The Death Of The United States

A very famous nursery rhyme “ Ring Around the Rosy” was based on the plague. The Ring Around the Rosy part “probably refers to the rosary beads which are supposed to provide God’s help of the onset of buboes”(Document 4). They used flowers to stop the smell of rotting bodies. The ashes are what was left after the body had been cremated.“We all fall down”this was saying that everybody was basically dropping dead, or that the world would be coming to

July 4th, 1776, the United States is born. After many years of hardship, the United States is now one of the most advanced countries in the world. It took many years for them to build the world power that the country is today. Following an expedition by Lewis and Clark, numerous compromises, slavery, many wars, including a civil war and two world wars, the stock market crashing, and much more, the United States is now a highly successful country. Like gravity though, everything that goes up must come down. Many other old-world powers such as Rome, the Chinese Dynasties, and the Abbasid Dynasty have fallen as well. Empires have fallen for a number of reasons such as disease, destroying the environment, a decline in morals and values, lack of

The nursery rhyme “ Ring Around The Rosy” is more than a popular song little children sing while holding hands, walking around in a circle and then falling down. The nursery rhyme refers to the Black Death, one of the worst plagues of all time (Schladweller). Known as infectious diseases that spread quickly and kill countless people, plagues have had a tremendous affect on people around the world since the beginning of time. The Black Death, also known as the bubonic plague, is a contagious bacterial infection that has killed millions of people. With the bubonic plague brutally killing one fourth of Europe in the 14th century and devastating China in the 18th century (Link), it is noted in history books as the worst plague of all times.

There has been a terrible accident, your head is crushed and you are fighting for your life, but “they” know you won’t make it. The doctor should also be fighting for your life, but he isn’t. You realize this is no accident. This is a partial birth abortion. You are not a patient of the clinic, you are simply a fetus. Abortion, in today’s society, has almost become second nature. Women all around the world are aborting children because they “aren’t ready”. Norma McCorvey, better known as Jane Roe, was the defendant in the 1973 United States Supreme Court Case Roe v. Wade. That landmark case established a woman’s right to have an abortion, but it created serious implications for right to life in America.

There are times in our life when each of us has fallen ill. Many of us immediately consult the doctors. Our faith appears to have disappeared. As diligently members of the church, we do not stop to consulting God for His medical assistance. We can all identify with the woman with the issue of blood and how she spent all she had before she meet up with Jesus and just by reaching out and touching just the hem of His garment. She was made whole. Hezekiah quickly turns to the wall and consults God for a miraculous healing immediately. God extended His life just like that. We must gather ourselves and remember where all of our help comes from and that is the Lord. As, the trials of life comes about, we are waiting on the Lord. The fact of the

Adrienne was twenty-seven years old when she went into labor on May 13, 1995. Flash back about nine months earlier. She thought she was having bad PMS. Her Italian mother swore that by grabbing her behind, she could tell that she was pregnant. Adrienne said that it was impossible but missed her next period; they were always right on schedule. After a trip to the drug store and a trip to the bathroom, she sat down with Danny, her husband, and watched the little white stick that would tell her for sure what her mother had told her already.

For staging hunger strikes, Paul and several other suffragists were forcibly fed in a tortuous manner. Prison officials relocated Paul to a sanitarium in hopes of getting her declared insane; during this time, while Paul was separated from the others, they had her evaluated to see if she was mentally ill. One of the psychologist, so eloquently, suggested that “insanity can be mistaken for courage.” Most of the doctors did not believe Paul to be insane, only depressed and hungry. When news of the prison conditions and hunger strikes became publicized, Americans began demanding the release of these women. This sympathy for the imprisoned women brought an enormous amount of support to the cause of women’s suffrage.

An ascribed status is the social status that a person is assigned at birth. Thus, the position is neither earned nor chosen. Rodriguez and Guzman argue that race in the U.S. is understood as an ascribed status because a person is assigned a race at birth -- you cannot choose or earn your race. Additionally, race in the United States is unchangeable. This is even true for when a person goes to different countries. For example, even though a person might be considered white in one country, if he or she is considered black in America, to America, they will always be black. Furthermore, Rodriguez and Guzman wrote that the way race is understood in America "disallows or ignores more contextual definitions" of race. The ascribed status race has in America means that what is believed to be in your blood when you are born is what you will be for the rest of your life.

Did you know that the nursery rhyme “Ring around the Rosy” was written about the symptoms of the Black Death? The Black Death was a devastating time when the bubonic plague disease affected 20 million people, just in Europe and their lives. The disease was caused by rats and rat fleas. It spread to Europe by 12 ships and the symptoms were just as bad as the disease. Also, many people were killed, neglected or beaten (some by choice other were massacred). They did this because they thought the disease was a mass illness created by God to punish them for their sins.

The old nursery rhyme “Ring around the Rosie” comes with many explanations relating to the Black Death and its course throughout Europe and Asia. Why is it that this old nursery rhyme, said to have been circulating since the last major epidemic of the Plague in 1665, is still being sung by countless amounts of people each day? This nursery rhyme and its continuation to appear in our childhoods and daily lives shows exactly how much the plague impacted today’s society socially, economically, religiously, and even philosophically. However, some may argue that the Plague was not related in any way, shape or form to present day society or any other period in time.

On February 26, at 7:11 pm it was a rainy night in Sanford, Florida when a neighborhood watchman, 28-year-old mixed Hispanic George Zimmerman, calls 911 to report a suspicious person. “This guy looks like he’s up to no good, or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about” (Genius). That suspicious person was 17-year-old African American Trayvon Martin returning home after stopping by a local convenience store to purchase, the now infamous, Arizona Ice tea and Skittles. When the 911 dispatcher asked Zimmerman if he was following Martin he replied “yeah.” The dispatcher in return said, “Okay, we don’t need you to do that” (Chicago Tribune). That call would last four minutes.

Current Event: According to The New York Times, On May 27, 2016 Argentina’s last dictator, and 14 other former military officials have been sentenced to prison for the disappearance of more than 100 people during the Operation Condor conspiracy to hunt down dissidents across South America. This all began in the 1970’s when six South American dictators started the Operation Condor and used their “secret police networks” to track down rivals who were across the borders. Many of the bodies of these victims have still not been found and the prosecutors continue to try and cover up the deaths today. The court sentenced the leader Reynaldo Bignone 20 years in prison and the other 14 received eight to 25 years. One of the many victims was Maria Claudia Irueta Goyena, who was the daughter-in-law of Argentine poet Juan Gelman. Maria was pregnant when she was kidnapped and held inside an auto shop for months before someone in the air force came and took her to Uruguay. After the birth of her daughter she went missing and then years later her daughter Macarena Gelman discovered her own identity. "Operation Condor affected my life, my family," Chilean Laura Elgueta told The Associated Press outside the court room. Her brother, Luis Elgueta, had taken refuge in Buenos Aires from Gen. Augusto Pinochet 's forces, only to be forcibly disappeared in Buenos Aires in 1976 as part of Operation Condor (The New York Times, 2016).

In conclusion, the Black Death was one of the most devastating time periods in history. It raged non-stop through Europe, killing millions of people. If you were infected with the plague, your chances of survival were little to none. People saw it as “God’s punishment”, even though it was a pandemic. The common nursery rhyme, Ring-Around-The-Rosy, was based on the symptoms of the plague. It was one of the few things that brought people the tiniest bits of joy in these years of

A threat is looming over the United States like the dense fog of an early fall morning. It promises total chaos that will leave the population in the dark. Imagine everything that uses electricity, which Americans take for granted, just stopped working. Lights, cell phones, running water, all of these are gone in the blink of an eye. This threat has the potential to bring the United States to a grinding halt with little to no casualties, at first. An EMP attack would cripple the United States by ending all electronic usage. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) is “. . . high-intensity electromagnetic radiation generated by a nuclear blast high above the earth 's surface and held to disrupt electronic and electrical systems.” According to this definition, an EMP attack will disrupt and possibly destroy all electrical systems. Just take a second to think of all the structures Americans rely on that are electrical. Essentially everything. This is why an attack of this kind is so terrifying.

Some things are not as they seem. “Ring Around the Rosie” seems like a pleasant children’s nursery rhyme, but many believe it is actually a grisly song about the Black Death in Europe. The Black Death was a serial outbreak of the plague during the 1300s. During the Black Death, more than 20 million Europeans died. One-third of the population of the British Isles died from the plague. Moreover, one-third of the population of France died in the first year alone, and 50% of the people in France’s major cities died. Catastrophic death rates like these were common across all of Europe. However, just like the poem “Ring Around the Rosie”, the true effects of the Black Death differed from what many people believed. Though tragic, the Black