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Transition Of Blame: The Othering Of Aids From Homosexuals To Africans, Claire S. Zillman
Transition Of Blame: The Othering Of Aids From Homosexuals To Africans, Claire S. Zillman
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In 1983, the first year The New York Times wrote more than one story on AIDS — acquired immune deficiency syndrome — the newspaper printed 77 articles that included the word “AIDS” and the word “homosexual.” This total reached its peak in 1987, when 314 articles that included the two words were written. In 1990, this total was down to 109, and at the turn of the century in 2000, only 29 articles that mentioned these two words were published.
Conversely, in 1983, only nine Times articles included “AIDS” and “Africa.” In 1987, when articles about the connection between AIDS …
Fatal Flu: History, Science, And Politics Of The 1918 Influenza Pandemic, Suzanne Vroman
Fatal Flu: History, Science, And Politics Of The 1918 Influenza Pandemic, Suzanne Vroman
Honors Capstone Projects - All
In 1918 an influenza pandemic killed over 50 million people world wide including 675,000 in the United States alone. This Capstone Thesis asks the question: what caused the 1918 pandemic to become so fatal? In order to understand how the influenza outbreak of 1918 turned into one of the world’s deadliest pandemics, I took a unique approach to tackling the mystery of the “Spanish Influenza,” by interpreting the high fatality rate from both a social and natural scientific approach. This project is broken into two parts.
The first part of this paper gives a historical analysis of the 1918 …