HIV/AIDS Since the invention of penicillin, the fear of venereal diseases, particularly syphilis and gonorrhoea, began to lose its grip on the minds of fun seekers in the…
THE MERITS OF A FORMAL EDUCATION
Since time immemorial, it has been typical to esteem education with prestige, wealth, and status in the elite. An educated individual was more likely to navigate the quirks…
DOUBLE-BOWLED HAVOC: LOOKING AT CHOLERA IN PERSPECTIVE
Introduction In continuation of the effervescent joys of sickness and its effect on the world, we go to a pandemic that has a surprisingly high kill and a…
PANDEMICS 2: PURPLE DEATH, THE FEVER OF WAR
On the economic front, a major fiscal depression accompanied by large-scale inflation was more likely a result of the war than the disease.
PANDEMICS: HOW SICKNESS SHAPES THE WORLD
From death by excess, we visit pandemics- death in excess. For centuries, it has been a leveler of populations with irregular waves of devastation. It has consumed villages,…
Otra Madre
Sometimes, I wish I could take a hold of Death’s scrawny neck. I’ll kick his skull off and hang his spine on a rack, I’ll break his knees…
BULLETS FOR SUPPER
As he bled in the snow, Terence Faulkner considered the circumstances that’d led to his cold front yard. Behind the pounding headache, he wondered if the kids were…
TORTURE: ITS JUSTIFICATION IN AN INHUMANE ENVIRONMENT
Torture, which is the utterly fascinating world of bodily harm, old as time itself, is little discussed and largely disliked. The subject of humanity is the basis of…
On Plaques And Awards
As the year comes to a close and classes begin to prepare for examinations in various levels, the god of drama has pierced his talons once more into…
THE HISTORY OF THE GREAT ROMAN FIRE
Some might ask why, at the beginning of a revamped column, this writer talks about a fire that happened over 1500 years ago.Well, for the curious, it serves…