Looks at responses to disasters in history with an emphasis on research and writing. Over the semester, we have examined various disasters from different perspectives. First of all, the psychological and physical problems from jamestown. Disasters, responses to fires, hurricanes, and epidemics in colonial america, famine suffered by the donner party en route to california, irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine and the ability to create new lives in this country, disaster tourism, the johnstown flood of 1889, the impact of the fire in new york city, and disaster art that emerged from the 1930s dust bowl. So, today, we are discussing david oceanfys Pulitzer Prize winning book polio an american story. You all received questions that i posted and im really interested in the topic because i also teach a seminar on the 1950s and of course thats when this takes place and i think just looking at polio, really, so many different issues that affected that decade. Before starting, though, i
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Where do you get your information . Can you separate fact from fiction . This disinfectant was manufactured in 2060 and somehow already protected against corona virus. True or false. True coronaviruses were discovered decades ago. That 19 is just a new one. This was also shared thousands of times if you know of dolphins in venice. Except there in sardinia. Fake news is so prevalent, its now become the focus of Scientific Research from the claim that the corona virus originated in a lab in china and the chinese want to trumps reckless recommendation to inject disinfectant image in the image and the Conspiracy Theory that bill gates intends to take over the world with a mind controlled vaccine is full of bizarre and baseless notions about the virus. From the university of zurich was involved in an International Study on the spread of just information during the pandemic. I also wanted to see why there were differences between countries. It seems to be that some countries provide a more f
You know what love is on thanksgiving . I love you so much and im so thankful for you that im not going to see you. This year if you love someone, it is smarter and better to stay away. Well be alone physically, but we are spiritually together celebrating in a way that is even deeper. The story is, my mom is going to come up and two of my girls is the current plan. But the plans change. But thats my plan. Sandra and that grabbed a lot of headlines. Laura ingle is tracking it for us. How long for the governor to change his tune about those plans . We crunched the numbers, looked at time codes. It was exactly 1 hour 33 minutes for him to Reverse Course and change his plans. As others plans go forward others move forward. He is letting folks know things are getting so bad in new york he is putting some restrictions in place for some areas where those cases are spiking, limiting the hours of restaurants and exactly how many people can gather for their thanksgiving day meal safely in new yo
Materials, industrials hitting new intradays. The small caps doing well. The russell 2,000 at the far right side of your screen. Jim, i want to know where you think we are now you have great vaccine news. Its consistently great. Were not that far from 30,000 on either day we have headwind tailwind. Each day you can make a tailwind case i can make a tailwind case that you have to buy the airlines right now. This norwegian cruise deal is done, you want to buy that group. I can make a case that you have to buy the stay at homes, the deep cyclicals, a case for the technology stocks. This is what weve looked for. Thats why i came in gunning for the armageddonists theres a fabulous piece out that covid did not rescue the armageddonists from underperformance and purgatory its time to call them out im asking all the panelists to call out the people who said it was the end of the world call them out. Well, weve gotten great vaccine news it sounds like to me youre saying you can still buy the cr