Jefferson and his Republican
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Kristopher Harris Ms Marquez Rhetorical Analysis Leonard Pitts Leonard Pitts at it again in his article” Manti Te’o story offers lessons: Better connected who have one online‚ farther apart” In this article Pitts asserts that although the increase in technology is a good thing it increasingly puts a void in the physical communications we have with one another‚ a more prevalent case being the Manti Te’o incident. Pitts supports his argument by using explanatory diction to explain his definition
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Fever 1793 Fever 1793 is about the summer of 1793 and Matilda (aka) Mattie Cook lives above her family’s coffee shop with her widowed mother and her grandfather. Mattie hates doing chores and spends her summer days avoiding them trying to turn her family’s coffee shop to the best Philadelphia has ever seen. But then things go wrong and yellow fever breaks out or “The Fever”. The Fever spreads up and down the streets destroying everything in its way to destroy. The huge outbreak turns Mattie’s
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Andrew Long Mr. Tripp Sanders Anatomy and Physiology May 16‚ 2016 Introduction The novel I read for the project was “Fever 1793” by Laurie Halse Anderson. Fever 1793 is a story about a little girl named Matilda Cook who lives during the time that Yellow Fever broke out. Some of the novel is fiction‚ and some of the book is historical. Key Idea 1 The first Key Idea of the novel is the fever itself. The fever changes how everyone lives. It makes some leave the town and some stay. It makes
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one point or another. Fever 1793 shows how Mattie and her family go through hard times. In the book Mattie is a teenage girl living with her mother‚ grandfather and a girl named Eliza who work in the coffee shop they own. Mattie faces some hard times when the fever strikes the town. Mattie is able to get through these hard times with the strength that she has gained overtime. Some people may say that the theme of Fever is family‚ or bravery. The real theme of Fever 1793 is perseverance and strength
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Right to Own Pit Bulls The American Pit Bull Terrier has fallen under harsh criticism in recent years. Several attacks have led to Breed-Specific Legislation or BSL. Breed-Specific Legislation has led to the downright banning of pit bulls in several cities in the United States (“Breed Specific Legislation”). These legislations are unfair and ineffective. The pit bull is only a product of its owner and its surroundings. The pit bull is the most misunderstood and persecuted breed of dogs. If properly
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All people in the world during life are faced with problems that they have to face and persevere. In the book Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson the reader is introduced to a fourteen year old girl named Matilda who has to go through all that was described. When the novel first started Matilda is introduced to an easy life. But into the book things get bad for Mattie and her family because Matilda’s mother and grandfather get the yellow fever and her grandpa dies. Towards the ending of the book
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William Pitt became Prime Minister in 1783 at just 24 years old. He came to power soon after the American War of Independence (1776-1783). Britain’s status as a superpower had been undermined by this loss‚ and she was now isolated in Europe. The war had left Britain with huge national debt‚ and the dramatic fall in exports to America meant that her finances were also in an awful state. It was in this climate of political instability that Pitt became Prime Minister of Britain. He faced huge opposition
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