Argumentative Essay: The Black Death Plague

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The Black Death

It could only be an act of God, it has to be to punish us for the sins of the World. This Plague sent by God, must have come out of Asia and started the spread into my hometown of Florence. This plague is far more catastrophic than an assault from barbarians. We can’t see it, we can’t fight it, and we don’t know if we’re next. It starts off inconspicuous than it turns into the worse brutal death even a barbarian cannot inflict. Most of the trading port cities have been inflicted with this plague in the worst. My city Florence, Crimea, and cities that reside next to the the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea. The Pestilence where dead body lay to rot in the harbor. The plague seems like it has developed from contracting it from bites to contact with another infected person’s blood and to just breathing the same air of those who are infected. Many people have been infected. The disease kills fast and painfully. Those infected will acquire bobos, which are ugly black sores the size size of eggs that oozes out pus and blood. They will have an …show more content…

The doctors are thinking that the disease comes from birds. To protect themselves from people with the disease. The doctors wear a bird costume to trick the disease. They also wear a bird costume to not breathe in the bad air because they noticed people can catch the disease just by breathing. I fear to go outside or for anyone to come to my house. It became hostile for families. They were in destruction, a mother would abandon her son, a father would abandon his daughter, and a husband would abandon his wife. This plague has no room for altruism. It is every man for themselves; it is truly the apocalypse. It is God's judgement on mankind, who has seeks heathenism instead of morality. Many will die painful deaths and will be abandoned without food to eat or water to

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